Section 223-B. EMS training and mutual aid programs

1. In order to develop
  and maintain programs  for  EMS  training,  EMS-related  activities  and
  mutual  aid  emergencies in which the services of EMS providers would be
  used and to cooperate with appropriate state agencies in furthering such
  programs, any county may create a county  EMS  advisory  board  and  may
  establish the office of county EMS coordinator.
    2. A county EMS advisory board shall consist of not less than five nor
  more  than  twenty-one  members,  each of whom shall be appointed by the
  legislative body for a term of not to exceed  one  year,  two  years  or
  three years.  Such terms of office need not be the same for all members.
  It  shall  be the duty of such board to cooperate with appropriate state
  agencies in relation to such  programs  for  EMS  training,  EMS-related
  activities  and  mutual  aid;  to  act as an advisory body to the county
  government and to the county EMS coordinator, if any, in connection with
  the county participation in such programs for EMS training,  EMS-related
  activities   and  mutual  aid  and  mutual  aid  programs  in  cases  of
  emergencies in which the services of EMS providers  would  be  used;  to
  perform  such  other  duties  as  may  be  prescribed in relation to EMS
  training, EMS-related activities and mutual aid in cases of  emergencies
  in  which  the  services  of EMS providers would be used. The members of
  such  board  shall  be  county  officers,  and   shall   serve   without
  compensation.
    3. If the office of county EMS coordinator is created in any county, a
  county  EMS  coordinator shall be appointed. It shall be his or her duty
  to administer the county programs for EMS training  and  mutual  aid  in
  cases  of  emergencies  in  which the services of EMS providers would be
  used; to act as a liaison officer between the county government and  the
  county  EMS  advisory  board and the EMS providers in the county and the
  officers and governing boards or bodies thereof;  and  to  perform  such
  other duties as prescribed. The county EMS coordinator shall be a county
  officer  and  the  amount  of  his or her compensation, if any, shall be
  fixed by the county.
    4. A member of the legislative body, the county EMS coordinator, or  a
  deputy  county  EMS  coordinator,  may  be  appointed as a member of the
  county EMS advisory board, but shall receive no additional  compensation
  for services performed as a member of such advisory board.