Cross Reference — User fees for ambulance services are
on file in the office of the city clerk.
[R.O. 2006 §620.010; CC 1985 §4-1]
If the City does not issue an ambulance franchise and operates
a City ambulance service, all such service shall be under the supervision
of the City Administrator and the Chief of Police or a director appointed
by the City Administrator.
[R.O. 2006 §620.020; Code 1975 §§70.100 —
70.140; CC 1985 §4-2]
A.
No person
either as owner, agent or otherwise, shall furnish, operate, conduct,
maintain, advertise, or otherwise be engaged in, or profess to be
engaged in, the business or service of the transportation of patients
and/or the sick or injured, within the corporate limits of the City
without a franchise issued by the Board of Aldermen.
B.
To obtain
a franchise a person shall make application to the Board of Aldermen.
The application shall contain the following:
1.
The
name of the applicant and trade name, if any, under which the applicant
intends to conduct business; if a corporation, its name, date and
place of incorporation, address of its principal place of business,
and the names of its principal officers, together with their respective
residence address; and if a partnership, association, or unincorporated
company, the names of the partners or other persons comprising such
partnership, associations or unincorporated companies, and the business
and residence address of each partner.
2.
A letter
from the State Emergency Medical Services stating the State's recommendation
for additional emergency medical services within the City limits.
3.
Proof
of the lack of present service to certain people or areas and a program
to remedy that lack of service.
4.
A financial
statement showing that the new service can support itself without
incurring liability to the City.
5.
Proof
of malpractice insurance and liability insurance in excess of one
million dollars ($1,000,000.00).
6.
Proof
that all perspective personnel meet State standards as emergency medical
technicians or mobile emergency medical technicians, paramedics.
7.
A performance
bond made to the City in the amount of one hundred thousand dollars
($100,000.00) for failure to provide service after franchised.
8.
Copies
of the State license of the vehicles to be used.
9.
The
rate schedule that the applicant proposes to use.
10.
A
description of the ambulances, including make, model, year of manufacture,
State license number for the current year, motor and chassis number,
and the current mileage and length of time the ambulance vehicles
have been in use.
11.
The
address and physical location of the premises within the corporate
City limits from which services will be maintained and operated.
12.
Proof
that all other applicable Federal and State laws and municipal ordinance
have been complied with.
13.
Any
additional information required by the Board of Aldermen or the State
Director of Health to insure that the applicant is qualified and capable
of operating such ambulance service in the public interest.
C.
The Board
of Aldermen shall only grant a franchise by adoption of such ordinance
specifying the agency, its purpose and ownership. A franchise will
not be granted if the public convenience and necessity will not be
served thereby.
D.
Any false
information contained in such application for franchise shall be considered
sufficient grounds for denial of said franchise. Any false information
contained in any application for franchise shall be considered sufficient
grounds for revocation or suspension of any franchise issued.
