No person or service may represent, advertise, or imply that it is authorized to provide ambulance or medical transport services unless the service has a current authorization for operation from the LEMSA.
(a) Permitting the operation of an ambulance in any manner contrary to the provisions of this chapter or contrary to any applicable statute, rule, or regulation.
(b) Responding to a call when not requested to respond to that call by an individual requesting that service or the appropriate dispatch center.
(c) Causing or allowing its ambulances to respond to an emergency call location without first receiving a specific request from a Yolo County approved dispatch center.
(d) Providing ALS service without being authorized by the county to provide such service.
(e) Providing CCT services without possessing a current and valid CCT Certificate of Operation and associated ambulance permit(s).
(f) No person or organization shall announce, advertise, offer, or in any way claim that it provides nonemergency ambulance service unless it possesses a current, valid ALS, BLS or CCT ambulance Certificate of Operation.
(g) No person or organization shall announce, advertise, offer, or in any way claim that it provides emergency service unless it has been approved as an emergency provider by the LEMSA.
(h) Any use of a telephone number on an ambulance for non-emergency ambulance service shall include the phrase "FOR EMERGENCIES, CALL 9-1-1" in capital letters that are at least as big as the letters used for the telephone number. (§ 1, Ord. 1515, eff. December 19, 2019)