Any person desiring certification as an emergency medical technician shall apply to the Mississippi State Board of Health using forms prescribed by the board. Each application for an emergency medical technician certificate shall be accompanied by a certificate fee to be fixed by the board, which shall be paid to the board. Upon the successful completion of the board's approved emergency medical technician training program, the board shall make a determination of the applicant's qualifications as an emergency medical technician as set forth in the regulations promulgated by the board, and shall issue an emergency medical technician certificate to the applicant.
SOURCES: Laws, 1974, ch. 507, § 8(3), 1979, ch. 445, § 4, 1982, ch. 345, § 4, eff from and after July 1, 1991. 

The Mississippi State Board of Health is authorized to promulgate and enforce rules and regulations to provide for the best and most effective emergency medical care, and to comply with national standards for advanced life support. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, advanced life support personnel may be authorized to provide advanced life support services as defined by rules and regulations promulgated by the state board of health.

Rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to this authority shall, as a minimum:
(1) Define and authorize appropriate functions and training programs for advanced life support trainees and personnel (i.e., EMT-I, EMT-P or others); provided, that all such training programs shall meet or exceed the performance requirements of the training program for the emergency medical technician-paramedic, developed for the United States Department of Transportation under Contract No. DOT-HS-5-01207(April 1976).
(2) Specify minimum operational requirements which will assure medical control over all advanced life support services.
(3) Specify minimum testing and certification requirements and provide for continuing education and periodic re-certification for all advanced life support personnel.
SOURCES: Laws, 1979, ch. 488, § 2, eff from and after July 1, 1979.