2016 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being
Chapter 368d - Emergency Medical Services
Section 19a-196b - Response to calls from other municipalities. Transporting patients to the state's mobile field hospital.
(a) Each emergency medical service council and emergency medical service system shall respond to and honor calls from any municipality that participates in another emergency medical service council or emergency communication system or which is a member of an agency that participates in such council or system.
(b) Any licensed or certified ambulance may transport patients to the state's mobile field hospital when the hospital has been deployed by the Governor or the Governor's designee for the purposes specified in subsection (a) of section 19a-487.
(P.A. 95-198, S. 3; P.A. 07-252, S. 72; P.A. 10-117, S. 60.)
History: P.A. 07-252 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a), made technical changes therein and added Subsec. (b) authorizing ambulances to transport patients to state's mobile field hospital upon deployment by the Governor or the Governor's designee, effective July 12, 2007; P.A. 10-177 amended Subsec. (b) by replacing reference to Sec. 19a-490(m) with reference to Sec. 19a-487(a).
