2005 Arizona Revised Statutes - Revised Statutes §36-2203  Emergency medical services council

(Rpld. 1/1/10)

A. There is established the emergency medical services council, with the medical director of emergency medical services as chairman. The council shall be composed of the director of the department of public safety and the governor's highway safety coordinator or their designees and the following members appointed by the governor:

1. One representative from each of the local emergency medical services coordinating systems as defined in section 36-2210.

2. One physician specializing in emergency medicine from each of the four local emergency medical services coordinating regions as prescribed in section 36-2210.

3. One professional nurse licensed pursuant to title 32, chapter 15 specializing in emergency medicine.

4. One emergency medical technician.

5. Two representatives from ambulance service corporations.

6. Two hospital administrators, one of whom shall represent a county with a population of less than five hundred thousand persons according to the most recent United States decennial census.

7. One representative from each of the three employers of the largest number of emergency medical technicians and paramedics.

8. One representative from a nongovernmental employer of intermediate emergency medical technicians.

9. One representative from the state fire districts.

10. One physician specializing in trauma surgery.

11. One representative of a pre-hospital emergency medical training program.

12. Six lay members.

13. One representative of a volunteer medical rescue program.

B. Members of the council shall be appointed for a term of three years and are eligible to receive compensation pursuant to section 38-611.