N.Y. General Municipal Law Section 122
Refusal to take persons to hospital prohibited

  • exception for cities with a population of one million or more

1.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision two of this section, in any city, county, town or village of this state wherein exists, or is hereafter created, an ambulance system, supported wholly or partly at public expense, or which is wholly or partly under the care, management or control of the public authorities, no person in charge of an ambulance, hospital, or house or place of reception for the sick or injured, shall refuse, in answer to a call or demand for an ambulance, if such call has been answered by the attendance of an ambulance, to take such person for whom a call may be made to the hospital or place of reception for the sick or injured from which the ambulance came, for examination and treatment by the house authorities of the said hospital or place of reception for the sick or injured.

(b)

Except as otherwise provided in subdivision two of this section, any person neglecting or refusing to comply with the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(c)

This subdivision shall apply to the drivers of and to the physician in charge of an ambulance.

2.

In cities with a population of one million or more, nothing contained in subdivision one of this section shall be construed to require the transportation of any person when:

(a)

an emergency medical technician, advanced emergency medical technician or paramedic, employed by or under the supervision of a public benefit corporation authorized by law to maintain an emergency medical service, called to transport such person, physically examines such person;

(b)

such emergency medical technician, advanced emergency medical technician or paramedic transmits the findings made during such examination to a physician in communication authorized to provide medical control by such city’s emergency medical service; and

(c)

such physician determines, based solely upon the medical condition of such person being considered for ambulance transportation, that such person either is not in need of emergency medical care or is neither sufficiently ill nor injured to necessitate transportation to a hospital by means of an ambulance.

Source: Section 122 — Refusal to take persons to hospital prohibited; exception for cities with a population of one million or more, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/GMU/122 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Jan. 18, 2025).

120
Contracts for purification of water and sewerage 120‑A
Contracts for sewerage disposal 120‑AA
Source separation and segregation of recyclable or reuseable materials 120‑B
Supervision of sewage system 120‑BB
Town of Huntington solid waste management resource recovery facility 120‑C
Obligations and privileges relating to sewerage contracts 120‑CC
Enforcement of unpaid solid waste collection and/or disposal fee 120‑D
Officers of meeting 120‑E
By whom proposed district represented 120‑F
Contract 120‑G
Apportionment of cost 120‑H
Further provisions as to apportionment of cost 120‑I
Means of payment 120‑K
Payments 120‑L
Letting of contracts 120‑M
Application of other laws to procedure 120‑N
Maps and plans of sewers 120‑O
Definitions 120‑P
Referendum in cities and villages 120‑Q
Rules and regulations 120‑R
Cancellation of sewerage contracts for neglect 120‑S
Joint meeting for acquisition and operation of property 120‑T
Town and village may establish a joint water district 120‑U
Mutual aid for water service 120‑V
Contracts for disposal of sewage outside the state 120‑W
Contracts and agreements for solid waste management, collection and disposal 120‑X
Agreements for joint acquisition, construction and operation of public docks 120‑Z
Sewer hook-ups by private contractors 121
Establishment and maintenance of free public baths 121‑A
Creation of village and town police department in certain towns and villages 121‑B
Care of children admitted to certain places of amusement in certain cities, villages and towns under a local law or ordinance 122
Refusal to take persons to hospital prohibited 122‑B
General ambulance services 122‑C
Transport of police work dogs injured in the line of duty 123
Erection and operation of life-saving apparatus 124
Inspection of building elevators in Nassau county 125
Issuance of building permits 125‑A
Posting signs on dead-end roads 126
Establishment of public general hospitals 126‑A
Joint hospitals for cities, towns or villages 126‑B
Public hospitals for chronically ill 126‑B*2
Establishment of Broome county nursing home 126‑C
Appointment to board of managers of county hospital 127
Appointment and terms of office of managers 128
General powers and duties of managers 128‑A
Petty cash fund 129
General powers and duties of superintendent 129‑A
Erie county 130
Admission and maintenance of patients 131
Training school for nurses 132
Room for detention and examination of persons who are suspected of being mentally ill 133
Visitation and inspection 134
Existing county, town, city or village public general hospitals 135
Application of preceding sections 135‑A
Workshops in connection with hospitals and facilities for the aged 135‑B
Departments of occupational therapy in connection with public general hospitals and tuberculosis hospitals or sanatoria 135‑C
Prenatal and maternity care 136
Regulation of automobile junk yards 139‑C
Sheltered workshops 139‑D
Storage and display of firearms, ammunition and explosives 139‑E
Posting of sanitary inspection grade
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Accessed:
Jan. 18, 2025

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

§ 122’s source at nysenate​.gov

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