500. GENERAL PROVISIONS

500 GENERAL PROVISIONS 500.1 The purpose of this chapter shall be to ensure high quality pre-hospital care for children and adults in the District of Columbia. 500.2 The provisions of this chapter shall apply to every one of the following: (a) Persons performing the duties of emergency services personnel, compensated or uncompensated, within the District of Columbia; (b) Entities providing emergency medical services within the District of Columbia, public or private, for-profit or not-for-profit, including owners or operators of emergency medical services agencies and owners or operators of emergency medical response vehicles; and (c) Persons and entities providing emergency medical services training and instruction, public or private, for-profit or not-for-profit, within the District of Columbia. 500.3 The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to the following: (a) The unexpected rendering of immediate care by a private citizen, or the unexpected use of a privately owned vehicle which is not ordinarily used in the business of transporting persons who are sick, injured, wounded, or otherwise incapacitated or helpless, in the performance of a lifesaving act; (b) Agencies, vehicles, or training facilities owned or operated by the United States government and operating on federal property; (c) Agencies operating within the District of Columbia pursuant to mutual aid agreements; (d) Validly licensed or certified emergency medical response vehicles based outside the District which do not otherwise constitute public vehicles for hire; and (e) Validly licensed vehicles operated solely for the transportation of non-emergency patients to and from treatment facilities as outpatients; provided, that this exemption shall not apply to any vehicle which is in any way held out as an emergency medical response vehicle. SOURCE: Regulation No. 72-29, published at 19 DCR 450 (December 26, 1972); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 60 DCR 16569 (December 6, 2013).