§ 6.56.260. Medical coverage.

The licensee of the commercial outdoor activity shall be responsible for making adequate plans for medical coverage of performers employees, participants, customers and spectators.

There should be at least one general physician per fifteen hundred persons and one physician with training and experience in psychiatry per ten thousand persons available on site all the time during preparation and performance of the outdoor activity. These general and psychiatric physicians shall be required to have valid licenses to practice medicine and surgery in the state, and also shall hold valid federal narcotic stamps.

In addition to those physicians mentioned above, there may be aids to render help. However, they shall be under direct supervision of the licensed physicians.

Adequate medical supply, including material for first aid and minor emergency surgery, shall be available on site.

An adequately protected area shall be set aside for the purpose of medical care. Also, an area suitable for recovery from reaction to drug abuse shall be available.

The licensee shall make arrangements for emergency medical and surgical care with existing local hospital facilities.

The licensee shall furnish effective means of evacuation of the sick and wounded from the commercial outdoor activity site to hospital facilities for definitive treatment.

The licensee's plans for the above medical preparedness shall be subject to approval by the county health officer, and such approval is a prerequisite to the issuance of a license for commercial outdoor activity.

(Ord. 1743 § 1 (part), 1977: Ord. 1101 § 2 (part), 1970: prior code § 8-565)