5.04.020 Definitions.
As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the following meaning unless the context clearly requires otherwise:
A. “Ambulance” means any privately owned vehicle that is especially designed, constructed, equipped, maintained or used for the transportation of patients who are sick, injured or otherwise incapacitated, which is operated as part of an ambulance company for hire.
B. “Ambulance attendant” means any trained or otherwise qualified individual responsible for the operation of an ambulance and the care of the patients, whether or not the medical attendant also serves as a driver, who is the holder of a valid certificate issued under this chapter.
C. “Ambulance company” means any person, corporation or other legal entity, as defined in BCC 1.04.010, who operates an ambulance for hire which:
1. Is stationed within the corporate limits of the city; or
2. Is dispatched from within or without the corporate limits of the city and repeatedly or customarily makes trips for hire within the city to pick up injured or sick fares; or
3. Makes any trips into the city for hire to pick up injured or sick fares after occasional or repeated advertising, within the city, for such service.
Provided, that the provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any ambulance which shall pass through the city in the delivery of fares picked up at points beyond the corporate limits of the city.
D. “City clerk” means the city clerk or other city employee designated by the city manager as licensing official under this chapter.
E. “Department” means the fire department of the city.
F. “Fire official” means the fire chief or such other city employee as the city manager may designate to perform the duties provided for in this chapter.
G. “Patient” means an individual who is sick, injured, wounded or otherwise incapacitated or helpless. (Ord. 4679 § 3, 1994; Ord. 2074 § 1, 1974; 1961 code § 5.17.020.)