[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Eatontown 11-10-1970. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Fire Department — See Ch. 31.
First Aid and Fire Company volunteers — See Ch. 35.
Nursing homes, transportation requirements — See Ch. 222.
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Borough of Eatontown Ordinance Regulating Private Ambulances."
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
AMBULANCE
Any privately owned or operated vehicle equipped or used for the transportation of persons wounded, injured, sick or infirm in any manner whatsoever, and shall include, but is not restricted to, emergency vehicles used for such purpose, excepting all ambulances and emergency equipment of any kind whatsoever owned, operated or used by duly organized first aid, emergency and rescue squads meeting the requirements of the New Jersey State First Aid Council.
BOROUGH
The Borough of Eatontown.
LICENSE OFFICER
The Clerk of the Borough of Eatontown.
PERSON
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind excepting duly organized first aid, emergency and rescue squads and members thereof meeting the requirements of the New Jersey State First Aid Council.
No person shall operate an ambulance upon the streets of the Borough without first obtaining a license therefor, as hereinafter provided from the license officer of said Borough.
Application for licenses under § 86-3 shall be made upon forms prepared by the license officer and shall contain the following:
A. 
Name and address of applicant.
B. 
Name and address of the owner of the ambulance.
C. 
Name and address of the lessee, if leased.
D. 
A description of the ambulance, including the make, model, year of manufacture, state license and registration number for the current year, motor and chassis numbers, and the length of time the ambulance has been in use.
E. 
The location and description of the place or places from which it is intended to operate.
F. 
Such other information as the license officer shall find reasonably necessary for a fair determination of whether the terms of this chapter have been complied with.
An application for a license under § 86-3 shall be accompanied by a license fee of $5.
The Borough Health Officer shall inspect the vehicle and premises designated in an application for a license under § 86-3 and shall certify his approval to the Borough license officer when he finds that such vehicles and premises are suitable from the standpoint of health and sanitation for the conduct of an ambulance business, and that all state laws and local ordinances relating to health, safety and sanitation have been complied with. No license shall be issued without such approval.
An applicant for a license under § 86-3 shall file with the license officer a certificate of insurance providing insurance coverage for each and every ambulance owned, operated and/or leased by the applicant for injury to or death of persons in accidents resulting from any cause for which the owner of said vehicle would be liable on account of any liability imposed on him by law, regardless of whether the ambulance was being driven by the owner, his agent or lessee, and as against damage to the property of another, including personal property under like circumstances in the amount of ($100,000/$300,000) bodily injury, and $50,000 property damage.
Licenses issued for any vehicle may be transferred to another vehicle belonging to the same licensee upon filing with the license officer an application therefor, duly verified and showing that such vehicle is no longer to be used for the purpose herein contemplated. The vehicle to which the license is transferred shall conform to all the requirements of this chapter as upon original licensing. The license officer shall require a surrender of the former certificate and issue a new one, charging therefor a transfer fee of $2.
A. 
No person shall drive or serve as an attendant of an ambulance licensed under § 86-3 without first procuring a license from the license officer.
B. 
Standards for issuance. The license officer shall issue a license under this section when he finds that the applicant:
(1) 
Is of the age of 21 years or older;
(2) 
Is of sound mind and body and not afflicted with any infirmity which might render him unfit to operate or attend to the operation of an ambulance;
(3) 
Is conversant with the English language;
(4) 
Is not addicted to the use of intoxicating beverages or narcotics;
(5) 
Has an adequate working knowledge of first aid;
(6) 
Has complied with the requirements of this chapter and all other governing laws and ordinances.
A. 
Applications for licenses under § 86-9 shall be made upon forms prepared by the license officer and shall contain a statement of the following:
(1) 
Full name, residence, place of residence for last five years, length of residence in Borough;
(2) 
Marital status, age, race, height, weight, color of eyes and hair;
(3) 
Whether applicant has ever been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor;
(4) 
Whether applicant has previously been licensed as a driver, chauffeur or attendant, and if so, date and place, and whether his license has ever been revoked or suspended and the cause therefor;
(5) 
That the applicant is of the age of 21 years or older; is of sound mind and body and not afflicted with any infirmity which might render him unfit to operate or attend to the operation of an ambulance; is conversant with the English language; is not addicted to the use of intoxicating beverages or narcotics; has an adequate working knowledge of first aid; and has complied with the requirements of this chapter and all other governing laws and ordinances.
B. 
Affidavits of character. An applicant under § 86-9 shall produce and submit with his application affidavits of his good character from two reputable citizens of the United States and residents of the Borough of Eatontown who have known him personally and observed his conduct frequently during two years next preceding the date of his application.
C. 
Submit photographs. Each applicant for a license under § 86-9 shall file with his application two recent photographs of himself of a size designated by the license officer. The license officer shall attach one photograph to the license and shall file the other with the application.
The license officer shall so attach the photograph to the license that it cannot be removed and another photograph substituted without probability of detection. Each licensed driver and attendant shall, upon demand of a license inspector, policeman or passenger, exhibit his license and photograph for inspection. Any licensee who defaces, removes or obliterates any official entry made upon his license shall have his license revoked.
Within 1/2 hour after conveying any wounded, injured, sick or infirm person in an ambulance licensed hereunder, the person owning or operating the said ambulance, his agent or employee, shall notify the Borough police of such conveyance. Such notice shall give the name and address of such wounded, injured, sick or infirm person, when such information is available, and the place to and from which such person was removed. Within 24 hours after the removal of such wounded, injured, sick or infirm person, the person owning or operating an ambulance hereunder, his agent or employee, shall file a written report with the Borough police giving the information required above and any other relevant information which the Borough police might require. The Borough police shall provide written forms upon which the information required under this section shall be written.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall pay a fine not exceeding $200 or be imprisoned in the county jail for a term not exceeding 30 days, or both.