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4.__Qualified immunity, defense and indemnification.__The
following provisions govern qualified immunity, defense and
indemnification.

 
A.__The members, officers, executive director and employees
of the interstate commission are immune from suit and
liability, either personally or in their official capacity,
for any claim for damage to or loss of property or personal
injury or other civil liability caused or arising out of an
actual or alleged act, error or omission that occurred
within the scope of interstate commission employment, duties
or responsibilities.__Nothing in this paragraph may be
construed to protect any such person from suit or liability
for any damage, loss, injury or liability caused by the
intentional or willful and wanton misconduct of any such
person.

 
B.__The interstate commission shall defend the commissioner
of a compacting state, a commissioner's representatives or
employees or the interstate commission's representatives or
employees, in a civil action seeking to impose liability,
arising out of any actual or alleged act, error or omission
that occurred within the scope of interstate commission
employment, duties or responsibilities, or that the
defendant had a reasonable basis for believing occurred
within the scope of interstate commission employment, duties
or responsibilities, if the actual or alleged act, error or
omission did not result from intentional wrongdoing on the
part of that person.

 
C.__The interstate commission shall indemnify and hold the
commissioner of a compacting state, the appointed designee
or employee or the interstate commission's representative or
employee, harmless in the amount of any settlement or
judgment obtained against such a person arising out of any
actual or alleged act, error or omission that occurred
within the scope of interstate commission employment, duties
or responsibilities or that such a person had a reasonable
basis for believing occurred within the scope of interstate
commission employment, duties or responsibilities, if the
actual or alleged act, error or omission did not result from
gross negligence or intentional wrongdoing on the part of
that person.

 
§9877.__Activities of interstate commission--Article 7

 
1.__Commission actions.__The interstate commission shall meet
and take such actions as are consistent with the provisions of
this compact.__Except as otherwise provided in this compact


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