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AN ORDINANCE PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS FOR THE OPERATION OF
AI+BULANCES IN THE CITY OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY, AND PRESCRIBING PENALTIES
FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COPE•?ISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF
PADUCAH, KENTUCKY:
SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or
corporation to operate any ambulances or other vehicles used
�G primarily for the transportation of sick or injured persons in
the City of Paducah, Kentucky unless the owner thereof shall have
in full force and effect a policy or policies of liability insurance
filed with and approved by the Board of Commissioners,issued by a
responsible and solvent insurance company or companies licensed to
do business in the City of Paducah, Kentucky, providing indemnity
for or protection to such person against liability or loss resulting
from the operation of such vehicles in the sum of ~?25,000.00 on account
of injury or death to any one person in any one accident, and a total
of `1100,000.00 on account of any one accident resulting in an injury
to or death of more than one person, and .15,000.00 on account of
damage to property in any one accident. Said policy or policies
shall apply to and cover each and every ambulance or other vehicle
described above owned or operated by the insured.
SECTION 2. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or
corporation to operate any ambulance or other vehicle used primarily
for the transportation of sick or injured persons in the City of
Paducah, Kentucky until such ambulance or vehicle has been inspected
and approved by the Chief of the Police Department of said city, or
some one under his direction, as to its condition with regard to the
safety of its operation and as to its warning signals which shall be
a minimum of one flashing red light and one siren, and each such
vehicle operated in the city shall be inspected at least once each
period of four (4) months.
SECTIOII 3. Ambulances and other vehicles used primarily for
the transportation of sick or injured persons while being operated as
such shall have the right of way with due regard to the safety of the
public, but no such vehicle is to operate at a speed in excess of
those heretofore provided for by ordinance and shall not enter or
cross any street against a stop signal when doing so would endanger the
safety of any person or persons.
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SECTION 4. Any violation of any term of this ordinance shall
constitute a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof any person, firm
or corporation violating same shall be fined not less than ;;;10.00
nor more than ;1100.00 for each offense, and a separate offense shall be
deemed committed on each day during or on which a violation occurs
or continues.
SECTIODI 5. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect
from and after the 14th day of Decemver, 1957.
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Passed by the Board of Commissioners November.W, 1957
Recorded by Sarah Thurman, City Clerk, November 2&, 1957.