500.1 No person, firm, corporation, association, or government agency, either as owner, agency, or otherwise, shall operate or hold itself out in any way as operating an ambulance in the District without a currently valid license issued pursuant to this chapter by the Mayor for that ambulance.

500.2 No ambulance shall be operated for ambulance purposes in the District unless it is staffed by at least two (2) persons, one (1) of whom is an Emergency Medical Technician and one (1) of whom is an Emergency Medical Technician/Driver.

500.3 No person, firm, corporation, association, or government agency shall advertise or disseminate information to the public that emergency medical technician/paramedic ambulance service is offered unless that service is, in fact, provided by emergency medical technician/ paramedics or emergency medical technician/intermediate paramedics in mobile intensive care units, as defined by the Mayor pursuant to §502, on a continuous twenty-four (24) hour per day basis.

500.4 If advertising or information regarding emergency medical technician/ paramedic ambulance service appears on any vehicle, it may only appear on those mobile intensive care unit vehicles, as defined by the Mayor pursuant to §502, utilized on a continuous twenty-four (24) hour per day basis to provide service.

500.5 Any individual or any member, officer, director, agency, or employee of any firm, voluntary association, joint-stock company, incorporated society, or corporation who violates or participates in the violation of any of the provisions of this chapter shall be punished by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars ($300) or by imprisonment for not more than ninety (90) days, or both.

500.6 Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed as repealing or affecting any other law or regulation of the District.

500.7 If any section, provision, or requirement of this chapter is held invalid for any reason, that holding shall not affect the validity or operation of any other section, provision, or requirement of this chapter.

AUTHORITY: Unless otherwise noted, the authority for this chapter is Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1967, 1 D.C. Code, 2001 Ed. at 125.

SOURCE: Regulation No. 72-29, published at 19 DCR 450 (December 26, 1972).