§ 19-1203. District board of directors - Authorization to create districts – Emergency medical services plan.

A.  When a district is totally within the municipal city limits of a city, the board of directors of the district or their designee may be the governing body of the city or town.

B.  Public ambulance service districts may be organized under the Ambulance Service Districts Act for the purpose of developing and providing adequate ambulance services to meet the needs of residents within the territory of the district.  The board of county commissioners of each county in this state shall have power and it shall be their duty, upon a proper petition being presented, to incorporate and order the creation of such district in the manner provided for in this act.

C.  By April 1, 2011, each county of this state with a population of five hundred thousand (500,000) people or less according to the last Federal Decennial Census shall present to the State Department of Health an emergency medical services plan.  The plan for each county shall be developed by the Emergency Response Systems Development Advisory Council of the State Department of Health and each county emergency services advisory board which shall be comprised of the county commissioners of each county or their designees.  The plan shall:

1.  Address funding issues;

2.  Ensure countywide emergency medical services coverage; and

3.  Address county boundaries to ensure 9-1-1 operators are able to provide quick response.

Added by Laws 1974, c. 86, § 3, emerg. eff. April 19, 1974.  Amended by Laws 2010, c. 295, § 3, emerg. eff. June 6, 2010.