Oklahoma § 19-1203 - District board of directors - Authorization to create

§ 19-1203. District board of directors - Authorization to create

districts – Emergency medical services plan.

A. When a district is totally within the municipal city limits

of a city, the board of directors of the district or their designee

may be the governing body of the city or town.

B. Public ambulance service districts may be organized under

the Ambulance Service Districts Act for the purpose of developing

and providing adequate ambulance services to meet the needs of

residents within the territory of the district. The board of county

commissioners of each county in this state shall have power and it

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 19. Counties and County Officers

shall be their duty, upon a proper petition being presented, to

incorporate and order the creation of such district in the manner

provided for in this act.

C. By April 1, 2011, each county of this state with a

population of five hundred thousand (500,000) people or less

according to the last Federal Decennial Census shall present to the

State Department of Health an emergency medical services plan. The

plan for each county shall be developed by the Emergency Response

Systems Development Advisory Council of the State Department of

Health and each county emergency services advisory board which shall

be comprised of the county commissioners of each county or their

designees. The plan shall:

1. Address funding issues;

2. Ensure countywide emergency medical services coverage; and

3. Address county boundaries to ensure 9-1-1 operators are able

to provide quick response.

Added by Laws 1974, c. 86, § 3, emerg. eff. April 19, 1974. Amended

by Laws 2010, c. 295, § 3, emerg. eff. June 6, 2010.