West Virginia Code
Chapter 16. Public Health
Article 4C. Emergency Medical Services Act

§16-4C-1. Short Title - This article shall be known as the "Emergency Medical Services...

§16-4C-2. Purposes of Article - The Legislature finds and declares: (1) That the safe and...

§16-4C-3. Definitions - As used in this article, unless the context clearly requires...

§16-4C-4. Office of Emergency Medical Services Created; Requiring Appointment of a Director of the Office of Emergency Medical Services; Staffing - (a) There is hereby created within state government under the...

§16-4C-5. Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council; Duties; Composition; Appointment; Meetings; Compensation and Expenses - (a) The Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council, created and established...

§16-4C-6. Powers and Duties of Commissioner - The commissioner has the following powers and duties: (a) To...

§16-4C-6a. Emergency Medical Services Agency Licensure - (a) Any person who proposes to establish or maintain an...

§16-4C-6b. Establishment of Emergency Medical Services Agency Licensure Fund; Authorized Expenditures; Annual Report - (a) There is established in the state Treasury a special...

§16-4C-7. Vehicles, Aircraft and Persons Aboard Them Exempted From Requirements of Article - The following vehicles and aircraft are exempted from the provisions...

§16-4C-8. Standards for Emergency Medical Services Personnel - (a) Every ambulance operated by an emergency medical services agency...

§16-4C-8a. Courtesy Certification of Emergency Medical Services Personnel in Surrounding States - (a) It is the intention of the Legislature to permit...

§16-4C-9. Complaints; Investigations; Due Process Procedure; Grounds for Disciplinary Action - (a) The commissioner may at any time upon his or...

§16-4C-10. Procedures for Hearing; Right of Appeal; Judicial Review - (a) Hearings are governed by the provisions of article five,...

§16-4C-11. Liability for Cost of Emergency Medical Service - Any patient who receives an emergency medical service and who...

§16-4C-12. Violations; Criminal Penalties - (a) When, as a result of an investigation under this...

§16-4C-13. Actions to Enjoin Violations; Injunctive Relief - Whenever it appears to the commissioner that any person has...

§16-4C-14. Services That May Be Performed by Emergency Medical Service Personnel - Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 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 - (a) In the event of a communications failure between the...

§16-4C-16. Limitation of Liability; Mandatory Errors and Omissions Insurance - (a) Every person, corporation, ambulance service, emergency medical service provider,...

§16-4C-17. Limitation of Liability for Failure to Obtain Consent - No emergency medical service personnel may be subject to civil...

§16-4C-18. Authority of Emergency Medical Service Personnel in Charge of Emergency Medical Services - When any department, agency or entity which provides emergency medical...

§16-4C-19. Obstructing or Causing Bodily Injury to Emergency Medical Service Personnel; Criminal Penalties - (a) It is unlawful for any person to intentionally obstruct...

§16-4C-20. Service Reciprocity Agreements for Mutual Aid - Any persons or entities providing lawful emergency medical services under...

§16-4C-21. Restriction for Provision of Emergency Medical Services by Out-of-State Emergency Medical Service Personnel or Providers of Emergency Medical Services - The commissioner may issue an order on his or her...

§16-4C-22. Transportation of Unconscious or Otherwise Uncommunicative Patients - (a) Emergency medical service personnel shall transport critically ill or...

§16-4C-23. Authority of the Commissioner to Make Rules - (a) The commissioner shall propose for promulgation, legislative rules pursuant...

§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 - (a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury a...