Terms Used In Ohio Code > Chapter 4766 - State Board of Emergency Medical, Fire, and Transportation Services

• Advanced life support: means treatment that an emergency medical technician-paramedic is authorized to perform under section 4765. See Ohio Code 4766.01
• Air medical service organization: means an organization that furnishes, conducts, maintains, advertises, promotes, or otherwise engages in providing medical services with a rotorcraft air ambulance or fixed wing air ambulance. See Ohio Code 4766.01
• Air medical transportation: means the transporting of a patient by rotorcraft air ambulance or fixed wing air ambulance with appropriately licensed and certified medical personnel. See Ohio Code 4766.01
• Ambulance: means any motor vehicle that is specifically designed, constructed, or modified and equipped and is intended to be used to provide basic life support, intermediate life support, advanced life support, or mobile intensive care unit services and transportation upon the streets or highways of this state of persons who are seriously ill, injured, wounded, or otherwise incapacitated or helpless. See Ohio Code 4766.01
• Ambulette: means a motor vehicle that is specifically designed, constructed, or modified and equipped and is intended to be used for transportation upon the streets or highways of this state of persons who require use of a wheelchair or other mobility aid. See Ohio Code 4766.01
• Another: when used to designate the owner of property which is the subject of an offense, includes not only natural persons but also every other owner of property. See Ohio Code 1.02
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Basic life support: means treatment that an emergency medical technician-basic is authorized to perform under section 4765. See Ohio Code 4766.01
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Disaster situation: means any condition or situation described by rule of the state board of emergency medical, fire, and transportation services as a mass casualty, major emergency, natural disaster, or national emergency. See Ohio Code 4766.01
• Emergency medical service organization: means an organization that uses emergency medical technicians-basic, emergency medical technicians-intermediate, or emergency medical technicians-paramedic, or a combination of EMTs-basic, EMTs-I, and paramedics, to provide medical care to victims of illness or injury. See Ohio Code 4766.01
• 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.
• Fixed wing air ambulance: means a fixed wing aircraft that is specifically designed, constructed, or modified and equipped and is intended to be used as a means of air medical transportation. See Ohio Code 4766.01
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Intermediate life support: means treatment that an emergency medical technician-intermediate is authorized to perform under section 4765. See Ohio Code 4766.01
• 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.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Major emergency: means any emergency event that cannot be resolved through the use of locally available emergency resources. See Ohio Code 4766.01
• Mass casualty: means an emergency event that results in ten or more persons being injured, incapacitated, made ill, or killed. See Ohio Code 4766.01
• Medical emergency: means an unforeseen event affecting an individual in such a manner that a need for immediate care is created. See Ohio Code 4766.01
• Mobile intensive care unit: means an ambulance used only for maintaining specialized or intensive care treatment and used primarily for interhospital transports of patients whose conditions require care beyond the services a paramedic is authorized to perform under section 4765. See Ohio Code 4766.01
• Nonemergency medical service organization: means a person that does both of the following:

  (a) Provides services to the public on a regular basis for the purpose of transporting individuals who require the use of a wheelchair or other mobility aid to receive health care services in nonemergency circumstances;

  (b) Provides the services for a fee, regardless of whether the fee is paid by the person being transported, a third party payer, as defined in section 3702. See Ohio Code 4766.01

• Nontransport vehicle: means a motor vehicle operated by a licensed emergency medical service organization not as an ambulance, but as a vehicle for providing services in conjunction with the ambulances operated by the organization or other emergency medical service organizations. See Ohio Code 4766.01
• Patient: means any individual who as a result of illness or injury needs medical attention, whose physical or mental condition is such that there is imminent danger of loss of life or significant health impairment, or who may be otherwise incapacitated or helpless as a result of a physical or mental condition, or any individual whose physical condition requires the use of a wheelchair or other mobility aid. See Ohio Code 4766.01
• Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Property: means real and personal property. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Rotorcraft air ambulance: means a helicopter or other aircraft capable of vertical takeoffs, vertical landings, and hovering that is specifically designed, constructed, or modified and equipped and is intended to be used as a means of air medical transportation. See Ohio Code 4766.01
• Rule: includes regulation. See Ohio Code 1.59
• state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Taxicab: means a taxicab vehicle operated by a taxicab service company, provided the company is not a nonemergency medical service organization. See Ohio Code 4766.01
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• United States: includes all the states. See Ohio Code 1.59