Utah Code § 69-2-501

Jurisdiction and employee immunity
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(1) In implementing 911 emergency service, any public agency and public safety agency shall
cooperate in establishing and providing 911 emergency service.
(2) Any employee of any public safety agency which is a participant in 911 emergency service
may respond and take any action to any call whether within or without the authorized territorial
jurisdiction of the public safety agency.
(3) In response to an emergency communication, an employee of a public safety agency shall
have the same immunity for any acts performed in the line of duty outside the public safety

agency's authorized jurisdiction as the public safety agency employee has within the public
safety agency's authorized jurisdiction.
(4) No cause of action is created by any incorrect dispatch or response by any system or any
public safety agency or by reason of elapsed response time.
Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 430, 2017 General Session

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