§ 24-94. Emergency medical technicians.

(a)

No ambulance shall transport an emergency patient in the Parish of Tangipahoa unless it is an advanced life support ambulance capable of providing advanced life support services and whose crew shall consist of at least one nationally registered paramedic and one emergency medical technician.

(b)

No person shall be permitted to serve as an emergency medical technician of any class who does not hold a current certificate of registration from the state and the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians.

(c)

No person shall serve as an emergency medical technician and no person owning or controlling any ambulance shall permit any person to serve thereon unless he also meets the following qualifications:

(1)

He is a person of at least 18 years of age.

(2)

He is an emergency medical technician, basic, emergency medical technician, intermediate or emergency medical technician, paramedic.

(3)

He has never been convicted anywhere under the laws of this state or any other state, the United States or other applicable laws of parishes or cities of the offense of murder, aggravated battery, aggravated rape, simple rape, aggravated burglary, simple burglary, aggravated kidnapping, simple kidnapping, armed robbery, simple robbery, possession, sale or use of narcotics, contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile, or indecent behavior with a juvenile and has not been convicted two or more times of any traffic offense during the preceding year.

(4)

He has not been convicted of any other felony or of any misdemeanor involving moral turpitude against the criminal laws of this state or any other state, or of the United States, within the past five years, has not served any part of the sentence thereof within five years and he is not presently charged therewith, or with any of the felonies or misdemeanors set forth in subsection (3) of this section, or with violating any of the provisions of this division.

(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.

(d)

No person shall impersonate, refer to himself or otherwise hold himself out as a basic, intermediate or paramedic emergency medical technician without maintaining a current certification as such.

(Ord. No. 36-89, § 28:12, 11-13-89; Ord. No. 94-23, 7-27-94)