STATE OF NEW YORK
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5856
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 3, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. PHILLIPS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to emergency medical
service in Nassau County
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 3017 of the public health law, as added by chapter
2 572 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 3017. Emergency medical service, Nassau and Suffolk [county] coun-
4 ties. 1. No ambulance service or advanced life support first response
5 service shall respond to any call or request for emergency medical
6 services within a town, village or fire district in Nassau or Suffolk
7 county that currently provides ambulance service or advanced life
8 support services first response service, if the municipality has desig-
9 nated one or more ambulance services or advanced life support first
10 response services to respond to such calls unless:
11 (a) the service is so designated;
12 (b) the response is in accordance with a mutual aid plan approved by
13 the appropriate regional emergency medical service council;
14 (c) the response is to a verbal mutual aid request from a designated
15 service;
16 (d) the service was specifically requested to respond by the patient
17 or someone acting on behalf of that patient; or
18 (e) the response site is a hospital licensed under article twenty-
19 eight of this chapter for a transfer to another such facility.
20 2. Every ambulance service or advanced life support first response
21 service shall disclose as part of any solicitation or advertisement in
22 Nassau or Suffolk county that there is a fee for services rendered, if
23 in fact there is a fee charged for the performance of such service.
24 3. Every ambulance service or advanced life support first response
25 service that operates in Nassau or Suffolk county and has vehicles which
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10835-01-7
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1 travel through communities with designated ambulance service or advanced
2 life support first response service shall require its drivers and emer-
3 gency medical technicians:
4 (a) to immediately notify a central alarm or other publicly operated
5 dispatch entity, or a person designated under section two hundred nine-b
6 of the general municipal law to receive calls for emergency services for
7 the purpose of dispatching emergency medical services whenever an emer-
8 gency is found in a public place;
9 (b) to evaluate the need to transport any patient found in extremis to
10 a hospital; and
11 (c) to comply with appropriate instructions from the dispatch entity.
12 The dispatch entity, when appropriate, may instruct the service to
13 transport any patient to an appropriate hospital.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
