(a) The county recognizes that emergency illness and injury are no respecters of county lines and that efficient patient care may occasionally require mutual assistance between the ambulance operators of neighboring counties and of the county. Accordingly, the county ambulance dispatcher, upon his determination that the best interests of an emergency patient would be better served thereby, may dispatch to a location in the county an ambulance headquartered in a neighboring county; provided, that such ambulance dispatched shall meet all emergency ambulance standards and rules and regulations then in force.
(b) Upon the request of a recognized ambulance dispatcher of a neighboring county, the county ambulance dispatcher, upon his determination that the best interests of an emergency patient would be better served thereby, may dispatch a county emergency ambulance to a location in a neighboring county subject to such provisions of agreement with, or of ordinance or rules and regulations of, the neighboring county as may apply.
(1976 Code, § 6-56) (Ord. 2-4-75, § 8; Ord. 1001, § 4, passed 6-1-1982)