§ 3000-F — Automated external defibrillator; camps and youth sports programs

§ 3000-f. Automated external defibrillator; camps and youth sports\nprograms. 1. Definitions. As used in this section, unless the context\nclearly requires otherwise, the following terms have the following\nmeanings:\n (a) "Automated external defibrillator" means a medical device,\napproved by the United States food and drug administration, that: (i) is\ncapable of recognizing the presence or absence in a patient of\nventricular fibrillation and rapid ventricular tachycardia; (ii) is\ncapable of determining, without intervention by an operator, whether\ndefibrillation should be performed on a patient; (iii) upon determining\nthat defibrillation should be performed, automatically charges and\nrequests delivery of an electrical impulse to a patient's heart; and\n(iv) then, upon action by an operator, delivers an appropriate\nelectrical impulse to a patient's heart to perform defibrillation.\n (b) "Training course" means a course approved by a\nnationally-recognized organization or the state emergency medical\nservices council in the operation of automated external defibrillators.\n (c) "Nationally-recognized organization" means a national organization\napproved by the department for the purpose of training people in use of\nan automated external defibrillator.\n (d) "Camp" means a children's overnight camp, summer day camp, or\ntraveling summer day camp, as such terms are defined in section thirteen\nhundred ninety-two of this chapter, that is subject to regulation by the\ndepartment.\n (e) "Youth sports program" means any league or recreation program\norganized to provide group athletic activity to individuals under\nseventeen years old or programs providing athletic activity for high\nschool students regardless of the age of the participants of such\nprograms. Public school athletic programs subject to the requirements of\nsection nine hundred seventeen of the education law shall not be subject\nto the requirements of this section.\n 2. Within one hundred eighty days of the effective date of this\nsection, each camp, and each youth sports program that either hosts or\nparticipates in games, matches, tournaments, leagues, or similar\nactivities in which at least five teams are participating, shall\nestablish an automated external defibrillator implementation plan\ndescribing how the camp or program will:\n (a) make available an automated external defibrillator or describe\nreasonable access to an automated external defibrillator at every camp,\ngame and practice; and\n (b) use best efforts to ensure that there is at least one employee,\nvolunteer, coach, umpire or other qualified adult who is present at each\nsuch camp, game and practice who has successfully completed a training\ncourse within the preceding twenty-four months of each such camp\nsession, game and practice.\n (c) Each camp and youth sports program shall maintain records that\nsuch camp or youth sports program possesses at least one automated\nexternal defibrillator.\n (d) Implementation plans shall include an equipment checklist and\ncardiac emergency protocol for when cardiac emergency incidents occur.\n (e) Implementation plans can include automated external defibrillator\naccess provided by athletic facilities, playing fields or site for games\nor practices where the operator of the facility provides automated\nexternal defibrillator access at their location.\n 3. Implementation of automated external defibrillator plans shall be\ndone in accordance with the requirements and protections of section\n3000-b of this article.\n