(a) A person commits an offense if he:
(1) intentionally follows any police car or fire apparatus that is traveling in response to an emergency call with red or white lights and siren or intentionally follows any ambulance to or near the scene of an emergency call;
(2) by word or gesture, solicits on a public street within the city the business of transporting a sick, injured, or deceased person for compensation;
(3) intentionally informs the fire alarm dispatcher, police dispatcher, or other fire or police official that an ambulance or more than one ambulance is needed at a location or address when the person knows that such a statement is false; or
(4) operates a private ambulance or uses any equipment in providing private ambulance service that fails to comply with all minimum safety and equipment standards required for a basic life support vehicle by the Emergency Medical Services Act (Chapter 773, Texas Health and Safety Code), as amended, or by any rule or regulation promulgated under that act.
(b) A licensee or permittee commits an offense if he:
(1) causes, induces, or seeks to induce, without good cause, a change of destination to or from a hospital or other place specified by the person requesting private ambulance service; or
(2) operates or permits the operation of a private ambulance on an emergency run or in response to an emergency call or with the use of red or white lights and sirens, without obtaining permission from the fire alarm dispatcher. (Ord. Nos. 21861; 32703)