(A) No person shall operate or cause to be operated a vehicle for ambulance purposes or furnish, conduct, maintain, advertise or otherwise be engaged in the business or service of the transportation of ambulance patients as defined herein within the City of Canton unless that person is the Ambulance Service Contractor as defined herein. No person shall knowingly solicit ambulance services regulated herein except from the Ambulance Service Contractor.
(B) However, no prior city approval shall be required for nor shall this subchapter apply to any ambulance or ambulance service provider:
(1) Which is rendering assistance to patients in the case of a major catastrophe or emergency with which the contractor’s ambulances are insufficient or unable to cope;
(2) Transporting a patient who is picked up from a location beyond the City of Canton and transported to a location within the City of Canton;
(3) Transporting a patient who is picked up from a location beyond the City of Canton and transported to a location beyond the limits of the City of Canton and only incidentally passing through the City of Canton;
(4) Transporting a patient who is picked up from a location within the City of Canton and transported to a location beyond the City of Canton, providing the ambulance or ambulance service area initially transported the patient into the City of Canton and is making the return trip; or
(5) Which is providing stand-by special events coverage without receiving compensation.
(C) Violations of this section are hereby declared to be public nuisances and shall be prohibited and abated in actions at law or in equity.
(Ord. 96-11, passed 10-15-1996) Penalty, see § 32.99