(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 other public ways or places of the City unless he holds a currently valid license for an ambulance, issued pursuant to this chapter. An ambulance operated by an agency of the United States is not required to be licensed hereunder, nor is a license required from a firm or corporation exclusively using the same upon its own properties.
(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 other public ways or places of the City unless it is under the immediate supervision and direction of a person who is holding a currently valid license as an attendant-driver or attendant.
(c) No license shall be required for an ambulance, or for the driver, attendant or attendant-driver of an ambulance, which is:
(1) 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;
(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 outside ambulance shall be used to pick up patients within the City for transportation to locations within the City unless the driver, attendant and attendant- driver and the person subject to the provisions of subsection (a) hereof, with respect to such ambulance, hold currently valid licenses issued pursuant to this chapter; or
(3) Operated from the property of a firm or corporation that is using the ambulance exclusively upon its own properties and delivering patients to hospitals within the City from its own properties in extreme emergencies.
(Ord. 1970-155. Passed 9-29-70.)