§ 32.1-111.1 Definitions.
§ 32.1-111.2 Exemptions from provisions of this article.
§ 32.1-111.3 Statewide Emergency Medical Services Plan; Trauma Triage Plan; Stroke Triage Plan.
§ 32.1-111.4 Regulations; emergency medical services personnel and vehicles; response times; enforcement provisions; civil penalties.
§ 32.1-111.4:1 State Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board; purpose; membership; duties; reimbursement of expenses; staff support.
§ 32.1-111.4:2 Regional emergency medical services councils.
§ 32.1-111.4:3 Provision of emergency medical services.
§ 32.1-111.4:4 Emergency medical services personnel and equipment may in emergencies go or be sent beyond territorial limits.
§ 32.1-111.4:5 Contracts of counties, cities, and towns to furnish emergency medical services; public liability insurance to cover claims arising out of mutual aid agreements.
§ 32.1-111.4:6 Establishment of an emergency medical services agency as a department of local government.
§ 32.1-111.4:7 Establishment of an emergency medical services agency as a nongovernmental entity; dissolution.
§ 32.1-111.4:8 Ordinances as to emergency medical services agencies.
§ 32.1-111.4:9 Emergency treatment of fire, police, and search and rescue dogs.
§ 32.1-111.5 Certification and recertification of emergency medical services providers; appeals process.
§ 32.1-111.5:1 Emergency medical services personnel mental health awareness training.
§ 32.1-111.5:2 Emergency medical services personnel Alzheimer’s disease and dementia training.
§ 32.1-111.6 Emergency medical services agency license; emergency medical services vehicle permits.
§ 32.1-111.6:1 Commissioner to issue certain emergency medical services licenses or permits.
§ 32.1-111.7 Inspections.
§ 32.1-111.8 Revocation and suspension of licenses and permits.
§ 32.1-111.9 Applications for variances or exemptions.
§ 32.1-111.9:1 Out-of-state emergency medical services providers.
§ 32.1-111.10 Repealed.
§ 32.1-111.12 Virginia Rescue Squads Assistance Fund; disbursements.
§ 32.1-111.12:01 Financial Assistance and Review Committee; appointment; terms; duties.
§ 32.1-111.13 Annual financial reports.
§ 32.1-111.14 Powers of governing bodies of counties, cities, and towns.
§ 32.1-111.14:1 Repealed.
§ 32.1-111.14:2 Establishment of emergency medical services zones or districts; tax levies.
§ 32.1-111.14:3 Exclusion of certain areas from emergency medical services zones or districts and exemption of such areas from certain levies.
§ 32.1-111.14:4 Advances by county or city to emergency medical services zone or district; reimbursement; validation of prior advances.
§ 32.1-111.14:5 Authority of emergency medical services agency incident commander when operating at an emergency incident; penalty for refusal to obey orders.
§ 32.1-111.14:6 Supervision and control of joint services of emergency medical services agencies.
§ 32.1-111.14:7 Penalty for disobeying emergency medical services agency chief or other officer in command.
§ 32.1-111.14:8 Purchase, maintenance, etc., of equipment; donated equipment.
§ 32.1-111.14:9 Entry of buildings and premises adjoining during a medical emergency.
§ 32.1-111.15 Statewide poison control system established.
§ 32.1-111.15:1 Department responsible for stroke care quality improvement; sharing of data and information.
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Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 32.1 > Chapter 4 > Article 2.1 - . Statewide Emergency Medical Services System and Services.

  • Adult: means a person 18 years of age or more. See Virginia Code 1-203
  • Advisory Board: means the State Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board. See Virginia Code 32.1-111.1
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • City: means an independent incorporated community which became a city as provided by law before noon on July 1, 1971, or which has within defined boundaries a population of 5,000 or more and which has become a city as provided by law. See Virginia Code 1-208
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Department: means the State Department of Health. See Virginia Code 32.1-3
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Emergency medical services vehicle: means any vehicle, vessel, or aircraft that holds a valid emergency medical services vehicle permit issued by the Office of Emergency Medical Services that is equipped, maintained, or operated to provide emergency medical care or transportation of patients who are sick, injured, wounded, or otherwise incapacitated or helpless. See Virginia Code 32.1-111.1
  • EMS: means health care, public health, and public safety services used in the medical response to the real or perceived need for immediate medical assessment, care, or transportation and preventive care or transportation in order to prevent loss of life or aggravation of physiological or psychological illness or injury. See Virginia Code 32.1-111.1
  • EMS agency: means any person engaged in the business, service, or regular activity, whether for profit or not, of rendering immediate medical care and providing transportation to persons who are sick, injured, wounded, or otherwise incapacitated or helpless and that holds a valid license as an emergency medical services agency issued by the Commissioner in accordance with § Virginia Code 32.1-111.1
  • EMS physician: means a physician who holds a current endorsement from the Office of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and may serve as an EMS agency operational medical director or training program physician course director. See Virginia Code 32.1-111.1
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. Source: OCC
  • Includes: means includes, but not limited to. See Virginia Code 1-218
  • inhabitants: means with reference to any county, city, town, political subdivision of the Commonwealth or any combination thereof, the natural persons in such county, city, town, political subdivision or combination as shown by the unadjusted United States decennial census last preceding the time at which any provision dependent upon population is being applied or the time as of which it is being construed. See Virginia Code 1-235
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Locality: means a county, city, or town as the context may require. See Virginia Code 1-221
  • Month: means a calendar month and "year" means a calendar year. See Virginia Code 1-223
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Office of Emergency Medical Services: means the Office of Emergency Medical Services of the Department. See Virginia Code 32.1-111.1
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, or association or any other legal entity. See Virginia Code 32.1-3
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Process: includes subpoenas, the summons and complaint in a civil action, and process in statutory actions. See Virginia Code 1-237
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes any of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands. See Virginia Code 1-245
  • State Board: means the State Board of Health. See Virginia Code 32.1-3
  • Town: means any existing town or an incorporated community within one or more counties which became a town before noon, July 1, 1971, as provided by law or which has within defined boundaries a population of 1,000 or more and which has become a town as provided by law. See Virginia Code 1-254
  • United States: includes the 50 states, the District of Columbia the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the United States Virgin Islands. See Virginia Code 1-255