HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution 1978 (66)WHEREAS, Wisconsin Statute Section 146.50 and Wisconsin
ma _ od • s, 'de n in part,a
consin ambulance service providers and ambulance attendants
must be licensed by the Department of!Health and Socia1 Services,
and
'WHEREAS, on January 1, 1979, all rules administering Section
146®® shall be in effect, and
WHEREAS, said rules,in part, provide that each ambulance
be staffed by a minimum of two licensed ambulance attendants,
and
WHEREAS, prior to taking theexamination for the ambulance
attendant license, each applicant must take an 81 hour coarse
of instruction for the same, to be completed in no more than
a six month period, and
WHEREAS, other very strict and unreasonable mules exist
regarding such matters as: ambulance and equipment standards,
communications, and 24 hoer service requirement, and
WHEREAS, seller ambulance service providers, using volunteer
or paid -on -call ambulance attendants, are being discriminated
against since many such providers and attendants are finding
it highly impracticable and impossible to comply with said
statute and said rule,
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVEDe St. Croix County Board
of Supervisors.meeting in regular session, that this County
Board strongly` recommends to the Wisconsin. State Legislature,
the Governor° of the State of Wisconsin, and the Secretary of
the Department of Health and. Social Services that Wisconsin
Ste to Section 146.50 and Visconsin Administrative Code -Chapter
20 be either repealed and reenacted,, or amended in order to
provide necessary and appropriate.relief for smaller ambulance
services in St. Croix County art the State of Wisconsin.
Bated this °day of , 1978
PUBLIC PROTECTION COMMITTEE
Negative Affi eie
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