Bill Text: AZ HB2733 | 2025 | Fifty-seventh Legislature 1st Regular | Introduced
Bill Title: Unmanned aircraft; qualified immunity
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 34-9)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-05 - House read second time [HB2733 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2025-HB2733-Introduced.html
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REFERENCE TITLE: unmanned aircraft; qualified immunity |
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025
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HB 2733 |
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Introduced by Representatives Marshall: Biasiucci, Bliss, Carbone, Carter N, Carter P, Diaz, Fink, Gillette, Gress, Griffin, Heap, Hendrix, Hernandez A, Keshel, Kupper, Lopez, Martinez, Nguyen, Peña, Pingerelli, Rivero, Taylor, Travers, Volk, Way, Weninger, Willoughby, Wilmeth; Senators Alston, Angius, Diaz, Dunn, Epstein, Fernandez, Finchem, Gowan, Hatathlie, Hoffman, Kavanagh, Miranda, Rogers, Shamp
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An Act
amending title 12, chapter 7, article 2, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 12-820.10; relating to actions against public entities or public employees.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Title 12, chapter 7, article 2, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 12-820.10, to read:
12-820.10. Unmanned aircraft operator; immunity; definitions
A. A public entity or public employee is not liable to an unmanned aircraft operator for any injury caused by a peace officer intercepting, capturing, disabling, shooting, destroying or otherwise rendering inoperative an unmanned aircraft within thirty miles of this state's international border.
B. Unless a public employee acting within the scope of the public employee’s employment intended to cause injury to a person or was grossly negligent to a person, a public entity or a public employee is not liable for any injury to a person caused by a peace officer intercepting, capturing, disabling, shooting, destroying or otherwise rendering inoperative an unmanned aircraft within thirty miles of this state's international border.
C. This section applies to a public entity or public employee if the injury or damage was caused by a contractor of a public entity or an employee of the contractor acting within the scope of the contract.
D. For the purposes of this section:
1. "Person":
(a) Has the same meaning prescribed in section 1-215.
(b) Does not include an unmanned aircraft operator.
2. "Unmanned aircraft" has the same meaning prescribed in section 13-3729.
3. "Unmanned aircraft operator":
(a) Means a person who operates an unmanned aircraft.
(b) Includes the owner of an unmanned aircraft and any person or group of persons acting in concert with the person who operates the unmanned aircraft.
