Section 1-43-25 - Allocation of funding to improve emergency medical services. - South Dakota Statutes

1-43-25. Allocation of funding to improve emergency medical services. The funds appropriated to make grants to improve emergency medical services shall be allocated by the Department of Health as follows:
(1) Grants shall be made available to eligible emergency medical service systems to purchase or upgrade ambulances and emergency medical equipment, and to improve emergency communication systems;
(2) In making grants, the Department of Health shall consider emergency medical service systems which serve rural or remote areas, areas where basic emergency medical service is inadequate, or emergency medical service systems which need to purchase or update essential equipment and which do not necessarily duplicate other emergency medical services;
(3) A grant may not exceed one-half the cost to the emergency medical service system to purchase an ambulance or emergency medical equipment determined by the Department of Health to meet the needs of the area served by the emergency medical service;
(4) Any eligible emergency medical service system, or on its behalf, a county or municipality, may apply for funds appropriated to make grants to improve emergency medical services and pursuant to its provisions in accordance with procedures and on forms prescribed by the Department of Health.
To implement this section, the Department of Health shall promulgate rules pursuant to chapter 1-26.

Source: SL 1994, ch 25, § 2.