32.1-111.2 - Exemptions from provisions of this article. - Virginia Statutes

§ 32.1-111.2. Exemptions from provisions of this article.

The following entities are exempted from the provisions of this article:

1. Emergency medical service agencies based outside the Commonwealth, exceptthat any such agency receiving a person who is sick, injured, wounded,incapacitated or helpless within the Commonwealth for transportation to alocation within the Commonwealth shall comply with the provisions of thisarticle;

2. Emergency medical service agencies operated by the United Statesgovernment; and

3. Wheelchair interfacility transport services and wheelchair interfacilitytransport service vehicles that are engaged, whether or not for profit, inthe business, service, or regular activity of and exclusively used fortransporting wheelchair bound passengers between medical facilities in theCommonwealth when no ancillary medical care or oversight is necessary.However, such services and vehicles shall comply with Department of MedicalAssistance Services regulations regarding the transportation of Medicaidrecipients to covered services.

(1996, c. 899; 2005, c. 778.)