[HISTORY: Adopted by the Council of the City
of Meriden 2-3-1975 (Ch. 13, Art. II of the 1963 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Vehicles and traffic — See Ch. 200.
STATUTORY REFERENCES
Emergency medical services generally — See
C.G.S. § 19a-175 et seq.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
A motor vehicle specifically designed to carry patients.[1]
A.
No person shall operate an ambulance service or act
as an ambulance technician, driver or instructor without a license
properly issued for said purpose by the State Commissioner of Public
Health in accordance with Chapter 368D of the Connecticut General
Statutes.[1]
B.
No person shall operate any ambulance principally
garaged, housed or used in the City of Meriden, upon the streets of
the City of Meriden, without first obtaining a license as hereinafter
provided from the Director of Health and Human Services of the City
of Meriden. Such license shall be in effect for a period of one year
from date of issue unless sooner revoked. Said license may be renewed
and continued in effect for further periods of one year on application
to the Director of Health and Human Services and upon payment of the
required license fee. The fee for an ambulance license shall be $10.
Separate licenses shall be required for each ambulance.
[Amended 9-15-1980]
[Amended 9-15-1980]
A.
The Director of Health and Human Services of the City
of Meriden shall prepare forms for application for license. The forms
shall include such information as said Director shall find reasonably
necessary for the administration of this chapter.
B.
No ambulance which is to be licensed under the provisions
of this chapter shall be operated unless and until the application
is approved and the license issued.
C.
Regardless of the date of original application and
license, all ambulances licensed by the City of Meriden shall be relicensed
annually on April 1, such date to coincide with the issuance of a
certificate of registration by the State of Connecticut.
[Amended 9-15-1980]
A.
The Director of Health and Human Services shall inspect
the vehicles and premises designated in an application hereunder and
shall certify his approval when he finds that such vehicles and premises
are suitable from a standpoint of health and sanitation for the conduct
of an ambulance business, that such vehicles are properly equipped
and that all state laws and local ordinances relating to health, safety
and sanitation have been complied with.
B.
Each and every ambulance used or operated within the
limits of the City of Meriden shall at all times be subject to inspection
by the Director of Health and Human Services of the City of Meriden
or his authorized representative.
A.
Each ambulance shall be operated with at least two
emergency medical technicians, both of whom shall have completed successfully
an eighty-one-hour emergency medical technician course and shall have
conformed to all pertinent requirements of this chapter to the satisfaction
of the Director of Health and Human Services.
[Amended 9-15-1980]
B.
At all times when the ambulance is in motion, one
emergency medical technician is to function as the operator of the
vehicle while the second emergency medical technician shall provide
necessary emergency services, within the scope of his or her training,
to the transportee.
[Amended 9-15-1980]
The City Council of the City of Meriden shall
establish rules and regulations for the proper operation of ambulances
in the City of Meriden, which rules and regulations shall set forth
the equipment to be carried by each ambulance.
[Amended 9-15-1980]
A.
No person shall drive or serve as an emergency medical
technician of an ambulance licensed hereunder without first procuring
a certificate of competency from the Director of Health and Human
Services of the City of Meriden. Any person desiring a certificate
of competency as an ambulance driver or emergency medical technician
shall make application in writing therefor to said Director of Health
and Human Services. Before the issuance of any such certificate, the
applicant therefor shall present evidence of his qualifications to
the satisfaction of the Director of Health and Human Services and
submit to such physical examination as the Director of Health and
Human Services may prescribe.
B.
Certificates of competency shall be renewed annually
by persons holding said certificates. Renewal certificates shall be
issued by the Director of Health and Human Services as provided herein
for the issuance of original certificates. Upon failure of any person
to renew said certificates as herein provided, such certificates shall
be revoked by the Director of Health and Human Services.
Every person operating or driving any such ambulance
in the City of Meriden shall at all times in the operation of such
ambulance comply with all state statutes and regulations governing
the operation of motor vehicles and with traffic ordinances and regulations
established by the Traffic Authority of the City of Meriden; provided,
however, that in cases of extreme emergency the driver may be exempt
from such statutes, ordinances and regulations to the extent permitted
by § 14-283 of the Connecticut General Statutes, as amended.
No bell or siren on such ambulance shall be
rung, sounded or blown except in case of extreme emergency when responding
to a call or transporting a patient to a hospital, clinic or doctor's
office.
Any person violating any of the provisions of
this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not exceeding
$200 or be imprisoned for not exceeding 30 days, or both. Each day
such violation is committed or permitted to continue shall constitute
a separate offense and shall be punishable as such hereunder.
