§ 115. Violations.

A.

It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person to commit any of the following acts:

1.

To perform duties or to permit anyone to perform duties as an ambulance driver, attendant (EMT-Basic, EMT-D, or Paramedic), System Status Controller, or first responder without complying with the terms of this chapter or for any EMT-Paramedic to seek or accept medical direction by radio contact from anyone who is not a certified Base Station Physician, as defined herein.

2.

To use, or cause to be used, an ambulance service other than EMSA's operations contractor except for those services described in Subsection B. of this Section 115;

3.

For any person, firm or organization to respond to emergency calls originating within the regulated service area, other than EMSA's operations contractor.

4.

For any person, firm or organization to respond to routine transport calls originating within the regulated service area, other than EMSA's operations contractor.

5.

For any person, firm or organization to provide special events ambulance standby service within the regulated service area, other than EMSA's operations contractor.

6.

To knowingly give false information to induce the dispatch of an ambulance, or first responder unit.

B.

It shall not be a violation of this code if the vehicle or ambulance is:

1.

A privately owned vehicle not used in the business of transporting patients who are sick, injured, wounded, incapacitated or helpless;

2.

A vehicle rendering services as an ambulance in the event of a major catastrophe or emergency when ambulances with certifications based in the locality of the catastrophe or emergency are incapacitated or insufficient in number to render the services needed;

3.

An ambulance owned or operated by, or under contract with, the federal or state government;

4.

An ambulance transporting a patient to a location within the regulated service area, which transport originated from a point outside the regulated service area;

5.

An ambulance responding to a call pursuant to a mutual aid agreement with EMSA's operations contractor.

6.

A vehicle engaged in a routine transport call to transport a patient from a hospital, nursing home or free-standing dialysis center (i.e., a dialysis center not located on hospital grounds) which is located within the regulated service area to any jurisdiction outside the regulated service area (the "receiving jurisdiction"), if the receiving jurisdiction allows EMSA's operations contractor to lawfully engage in routine transport calls to transport patients from hospitals, nursing homes and free-standing dialysis centers located within that receiving jurisdiction to destinations within the regulated service area;

7.

A vehicle engaged in a routine transport call to transport a patient from a hospital, nursing home or free-standing dialysis center located within the regulated service area to any unincorporated area;

8.

A vehicle engaged in a routine transport call to transport a patient from a hospital, nursing home or free-standing dialysis center located in either the eastern or western division of the regulated service area, to a destination in the other division of the regulated service area; or

9.

A vehicle engaged in the interstate transport of a patient.

(Ord. Nos. 17294, 19167)