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I. `Emergency medical technician H (EMT -II)' means a certified individual authorized to provide limited advanced life support (LALS) under Health and Safety Code Section 1797.82. J. `Emergency medical technician -paramedic (EMT -P) or paramedic' means a person specially trained in the provision of emergency cardiac and noncardiac care appropriately certified under Health and Safety Code Section 1797.84. K `Emergency service' means the functions performed in response to an emergency call. L. `Fire Chief means the public official Ott charge of the Fire Department or such official's designee, which as required by law may be a medical doctor or other medically trained and certified individual. M. `Local EMS agency' means the Inland Counties Emergency Medical Agency or any successor agency designated pursuant to the Emergency Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act (Health and Safety Code Section 1797 and following). N. `Non -emergency transportation' means transportation of patients to or from health care facilities by private request of a patient or a health care facility not involving dispatching through the City of any emergency medical service personnnel or equipment. O. `Patient' means a sick, injured, wounded, invalid, convalescent, or otherwise incapacitated person or expectant mother. P. `Permittee' means any person who possesses a current permit granted by the council to operate an ambulance service within the city. O. `Special event' means any situation where a publicly announced event places a grouping or gathering of people in one general locale sufficient in number or subject to an activity that creates the need to have one or more ambulances at the site. 5.49.020 Permits required for Non -Emergency Transportation -- Exceptions. A. Required. It is unlawful for any person, either as owner, agent, or otherwise, to operate, conduct, advertise, or otherwise engage in or profess to be engaged in a non -emergency ambulance service or the business or service of the non -emergency transportation of patients upon the streets or any public way or place in the city, except in conformance with a valid permit to do so issued by the Fire Department. B. Exceptions. The equipment and personnel standards specified in this chapter apply to all ambulance services; however, the permit and fee requirements shall not apply to: 1. Publicly owned and operated ambulances; 2. Vehicles operated as ambulances at the request of local authorities during any `state or war emergency,' duly proclaimed `state of emergency' or `local emergency,' as defined in the California Emergency Services Act (Chapter 7 of Division 1 of Title 2 of the Government Code), as amended; JP112169 -2-