(a) No person or entity shall operate, maintain, advertise or otherwise be engaged in the business or service of transporting patients, for a fee, upon the streets or rights of way of the City unless the person or entity holds a current and valid certificate issued pursuant to this chapter.
(b) This chapter does not apply to a business or service:
(1) Using a motor vehicle solely to transport a hospitalized patient from one hospital to another hospital;
(2) Rendering assistance to an ambulance company, certified pursuant to this chapter, in the case of a major catastrophe or emergency in which the City of Toledo's certified ambulances are insufficient or unable to cope; or
(3) Operated from a location or headquarters outside the City of Toledo and which transports patients picked up beyond the jurisdictional limits of the City of Toledo to locations within the City, but no such outside ambulances shall be used to pick up patients within the City of Toledo unless such business is certified pursuant to this chapter.
(c) No certificate, pursuant to this chapter, shall be required of an agency of the United States, the State of Ohio, the County of Lucas or the City of Toledo.
(Ord. 735-95. Passed over Mayor's veto 12-19-95.)