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Pursuant to K.S.A. 48-915, and any amendment thereof, neither the City, its employees, members of the City Council, employees from other cities or county, or volunteers, shall be liable for personal injury or property damage sustained by any person appointed or acting as a volunteer worker, or any City employees engaged in emergency operations activities. The foregoing shall not affect the right of any person to receive benefits or compensation to which he or she might otherwise be entitled under the worker’s compensation law or any pension law or any act of Congress. Upon a declaration of a local disaster emergency, neither the City nor, except in cases of willful misconduct, gross negligence or bad faith, the employees, agents of the City nor any volunteer workers, or employees from other cities or counties, complying with or reasonably attempting to comply with this chapter, or any proclamation, order, rules, regulations or the Emergency Operations Plan adopted pursuant to the provisions of this Ordinance relating to blackout or other precautionary measures enacted by the City, shall be liable for the death of or injury to persons, or for damages to property, as a result of any such activity performed during the existence of such state of local disaster emergency. (Ord. 20-28 § 3, 2020; Ord. 96-33 § 2, 1996.)