Ohio Revised Code Chapter 4765 - Division Of Emergency Medical Services

• Section 4765.01 - Division Of Emergency Medical Services Definitions.
  As used in this chapter: (A) "First responder" means an individual who holds a current, valid certificate issued under section 4765.30 of the Revised...
• Section 4765.011 - Designation As Emr, Emt, Or Aemt.
  (A) With respect to the following individuals who receive certificates to practice issued under this chapter, all of the following apply: (1) A first...
• Section 4765.02 - State Board Of Emergency Medical, Fire, And Transportation Services.
  (A) (1) There is hereby created the state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services within the division of emergency medical services of...
• Section 4765.03 - Executive Director Duties.
  (A) The director of public safety shall appoint a full-time executive director for the state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services. The...
• Section 4765.04 - Firefighter And Fire Safety Inspector Training Committee - Trauma Committee - Other Committees And Subcommittees.
  (A) The firefighter and fire safety inspector training committee of the state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services is hereby created and...
• Section 4765.05 - Prehospital Emergency Medical Services Regions.
  (A) As used in this section, "prehospital emergency medical services" means an emergency medical services system that provides medical services to patients who require...
• Section 4765.06 - Emergency Medical Services Incidence Reporting System - State Trauma Registry.
  (A) The state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services shall establish an emergency medical services incidence reporting system for the collection of...
• Section 4765.07 - Administrative Rules For Grant Program.
  (A) The state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services shall adopt rules under section 4765.11 of the Revised Code to establish and...
• Section 4765.08 - Statewide Emergency Medical Services Plan - Statewide Regulation Of Emergency Medical Services During Periods Of Disaster.
  The state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services shall prepare a statewide emergency medical services plan and shall revise the plan as...
• Section 4765.09 - Recommendations For Operation Of Ambulance And Emergency Medical Service Organizations.
  The state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services shall prepare recommendations for the operation of ambulance service organizations, air medical organizations, and...
• Section 4765.10 - State Board - Powers And Duties.
  (A) The state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services shall do all of the following: (1) Administer and enforce the provisions of...
• Section 4765.101 - Complaint And Investigation Of Violations.
  (A) The state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services shall investigate any allegation that a person has violated this chapter or a...
• Section 4765.102 - Investigative Information Confidential.
  (A) As used in this section, "licensing agency" means any entity that has the authority pursuant to Title XLVII of the Revised Code to...
• Section 4765.11 - Administrative Rules For Administration.
  (A) The state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services shall adopt, and may amend and rescind, rules in accordance with Chapter 119....
• Section 4765.111 - Disciplinary Proceedings.
  Except as provided in this section or sections 4765.112 to 4765.116 of the Revised Code, the state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation...
• Section 4765.112 - Suspension Of Certificate Without Hearing.
  (A) The state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services, by an affirmative vote of the majority of its members, may suspend without...
• Section 4765.113 - Reconsideration Of Suspension Based On Conviction.
  If the state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services imposes a suspension on the basis of a conviction, judicial finding, or plea...
• Section 4765.114 - Certificate Automatically Suspended For Certain Offenses.
  (A) A certificate to practice emergency medical services issued under this chapter is automatically suspended on the certificate holder's conviction of, plea of guilty...
• Section 4765.115 - Suspension Orders - Administrative Hearing - Disposition.
  (A) A suspension order issued under section 4765.112 or automatic suspension under section 4765.114 of the Revised Code is not subject to suspension by...
• Section 4765.116 - Procedure Where Hearing Not Timely Requested.
  If a certificate holder subject to a suspension order issued by the state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services under section 4765.112...
• Section 4765.12 - Guidelines For Care Of Trauma Victims By Emergency Medical Service Personnel - Conduct Of Peer Review And Quality Assurance Programs By Emergency Medical Service Organizations.
  (A) Not later than two years after November 3, 2000, the state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services shall develop and distribute...
• Section 4765.15 - Continuing Education - Approval And Accreditation.
  A person seeking to operate an emergency medical services training program shall submit a completed application for accreditation to the state board of emergency...
• Section 4765.16 - Continuing Education - Development.
  (A) All courses offered through an emergency medical services training program or an emergency medical services continuing education program, other than ambulance driving, shall...
• Section 4765.161 - .
  The state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services shall adopt rules under section 4765.11 of the Revised Code to establish an expedited...
• Section 4765.17 - Issuing Certificate Of Accreditation Or Certificate Of Approval.
  (A) The state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services shall issue the appropriate certificate of accreditation or certificate of approval to an...
• Section 4765.18 - Grounds For Suspension Or Revocation Of Certificate.
  The state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services may suspend or revoke a certificate of accreditation or a certificate of approval issued...
• Section 4765.22 - Applying To Teach In Emergency Medical Services Training Program Or Emergency Medical Services Continuing Education Program.
  A person seeking a certificate to teach in an emergency medical services training program or an emergency medical services continuing education program shall submit...
• Section 4765.23 - Teaching Certificate - Issuance - Renewal - Suspension Or Revocation.
  The state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services shall issue a certificate to teach in an emergency medical services training program or...
• Section 4765.24 - Continuing Education - Certificate Of Completion.
  The operator of an accredited training program for first responders shall issue a certificate of completion in first responder training to each student who...
• Section 4765.28 - Applying For Certificate To Practice.
  A person seeking a certificate to practice as a first responder, emergency medical technician-basic, emergency medical technician-intermediate, or emergency medical technician-paramedic shall submit a...
• Section 4765.29 - Examination.
  (A) The state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services shall provide for the examination of applicants for certification to practice as first...
• Section 4765.30 - Qualifications For Certificate To Practice.
  (A) (1) The state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services shall issue a certificate to practice as a first responder to an...
• Section 4765.301 - Criminal Records Check.
  (A) An appointing authority may request the superintendent of BCII to conduct a criminal records check with respect to any person who is under...
• Section 4765.31 - Continuing Education - Extension Or Exemption.
  (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, a first responder, emergency medical technician-basic, emergency medical technician-intermediate, and emergency medical technician-paramedic shall...
• Section 4765.32 - Certificates Issued Under Prior Law.
  A current, valid certificate of accreditation issued under the provisions of former section 3303.11 or 3303.23 of the Revised Code shall remain valid until...
• Section 4765.33 - Disciplinary Actions.
  The state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services may suspend or revoke certificates to practice issued under section 4765.30 of the Revised...
• Section 4765.35 - Authorized Services By First Responders.
  (A) A first responder shall perform the emergency medical services described in this section in accordance with this chapter and any rules adopted under...
• Section 4765.36 - Authorized Services In Hospital.
  In a hospital, an emergency medical technician-basic, emergency medical technician-intermediate, or emergency medical technician-paramedic may perform emergency medical services if the services are performed...
• Section 4765.361 - Performance Of Services In Nonemergency Situations.
  An emergency medical technician-basic, emergency medical technician-intermediate, or emergency medical technician-paramedic may perform medical services that the technician is authorized by law to perform...
• Section 4765.37 - Authorized Services By Emt-basic.
  (A) An emergency medical technician-basic shall perform the emergency medical services described in this section in accordance with this chapter and any rules adopted...
• Section 4765.38 - Authorized Services By Emt-intermediate.
  (A) An emergency medical technician-intermediate shall perform the emergency medical services described in this section in accordance with this chapter and any rules adopted...
• Section 4765.39 - Authorized Services By Emergency Medical Technician-paramedic.
  (A) An emergency medical technician-paramedic shall perform the emergency medical services described in this section in accordance with this chapter and any rules adopted...
• Section 4765.391 - Administration Of Immunizations For Influenza To Firefighters Or Emts.
  (A) The medical director or cooperating physician advisory board of each emergency medical service organization may authorize one or more emergency medical technicians-paramedic within...
• Section 4765.40 - Written Protocols For Triage Of Adult And Pediatric Trauma Victims.
  (A) (1) Not later than two years after November 3, 2000, the state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services shall adopt rules...
• Section 4765.41 - Local Written Protocols.
  The medical director or cooperating physician advisory board of each emergency medical service organization shall establish written protocols to be followed by first responders,...
• Section 4765.42 - Names Of Medical Director Or Members Of Cooperating Physician Advisory Board.
  Each emergency medical service organization shall give notice of the name of its medical director or the names of the members of its cooperating...
• Section 4765.43 - Ambulance Staffing.
  (A) During each emergency run made by an ambulance that is equipped for emergency medical services, the emergency medical service organization operating the ambulance...
• Section 4765.431 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.27, HB 128, §2, eff. 9/23/2011. Effective Date: 2008 SB129 12-30-2008
• Section 4765.48 - Prosecutions - Injunctions.
  The attorney general, the prosecuting attorney of the county, or the city director of law shall, upon complaint of the state board of emergency...
• Section 4765.49 - Emergency Medical Personnel And Agencies - Immunity.
  (A) A first responder, emergency medical technician-basic, emergency medical technician-intermediate, or emergency medical technician-paramedic is not liable in damages in a civil action for...
• Section 4765.50 - Unauthorized Practice.
  (A) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, no person shall represent that the person is a first responder, an emergency medical...
• Section 4765.51 - Registered Nurses And Physician Assistants.
  Nothing in this chapter prevents or restricts the practice, services, or activities of any registered nurse practicing within the scope of the registered nurse's...
• Section 4765.55 - Fire Service Training Programs.
  (A) The executive director of the state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services, with the advice and counsel of the firefighter and...
• Section 4765.56 - Effect Of Child Support Default On Certificate To Practice.
  On receipt of a notice pursuant to section 3123.43 of the Revised Code, the state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services shall...
• Section 4765.57 - Disposition Of Fetal Death Remains.
  (A) As used in this section, "fetal death" has the same meaning as in section 3705.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Emergency medical service...
• Section 4765.58 - Compliance With Law Regarding Sanctions For Human Trafficking.
  The state board of emergency medical services shall comply with section 4776.20 of the Revised Code. Added by 129th General AssemblyFile No.169, HB 247,...
• Section 4765.59 - Administration And Rule-making Authority.
  The state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services shall not administer laws and rules exceeding the statutory authority provided to the board...
• Section 4765.99 - Penalty.
  Whoever violates division (A), (B), or (C) of section 4765.50 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense....

Last modified: October 10, 2016