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e e Street means any street, alley, avenue, boulevard, drive or highway commonly used for the purpose of travel within the corporate limits of the city. Transfer ambulance means any motor vehicle constructed, equipped and used for transferring the sick or injured under circumstances which do not constitute an emergency and which have not been represented as an emergency. Transfer call means any request for ambulance service that is made by telephone, or other means of communication in circumstances which are or have been represented to be of a non-emergent nature requiring non-emergent service. Sec. 30-80. Licenses Required (a) No person, either as owner, agent or otherwise shall operate, conduct, maintain, advertise or otherwise be engaged in or profess to be engaged in the business of ambulance service upon the streets, alleys or any public way or place of La Porte, Texas, unless he holds a currently valid license for an ambulance vehicle and an ambulance company, issued pursuant to this chapter. (b) Ambulance vehicle licenses, ambulance company licenses, and attendant-driver's licenses shall be issued for one (1) year or any part thereof during which an ambulance service is maintained. License fees of two hundred dollars ($200.00) per company; fifty dollars ($50.00) per ambulance unit or five hundred dollars ($500.00) per fleet for fifteen (15) or more vehicles; fifty dollars ($50.00) per attendant-driver shall be due and payable at the time of application. The licensure period shall be from October 1 st of each year to the 30th day of September of the subsequent year. Fees will not be prorated. (c) No person shall act as an attendant-driver on any ambulance operated under this chapter unless he or she holds a valid attendant-driver license issued pursuant to this chapter. A twenty-one (21) day temporary permit may be issued at the time of application for license. It shall be the responsibility of the chief EMS officer to verify the applicant's certification status through the Texas Department of State Health Services. (d) All licenses issued pursuant to this chapter are not assignable or transferable and remain the property of the city. (e) No official entry made upon a license may be defaced, removed or obliterated. (f) All licenses shall be available for inspection by any officer of the city at all times.