No proprietary agency providing ambulance or advanced life-support
first-responder service shall monitor, intercept or otherwise receive
any radio, telephone or other form of alarm transmission of any law
enforcement agency, any fire service agency, any ambulance service
or any advanced life-support first-responder service and use information
contained in such alarm transmission for the purposes of dispatching
resources to or responding to any such alarms, except when responding
pursuant to a written mutual-aid agreement authorized by an appropriate
municipality.
Any proprietary agency providing ambulance service or advanced life-support first-responder service which is found to be in violation of §
681-2 of this chapter shall not be eligible to enter into nor to execute any agreements with the County for the provision of advanced life-support services; shall not be permitted to provide any services which are paid for in part or in whole by the benefits of any group health insurance program funded by the County; and shall not be permitted to serve as a Medicare or Medicaid vendor for the County Department of Social Services.
This chapter shall apply to emergency responses occurring on
or after the effective date of this chapter.