FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 342

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES RANSDALL AND LUETKENHAUS (Co-sponsors).

Read 1st time January 11, 2001, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk

1073L.01I

AN ACT

To repeal section 320.091, RSMo 2000, relating to fire protection, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.



Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Section 320.091, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 320.091, to read as follows:

320.091. There shall be no cause of action against any fire protection district, volunteer fire protection association, or any fire department of any political subdivision which donates [used personal protection] equipment [and] used to suppress fire or fire protection clothing to another department, association, or district if the following conditions are met:

(1) Such equipment is approved by the state fire marshal or [his] the state fire marshal's designee;

(2) Motor vehicles so donated must pass a safety inspection by the Missouri state highway patrol;

(3) The receiving agency demonstrates to the state fire marshal's office that the equipment received works properly; and

(4) The donor agency informs the receiving agency of any defects in the equipment about which it knows. This immunity shall apply only to causes of action directly related to the equipment mentioned [herein] in this section.


Missouri House of Representatives