§ 19-339. Emergency ambulance calls.

(a)

It shall be unlawful for any person other than a member of the fire department, emergency medical services division to operate, drive, or cause to be operated or driven any ambulance on the streets of the city for the purpose of furnishing emergency ambulance service, or to furnish or attempt to furnish emergency ambulance service in the city.

(b)

It is an affirmative defense to prosecution that the site of an emergency is outside of the area served by the city emergency medical services system, and the emergency ambulance is operating on city streets only for the purpose of responding to an emergency site so located for transporting the victim(s) to a medical facility.

(c)

It is an affirmative defense to prosecution that the driver of such an ambulance is operating same pursuant to a contract for maintaining an ambulance at a particular location or event for the purpose of transporting sick or injured persons for medical or hospital treatment.

(d)

It is an affirmative defense to prosecution that the site of an emergency is inside the area served by the city emergency medical services system, but permission has been received from the emergency medical service dispatcher to make such emergency run. Upon receipt of a request to make such an emergency run, the dispatcher shall grant such permission if no other ambulance, public or private, has been previously dispatched to the emergency scene.

(Code 1959, § 38-36.1; Ord. No. 35006, §§ 1—3, 12-1-66; Ord. No. 35537, §§ 1—3, 6-22-67; Ord. No. 43411, § 7, 2-21-74; Ord. No. 44606, § 1, 11-14-74)