N.Y. Public Health Law 3000-F – Automated external defibrillator; camps and youth sports programs
§ 3000-f. Automated external defibrillator; camps and youth sports programs. 1. Definitions. As used in this section, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following terms have the following meanings:
Terms Used In N.Y. Public Health Law 3000-F
- Operator: means any person who by reason of a direct or indirect ownership interest (whether of record or beneficial) has the ability, acting either alone or in concert with others with ownership interests, to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of an ambulance service or advanced life support first response service. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3001
(a) "Automated external defibrillator" means a medical device, approved by the United States food and drug administration, that: (i) is capable of recognizing the presence or absence in a patient of ventricular fibrillation and rapid ventricular tachycardia; (ii) is capable of determining, without intervention by an operator, whether defibrillation should be performed on a patient; (iii) upon determining that defibrillation should be performed, automatically charges and requests delivery of an electrical impulse to a patient's heart; and (iv) then, upon action by an operator, delivers an appropriate electrical impulse to a patient's heart to perform defibrillation.
(b) "Training course" means a course approved by a nationally-recognized organization or the state emergency medical services council in the operation of automated external defibrillators.
(c) "Nationally-recognized organization" means a national organization approved by the department for the purpose of training people in use of an automated external defibrillator.
(d) "Camp" means a children's overnight camp, summer day camp, or traveling summer day camp, as such terms are defined in section thirteen hundred ninety-two of this chapter, that is subject to regulation by the department.
(e) "Youth sports program" means any league or recreation program organized to provide group athletic activity to individuals under seventeen years old or programs providing athletic activity for high school students regardless of the age of the participants of such programs. Public school athletic programs subject to the requirements of § 917 of the education law shall not be subject to the requirements of this section.
2. Within one hundred eighty days of the effective date of this section, each camp, and each youth sports program that either hosts or participates in games, matches, tournaments, leagues, or similar activities in which at least five teams are participating, shall establish an automated external defibrillator implementation plan describing how the camp or program will:
(a) make available an automated external defibrillator or describe reasonable access to an automated external defibrillator at every camp, game and practice; and
(b) use best efforts to ensure that there is at least one employee, volunteer, coach, umpire or other qualified adult who is present at each such camp, game and practice who has successfully completed a training course within the preceding twenty-four months of each such camp session, game and practice.
(c) Each camp and youth sports program shall maintain records that such camp or youth sports program possesses at least one automated external defibrillator.
(d) Implementation plans shall include an equipment checklist and cardiac emergency protocol for when cardiac emergency incidents occur.
(e) Implementation plans can include automated external defibrillator access provided by athletic facilities, playing fields or site for games or practices where the operator of the facility provides automated external defibrillator access at their location.
3. Implementation of automated external defibrillator plans shall be done in accordance with the requirements and protections of section 3000-b of this article.