(a) The commissioner shall adopt regulations, in accordance with chapter 54, concerning (1) the methods and conditions for licensure and certification of the operations, facilities and equipment enumerated in section 19a-177, (2) complaint procedures for the public and any emergency medical service organization, and (3) exemption of members of the armed forces or the National Guard or veterans with appropriate military training, including, but not limited to, members of the armed forces or the National Guard or veterans with a designation by the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians and veterans or members of the United States Navy and Coast Guard, from training and testing requirements for emergency medical technician licensure and certification. Such regulations shall be in conformity with the policies and standards established by the commissioner. Such regulations shall require that, as an express condition of the purchase of any business holding a primary service area, the purchaser shall agree to abide by any performance standards to which the purchased business was obligated pursuant to its agreement with the municipality.

(b) For the purposes of this section, “veteran” means any person who was discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable from active service in the armed forces and “armed forces” has the same meaning as provided in section 27-103.

(P.A. 74-305, S. 7, 8, 19; P.A. 75-112, S. 6, 18; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 98-195, S. 7; P.A. 00-151, S. 4, 14; P.A. 01-1, S. 1, 3; P.A. 04-221, S. 38; P.A. 05-55, S. 1; 05-272, S. 4; P.A. 09-232, S. 30; P.A. 14-131, S. 13; 14-141, S. 3; 14-231, S. 19.)

History: P.A. 75-112 replaced commission on hospitals and health care with commissioner of health, qualified new regulations as ones “which repeal, amend or replace specific regulations” and transferred power to adopt regulations from director of office of emergency medical services to commissioner of health; P.A. 77-614 replaced commissioner of health with commissioner of health services, effective January 1, 1979; Sec. 19-73aa transferred to Sec. 19a-179 in 1983; P.A. 93-381 replaced commissioner of health services with commissioner of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 98-195 amended former Subsec. (a) to eliminate appointment of a director of Office of Emergency Medical Services and obsolete references to Ambulance Commission, deleted former Subsec. (b) re obsolete references to Ambulance Commission and deleted former Subsec. (c) re authority of director eliminated from Subsec. (a); P.A. 00-151 made technical changes and added provisions re condition of purchase of a business holding a primary service area, effective July 1, 2000; P.A. 01-1 added requirement for regulations re methods and conditions for the issuance, renewal and reinstatement of licensure and certification or recertification of emergency medical service personnel and made technical changes, effective February 7, 2001; P.A. 04-221 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and added Subsec. (b) re issuance of certificate to applicants from New England states, New York or New Jersey, effective June 8, 2004; P.A. 05-55 added Subsecs. (c) to (e), inclusive, re temporary emergency medical technician certificate, renewal of lapsed paramedic license, recertification as emergency medical technician and definition of “medical control” and “sponsor hospital”; P.A. 05-272 amended Subsec. (b)(2) by replacing “paramedic curriculum” with “emergency medical technician curriculum”; P.A. 09-232 amended Subsecs. (d)(1) and (e) by substituting “medical oversight” for “medical control”, effective January 1, 2010; P.A. 14-131 amended Subsec. (a) by adding provision re regulations exempting certain members of the armed forces or the National Guard and veterans from emergency medical technician training and testing requirements, added Subsec. (f) re issuance of emergency medical technician certification to certain members of the armed forces or the National Guard and veterans, and added Subsec. (g) defining “veteran” and “armed forces”; P.A. 14-141 deleted former Subsec. (f) re issuance of emergency medical technician certification to certain members of the armed forces or the National Guard and veterans, and redesignated existing Subsec. (g) as Subsec. (f); P.A. 14-231 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting former Subdiv. (1) re methods and conditions for issuance, renewal and reinstatement of licensure and certification or recertification and by making conforming changes, and deleted former Subsecs. (b) to (e).