To protect the public through verification of competency and ensure accountability for patient care-related activities all states license emergency medical services personnel, such as emergency medical technicians, advanced emergency medical technicians, and paramedics. This compact is intended to facilitate the day-to-day movement of emergency medical services personnel across state boundaries in the performance of their emergency medical services duties as assigned by an appropriate authority and authorize state emergency medical services offices to afford immediate legal recognition to emergency medical services personnel licensed in a member state. This compact recognizes states have a vested interest in protecting the public's health and safety through their licensing and regulation of emergency medical services personnel and state regulation shared among the member states will best protect public health and safety. This compact is designed to achieve the following purposes and objectives:
N.D.C.C. § 23-27.1-01