(1) A license for an ambulance service or the operation of ambulance vehicles shall be obtained from the Oregon Health Authority.

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Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 682.045

  • Ambulance service: means a person, governmental unit or other entity that operates ambulances and that holds itself out as providing prehospital care or medical transportation to persons who are ill or injured or who have disabilities. See Oregon Statutes 682.025
  • ambulance vehicle: means a privately or publicly owned motor vehicle, aircraft or watercraft that is regularly provided or offered to be provided for the emergency transportation of persons who are ill or injured or who have disabilities. See Oregon Statutes 682.025
  • Governmental unit: means the state or any county, municipality or other political subdivision or any department, board or other agency of any of them. See Oregon Statutes 682.025
  • Person: includes individuals, corporations, associations, firms, partnerships, limited liability companies and joint stock companies. See Oregon Statutes 174.100

(2) Applications for licenses shall be upon forms prescribed by the authority and shall contain:

(a) The name and address of the person or governmental unit owning the ambulance service or vehicle.

(b) If other than the applicant’s true name, the name under which the applicant is doing business.

(c) In the case of an ambulance vehicle, a description of the ambulance, including the make, model, year of manufacture, registration number and the insignia name, monogram or other distinguishing characteristics to be used to designate the applicant’s ambulance vehicles.

(d) The location and description of the principal place of business of the ambulance service, and the locations and descriptions of the place or places from which its ambulance is intended to operate.

(e) Such other information as the authority may reasonably require to determine compliance with ORS § 820.350 to 820.380 and this chapter and the rules adopted thereunder.

(3) Except in the case of governmental units, the application shall be accompanied by future responsibility filing of the type described under ORS § 806.270. [Formerly 823.060; 2009 c.595 § 1069]