31-4812. IMMUNITY AND CONDITIONS OF LIABILITY IN PROVIDING EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS SERVICE. In order to further the purposes of this chapter, and to encourage the development of consolidated emergency communications systems, the legislature finds that telecommunications providers making available consolidated emergency communications systems and related services shall not be subject to liability in conjunction with providing such services except on the terms stated below.
(1) No telecommunications provider shall be liable to any person for the good faith release to emergency communications system personnel of information not in the public record including, but not limited to, nonpublished or nonlisted telephone numbers.
(2) A telecommunications provider making available emergency communications systems or services, and its employees and agents, shall not be liable in tort to any person for damages alleged to have been caused by the design, development, installation, maintenance or provision of consolidated emergency communications systems or services, unless such entities or persons act with malice or criminal intent, or commit reckless, willful and wanton conduct.
(3) For the purposes of this section, "reckless, willful and wanton conduct" is defined as an intentional and knowing action, or failure to act, creating an unreasonable risk of harm to another, and which involves a high degree of probability that such harm will result.
History:
[31-4812, added 1990, ch. 221, sec. 1, p. 588; am. 2003, ch. 290, sec. 8, p. 791.]
Structure Idaho Code
Title 31 - COUNTIES AND COUNTY LAW
Chapter 48 - EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS ACT
Section 31-4802 - DEFINITIONS.
Section 31-4804 - EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS FEE.
Section 31-4807 - RIGHT TO FEE NOT AFFECTED BY NONSERVICE.
Section 31-4808 - TERMINATION.
Section 31-4809 - FUND AND APPROPRIATIONS.
Section 31-4810 - EXISTING JOINT COUNTY-WIDE EMERGENCY DISPATCH SYSTEMS NOT AFFECTED.
Section 31-4811 - PAY PHONES TO BE CONVERTED TO ALLOW EMERGENCY CALLS WITHOUT CHARGE.
Section 31-4813 - PREPAID WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS FEE.
Section 31-4814 - CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY DATA.
Section 31-4815 - CREATION OF THE IDAHO PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION — TERMS.
Section 31-4816 - IDAHO PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION — RESPONSIBILITIES.
Section 31-4817 - IDAHO PUBLIC SAFETY COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION — MEDIATION.
Section 31-4818 - IDAHO EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS FUND — ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION.
Section 31-4819 - ENHANCED EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS GRANT FEE.