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D.C. Municipal Regulations (Last Updated: September 13, 2017) |
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Title 29. PUBLIC WELFARE |
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Chapter 29-5. EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES |
Section 29-500. GENERAL PROVISIONS
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500.1The purpose of this chapter shall be to ensure high quality pre-hospital care for children and adults in the District of Columbia.
500.2The provisions of this chapter shall apply to every one of the following:
(a)Persons performing the duties of emergency services personnel, compensated or uncompensated, within the District of Columbia;
(b)Entities providing emergency medical services within the District of Columbia, public or private, for-profit or not-for-profit, including owners or operators of emergency medical services agencies and owners or operators of emergency medical response vehicles; and
(c)Persons and entities providing emergency medical services training and instruction, public or private, for-profit or not-for-profit, within the District of Columbia.
500.3 The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to the following:
(a)The unexpected rendering of immediate care by a private citizen, or the unexpected use of a privately owned vehicle which is not ordinarily used in the business of transporting persons who are sick, injured, wounded, or otherwise incapacitated or helpless, in the performance of a lifesaving act;
(b)Agencies, vehicles, or training facilities owned or operated by the United States government and operating on federal property;
(c)Agencies operating within the District of Columbia pursuant to mutual aid agreements;
(d)Validly licensed or certified emergency medical response vehicles based outside the District which do not otherwise constitute public vehicles for hire; and
(e)Validly licensed vehicles operated solely for the transportation of non-emergency patients to and from treatment facilities as outpatients; provided, that this exemption shall not apply to any vehicle which is in any way held out as an emergency medical response vehicle.