North Dakota Century Code Title 23. Health and Safety § 23-27-01. License required--Licensing of emergency medical services operations--Exception--Waiver

1. The department of health and human services shall license emergency medical services operations and may designate their service areas. The department shall limit the issuance of a license for any new emergency medical services operation based on the needs of the service area. A license for an emergency medical services operation is transferable upon approval of the department.

2. Emergency medical services may not be advertised, offered, or provided to the public except by an emergency medical services operator that provides the emergency medical services through emergency medical services personnel.

3. An emergency medical services operation must be separately licensed for each of the designated service area of the operation. Under this subsection, an operation may position vehicles and emergency medical services personnel at more than one location within the designated service area of an emergency medical services operation.

4. Notwithstanding subsection 3, an operator of an emergency medical services operation may operate one or more substation ambulance services operations under a single license if:

5. The provisions of this chapter do not apply to an operator from another state which is headquartered at a location outside of this state and transports patients across state lines, but the operator may not treat patients within this state or pick up patients within this state for transportation to locations within this state, except as provided by rule.

6. The department of health and human services shall adopt rules for special licenses and waiver provisions for an operator of an emergency medical services operation intended for industrial sites not available to the general public.