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Conn. Gen. Stat. § 6-30a

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Sec. 6-30a. Personal liability insurance. Indemnification of state marshal for injury occurring while transporting person in custody in a private motor vehicle.

Official statutory text

(b) The state shall protect and save harmless any state marshal from financial loss and expense, including court costs and reasonable attorney's fees, arising out of any claim, demand or suit instituted against the state marshal for personal injury or injury to property by, or as a result of the actions of, any person who is lawfully taken into custody by the state marshal, pursuant to a capias issued by Support Enforcement Services of the Superior Court and directed to the state marshal, if such injury occurs when such person, while in such custody, is transported in a private motor vehicle operated by the state marshal. In the event a judgment is entered against the state marshal for a malicious, wanton or wilful act, the state marshal shall reimburse the state for any expenses incurred by the state in defending the state marshal and the state shall not be held liable to the state marshal for any financial loss or expense resulting from such act.

Cited. 229 C. 479. Section does not constitute waiver of sovereign immunity. 265 C. 301.

Cited. 44 CS 368.

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