While responding to emergency situations, every officer, agent, or employee of the city is authorized to act in such a manner as to most effectively deal with the emergency. This provision shall prevail over every other ordinance of the city and, to the extent to which the city has the authority to so authorize, over any other law establishing a standard of care in conflict with this section. Neither the city nor the employee shall be liable for any failure to use ordinary care in such emergency.
Editor's note:
State law reference-Immunity of certain governmental functions, V.T.C.A., Civil Practice & Remedies Code, § 101.055; for volunteer firefighters, see V.T.C.A., Civil Practice & Remedies Code, § 78.001.
Editor's note
In Ron Black v. Nueces County Rural Fire Prevention District No. 2 the Texas Supreme Court upheld a local governmental entity's immunity from liability based on the doctrine of sovereign immunity.
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