Section 13:1B-15.176 - Immunity from liabilitya. No department, agency, bureau, board, commission, authority, or other entity of the State, or of any county or municipality, and no employee thereof, shall be liable to any person for any injury or damages that may be caused or sustained by a program volunteer while planting milkweed in an assigned stormwater management basin. As a condition of participating in the program, a prospective program volunteer shall sign a waiver releasing the department, the State, and any other appropriate governmental entity, and all employees thereof, from liability for any injury or damages that may be caused or sustained by that volunteer while planting milkweed in an assigned stormwater management basin.
b. A program volunteer shall not be considered a "public employee" or "State employee" for purposes of the "New Jersey Tort Claims Act," N.J.S. 59:1-1 et seq., or otherwise be accorded any of the protections set forth therein.Added by L. 2017, c. 252,s. 7, eff. 1/8/2018.