(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 county, unless he or she 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 ambulance shall be operated for ambulance purposes, and no individual shall drive, attend or permit it to be operated for the purposes on the streets, alleys or any public way or place of the county, unless it shall be under the immediate supervision and direction of a person who is holding a currently valid license as an attendant-driver or attendant.
(C) Provided, however, that, no licenses shall be required for an ambulance, or for the driver, attendant or attendant-driver of an ambulance, which:
(1) Is rendering assistance to licensed ambulance in the case of a major catastrophe or emergency with which the licensed ambulances of the county are insufficient or unable to cope; or
(2) Is operated from a location or headquarters outside of the county in order to transport patients who are picked up beyond the limits of the county to locations within the county or to transport patients within the county to locations beyond the limits of the county, but no outside ambulance shall be used to pick up patients within the county for transportation to locations within the county unless the driver, attendant and attendant-driver and the person subject to the provisions of division (A) above in respect of the ambulance, hold currently valid license issued pursuant to this chapter.
(Ord. passed - -) Penalty, see § 112.99