(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.

Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 19a-196b

  • Ambulance: means a motor vehicle specifically designed to carry patients. See Connecticut General Statutes 19a-175
  • another: may extend and be applied to communities, companies, corporations, public or private, limited liability companies, societies and associations. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
  • Emergency medical service system: means a system which provides for (A) the arrangement of personnel, facilities and equipment for the efficient, effective and coordinated delivery of health care services under emergency conditions, and (B) mobile integrated health care. See Connecticut General Statutes 19a-175
  • Municipality: means the legislative body of a municipality or the board of selectmen in the case of a municipality in which the legislative body is a town meeting. See Connecticut General Statutes 19a-175

(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 § 19a-487.

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