Sec. 158.202. - Exemptions and prohibitions regarding certificates.

(a) No certificate shall be required of any ambulance service business which is exempt under F.S. Ch. 401. (b) No person or other legal entity shall have an ownership interest directly or indirectly in more than one certificate holder of ground emergency medical transportation services. (c) In addition to other provisions of this Chapter, no initial certificate shall be issued if, within a period of ten years prior to the date of the initial application, the EMTS applicant shall have been subject to any civil, administrative or quasi-judicial proceedings that have caused any restrictions of operations, fines or other punitive or remedial actions to be brought against the EMTS applicant as a result of improper, undesirable or unlawful operations of emergency medical transportation services. (d) Section 158.202 (c) shall not apply to renewal certificates if all civil, administrative or quasi-judicial, fines, restrictions or remedial actions have been paid or resolved respectively. (Ord. 97-450-E, § 1)