2.45.020 Definitions.
For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning:
AMBULANCE. Any publicly or privately owned surface, water or air vehicle, including a helicopter, that contains a stretcher and necessary medical equipment and supplies pursuant to A.R.S. § 36-2202, and that is especially designed and constructed or modified and equipped to be used, maintained or operated primarily for the transportation of individuals who are sick, injured or wounded or who require medical monitoring or aid. AMBULANCE does not include a surface vehicle that is owned and operated by a private sole proprietor, partnership, private corporation or municipal corporation for the emergency transportation and in-transit care of its employees or a vehicle that is operated to accommodate an incapacitated or disabled person who does not require medical monitoring, care or treatment during transport and that is not advertised as having medical equipment and supplies or ambulance attendants.
AMBULANCE SERVICE. A person who owns and operates one or more ambulances.
DISPATCH. The direction to a ground ambulance service or vehicle to respond to a call for EMS or transport.
EMS. Those services required following an accident or an emergency medical situation:
(1) For on-site emergency medical care.
(2) For the transportation of the sick or injured by a licensed ground or air ambulance.
(3) In the use of emergency communications media.
(4) In the use of emergency receiving facilities.
(5) In administering initial care and preliminary treatment procedures by certified emergency medical technicians.
GROUND AMBULANCE VEHICLE. A motor vehicle, defined in A.R.S. § 28-101, specifically designed to transport ambulance attendants and patients on land.
RESPONSE TIME. The difference between the time an ambulance service is notified that a need exists for immediate dispatch from either the Police Department or Fire Department of the City of San Luis, or any other county, state, or federal governmental agency, and the time the ambulance service’s first ground ambulance vehicle arrives at the scene. Response time does not include the time required to identify the patient’s need, the scene, and the resources necessary to meet the patient’s need.
SCENE. The location of the patient or the closest point to the patient at which an ambulance vehicle can arrive.
TRANSPORT. The conveyance of one or more patients in a ground ambulance vehicle from the point of patient pick-up to the patient’s initial destination. (Ord. 275 § 1, passed 5-20-2009. Code 1982 § 4-4-2. Code 2012 § 38.02.)