[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of
the City of Lowell 4-26-1988 as Ch. 11, Art. IV of the 1988 Code. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
The Board of Health may enter into such contracts
as it deems necessary to provide ambulance service for the City, subject
to appropriation therefor. All such contracts shall be approved by
the chief executive officer of the City. Such ambulance service shall
be under the direction and control of the Board of Health, and any
supervision or control over any portion thereof now exercised by any
other department of the City shall cease.
All ambulances picking up and delivering patients
or persons within the City must be licensed to do so by the Board
of Health, and the Board of Health shall establish rules and regulations
relative to such licensing.
The Board of Health shall provide in its rules
and regulations that all licensed ambulance companies or corporations
shall be required to maintain twenty-four-hour ambulance service and
that all licensed ambulance companies or corporations shall not refuse
to respond to and provide service for calls that are deemed medically
necessary. Calls deemed medically necessary shall be determined by
the Board of Health, attending physician or ambulance attendants and
such determination shall be final. The Board of Health shall also
be authorized to suspend the license of any company or corporation
providing ambulance service for violation of the rules and regulations
established by the Board of Health under this chapter.
