(a) A motorcycle equipped to handle medical emergencies shall be deemed a rescue vehicle. The commissioner shall issue a safety certificate to such motorcycle upon examination of such vehicle and a determination that such motorcycle (1) is in satisfactory mechanical condition, (2) is as safe to operate as the average motorcycle, and (3) is equipped with such emergency medical equipment as may be required by subsection (b) of this section.
(b) The commissioner shall annually issue a list specifying the minimum equipment that a motorcycle must carry to operate as a rescue vehicle pursuant to this section. Such equipment shall include those items that would enable an emergency medical technician, paramedic or other individual similarly trained to render to a person requiring emergency medical assistance the maximum benefit possible from the operation of such motorcycle rescue vehicle.
(P.A. 78-156, S. 1; P.A. 98-195, S. 12; P.A. 09-232, S. 35; P.A. 14-231, S. 47.)
History: Sec. 19-73pp transferred to Sec. 19a-194 in 1983; P.A. 98-195 transferred authority over motorcycle rescue vehicles from the director of the Office of Emergency Medical Services to the Commissioner of Public Health, and made regulations discretionary rather than mandatory; P.A. 09-232 amended Subsec. (b) by replacing provision re regulations concerning equipment motorcycles must carry to operate as rescue vehicles with provision requiring commissioner to issue annual list concerning minimum equipment requirements for such motorcycles, effective January 1, 2010; P.A. 14-231 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting reference to Sec. 19a-181.