Section 473-B. Reporting of endangered adults; persons in need of protective services  


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  • Any  person who in good faith believes that a person eighteen
      years of age or  older  may  be  an  endangered  adult  or  in  need  of
      protective  or  other services, pursuant to this article, and who, based
      on such belief either:
        (a) reports or refers such person to the department,  office  for  the
      aging,  or  any local social services district office or designated area
      agency on aging, law enforcement agency, or any other person, agency  or
      organization  that  such  person,  in  good  faith,  believes  will take
      appropriate action; or
        (b) testifies in any judicial  or  administrative  proceeding  arising
      from  such  report  or  referral  shall  have  immunity  from  any civil
      liability that might otherwise result by reason of  the  act  of  making
      such report or referral or of giving of such testimony.