(a) Application. No ambulance service license shall be issued except upon application, which shall be made on such forms as may be prescribed by the License Officer and which shall contain:
(1) The name and address of the applicant;
(2) The trade or other fictitious name, if any, under which the applicant does business and proposes to do business;
(3) The training and experience of the applicant in the transportation and care of patients;
(4) A description of each ambulance to be used in such service, including the make, model, year of manufacture and motor and chassis number; current state license number and the length of time the ambulance has been in use; the color scheme, insignia, name, monogram or other distinguishing characteristics used to designate the applicant's ambulance; and the license number of each ambulance issued pursuant to Section 820.06;
(5) The location and description of the place from which each ambulance is intended to be operated;
(6) A written statement from a physician stating that he or she is acting as the ambulance service's medical adviser;
(7) A written statement from the applicant indicating his or her intention to cooperate with and participate in an area-wide emergency medical services system, to require his or her personnel to attend scheduled EMT basic training courses, to participate in and utilize the hospital emergency medical radio system, and to offer full cooperation with the emergency room facilities and scheduled disaster drills of area hospitals;
(8) A description of the two-way radio equipment installed at a base station and in each ambulance, listing the call letters of the license, specified frequency capabilities of the equipment and the various stations with which it can communicate;
(9) A statement of the fee schedule intended to be enforced by the applicant for the provision of services;
(10) A written statement by the applicant stating that he or she intends to apply for an emergency service license or an invalid coach service license, or both;
(11) A statement by the applicant stating that he or she does or does not intend to provide continuous twenty-four hour service;
(12) The names and addresses of all personnel licensed pursuant to Section 820.08 and the license number of each person whom or which the applicant employs or intends to employ in the provision of the service.
(b) Classifications. Ambulance service licenses shall be classified as either emergency service or invalid coach service. Upon application, after compliance with the standards set forth below, the License Officer shall issue the appropriate license.
(c) Standards.
(1) Emergency service. No emergency service license shall be issued to any applicant except in compliance with the following standards:
A. The applicant will provide continuous twenty-four hour service.
B. The applicant will employ in his or her service a minimum of two ambulances licensed pursuant to Section 820.06.
D. The applicant will staff the ambulances, required to be maintained and permanently stationed pursuant to paragraph (c)(1)C. hereof, on a continuous twenty-four hour basis, with at least two attendants, one of whom may serve as an attendant-driver, but both of whom must be licensed at the EMT Basic level. For purposes of staffing a vehicle not in actual response to a call, the presence of the required number of licensed personnel within the same, adjacent or contiguous buildings shall be deemed compliance with the staffing requirement.
E. The applicant will use in his or her service only vehicles licensed pursuant to Section 820.06 and, when responding to a call, staffed in conformity with paragraph (c)(1)D. hereof.
(2) Invalid coach service. No invalid coach service license shall be issued to any applicant except in compliance with the following standards:
A. The applicant must presently hold a valid emergency service license; or
B. The applicant must indicate his or her intent to:
1. Employ in his or her service an ambulance licensed pursuant to Section 820.06, and
2. Staff his or her ambulance, when in use, with at least two attendants, one of whom may serve as an attendant-driver, but both of whom must be licensed at the EMT Basic level.
(d) Scope of License.
(1) Applicants receiving an emergency service license may engage in, and hold themselves out to the public to be engaged in, the business or service of providing emergency medical care and transportation of patients within the Municipality.
(2) Applicants receiving an invalid coach service license may engage in, and hold themselves out to the public to be engaged in, the business or service of transporting persons who are convalescent or otherwise nonambulatory, requiring neither emergency medical treatment while in transit, nor immediate transportation to any hospital, clinic or other medical facility.
(3) Applicants receiving a license pursuant to this section shall furnish, conduct, maintain, advertise, profess to be engaged in, and hold themselves out to the public to be engaged in, only that business or service permitted by the license issued. All advertising shall clearly and distinctly set forth the scope of the business or services permissible under the terms of the license issued.
(Ord. 17-82. Passed 8-25-82.)