California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 5 - Personnel

• Section 1797.160.
  No owner of a publicly or privately owned ambulance shall permit the operation of the ambulance in emergency service unless the attendant on duty therein,...
• Section 1797.170.
  (a) The authority shall develop and, after approval by the commission pursuant to Section 1799.50, adopt regulations for the training and scope of practice for EMT-I...
• Section 1797.171.
  (a)  The authority shall develop, and after approval of the commission pursuant to Section 1799.50, shall adopt, minimum standards for the training and scope of...
• Section 1797.172.
  (a) The authority shall develop and, after approval by the commission pursuant to Section 1799.50, adopt minimum standards for the training and scope of practice for...
• Section 1797.173.
  The authority shall assure that all training programs for EMT-I, EMT-II, and EMT-P are located in an approved licensed hospital or an educational institution operated...
• Section 1797.174.
  In consultation with the commission, the Emergency Medical Directors Association of California, and other affected constituencies, the authority shall develop statewide guidelines for continuing education...
• Section 1797.175.
  The authority shall establish the standards for continuing education and shall designate the examinations for certification and recertification of all prehospital personnel.The authority shall consider...
• Section 1797.176.
  The authority shall establish the minimum standards for the policies and procedures necessary for medical control of the EMS system.(Amended by Stats. 1988, Ch. 1390,...
• Section 1797.177.
  No individual shall hold himself or herself out to be an EMT-I, EMT-II, EMT-P, or paramedic unless that individual is currently certified as such by...
• Section 1797.178.
  No person or organization shall provide advanced life support or limited advanced life support unless that person or organization is an authorized part of the...
• Section 1797.179.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and to the extent federal financial participation is available, any city, county or special district providing paramedic services as...
• Section 1797.180.
  No agency, public or private, shall advertise or disseminate information to the public that the agency provides EMT-II or EMT-P rescue or ambulance services unless...
• Section 1797.181.
  The authority may, by regulation, prescribe standardized insignias or emblems for patches which may be affixed to the clothing of an EMT-I, EMT-II, or EMT-P.(Added...
• Section 1797.182.
  All ocean, public beach, and public swimming pool lifeguards and all firefighters in this state, except those whose duties are primarily clerical or administrative, shall...
• Section 1797.183.
  All peace officers described in Section 13518 of the Penal Code, except those whose duties are primarily clerical or administrative, shall be trained to administer...
• Section 1797.184.
  The authority shall develop and, after approval by the commission pursuant to Section 1799.50, adopt all of the following:(a) Guidelines for disciplinary orders, temporary suspensions, and...
• Section 1797.185.
  (a)  The authority shall establish criteria for the statewide recognition of the certification of EMT-P personnel in the basic scope of practice of those personnel....
• Section 1797.186.
  All persons described in Sections 1797.170, 1797.171, 1797.172, 1797.182, and 1797.183, whether volunteers, partly paid, or fully paid, shall be entitled to prophylactic medical treatment...
• Section 1797.187.
  A peace officer as described in Section 830.1, subdivision (a) of Section 830.2, or subdivision (g) of Section 830.3 of the Penal Code, while in...
• Section 1797.188.
  (a) As used in this section:(1) “Prehospital emergency medical care person or personnel” means any of the following: an authorized registered nurse or mobile intensive care nurse,...
• Section 1797.189.
  (a)  As used in this section: (1)  “Chief medical examiner-coroner” means the chief medical examiner or the coroner as referred to in subdivision (m) of...
• Section 1797.190.
  The authority may establish minimum standards for the training and use of automatic external defibrillators.(Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 718, Sec. 2. Effective January 1,
• Section 1797.191.
  (a)  The authority shall establish minimum standards for the training in pediatric first aid, pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), and preventive health practices required by Section...
• Section 1797.192.
  On or before July 1, 1991, the authority shall adopt standards for a standard statewide scope of practice which shall be utilized for the training...
• Section 1797.193.
  (a)  By July 1, 1992, existing firefighters in this state shall complete a course on the nature of sudden infant death syndrome taught by experts...
• Section 1797.194.
  The purpose of this section is to provide for the state licensure of EMT-P personnel. Notwithstanding any provision of law, including, but not limited to,...
• Section 1797.195.
  (a)  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, an EMT-I, EMT-II, or EMT-P may provide emergency medical care pursuant to this section in...
• Section 1797.196.
  (a) For purposes of this section, “AED” or “defibrillator” means an automated external defibrillator.(b) (1) In order to ensure public safety, a person or entity that acquires an...
• Section 1797.197.
  (a) The authority shall establish training and standards for all prehospital emergency medical care personnel, as defined in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 1797.189,...
• Section 1797.197a.
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply:(1) “Anaphylaxis” means a potentially life-threatening hypersensitivity or allergic reaction to a substance.(A) Symptoms of anaphylaxis may include...

Last modified: October 22, 2018