Section 5-501 - Action for defamation against local government official.
§ 5-501. Action for defamation against local government official.
A civil or criminal action may not be brought against a city or town councilman, county commissioner, county councilman, or similar official by whatever name known, for words spoken at a meeting of the council or board of commissioners or at a meeting of a committee or subcommittee thereof.
[An. Code 1957, art. 23A, § 1A; art. 25, § 1A; art. 25A, § 3; art. 25B, § 10A; 1973, 1st Sp. Sess., ch. 2, § 1; 1976, ch. 355; 1997, ch. 14, § 9.]