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 Dec. 21, 2024).

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

Accessed:
Dec. 21, 2024

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

§ 122’s source at nysenate​.gov

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