Any emergency management worker on duty in a receiving political subdivision has the same powers, duties, rights, privileges, and immunities as if the worker was performing like services in the sending political subdivision and is considered to be acting within the scope and in the course of the worker’s regular employment, as an employee of the sending political subdivision.

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Source: SDC Supp 1960, ch 41.01C as added by SL 1969, ch 169, § 1; SL 1977, ch 271, § 36; SL 1992, ch 236, § 3; SDCL § 33-15-8.2.