The following shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter:
(a) The occasional use of a vehicle or aircraft not ordinarily used in the business of transporting persons who are sick or injured when an authorized form of approved medical transportation is not available and there is substantial risk to the life of the sick or injured person;
(b) A vehicle or aircraft not ordinarily used as a unit in case of a major catastrophe or emergency, when services with permits are insufficient to render the services required;
(c) Persons rendering service as attendants or air attendants in case of a major catastrophe or emergency when permitted attendants cannot be secured;
(d) An ambulance or medical transport vehicle based and properly permitted outside the County shall be authorized to transport a patient to or through the County but shall not be authorized to transport patients originating in the County;
(e) A volunteer ambulance service which is being operated from a location, station or headquarters outside of Yolo County, does not conduct the majority of its business within the boundaries of Yolo County, and the patients transported by said service are picked up at a point outside the boundaries of Yolo County and transported to a medical facility within Yolo County;
(f) Volunteer units based outside Yolo County, except that any such unit receiving a patient within Yolo County for transport to a location within Yolo County shall comply with the provisions of this chapter;
(g) Volunteer attendants based outside Yolo County;
(h) Units owned and operated by search and rescue organizations chartered by the State as corporations not for profit or otherwise existing as nonprofit associations which are not regularly used to transport patients except as part of rescue operations. (§ 1, Ord. 1515, eff. December 19, 2019)