(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 public ways or places of the city unless he or she holds a currently valid license for an ambulance issued pursuant to this chapter. An ambulance operated by an agency of the federal government shall not be required to be licensed hereunder.
(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 in the city, unless it shall be under the immediate supervision and direction of a person who is holding a currently valid license as an advanced life support emergency medical technician.
(C) However, no such license shall be required for an ambulance or for the driver or emergency medical technician of an ambulance:
(1) Which 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) 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; but no such ambulance shall be used to pick up patients within the city for transportation to locations within the city unless properly licensed under this chapter.
(D) All ambulance services now operating in the city shall have six months from the date of enactment of this chapter to meet the standards required herein.
(Ord. G-87-194, passed 8-3-1987) Penalty, see § 10.99