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.
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.
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.