(A) No person either as owner, agent or otherwise, shall furnish, operate, conduct, maintain, advertise or otherwise be engaged in or profess to be engaged in the business or service of emergency and/or non-emergency transportation of patients within the Counties of Pasquotank or Camden unless the person holds a valid permit for each ambulance used in the business or service issued by the State Department of Human Resources, Office of Emergency Medical Services, and has been granted a franchise for the operation of the business or service by the Pasquotank-Camden Ambulance Board and the respective Boards of County Commissioners of Pasquotank and Camden Counties pursuant to this chapter.
(B) No person shall drive an ambulance, attend a patient in one, or permit one to be operated when transporting a patient within the County of Pasquotank or Camden unless he or she holds a currently valid certificate as an ambulance attendant, emergency medical technician, EMT-intermediate or EMT- paramedic issued by the State Department of Human Resources, Office of Emergency Medical Services.
(C) No franchise shall be required for:
(1) Any entity rendering assistance to a franchised ambulance service in the case of a major catastrophe, mutual aid or emergency with which the services franchised by the County Ambulance Service are insufficient or unable to cope;
(2) Any entity operated from a location or headquarters outside of the Counties of Pasquotank or Camden in order to transport patients who are picked up beyond the limits of the Counties of Pasquotank or Camden, to facilities located within the Counties of Pasquotank or Camden, or to pick up patients within the Counties of Pasquotank or Camden for transporting to locations outside the Counties of Pasquotank or Camden; or
(3) Ambulances owned and operated by an agency of the United States Government and the Pasquotank-Camden Ambulance Service.
(Ord. passed 2-18-85)