(A) No person shall operate or cause to be operated an ambulance nor furnish, conduct, maintain, advertise or otherwise be engaged in the business or service of the transportation of ambulance patients within the regulated service area, or provide special events standby coverage, unless such person is the ambulance service contractor. No person shall knowingly solicit ambulance services as regulated herein except the ambulance service contractor.
(B) However, the prohibitions set forth in division (A), immediately above, shall not be applicable to an ambulance or ambulance service provider:
(1) Which is rendering assistance to patients in the case of a major catastrophe or emergency with which the contractor's ambulances are insufficient or unable to cope; or
(2) Transporting a patient who is picked up from a location beyond the regulated service area and transported to a location within the regulated service area; or
(3) Transporting a patient who is picked up from a location beyond the regulated service area and transported to a location beyond the limits of the regulated service area and only incidentally passing through the regulated service area; or
(4) Transporting a patient who is picked up from a location within the regulated service area and transported to a location beyond the regulated service area, providing the ambulance or ambulance service initially transported that same patient into the regulated service area and is making the return trip.
(C) Violations of this section are declared to be public nuisances and shall be prohibited and abated in actions at law or in equity.
(Ord. 450, passed 5-9-95) Penalty, see § 37.99