Florida Statutes Part III - Medical Transportation Services (Ss. 401.2101-401.465)

• 401.2101 - Short Title.
  This part may be cited as the “Raymond H. Alexander, M.D., Emergency Medical Transportation Services Act.”History.—s. 1, ch. 92-78.
• 401.211 - Legislative Intent.
  The Legislature recognizes that the systematic provision of emergency medical services saves lives and reduces disability associated with illness and injury. In addition, that system...
• 401.23 - Definitions.
  As used in this part, the term:(1) “Advanced life support” means assessment or treatment by a person qualified under this part through the use of techniques...
• 401.24 - Emergency Medical Services State Plan.
  The department is responsible, at a minimum, for the improvement and regulation of basic and advanced life support programs. The department shall develop, and revise...
• 401.243 - Injury Prevention.
  The department shall establish an injury-prevention program with responsibility for the statewide coordination and expansion of injury-prevention activities. The duties of the department under the...
• 401.245 - Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council.
  (1) There is hereby created an advisory council for the purpose of acting as the advisory body to the emergency medical services program. The duties of...
• 401.25 - Licensure As A Basic Life Support Or An Advanced Life Support Service.
  (1) Every person, firm, corporation, association, or governmental entity owning or acting as agent for the owner of any business or service which furnishes, operates, conducts,...
• 401.251 - Air Ambulance Service; Licensure.
  (1) Each person, firm, corporation, association, or governmental entity that owns or acts as an agent for the owner of any business or service that furnishes,...
• 401.252 - Interfacility Transfer.
  (1) A licensed basic or advanced life support ambulance service may conduct interfacility transfers in a permitted ambulance, using a registered nurse in place of an...
• 401.26 - Vehicle Permits For Basic Life Support And Advanced Life Support Services.
  (1) Every licensee shall possess a valid permit for each transport vehicle, advanced life support nontransport vehicle, and aircraft in use. Applications for such permits shall...
• 401.265 - Medical Directors.
  (1) Each basic life support transportation service or advanced life support service must employ or contract with a medical director. The medical director must be a...
• 401.268 - Protocols With Regional Poison Control Centers.
  By October 1, 1999, each licensee shall implement a prehospital emergency dispatch protocol with the regional poison control center established pursuant to s. 395.1027. The...
• 401.27 - Personnel; Standards And Certification.
  (1) Each permitted ambulance not specifically exempted from this part, when transporting a person who is sick, injured, wounded, incapacitated, or helpless, must be occupied by...
• 401.2701 - Emergency Medical Services Training Programs.
  (1) Any private or public institution in Florida desiring to conduct an approved program for the education of emergency medical technicians and paramedics shall:(a) Submit a completed...
• 401.271 - Certification Of Emergency Medical Technicians And Paramedics Who Are On Active Duty With The Armed Forces Of The United States.
  Any member of the Armed Forces of the United States on active duty who, at the time he or she became a member, was in...
• 401.2715 - Recertification Training Of Emergency Medical Technicians And Paramedics.
  (1) The department shall establish by rule criteria for all emergency medical technician and paramedic recertification training. The rules shall provide that all recertification training equals...
• 401.272 - Emergency Medical Services Community Health Care.
  (1) The purpose of this section is to encourage more effective utilization of the skills of emergency medical technicians and paramedics by enabling them to perform,...
• 401.273 - Emergency Medical Technician And Paramedic Registry For Disasters And Emergencies.
  (1) The department shall include on its forms for the certification or recertification of emergency medical technicians and paramedics who could assist the department in the...
• 401.281 - Drivers.
  (1) Each licensee is responsible for assuring that its vehicles are driven only by trained, experienced, and otherwise qualified personnel. The licensee must, at a minimum,...
• 401.2915 - Automated External Defibrillators.
  It is the intent of the Legislature that an automated external defibrillator may be used by any person for the purpose of saving the life...
• 401.2916 - Educational Campaign.
  The Department of Health shall implement an educational campaign to inform any person who acquires an automated external defibrillator device of the scope and limitations...
• 401.30 - Records.
  (1) Each licensee must maintain accurate records of emergency calls on forms that contain such information as is required by the department. These records must be...
• 401.31 - Inspection And Examination.
  (1) In order to carry out the requirements of this part, the department shall periodically and randomly inspect licensees for compliance with the requirements of this...
• 401.321 - Transferability Of License; Effect Of Sale, Transfer, Assignment, Or Lease Of Service.
  (1) Each license is valid only for the licensee to whom it is issued and is not subject to sale, assignment, or other transfer, voluntary or...
• 401.33 - Exemptions.
  The following are exempt from this part:(1) A privately owned vehicle not ordinarily used in the business of transporting persons who are sick, injured, wounded, incapacitated,...
• 401.34 - Fees.
  (1) Each organization subject to this part must pay to the department the following nonrefundable fees, and these fees must be deposited into the Emergency Medical...
• 401.345 - Emergency Medical Services Trust Fund.
  (1) There is created the Emergency Medical Services Trust Fund in the State Treasury, which shall be used exclusively for those purposes provided by law.(2) Any funds...
• 401.35 - Rules.
  The department shall adopt rules, including definitions of terms, necessary to carry out the purposes of this part.(1) The rules must provide at least minimum standards...
• 401.38 - Participation In Federal Programs.
  The department shall develop federal funding proposals and apply for all federal funds available to carry out the purposes of this part. The department is...
• 401.41 - Penalties.
  (1) Any person who:(a) Uses or attempts to use a certificate, license, or permit that has been suspended, revoked, or terminated;(b) Practices or holds himself or herself out...
• 401.411 - Disciplinary Action; Penalties.
  (1) The department may deny, suspend, or revoke a license, certificate, or permit or may reprimand or fine any licensee, certificateholder, or other person operating under...
• 401.414 - Complaint Investigation Procedures.
  (1) The department shall cause to be investigated any complaint that is filed before it if the complaint is in writing, signed by the complainant, and...
• 401.421 - Injunctive Relief; Cease And Desist Notice; Civil Penalty; Enforcement.
  (1) The State Surgeon General may cause to be instituted a civil action in circuit court for preliminary or permanent injunctive relief to remedy or prevent...
• 401.425 - Emergency Medical Services Quality Assurance; Immunity From Liability.
  (1) As used in this section, the term “emergency medical review committee” or “committee” means a committee of:(a) An emergency medical service provider, a local or regional...
• 401.435 - First Responder Agencies And Training.
  (1) The department must adopt by rule the United States Department of Transportation Emergency Medical Services: First Responder Training Course as the minimum standard for first...
• 401.445 - Emergency Examination And Treatment Of Incapacitated Persons.
  (1) No recovery shall be allowed in any court in this state against any emergency medical technician, paramedic, or physician as defined in this chapter, any...
• 401.45 - Denial Of Emergency Treatment; Civil Liability.
  (1)(a) Except as provided in subsection (3), a person may not be denied needed prehospital treatment or transport from any licensee for an emergency medical condition.(b) A...
• 401.465 - 911 Public Safety Telecommunicator Certification.
  (1) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section, the term:(a) “911 public safety telecommunicator” means a public safety dispatcher or 911 operator whose duties and responsibilities include the answering,...

Last modified: September 23, 2016