(A) Emergency Medical Services - Vance County Emergency Medical Services Department is the primary provider of emergency care and will be primarily responsible for all emergency transportation services provided in Vance County unless an entity is granted a franchise by Vance County as set forth herein and assistance is requested.
(B) No person, either as an owner, agent, employee or otherwise, shall furnish, operate, conduct, maintain, advertise or otherwise be engaged in or profess to be engaged in the business of non-emergency, convalescent or emergency transportation of patients within the county unless the person holds a valid permit for each ambulance used in the business issued by the Medical Care Commission of the State Department of Health and Human Services, and has been granted a franchise by Vance County as set forth herein.
(C) No person shall drive an ambulance, attend a patient in one or permit one to be operated when transporting a patient within the County of Vance unless he or she holds a current valid credential as a medical responder, EMT, AEMT or Paramedic issued by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Emergency Medical Services.
(Ord. 35, passed 3-14-2005; Am. Ord. passed 12-7-2020) Penalty, see § 110.99