Violations.
Oklahoma City Municipal Code § 6-16
in effect§ 6-16. - Violations.
(a) It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person to commit any of the following acts:
(1) to perform or permit anyone to perform duties as an ambulance operator, attendant (EMT, EMT-intermediate, AEMT, or paramedic), EMD, or emergency medical responder without complying with the terms of this chapter, or for any EMT or paramedic to seek or accept medical direction by radio or remote communication device contact from anyone who is not an on-line medical control physician, the Medical Director or a member of the Medical Director's clinical staff, as defined herein;
(2) to use, or cause to be used, an ambulance service other than EMSA, any operations contractor, or supplemental service provider except for those services described in Paragraph (a) of this Section 6-16;
(3) for any person, firm or organization to respond to emergency calls originating within the regulated service area, other than EMSA, any operations contractor, any supplemental service provider, or any EMRA;
(4) for any person, firm or organization to provide special events standby ambulance service within the regulated service area, other than EMSA, any operations contractor, any supplemental service provider;
(5) for any person, firm or organization to respond to non-emergency transport calls originating within the regulated service area, other than EMSA, any operations contractor, any supplemental service provider;
(6) to knowingly give false information to induce the dispatch of an ambulance, or emergency medical response agency apparatus or vehicle.
(b) It shall not be a violation of this Code if the vehicle or ambulance is:
(1) a privately owned vehicle not used in the business of transporting patients who are sick, injured, wounded, incapacitated or helpless;
(2) a vehicle rendering services as an ambulance in the event of a major catastrophe or emergency when credentialed ambulances based in the locality of the catastrophe or emergency are incapacitated or insufficient in number to render the services needed;
(3) an ambulance owned or operated by, or under contract with, the Federal or State government;
(4) an ambulance transporting a patient to a location within the regulated service area, which transport originated from a point outside the regulated service area;
(5) an ambulance responding to a call pursuant to a mutual aid agreement with EMSA;
(6) a vehicle engaged in a non-emergency transport call to transport a patient from a hospital, nursing home or freestanding dialysis center (i.e., a dialysis center not located on hospital grounds) which is located within the regulated service area to any jurisdiction outside the regulated service area (the "receiving jurisdiction"), if the receiving jurisdiction allows EMSA to lawfully engage in non-emergency transport calls to transport patients from hospitals, nursing homes, and freestanding dialysis centers located within that receiving jurisdiction to destinations within the regulated service area;
(7) a vehicle engaged in a non-emergency transport call to transport a patient from a hospital, nursing home, or freestanding dialysis center located within the regulated service area to any unincorporated area;
(8) a vehicle engaged in a non-emergency transport call to transport a patient from a hospital, nursing home, or freestanding dialysis center located in either the Eastern or Western Division of the regulated service area, to a destination in the other division of the regulated service area;
(9) a vehicle engaged in the interstate transport of a patient.
(Code 1980, § 6-115; Ord. No. 19392, § 1, 4-3-90; Ord. No. 20997, § 1, 2-17-98; Ord. No. 27211, § 1, 11-8-22, eff. 12-1-22)
Source: City of Oklahoma City, Municipal Code and City Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/ok/oklahoma_city/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=OKMUCO2020_CH6AMCO_ARTIINGE_S6-16VIFetched: 10/28/2026