License required - Fees

1. A person, as an owner, agent or otherwise, may not operate, conduct, maintain, advertise, or otherwise engage in or profess to be engaged in operating a basic life support ambulance service or advanced life support ambulance service in this state unless that person holds a license as a basic life support ambulance service or advanced life support ambulance service or is exempt from these requirements. 2. The license shall expire midnight on October thirty-first of the even year following issuance. The department shall relicense for a two-year period, expiring on October thirty-first, a basic life support or advanced life support ambulance service successfully meeting the requirements of the North Dakota ambulance service licensure program. 3. A license is valid only for the entity for which it is issued. A license may not be sold, assigned, or transferred. 4. The license decal shall be displayed in a conspicuous place inside the patient compartment of the ambulance vehicle. 5. The nonrefundable biennial license fee shall be fifty dollars for each ground ambulance service, including headquarters, substations, and industrial ambulance services. 6. Entities solely providing nonemergency health transportation services are not required to obtain a license under chapter 23-27 of the North Dakota Century Code as long as they do not advertise or offer emergency medical services to the general public or render acute medical care.