(A) No person or organization, except a township which has not contracted with Three Rivers Ambulance Authority, shall operate an ambulance service rendering pre-hospital care or transportation to ambulance patients unless that person or organization has obtained and currently holds a provider license as determined in this section; and provided further, that the exemption to a township shall be limited to provision of services by a volunteer, not-for-profitorganization operated directly under the auspices of the township and not by way of contract, and shall extend only to the delivery of emergency ambulance service originating within the boundaries of the township, or mutual aid assistance provided by such township volunteer service to a neighboring jurisdiction at the request of that jurisdiction.
(B) No non-volunteer person or organization shall operate an ambulance for the provisions of emergency or non-emergency ambulance service to ambulance patients except Three Rivers Ambulance Authority and its operations contractor. The Three Rivers Ambulance Authority shall be perpetually licensed to provide full service ambulance operation and shall be required to subcontract with the operations contractor operation and management of the ambulance service system. The city EMS Department shall be the operations contractor until such time as a competitively elected operator is retained and commences operations.
(C) No person or organization except a township which has not contracted with Three Rivers Ambulance Authority shall operate an ambulance for the provisions of ambulance service as a volunteer provider unless that person or organization has first obtained a volunteer provider license issued by the Medical Director. The Medical Director shall issue a volunteer provider license to any person or organization that qualifies as a volunteer provider as defined by § 112.45, and that meets the rules and regulations for volunteer providers adopted by the Medical Director on advice of the EMS Foundation and the volunteer providers' advisory council.
(D) A township which has consented to the provision of services in the township by the Authority shall not be considered to have contracted with the Authority for purposes of this section.
('76 Code, § 9-40) (Ord. G-16-82, passed 7-27-82; Am. Ord. G-19-98, passed 5-12-98)