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MS Code § 41-59-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 59 - Emergency Medical Services|General Provisions|§ 41-59-55. Districts; administration

 Any emergency medical service district created pursuant to this chapter shall be administered in one of the following manners:   The governing authorities of the participating political subdivisions shall appoint a person or persons, who may be an elected official of such political subdivision, to a board which shall be authorized to promulgate policy for and guide the administration of the activities of the district; or   The governing authorities, by mutual and unanimous agreement, shall appoint an executive manager who shall have full authority over the operation of the district.
MS Code § 41-59-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 59 - Emergency Medical Services|General Provisions|§ 41-59-57. Districts; power to receive and expend funds

 The emergency medical service districts authorized under this chapter are empowered to receive funds from all sources and are authorized to expend such funds as may be available for any necessary and proper purpose in the manner provided by law for municipalities. The participating political subdivisions may expend funds from any source for the necessary and proper support of such a district, and they may expend such funds by making a lump sum payment to the board or manager designated to administer the district.
MS Code § 41-59-59 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 59 - Emergency Medical Services|General Provisions|§ 41-59-59. Funds for support and maintenance of districts

  The board of supervisors of any county of the state participating in the establishment of an emergency medical service district under the provisions of Section 41-59-51 and related statutes of the Mississippi Code of 1972 may set aside, appropriate and expend moneys from the general fund for the support and maintenance of the district. In the event the district is comprised of more than one (1) county, the contributions for support and maintenance may be made on a per capita basis.   Emergency medical service districts may borrow funds in anticipation of the receipt of tax monies as otherwise provided by law for counties or municipalities.
MS Code § 41-59-61 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 59 - Emergency Medical Services|General Provisions|§ 41-59-61. Emergency medical services operating fund; assessment on traffic violations

  The assessments that are collected under subsections (1) and (2) of Section 99-19-73 shall be deposited in a special fund that is created in the State Treasury to be designated the "Emergency Medical Services Operating Fund." The Legislature may make appropriations from the Emergency Medical Services Operating Fund to the State Board of Health for the purpose of defraying costs of administration of the Emergency Medical Services Operating Fund (EMSOF) and for redistribution of those funds to the counties, municipalities and organized medical service districts (hereinafter referred to as "governmental units") for the support of the Emergency Medical Services programs. The State Board of Health, with the Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council acting in an advisory capacity, shall administer the disbursement to those governmental units of any funds appropriated to the board from the Emergency Medical Services Operating Fund and the utilization of those funds by the governmental units.   Funds appropriated from the Emergency Medical Services Operating Fund to the State Board of Health shall be made available to all such governmental units to support the Emergency Medical Services programs therein, and those funds shall be distributed to each governmental unit based upon its general population relative to the total population of the state. Disbursement of those funds shall be made on an annual basis at the end of the fiscal year upon the request of each governmental unit. Funds distributed to those governmental units shall be used in addition to existing annual Emergency Medical Services budgets of the governmental units, and no such funds shall be used for the payment of any attorney's fees. The Director of the Emergency Medical Services program or his appointed designee is authorized to require financial reports from the governmental units utilizing these funds in order to provide satisfactory proof of the maintenance of the funding effort by the governmental units.
MS Code § 41-59-63 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 59 - Emergency Medical Services|General Provisions|§ 41-59-63. Membership subscription programs for prepaid ambulance service not to constitute insurance

 The solicitation of membership subscriptions, the acceptance of membership applications, the charging of membership fees, and the furnishing of prepaid or discounted ambulance service to subscription members and designated members of their households by either a public or private ambulance service licensed and regulated by the State Board of Health pursuant to Section 41-59-1 et seq. shall not constitute the writing of insurance and the agreement under and pursuant to which such prepaid or discounted ambulance service is provided to the subscription members and to designated members of their households shall not constitute a contract of insurance.
MS Code § 41-59-65 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 59 - Emergency Medical Services|General Provisions|§ 41-59-65. Application for permit to conduct membership subscription program; fees; renewals

 Either a public or private ambulance service licensed and regulated by the State Board of Health desiring to offer such a membership subscription program shall make application for permit to conduct and implement such program to the State Board of Health. The application shall be made upon forms in accordance with procedures established by the board and shall contain the following:   The name and address of the owner of the ambulance service;   The name in which the applicant is doing business;   The location and description of the place or places from which the ambulance service operates;   The places or areas in which the ambulance service intends to conduct and operate a membership subscription program; and   Such other information as the board shall deem necessary.   Each application for a permit shall be accompanied by a permit fee of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), which shall be paid to the board. The permit shall be issued to expire the next ensuing December 31. The permit issued under this section may be renewed upon payment of a renewal fee of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), which shall be paid to the board. Renewal of any permit issued under this section shall require conformance with all requirements of this chapter. Any increase in the fee charged by the board under this section shall be in accordance with the provisions of Section 41-3-65.
MS Code § 41-59-67 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 59 - Emergency Medical Services|General Provisions|§ 41-59-67. Requirements for issuance of permit; reserve fund; ambulance service to pay cost of collection of judgment against fund

 The issuance of a permit to conduct and implement a membership subscription program shall require the following:   The posting of a surety bond with one or more surety companies to be approved by the State Board of Health, in the amount of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) for every one thousand (1,000) subscribers or portion thereof; and   The establishment of a reserve fund to consist of a deposit to the reserve fund with any depository approved by the state for the benefit of the subscription members in the amount of Three Dollars ($3.00) for each subscription member currently subscribing to the subscription program, but not for the designated members of the subscribing member's household, to guarantee perpetuation of the subscription membership program until all memberships are terminated; and   No further deposits shall be required to be made by the ambulance service to the reserve fund after the aggregate sum of the principal amount of said surety bond plus the deposits in the reserve fund is equal to Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200,000.00).   In any action brought by a subscriber against the surety bond or the reserve fund, the cost of collection upon a judgment rendered in favor of the subscriber, including attorney's fees, shall be paid by the ambulance service.
MS Code § 41-59-69 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 59 - Emergency Medical Services|General Provisions|§ 41-59-69. Annual report of ambulance service conducting subscription program

 Annual reports shall be filed with the State Board of Health by the ambulance service permitted to conduct and implement a membership subscription program in the manner and form prescribed by the State Board of Health, which report shall contain the following:   The name and address of the ambulance service conducting the program;   The number of members subscribing to the subscription program;   The revenues generated by subscriptions to the program; and   The name and address of the depository bank in which the reserve fund is deposited and the amount of deposit in said reserve fund.
MS Code § 41-59-71 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 59 - Emergency Medical Services|General Provisions|§ 41-59-71. Methods of soliciting members; license not required

 Solicitation of membership in the subscription program may be made through direct advertising, group solicitation, by officers and employees of the ambulance service or by individuals without the necessity of licensing of such solicitors.
MS Code § 41-59-75 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 59 - Emergency Medical Services|General Provisions|§ 41-59-75. Mississippi Trauma Care Systems Fund established; Mississippi Trauma Care Escrow Fund created

  The Mississippi Trauma Care Systems Fund is established. Fifteen Dollars ($15.00) collected from each assessment of Twenty Dollars ($20.00) under subsection (1) of Section 99-19-73 and Thirty Dollars ($30.00) collected from each assessment of Forty-five Dollars ($45.00) under subsection (2) of Section 99-19-73, as provided in Section 41-59-61, and any other funds made available for funding the trauma care system, shall be deposited into the fund. Funds appropriated from the Mississippi Trauma Care Systems Fund to the State Board of Health shall be made available for department administration and implementation of the comprehensive state trauma care plan for distribution by the department to designated trauma care regions for regional administration, for the department's trauma specific public information and education plan, and to provide hospital and physician indigent trauma care block grant funding to trauma centers designated by the department. All designated trauma care hospitals are eligible to contract with the department for these funds.   The Mississippi Trauma Care Escrow Fund is created as a special fund in the State Treasury. Whenever the amount in the Mississippi Trauma Care Systems Fund exceeds Twenty-five Million Dollars ($25,000,000.00) in any fiscal year, the State Fiscal Officer shall transfer the amount above Twenty-five Million Dollars ($25,000,000.00) to the Trauma Care Escrow Fund. Monies in the Trauma Care Escrow Fund shall not lapse into the State General Fund at the end of the fiscal year, and all interest and other earnings on the monies in the Trauma Care Escrow Fund shall be deposited to the credit of the Trauma Care Escrow Fund.
MS Code § 41-59-77 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 59 - Emergency Medical Services|General Provisions|§ 41-59-77. Trauma registry data confidential and not subject to discovery or introduction into evidence in civil actions

 Data obtained under this chapter for use in the trauma registry is for the confidential use of the Mississippi State Department of Health and the persons, public entities or private entities that participate in the collection of the trauma registry data.   Any data which identifies an individual or a family unit that is collected for use in the trauma registry shall be confidential and shall not be subject to discovery or introduction into evidence in any civil action.
MS Code § 41-59-79 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 59 - Emergency Medical Services|General Provisions|§ 41-59-79. Certification of first responders by State Board of Health

 Any person desiring certification as a medical first responder shall apply to the board using forms prescribed by the board. Each application for a medical first responder certificate shall be accompanied by a certificate fee to be fixed by the board, which shall be paid to the board. Any increase in the fee charged by the board under this section shall be in accordance with the provisions of Section 41-3-65. Upon the successful completion of the board's approved medical first responder training program, the board shall make a determination of the applicant's qualifications as a medical first responder as set forth in the regulations promulgated by the board, and shall issue a medical first responder certificate to the applicant.
MS Code § 41-59-81 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 59 - Emergency Medical Services|General Provisions|§ 41-59-81. Promulgation of rules and regulations governing first responder basic life support

  The State Board of Health is authorized to promulgate and enforce rules and regulations to provide for the best and most effective emergency medical care by medical first responders, and to comply with national standards for medical first responders. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, medical first responder personnel may be authorized to provide medical first responder services as defined by rules and regulations promulgated by the State Board of Health.  Rules and regulations promulgated under this authority shall, as a minimum:    Define and authorize functions and training programs for medical first responder personnel; however, all those training programs shall meet or exceed the performance requirements of the most current training program "First Responder: National Standard Curriculum" as developed by the United States Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.   Specify minimum testing and certification requirements and provide for continuing education and periodic recertification for all medical first responder personnel.     Counties, municipalities and designated EMS districts may regulate the activities of medical first responders in addition to the regulation imposed by rules and regulations promulgated by the State Board of Health.   The State Board of Health and the State Department of Health shall not be authorized to regulate the activities of, or require the state certification of, those first responders who are not medical first responders.
MS Code § 41-59-85 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 59 - Emergency Medical Services|General Provisions|§ 41-59-85. Requirements for ambulances and special use medical service vehicles operating in emergency mode

  The driver of any vehicle other than an official emergency vehicle shall not follow any moving ambulance that is engaged in an emergency medical call closer than five hundred (500) feet, or park the vehicle within two hundred (200) feet of where the ambulance has stopped and a patient is either being loaded or unloaded.   Every ambulance and special use EMS vehicle shall be marked with red lights front and back and also may be marked with white and amber lights in addition to red lights.   Drivers of ambulances and special use EMS vehicles shall operate in the emergency mode with warning lights and siren at all times while engaged in an emergency medical call and operating the emergency vehicle in a manner to take exceptions to the traffic laws and regulations as provided in Section 63-3-1 et seq., so as to warn other drivers of nonemergency vehicles to yield the right-of-way of the authorized emergency vehicle. Ambulances and special use EMS vehicles may use emergency warning lights only if they are engaged in an emergency medical call and they are stopped or parked, or if they are moving and operating the vehicle in a manner so as to abide by all traffic laws and regulations as provided in Section 63-3-1 et seq. No driver of any ambulance or special use EMS vehicle shall assume any special privilege from traffic laws and regulations except when the emergency vehicle is operated in the emergency mode, with warning lights and siren, while engaged in an emergency medical call.
MS Code § 41-59-103 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 59 - Emergency Medical Services|EMS Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact|§ 41-59-103. "State EMS Authority" defined

 The term "State EMS Authority," as referred to in Section 2 of the EMS Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact, means the Mississippi State Board of Health acting through the Mississippi State Department of Health.
MS Code § 41-60-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 60 - Emergency Medical Technicians - Paramedics - Use of Automated External Defibrillator|In General|§ 41-60-11. Definitions

 As used in Sections 41-59-29 through 41-59-37 and Sections 41-60-11 and 41-60-13, unless the context otherwise requires, the term:   "Advanced life support" means a sophisticated level of prehospital and interhospital emergency care which includes basic life-support functions including cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), plus cardiac monitoring, cardiac defibrillation, telemetered electrocardiography, administration of antiarrhythmic agents, intravenous therapy, administration of specific medications, drugs and solutions, use of adjunctive ventilation devices, trauma care and other authorized techniques and procedures.   "Advanced life-support personnel" means persons other than physicians engaged in the provision of advanced life support, as defined and regulated by rules and regulations promulgated by the board.   "Emergency medical technician-advanced" means a person specially trained in an advanced life-support training program authorized by the Mississippi State Board of Health.   "Emergency medical technician-paramedic" means a person specially trained in an advanced life-support training program authorized by the Mississippi State Board of Health.   "Emergency medical technician-paramedic critical care" means a person who (i) is licensed as a Mississippi Emergency Medical Technician Paramedic, and (ii) has successfully completed a critical care paramedic program recognized by the Bureau of Emergency Medical Services and the Mississippi State Department of Health.   "Medical control" means directions and advice provided from a centrally designated medical facility staffed by appropriate personnel, operating under medical supervision, supplying professional support through radio or telephonic communication for on-site and in-transit basic and advanced life-support services given by field and satellite facility personnel.
MS Code § 41-60-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 60 - Emergency Medical Technicians - Paramedics - Use of Automated External Defibrillator|In General|§ 41-60-13. Promulgation of rules and regulations by State Board of Health

 The Mississippi State Board of Health is authorized to promulgate and enforce rules and regulations to provide for the best and most effective emergency medical care, and to comply with national standards for advanced life support. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, advanced life support personnel may be authorized to provide advanced life support services as defined by rules and regulations promulgated by the State Board of Health. Rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to this authority shall, as a minimum:   Define and authorize appropriate functions and training programs for advanced life support trainees and personnel; provided, that all such training programs shall meet or exceed the performance requirements of the current training program for the emergency medical technician-paramedic, developed for the United States Department of Transportation.   Specify minimum operational requirements which will assure medical control over all advanced life support services.   Specify minimum testing and certification requirements and provide for continuing education and periodic recertification for all advanced life support personnel.
MS Code § 41-60-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 60 - Emergency Medical Technicians - Paramedics - Use of Automated External Defibrillator|Use of Automated External Defibrillator in Cases of Sudden Cardiac Death|§ 41-60-31. Definitions

 As used in Sections 41-60-31 through 41-60-35.   "AED" means an automated external defibrillator, which is a device, heart monitor and defibrillator that:   Has received approval of its premarket notification filed under 21 USCS, Section 360(k) from the United States Food and Drug Administration;   Is capable of recognizing the presence or absence of ventricular fibrillation, which is an abnormal heart rhythm that causes the ventricles of the heart to quiver and renders the heart unable to pump blood, or rapid ventricular tachycardia, which is a rapid heartbeat in the ventricles and is capable of determining, without intervention by an operator, whether defibrillation should be performed; and   Upon determining that defibrillation should be performed, automatically charges and advises the operator to deliver hands-free external electrical shock to patients to terminate ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia when the heart rate exceeds a preset value.   "Emergency medical services (EMS) notification" means activation of the 911 emergency response system or the equivalent.
MS Code § 41-60-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 60 - Emergency Medical Technicians - Paramedics - Use of Automated External Defibrillator|Use of Automated External Defibrillator in Cases of Sudden Cardiac Death|§ 41-60-33. Requirements and training for use of automated external defibrillator

 Any person may use an automated external defibrillator for the purpose of saving the life of another person in sudden cardiac death, subject to the following requirements:   A Mississippi licensed physician must exercise medical control authority over the person using the AED to ensure compliance with requirements for training, emergency medical services (EMS) notification and maintenance;   The person using the AED must have received appropriate training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and in the use of an AED by the American Heart Association, American Red Cross, National Safety Council or other nationally recognized course in CPR and AED use;   The AED must not operate in a manual mode except when access control devices are in place or when appropriately licensed individuals such as registered nurses, physicians or emergency medical technician-paramedics utilize the AED; and   Any person who renders emergency care or treatment on a person in sudden cardiac death by using an AED must activate the EMS system as soon as possible, and report any clinical use of the AED to the licensed physician.
MS Code § 41-60-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 60 - Emergency Medical Technicians - Paramedics - Use of Automated External Defibrillator|Use of Automated External Defibrillator in Cases of Sudden Cardiac Death|§ 41-60-35. Individual authorized to use automated external defibrillator not limited from practicing other authorized health occupations

 An individual may use an AED if all of the requirements of Section 41-60-33 are met. However, nothing in Sections 41-60-31 through 41-60-35 shall limit the right of an individual to practice a health occupation that the individual is otherwise authorized to practice under the laws of Mississippi.