§ 10-51. Definitions.

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:

Attendant/driver shall mean a person who is qualified to care for a patient transported by a transfer ambulance and who is also qualified to drive a transfer ambulance.

Emergency shall mean any circumstance that calls for immediate action and in which the element of time in transporting the sick, wounded or injured for medical treatment is essential to the health or life of the person. Such circumstances include, but are not limited to accidents generally, traffic accidents, and acts of violence resulting in personal injury and sudden illnesses.

Emergency ambulance shall mean any motor vehicle especially designed, constructed, equipped, and used for transporting the injured or sick in answer to an emergency call.

Emergency call shall mean any request for ambulance service that is made by telephone or other means of communication in and requiring immediate ambulance service.

Emergency run shall mean the emergency ambulance trip to the place where the emergency exists, or from the place of such emergency to a hospital, medical clinic or medical office, or other appropriate destination for the patient.

Fire department shall mean the fire department of the city.

Permittee shall mean any individual, firm or corporation engaged in the business of transporting the injured, wounded, sick or dead and using the streets of the city for such purposes.

Street shall mean any street, alley, avenue, boulevard, drive or highway commonly used for the purpose of travel within the corporate limits of the city.

Transfer ambulance shall mean any motor vehicle constructed, equipped and used for transferring the injured or sick under circumstances which do not constitute an emergency and which have not been represented as an emergency.

(Ord. No. 84-11-3, § I, 12-3-84)

Cross reference

Definitions and rules of construction generally, § 1-2.