No person shall operate an ambulance, including any motor vehicle primarily designed and used for conveyance of sick or injured persons, in a manner not conforming to a provision of the motor vehicle laws and regulations of the State or of the City as such provision applies to motor vehicles in general, except in compliance with each of the following conditions:
(a) The person operating the ambulance is either responding to a bona fide emergency call or specifically directed by a licensed physician to disregard traffic laws in operating the ambulance during and for the purpose of the specific trip or journey that is involved.
(b) The ambulance is equipped with a siren producing an audible signal of an intensity of 100 decibels at a distance of 50 feet from such siren, and with a lamp emitting an oscillating, rotating or flashing red beam directed in part toward the front of the vehicle and containing a power rating of at least 100 amperes.
(c) Whenever the ambulance is operated at a speed in excess of 40 miles per hour, the ambulance shall be operated in complete conformance with every other motor vehicle law and regulation of the State and of the City in which the ambulance is operated, relating to the operation of motor vehicles, as such law or regulation applies to motor vehicles in general, except laws and regulations pertaining to compliance with official traffic control devices or to vehicular operation upon the right half of the roadway.
(Ord. O75-87, passed 6-3-1975)