California Government Code

§ 53159

GOV § 53159 Effective Jan 1, 2005Div. 2 · Title 5 · Part 1 · Ch. 1 · Art. 8

Statute text

(a)As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

(1)“Expenses of an emergency response” means those reasonable and necessary costs directly incurred by public agencies, for-profit entities, or not-for-profit entities that make an appropriate emergency response to an incident, and include the cost of providing police, firefighting, search and rescue, and emergency medical services at the scene of an incident, and salaries of the persons who respond to the incident, but does not include charges assessed by an ambulance service.

(2)“Public agency” means the state and any city, county, municipal corporation, or other public authority that is located in whole or in part in this state and that provides police, firefighting, medical, or other emergency services.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2004, Ch. 51, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2005.