(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 emergency and/or non-emergency transportation of patients within the counties unless the person holds a valid permit for each ambulance used in the business or service issued by the State Department of Human Resources, Office of Emergency Medical Services, and has been granted a franchise for the operation of the business or service by the Pasquotank-Camden Ambulance Service Board and the respective Boards of County Commissioners of Pasquotank and Camden pursuant to this chapter.
(B) No person shall drive an ambulance, attend a patient in one or permit one to be operated when transporting a patient within the counties unless he or she holds a currently valid certificate as an ambulance attendant, emergency medical technician, EMT-Intermediate or EMT-Paramedic issued by the North Carolina Department of Human Resources, Office of Emergency Medical Services.
(C) No franchise shall be required for:
(1) Any entity rendering assistance to a franchised ambulance service in the case of a major catastrophe, mutual aid or emergency with which the services franchised by the counties;
(2) Any entity operated from a location or headquarters outside of the counties in order to transport patients who are picked up beyond the limits of the counties to facilities located within the counties, or to pick up patients within the counties for transporting to locations outside Pasquotank or Camden; or
(3) Ambulance owned and operated by an agency of the United States Government and the Pasquotank-Camden Ambulance Service.
(Ord. passed 2-4-1985) Penalty, see § 10.99