(A) No person, either an 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 the transportation of patients upon the streets, alleys, or any public way or place of the city unless he holds a currently valid license for an ambulance, issued pursuant to this chapter. An ambulance operated by an agency of the United States shall not be required to be licensed hereunder.
(B) No such licenses shall be required for an ambulance, which:
(1) Is rendering assistance to licensed ambulances in the care of a major catastrophe or emergency with which the licensed ambulances of the city are insufficient or unable to cope; or
(2) Is operated from a location or headquarters outside of the city in order to transport patients who are picked up beyond the limits of the city to locations within the city but no such outside ambulance shall be used to pick up patients within the city for transportation to locations within the city unless the persons subject to the provisions of division (A) of this section in respect of such ambulance, hold currently valid licenses issued pursuant to this chapter.
('85 Code, § 26.08) Penalty, see § 110.99