(A) The Agency may suspend or revoke a certificate of operation for:
(1) Violating any provision, regulation, law, state or federal standards or ordinances;
(2) Failure to make and retain records showing its operations in any area covered by this chapter, including but not limited to dispatching, response, personnel, vehicles, medical treatment or billing, or failure to make such records available for inspection by the Agency;
(3) Accepting an emergency or non-emergency call when it is either unable or unwilling to provide the requested service, or fails to inform the person requesting such service of any delay, and fails to obtain consent of such person before causing an ambulance to respond from a location more distant than the one to which the request was directed; or
(4) Failure to pay any fine issued pursuant to this section within 30 business days.
(B) Suspension does not have to precede revocation.
(C) Fines.
(1) Fines may be issued by the Agency for:
(a) Failure to provide required clinical or operational reports, including dispatch records;
(b) Failure to comply with requirements for personnel, equipment, and vehicles; and
(c) Failure to comply with any other section of this chapter or any regulation adopted pursuant to this chapter.
(2) Exceptions shall be granted for records destroyed by fire, explosion, or theft beyond the
reasonable control of the permittee; a declaration of local, state, or federal emergency impacting the permittee’s resources; and/or acts of God.
(3) Failure to remit amount of fine levied within 30 days of resolution of appeal to the Board of Supervisors may result in revocation of the certification of operation.
(D) Violations.
(1) Except as otherwise provided, any permittee who violates any provision of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor as provided under Cal. Gov’t Code § 25132.
(2) A permittee who violates provisions of this chapter shall be subject to a fine:
(a) Not exceeding $250 for a first violation;
(b) Not exceeding $500 for a second violation of the same section; and
(c) Not exceeding $1,000 for each additional violation within one year of the same section.
(3) A violation period is defined as each day or portion thereof that a permittee is in violation of this chapter.
(4) The county or designee is hereby authorized to institute and pursue, in the name of the county, pursuant to the provisions of Cal. Gov’t Code § 25132, civil actions for the recovery of fines for violations of this chapter.
(5) Payment of any fine herein shall not relieve the permittee from the responsibility of correcting the violation.
(Ord. 923, § 2 (part), 2014)