Massachusetts Statutes

Section 6. The department shall issue for a term of two years, and may renew for like terms, a license, subject to revocation by it for cause, to any person, other than a licensed hospital, a department, agency, or institution of the federal government, the commonwealth or any po…

Section 6A. The department shall issue for a term of two years, and may renew for like terms, a license, subject to revocation by it for cause, to any person, other than a department, agency or institution of the federal government, the commonwealth or any political subdivision t…

Section 6B. The department shall be empowered to classify ''treatment program units'', as defined in section three, and shall issue for a term of two years, and may renew for like terms, a license, subject to revocation by it for cause, to any person, other than a department, age…

Section 7. Any person who is intoxicated and voluntarily applies for treatment at a detoxification facility or is brought to said facility in accordance with section eight shall be afforded treatment there or at another facility. Prior to the admission of any person, the administ…

Section 8. Any person who is incapacitated may be assisted by a police officer with or without his consent to his residence, to a facility or to a police station or the Dukes county sheriff's office. To determine for purposes of this chapter only, whether or not such person is in…

Section 9. Each person who receives treatment at a facility shall be subject to the supervisory powers of the administrator exercised in accordance with rules and regulations of the department; however, if the facility is operated by a department or agency of the commonwealth oth…

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 vehicle or any other means of transportation, however named, whether privately or publicly owned,…

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 of all available EMS resources within each service zone. Each such plan shall be developed by the local jurisdi…

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 designation of trauma centers at various levels; (2) policies, including, without limitation, pre-hospital…

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 physician. The department may establish additional qualifications for the position of state medical director by reg…

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, or his designee; the regional director of each regional emergency medical services council, or his designee;…

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 the department under this chapter. The department shall prepare, and mak…

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 under this chapter is not in compliance with a requirement established under this chapte…

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 to perform such requirements as set forth in such certificate, license, designation, or other …

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 ambulance shall be allowed to accompany such child upon such parent's or guardian's request, unless the emergency medical technician in …

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 bodily harm to himself or others. Any such restraint shall be noted in the written report of said…

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 response service or an ambulance service without a valid license or in violation of the terms of a valid license; (2) operate, maint…

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, guide and coordinate programs to ensure that the state's EMS system shall: (1) provide necessary EMS…

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 said chapter 112, and no hospital shall be liable in a suit for damages as a result of acts or omissions related to advice, consultati…

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 of their duties and in good faith, render emergency first aid, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, t…

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; provided, however, that no waiver may issue unless the commissioner has determined that such waiver (a) wi…

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 or any other approval under this chapter shall, upon the filing of a written request with the department, be aff…

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 the EMS system advisory board. Such rules and regulations shall recognize the following goals and objectives for the…

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 staffed in accordance with regulations promulgated by the department, with a minimum of 2 emergency medical technicians, only 1…

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 to coordinate the system with similar systems in neighboring states. (b) The department shall be the state lead agency for E…

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 and regional EMS plans, by planning, guiding and coordinating the components of the EMS system serving their re…

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 established by the department, and may enter into contracts with other entities for the planning, initiation, maintenance, developme…

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, containing such information as the department may require, including,without limitation, the identity of the applic…

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 to whom a license is issued shall be entitled to a certificate of inspection for each such EMS vehicle upon proof that the EMS…

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 service, or adding or deleting places of business from which advanced life support services are provided, shal…

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 or paramedic, or the acronym EMT, or any other title or acronym used by the department in the certification of EMS person…

Section 9A. (a) EMS personnel shall provide emergency treatment to a police dog injured in the line of duty and transport such police dog by ambulance to a veterinary care facility equipped to provide emergency treatment to dogs; provided, however, that EMS personnel shall not tr…

Section 9B. (a) The department may grant a waiver to veterans or military medics of the United States armed forces applying to be an emergency medical technician consistent with standards established pursuant to clause (26) of subsection (b) of section 3 if the completed courses …

Section 1. As used in this chapter, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings: ''CLIA-waived test'', a test that the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has determined qualifies for a Certificate of Waiver…

Section 10. Whenever the department finds upon inspection, or through information in its possession, that a clinical laboratory, licensed under this chapter is not able to provide or is not providing reliable reports of examinations pursuant to the terms of such license, it may b…

Section 11. The department may revoke the license issued under section five or impose other appropriate administrative sanction upon a license, or both, for conduct by or chargeable to him as follows: (1) failure to observe any term of such license; (2) failure to meet any requir…

Section 12. The department, in its own name, may bring a complaint in the superior court or supreme judicial court to enforce compliance with this chapter or any rule, regulation, or order made under this chapter, whenever it shall appear that any person has engaged in, is engagi…

Section 13. (a) No individual shall: (i) maintain a clinical laboratory in the commonwealth without a license in violation of section 4; (ii) maintain a clinical laboratory in violation of the terms of a license issued under section 5; (iii) engage in, aid, abet, cause or permit …

Section 14. The department shall require all clinical laboratories to disclose any ownership interests in writing to the department every 2 years. The disclosure shall contain the name and ownership interest of the disclosing person or company, as well as the names and all owners…

Section 2. The department shall have authority: (1) to establish, with the advice of the advisory committee on clinical laboratories, and to enforce, requirements in addition to any prescribed in this chapter for the construction, maintenance, and utilization of clinical laborato…

Section 3. There shall be within the department an advisory committee on clinical laboratories, to advise the department, as provided in section two, on the administration of this chapter. Such committee shall consist of twelve members, to be appointed by the commissioner, as fol…

Section 4. No person shall maintain a clinical laboratory in the commonwealth apart from a hospital or clinic licensed under section 51 of chapter 111, unless the person holds, and there is in effect, a license issued under section 5; provided, however, that the licensing require…

Section 5. Any person seeking a license to maintain a clinical laboratory apart from a hospital or clinic licensed under section fifty-one of chapter one hundred and eleven shall file with the department a license application containing such information as the department may reas…

Section 6. The department may require the reporting of any infectious disease found in the examination of specimens at clinical laboratories if, in its opinion, reporting of such disease is necessary to protect or promote the public health. Every person who and every agency which…

Section 7. Every person licensed to maintain a clinical laboratory under this chapter shall appoint an individual, who shall bear the title ''clinical laboratory director'', with responsibility for the direction of the technical and scientific operation of such laboratory, includ…

Section 8. A clinical laboratory shall not: (1) misrepresent, by false statement, by omission of a material fact, or by scheme, trick, or device, the category or categories of procedures performed at, or the service or services available at, a clinical laboratory; (2) obstruct, b…