§ 9-142. License required for ambulance service or convalescent transport service

(a) Required. It shall be unlawful for any person either as owner, agent or otherwise, to operate, conduct, advertise or otherwise engage in or profess to be engaged in the business of ambulance service or convalescent transport service upon the streets or any public way or place in the city, without possession of a license issued pursuant to this article [sections 9-141—9-162]. A licensed ambulance service may provide convalescent transport service without the necessity of an additional license. No license may be transferred by operation of law or otherwise.

(b) Exceptions. The provisions of this article [sections 9-141—9-162] shall not apply to:

(1) Vehicles operated as ambulances or convalescent transport vehicles at the request of local authorities during any "state of war emergency," "state of emergency," or "local emergency" as defined in the government code.

(2) Ambulances or convalescent transport vehicles transporting a patient from a location outside the incorporated territory of the city regardless of destination.

(3) Vehicles operated as ambulances, paramedic mobile intensive care units or convalescent transport vehicles by any public safety agency.

(Ord. No. 79-30, § 2, 12-17-79)