18. If a board member is sued by a third party for an act done in the exercise of the functions of office, the museum shall assume the member’s defence and pay any damages awarded as compensation for the injury resulting from that act, unless the member committed a gross fault or a personal fault separable from those functions.
In penal or criminal proceedings, however, the museum shall pay the member’s defence costs only if the member was discharged or acquitted, or if it judges that the member acted in good faith.
1983, c. 52, s. 18; 2016, c. 322016, c. 32, s. 31.