§ 91.62. Emergency and nonemergency ambulance service prohibited.

(a)

Except as may otherwise be provided for herein, it shall be unlawful for any person to operate, conduct, maintain or otherwise engage in the furnishing of an emergency ambulance service or nonemergency ambulance service within the limits of the city.

(b)

The provisions of subsection (a) shall not apply to the following:

(l)

The United States Government and its agencies, the state, county or the city.

(2)

Persons who operate an ambulance service, including their ambulance vehicles and personnel, from a location or headquarters outside the limits of the city and who are transporting patients from a location outside the limits of the city to a location within the city, or through the city to some other location.

(3)

Persons furnishing, at the city's request, emergency or nonemergency ambulance service during city disasters or similar catastrophe.

(4)

Nonemergency vehicles used to provide or make available, on a volunteer or nonprofit basis, transportation for routine nonemergency medical examination or treatment.

(5)

Any vehicle owned and operated hy an industrial facility at industrial sites used for the initial transport or transfer of the unstable urgently sick or injured and ground vehicles at industrial sites used to transport persons at those sites who become sick, injured, wounded, or otherwise incapacitated in the course of their employment from job site to an appropriate medical facility; provided, however, that the vehicles are not available for hire or used by the general public except when assisting the local community in disaster situations or like emergencies.

(Ord. No. 2006-868, 2-27-06)