§ 270-270. EXEMPTIONS FROM REQUIREMENTS FOR PERMIT

(a)

The following shall be exempt from the provisions of this Chapter:

(1)

The occasional use of a vehicle or aircraft not ordinarily used in the business of transporting persons who are sick or injured when an authorized form of approved medical transportation is not available in a life/death situation;

(2)

A vehicle or aircraft not ordinarily used as a Unit in case of a major catastrophe or emergency, when services with permits are insufficient to render the services required;

(3)

Persons rendering service as attendants or air attendants in case of a major catastrophe or emergency when permitted attendants cannot be secured;

(4)

An ambulance or medical transport vehicle based and properly permitted outside the County shall be authorized to transport patient to or through the County but shall not be authorized to transport patients originating in the County;

(5)

A volunteer ambulance service is being operated from a location, station or headquarters outside of Sutter County, does not conduct the majority of its business within the boundaries of Sutter County, and the patients transported by said service are:

Picked up at a point outside the boundaries of Sutter County and transported to a medical facility within Sutter County.

(6)

Volunteer units based outside Sutter County, except that any such unit receiving a patient within Sutter County for transport to a location within Sutter County shall comply with the provisions of this Chapter;

(7)

Volunteer County; attendants based outside Sutter County;

(8)

Units owned and operated by search and rescue organizations chartered by the State as corporations not for profit or otherwise existing as nonprofits associations which are not regularly used to transport patients except as part of rescue operations; or

(9)

Units owned and operated by an agency of the United States Government or State of California.