Pennsylvania Code › Title 4 - ADMINISTRATION › Part V - EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY › Chapter 114 - VOLUNTARY FIRE COMPANY AND VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SERVICE GRANT PROGRAM-STATEMENT OF POLICY › Section 114.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
				  have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
Act
-The Volunteer Fire Company and Volunteer
				  Ambulance Service Act (35 P. S. §
										§
										6942.101-6942.902), as amended by Act 80 of
				  2004.
Advanced life support
-The advanced
				  prehospital and interhospital emergency medical care of serious illness or
				  injury by appropriately trained health professionals and by certified
				  EMT-paramedics.
Agency
-The Pennsylvania Emergency Management
				  Agency.
Application
-The Volunteer Fire
				  Company-Volunteer Ambulance Service Grant Program Application.
Basic life support services
-Prehospital or
				  interhospital emergency medical care and management of illness or injury
				  performed by specially trained and certified or licensed personnel.
Certification
-Any class of instruction or
				  test that will provide certification at any level that is currently offered in
				  this Commonwealth through the Voluntary Fire Fighter Certification program
				  administered by the State Fire Academy.
Certified personnel
-Any member of the fire
				  or rescue company who is certified at a minimum level of Fire Fighter 1 on or
				  before March 1, 2006, by the National Professional Qualifications Board or by
				  the International Fire Service Accreditation Congress and verified by the
				  Pennsylvania State Fire Academy.
Commissioner
-The State Fire
				  Commissioner.
Equipment
-Any apparatus, equipment or tools
				  ordinarily used by a fire, rescue or ambulance service in the performance of
				  their duties.
Facility
-
(i) A structure or portion thereof intended
				for the purpose of storage or protection of firefighting apparatus, ambulances
				or rescue vehicles and related equipment and gear. The repair, renovation or
				construction of sleeping quarters (bunk rooms) is also included as an
				authorized expenditure.
(ii) The
				term does not include meeting halls, social halls, social rooms, lounges or any
				other facility not directly related to firefighting or the furnishing of
				ambulance or rescue services.
Final report
-The report to be filed as
				  provided in §
									114.6 (relating to grant award
				  reporting procedures) by the volunteer fire company or volunteer ambulance
				  services detailing the expenditure of the funds granted.
Grant Program
-The Volunteer Fire Company
				  Grant Program and the Volunteer Ambulance Service Grant Program.
Invalid coach
-A vehicle which is primarily
				  maintained, operated and intended to be used for routine transport of persons
				  who are convalescent or otherwise nonambulatory and do not ordinarily require
				  emergency medical treatment while in transit. The vehicles will not be
				  considered ambulance or emergency medical service vehicles.
OSFC
-Office of the State Fire
				  Commissioner.
Regional or joint project
-A cooperative
				  agreement wherein any combination of three or more separately chartered fire or
				  rescue companies agree to use all, or any portion of their respective grant
				  request to jointly complete any project that qualifies under the act.
Volunteer ambulance service
-
(i) Any nonprofit chartered corporation,
				association or organization located in this Commonwealth, which is licensed by
				the Department of Health and is not associated or affiliated with any hospital
				and which is regularly engaged in the provision of emergency medical services,
				including basic life support or advanced life support services and the
				transportation of patients.
(ii)
				The term does not include any corporation, association or organization that is
				primarily engaged in the operation of invalid coaches which are intended for
				the routine transport of persons who are convalescent or otherwise
				nonambulatory and do not ordinarily require emergency medical treatment while
				in transit.
Volunteer fire company
-A nonprofit chartered
				  corporation, association or organization located in this Commonwealth which
				  provides fire protection services and which may offer other voluntary emergency
				  services within this Commonwealth. Voluntary emergency services provided by a
				  volunteer fire company may include voluntary ambulance and voluntary rescue
				  services.
Volunteer rescue company
-A nonprofit
				  chartered corporation, association or organization located in this Commonwealth
				  that provides rescue services as part of the response to fires or vehicle
				  accidents, or both, within this Commonwealth.
This section cited in 4 Pa. Code §
											114.3 (relating to eligibility);
					 and 4 Pa. Code §
											114.5 (relating to application
					 submission and approval procedure).