§ 2-3-48. Required.

It shall be unlawful for any person or governmental entity to provide advanced life support service or basic life support service without first having obtained a certificate from the county in accordance with this section. This requirement shall not apply to the use of those vehicles exempted by this article. Such exemptions are as follows:

(1)

A privately owned vehicle not ordinarily used in the business of transporting persons who are sick, injured, wounded, incapacitated or helpless;

(2)

A vehicle rendering services as an ambulance in the event of a major catastrophe or emergency when ambulances with certificates are incapacitated or insufficient in number to render the services needed;

(3)

Any ambulance based outside the county, except that any such ambulance receiving a person within the county shall comply with the provisions of this article;

(4)

Any ambulance owned and operated by the federal government;

(5)

A vehicle under the direct supervision of a licensed physician and used as an integral part of a private industrial safety or emergency management plan within a privately owned and controlled area, which vehicle may from time to time be used to transport persons in need of medical attention, but which is not available to the general public and which does not routinely transport patients; and

(Ord. No. 84-03, §§ 2, 3, 2-14-84; Ord. No. 97-047, § 1, 7-15-97)

State law reference

Similar provisions, F.S. § 401.33.

Cross reference

Fire protection, Ch. 2-2; fire districts, Ch. 4-3.