Santa Clara County Municipal Code Art. 10 Miscellaneous Provisions

(a) If a permittee has no ambulance immediately available to make a direct run to the address or place given, he/she shall immediately advise the requesting party of this fact.

(b) Upon receiving a call for ambulance service, the permittee shall promptly dispatch or schedule for dispatch at a time acceptable to the caller an ambulance to the address or place given; and the ambulance shall promptly, or at the time scheduled, start a direct run to that address or place and shall complete that run.

(c) Ambulance diverted: If an ambulance is dispatched to make a direct run to an address, place or location and is thereafter diverted for any reason, the permittee shall immediately notify the caller of this fact.

(d) Unauthorized response: No ambulance service permittee under this chapter shall cause or allow its ambulance(s) to respond to a location without receiving specific request for such service at that location.

(Ord. No. NS-300.513, § 2, 2-23-93; Ord. No. NS-300.741, § 3, 8-23-05)

Ambulance service permittees shall cooperate with the permit officer or his/her designees in any investigations of possible violations of this chapter and shall make any and all ambulance and other related records available for inspection and/or copying at reasonable times at the permittee's regular place of business.

(Ord. No. NS-300.513, § 2, 2-23-93)

A business, service or individual who does not hold a current permit under this chapter may not advertise itself or himself as a provider of ambulance service in this County.

(Ord. No. NS-300.513, § 2, 2-23-93)

No person shall do anything forbidden by this chapter or regulations issued hereunder, nor do anything regulated thereunder in any way contrary to such regulation.

(Ord. No. NS-300.513, § 2, 2-23-93)

(a) Any person who violates Section A18-262 shall be guilty of an infraction, punishable by:

(1) A fine not exceeding $100.00 for a first violation.

(2) A fine not exceeding $200.00 for a second violation.

(3) A fine not exceeding $500.00 for each additional violation within one year.

(b) A "violation" is defined as each day or portion thereof that an ambulance operated without a valid permit.

(c) The County Executive or his/her designee is hereby authorized to institute and pursue, in the name of the County, pursuant to the provisions of Government Code § 25132, civil actions for the recovery of fines for violations of this chapter.

(Ord. No. NS-300.513, § 2, 2-23-93)

If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this chapter or the ambulance regulations are for any reason held invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, such portion shall be deemed a separate, distinct and independent provision and shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions hereof.

(Ord. No. NS-300.513, § 2, 2-23-93)