New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 18 - TRANSPORTATION AND HIGHWAYS
Chapter 3 - MOTOR CARRIER GENERAL PROVISIONS
Part 14 - AMBULANCE SERVICES
Section 18.3.14.8 - DUTY TO PROVIDE SERVICE
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 6, March 26, 2024
A. It shall be unlawful for an ambulance service, or any of its personnel or agents, to refuse to provide service to a person in need of emergency medical treatment or transportation, or to require advance payment prior to rendering such service. An ambulance service and its personnel or agents may accept a refusal for treatment or transport from a patient who has been informed of the potential consequences of such a refusal.
B. When ambulance transport is requested or determined to be necessary, an ambulance service shall transport a patient requiring medical treatment to the closest appropriate facility capable of providing definitive care and treatment, as determined by the service's medical director through local EMS system protocol.
C. An ambulance service shall give priority to emergency response calls.
D. An ambulance service shall be available twenty four (24) hours a day, three hundred sixty five (365) days a year a year.
