“Emergency” means a condition or situation in which an individual has a need for immediate medical attention, or where the potential for such need is perceived by emergency medical personnel or a public safety agency.
Cal. Health & Safety Code § 1797.70
Definitions
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 160 Cal. App. 4th 388 - Canister v. Emergency Ambulance Service, Inc. (2008)
Most recently applied in Fuchino v. Edwards-Buckley (June 2011)
Added by Stats. 1980, Ch. 1260.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.