N.Y. Public Health Law § 3000-f: Automated external defibrillator; camps and youth sports programs

§ 3000-f. Automated external defibrillator; camps and youth sports

programs. 1. As used in this section, unless the context clearly

requires otherwise, the following terms have the following meanings:

(a) "Automated external defibrillator" shall have the meaning set

forth in section three thousand-b of this article.

(b) "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.

(c) "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 consistent with the standards approved by the department under

the authority of section 3000-b of this article, within the preceding

twenty-four months of each such camp session, game and practice, and is

familiar with the operation and routine maintenance of the automated

external defibrillator.

(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, including requirements as to maintenance,

testing, and reporting usage and use-related data.