5.48B.190 Affirmative defenses under this chapter.

(1)    Vehicles or aircraft, when being used to render temporary assistance in the case of a public catastrophe or emergency when licensed ambulances under contract with Vancouver or Clark County EMS District No. 2 are not available or cannot meet overwhelming demand;

(2)    Vehicles or aircraft owned or controlled by the United States government, unless required to comply with state and local regulations by the United States government;

(3)    Vehicles operated only on private property or within the confines of institutional grounds;

(4)    Persons providing wholly volunteer emergency transportation or emergency medical services without compensation or the expectation of compensation on an unplanned and nonregular basis;

(5)    Vehicles or aircraft responding at the request of an ambulance service provider licensed under this chapter, pursuant to a mutual aid agreement approved by the MPD;

(6)    Persons or vehicles providing ambulance service for patient transports originating outside the regulated service area or nonstop patient transports through the regulated service area;

(7)    Persons or vehicles providing non-9-1-1 ambulance service for inter-county patient transports originating inside the regulated service area and are in excess of forty (40) loaded miles using the most direct route. (Sec. 8 of Ord. 2015-08-03)