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e e -10- 2. The use of sirens or flashing emergency lights upon the public streets of the City of La Porte shall be unlawful except when furnishing emergency ambulance service which has been dispatched or cleared by the police radio dispatcher. 3. It shall be unlawful to operate and drive an emergency ambulance on the public streets of the City of La Porte at a rate of speed of more than five (5) miles per hour in excess of the speed limits applicable to non-emergency vehicles. ' 4. It shall be unlawful to operate or drive an emergency ambulance in excess of ten (10) miles per hour while entering and passing through an intersection if such intersection is controllep by a Stop Sign or by a traffic signal which indicates Stop by displaying a red light. Section 15. Attendant's Qualifications. It shall be unlawful to operate or drive or cause to be operated or driven an emergency ambulance on the public streets , of the City of La Porte when furnishing emergency ambulance service unless a person meeting the following qualifications is an attendant on said ambulance: 1. The attendant must be seventeen (17) years of age or older. 2. The attendant must not have been convicted of a felony or of a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude within ten (10) years. Section 16. Driver or Attendant Must Have Firs't Aid Training. 1. It shall be unlawful to operate or drive, or cause to be operated or driven, an emergency ambulance on the public streets of the City of La Porte for the purpose of furnishing emergency ambulance service unless the driver thereof and the attendant thereon have in their possession a current Red Cross or Department of Interior (Bureau of Mines) card certifying that the holder thereof has passed the advanced Red Cross First Aid Course or the Bureau of Mines First Aid Course. . ~