The department of health and human services shall adopt rules prescribing minimum training, testing, certification, licensure, and quality review standards for emergency medical services personnel, including community emergency medical services personnel, instructors, and training institutions. Rules adopted must include a definition of minimum applicable standards, a definition of emergency medical services personnel, provide for a mechanism for certifying or licensing persons who have met the required standards, provide a mechanism to review and improve the quality of care rendered by emergency medical services personnel, and define minimum standards for emergency medical services training institutions. Licensing as an emergency medical services training institution is optional. It is a class B misdemeanor for an individual to willfully misrepresent that individual's certification or licensing status as emergency medical services personnel. Quality review and improvement information, data, records, and proceedings are not subject to subpoena or discovery or introduction into evidence in any civil action.
N.D.C.C. § 23-27-04.3