§ 59-518. Emergency care or treatment - Immunity from civil damages or criminal prosecution.  


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  • No person who is a licensed practitioner of a healing art in the State of Oklahoma, who in good faith renders emergency care or treatment at the scene of the emergency, shall be liable for any civil damages as a result of any acts or omissions by such person in rendering the emergency care or treatment, and no person who is a licensed practitioner of a healing art in the State of Oklahoma shall be prosecuted under the criminal statutes of this state for treatment of a minor without the consent of a minor's parent or guardian when such treatment was performed under emergency conditions and in good faith.

Laws 1961, p. 458, § 1; Laws 1967, c. 57, § 1; Laws 1968, c. 405, § 1, emerg. eff. May 17, 1968.