N.Y. Public Health Law Section 3000
Declaration of policy and statement of purpose

The furnishing of medical assistance in an emergency is a matter of vital concern affecting the public health, safety and welfare. Prehospital emergency medical care, the provision of prompt and effective communication among ambulances and hospitals and safe and effective care and transportation of the sick and injured are essential public health services. It is the purpose of this article to promote the public health, safety and welfare by providing for certification of all advanced life support first response services and ambulance services; the creation of regional emergency medical services councils; and a New York state emergency medical services council to develop minimum training standards for certified first responders, emergency medical technicians and advanced emergency medical technicians and minimum equipment and communication standards for advanced life support first response services and ambulance services.

Source: Section 3000 — Declaration of policy and statement of purpose, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/PBH/3000 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Nov. 15, 2025).

3000
Declaration of policy and statement of purpose 3000–A
Emergency medical treatment 3000–B
Automated external defibrillators: Public access providers 3000–C
Epinephrine devices 3000–D
Availability of resuscitation equipment in certain public places 3000–E
Rescue inhaler treatment devices 3000–F
Automated external defibrillator 3001
Definitions 3002
New York state emergency medical services council 3002–A
State emergency medical advisory committee 3003
Regional emergency medical services councils 3003–A
EMS program agencies 3003–B
Availability of ambulance service and advanced life support first response service to store and distribute blood and initiate and adminis... 3004
Emergency medical services system and agency performance standards 3004–A
Regional emergency medical advisory committees 3005
Ambulance service certificates 3005–A
Staffing standards 3005–B
Emergency medical technician five year re-certification demonstration program 3006
Quality improvement program 3006–A
Patient privacy 3007
Notice of alternative destination 3008
Applications for determinations of public need 3009
Continuation of existing services 3010
Area of operation 3011
Powers and duties of the department and the commissioner 3012
Enforcement 3013
Immunity from liability 3014
Construction 3015
Separability 3016
Continuance of rules and regulations 3017
Emergency medical service, Suffolk county 3018
Community-based paramedicine demonstration program 3020
Recruitment and retention 3030
Advanced life support services 3031
Advanced life support system 3032
State emergency medical services task force 3033
Rules and regulations 3034
Rules and regulations
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Verified:
Nov. 15, 2025

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

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