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We have been waiting on this and it finally came. This is not significant to many of you..but those of you that have been coming to Baldilocks from the beginning will understand...Crossett was WRONG!!!!
Here is a ling to the Attorney General's opinion!
Also you can get the full story from Sanscript in this week Ledger!!
Here is a ling to the Attorney General's opinion!
Also you can get the full story from Sanscript in this week Ledger!!
posted by MRCLEAN at 4:58 PM
2 Comments:
Sorry but the link did not work here is the opinion: Do municipalities have the authority generally under the Municipal Ambulance Licensing Act to regulate emergency medical services providers for county hospitals located within the municipality? Q2) Pursuant to provisions of ACA 14-266-105(a)(5), are patient transports between cities that are located in different counties authorized for local regulation by the "intercity" provision, or is local regulation prohibited by the "intercounty" exception regardless of where the transport originates? Does the requirement in the statute's exception that the transport originate "outside the regulating city" apply only to intercity transports, or to both intercity and intercounty transports? RESPONSE: Q1) Yes. Subsection 14-266-102(a)(2) of the Code expressly authorizes cities to regulate "any and all aspects attendant to providing emergency medical services and ambulance operations within the boundaries of their respective cities . . . ." Q2) With respect to the first part of your question, although the statute is somewhat confusing, I believe the "intercounty" exception set forth at A.C.A. 14-266-105(a)(5) bars local regulation of transports between cities lying in different counties regardless of where the transport originates. The statute authorizes a city to regulate (1) intracity ambulance transports originating within the city; (2) intercity transports originating within the city that do not leave the county; and, in all likelihood, (3) any intracounty transport originating in the city but not culminating in another city. However, the statute expressly bars local regulation of any intercounty transport, regardless of where it originates. With respect to the second part of this question, if an intercity transport originates outside a city and occurs to or from a medical facility within the city, the punctuation of the statute suggests that the transport cannot be subject to regulation by the city. Again, as noted above, the statute appears to proscribe any local regulation of intercounty patient transports, regardless of where the transport originates.
YE-AH YE-AH!!! ALRIGHT!!!!!!!
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