Massachusetts General Law 111C - Emergency Medical Services system
section 25: staffing of class I II or V ambulance

Section 25. When a class I, II or V ambulance transports a patient receiving care at the paramedic level of advanced life support the ambulance shall be staffed in accordance with regulations promulgated by the department, with a minimum of 2 emergency medical technicians, only 1 of whom shall be certified at the EMT?Paramedic level; provided, however, that the service staffing a class I, II or V ambulance may staff the ambulance with more than 1 emergency medical technician certified at the EMT?Paramedic level.

section 1 of 111C, definitions has - ''Service'', an EMS first response service or an ambulance service.

posted by Jeff Bennett