§ 2B-35. Private service regulation.  


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  • (a)

    It shall be unlawful for any person, including the holder of the transfer service franchise, or anyone other than a member of the EMS unit officially on duty, or an agency of the United States, to furnish, operate, conduct, maintain, advertise for, or otherwise be engaged or profess to be engaged in the operation of an emergency ambulance or the providing of emergency service upon the streets of the city except at the request of the city manager or the director of civil defense in the event of a major disaster for the purpose of transporting patients from the disaster site to various hospitals.

    (b)

    The transfer service franchise shall be subject to revocation if it is found that the holder of said franchise, or any company, service or corporation that the holder is affiliated with or in partnership with, is duplicating emergency service in areas outside the city in which the city is under contract to provide such service. Furthermore, if the transfer franchise holder receives an emergency call from any source to respond either in Marshall or those areas under contract with the city, franchisee shall immediately notify the Marshall EMS Communications Center and shall not respond unless requested to do so by the EMS dispatcher. Duplication of emergency service is responding without the request of the EMS dispatcher to the same call as a city EMS unit.

(Ord. No. O-83-52, § 4A-2.1, 8-25-83)