File #: Int 0539-2007    Version: * Name: Requiring 911 operators and fire and emergency service dispatchers to ask for the height and weight of prospective patients, when practicable.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice Services
On agenda: 3/14/2007
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring 911 operators and fire and emergency service dispatchers to ask for the height and weight of prospective patients, when practicable.
Sponsors: James Sanders, Jr., Kendall Stewart
Council Member Sponsors: 2
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2009*James Sanders, Jr. City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/14/2007*James Sanders, Jr. City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/14/2007*James Sanders, Jr. City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 539

By Council Members Sanders Jr. and Stewart

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring 911 operators and fire and emergency service dispatchers to ask for the height and weight of prospective patients, when practicable.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

                     Section 1. Legislative intent and findings.  The City Council finds that knowing a patients approximate height and weight will assist emergency service personnel in determining whether or not additional equipment or personnel are required to efficiently and effectively transport a patient to the hospital.

                     §2. Chapter 1 of title 14 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 14.152, to read as follows:

§14-521  911 emergency call patient information. a. When a 911 operator receives an emergency call that requires fire or emergency service personnel to be dispatched to aid a patient, the 911 operator shall ask the caller for the approximate height and weight of the patient, when practicable, and give that information to the fire or emergency service dispatcher. In the event the 911 operator transfers the emergency call to fire or emergency service dispatchers prior to obtaining the height and weight information of the patient, the fire or emergency service dispatcher shall ask the caller for the approximate height and weight of the patient, when practicable.

 

§3.  This local law shall take effect sixty days after its enactment.

 

LS # 2179

RCC

02/08/2007