11501ORDINANCE NO. 119501
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CERTAIN SECTIONS OF THE CODE OF
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF LITTLE ZOCK, ARKANSAS;
REMOVING AMBULANCES FROM STATUS OF EMERGENCY VEHICLES;
PROVIDING FOR THE REGISTRATION OF AMBULANCE SERVICE
OPERAIORS AND AMBULANCE DRIVERS; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
M BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE CITY OF LITTLE
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ROCK, ARKANSAS:
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SECTION 1. Section 5.1 of the Code of Ordinances of the
City of Little Rock, Arkansas, is hereby amended to read as
rd follows:
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A "SEC. 5.1. Definitions.
0. (a) An 'Ambulance' is defined to be any privately -owned
vehicle equipped and used for transporting the wounded,
injured or sick, but shall not include invalid coaches or
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funeral coaches.
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The foregoing definitiion shall apply to any and all
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such vehicles operated in the City of Little Rock, regard-
less of whether or not the regular base for operation and
dispatch of such vehicles is located outside the City of
Little Rock.
(b) An 'Ambulance Service Operator' or 'Ambulance
Operator' is defined as a person, firm, or corporation
which engages in the business of dispatching and operating
ambulances.
(c) An 'Ambulance Driver' is defined to be a person
whose occupation it is to drive an ambulance.
(d) 'Board of Directors of the City of Little Rock' is
defined to include not only the Board itself, but also any
officer or subdivision of the municipal government duly
designated by the Board.
(e) 'Chief of Police of the City of Little Rock' is
defined to include not only that officer, but also any
officer or employee of the Police Department duly designated
by him."
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SECTION 2. Section 5.2 of the said Code of Ordinances is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"SEC. 5.2 Ambulance not emergency vehicle.
An ambulance shall not be considered an authorized emergency
vehicle entitled to the privileges and exemptions of authorized
emergency vehicles under any circumstances."
SECTION 3. Section 5.3 of the said Code of Ordinances is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"SEC. 5.3 Exemption from certain traffic laws.
(a) The driver of an ambulance while same is in operation
as such may:
(1) Park or stand, irrespective of other Ordinances of this
City, and may disregard traffic regulations pertaining to usage
of lanes, provided, however, that no traffic lane marker shall
be disregarded if there shall be vehicles in or so near the
immediate area, so as to create any danger or hazard to any
person or property by proceeding in disregard of any such traffic
lane marker; provided further that at all such times the flashing
light described in subsection (2) hereof shall be in use.
(2) While moving, parking or standing in connection with its
use as an ambulance, display a flashing red light, visible from
the top of said ambulance for a distance of five hundred (500)
feet under normal atmospheric conditions to the front, sides and
rear of said vehicle.
(b) No ambulance shall violate any traffic ordinances of
this City other than as described in Subsection (a) above, and
shall not, while within the limits of this City, use any audible
signal by bell, siren or exhaust whistle, or otherwise, with
which any such ambulance may be equipped."
SECTION 4. Section 5.8 of the said Code of Ordinances is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"SEC. 5.8. Same- Period of drivers license; renewal.
(a) All licenses to ambulance drivers issued in pursuance
of the authority of this ordinance, shall extend for a period
of one (1) year. Each application for renewal shall be
accompanied by an application fee in the same amount as the
original application fee called for under this ordinance.
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(b) Upon applying for renewal of any license issued to
any ambulance driver, the applicant shall submit evidence
that he has, within the three months preceding his appli-
cation, completed a standard course in First Aid as taught
by the American Red Cross. It is the intention of this
ordinance that every licensed ambulance driver shall com-
plete such a course every year while he continues to be
licensed as an ambulance driver."
SECTION 5. Section 5.10 of the Code of Ordinances is here-
by amended to read as follows:
"SEC 5.10. Periodic inspection of ambulances; suspension
The Chief of Police shall cause to have made periodic
inspections of the ambulances of all ambulance service
operators licensed hereunder at least every six (6) months.
If any ambulance be found mechanically defective, the
operator of such ambulance service shall immediately with-
draw such ambulance from use until the mechanical defect
is corrected and written authority is procured from the
Chief of Police or his authorized representative permitting
the re -use of such ambulance. No ambulance owned or
operated by an ambulance service operator licensed here-
under shall be equipped with bell, siren or exhaust
whistle. The Chief of Police shall ascertain that no such
equipment is present on any ambulance inspected by him,
and he shall direct that any ambulance so equipped shall be
withdrawn from service until such equipment is removed."
SECTION 6. Section 5.13 of the said Code of Ordinances is
hereby amended to read as follows:
"SEC. 5.13. Charges - Limitations.
No ambulance service operator shall be permitted to make any
different charge for services rendered because the services
were rendered under circumstances constituting an emergency
or conditions of similar import."
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SECTION 7. Sections 5 -14 and 5 -15 of said Code of Ordinance
are hereby repealed in their entirety.
SECTION S. Because at the present time the operation of
ambulances as emergency vehicles constitutes a hazard and a
menace to the life and safety of citizens and an impairment to
traffic control, and because this situation is hostile to the
best interests of the community, an emergency is hereby declared
to exist and this ordinance is found to be necessary for the
preservation of the public peace, health and safety and shall be
in full force and effect from and after its passage.
PASSED: July 20, 1964
ATTEST � LL"-V �ee
City Clerk
APPP�VED : "Lc" le
Mayor
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-K 'T AMEN TO SECTION 3 0' P:AOPOSED ORDINANCE
&EGULATING THE (RATION OF AMBUL E_S WITHIN -T IE CITY
OF LITTLE zOCi�, AP.T' S .
BE IT 0_ BY THE BOLD OF Dt3C1'�S OF THE CITY OF LITTLE
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SECTION 1. Section 3 of said�ptoposed Ordinance is- hereby
amended to read as fo s :
"SEC. 5.3 Exemption from certain traffic laws.
(a) The driver of an ambulance while same is in opera-
tion as such may:
(1) Park or stand, irrespective of other ordinances of
this City, and may disregard traffic regulations pertain-
ing to usage of lanes, provided, however, that no traffic
lane marker shall be disregarded if there shall be vehicles
in or so near the immediate area, so as to create any danger
or hazard to any person or property by proceeding in disre-
gard of any such traffic lane marker; provided further that
at all such times the flashing light described in subsection
(2) hereof shall be in use.
(2) While moving, parking or standing in connection with
its use as an ambulance, display a flashing red light, visi-
ble from the top of said ambulance for a distance of five
hundred (500) feet under normal atmospheric conditions to
the front, sides and rear of said vehicle.
(b) No ambulance shall violate any traffic ordinances of
this City other than as described in Subsection (a) above,
and shall not, while within the limits of this City, use
any audible signal by bell, siren or exhaust whistle, or
otherwise, with which any such ambulance may be equipped."
SECT 2. This Ordina e shall be in Cl force and fect
from and after is p age and appr 1.
PASSED:
ATTEST:
City erk
AP,P: &OVED
Mayor
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