(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 any street, alley or other public way or place of the City without first having obtained a currently valid ambulance license as provided in this chapter.
(b) No person shall drive or attend an ambulance, or permit it to be operated on any street, alley or other public way or place of the City unless such ambulance is under the immediate supervision and direction of a person who is holding a currently valid license as an ambulance driver, attendant or attendant-driver.
(c) The licenses provided for in divisions (a) and (b) hereof shall not be required for an ambulance, or for the driver, attendant or attendant-driver of an ambulance that:
(1) Is rendering assistance to a licensed ambulance in the case of a major catastrophe or emergency which the licensed ambulances in the City are insufficient for or unable to cope with; or
(2) Is operated from a location or headquarters outside of the City in order to transport patients who are picked up beyond the limits of the City to locations within the City, or to transport patients who are picked up within the City to locations beyond the limits of the City, but no such outside ambulance shall be used to pick up patients within the City for transportation to locations within the City unless the driver, attendant and attendant-driver and the person subject to division (a) hereof in respect of such ambulance, hold currently valid licenses issued pursuant to this chapter.
(Ord. O75-87, passed 6-3-1975)