§ 10:410. Qualifications to operate ambulances; equipment; personnel.

No person shall operate an ambulance within the parish unless he meets the following qualifications:

(1)

All personnel shall be at least eighteen (18) years of age.

(2)

No person shall be employed in any capacity on any ambulance unless he is a state certified responder, emergency medical technician at the basic, advanced or paramedic level, a registered nurse licensed under the provisions of R.S. Tit. 37, or a physician possessing a valid and unrevoked physician's and surgeon's certificate, issued under the provision of R.S. Tit. 37, or he possesses such other credentials or documentation evidencing an equivalent or higher level of training than required in the examples mentioned above, as determined by the department of EMS.

(3)

No personnel shall have ever been convicted under the laws of this state or of any other state, or of the United States, or of this city or any other city of the offense of murder, aggravated battery, aggravated rape, simple rape, aggravated burglary, simple burglary, aggravated kidnapping, simple kidnapping, armed robbery, simple robbery, pandering, prostitution, soliciting for prostitutes, illegal possession or sale or use of narcotics, contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile or indecent behavior with a juvenile, or shall have been convicted of two (2) or more moving traffic offenses during the year preceding the application of employment.

(4)

No personnel shall have been convicted of any other felony or of any misdemeanor involving moral turpitude against the criminal laws of this state or of any other state, or of the United States within five (5) years, nor shall he have served any part of a sentence therefor within five (5) years before the date of the filing of the application, nor shall he be presently charged therewith, or with any of the felonies, offenses or misdemeanors set forth in paragraph (3) of this section or with violating any of the provisions of this chapter.

(5)

He is not addicted to the use of intoxicating liquor, does not use any narcotic drugs, and is not suffering from any disease or infirmity which might make him an unsafe or unsatisfactory driver.

(6)

No person shall conduct, maintain or operate an ambulance certified at the basic life support level which does not carry with it as part of its regular equipment the minimum essential equipment for ambulances as recommended by the applicable state law.

(7)

No person shall conduct, maintain or operate an ambulance certified at the advanced life support level which does not carry with it as a part of its regular equipment the items on the list required medical and safety equipment consistent with the scope of practice for emergency medical technician paramedic as established in R.S. 40:1234 and based upon the recommendations of an advisory committee known as the Louisiana Ambulance Standards Committee.

(8)

In accordance with Title 48, Section 6033 C5 of the Louisiana Administrative Code, the highest ranking EMT on the board an ambulance is responsible for the medical care of all patients on board.

(9)

No ambulance certified at the advanced life support level shall operate without a certified EMT-paramedic, physician, or registered nurse on board.

(10)

No private ambulance provider shall use mass media to advertise any telephone number other than 911 for medical emergencies in the parish.

(11)

No private ambulance provider shall advertise or hold themselves out as a prehospital emergency medical services provider in the parish, except as approved by the Department of EMS.

(Ord. No. 9234, 2-13-91; Ord. No. 10696, § 1, 9-11-96; Ord. No. 15285, § 1, 3-28-12; Ord. No. 16880, § 1, 8-8-18)