5868 AMENDING CITY CODE CHAPTER 50 - AMBULANCES AND INVALID COACHES

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. . ' , i t � . -6- c. Equipped with the safety devices and equipment required for second division vehicles by the provisions of the Illinois Vehicle Code; d. Periodically inspected and tested as required for second division vehicles by the pYovisions of the I1linois Vehicle Code and have issued thereto and displayed thereon a currently valid certificate of safety as requixed for second division vehicles under the Code; e. Maintained in a clean, safe and sanitary manner. 9. At all times when an invalid aoach is in u�e in the City as an invalid coach, it shall comply with subsections a, c, d and e of Section 8 of this Chapter and it sha11 be so furnished and equipped as to safetly and comfortably transport the person then being transported and to provide such care, supervision, attendance, appliances and devices as the condition or debility of such patient may then require. 10. On and after Jar�uary 1, 1976, every vehicle used as an ambu- lance, except in the case of a major catastxophe or extreme emergencies in which the number of ambulances operated by licensed services in the City are insufficient to render the service required, shall be designed and constructed with a driver co�artment, and a patient co�artment which can accomodate at least one attendant and tw�o litter patients so posi- tioned that at least one patient can be given intensive life support care during transit and �ich vvi,ll accomodate the required equipment and sup- plies which will affoxd maximum safety and comfvxt and avoid aggravation of the condition of the patient, exposure to complications or threat to survival, all in accordance with Yecognized or recom�ended design and construction criteria v�ich may be adopted by the City Manager by adminis- trative directive filed by him from time to time with the City Clerk.