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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 59th Legislature (2023)
SENATE BILL 718 By: Murdock
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to ambulance service districts;
designating licensed ambulance services as essential
service; requiring county governing body to ensure
availability of ambulance service; designating board
of directors as agency with authority for certain
purpose; requiring county to appropriate certain
revenues; deeming certain counties as in compliance
with certain requirement; prohibitin g certain
municipalities from providing ambulance service
without certain contract ; providing for codification;
and declaring an emergency .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA :
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1222 of Title 19, unless there
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. An Oklahoma licensed ambulance service is hereb y designated
as an essential service in this state.
B. Each county governing body in this state shall ensure that
at least one licensed ambulance service is available within the
county. If the county is a public ambulance service district
organized under the Ambulance Service Districts Act , the board of
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directors of the district is designated as the agency with authority
to ensure ambulance services.
C. A county shall appropriate county revenues for ambulance
service if the service cannot be provided by any other means.
Counties that are currently estab lished as a public ambulance
service district shall be deemed to have met this requirement.
D. A municipality may not provide , maintain, license,
franchise, or contrac t for ambulance service within the bo undaries
of a county that has established a public ambulance service
district, without a contract with the board of directors of the
district.
SECTION 2. It being immediately necessary for the preservation
of the public peace, health or sa fety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and
be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
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