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Ch. 35
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2000 LAWS OF MARYLAND
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SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Article - Education
13-515.
(a) (1) In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.
(2) "Ambulance" means any vehicle designed and constructed or
modified and equipped to be used, maintained, or operated for the transportation of
individuals who are sick, injured, wounded, or otherwise incapacitated.
(3) (i) "Ambulance service" means any individual, firm, partnership,
corporation, association, or organization engaged in the business of transporting by
ambulance individuals who are sick, injured, wounded, or otherwise incapacitated.
(ii) "Ambulance service" does not include the transporting of
individuals in an ambulance owned, operated, or under the jurisdiction of a unit of
State government, a political subdivision of the State, or a volunteer fire company or
volunteer rescue squad.
(4) "FUND" MEANS THE COMMERCIAL AMBULANCE SERVICE FUND.
[(4)] (5) "License" means a license issued by the Institute to operate an
ambulance service in the State.
(b) Unless issued a license under this section, an individual, firm,
partnership, corporation, association, or organization may not operate an ambulance
service in the State.
(c) (1) The Institute, in consultation with representatives of the ambulance
service industry in Maryland, shall adopt regulations necessary to establish a
periodic licensing system for ambulance services in the State.
(2) The regulations shall, at a minimum, require:
(i) Each ambulance operated by the ambulance service to be
equipped with adequate equipment and supplies to:
1. Care for the patients being transported; and
2. Communicate with the dispatcher;
(ii) At least 1 individual, in addition to the driver, be in attendance
on the ambulance during each transport who:
1. Is certified or licensed by the State as an emergency
medical technician under § 13-516 of this subtitle; or
2. Has successfully completed a course of training
determined by the Institute to be substantially equivalent to the training necessary
for certification or licensure as an emergency medical technician; and
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