Title 41, Public Health

The board shall issue a license which shall be valid for a period of one (1) year when it determines that all the requirements of this chapter have been met.

Subsequent to issuance of any license, the board shall cause to be inspected each ambulance service, including ambulances, equipment, personnel, records, premises and operational procedures whenever such inspection is deemed necessary, but in any event not less than two (2) times…

(1) The board is authorized to suspend or revoke a license whenever it determines that the holder no longer meets the requirements prescribed for operating an ambulance service. (2) A license issued under this chapter may be renewed upon payment of a renewal fee to be fixed by th…

The board is authorized to provide for procedures to be utilized in acting on changes of ownership in accordance with regulations established by the board.

(1) The State Department of Health, in cooperation with the Department of Archives and History and the Bureau of Building, Grounds and Real Property Management and subject to funds being made available, shall design and cause to be constructed and maintained on state-owned lands …

The issuance of a license shall not be construed to authorize any person, firm, corporation or association to provide ambulance services or to operate any ambulance not in conformity with any ordinance or regulation enacted by any county, municipality or special purpose district …

(1) Before a vehicle can be operated as an ambulance, its licensed owner must apply for and receive an ambulance permit issued by the board for such vehicle. Application shall be made upon forms and according to procedures established by the board. Each application for an ambulan…

(1) Standards for the design, construction, equipment, sanitation and maintenance of ambulance vehicles shall be developed by the board with the advice of the advisory council. Each standard may be revised as deemed necessary by the board when it determines, with the advice of th…

(a) There shall be at all times in force and effect on any ambulance vehicle operating in this state insurance issued by an insurance company licensed to do business in this state, which shall provide coverage:(a) For injury to or death of individuals resulting from any cause for…

From and after January 1, 1976, every ambulance, except those specifically excluded from the provisions of this chapter, when transporting patients in this state, shall be occupied by at least one (1) person who possesses a valid emergency medical technician state certificate, or…

(a) As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the term:(a) “Ambulance” means any privately or publicly owned land or air vehicle that is especially designed, constructed, modified or equipped to be used, maintained and operated upon the streets, highways or …

The board shall develop an emergency medical technicians training program based upon the nationally approved United States Department of Transportation “Basic Training Program for Emergency Medical Technicians-Ambulance” prepared in compliance with recommendations of the National…

(1) Any person desiring certification as an emergency medical technician shall apply to the board using forms prescribed by the board. Each application for an emergency medical technician certificate shall be accompanied by a certificate fee to be fixed by the board, which shall …

(1) An emergency medical technician certificate so issued shall be valid for a period not exceeding two (2) years from the date of issuance and may be renewed upon payment of a renewal fee to be fixed by the board, which shall be paid to the board, provided that the holder meets …

The board may, in its discretion, issue a temporary ambulance attendant’s permit which shall not be valid for more than one (1) year from the date of issuance, and which shall be renewable to an individual who may or may not meet qualifications established pursuant to this chapte…

The board, after consultation with the emergency medical services advisory council, shall establish minimum standards which permit the operation of invalid vehicles as a separate class of ambulance service.

Each licensee of an ambulance service shall maintain accurate records upon such forms as may be provided, and contain such information as may be required by the board concerning the transportation of each patient within this state and beyond its limits. Such records shall be avai…

(a) The following are exempted from the provisions of this chapter:(a) The occasional use of a privately and/or publicly owned vehicle not ordinarily used in the business of transporting persons who are sick, injured, wounded, or otherwise incapacitated or helpless, or operating …

(1) It shall be the duty of the licensed owner of any ambulance service or other employer of emergency medical technicians for the purpose of providing basic or advanced life support services to insure compliance with the provisions of this Chapter 59 and Chapter 60 and all rules…

The provisions of this chapter shall apply to all counties and incorporated municipalities except those counties and incorporated municipalities electing not to comply as expressed to the board in a written resolution by the governing body of such county or incorporated municipal…

Any person, firm, corporation, association, county, municipality or metropolitan government or agency whose application for a permit or license has been rejected or whose permit or license is suspended or revoked by the board shall have the right to appeal such decision, within t…

(1) The State Board of Health shall establish and maintain a program for the improvement and regulation of emergency medical services (hereinafter EMS) in the State of Mississippi. The responsibility for implementation and conduct of this program shall be vested in the State Heal…

A special subdivision to be known as an emergency medical service district may be established by the board of supervisors or boards of supervisors of any county or group of counties, and/or governing authority or authorities of a municipality or municipalities located in such cou…

The boards of supervisors and the municipal governing authorities which intend to establish an emergency medical service district shall set forth such intention, along with a description of the area to be served, the nature of services to be provided, the allocation of expenses a…

(a) Any emergency medical service district created pursuant to this chapter shall be administered in one of the following manners:(a) The governing authorities of the participating political subdivisions shall appoint a person or persons, who may be an elected official of such po…

The emergency medical service districts authorized under this chapter are empowered to receive funds from all sources and are authorized to expend such funds as may be available for any necessary and proper purpose in the manner provided by law for municipalities. The participati…

(1) The board of supervisors of any county of the state participating in the establishment of an emergency medical service district under the provisions of Section 41-59-51 and related statutes of the Mississippi Code of 1972 may set aside, appropriate and expend moneys from the …

(1) The assessments that are collected under subsections (1) and (2) of Section 99-19-73 shall be deposited in a special fund that is created in the State Treasury to be designated the “Emergency Medical Services Operating Fund.” The Legislature may make appropriations from the E…

The solicitation of membership subscriptions, the acceptance of membership applications, the charging of membership fees, and the furnishing of prepaid or discounted ambulance service to subscription members and designated members of their households by either a public or private…

(a) Either a public or private ambulance service licensed and regulated by the State Board of Health desiring to offer such a membership subscription program shall make application for permit to conduct and implement such program to the State Board of Health. The application shal…

(a) The issuance of a permit to conduct and implement a membership subscription program shall require the following:(a) The posting of a surety bond with one or more surety companies to be approved by the State Board of Health, in the amount of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) f…

(a) Annual reports shall be filed with the State Board of Health by the ambulance service permitted to conduct and implement a membership subscription program in the manner and form prescribed by the State Board of Health, which report shall contain the following:(a) The name and…

(1) There is created an emergency medical services advisory council to consist of the following members who shall be appointed by the Governor:(a) One (1) licensed physician to be appointed from a list of nominees presented by the Mississippi Trauma Committee, American College of…

Solicitation of membership in the subscription program may be made through direct advertising, group solicitation, by officers and employees of the ambulance service or by individuals without the necessity of licensing of such solicitors.

(1) The Mississippi Trauma Care Systems Fund is established. Fifteen Dollars ($15.00) collected from each assessment of Twenty Dollars ($20.00) under subsection (1) of Section 99-19-73 and Thirty Dollars ($30.00) collected from each assessment of Forty-five Dollars ($45.00) under…

Data obtained under this chapter for use in the trauma registry is for the confidential use of the Mississippi State Department of Health and the persons, public entities or private entities that participate in the collection of the trauma registry data. Any data which identifies…

Any person desiring certification as a medical first responder shall apply to the board using forms prescribed by the board. Each application for a medical first responder certificate shall be accompanied by a certificate fee to be fixed by the board, which shall be paid to the b…

(1) The State Board of Health is authorized to promulgate and enforce rules and regulations to provide for the best and most effective emergency medical care by medical first responders, and to comply with national standards for medical first responders. Notwithstanding any other…

(1) The driver of any vehicle other than an official emergency vehicle shall not follow any moving ambulance that is engaged in an emergency medical call closer than five hundred (500) feet, or park the vehicle within two hundred (200) feet of where the ambulance has stopped and …

From and after October 1, 1974, no person, firm, corporation, association, county, municipality, or metropolitan government or agency, either as owner, agent or otherwise, shall hereafter furnish, operate, conduct, maintain, advertise or otherwise engage in the business of servic…