§ 3001 — Definitions

§ 3001. Definitions. As used in this article, unless the context\notherwise requires:\n 1. "Emergency medical service" means initial emergency medical\nassistance including, but not limited to, the treatment of trauma,\nburns, respiratory, circulatory and obstetrical emergencies.\n 2. "Ambulance service" means an individual, partnership, association,\ncorporation, municipality or any legal or public entity or subdivision\nthereof engaged in providing emergency medical care and the\ntransportation of sick or injured persons by motor vehicle, aircraft or\nother forms of transportation to, from, or between general hospitals or\nother health care facilities.\n 3. "Voluntary ambulance service" means an ambulance service (i)\noperating not for pecuniary profit or financial gain, and (ii) no part\nof the assets or income of which is distributable to, or enures to the\nbenefit of, its members, directors or officers except to the extent\npermitted under this article.\n 4. "Voluntary advanced life support first response service" means\nadvanced life support first response service (i) operating not for\npecuniary profit or financial gain, and (ii) no part of the assets or\nincome of which is distributable to, or enures to the benefit of, its\nmembers, directors or officers except to the extent permitted under this\narticle.\n 5. "Certified first responder" means an individual who meets the\nminimum requirements established by regulations pursuant to section\nthree thousand two of this article and who is responsible for\nadministration of initial life saving care of sick and injured persons.\n 6. "Emergency medical technician" means an individual who meets the\nminimum requirements established by regulations pursuant to section\nthree thousand two of this article and who is responsible for\nadministration or supervision of initial emergency medical care and\ntransportation of sick or injured persons.\n 7. "Advanced emergency medical technician" means an emergency medical\ntechnician who has satisfactorily completed an advanced course of\ntraining approved by the state council under regulations pursuant to\nsection three thousand two of this article.\n 8. "State council" means the New York state emergency medical services\ncouncil established pursuant to this article.\n 9. "Regional council" means a regional emergency medical services\ncouncil established pursuant to this article.\n 10. "Enrolled member" means any member of a voluntary ambulance\nservice or voluntary advanced life support first response service who\nprovides emergency medical care or transportation of sick or injured\npersons without expectation of monetary compensation.\n 11. "Advanced life support care" means definitive acute medical care\nprovided, under medical control, by advanced emergency medical\ntechnicians within an advanced life support system.\n 12. "Advanced life support system" means an organized acute medical\ncare system to provide advanced life support care on site or en route\nto, from, or between general hospitals or other health care facilities.\n 13. "Advanced life support mobile unit" means an ambulance or advanced\nlife support first response vehicle approved to provide advanced life\nsupport services pursuant to this article.\n 14. "Qualified medical and health personnel" means physicians,\nregistered professional nurses and advanced emergency medical\ntechnicians competent in the management of patients requiring advanced\nlife support care.\n 15. "Medical control" means: (a) advice and direction provided by a\nphysician or under the direction of a physician to certified first\nresponders, emergency medical technicians or advanced emergency medical\ntechnicians who are providing medical care at the scene of an emergency\nor en route to a health care facility; and (b) indirect medical control\nincluding the written policies, procedures, and protocols for\nprehospital emergency medical care and transportation developed by the\nstate emergency medical advisory committee, approved by the state\nemergency medical services council and the commissioner, and implemented\nby regional medical advisory committees.\n 16. "Regional medical advisory committee" means a group of five or\nmore physicians, and one or more non-voting individuals representative\nof each of the following: hospitals, basic life support providers,\nadvanced life support providers and emergency medical services training\nsponsor medical directors approved by the affected regional emergency\nmedical services councils.\n 17. "Advanced life support first response service" means an\norganization which provides advanced life support care, but does not\ntransport patients.\n 18. "EMS program agency" means a not-for-profit corporation or\nmunicipality designated by the state council and approved by the\naffected regional council or councils to facilitate the development and\noperation of an emergency medical services system within a region as\ndirected by the regional council under this article.\n 19. "Operator" means any person who by reason of a direct or indirect\nownership interest (whether of record or beneficial) has the ability,\nacting either alone or in concert with others with ownership interests,\nto direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of an\nambulance service or advanced life support first response service.\n 20. "Mutual aid agreement" means a written agreement, entered into by\ntwo or more ambulance services or advanced life support first response\nservices possessing valid ambulance service or advanced life support\nfirst response service certificates or statements of registration, for\nthe organized, coordinated, and cooperative reciprocal mobilization of\npersonnel, equipment, services, or facilities for back-up or support\nupon request as required pursuant to a written mutual aid plan. An\nambulance service and advanced life support first response service may\nparticipate in one or more mutual aid agreements.\n 21. "Primary territory" means the geographic area or subdivisions\nlisted on an ambulance service certificate or statement of registration\nwithin which the ambulance service may receive patients for transport.\n