2020 New York Laws
PBH - Public Health
Article 30 - Emergency Medical Services
3017 - Emergency Medical Service, Suffolk County.

§  3017.  Emergency  medical  service, Suffolk county. 1. No ambulance
service or advanced life support first response service shall respond to
any call or request  for  emergency  medical  services  within  a  town,
village  or  fire  district  in  Suffolk  county that currently provides
ambulance service or  advanced  life  support  services  first  response
service,  if  the  municipality  has  designated  one  or more ambulance
services or advanced life support first response services to respond  to
such calls unless:
  (a) the service is so designated;
  (b)  the  response is in accordance with a mutual aid plan approved by
the appropriate regional emergency medical service council;
  (c) the response is to a verbal mutual aid request from  a  designated
service;
  (d)  the  service was specifically requested to respond by the patient
or someone acting on behalf of that patient; or
  (e)  the  response  site  is  a  hospital   licensed   under   article
twenty-eight of this chapter for a transfer to another such facility.
  2.  Every  ambulance  service  or advanced life support first response
service shall disclose as part of any solicitation or  advertisement  in
Suffolk  county  that  there  is a fee for services rendered, if in fact
there is a fee charged for the performance of such service.
  3. Every ambulance service or advanced  life  support  first  response
service  that  operates  in Suffolk county and has vehicles which travel
through communities with designated ambulance service or  advanced  life
support  first  response service shall require its drivers and emergency
medical technicians:
  (a) to immediately notify a central alarm or other  publicly  operated
dispatch entity, or a person designated under section two hundred nine-b
of the general municipal law to receive calls for emergency services for
the  purpose  of  dispatching  emergency  medical  services  whenever an
emergency is found in a public place;
  (b) to evaluate the need to transport any patient found in extremis to
a hospital; and
  (c) to comply with appropriate instructions from the dispatch  entity.
The  dispatch  entity,  when  appropriate,  may  instruct the service to
transport any patient to an appropriate hospital.