(a) No person, either as 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 amublance operated by an agency of the United States shall not be required to be licensed hereunder.
(b) No ambulance shall be operated for ambulance purposes, and no individual shall drive, attend or permit it to be operated for such purposes on the streets, alleys or any public way or place of the City unless it is under the immediate supervision and direction of a person who is holding a currently valid license as an attendant-driver or attendant.
(c) Licenses shall not be required for an ambulance or for the driver, attendant or attendant-driver of an ambulance, which:
(1) Renders assistance to the licensed ambulances in the case of a major catastrophe or emergency with which the licensed ambulances of the City are insufficient or unable to cope; or
(2) Operates 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 or transport the same patients from the City to beyond the limits of the City or to other points within the limits of the City.
(Ord. 23, 1970.)