The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Emergency ambulance
means a motor vehicle, airplane or helicopter used primarily for emergency ambulance transportation in, about or outside the city.
Emergency ambulance service
means emergency transportation service furnished to citizens of and other persons within the city where there has been a death, personal injury or other emergency requiring the removal of injured persons to a hospital or medical facility for treatment.
Funeral home or undertaker
means any person duly licensed by the state to perform embalming service and prepare the bodies of deceased persons for interment.
(Code 1974, § 15-1)
No person shall engage in the business of operating an emergency ambulance service for hire within the city without an emergency ambulance service permit from the city. All emergency ambulance service permits issued by the city shall expire on May 1 of each year and those emergency ambulance service operators intending to continue their service shall each year file a written application for such permit containing the information and in the form prescribed in section 90-28.
(Code 1974, § 15-2)
All applicants for an emergency ambulance service permit must furnish the city secretary with the following:
(1) 
A written application stating the location of the applicant’s principal place of business and the place where the emergency vehicles are normally kept and maintained.
(2) 
The applicant must furnish satisfactory evidence of personal injury and property damage liability coverage in an amount not less than $25,000.00 for personal injury and $10,000.00 for property damage.
(3) 
The written application for an emergency ambulance service permit must contain a statement of the applicant’s normal rates or charges.
(4) 
A written statement by the applicant that the applicant’s ambulance drivers shall at all times have a current commercial state driver’s license.
(5) 
The applicant agrees to maintain emergency ambulance vehicles and equipment in operating condition with such minimum safety standards and requirements as may be from time to time required by the chief of police of the city.
(Code 1974, § 15-3)
Regulations governing payment of charges for ambulance services are as follows:
(1) 
Any emergency ambulance service operator picking up a dead body from the streets or elsewhere in the city, having answered an emergency call, may take and keep the body at the ambulance service’s usual place of business until some relative authorized to make funeral arrangements authorizes such emergency ambulance service operator to proceed with the preparing of the body for interment.
(2) 
If relatives or friends having authority to make arrangements for the funeral shall desire that some other undertaker or funeral home take charge of the body, it shall be the duty of the operator having such body in his possession to turn over the body to the funeral home or undertaker selected by friends or relatives having necessary authority, upon payment of the charges for providing emergency care and treatment for the deceased.
(3) 
Any person, including the parent or guardian of a minor, knowingly using the services of an emergency ambulance operator holding permit to do business within the city shall be liable to such emergency ambulance operator for the amount of charges not to exceed the amount currently charged by the emergency ambulance operator and as set forth in his application to do business within the city. Such charge shall not exceed the amounts on file in the city secretary’s office for providing services for the injured or ill person, provided that the limits shall not apply to amount of service charges for contract transportation outside the city.
(4) 
This section shall likewise apply in each case where any person disabled by injury or illness requires an emergency ambulance service, and the emergency ambulance service is called upon for ambulance service by the dispatcher of the police department, or by the director of public health of the city, to transport the injured or ill person to a hospital or clinic or his dwelling.
(5) 
In addition to other remedies, the emergency ambulance service operator rendering the service shall have a right to enforce this section by civil action in collecting for rendered services.
(Code 1974, § 15-4)