2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 6 - Public Health and Safety › 122-B - General Ambulance Services.

§  122-b.  General  ambulance services. 1.   Any county, city, town or
village, acting  individually  or  jointly,  may  provide  an  emergency
medical  service,  a  general ambulance service or a combination of such
services for the purpose  of  providing  prehospital  emergency  medical
treatment  or  transporting  sick  or  injured  persons found within the
boundaries of the municipality or the municipalities acting jointly to a
hospital, clinic, sanatorium  or  other  place  for  treatment  of  such
illness or injury, and for that purpose may:
(a)  Acquire  by  gift or purchase one or more motor vehicles suitable
for such purpose and supply and equip the same with such  materials  and
facilities  as  it  may  consider  necessary  for  prehospital emergency
treatment, and may operate, maintain, repair and replace  such  vehicles
and such supplies and equipment;
(b)  Contract  with  one  or more individuals, municipal corporations,
associations, or other  organizations,  having  sufficient  trained  and
experienced  personnel,  for  operation,  maintenance and repair of such
emergency medical service or ambulance vehicles and for  the  furnishing
of prehospital emergency treatment;
(c)  Contract  with  one  or more individuals, municipal corporations,
associations,  or  other  organizations  to  supply,  staff  and   equip
emergency  medical  service  or  ambulance  vehicles  suitable  for such
purposes and operate such vehicles for  the  furnishing  of  prehospital
emergency treatment;
(d) Employ any combination of the methods authorized in paragraph (a),
(b) or (c);
* (e)  A  contract  may  be entered into pursuant to the provisions of
this section for the services of an emergency rescue and first aid squad
of a fire department or fire company which is subject to the  provisions
of section two hundred nine-b of this chapter;
* NB Effective until April 9, 2026
*(e)  No  contract shall be entered into pursuant to the provisions of
this section for the services of an emergency rescue and first aid squad
of a fire department or fire company which is subject to the  provisions
of section two hundred nine-b of the general municipal law;
* NB Effective April 9, 2026
(f)  Consider prehospital emergency treatment as that care provided by
certified emergency medical technicians or certified advanced  emergency
medical  technicians  certified  pursuant  to  the provisions of article
thirty of the public health law.
1-a. As used in this section:
(a) "Emergency medical technician" means an individual who  meets  the
minimum  requirements  established  by  regulations  pursuant to section
three thousand two of the public health law and who is  responsible  for
administration  or  supervision  of initial emergency medical assistance
and handling and transportation of sick, disabled or injured persons.
(b) "Advanced emergency medical technician" means an emergency medical
technician who  has  satisfactorily  completed  an  advanced  course  of
training  approved  by  the  state council under regulations pursuant to
section three thousand two of the public health law.
2. Such municipality shall formulate rules and regulations relating to
the use of such apparatus and equipment in the  provision  of  emergency
medical  services or ambulance service and may fix a schedule of fees or
charges to be paid by persons requesting the  use  of  such  facilities.
Such  municipalities  may  provide  for  the collection of such fees and
charges or may  formulate  rules  and  regulations  for  the  collection
thereof  by  the  individuals,  municipal corporations, associations, or
other organizations furnishing service under  contract  as  provided  in
paragraph (c) of subdivision one of this section.
3.  Such  municipality  may purchase or provide insurance indemnifying
against liability for the negligent operation of such emergency  medical
service or ambulance service and the negligent use of other equipment or
supplies  incidental to the furnishing of such emergency medical service
or ambulance service.
4.   Such   municipality   may  provide  for  the  administration  and
coordination of such emergency  medical  service  or  ambulance  service
including   but  not  limited  to  operation  of  an  emergency  medical
communications system and medical control.
5. Fire districts, which, as part of a fire protection  contract,  may
provide general ambulance and/or emergency ambulance service pursuant to
section  two  hundred  nine-b  of this chapter and article thirty of the
public health law where a town or village has not designated  itself  as
the  primary  provider  of  or  otherwise  contracted  for  an emergency
ambulance, a general ambulance service, or a combination of such service
acting  individually  or  jointly,  may  contract  with  one   or   more
individuals,  municipal  corporations,  or  other  organizations  having
sufficient trained personnel, vehicles or combination of  personnel  and
vehicles  suitable  to  provide prehospital emergency treatment, for the
furnishing of supplemental personnel,  equipment  or  service  to  cover
instances  or  periods  of  time  when  its  service  may not be readily
available.