Each county shall ensure that emergency medical services are provided to its citizens. Nothing in this Article affects the power of local governments to finance ambulance operations or to support rescue squads. Nothing in this Article shall be construed to allow infringement on the private practice of medicine or the lawful operation of health care facilities.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143-517
Ambulance support; free enterprise
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Fraley v. Griffin (2011)
Most recently applied in 254 N.C. App. 32 - Fuller v. Wake Cty. (June 2017)
1973, c. 208, s. 11; 2001-220, s. 1.
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