West Virginia Code
Article 4C. Emergency Medical Services Act
§16-4C-3. Definitions

As used in this article, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning:
(a) "Ambulance" means any privately or publicly-owned vehicle or aircraft which is designed, constructed or modified; equipped or maintained; and operated for the transportation of patients, including, but not limited to, emergency medical services vehicles; rotary and fixed wing air ambulances; gsa kkk-A-1822 federal standard type I, type II and type III vehicles; and specialized multipatient medical transport vehicles operated by an emergency medical services agency;
(b) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health;
(c) "Council" means the Emergency Medical Service Advisory Council created pursuant to this article;
(d) "Director" means the Director of the Office of Emergency Medical Service in the Bureau for Public Health.
(e) "Emergency Medical Services" means all services which are set forth in Public Law 93-154 "The Emergency Medical Services Systems Act of 1973" and those included in and made a part of the emergency medical services plan of the Department of Health and Human Resources inclusive of, but not limited to, responding to the medical needs of an individual to prevent the loss of life or aggravation of illness or injury;
(f) "Emergency medical service agency" means any agency licensed under section six-a of this article to provide emergency medical services;
(g) "Emergency medical service personnel" means any person certified by the commissioner to provide emergency medical services as set forth by legislative rule;
(h) "Emergency medical service provider" means any authority, person, corporation, partnership or other entity, public or private, which owns or operates a licensed emergency medical services agency providing emergency medical service in this state;
(i) "Governing body" has the meanings ascribed to it as applied to a municipality in subdivision (1), subsection (b), section two, article one, chapter eight of this code;
(j) "Line officer" means the emergency medical service personnel, present at the scene of an accident, injury or illness, who has taken the responsibility for patient care;
(k) "Medical command" means the issuing of orders by a physician from a medical facility to emergency medical service personnel for the purpose of providing appropriate patient care;
(l) "Municipality" has the meaning ascribed to it in subdivision (1), subsection (a), section two, article one, chapter eight of this code;
(m) "Patient" means any person who is a recipient of the services provided by emergency medical services;
(n) "Service reciprocity" means the provision of emergency medical services to citizens of this state by emergency medical service personnel certified to render those services by a neighboring state;
(o) "Small emergency medical service provider" means any emergency medical service provider which is made up of less than twenty emergency medical service personnel; and
(p) "Specialized multipatient medical transport" means a type of ambulance transport provided for patients with medical needs greater than those of the average population, which may require the presence of a trained emergency medical technician during the transport of the patient: Provided, That the requirement of "greater medical need" may not prohibit the transportation of a patient whose need is preventive in nature.

Structure West Virginia Code

West Virginia Code

Chapter 16. Public Health

Article 4C. Emergency Medical Services Act

§16-4C-1. Short Title

§16-4C-2. Purposes of Article

§16-4C-3. Definitions

§16-4C-4. Office of Emergency Medical Services Created; Requiring Appointment of a Director of the Office of Emergency Medical Services; Staffing

§16-4C-5. Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council; Duties; Composition; Appointment; Meetings; Compensation and Expenses

§16-4C-6. Powers and Duties of Commissioner

§16-4C-6a. Emergency Medical Services Agency Licensure

§16-4C-6b. Establishment of Emergency Medical Services Agency Licensure Fund; Authorized Expenditures; Annual Report

§16-4C-7. Vehicles, Aircraft and Persons Aboard Them Exempted From Requirements of Article

§16-4C-8. Standards for Emergency Medical Services Personnel

§16-4C-8a. Courtesy Certification of Emergency Medical Services Personnel in Surrounding States

§16-4C-9. Complaints; Investigations; Due Process Procedure; Grounds for Disciplinary Action

§16-4C-10. Procedures for Hearing; Right of Appeal; Judicial Review

§16-4C-11. Liability for Cost of Emergency Medical Service

§16-4C-12. Violations; Criminal Penalties

§16-4C-13. Actions to Enjoin Violations; Injunctive Relief

§16-4C-14. Services That May Be Performed by Emergency Medical Service Personnel

§16-4C-15. Powers of Emergency Medical Service Attendants, Emergency Medical Technicians-Basic and Emergency Medical Technicians-Paramedic During Emergency Communications Failures and Disasters

§16-4C-16. Limitation of Liability; Mandatory Errors and Omissions Insurance

§16-4C-17. Limitation of Liability for Failure to Obtain Consent

§16-4C-18. Authority of Emergency Medical Service Personnel in Charge of Emergency Medical Services

§16-4C-19. Obstructing or Causing Bodily Injury to Emergency Medical Service Personnel; Criminal Penalties

§16-4C-20. Service Reciprocity Agreements for Mutual Aid

§16-4C-21. Restriction for Provision of Emergency Medical Services by Out-of-State Emergency Medical Service Personnel or Providers of Emergency Medical Services

§16-4C-22. Transportation of Unconscious or Otherwise Uncommunicative Patients

§16-4C-23. Authority of the Commissioner to Make Rules

§16-4C-24. Emergency Medical Services Equipment and Training Fund; Establishment of Grant Program for Equipment and Training of Emergency Medical Service Providers and Personnel