(1) assisting persons certified to provide emergency medical services under this Chapter or in the case of a major catastrophe, disaster, or in which persons certified to provide emergency medical services are insufficient or unable to cope; or

(2) operating from a location or headquarters outside of Guam in order to provide emergency medical services to patients who are picked up outside Guam for transportation to locations within Guam.

(3) when and where government resources are inadequate to support the EMS geographic response time, the EMS Commission via the Chairman and three (3) appointed voting members will approve the use of private non-emergent transport vehicles and/or private transport vehicles or all available ambulances here as means of transportation to a Guam Fire Department E911 dispatched emergency call. All types of vehicles utilized for the transportation of the sick and injured must pass the current vehicle inspection requirements by the U.S. Department of Transportation, the Guam Office of EMS, and the Department of Revenue & Taxation Motor Vehicle Code and/or Regulations.

(b) The emergency medical services facilities, personnel, related equipment of any agency, private and non-emergent

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private transport services, or instrumentality of the United States shall be required to be certified to conform to the standards prescribed under this Chapter.

SOURCE: Gov’t Code Article 1, Chapter 6, Title XLVII, codified by the Compiler as Chapter 84 of Title 10, Guam Code Ann.. Amended by P.L. 31-146:2 (Nov. 17, 2011). Subsection (a) amended by P.L. 36-121:12 (Nov. 9,
2022).