§ 3017 — Emergency medical service, Suffolk county

New York § 3017

• Jurisdiction: New York
• Law PBH: Public Health
• Art. 30: Emergency Medical Services

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§ 3017. Emergency medical service, Suffolk county. 1. No ambulance\nservice or advanced life support first response service shall respond to\nany call or request for emergency medical services within a town,\nvillage or fire district in Suffolk county that currently provides\nambulance service or advanced life support services first response\nservice, if the municipality has designated one or more ambulance\nservices or advanced life support first response services to respond to\nsuch calls unless:\n (a) the service is so designated;\n (b) the response is in accordance with a mutual aid plan approved by\nthe appropriate regional emergency medical service council;\n (c) the response is to a verbal mutual aid request from a designated\nservice;\n (d) the service was specifically requested to respond by the patient\nor someone acting on behalf of that patient; or\n (e) the response site is a hospital licensed under article\ntwenty-eight of this chapter for a transfer to another such facility.\n 2. Every ambulance service or advanced life support first response\nservice shall disclose as part of any solicitation or advertisement in\nSuffolk county that there is a fee for services rendered, if in fact\nthere is a fee charged for the performance of such service.\n 3. Every ambulance service or advanced life support first response\nservice that operates in Suffolk county and has vehicles which travel\nthrough communities with designated ambulance service or advanced life\nsupport first response service shall require its drivers and emergency\nmedical technicians:\n (a) to immediately notify a central alarm or other publicly operated\ndispatch entity, or a person designated under section two hundred nine-b\nof the general municipal law to receive calls for emergency services for\nthe purpose of dispatching emergency medical services whenever an\nemergency is found in a public place;\n (b) to evaluate the need to transport any patient found in extremis to\na hospital; and\n (c) to comply with appropriate instructions from the dispatch entity.\nThe dispatch entity, when appropriate, may instruct the service to\ntransport any patient to an appropriate hospital.\n