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NH Rev Stat § 153-A:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 153-A - Emergency Medical and Trauma Services|Section 153-A:17 - Liability.

    153-A:17 Liability. –||I. No approved emergency medical services training program nor any entity or person participating as part of an approved educational program, as authorized by this chapter, shall be liable for any civil damages as a result of teaching or following primary and continuing educational practices as taught to and practiced by enrolled students under proper supervision, unless guilty of gross or willful negligence.||II. No licensed emergency medical care provider who in good faith attempts to render emergency medical services authorized by this chapter at an emergency scene while en route to a place of employment shall receive any form of reprimand or penalty by an employer as a result of late arrival at the place of employment. An employer may request written verification from any such licensed emergency medical care provider, who shall obtain the written verification from either the police officer, fire officer, or emergency medical services personnel in charge at the emergency scene.||III. No person who is an emergency medical services instructor or assistant instructor employed or retained by the department of safety or who is an emergency medical services instructor or assistant instructor employed or retained by a hospital, nonprofit fire department or emergency medical service unit shall be held personally liable in any action to recover for personal injury, bodily injury, or property damage arising out of any act performed or occurring in the furtherance of such instructor's official educational or training duties and responsibilities. Nothing in this section shall affect the liability of such person for damages arising out of willful misconduct, gross negligence, or providing educational or training services while under the influence of drugs or alcohol.||IV. The department of safety, its employees, and individuals under contract to the department for the purpose of administering or proctoring examinations, either written or practical, shall be held harmless in any lawsuit alleging that the testing was insufficient, inappropriate, or in any way deficient, if carried out in accordance with rules adopted under RSA 153-A:20, VIII. This paragraph shall not hold harmless any individual charged with conducting written or practical examinations who is negligent in his or her actions.|||Source. 1999, 345:6, eff. July 1, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 153-A:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 153-A - Emergency Medical and Trauma Services|Section 153-A:18 - Limitation of Liability for Failure to Obtain Consent.

    153-A:18 Limitation of Liability for Failure to Obtain Consent. –||No licensed emergency medical care provider or any health professional shall be subject to civil liability based solely upon failure to obtain consent in rendering emergency medical services to any person, regardless of age, where the person is unable to give consent for any reason, including minority, and where there is no other person reasonably available who is legally authorized to give consent to the providing of such care, provided that the licensed emergency medical care provider, or health professional, has acted in good faith without knowledge of facts negating consent.|||Source. 1999, 345:6, eff. July 1, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 153-A:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 153-A - Emergency Medical and Trauma Services|Section 153-A:19 - Mutual Aid.

    153-A:19 Mutual Aid. –||I. The system of emergency medical services in this state shall include provisions for appropriate system response to incidents beyond the resource capabilities of individual emergency medical service units available on a regular daily basis. Written mutual aid arrangements may be established with neighboring emergency medical services systems to insure integration of care and shall consider the role of nonemergency medical services public safety agencies, their roles, relationships, and responsibilities in standard operation. A written mutual aid arrangement shall specify who shall be responsible for the direction of medical care at the scene. In the absence of a written agreement, while in the performance of their duties extending emergency medical services in a mutual aid situation, emergency medical care providers shall be under the overall direction of the local authority having jurisdiction but subject to medical control, as defined under RSA 153-A:2, XIV, and such providers shall have the immunities and privileges as if performing the same duties within their respective service areas.||II. Any emergency medical service unit may enter into a mutual aid agreement with other emergency medical service units, within or outside the state, for purposes of rendering aid.||III. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit any emergency medical service unit extending such aid from donating equipment and services and assuming the damage or loss to such equipment or personnel. Any mutual aid agreement may authorize the head of the emergency medical service unit to extend such aid, subject to such conditions and restrictions, as may be prescribed in the agreement.||IV. There shall be no liability imposed by law on the emergency medical service unit, on any municipality, or on the personnel of the emergency medical service unit, for failure to respond or to respond reasonably for the purpose of rendering aid under a mutual aid agreement. This immunity is not intended to be exclusive of other immunities existing by statute, or at common law.|||Source. 1999, 345:6, eff. July 1, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 153-A:20-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 153-A - Emergency Medical and Trauma Services|Section 153-A:20-a - Emergency Medical and Trauma Services Protocols.

    153-A:20-a Emergency Medical and Trauma Services Protocols. –||The commissioner shall adopt rules, which shall be exempt from the provisions of RSA 541-A, relative to protocols approved and issued by the emergency medical services medical control board for provision of emergency medical care, which shall address living wills established under RSA 137-J, durable powers of attorney for health care established under RSA 137-J, and patient-requested, physician generated orders relative to resuscitation.|||Source. 2018, 218:4, eff. Aug. 7, 2018.|
NH Rev Stat § 153-A:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 153-A - Emergency Medical and Trauma Services|Section 153-A:21 - Prohibited Acts; Penalties.

    153-A:21 Prohibited Acts;  Penalties. –||I. Any person providing emergency medical services who knowingly implies that such person is a licensed emergency medical care provider, or who uses any other term to indicate or imply that the person is a licensed emergency medical care provider, or who acts as a licensed emergency medical care provider, without having obtained the appropriate license under this chapter, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor for the first offense and a class B felony for subsequent offenses.||II. An owner of an emergency medical service unit or vehicle who operates or purports to operate an emergency medical services unit or vehicle, or who uses terms to indicate or to imply such licensure without having obtained the appropriate license under this chapter, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor for the first offense and a class B felony for subsequent offenses.|||Source. 1999, 345:6, eff. July 1, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 153-A:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 153-A - Emergency Medical and Trauma Services|Section 153-A:22 - Administrative Fines.

    153-A:22 Administrative Fines. –||The commissioner, after notice and hearing, pursuant to rules adopted under RSA 541-A, may impose an administrative fine not to exceed $2,000 for each offense upon any person or entity licensed under this chapter who violates any provision of this chapter or rules adopted under this chapter. Rehearings and appeals from a decision of the director shall be in accordance with RSA 541. Any administrative fine imposed under this section shall not preclude the imposition of further penalties or administrative actions under this chapter. The commissioner shall adopt rules in accordance with RSA 541-A relative to administrative fines which shall be scaled to reflect the scope and severity of the violation. The sums obtained from the levying of administrative fines under this chapter shall be forwarded to the state treasurer to be deposited into the general fund.|||Source. 1999, 345:6, eff. July 1, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 153-A:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 153-A - Emergency Medical and Trauma Services|Section 153-A:23 - Statement of Intent.

    153-A:23 Statement of Intent. –||This subdivision is intended to provide for the recovery of expenses of a public agency response which are due to certain actions of persons which result in a public agency response. This subdivision shall not be construed to replace any other provisions of civil or criminal law relating to the recovery of such expenses.|||Source. 1999, 345:6, eff. July 1, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 153-A:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 153-A - Emergency Medical and Trauma Services|Section 153-A:24 - Responsibility for Public Agency Response Services.

    153-A:24 Responsibility for Public Agency Response Services. –||I. A person shall be liable for response expenses if, in the judgment of the court, such person:||(a) Negligently operates a motor vehicle, boat, off highway recreational vehicle, or aircraft while under the influence of an alcoholic beverage or controlled drug and thereby proximately causes any incident resulting in a public agency response;||(b) Takes another person or persons hostage or threatens to harm himself or another person, thereby proximately causing any incident resulting in an appropriate public agency response; or||(c) Recklessly or intentionally creates a situation requiring an emergency response.||II. A person's liability under this subdivision for response expenses shall not exceed $10,000 for any single public agency response incident.|||Source. 1999, 345:6, eff. July 1, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 153-A:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 153-A - Emergency Medical and Trauma Services|Section 153-A:25 - Collections; Insurance.

    153-A:25 Collections;  Insurance. –||The response expense shall be a debt owed by the person responsible and shall not be paid by an insurance company. The public agency which incurred the expense may collect the debt in the same manner as in the case of an obligation under a contract, expressed or implied. Public agency expenses may include reasonable attorney fees.|||Source. 1999, 345:6, eff. July 1, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 153-A:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 153-A - Emergency Medical and Trauma Services|Section 153-A:26 - Admissibility in Criminal Proceedings.

    153-A:26 Admissibility in Criminal Proceedings. –||Any testimony, admission, or other statement made by the defendant in any civil proceeding brought pursuant to this subdivision, or any evidence derived from such proceeding, shall not be admitted or otherwise used in any criminal proceeding arising out of the same incident.|||Source. 1999, 345:6, eff. July 1, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 153-A:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 153-A - Emergency Medical and Trauma Services|Section 153-A:27 - Court Order.

    153-A:27 Court Order. –||When a person is sentenced for any criminal offense which resulted in a public agency response, the sentencing court may order that the person be required to pay the expenses of any public agency response or to perform up to 500 hours of uncompensated community service.|||Source. 1999, 345:6, eff. July 1, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 153-A:28 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 153-A - Emergency Medical and Trauma Services|Section 153-A:28 - Intent.

    153-A:28 Intent. –||I. The use of automated external defibrillators addresses an important public health problem in New Hampshire. It is the intent of the legislature to encourage the use and availability of automated external defibrillators, along with training in the use of automated external defibrillators, for the purpose of saving the lives of people in cardiac arrest.||II. Further, the legislature strongly encourages dissemination of educational information regarding automated external defibrillators and encourages that access to these lifesaving devices be made widely available to businesses, schools, fire and police departments, and other public and private organizations throughout the state.|||Source. 2000, 302:4. 2002, 156:5, eff. July 14, 2002.|
NH Rev Stat § 153-A:29 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 153-A - Emergency Medical and Trauma Services|Section 153-A:29 - Definitions.

    153-A:29 Definitions. –||For purposes of this subdivision, "automated external defibrillator" means a medical device which combines a heart monitor and defibrillator and:||I. Has been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration;||II. Is capable of recognizing the presence or absence of ventricular fibrillation;||III. Is capable of determining whether defibrillation should be performed; and||IV. Automatically charges and requests delivery of an electrical impulse to an individual's heart, upon determination that defibrillation should be performed.|||Source. 2000, 302:4. 2002, 156:5, eff. July 14, 2002.|
NH Rev Stat § 153-A:30 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 153-A - Emergency Medical and Trauma Services|Section 153-A:30 - Training.

    153-A:30 Training. –||Every person, association, corporation or other organization that acquires an automated external defibrillator shall require anticipated responders expected to use the automated external defibrillator to receive training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator use. This section shall not limit the use of the automated external defibrillator to the anticipated responder nor shall this section limit the provisions of RSA 153-A:31.|||Source. 2000, 302:4. 2002, 156:5. 2008, 207:2, eff. Aug. 15, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 153-A:31 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 153-A - Emergency Medical and Trauma Services|Section 153-A:31 - Liability Limited.

    153-A:31 Liability Limited. –||Any person who, in good faith and without compensation, renders emergency care by the use of an automated external defibrillator shall not be liable for civil damages for any acts or omissions unless the acts or omissions were grossly negligent or willful and wanton. Any person, association, corporation or other organization that acquires and maintains an automated external defibrillator for emergency care shall not be liable for civil damages other than for gross negligence or willful and wanton acts or omissions. This section shall not limit civil liability protection provided by any other law.|||Source. 2000, 302:4. 2002, 156:5, eff. July 14, 2002.|
NH Rev Stat § 153-A:32 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 153-A - Emergency Medical and Trauma Services|Section 153-A:32 - Automated External Defibrillator Registry.

    153-A:32 Automated External Defibrillator Registry. –||There shall be established in the department of safety a registry for all automated external defibrillators in the state. The department is authorized to release information from the registry to first responders in an emergency through the enhanced 911 system. Registration shall include the address and precise location of the automated external defibrillator.|||Source. 2002, 156:2, eff. July 14, 2002.|
NH Rev Stat § 153-A:33 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 153-A - Emergency Medical and Trauma Services|Section 153-A:33 - Registration Required.

    153-A:33 Registration Required. –||I. The owner of an automated external defibrillator shall register with the department of safety under RSA 153-A:32 within 30 days of acquisition.||II. Manufacturers or distributors shall provide written notice to purchasers of the requirement to register automated external defibrillators with the department.||III. The provisions of paragraphs I and II shall not apply to owners who purchase an automated external defibrillator for use in a private residence.|||Source. 2002, 156:2, eff. July 14, 2002.|
NH Rev Stat § 153-A:34 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 153-A - Emergency Medical and Trauma Services|Section 153-A:34 - Quality Management Program

    153-A:34 Quality Management Program –||I. In this section:||(a) "Quality management program" means a comprehensive, continuous, and organization-wide evaluation and measurement system established in accordance with the rules and definitions adopted by the division of fire standards and training and emergency medical services. The system shall be used to evaluate and monitor the quality and appropriateness of system operation and the care provided to patients in order to identify sentinel events and trends so that corrective action may be taken by the local provider agency.||(b) "Records" means records of interviews, internal review and investigations, and all reports, statements, minutes, memoranda, charts, statistics, and other documentation generated during the activities of a quality management program. "Records" shall not mean original medical records or other records kept relative to any patient in the course of the business of operating as an emergency medical services unit.||II. Records of a quality management program shall be confidential and privileged and shall be protected from direct or indirect means of discovery, subpoena, or admission into evidence in any judicial or administrative proceeding. However, information, documents, or records otherwise available from original sources are not to be construed as immune from discovery or use in any such civil or administrative action merely because they were presented to a quality management program, and any person who supplies information or testifies as part of a quality management program, or who is a member of a quality management program committee, may not be prevented from testifying as to matters within his or her knowledge, but such witness may not be asked about his or her testimony before such program, or opinions formed by him or her, as a result of committee participation. Further, a program's records shall be discoverable in either of the following cases:||(a) A judicial or administrative proceeding brought by the commissioner to revoke or restrict the license or certification of an emergency medical care provider or other person licensed under this chapter; or||(b) A proceeding alleging repetitive malicious action and personal injury brought against an emergency medical care provider or other person licensed under this chapter.||III. No person or entity shall be held liable in any action for damages or other relief arising from their good faith participation in a quality management program, or from the providing of information to a quality management program or in any judicial or administrative proceeding.|||Source. 2005, 231:6, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 153-A:36 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 153-A - Emergency Medical and Trauma Services|Section 153-A:36 - Repealed by 2021, 205:2, Pt. II, Sec. 1, I, eff. Oct. 9, 2021.

    153-A:36 Repealed by 2021, 205:2, Pt. II, Sec. 1, I, eff. Oct. 9, 2021. –|
NH Rev Stat § 154:1-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 154 - Firewards, Firefighters, and Fire Hazards|Section 154:1-a - Finances and Property.

    154:1-a Finances and Property. –||In municipal fire departments organized under RSA 154:1, all fire department real estate or equipment purchased with funds appropriated by the municipality shall be the property of the municipality. Except in the case of properly established capital reserve funds or trusts, all municipal funds appropriated for fire department purposes shall be held by the municipal treasurer and shall be subject to the municipality's normal budgeting, appropriation, and disbursement authorization requirements. Donations or gifts to a municipal fire department shall be subject to applicable legal requirements for acceptance by the municipality, including, but not limited to RSA 31:95-b or 31:95-e.|||Source. 1993, 28:5, eff. Jan. 1, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 154:1-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 154 - Firewards, Firefighters, and Fire Hazards|Section 154:1-b - Firefighter Associations.

    154:1-b Firefighter Associations. –||RSA 154:1 and RSA 154:1-a shall not be construed to preclude the formation of social or fraternal associations of firefighters of municipal fire departments, nor preclude such associations from adopting bylaws or conducting fund-raising activities for the benefit of a municipal fire department, provided, however, that:||I. There shall be no commingling of the funds of such an association with municipal fire department funds.||II. The use of any money or equipment of the association for official municipal fire department purposes shall be subject to the authority and control of the fire chief, and to the written policies approved by the governing body under RSA 154:1, IV.||III. Such an association shall publicize and conduct its activities in the name of the association, and not in the name of the municipal fire department.||IV. Unless ratified or approved by vote of the local governing body or its designee, the activities of such an association shall not be deemed the activities of the municipality, nor shall such activities be deemed to be within the scope of, or arise out of, the course of a firefighter's employment, for purposes of either workers' compensation pursuant to RSA 281-A or any other type of municipal liability.|||Source. 1993, 28:5, eff. Jan. 1, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 154:1-bb (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 154 - Firewards, Firefighters, and Fire Hazards|Section 154:1-bb - Municipal Financing; Fire Departments.

    154:1-bb Municipal Financing;  Fire Departments. –||The legislative body of a municipality may vote to choose a form of financing and property ownership different than those in RSA 154:1-a and RSA 154:1-b.|||Source. 1994, 389:6, eff. Aug. 8, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 154:1-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Safety and Welfare|Title 154 - Firewards, Firefighters, and Fire Hazards|Section 154:1-c - Private Firefighting Units.

    154:1-c Private Firefighting Units. –||I. Any fire company not organized according to RSA 154:1 shall be deemed to be a private firefighting unit.||II. No municipality or other political subdivision shall contract with any private firefighting unit, or furnish financial support, property or equipment to such unit, unless such unit has been certified by the state fire marshal pursuant to RSA 153:4-a.||III. No member of any private firefighting unit shall exercise the legal powers and authorities of the fire department, firefighters, fire chief, or fire officer in charge, as set forth under this chapter and RSA 153:14, unless such unit has been certified by the state fire marshal pursuant to RSA 153:4-a.|||Source. 1993, 28:5, eff. Jan. 1, 1994.|