Section 3017. Emergency medical service, Suffolk county

1. No ambulance
  service or advanced life support first response service shall respond to
  any call or request  for  emergency  medical  services  within  a  town,
  village  or  fire  district  in  Suffolk  county that currently provides
  ambulance service or  advanced  life  support  services  first  response
  service,  if  the  municipality  has  designated  one  or more ambulance
  services or advanced life support first response services to respond  to
  such calls unless:
    (a) the service is so designated;
    (b)  the  response is in accordance with a mutual aid plan approved by
  the appropriate regional emergency medical service council;
    (c) the response is to a verbal mutual aid request from  a  designated
  service;
    (d)  the  service was specifically requested to respond by the patient
  or someone acting on behalf of that patient; or
    (e)  the  response  site  is  a  hospital   licensed   under   article
  twenty-eight of this chapter for a transfer to another such facility.
    2.  Every  ambulance  service  or advanced life support first response
  service shall disclose as part of any solicitation or  advertisement  in
  Suffolk  county  that  there  is a fee for services rendered, if in fact
  there is a fee charged for the performance of such service.
    3. Every ambulance service or advanced  life  support  first  response
  service  that  operates  in Suffolk county and has vehicles which travel
  through communities with designated ambulance service or  advanced  life
  support  first  response service shall require its drivers and emergency
  medical technicians:
    (a) to immediately notify a central alarm or other  publicly  operated
  dispatch entity, or a person designated under section two hundred nine-b
  of the general municipal law to receive calls for emergency services for
  the  purpose  of  dispatching  emergency  medical  services  whenever an
  emergency is found in a public place;
    (b) to evaluate the need to transport any patient found in extremis to
  a hospital; and
    (c) to comply with appropriate instructions from the dispatch  entity.
  The  dispatch  entity,  when  appropriate,  may  instruct the service to
  transport any patient to an appropriate hospital.
    * NB Repealed January 1, 2011