GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION

CHAPTER 300
HOUSE BILL 1163

AN ACT TO REQUIRE A MINIMUM OF ONE EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN AND ONE AMBULANCE ATTENDANT ON ALL PERMITTED AMBULANCES WHEN TRANSPORTING PATIENTS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 131E-158(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	Every ambulance when transporting a patient shall be occupied at a minimum by the following:
(1)	At least one emergency medical technician who shall be responsible for the medical aspects of the mission prior to arrival at the medical facility, assuming no other individual of higher certification or license is available; and
(2)	One ambulance attendant who is responsible for the operation of the vehicle and rendering assistance to the emergency medical technician.
An ambulance owned and operated by a licensed health care facility that is used solely to transport sick or infirm patients with known nonemergency medical conditions between facilities or between a residence and a facility for scheduled medical appointments is exempt from the requirements of this subsection."
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1989.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 12th day of June, 1989.