California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 1 - Local EMS Agency

  • Section 1797.200.
    Each county may develop an emergency medical services program. Each county developing such a program shall designate a local EMS agency which shall be the...
  • Section 1797.201.
    Upon the request of a city or fire district that contracted for or provided, as of June 1, 1980, prehospital emergency medical services, a county...
  • Section 1797.202.
    (a)  Every local EMS agency shall have a full- or part-time licensed physician and surgeon as medical director, who has substantial experience in the practice...
  • Section 1797.204.
    The local EMS agency shall plan, implement, and evaluate an emergency medical services system, in accordance with the provisions of this part, consisting of an...
  • Section 1797.206.
    The local EMS agency shall be responsible for implementation of advanced life support systems and limited advanced life support systems and for the monitoring of...
  • Section 1797.208.
    The local EMS agency shall be responsible for determining that the operation of training programs at the EMT-I, EMT-II, and EMT-P levels are in compliance...
  • Section 1797.210.
    (a)  The medical director of the local EMS agency shall issue a certificate, except an EMT-P certificate, to an individual upon proof of satisfactory completion...
  • Section 1797.211.
    Each local EMS agency shall submit certificate status updates to the authority within three working days after a final determination is made regarding a certification...
  • Section 1797.212.
    The local EMS agency may establish a schedule of fees for certification in an amount sufficient to cover the reasonable cost of administering the certification...
  • Section 1797.213.
    (a)  Any local EMS agency conducting a program pursuant to this article may provide courses of instruction and training leading to certification as an EMT-I,...
  • Section 1797.214.
    A local EMS agency may require additional training or qualifications, for the use of drugs, devices, or skills in either the standard scope of practice...
  • Section 1797.215.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, EMT-I's, EMT-II's, and EMT-P’s shall be required to renew their cardiopulmonary resuscitation certificate no more than once every two...
  • Section 1797.216.
    Public safety agencies that are certifying entities may certify and recertify public safety personnel as EMT-I. The state fire marshal, subject to policy guidance and...
  • Section 1797.217.
    (a) Every certifying entity shall submit to the authority certification data required by Section 1797.117.(b) The authority shall collect fees from each certifying entity for the certification...
  • Section 1797.218.
    Any local EMS agency may authorize an advanced life support or limited advanced life support program which provides services utilizing EMT-II or EMT-P, or both,...
  • Section 1797.219.
    All investigatory and disciplinary processes for EMT-I and EMT-II certificate holders shall be, subject to Chapter 9.6 (commencing with Section 3250) of Division 4 of...
  • Section 1797.220.
    The local EMS agency, using state minimum standards, shall establish policies and procedures approved by the medical director of the local EMS agency to assure...
  • Section 1797.221.
    The medical director of the local EMS agency may approve or conduct any scientific or trial study of the efficacy of the prehospital emergency use...
  • Section 1797.222.
    A county, upon the recommendation of its local EMS agency, may adopt ordinances governing the transport of a patient who is receiving care in the...
  • Section 1797.224.
    A local EMS agency may create one or more exclusive operating areas in the development of a local plan, if a competitive process is utilized...
  • Section 1797.225.
    (a) A local EMS agency may adopt policies and procedures for calculating and reporting ambulance patient offload time, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 1797.120.(b) A...
  • Section 1797.226.
    Without altering or otherwise affecting the meaning of any portion of this division as to any other county, as to San Bernardino County only, it...
  • Section 1797.227.
    (a) An emergency medical care provider shall do both of the following when collecting and submitting data to a local EMS agency:(1) Use an electronic health record...

Last modified: October 22, 2018