Title 23, Health and Safety
97 chapters · 684 sections in this title.
N.D.C.C. § 23-27-01 License required - Licensing of emergency medical services operations - Exception - Waiver
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1. The department of health and human services shall license emergency medical services operations and may designate their service areas. The department shall limit the issuance of a license for any new emergency medical services operation based on the needs of the service area. …
N.D.C.C. § 23-27-02 Definitions
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For the purpose of this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Department" means the department of health and human services. 2. "Emergency medical services" means the prehospital medical stabilization or transportation, including interfacility transportation, of an …
N.D.C.C. § 23-27-03 License fees
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The fee for an emergency medical services operation license to operate an emergency medical services operation or a substation ambulance services operation must be set at a sum of not more than twenty-five dollars annually, as may be required to defray the costs of administration…
N.D.C.C. § 23-27-04 Standards for operators
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1. An emergency medical services operation may not operate unless licensed under this chapter. The department shall adopt rules for standards for operators which must include: a. Time when operator's services must be available; b. Requirements for services to ensure a reliable re…
N.D.C.C. § 23-27-04.1 Emergency care or services rendered by officers, employees, or agents of emergency medical services operations - Physician medical direction
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1. An officer, employee, or agent of an emergency medical services operation and a physician licensed in this state who provides medical direction to an emergency medical services operation, who is a volunteer, who in good faith renders emergency care, services, or medical direct…
N.D.C.C. § 23-27-04.10 Air ambulance services
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1. The department shall create and maintain a primary call list and a secondary call list of air ambulance service providers operating in this state. 2. To qualify to be listed on the primary call list, an air ambulance service provider shall submit to the department attested doc…
N.D.C.C. § 23-27-04.2 Emergency medical services - State assistance
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The department of health and human services shall assist in the training of emergency medical services personnel of certain emergency medical services operations as determined by the department and financially shall assist certain emergency medical services operations as determin…
N.D.C.C. § 23-27-04.3 Emergency medical services personnel training, testing, certification, licensure, and quality review - Penalty
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1. The department shall adopt rules prescribing minimum training, testing, certification, licensure, and quality review standards for emergency medical services personnel, including community emergency medical services personnel, instructors, and training institutions. 2. Rules a…
N.D.C.C. § 23-27-04.4 Supervision of emergency medical services professionals - Scope of practice
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Emergency medical services professionals who are employed by a hospital may provide patient care within a scope of practice established by the department. Under this section, these emergency medical services professionals must be supervised by a hospital designated physician, phy…
N.D.C.C. § 23-27-04.6 Quick response units
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Department licensure as a quick response unit is not optional. The department's standards under section 23-27-04 for the time when a quick response unit's services must be available may not require twenty-four hour availability.
N.D.C.C. § 23-27-04.7 County reporting - Use of property tax levies
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The board of county commissioners of every county in this state shall conduct an annual review of the emergency medical services coverage within that county and shall submit an annual report in a format approved by the department of health and human services. A taxing district th…
N.D.C.C. § 23-27-04.8 Emergency medical services operation communications
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The department may regulate the primary communications methods and protocols for emergency medical services operations while permitting secondary communications through other devices, including cell phones. The regulations must be consistent with the protocols established by the …
N.D.C.C. § 23-27-04.9 Administration of vaccinations - Laboratory testing
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1. A licensed or certified emergency medical services personnel working for a hospital or an emergency medical services operation may administer a vaccine to an individual who is at least eighteen years of age if: a. The physician providing oversight for the emergency medical ser…
N.D.C.C. § 23-27-05 Penalty
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Any person violating the provisions of this chapter is guilty of an infraction.
N.D.C.C. § 23-27-06 Criminal history record check
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The department may require an applicant for emergency medical services personnel licensure to submit to a statewide and nationwide criminal history record check. The nationwide criminal history record check must be conducted in the manner provided by section 12-60-24. All costs a…
N.D.C.C. § 23-27-07 Required formation of rural ambulance service district - Organizational meeting - Exemption - Eligibility for relicensure
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1. Emergency medical service operations licensed under this chapter as a basic life support or advanced life support ambulance service for which a territory has been assigned pursuant to this chapter does not include a city with a population greater than six thousand five hundred…
N.D.C.C. § 23-27-08 Balance billing prohibited - Enforcement
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1. For purposes of this section, "ambulance service provider" means a service entity licensed under chapter 23-27 as a basic life support or advanced life support ambulance service. The term does not include an air ambulance provider. 2. An ambulance service provider may not coll…