§ 7.16.345. Ambulance response times.

Licensed ground ambulance operators shall meet in 90 percent or more of all ambulance runs during any calendar month the maximum response times defined in Section 7.16.050 of this chapter. The director of the department of health services may waive in writing one or more of these response time requirements for any operator for a prescribed period. In determining whether to grant any such waiver, the director must find that one or more of the following geographical or other special or unusual conditions for the area for which the waiver is sought prevented the operator from satisfying the response time requirement(s):

A.

Physical isolation of the area;

B.

Topographical conditions;

C.

Road conditions;

D.

Adverse weather conditions.

E.

Multiple Casualty Response when at least one (1) other unit has previously been dispatched and arrived within the required response time to the same incident.

(Ord. 2011-0031 § 30, 2011: Ord. 88-0181 § 34, 1988.)