General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 111C Emergency Medical Services System
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 111C, Section 1
(a) For the purpose of this chapter the following words shall, unless the context requires otherwise, have the following meaning:— “Ambulance”, any aircraft, boat, motor...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Statewide EMS system; expectations; purpose - Chapter 111C, Section 2
The department, with the assistance of interested parties that are part of the state’s EMS system, including, without limitation, the regional EMS councils, shall plan,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Statewide EMS system; powers and duties of department of public health - Chapter 111C, Section 3
(a) It shall be the duty of the department to plan, guide, assist, coordinate and regulate the development of a unified statewide EMS system and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Regional EMS councils; duties; membership - Chapter 111C, Section 4
(a) Regional EMS councils shall assist and support the department in carrying out the provisions of this chapter and in developing and implementing the state...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Contracts between department and regional EMS councils - Chapter 111C, Section 5
(a) The department shall enter into contracts with each of the regional EMS councils for the purposes set forth in section 4 in the form...
- Massachusetts General Laws - EMS first response service or ambulance service; application; license; renewal; provisional license - Chapter 111C, Section 6
(a) Any person who proposes to establish or maintain an EMS first response service or an ambulance service shall file an application with the department,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - EMS vehicles; inspection; certificate - Chapter 111C, Section 7
Prior to issuing a license under section 6, the department may conduct an inspection of EMS vehicles to be listed in such license. Each person...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Modification of license; written request; restrictions on transfer, assignment, and abandonment - Chapter 111C, Section 8
(a) Any service seeking to modify any term of its license, including, without limitation, changing its number of certified EMS vehicles, changing its level of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Provision of emergency medical services; certification of individuals; restrictions on advertising - Chapter 111C, Section 9
(a) No person shall provide EMS or hold oneself out as, or use the title of EMS first responder, basic or intermediate emergency medical technician...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Regional EMS councils; service zone plans; designation of service zone providers; primary ambulance service - Chapter 111C, Section 10
(a) Each regional EMS council shall, subject to the approval of the department, adopt a service zone plan that identifies, coordinates and makes optimal use...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2000, 54, Sec. 3 - Chapter 111C, Section 10A
Repealed, 2000, 54, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Statewide coordinated trauma care system; regulations and guidelines; trauma registry reporting and analysis system; designation as trauma center; limitations - Chapter 111C, Section 11
(a) The department shall develop a statewide coordinated trauma care system. At a minimum, the department, by regulation and guideline, shall provide for (1) the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - State medical director; regional medical directors; duties - Chapter 111C, Section 12
(a) The commissioner shall appoint a state medical director, who shall serve at the pleasure of the commissioner, and who shall be a qualified emergency...
- Massachusetts General Laws - EMS system advisory board; membership; duties; advisory committees - Chapter 111C, Section 13
(a) There shall be within the department an EMS system advisory board, consisting of the commissioner or his designee, as chairman; the state medical director,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Complaints; procedure; investigation; referral; notice - Chapter 111C, Section 14
The department shall establish and implement procedures for the making, transmission and investigation of complaints concerning any person certified, licensed, designated or otherwise approved by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Failure to comply under certification, license or designation; correction order; administrative reconsideration; assessment; collection - Chapter 111C, Section 15
(a) Whenever the department finds upon inspection or through information in its possession, that any person certified, licensed, designated or otherwise approved by the department...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Revocation or refusal to renew certification, license or designation; hearing; suspension without hearing; modification - Chapter 111C, Section 16
The department may, after hearing or waiver thereof, revoke or refuse to renew a certification, certificate of inspection, license, designation or other approval for failure...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Transportation of children by ambulance; accompaniment by parent or guardian; report by EMT - Chapter 111C, Section 17
The parent or guardian of an injured or sick child who is to be transported to a hospital or other medical treatment facility by an...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Restraint of patient by EMT; written report - Chapter 111C, Section 18
Subject to regulations and guidelines promulgated by the department, an emergency medical technician may restrain a patient who presents an immediate or serious threat of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Use of emergency medical titles and provision of services; prohibitions; fines; report to attorney general - Chapter 111C, Section 19
(a) No person shall: (1) establish or maintain an EMS first response service or an ambulance service or hold itself out as an EMS first...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Remote communication; advice, consultation, or orders; limitation on liability of physicians, nurses, hospitals and EMS personnel - Chapter 111C, Section 20
No physician duly registered under section 2, 2A, or 9 of chapter 112, and no nurse duly registered under section 74 or section 76 of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - EMS personnel; good faith performance of duties; limitation on personal liability - Chapter 111C, Section 21
No EMS personnel certified, accredited or otherwise approved under this chapter, and no additional personnel certified or authorized under section 9, who in the performance...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Commissioner; waiver of regulations or guidelines; conditions - Chapter 111C, Section 22
The commissioner may waive any provision of the regulations and guidelines promulgated under this chapter, subject to such terms and conditions as he may impose;...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Action by department; adjudicatory hearing; written request - Chapter 111C, Section 23
Any person subject to an action by the department to revoke, suspend, deny or take any other action with respect to any license, certification, designation...
- Massachusetts General Laws - EMS regional councils; distribution and use of funds; goals and objectives - Chapter 111C, Section 24
Distribution and use of funds, if any, by regional councils shall be governed by rules and regulations promulgated by the department with the advice of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Staffing of class I, II or V ambulances - Chapter 111C, Section 25
When a class I, II or V ambulance transports a patient receiving care at the paramedic level of advanced life support the ambulance shall be...
Last modified: September 11, 2015