"Emergency" means a medical condition that manifests itself by acute symptoms of such severity, including severe pain, that the absence of immediate medical attention could reasonably be expected by a prudent lay person who possesses an average knowledge of health and medicine to:

1. (1) place an individual's health in serious jeopardy;
2. (2) result in serious impairment to the individual's bodily functions; or
3. (3) result in serious dysfunction of a bodily organ or part of the individual.

As added by P.L.95-2000, SEC.2. Amended by P.L.223-2001, SEC.12 and P.L.283-2001, SEC.32.