DEFINITIONS
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 993 F. Supp. 1027 - Satsky v. United States (1998)
Most recently applied in McAllen Hospitals, L.P. v. State Farm County Mutual Insurance Co. (October 2012)
Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3562, ch. 576, Sec. 1, eff
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.
In this chapter:
(1) "Emergency medical services" has the meaning assigned by Section 773.003, Health and Safety Code.
(2) "Emergency medical services provider" has the meaning assigned by Section 773.003, Health and Safety Code.
(3) "Hospital" means a person or institution maintaining a facility that provides hospital services in this state.
(4) "Person" does not include a county, common, or independent school district.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.