Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-2869.5
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Liability
Official statutory text
A. No public agency or employee of a public agency shall be
liable for the method of providing or failure to provide nine-one-
one emergency telephone or communication service or nine-one-one
wireless emergency telephone service or for the method of providing
or failure to provide emergency response service.
B. No public agency or employee of a public agency shall have
any special duty to any service user or other user of the nine-one-
one emergency telephone system or nine-one-one wireless emergency
telephone system or any other telecommunication or communication
system supplying or obligated to supply nine-one-one service.
C. A service provider of telecommunications or other
communication services involved in providing nine-one-one emergency
telephone service or nine-one-one wireless emergency telephone
service shall not be liable for any claim, damage, or loss arising
from the provision of nine-one-one emergency telephone service or
nine-one-one wireless emergency telephone service unless the act or
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omission proximately causing the claim, damage, or loss constitutes
gross negligence, recklessness, or intentional misconduct.
D. As used in this section:
1. "Employee" shall have the same meaning as defined in Section
152 of Title 51 of the Oklahoma Statutes; and
2. "Communication" means the transmission, conveyance, or
routing of real-time, two-way voice communications to a point or
between or among points by or through any electronic, radio,
satellite, cable, optical, microwave, wireline, wireless, or other
medium or method, regardless of the protocol used.
liable for the method of providing or failure to provide nine-one-
one emergency telephone or communication service or nine-one-one
wireless emergency telephone service or for the method of providing
or failure to provide emergency response service.
B. No public agency or employee of a public agency shall have
any special duty to any service user or other user of the nine-one-
one emergency telephone system or nine-one-one wireless emergency
telephone system or any other telecommunication or communication
system supplying or obligated to supply nine-one-one service.
C. A service provider of telecommunications or other
communication services involved in providing nine-one-one emergency
telephone service or nine-one-one wireless emergency telephone
service shall not be liable for any claim, damage, or loss arising
from the provision of nine-one-one emergency telephone service or
nine-one-one wireless emergency telephone service unless the act or
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 63. Public Health and Safety Page 1444
omission proximately causing the claim, damage, or loss constitutes
gross negligence, recklessness, or intentional misconduct.
D. As used in this section:
1. "Employee" shall have the same meaning as defined in Section
152 of Title 51 of the Oklahoma Statutes; and
2. "Communication" means the transmission, conveyance, or
routing of real-time, two-way voice communications to a point or
between or among points by or through any electronic, radio,
satellite, cable, optical, microwave, wireline, wireless, or other
medium or method, regardless of the protocol used.
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