3010 – Area of Operation; Transfers.
§ 3010. Area of operation; transfers. 1. Every ambulance service certificate or statement of registration issued under this article shall specify the primary territory within which the ambulance service shall be permitted to operate. An ambulance service shall receive patients only within the primary territory specified on its ambulance service certificate or statement of registration, […]
3011 – Powers and Duties of the Department and the Commissioner.
§ 3011. Powers and duties of the department and the commissioner. 1. The department may inquire into the operation of ambulance services and advanced life support first response services and conduct periodic inspections of facilities, communication services, vehicles, methods, procedures, materials, staff and equipment. It may also evaluate data received from ambulance services and advanced […]
3012 – Enforcement.
§ 3012. Enforcement. 1. Any ambulance service or advanced life support first response service certificate issued pursuant to section three thousand five of this article may be revoked, suspended, limited or annulled by the department upon proof that the operator or certificate holder or one or more enrolled members or one or more persons in […]
3013 – Immunity From Liability.
§ 3013. Immunity from liability. 1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of any general, special or local law, a voluntary ambulance service or voluntary advanced life support first response service described in section three thousand one of this article and any member thereof who is a certified first responder, an emergency medical technician, an advanced emergency […]
3014 – Construction.
§ 3014. Construction. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of any general, special or local law, the provisions of this article shall be deemed to apply to the city of New York.
3004 – Emergency Medical Services System and Agency Performance Standards.
§ 3004. Emergency medical services system and agency performance standards. 1. The state emergency medical services council and with input from the regional emergency medical services councils, in collaboration and with final approval of the department, shall create an emergency medical services system and agency performance standards (hereinafter referred to as “performance standards”) for the […]
3004-A – Regional Emergency Medical Advisory Committees.
§ 3004-a. Regional emergency medical advisory committees. 1. Regional emergency medical advisory committees shall develop policies, procedures, and triage, treatment, and transportation protocols which are consistent with the standards of the state emergency medical advisory committee and which address specific local conditions. Regional emergency medical advisory committees may also approve physicians to provide on line […]
3005 – Ambulance Service Certificates.
§ 3005. Ambulance service certificates. 1. No ambulance service operating for profit, hospital ambulance service or municipal ambulance service of a city of over one million population shall operate on or after September first, nineteen hundred seventy-five unless it possesses a valid ambulance service certificate issued pursuant to this article. Effective January first, nineteen hundred […]
3005-A – Staffing Standards; Ambulance Services and Advanced Life Support First Response Services.
§ 3005-a. Staffing standards; ambulance services and advanced life support first response services. 1. The following staffing standards shall be in effect unless otherwise provided by this section: (a) effective January first, nineteen hundred ninety-seven the minimum staffing standard for a registered ambulance service shall be a certified first responder with the patient; (b) effective […]
3005-B – Emergency Medical Technician Five Year Re-Certification Demonstration Program.
* § 3005-b. Emergency medical technician five year re-certification demonstration program. 1. There is hereby created within the department a demonstration program (referred to in this section as the “program”) to allow emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical technicians who have been in continuous practice and who have demonstrated competence in applicable behavioral and […]