58-2-809 - Limitations on rights, privileges or immunities provided to volunteer health practitioners Incorporation of volunteers into emergency forces. - Tennessee Statutes

58-2-809. Limitations on rights, privileges or immunities provided to volunteer health practitioners Incorporation of volunteers into emergency forces.

(a)  This part does not limit rights, privileges, or immunities provided to volunteer health practitioners by laws other than this part. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), this part does not affect requirements for the use of health practitioners pursuant to the emergency management assistance compacts.

(b)  TEMA, pursuant to the emergency management assistance compacts, may incorporate into the emergency forces of this state volunteer health practitioners who are not officers or employees of this state, a political subdivision of this state, or a municipality or other local government within this state.

[Acts 2007, ch. 579, § 10.]