Any person who is under the influence of an alcoholic beverage or any drug, or the combined influence of an alcoholic beverage and any drug, whose negligent operation of a motor vehicle caused by that influence proximately causes any incident resulting in an appropriate emergency response, and any person whose intentionally wrongful conduct proximately causes any incident resulting in an appropriate emergency response, is liable for the expense of an emergency response by a public agency to the incident.
Cal. Gov. Code § 53150
Costs of Emergency Response
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case 135 Cal. App. 4th 488 - California Highway Patrol v. Superior Court (2006)
Most recently applied in 198 Cal. App. 4th 347 - Maxwell-Jolly v. Martin (August 2011)
Added by Stats. 1985, Ch. 337, Sec. 1.
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