§ 17-11. Definitions.

The following words and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them:

(1)

Based means a medical vehicle headquartered in or having a substation or office or a permanent station in the city, and whose primary response is dedicated to transporting patients originating in the city.

(2)

Board means the board of public health and environment.

(3)

Emergency means any actual or self-perceived event which threatens life, limb or well-being of an individual in such a manner that immediate medical care is needed.

(4)

Emergency medical technician means any individual who, in accordance with Section 25-3.5-101 et seq., C.R.S., and its implementing regulations, holds a valid certificate as a paramedic, emergency medical technician-intermediate, or emergency medical technician-basic issued by the Colorado Department of Health.

(5)

Emergency medical vehicle means any privately or publicly owned land or airborne vehicle, especially constructed or modified and equipped, intended to be used, and maintained or operated for the transportation upon the streets and highways in the city, of individuals who are sick, or injured or otherwise incapacitated or helpless; except fixed wing aircraft operating between the city and locations outside the city.

(6)

Emergency medical vehicle service means the furnishing, operating, conducting, maintaining, advertising, or otherwise engaging in or professing to be engaged in the business of transportation of patients by emergency medical vehicle. Taken in context, it also means the person so engaged or professing to be so engaged. The person so engaged and the vehicles used for the emergency transportation of persons injured at a mine are excluded from this definition when the personnel utilized in the operation of said vehicles are subject to the mandatory safety standard of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Administration, or its successor agency.

(7)

Manager means the manager of the department of public health and environment.

(8)

Medical vehicle permit means the authorization issued by the director of excise and licenses and approved by the manager of public health and environment with respect to a medical vehicle used or to be used to provide medical vehicle service in the city.

(9)

Medical vehicle validation sticker means a sticker displayed on the left side of the windshield of a medical vehicle unit that has been inspected and issued a permit to operate in the city. The sticker shall indicate the year of validation and shall be provided by the director of excise and licenses.

(10)

License means the authorization issued by the director of excise and licenses to operate a medical vehicle service in the city.

(11)

Licensee means the person or entity that has been issued a license by the city to provide medical vehicle service in the city.

(12)

Medical facility means licensed hospitals and nursing homes.

(13)

Medical vehicle means an emergency or nonemergency medical vehicle.

(14)

Medical vehicle service means any person or entity which operates emergency medical vehicles or nonemergency medical vehicles.

(15)

Nonemergency medical vehicle means any surface vehicle for hire equipped to transport sick or disabled persons and to provide nonemergency medical services.

(16)

Patient means any individual who is sick, injured or otherwise incapacitated or helpless.

(17)

Physician Advisor means a physician who establishes protocols or medical acts performed by EMT-Basics, EMT-Intermediates, EMT-Paramedics, and/or non-emergency medical vehicle operators of a prehospital emergency medical care service agency, and who is specifically identified as being responsible to assure the competency of the performance of the acts by such EMT-Basics, EMT-Intermediates, EMT-Paramedics and/or non-emergency medical vehicle operators. A "Physician Advisor" shall meet all qualifications as outlined in the "RULES DEFINING THE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES PHYSICIAN ADVISORS AND THE AUTHORIZED MEDICAL ACTS OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS AND PARAMEDICS" (3-CCR-713-6) of the "ACTS ALLOWED" published and approved October, 1994, by the EMS Division of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

(18)

To operate in the city means the providing of medical vehicle service or transport of patients originating within the boundaries of the City and County of Denver.

(Code 1950, § 971.3-1; Ord. No. 991-93, §§ 1, 2, 12-6-93; Ord. No. 475-97, § 1, 7-21-97; Ord. No. 427-18, § 10, 6-11-18)

Cross reference

Definitions and rules of construction generally, § 1-2.