(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 other public ways or places of the City unless the person holds a currently valid Emergency Medical Service Organization license.
(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 such ambulance has been duly licensed pursuant to this Chapter.
(C) 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 (1) it is operated by a driver or attendant-driver licensed under this Chapter; (2) it has sufficient personnel to handle a 200-pound patient; and (3) otherwise complies with all standards for ambulances in this Chapter.
(D) No licenses shall be required under this Chapter for an ambulance, or for the driver, attendant or attendant-driver of an ambulance, which:
(1) Is rendering assistance to 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) Is operated from a location or headquarters outside the City in order to transport patients who are picked up beyond the limits of the City to locations within the City. However, no such ambulance shall be used to pick up patients within the City for transportation to locations within the City unless the driver, attendant, attendant-driver and person subject to the provisions of subsection (A) hereof with respect to such ambulance hold currently valid licenses issued pursuant to this chapter.
(E) No license issued under this Chapter shall be assignable or transferable.
(Ord. 064-00. Passed 3-27-00.)