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recommendation of the Fire Department, from time to time may by resolution establish such additional or lower bond requirement for individual permittees as may be deemed necessary in the event it is determined the foregoing bond requirements constitute insufficient or more than sufficient protection to the city, as the case may be. The bond requirement may be waived by the city council if public need and necessity require it. C. Liability Insurance. Any permittee other than the Fire Department shall obtain and keep in force during the term of the permit professional liability, public liability, and bodily injury insurance issued by a solvent and responsible insurance company authorized to do business in the state, insuring the owner of such non -emergency ambulance service, and also naming the city and its officers, employees, and agents as additional insureds, against loss by reason of injury or damage that may result to persons or property from negligent operation or defective construction of such ambulance or from negligent treatment of any individual or from violation of this chapter or of any other law of the state or the United States. The policy shall be in the sum of not less than one million dollars for personal injury to or death of any one person in any single accident; and the limits of each such vehicle shall not be less than five hundred thousand dollars for damages to or destruction of property in any one accident. Such limits shall not be deemed as a limit of the indemnification and hold harmless statement contained in applicant's permit, and if the city becomes liable for an amount in excess of such insurance coverage for acts or omissions not covered by insurance, the applicant shall defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the city and its officers, employees, and agents for the whole amount thereof. The policy shall be primary and noncontributing to any insurance or self-insurance maintained by the city. The policy shall contain provisions waiving the insurer's right of subrogation. Workers compensation insurance shall be carried covering all employees of the permit holder. Before the Fire Chief issues a permit, copies of the policies or certificates evidencing such policies shall be filed with the Fire Department. All policies shall contain a provision requiring a thirty -day notice to be given to the Fire Department prior to cancellation, modification, or reduction in limits. The amounts of public liability insurance for bodily injury and property damage shall be subject to review and adjustment at the council's option. 5.49.070 Grounds for denial of application and suspension or revocation of permit. A. The city council is not obligated to issue any permit under this chapter unless in its discretion it determines that the public health, safety, welfare, convenience and necessity require the availability of such ambulance service and that the applicant meets all requirements of this chapter. B. The city council may order the denial of a permit on the ground of infeasibility. Whenever a new application is filed under the provisions of this chapter for a permit to provide non -emergency ambulance service in the city where services already exist, the council, after due investigation, may find and determine, as a matter of fact, that there does not exist in the city sufficient JP 112169 -4-