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B.__Establish minimum education and continuing education | requirements for emergency medical dispatchers, including at | least 12 hours of emergency medical dispatch continuing | education each year; |
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| C.__Establish a process for approving an Emergency Medical | Dispatch Priority Reference System that all emergency | medical dispatchers are required to follow; |
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| D.__Require an emergency medical dispatcher to inform the | board of the public safety answering point that employs or | supervises the emergency medical dispatcher; |
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| E.__Establish or provide for approval of emergency medical | dispatcher certification training programs, which must be | conducted in accordance with appropriate national standards; |
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| F.__Establish qualifications for instructors of emergency | medical dispatcher certification training programs; |
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| G.__Require regular reporting to the board by a public | safety answering point with respect to the use of the | Emergency Medical Dispatch Priority Reference System; and |
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| H.__Require that each public safety answering point appoint | a director of emergency medical dispatch services to review | and ensure compliance with the requirements of this section. |
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| Rules adopted pursuant to this subsection are routine technical | rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A. |
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| | 3.__Prohibitions.__Beginning January 1, 2007, the following | provisions apply. |
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| A.__A person may not provide emergency medical dispatch | services unless the person is certified as an emergency | medical dispatcher in accordance with this section. |
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| B.__An entity may not operate as a public safety answering | point unless certified in accordance with this section. |
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| C.__A person may not offer a training course that is | represented as a course for emergency medical dispatcher | certification unless the person is approved to provide such | training in accordance with this section. |
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| D.__An entity may not provide emergency medical dispatch services | except in accordance with an Emergency Medical |
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