a. Title. This section shall be known as the “Ambulance Ordinance of the Town of Danville.”
b. Purpose. The purposes of this section is to:
1. Enact formal policies and regulations for licensing and regulating the operation of ambulances;
2. Protect the public by assuring that ambulances operate safely; and
3. Assure that adequate ambulance services will be provided in all areas of the Town.
c. Exemptions.
1. This section shall not apply:
(a) To vehicles operated as ambulances and to persons engaged in the ambulance service where ambulance services are rendered at the request of the County Communications Center or at the request of any public protection agency during any state of “local emergency,” “local disaster,” or “local peril,” as defined in the Military and Veterans’ Code, in state of “disaster” or “extreme emergency,” as declared by the Governor;
(b) To vehicles operated as ambulances and to persons engaged in the ambulance service where ambulance services are rendered exclusively to patients who become in need of ambulance service while on or in the place of business of the person and where no charge is made for the ambulance services rendered, provided however that if the vehicle is going to travel Code 3 or its equivalent, the County Communications Center shall be so notified of this fact.
2. This section shall not prevent any peace officer, fireman, or physician licensed to practice medicine in this State, from arranging for the transportation of an individual in need of emergency medical care when no ambulance with a compliance card is available and such transportation is required immediately for the preservation of life.