Any child required to participate in a community service program is not an agent or employee of the recipients of these services. Any recipient of community service, described in §§ 26-8C-7 and 26-8B-6, does not have to provide the child with reemployment assistance insurance pursuant to title 61 nor with workers’ compensation insurance pursuant to title 62. Each recipient and the recipient’s officers, agents, and employees are immune from any cause of action for civil damages brought by the child, parents, guardians, or any third party if the cause of action arises from any act of commission or omission by the recipient or any of its officers, agents, or employees or any act of commission or omission by the child and the acts arise out of or are in connection with a community service program, except if the cause of action is the result of gross negligence or willful and wanton misconduct of the recipient or its officers, agents, or employees and except to the extent that the recipient has purchased liability insurance. Nothing in this section relieves any individual child from responsibility for the child’s individual acts.

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Source: SL 2015, ch 152, § 21; SL 2019, ch 216, § 33.