Section 450B.260 - Operation of ambulance, air ambulance or fire-fighting vehicle used to provide certain medical care without licensed driver and attendant prohibited; exceptions1. Except as otherwise provided in this section or as authorized by the Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact ratified by section 2 of this act, the public or private owner of an ambulance or air ambulance or a fire-fighting agency which owns a vehicle used in providing medical care to sick or injured persons at the scene of an emergency or while transporting those persons to a medical facility shall not permit its operation and use by any person not licensed under this chapter.2. An ambulance carrying a sick or injured patient must be occupied by a driver and an attendant, each of whom is licensed as an attendant pursuant to this chapter , exempt from licensing pursuant to subsection 7 of NRS 450B.160 or authorized to practice in this State under the Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact ratified by section 2 of this act, except as otherwise provided in subsection 5 or in geographic areas which may be designated by the board and for which the board may prescribe lesser qualifications.3. An air ambulance carrying a sick or injured patient must be occupied by a licensed attendant, a person exempt from licensing pursuant to subsection 7 of NRS 450B.160 or a person authorized to practice in this State under the Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact ratified by section 2 of this act, in addition to the pilot of the aircraft.4. The pilot of an air ambulance is not required to have a license under this chapter.5. A person who operates or uses a vehicle owned by a fire-fighting agency is not required to be licensed under this chapter, except that such a vehicle may not be used to provide the level of medical care provided by an advanced emergency medical technician or paramedic to sick or injured persons: (a) At the scene of an emergency unless at least one person in the vehicle is licensed to provide the care; or(b) While transporting those persons to a medical facility unless at least two persons in the vehicle are licensed to provide the care.6. Nothing in this section precludes the operation of an aircraft in this State in a manner other than as an air ambulance.Added to NRS by 1973, 1145; A 1985, 1699; 1993, 320; 2001, 999; 2013, 620, 947; 2019, 2095Amended by 2023, Ch. 391,§11, eff. 10/1/2023.Amended by 2019, Ch. 341,§8, eff. 10/1/2019.Added to NRS by 1973, Ch. 649, § 27 [Ch. 649]; A 1985, Ch. 558, § 17 [Ch. 558]; 1993, Ch. 180, § 6 [Ch. 180]; 2001, Ch. 221, § 7 [Ch. 221]; 2013, Ch. 175, § 10 [Ch. 175], 947 [Ch. 226]