New York Laws
Article 30 - Emergency Medical Services
3008 - Applications for Determinations of Public Need.

(b) In the case of an application for certification pursuant to this
subdivision, for a municipal advanced life support or municipal
ambulance service, to serve the area within the municipality, where the
proposed service meets or exceeds the appropriate training, staffing and
equipment standards, there shall be a strong presumption in favor of
approving the application. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
article, any city with a population of fourteen thousand seven hundred
or sixty-two thousand two hundred thirty-five, according to the two
thousand ten federal decennial census, or fire district acting on behalf
of any such city, that applies for permanent certification pursuant to
this section at the conclusion of the two year period provided in this
subdivision, shall not be required to apply to its regional emergency

medical services council or the state emergency medical services council
for a determination of need, and the application shall be submitted to
and approved by the commissioner unless the commissioner finds that the
municipal advanced life support first responder service or municipal
ambulance service has failed to meet the appropriate training, staffing
and equipment standards.

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