2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 30 - Emergency Medical Services › 3000-F - Automated External Defibrillator; Camps and Youth Sports Programs.

§  3000-f.  Automated  external  defibrillator; camps and youth sports
programs. 1. Definitions. As used in this section,  unless  the  context
clearly  requires  otherwise,  the  following  terms  have the following
meanings:
(a)  "Automated  external  defibrillator"  means  a  medical   device,
approved by the United States food and drug administration, that: (i) is
capable  of  recognizing  the  presence  or  absence  in  a  patient  of
ventricular fibrillation and  rapid  ventricular  tachycardia;  (ii)  is
capable  of  determining,  without  intervention by an operator, whether
defibrillation should be performed on a patient; (iii) upon  determining
that  defibrillation  should  be  performed,  automatically  charges and
requests delivery of an electrical impulse to  a  patient's  heart;  and
(iv)   then,  upon  action  by  an  operator,  delivers  an  appropriate
electrical impulse to a patient's heart to perform defibrillation.
(b)   "Training   course"   means   a    course    approved    by    a
nationally-recognized   organization  or  the  state  emergency  medical
services council in the operation of automated external defibrillators.
(c) "Nationally-recognized organization" means a national organization
approved by the department for the purpose of training people in use  of
an automated external defibrillator.
(d)  "Camp"  means  a  children's  overnight camp, summer day camp, or
traveling summer day camp, as such terms are defined in section thirteen
hundred ninety-two of this chapter, that is subject to regulation by the
department.
(e) "Youth sports program" means  any  league  or  recreation  program
organized  to  provide  group  athletic  activity  to  individuals under
seventeen years old or programs providing  athletic  activity  for  high
school  students  regardless  of  the  age  of  the participants of such
programs. Public school athletic programs subject to the requirements of
section nine hundred seventeen of the education law shall not be subject
to the requirements of this section.
2. Within one hundred eighty  days  of  the  effective  date  of  this
section,  each  camp, and each youth sports program that either hosts or
participates  in  games,  matches,  tournaments,  leagues,  or   similar
activities  in  which  at  least  five  teams  are  participating, shall
establish  an  automated  external  defibrillator  implementation   plan
describing how the camp or program will:
(a)  make  available  an  automated external defibrillator or describe
reasonable access to an automated external defibrillator at every  camp,
game and practice; and
(b)  use  best  efforts to ensure that there is at least one employee,
volunteer, coach, umpire or other qualified adult who is present at each
such camp, game and practice who has successfully completed  a  training
course  within  the  preceding  twenty-four  months  of  each  such camp
session, game and practice.
(c) Each camp and youth sports program  shall  maintain  records  that
such  camp  or  youth  sports  program  possesses at least one automated
external defibrillator.
(d) Implementation plans shall  include  an  equipment  checklist  and
cardiac emergency protocol for when cardiac emergency incidents occur.
(e)  Implementation plans can include automated external defibrillator
access provided by athletic facilities, playing fields or site for games
or practices where the  operator  of  the  facility  provides  automated
external defibrillator access at their location.
3.  Implementation  of automated external defibrillator plans shall be
done in accordance with the  requirements  and  protections  of  section
3000-b of this article.