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oo4 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE ORANGE COUNTY HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESPONSE TEAM. The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: Section 1. There is hereby established the Orange County Hazardous Materials Response Team, whose duties may include responding to a hazardous materials accident or emergency anywhere including the territory within any incor- porated town or city, within Orange County. Section 2. Members of the response team may be selected from city, county, state or other law enforcement agencies, fire departments, and rescue squads now located or serving in any part of Orange County. The manner of selecting the members shall be approved designated by the Board of County Commissioners. The members of the response team shall be selected by the Board of County Commissioners. A current membership roster shall be maintained at all times by the County Manager. Section 3 . Members of the response team, when respond- ing to a hazardous materials accident or emergency anywhere within the county, shall have all authority, rights, privi- leges and immunities as they have when responding to a law violation, accident or emergency inside the city, district, or territorial limits in which they normally serve. This shall include, but is not limited to, coverage under worker's compensation laws, pension or relief fund laws, death benefit acts, and the same insurance coverage as in the city, dis- trict, or territory where the member normally serves and is employed. Section 4. Members of the response team shall have authority to do all acts reasonably necessary to protect life and property at the scene of a hazardous materials accident or emergency. Any person who shall willfully interfer in any manner with a response team member engaged in the performance of his duties shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of $500, imprisonment for no more than 60 days, or both. Section 5. A response team member who is performing his duties as such anywhere in the county shall not be liable for damages to persons or property proximately resulting from any negligent act or omission when the act or omission relates to a hazardous materials accident or emergency, unless it is established that the damage occurred because of the gross negligence or intentional wrongdoing of the response team member. Section 6. This act applies to Orange County only. Section 7. This act is effective upon ratification.