68-140-515 - Criminal offenses and penalties.
68-140-515. Criminal offenses and penalties.
It is a Class C misdemeanor for any person to:
(1) Impersonate or fraudulently represent oneself as an emergency medical services provider, or interfere with a properly identified emergency care provider at the scene of an emergency, or to knowingly interfere with the performance of a duly authorized and identified representative of the department engaged in regulatory activities;
(2) Knowingly and willfully summon an ambulance or report that emergency medical service is needed when such person knows that such service is not needed; or
(3) Knowingly or willfully violate or fail to comply with the provisions of this part.
[Acts 1983, ch. 440, § 17; 1989, ch. 591, § 113; T.C.A., § 68-39-515; Acts 1992, ch. 796, § 7.]