Section 9:2793.8 - Services rendered by National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster and other volunteers; limitation of liabilityA. The National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster or its member organizations or any officer, employee, or volunteer thereof, who gratuitously renders any evacuation assistance or services of any kind to other persons in advance of a hurricane or tropical storm declared by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service or who gratuitously renders any disaster relief or recovery services following a declared state of emergency, shall not be liable to any person for any injury, death, loss, civil penalty, or damage as a result of any act or omission in rendering assistance, relief, or recovery services or as a result of any act or failure to act or failure to provide or arrange for further services, unless the damage or injury was caused by gross negligence or willful and wanton misconduct.B. Other volunteers who render any disaster relief or recovery services following a declared state of emergency shall not be liable to any person for any injury, death, loss, civil penalty, or damage as a result of any act or omission in rendering assistance relief or recovery services or as a result of any act or failure to act or failure to provide or arrange for further services, unless the damage or injury was caused by gross negligence or willful and wanton misconduct and in accordance with R.S. 29:735.3.1.Acts 2007, No. 109, §1, eff. June 22, 2007; Acts 2018, No. 548, §1.Amended by Acts 2018, No. 548,s. 1, eff. 8/1/2018.Acts 2007, No. 109, §1, eff. 6/22/2007.