No ambulance permit shall be issued:
(A) (1) Unless there is in full force and effect a policy or policies of public liability and property damage insurance, issued by a casualty insurance company authorized to do business in the State of Texas, and in the standard form approved by the Board of Insurance Commissioners of the State of Texas, with coverage provisions insuring the public from any loss or damage that may arise to any person or property by reason of the operation of the ambulance for which the permit is issued, and providing that the amount of recovery shall be in limits not less than the following sums:
(a) For damages arising out of bodily injury to or death of one person in any one accident, $100,000;
(b) For damages arising out of a bodily injury to or death of two or more persons in any one accident, $300,000;
(c) For any injury to or destruction of property in any one accident, $50,000; and
(2) The City Manager of the City of Canton has been furnished with a current insurance certificate certifying that such a policy as specified above is in full force and effect.
(3) The insurance policy shall also contain an endorsement that cancellation of the policy shall not become effective before ten-days’ written notice to the city of the termination or cancellation.
(B) If any delinquent taxes or other debt is owed to the city by the applicant;
(C) Unless the applicant has been issued a permit by the State Board of Health pursuant to Tex. Health and Safety Code, Title 9, Ch. 773; and/or
(D) If the applicant, an employer or any employee of the applicant, or any person residentially domiciled with the applicant, has had an ambulance permit revoked within one year preceding the date of application.
(Ord. 96-11, passed 10-15-1996)