N.Y. Public Health Law § 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.