(a) A licensed Tennessee ambulance service with full-time employed emergency medical services personnel who successfully complete in each year an in-service training course, appropriate to the emergency medical services personnel’s rank and responsibility, of at least forty (40) hours duration at a training center must receive from the board of emergency medical services a pay supplement of eight hundred dollars ($800) for each emergency medical services personnel who completes the in-service training course to be paid to the emergency medical services personnel in addition to the emergency medical services personnel’s regular salary.
lawyer at desk

Ask a legal question, get an answer ASAP!
Click here to chat with a lawyer about your rights.

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 68-140-335

  • Ambulance: means any privately or publicly owned land or air vehicle that is especially designed, constructed or modified and equipped and is intended to be used for and is maintained or operated for transportation upon the streets, highways or airways in this state for persons who are sick, injured, wounded, otherwise incapacitated, helpless, or in need of medical care. See Tennessee Code 68-140-302
  • Board: means the Tennessee emergency medical services board. See Tennessee Code 68-140-302
  • Emergency medical services personnel: means individuals certified or licensed by the emergency medical services board in accordance with various categories and classifications of licenses or certificates that the board establishes. See Tennessee Code 68-140-302
  • Service: means the provision of organized response by ambulances or emergency response vehicles, or the provision of emergency care on an organized basis. See Tennessee Code 68-140-302
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b) Full-time, ambulance service-employed emergency medical services personnel are eligible for the educational incentive described in subsection (a) upon satisfactory completion, as determined by the board, of forty (40) hours of such training in each year.
(c) Notwithstanding another law to the contrary, emergency medical services personnel who served, or serve, on active duty in the armed forces of the United States during a period of armed conflict prescribed by presidential proclamation or federal law must receive the cash salary supplement provided pursuant to this section, if such service prevented, or prevents, such emergency medical services personnel from attending the in-service training program pursuant to this section.
  Previous section
Next section  
 Part 3 Contents