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.
3015 – Separability.
§ 3015. Separability. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this article shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this article […]
3016 – Continuance of Rules and Regulations.
§ 3016. Continuance of rules and regulations. All rules and regulations heretofore adopted by the commissioner pertaining to all ambulance services shall continue in full force and effect as rules and regulations until duly modified or superseded by rules and regulations hereafter adopted and enacted by the state council pursuant to section three thousand two […]
3017 – Emergency Medical Service, Suffolk County.
§ 3017. Emergency medical service, Suffolk county. 1. No ambulance service or advanced life support first response service shall respond to any call or request for emergency medical services within a town, village or fire district in Suffolk county that currently provides ambulance service or advanced life support services first response service, if the municipality […]
3018 – Community-Based Paramedicine Demonstration Program.
* § 3018. Community-based paramedicine demonstration program. 1. The department shall establish a community paramedicine demonstration program to evaluate the role of emergency medical services personnel in the delivery of health care services in the community in non-emergent settings. 2. For purposes of this section, “emergency medical services personnel” shall mean an emergency medical technician, […]
3006 – Quality Improvement Program.
§ 3006. Quality improvement program. 1. By January first, nineteen hundred ninety-seven, every ambulance service and advanced life support first response service shall establish or participate in a quality improvement program, which shall be an ongoing system to monitor and evaluate the quality and appropriateness of the medical care provided by the ambulance service or […]