<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 15-14. - Required.</div>
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               (a)
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               No person, either as owner, agent or otherwise, shall furnish, operate, conduct, maintain,
               advertise, or otherwise be engaged in or profess to be engaged in the business or
               service of emergency and/or nonemergency transportation of patients within the county
               unless the person holds a valid permit for each ambulance used in such business or
               service issued by the state department of health and human services, office of emergency
               medical services, and has been granted a franchise for the operation of such business
               or service by the county pursuant to this article.
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               (b)
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               No person shall drive an ambulance, attend a patient in one, or permit one to be operated
               when transporting a patient within the county unless he holds a currently valid credential
               as a medical responder, emergency medical technician, EMT-intermediate or EMT-paramedic
               issued by the state department of health and human services, office of emergency medical
               services
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               (c)
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               No franchise shall be required for the following:
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               (1)
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               Any entity rendering assistance to a franchised ambulance service in a major catastrophe,
               mutual aid or emergency with which the services franchised by the county are insufficient
               or unable to cope upon request of the county;
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               (2)
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               Any licensed entity operated from a location or headquarters outside of the county
               in order to transport patients who are picked up beyond the limits of the county to
               a location within the county or where a licensed entity operated from a location or
               headquarters outside the county transports a patient from one of the two county hospitals
               to a location outside the county; or
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               (3)
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               Any nonprofit agency licensed by the state, having a contract with franchisee to assist
               franchisee with providing secondary ambulance service.
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               (4)
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               Ambulances owned and operated by an agency of the United States government.
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               (Ord. No. 2013-11, 8-5-2013)
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