<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 10-28. - Exemptions from franchise requirements.</div>
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               No franchise shall be required for:
               
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                  (1)
                  
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                  Any entity rendering assistance to a franchised ambulance service in the case of a
                  major catastrophe, mutual aid, or emergency with which the services franchised by
                  the county are insufficient or unable to cope.
                  
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                  (2)
                  
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                  Any entity operated from a location or headquarters outside of the county, and transport
                  to facilities located within the county, or to pick up patients within the county
                  for transporting to locations outside of the county.
                  
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                  (3)
                  
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                  Ambulances owned and operated by an agency of the United States Government.
                  
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                  (4)
                  
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                  Vehicles owned and operated by emergency medical services or rescue squads chartered
                  by the state as non-profit corporations and approved by the county to operate in the
                  county as of the date of the ordinance from which this article is derived.
                  
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                  (5)
                  
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                  Any entity providing emergency transportation services within the meaning of this
                  article that provides trauma transportation services in connection with a state-certified
                  trauma transportation program.
                  
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               (Ord. No. 2005-7, Â§ 1-108, 11-9-2005)
               
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