2010 Ohio Revised Code
Title [47] XLVII OCCUPATIONS - PROFESSIONS
Chapter 4765: DIVISION OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
4765.43 Ambulance drivers - staff for ambulance.
4765.43 Ambulance drivers - staff for ambulance.
(A) A person who drives an ambulance that is equipped for emergency medical services, is not required by this chapter to be certified as an emergency medical technician-basic, emergency medical technician-intermediate, or emergency medical technician-paramedic.
(B)(1) During each emergency run made by an ambulance that is equipped for emergency medical services and is operated by an emergency medical service organization that does not utilize any volunteer emergency medical service providers or does not substantially utilize those providers, the ambulance shall be staffed by at least two EMTs-basic, EMTs-I, or paramedics. When an ambulance is so staffed, it may be driven by a person who is not certified as an EMT-basic, EMT-I, or paramedic.
(2) During each emergency run made by an ambulance that is equipped for emergency medical services and is operated by an emergency medical service organization that substantially utilizes volunteer emergency medical service providers, the ambulance shall be staffed by at least one first responder and one EMT-basic, EMT-I, or paramedic. When an ambulance is so staffed, it may be driven by a person who is not certified as a first responder, EMT-basic, EMT-I, or paramedic. If circumstances so require, an ambulance that is staffed by only one first responder and one EMT-basic, EMT-I, or paramedic may be driven by the first responder who is staffing the ambulance with the EMT-basic, EMT-I, or paramedic.
(C) For purposes of division (B) of this section, an emergency medical service organization substantially utilizes volunteer emergency medical service providers if, on any given date, for the six-month period immediately prior to that date, the organization’s daily average number of hours during which the organization used only volunteer first responders, volunteer EMTs-basic, volunteer EMTs-I, or volunteer paramedics, or a combination of such volunteers, was fifty per cent or more of the daily average number of hours that the organization made emergency medical services available to the public.
Effective Date: 11-24-1995; 2008 SB129 12-30-2008
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