Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 88-B – Medical Direction and Practices Board; powers and duties
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1. Powers and duties. The Medical Direction and Practices Board has the following powers and duties.
A. The Medical Direction and Practices Board shall create, adopt and maintain the Maine Emergency Medical Services protocols. [PL 2019, c. 617, Pt. C, §3 (NEW).]
B. The Medical Direction and Practices Board may use videoconferencing and other technologies to conduct its business but is not exempt from Title 1, chapter 13, subchapter 1. Members of the Medical Direction and Practices Board and its staff may participate in a meeting of the Medical Direction and Practices Board or its staff via videoconferencing, conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other, and participation in a meeting pursuant to this paragraph constitutes presence in person at such a meeting. [PL 2019, c. 617, Pt. C, §3 (NEW).]
C. For the duration of a state of emergency declared by the Governor in accordance with Title 37?B, section 742 due to the outbreak of COVID-19 and for 30 days following the termination of that state of emergency, the Medical Direction and Practices Board may, by majority vote, delegate its duties under this chapter to the statewide emergency medical services medical director and the statewide associate emergency medical services medical director. [PL 2019, c. 617, Pt. C, §3 (NEW).]
[PL 2019, c. 617, Pt. C, §3 (NEW).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 2019, c. 617, Pt. C, §3 (NEW).
Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 88-B
- Board: means the Emergency Medical Services' Board established pursuant to section 88. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83
- Director: means the Director of Maine Emergency Medical Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83
- Maine Emergency Medical Services: means the board, the emergency medical services director and staff within the Department of Public Safety responsible for carrying out the purposes of this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83
- Majority: when used in reference to age shall mean the age of 18 and over. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
- Medical Direction and Practices Board: means the board consisting of each regional medical director, an emergency physician representing the Maine Chapter of the American College of Emergency Medicine Physicians, an at-large member, a toxicologist or licensed pharmacist, a person licensed under section 85 to provide basic emergency medical treatment, a person licensed under section 85 to provide advanced emergency medical treatment, a pediatric physician, the statewide associate emergency medical services medical director and the statewide emergency medical services medical director. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83
- Statewide associate emergency medical services medical director: means a licensed physician appointed by the board pursuant to section 84, subsection 1, paragraph C. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 83