— Also termed good-samaritan statute. Cf. GOOD SAMARITAN DOCTRINE. [Cases: Health 769; Negligence 284. C.J.S. Negligence § 87.]
“The so-called ‘Good Samaritan Statutes’ … do not require aid to be given. They merely encourage doctors to stop and give aid to strangers in emergency situations by providing that no physician who in good faith renders such aid shall be liable in civil damages as a result of acts or omissions in rendering such aid. Some states have enacted statutes that require a person who is able to do so with no danger or peril to himself to come to the aid of another who is exposed to grave physical harm.” Rollin M. Perkins & Ronald N. Boyce, Criminal Law 661 (3d ed. 1982).