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2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 30 - Emergency Medical Services › 3004-A - Regional Emergency Medical Advisory Committees.

§  3004-a. Regional emergency medical advisory committees. 1. Regional
  emergency  medical   advisory   committees   shall   develop   policies,
  procedures,  and  triage,  treatment, and transportation protocols which
  are consistent  with  the  standards  of  the  state  emergency  medical
  advisory   committee   and  which  address  specific  local  conditions.
  Regional  emergency  medical  advisory  committees  may   also   approve
  physicians   to   provide   on  line  medical  control,  coordinate  the
  development of regional medical  control  systems,  and  participate  in
  quality   improvement   activities   addressing   system-wide  concerns.
  Hospitals and prehospital medical care services shall be  authorized  to
  release  patient  outcome  information  to  regional  emergency  medical
  advisory committees for purposes of assessing prehospital care concerns.
  Regional quality  improvement  programs  shall  be  presumed  to  be  an
  extension  of the quality improvement program set forth in section three
  thousand six of this article, and the provisions of subdivisions two and
  three of such section three thousand six shall apply to such programs.
2. The committee shall nominate to the commissioner a  physician  with
  demonstrated  knowledge  and experience in emergency medical services to
  serve on the state emergency medical advisory committee.
3. No civil action shall be brought in any court against  any  member,
  officer  or  employee of the committee for any act done, failure to act,
  or statement or opinion made, while discharging his or her duties  as  a
  member,  officer,  or  employee  of  the committee, without leave from a
  justice of the supreme court, first had and obtained.  In no event shall
  such member, officer, or employee be liable  for  damages  in  any  such
  action if he or she shall have acted in good faith, with reasonable care
  and upon probable cause.
4.  Any  decision  of  a regional emergency medical advisory committee
  regarding provision of a level of care, including staffing requirements,
  may be appealed to the state emergency medical advisory committee by any
  regional EMS council, ambulance service, advanced life support  service,
  certified  first  responder,  emergency  medical technician, or advanced
  emergency medical technician adversely affected.   No  action  shall  be
  taken  to  implement  a  decision  regarding  existing levels of care or
  staffing while an appeal of such decision is pending.  Any  decision  of
  the  state emergency medical advisory committee may be appealed pursuant
  to subdivision two-a of section three thousand two-a of this article.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 30 - Emergency Medical Services › 3005-A - Staffing Standards; Ambulance Services and Advanced Life Support First Response Services.

§  3005-a.  Staffing  standards;  ambulance services and advanced life
support first response services.   1. The following  staffing  standards
shall be in effect unless otherwise provided by this section:
(a) effective January first, nineteen hundred ninety-seven the minimum
staffing  standard  for  a  registered  ambulance  service  shall  be  a
certified first responder with the patient;
(b) effective  January  first,  two  thousand,  the  minimum  staffing
standard for a voluntary ambulance service shall be an emergency medical
technician with the patient;
(c)  the  minimum  staffing  standard for all other ambulance services
shall be an emergency medical technician with the patient; and
(d) the minimum staffing standard for an advanced life  support  first
response  service shall be an advanced emergency medical technician with
the patient. Circumstances permitting other than advanced  life  support
care  by  an  advanced  life  support  first  response  service  may  be
established by rule by the state council, subject to the approval of the
commissioner.
2. Any service granted an exemption by the regional  council  pursuant
to  subdivision  five-a  of section three thousand three of this article
shall be subject to the standards and terms of the exemption.
3. Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the  effective
date  of  the  standards established by this section shall be delayed by
one year for each fiscal year, prior to January first, two thousand,  in
which  the amounts appropriated are less than that which would have been
expended pursuant to the provisions of  section  ninety-seven-q  of  the
state finance law.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 30 - Emergency Medical Services › 3005-B - Emergency Medical Technician Five Year Re-Certification Demonstration Program.

* §  3005-b.  Emergency  medical technician five year re-certification
  demonstration program. 1. There is hereby created within the  department
  a  demonstration  program (referred to in this section as the "program")
  to allow emergency medical technicians and  advanced  emergency  medical
  technicians   who   have  been  in  continuous  practice  and  who  have
  demonstrated  competence  in  applicable  behavioral   and   performance
  objectives,  to  be re-certified for a five year period. No person shall
  be re-certified under the program unless he  or  she  has  completed  at
  least  one  hundred  thirty  hours  of  instruction in emergency medical
  services as approved by the commissioner including but  not  limited  to
  pediatrics,   geriatrics,   environmental   emergencies,  legal  issues,
  emergency vehicle operations course and medical emergencies. Renewals of
  certification under the program shall be deemed equivalent  to  renewals
  under subdivision two of section three thousand two of this article.
2. The program shall be limited to persons who are employed by the New
  York  city  fire  department  or  who  are  in practice in the following
  counties:  Delaware,  Fulton,  Hamilton,  Montgomery,  Nassau,   Otsego,
  Schoharie   or  Suffolk.  The  commissioner  may  limit  the  number  of
  participants in the program, except that such limit  shall  be  no  less
  than four thousand participants.
3.   Within  a  year  after  implementing  the  program  and  annually
  thereafter, the commissioner  shall  report  to  the  governor  and  the
  legislature  on the impact of the program on the quality of patient care
  and the  effectiveness  of  the  program  in  retaining  and  recruiting
  certified  emergency  medical technicians and advanced emergency medical
  technicians.
4. The commissioner, in consultation with the state emergency  medical
  services  council,  shall  make  regulations necessary to implement this
  section.
* NB Repealed July 1, 2028
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 30 - Emergency Medical Services › 3007 - Notice of Alternative Destination.

§  3007.  Notice  of  alternative  destination.   In any city having a
  population of one million or more, whenever an individual is transported
  by ambulance from one facility to a second facility and the  destination
  is  changed,  it  shall  be  the  responsibility of the senior ambulance
  dispatcher to inform the facility of origin by telephone of the ultimate
  destination immediately upon arrival thereat.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 30 - Emergency Medical Services › 3015 - Separability.

§  3015. Separability.  If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or
  part of this article  shall  be  adjudged  by  any  court  of  competent
  jurisdiction  to  be  invalid,  the judgment shall not affect, impair or
  invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation
  to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section  or  part  of  this  article
  directly  involved  in  the controversy in which the judgment shall have
  been rendered.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 30 - Emergency Medical Services › 3016 - Continuance of Rules and Regulations.

§  3016.  Continuance  of  rules  and  regulations.    All  rules  and
  regulations heretofore adopted by the  commissioner  pertaining  to  all
  ambulance  services shall continue in full force and effect as rules and
  regulations until duly modified or superseded by rules  and  regulations
  hereafter  adopted  and enacted by the state council pursuant to section
  three thousand two of this article.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 30 - Emergency Medical Services › 3017 - Emergency Medical Service, Suffolk County.

§  3017.  Emergency  medical  service, Suffolk county. 1. No ambulance
service or advanced life support first response service shall respond to
any call or request  for  emergency  medical  services  within  a  town,
village  or  fire  district  in  Suffolk  county that currently provides
ambulance service or  advanced  life  support  services  first  response
service,  if  the  municipality  has  designated  one  or more ambulance
services or advanced life support first response services to respond  to
such calls unless:
(a) the service is so designated;
(b)  the  response is in accordance with a mutual aid plan approved by
the appropriate regional emergency medical service council;
(c) the response is to a verbal mutual aid request from  a  designated
service;
(d)  the  service was specifically requested to respond by the patient
or someone acting on behalf of that patient; or
(e)  the  response  site  is  a  hospital   licensed   under   article
twenty-eight of this chapter for a transfer to another such facility.
2.  Every  ambulance  service  or advanced life support first response
service shall disclose as part of any solicitation or  advertisement  in
Suffolk  county  that  there  is a fee for services rendered, if in fact
there is a fee charged for the performance of such service.
3. Every ambulance service or advanced  life  support  first  response
service  that  operates  in Suffolk county and has vehicles which travel
through communities with designated ambulance service or  advanced  life
support  first  response service shall require its drivers and emergency
medical technicians:
(a) to immediately notify a central alarm or other  publicly  operated
dispatch entity, or a person designated under section two hundred nine-b
of the general municipal law to receive calls for emergency services for
the  purpose  of  dispatching  emergency  medical  services  whenever an
emergency is found in a public place;
(b) to evaluate the need to transport any patient found in extremis to
a hospital; and
(c) to comply with appropriate instructions from the dispatch  entity.
The  dispatch  entity,  when  appropriate,  may  instruct the service to
transport any patient to an appropriate hospital.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 30 - Emergency Medical Services › 3020 - Recruitment and Retention.

§ 3020. Recruitment and retention. 1. The commissioner shall establish
  and  fund  within  amounts  appropriated,  a  public service campaign to
  recruit additional personnel into the emergency medical system fields.
2.  The  commissioner  shall  establish  and   fund   within   amounts
  appropriated  an  emergency  medical  system  mental health and wellness
  program  that  provides   resources   to   emergency   medical   service
  practitioners  to  retain  personnel  in  the  emergency  medical system
  fields.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 30 - Emergency Medical Services › 3030 - Advanced Life Support Services.

§  3030.  Advanced  life  support  services.    Advanced  life support
  services provided by an advanced emergency medical technician, shall  be
  (1)  provided  under  the  direction  of  qualified  medical  and health
  personnel utilizing patient information and data transmitted by voice or
  telemetry, (2) limited to  the  category  or  categories  in  which  the
  advanced  emergency  medical  technician  is  certified pursuant to this
  article,  and  (3)  recorded  for  each  patient,   on   an   individual
  treatment-management record.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 30 - Emergency Medical Services › 3031 - Advanced Life Support System.

§  3031.  Advanced  life support system.  Advanced life support system
  must (1) be under the overall supervision and direction of  a  qualified
  physician  with  respect to the advanced life support services provided,
  (2) be staffed by qualified medical and health  personnel,  (3)  utilize
  advanced   emergency   medical   technicians   whose   certification  is
  appropriate to the advanced life support services provided, (4)  utilize
  advanced  support  mobile units appropriate to the advanced life support
  services provided, (5) maintain a treatment-management record  for  each
  patient  receiving advanced life support services, and (6) be integrated
  with a hospital  emergency,  intensive  care,  coronary  care  or  other
  appropriate service.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 30 - Emergency Medical Services › 3032 - State Emergency Medical Services Task Force.

§ 3032. State emergency medical services task force. 1. The department
  shall  develop  a  state  emergency  medical  services (EMS) task force,
  operated by the department, that may coordinate  and  operate  resources
  that are needed around the state in situations including but not limited
  to a disaster, specialized response, or community need.
2.  The  state  EMS  task force shall be made up of non-government and
  government agencies, that are  licensed  to  provide  emergency  medical
  services  in the state including but not limited to commercial agencies,
  nonprofits, fire departments and third services.
3. The department shall allocate funds to effectuate the  delivery  of
  the  state EMS task force that shall allow for contracting with licensed
  emergency  medical  services  agencies,  the  purchase  of   specialized
  response  equipment, staff to carry out the daily functions of the state
  EMS task force either directly or by contract  and  other  functions  as
  determined by the department.
4.   The   state   emergency   medical  services  council  shall  make
  recommendations to the department  to  effectuate  the  development  and
  delivery of care by the state EMS task force.
5.  The  state  EMS  task  force  shall  have the authority to operate
  throughout New York state.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 30 - Emergency Medical Services › 3033 - Rules and Regulations.

§  3033. Rules and regulations. The commissioner, upon approval of the
  state emergency medical  services  council,  may  promulgate  rules  and
  regulations  to  effectuate  the  purposes  of  this  article, provided,
  however,  that  sections  three  thousand  thirty  and  three   thousand
  thirty-one of this article shall be subject to the provisions of section
  three thousand thirty-four of this article.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 30-A - Emergency Medical Services Personnel Training Act of Nineteen Hundred Eighty-Six › 3051 - Declaration of Purpose.

§  3051.  Declaration of purpose.  Emergency medical services provided
  to those suffering from sudden  illness  or  injury  have  potential  to
  reduce  the  incidence  of  disability  and  death  and  are  therefore,
  invaluable. A training program of high quality is the  key  to  assuring
  that  emergency medical services personnel have the knowledge and skills
  to care for acutely ill and injured patients  in  a  manner  which  will
  prevent further illness and injury. There is therefore a need to provide
  flexible,  diverse  and  high  quality  training opportunities which are
  reasonably available, particularly to volunteers who devote considerable
  time, effort, and often personal resources, to improve or  retain  their
  knowledge  and  skills.  The  state  has a responsibility to support and
  further the  work  of  those  who  provide  emergency  medical  care  by
  providing needed instructional resources.
The  purpose  of  this  article  is  to  expand  and  improve training
  opportunities  for  emergency   medical   service   personnel,   thereby
  benefiting  all the residents of New York state who rely on the services
  of these personnel.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 30-A - Emergency Medical Services Personnel Training Act of Nineteen Hundred Eighty-Six › 3052 - Establishment of a Training Program for Emergency Medical Services Personnel.

§  3052.  Establishment  of  a  training program for emergency medical
  services personnel.  1. There is hereby established a  training  program
  for  emergency medical services personnel including, but not limited to,
  first responders,  emergency  medical  technicians,  advanced  emergency
  medical technicians and emergency vehicle operators.
2.  The  commissioner  shall  provide  state  aid  within  the  amount
  appropriated to entities such as local governments,  regional  emergency
  medical  services  councils, and voluntary agencies and organizations to
  conduct training courses for emergency medical services personnel and to
  conduct practical examinations for certification of such personnel.  The
  commissioner  shall  establish  a schedule for determining the amount of
  state aid provided pursuant to this section.
a. Such schedule may include varying  rates  for  distinct  geographic
  areas  of  the  state  and  for  various  course  sizes,  giving special
  consideration to areas with  the  most  need  for  additional  emergency
  medical  technicians.  In  determining the need for additional emergency
  medical technicians, the commissioner shall use measurements such as the
  average number of emergency medical technicians per  ambulance  service,
  the  ratio of emergency medical technicians per square mile, the average
  number of calls per service and the percentage  of  calls  to  which  an
  emergency  medical  technician  has  responded,  provided  such  data is
  available to the commissioner.
b. Such schedule shall  provide  sufficient  reimbursement  to  permit
  sponsors  to  offer  basic  emergency  medical  technician courses which
  adhere to curricula approved by the New  York  state  emergency  medical
  services council and the commissioner without the need to charge tuition
  to participants.
3.  Upon request, the commissioner shall provide management advice and
  technical assistance to regional emergency  medical  services  councils,
  county  emergency medical services coordinators, and course sponsors and
  instructors to stimulate the improvement of  training  courses  and  the
  provision  of  courses  in a manner which encourages participation. Such
  advice and technical assistance may relate to, but need not  be  limited
  to the location, scheduling and structure of courses.
4.   The   department   is  authorized,  either  directly  or  through
  contractual arrangement, to develop and  distribute  training  materials
  for  use  by  course  instructors  and  sponsors,  to recruit additional
  instructors  and  sponsors  and  to   provide   training   courses   for
  instructors.
5. The commissioner shall conduct a public service campaign to recruit
  additional  volunteers  to  join ambulance services targeted to areas in
  need for additional emergency medical technicians.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 30-A - Emergency Medical Services Personnel Training Act of Nineteen Hundred Eighty-Six › 3053 - Reporting.

§  3053. Reporting.  Advanced life support first response services and
  ambulance services registered or certified pursuant to article thirty of
  this chapter shall submit detailed individual call reports on a form  to
  be  provided  by  the department, or may submit data electronically in a
  format approved by the department.  The state emergency medical services
  council, with the approval of the  commissioner,  may  adopt  rules  and
  regulations  permitting  or  requiring  ambulance  services whose volume
  exceeds twenty thousand calls  per  year  to  submit  call  report  data
  electronically.    Such  rules  shall  define  the  data  elements to be
  submitted, and may include requirements that assure availability of data
  to the regional emergency medical advisory committee.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 30-A - Emergency Medical Services Personnel Training Act of Nineteen Hundred Eighty-Six › 3054 - Emergency Situations Involving Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder and Other Developmental Disabilities.

§   3054.  Emergency  situations  involving  individuals  with  autism
  spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities. In  coordination
  with  the  commissioner  of  the  office  for  people with developmental
  disabilities,  the  commissioner  shall  provide  the  training  program
  relating  to  handling  emergency  situations involving individuals with
  autism  spectrum  disorder  and  other  developmental  disabilities  and
  associated  training  materials  pursuant to section 13.43 of the mental
  hygiene law to all emergency medical services personnel  including,  but
  not   limited  to,  first  responders,  emergency  medical  technicians,
  advanced emergency medical technicians and emergency vehicle operators.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 30-B - Emergency Medical, Trauma and Disaster Care › 3061 - Declaration of Purpose.

§  3061.  Declaration of purpose. Trauma is the leading cause of death
  and disability during the first four decades of life. In  the  aftermath
  of  the  events  of  September  eleventh,  two thousand one, the medical
  response to natural and man-made  disasters  is  also  recognized  as  a
  public  concern  of  the  highest  order.  The  furnishing  of emergency
  medical, trauma, and disaster  care  is  therefore  a  matter  of  vital
  concern  affecting  the  public  health,  safety  and welfare. Emergency
  medical, trauma, and disaster care, the  planning  and  coordination  of
  such care between prehospital and inhospital personnel and collaborating
  public health, safety, and welfare officials, the quality management and
  review  of such care, and the development and maintenance of a statewide
  system  for  interfacility  transfer,  including  but  not  limited   to
  aeromedical  transport,  of  critically  ill or injured patients between
  general hospitals and other health care facilities, are essential public
  health services. It is the purpose of this article to promote the public
  health, safety and welfare by providing for development and  maintenance
  of  systems  for  emergency  medical, trauma, and disaster care, and for
  expeditious transfer of patients in need  of  such  care  to  facilities
  appropriately  staffed and equipped to provide this care in a timely and
  effective manner.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 30-B - Emergency Medical, Trauma and Disaster Care › 3063 - State Emergency Medical Advisory Committee.

§  3063.  State  emergency  medical  advisory  committee. 1. The state
  emergency medical advisory committee, in  addition  to  the  powers  and
  responsibilities  described  in  section  three  thousand  two-a of this
  chapter, shall advise the  department  and  the  commissioner  regarding
  emergency  medical  care, and assist the department and the commissioner
  in   the   development,   periodic   revision,   and   application    of
  appropriateness  review standards and quality improvement guidelines for
  emergency medical care, emergency departments  and  emergency  services,
  under articles twenty-eight and thirty of this chapter.
2.  The  commissioner  shall  designate  an officer or employee of the
  department to assist the state emergency medical advisory  committee  in
  the performance of its duties under this section.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 30-B - Emergency Medical, Trauma and Disaster Care › 3064 - State Trauma Advisory Committee.

§  3064. State trauma advisory committee. 1. There is hereby continued
  in the department the state trauma advisory committee. It shall  consist
  of  trauma  surgeons,  trauma  nurses,  emergency  physicians, emergency
  nurses, and  other  emergency  medical  and  trauma  care  professionals
  appointed  by  the  commissioner.  It  shall  be  representative of each
  geographic area of the state and those medical and  nursing  specialties
  and  subspecialties  regularly  involved in trauma care. It shall advise
  the department and the commissioner regarding trauma and  disaster  care
  within  the state, and assist the department and the commissioner in the
  coordination of trauma and disaster care, including but not limited  to,
  the   development,  periodic  revision,  and  application  of  statewide
  appropriateness review standards,  quality  improvement  guidelines  for
  trauma  and  disaster  care,  trauma  systems, trauma centers and trauma
  stations, in a manner consistent  with  the  intent  and  provisions  of
  sections  twenty-eight  hundred  five-j and three thousand two-a of this
  chapter, and similar advisory guidelines for trauma  and  disaster  care
  with the consent of the commissioner, which shall not have the force and
  effect  of  law  unless  adopted  as  rules and regulations by the state
  hospital review  and  planning  council,  subject  to  approval  by  the
  commissioner.  The  commissioner  shall appoint a physician to chair the
  committee.
2. The state trauma advisory  committee  shall  continue  to  meet  as
  frequently  as its business may require. The members of the state trauma
  advisory committee shall receive no compensation for their  services  as
  members,  but  each  shall  be allowed the necessary and actual expenses
  incurred in the performance of his or her duties under this section.
3. The commissioner shall designate an  officer  or  employee  of  the
  department  to  assist  the  state  trauma  advisory  committee  in  the
  performance of its duties under this section.
4. In no event shall any member, officer, or  employee  of  the  state
  trauma  advisory committee be liable for damages in any civil action for
  any act done, failure to  act,  or  statement  or  opinion  made,  while
  discharging  his  or her duties as a member, officer, or employee of the
  state trauma advisory committee if he or she shall have  acted  in  good
  faith, with reasonable care.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 30-B - Emergency Medical, Trauma and Disaster Care › 3065 - Regional Trauma Advisory Committees.

§  3065.  Regional  trauma  advisory  committees.  1. There are hereby
  continued or established in  the  department  regional  trauma  advisory
  committees  in  each geographic area of the state. They shall consist of
  trauma surgeons, trauma nurses, emergency physicians, emergency  nurses,
  and  other  emergency and trauma care professionals from trauma centers,
  emergency  departments,  and  emergency  services  designated   by   the
  department  within  each  region.  They  shall  be representative of the
  communities and health care  facilities  within  the  region  and  those
  medical  and  nursing specialties and subspecialities regularly involved
  in trauma care. They shall advise the state trauma  advisory  committee,
  the  department, and the commissioner regarding trauma and disaster care
  within each region, and assist the state trauma advisory committee,  the
  department,  and  the  commissioner  with the coordination of trauma and
  disaster care within each region, including, but  not  limited  to,  the
  implementation  of  statewide  quality improvement guidelines for trauma
  and disaster care, trauma systems, trauma centers, and  trauma  stations
  within  each  region,  in  a  manner  consistent  with  the  intent  and
  provisions of sections twenty-eight hundred five-j  and  three  thousand
  four-a  of  this  chapter.  The  state  trauma  advisory committee shall
  authorize the bylaws of each regional trauma advisory committee, subject
  to approval by the commissioner.
2. The regional trauma advisory committees shall continue to  meet  as
  frequently  as  their  business may require. The members of the regional
  trauma advisory committees  shall  receive  no  compensation  for  their
  services as members.
3.  The  department  shall  determine  the ways and means necessary to
  assist the regional trauma advisory committees in performing the  duties
  specified  under  this  section,  and  may contract with regional trauma
  program agencies to provide such assistance.
4. In no event shall any member, officer, or  employee  of  the  state
  trauma  advisory committee be liable for damages in any civil action for
  any act done, failure to  act,  or  statement  of  opinion  made,  while
  discharging  his  or her duties as a member, officer, or employee of the
  regional trauma advisory committee if he or she shall have acted in good
  faith, with reasonable care.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 30-C - Emergency Medical Services for Children › 3071 - Declaration of Purpose.

§  3071. Declaration of purpose. Sudden illness and injury in children
  within the state of New York are responsible for  five  percent  of  all
  ambulance  calls  in children under ten years of age, ten percent of all
  ambulance calls in children under eighteen  years  of  age,  twenty-five
  percent of emergency department visits in urban areas, and forty percent
  of  emergency  department visits in rural areas. More than fifty percent
  of all such emergencies are caused by traumatic  injuries,  which  alone
  are  responsible  for  more than half of all childhood deaths within the
  state of New York regardless of  cause.  The  provision  of  timely  and
  effective  emergency  medical services for children, including pediatric
  emergency medical, trauma,  and  disaster  care,  are  therefore  public
  health  priorities of the highest order. It is the purpose and intent of
  this article to ensure that such services are immediately  available  to
  all children within the state of New York.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 30-C - Emergency Medical Services for Children › 3072 - Description.

§  3072.  Description.  Emergency  medical  services for children is a
  system for the immediate recognition and management  of  sudden  illness
  and  injury  in  children  that  embraces  the  continuum  of  pediatric
  emergency medical, trauma, and disaster care,  from  prevention  through
  rehabilitation,  and  addresses  emergency medical dispatch, prehospital
  emergency care, inhospital emergency care, and primary,  secondary,  and
  tertiary  health  care, in support of pediatric care provided within the
  child's medical home. It is not  separate  from,  but  fully  integrated
  with,  the  emergency medical services system at all levels of emergency
  medical services system organization, in the community, in  the  region,
  and in the state.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 30-C - Emergency Medical Services for Children › 3073 - Definitions.

§ 3073. Definitions. As used in this article:
1.  "State emergency medical services for children advisory committee"
  means  the  state  emergency  medical  services  for  children  advisory
  committee continued under this article.
2.   "State  emergency  medical  services  council"  means  the  state
  emergency medical services council established under article  thirty  of
  this chapter.
3.  "State  emergency  medical  advisory  committee"  means  the state
  emergency medical advisory committee established under article thirty of
  this chapter.
4. "State trauma advisory committee" means the state  trauma  advisory
  committee continued under article thirty-B of this chapter.
5.  "Pediatric care" means medical care provided to neonates, infants,
  toddlers, preschoolers, school agers, and adolescents.
6. "Medical home" means an organized system of  medical  care  for  an
  individual  patient that embraces all of the patient's potential medical
  needs, including primary, secondary, and tertiary health care as well as
  emergency care.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 30-C - Emergency Medical Services for Children › 3075 - Powers and Duties of the Department.

§  3075.  Powers and duties of the department. 1. The department shall
  develop and maintain, with the advice of  the  state  emergency  medical
  services  for  children  advisory committee, the state emergency medical
  services council, the state emergency medical  advisory  committee,  and
  the  state trauma advisory committee, a statewide system for recognition
  of facilities able  to  provide  sustentative  or  definitive  specialty
  pediatric emergency medical and trauma care for sudden childhood illness
  and  injury  and  for  preferential transport of suddenly ill or injured
  children  to  such  facilities,  and  shall  promote  the  use  of  such
  facilities  in  accordance with written protocols or transfer agreements
  as appropriate.
2. The department shall develop and maintain, with the advice  of  the
  state  emergency  medical  services for children advisory committee, the
  state emergency medical services council, the  state  emergency  medical
  advisory committee, and the state trauma advisory committee, a statewide
  system  for provision of prehospital medical oversight, including direct
  and indirect medical control, for pediatric emergencies.
3. The department shall develop, maintain, and offer, with the  advice
  of the state emergency medical services for children advisory committee,
  the  state  emergency  medical  services  council,  the  state emergency
  medical advisory committee, and the  state  trauma  advisory  committee,
  statewide  educational  programs for initial and continuing education in
  pediatric prehospital basic and advanced life support,  including  child
  maltreatment  recognition  and  management,  consistent  with  those  of
  national professional organizations  concerned  with  child  health  and
  emergency care.
4.  The department shall develop, maintain, and adopt, with the advice
  of the state emergency medical services for children advisory committee,
  the state  emergency  medical  services  council,  the  state  emergency
  medical  advisory  committee,  and  the state trauma advisory committee,
  statewide equipment guidelines for basic and advanced  life  support  of
  pediatric  emergencies,  consistent  with those of national professional
  organizations concerned with child health and emergency care.
5. The department shall ensure that all  other  aspects  of  emergency
  medical  services  for  children  are  also properly integrated with all
  other emergency medical services, trauma care, and disaster preparedness
  programs, with the advice of the state emergency  medical  services  for
  children  advisory  committee, and shall facilitate timely communication
  among  the  state  emergency  medical  services  for  children  advisory
  committee,  the  state  emergency  medical  services  council, the state
  emergency medical advisory committee,  and  the  state  trauma  advisory
  committee as appropriate.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 31 - Human Blood and Transfusion Services › Title 1 - General Provisions › 3100 - Human Blood and Its Derivatives; Collection, Processing, Storage and Distribution; General Powers of Commissioner.

§  3100.  Human  blood  and  its  derivatives; collection, processing,
storage and distribution;  general  powers  of  commissioner.    1.  The
commissioner is hereby authorized:
(a)  to  establish,  equip, maintain and conduct a suitable program to
collect, process, store and distribute  human  blood,  and  the  various
human  blood  derivatives  including  special therapeutic and diagnostic
serums, which are deemed of value in the treatment of sick  and  injured
persons, and the prevention of certain diseases;
(b)  to  carry  out such educational and research activities as he may
deem necessary in connection with said program; and
(c) to establish necessary rules and regulations to effect the purpose
of this article.
2. The commissioner  may  conduct  such  program  solely  as  a  state
activity,  or  in  cooperation  with  such  institutions,  hospitals  or
municipal corporations as he may select, on such terms as may be  agreed
upon.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 31 - Human Blood and Transfusion Services › Title 2 - Regulation of the Business of Blood Donating › 3120 - Blood Collection; Permit Required; Procedure.

§ 3120. Blood collection; permit required; procedure.
No  person,  firm  or  corporation  shall  collect human blood for the
  purpose of transfusion into another human being unless a permit has been
  issued pursuant to the provisions of title five of article five of  this
  chapter.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 31 - Human Blood and Transfusion Services › Title 2 - Regulation of the Business of Blood Donating › 3121 - Council on Human Blood and Transfusion Services.

§  3121. Council on human blood and transfusion services.  1. There is
  hereby  created  in  the  department  a  council  on  human  blood   and
  transfusion  services, hereinafter known as the "council," to consist of
  the commissioner and eight other members appointed by the governor, with
  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  senate,  one  of  whom  shall  be  a
  representative  of  the  public.  The remaining appointive members shall
  have had experience or training having rendered  them  knowledgeable  in
  the various aspects of blood banking services, and may include but shall
  not  be  limited  to,  representatives of voluntary and commercial blood
  banks, representatives of hospitals, and physicians. The governor  shall
  designate one member to serve as chairman.
2.  The  term of office of each appointive member of the council shall
  be for three  years,  provided,  however,  that  of  the  members  first
  appointed,  three  shall  be  appointed  for terms which shall expire on
  December thirty-first, nineteen hundred seventy-four,  three  for  terms
  which   shall   expire   on   December  thirty-first,  nineteen  hundred
  seventy-five and two shall be appointed for terms which shall expire  on
  December thirty-first, nineteen hundred seventy-six.  Vacancies shall be
  filled  by  appointment  for  the unexpired term. The appointive members
  shall continue in office until the expiration of their terms  and  until
  their successors are appointed and have qualified.
3.  The  council shall meet as frequently as its business may require.
  The members of the council  shall  receive  no  compensation  for  their
  services  as  members  of the council, but each of them shall be allowed
  the  necessary  and  actual  expenses  which  he  shall  incur  in   the
  performance of his duties under this section.
4.  The  commissioner, upon request of the council, shall designate an
  officer or employee of  the  department  to  act  as  secretary  of  the
  council,  and shall assign from time to time such other employees as the
  council may require.
5. The council shall have power by the affirmative vote of a  majority
  of  its members to enact, and from time to time, amend and repeal, rules
  and  regulations  establishing  minimum   standards   for   the   proper
  collection, processing, fractionation, storage, distribution, and supply
  of  human  blood  or blood derivatives, for the purpose of transfusions,
  subject to approval by the commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 31 - Human Blood and Transfusion Services › Title 2 - Regulation of the Business of Blood Donating › 3122 - Blood Donating; Violations; Penalties.

§  3122.  Blood  donating;  violations;  penalties.   Any violation of
  sections three thousand  one  hundred  twenty  and  three  thousand  one
  hundred  twenty-one,  of  this  chapter, shall constitute a misdemeanor,
  punishable on conviction by a fine of not exceeding fifty dollars or  by
  imprisonment  for  not  exceeding  six  months,  or  both  such fine and
  imprisonment.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 31 - Human Blood and Transfusion Services › Title 3 - Blood Donors of the Age of Eighteen Years or Over › 3123 - Blood Donors of the Age of Seventeen Years or Over.

§ 3123. Blood donors of the age of seventeen years or over. Any person
  of  the age of seventeen years or over shall be eligible to donate blood
  in any voluntary and noncompensatory blood program without the necessity
  of obtaining parental permission or authorization.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 31 - Human Blood and Transfusion Services › Title 3 - Blood Donors of the Age of Eighteen Years or Over › 3124 - Reporting System for Hospitals and Blood Banks.

§  3124. Reporting system for hospitals and blood banks.  All persons,
  firms and corporations engaged in procuring blood donations shall report
  annually the following information to the commissioner of health:
a. The amount of whole blood collected.
b. The amount fractionated.
c. When fractionated.
d. How much blood is unused and destroyed.
e. How much blood is converted and what is it converted into.
f. Any other information the commissioner finds necessary to  have  an
  accurate picture of what happens to collected blood within the state.
The  commissioner  shall  make  such  rules  and  regulations  as  are
  necessary to create an accurate and complete reporting system.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 32 - Live Pathogenic Microorganisms or Viruses › 3200 - Live Pathogenic Microorganisms or Viruses; Handling; Registration Required; Exceptions.

§   3200.   Live   pathogenic  microorganisms  or  viruses;  handling;
registration required; exceptions.  1. No person other than  a  licensed
practitioner  of medicine, dentistry, or veterinary medicine or a person
under the direct supervision of a  licensed  practitioner  of  medicine,
dentistry,  or  veterinary  medicine  shall  possess  or  cultivate live
pathogenic microorganisms or viruses other than vaccine virus
(a) unless he has satisfied the commissioner, or, in the city  of  New
York,  the  department  of  health  of  the  city of New York, that such
microorganisms or viruses in his possession will not become a menace  to
the public health, and,
(b)  unless a registration number shall have been issued to him or his
employer within the preceding twelve months by the commissioner,  or  in
the  city  of  New  York, by the department of health of the city of New
York, or their authorized representatives.
2. (a) Where one or more persons  work  with  such  microorganisms  or
viruses,  application  for  the  registration  number  required  by  the
provisions of this section shall be made by the person in charge of  the
work  in  connection  with  which  such  microorganisms  or  viruses are
handled.
(b) If such person  in  charge  is  not  a  licensed  practitioner  of
medicine,  dentistry,  or  veterinary  medicine,  before  a registration
number is issued, he must first satisfy the commissioner, or in the city
of New York, the department of health of the city of New York, that such
microorganisms or viruses will not become a menace to the public health.
3. (a) If  the  same  person  remains  in  charge  of  the  work,  the
registration  number shall be valid through April thirtieth of each year
and may be renewed upon application prior to its expiration.
(b) The registration number becomes invalid if a change is made in the
person in charge of the work or the work is  conducted  at  a  different
address, in which case a new application must be made.
4. A registration fee of one dollar shall be charged to cover the cost
of issuing the registration number.
5.  The  provisions  of  this  section shall not apply to laboratories
maintained by the federal, state or municipal government.
6. The commissioner, or in the city of New  York,  the  department  of
health  of  the  city  of  New  York,  is  authorized  to  rescind  such
registration number at any time for a cause.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 32 - Live Pathogenic Microorganisms or Viruses › 3201 - Live Pathogenic Microorganisms or Viruses; Sale or Other Disposal; Permission Required.

§  3201.  Live  pathogenic  microorganisms  or  viruses; sale or other
  disposal; permission required.  1. No person shall sell  or  convey  any
  live  pathogenic  microorganisms  or viruses other than vaccine virus to
  any other person without permission of the commissioner, or in the  city
  of  New  York  without the permission of the department of health of the
  city of New York.
2. This section does not apply to diseased tissue, exudate,  or  other
  specimens  which  are  sent  by physicians, dentists or veterinarians to
  laboratories for examination as an aid in the diagnosis  or  control  of
  disease.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 32 - Live Pathogenic Microorganisms or Viruses › 3202 - Live Pathogenic Microorganisms or Viruses; Sale or Other Disposal; Labeling Containers.

§  3202.  Live  pathogenic  microorganisms  or  viruses; sale or other
  disposal; labeling containers.  1. All live pathogenic microorganisms or
  viruses other than vaccine virus when given away or sold  shall  bear  a
  label on the container showing the contents of the container.
2.  If  the  distributor is required to be registered, the label shall
  also bear the registration number assigned by the department, or in  the
  city  of  New  York  by  the  department of health of such city, for the
  handling of pathogenic microorganisms or viruses, the name of the person
  obtaining  the  material,  and  the  destination   of   the   pathogenic
  microorganisms or viruses.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 32 - Live Pathogenic Microorganisms or Viruses › 3203 - Live Pathogenic Microorganisms or Viruses; Violations; Penalties.

§   3203.  Live  pathogenic  microorganisms  or  viruses;  violations;
  penalties.  Any violation of this article shall be deemed a  misdemeanor
  punishable by a fine of two hundred dollars, six months' imprisonment or
  both.
2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 32-A - Recombinant DNA Experiments › 3220 - Findings.

§  3220.  Findings.    The  legislature  finds  that new techniques of
  genetic manipulation which allow researchers to accomplish exchanges  of
  genetic  material  between  unlike  organisms  offer great potential for
  expanding human knowledge of genetics but also may  present  significant
  risks to public health, to the environment and to the health of research
  workers.  These experiments are being conducted at research institutions
  in   New   York,   including   universities,  hospitals  and  industrial
  facilities. Industry plans to mass-produce recombinant organisms  should
  such  organisms  be  found  to have commercial uses.   Such research and
  production should only be conducted under safe conditions as  prescribed
  by the commissioner.