Senate Engrossed House Bill

 

ground ambulances; registration

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

First Regular Session

2025

 

 

 

CHAPTER 212

 

HOUSE BILL 2787

 

 

 

AN ACT

 

Amending section 36-2212, Arizona Revised Statutes; amending section 36-2212, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended by this act; relating to emergency medical services.

 

 

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 36-2212, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE36-2212. Certificate of registration to operate an ambulance; termination on change in ownership; fees; exemption

A. A person shall not operate an ambulance in this state unless the ambulance has a certificate of registration and complies with this article and the rules, standards and criteria adopted pursuant to this article.

B. A person may obtain a certificate of registration to operate an ambulance by submitting an application on a form prescribed by the director and by demonstrating to the director's satisfaction that the applicant is in compliance with this article and all rules, standards and criteria adopted by the director for the operation of an ambulance.

C. A certificate of registration issued under this section terminates upon on any change of ownership or control of the ambulance. Following any change of ownership, the new owner of an ambulance shall apply for and receive a new certificate of registration from the director before the ambulance may again be operated in this state. This subsection does not apply if an ambulance service borrows, leases, rents or otherwise obtains a registered ambulance from another ambulance service to temporarily replace an inoperable ambulance.

D. The department shall issue a certificate of registration to a person who that complies with the requirements of this article and who that pays an initial registration fee. A certificate of registration is valid for one year. However, but an ambulance service may request that the department issue an initial certificate of registration that expires before the end of one year in order for the department to conduct an annual inspection of all of the ambulance service's ambulances at one time. A person may renew a certificate of registration by complying with the requirements of this article and by paying a renewal fee prescribed by the director. The fee for initial registration and registration renewal shall not exceed fifty dollars $50 for each ambulance. The department shall base these fees on an amount that approximates the per vehicle costs incurred by the department to administer this chapter. The director shall deposit, pursuant to sections 35-146 and 35-147, fees collected under this subsection in the state general fund. The department shall not charge a registration fee for an ambulance to an ambulance service that operates an ambulance or ambulances only as a volunteer not-for-profit service.

E. Notwithstanding the period of time for which a certificate of registration is valid pursuant to subsection D of this section, if the certificate of registration holder timely submits a complete renewal application in compliance with this article and the rules adopted pursuant to this article and the department is unable to perform an inspection of an ambulance within the time frame prescribed by section 36-2232, subsection A, paragraph 13, the department may allow an ambulance's registration to remain valid and in effect until the department completes the required inspection. END_STATUTE

Sec. 2. Section 36-2212, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended by section 1 of this act, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE36-2212. Certificate of registration to operate an ambulance; termination on change in ownership; fees

A. A person shall not operate an ambulance in this state unless the ambulance has a certificate of registration and complies with this article and the rules, standards and criteria adopted pursuant to this article.

B. A person may obtain a certificate of registration to operate an ambulance by submitting an application on a form prescribed by the director and by demonstrating to the director's satisfaction that the applicant is in compliance with this article and all rules, standards and criteria adopted by the director for the operation of an ambulance.

C. A certificate of registration issued under this section terminates on any change of ownership or control of the ambulance. Following any change of ownership, the new owner of an ambulance shall apply for and receive a new certificate of registration from the director before the ambulance may again be operated in this state. This subsection does not apply if an ambulance service borrows, leases, rents or otherwise obtains a registered ambulance from another ambulance service to temporarily replace an inoperable ambulance.

D. The department shall issue a certificate of registration to a person that complies with the requirements of this article and that pays an initial registration fee. A certificate of registration is valid for one year, but an ambulance service may request that the department issue an initial certificate of registration that expires before the end of one year in order for the department to conduct an annual inspection of all of the ambulance service's ambulances at one time. A person may renew a certificate of registration by complying with the requirements of this article and by paying a renewal fee prescribed by the director. The fee for initial registration and registration renewal shall not exceed $50 for each ambulance. The department shall base these fees on an amount that approximates the per vehicle costs incurred by the department to administer this chapter. The director shall deposit, pursuant to sections 35-146 and 35-147, fees collected under this subsection in the state general fund. The department shall not charge a registration fee for an ambulance to an ambulance service that operates an ambulance or ambulances only as a volunteer not-for-profit service. END_STATUTE

Sec. 3. Ambulance registration renewal applications; corrective action; delayed repeal

A. For an active certificate of necessity holder that failed to submit registration renewal applications with the department of health services, whose certificates of registration lapsed between March 31, 2022 and August 1, 2024 and whose ambulances are now registered in accordance with section 36-2212, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended by section 1 of this act, the department of health services shall consider the expired registration of those ambulances as valid and in effect during the period the certificates of registration were expired if the certificate of necessity holder pays to the department all lapsed application fees that are owed for the time period in which the certificates of registration had lapsed and were not renewed.

B. This section is repealed from and after December 31, 2025.

Sec. 4. Effective date

Section 36-2212, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended by section 2 of this act, is effective from and after December 31, 2025.

 

 

 

APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR MAY 13, 2025.

 

FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE MAY 13, 2025.