68-140-526 - Color schemes for ambulances in certain jurisdictions.
68-140-526. Color schemes for ambulances in certain jurisdictions.
(a) Notwithstanding department of health rule 1200-12-1.02(3)(a)-(f), or any other provision of law to the contrary, any municipality, located within any county having a population of more than eight hundred thousand (800,000), according to the 2000 federal census or any subsequent federal census, that owns, operates or maintains ambulances as a part of the services provided by the municipality is authorized to select the color of its ambulances; provided, that the color scheme is the same as is used by the fire department in the municipality.
(b) The provisions of subsection (a) shall also apply in any county having a metropolitan form of government and a population in excess of five hundred thousand (500,000), according to the 2000 federal census or any subsequent federal census.
(c) Subsection (a) shall also apply in any county having a population of not less than one hundred fifty-three thousand (153,000) nor more than one hundred fifty-three thousand one hundred (153,100), according to the 2000 federal census or any subsequent federal census.
[Acts 2006, ch. 731, § 2; 2008, ch. 783, § 1.]