Bill Text: NJ S860 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Exempts law enforcement and certain other emergency personnel from liability for breaking into motor vehicle to rescue animal under certain circumstances.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-09 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Law and Public Safety Committee [S860 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-S860-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 860

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  ANTHONY M. BUCCO

District 25 (Morris and Passaic)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Senator Holzapfel

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Exempts law enforcement and certain other emergency personnel from liability for breaking into motor vehicle to rescue animal under certain circumstances.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

  

An Act concerning the rescue of an animal from a motor vehicle by law enforcement or other certain emergency personnel and supplementing Title 4 of the Revised Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    Any law enforcement officer, firefighter, member of ambulance, first aid, or rescue squad, or other emergency personnel shall be immune from any liability for any damages resulting from breaking into a motor vehicle in which an animal has been left in conditions that the person reasonably believes are an immediate threat to the health of the animal and breaking into the vehicle is the last resort to rescue the animal from serious injury or loss of life.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill exempts from any liability for any damages caused by any law enforcement officer, firefighter, rescue squad member, or other emergency personnel breaking into a motor vehicle in which an animal has been left in conditions that the person reasonably believes are an immediate threat to the health of the animal and breaking into the vehicle was the last resort to rescue the animal from serious injury or loss of life.