The following vehicles are exempt from the provisions of this subchapter:
(A) Privately-owned vehicles not regularly used in the business of transporting patients;
(B) A vehicle rendering service as an ambulance in case of a major catastrophe or emergency, when the permitted ambulances based in the locality of the catastrophe or emergency are insufficient to render the services required;
(C) Any ambulance based outside Vance County, except that an ambulance which receives a patient within Vance County for transportation to a location within Vance County shall comply with the provisions of this subchapter;
(D) Ambulances owned and operated by an agency of the United States government;
(E) Vehicles owned and operated by rescue squads chartered by the state as nonprofit corporations or associations which are not regularly used to transport sick, injured, wounded or otherwise incapacitated or helpless persons except as a part of rescue operations; and
(F) Any ambulance service sponsored and/or under operation of the county.
(Ord. 35, passed 3-14-2005; Am. Ord. passed 12-7-2020)