TITLE 31 HEALTH

Section 11. Emergency Medical Services, 31-11-1 through 31-11-139.

ARTICLE 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS

31-11-9. Enforcement; inspections.

The department and its duly authorized agents are authorized to enforce compliance with this chapter and rules and regulations promulgated under this chapter as provided in Article 1 of Chapter 5 of this title and, in connection therewith during the reasonable business hours of the day, to enter upon and inspect in a reasonable manner the premises of persons providing ambulance service. All inspections under this Code section shall be in compliance with the provisions of Article 2 of Chapter 5 of this title. The department is also authorized to enforce compliance with this chapter, including but not limited to compliance with the EMSC Program and furnishing of emergency services within designated territories, by imposing fines in the same manner as provided in paragraph (6) of subsection (c) of Code Section 31-2-8; this enforcement action shall be a contested case under Chapter 13 of Title 50, the "Georgia Administrative Procedure Act."

(Code 1933, § 88-3110, enacted by Ga. L. 1972, p. 625, § 1; Ga. L. 1985, p. 149, § 31; Ga. L. 1997, p. 454, § 1; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 1-9/HB 228; Ga. L. 2011, p. 705, § 5-16/HB 214.)

The 2011 amendment, effective July 1, 2011, in the last sentence of this Code section, inserted "in the same manner" and substituted "Code Section 31-2-8; this enforcement" for "Code Section 31-2-11, which enforcement".