District of Columbia Code Division I. Government of District. § 7-2341.02. Applicability and exemptions.

(1) Person performing the duties of emergency services personnel, compensated or uncompensated, within the District of Columbia;

(2) Entity providing emergency medical services within the District of Columbia, public or private, for-profit or not-for-profit, including owners or operators of emergency medical services agencies and owners or operators of emergency medical response vehicles; and

(3) Person and entity providing emergency medical services training and instruction, public or private, for-profit or not-for-profit, within the District of Columbia.

(1) The unexpected rendering of immediate care by a private citizen, or the unexpected use of a privately owned vehicle which is not ordinarily used in the business of transporting persons who are sick, injured, wounded, or otherwise incapacitated or helpless, in the performance of a lifesaving act;

(2) Agencies, vehicles, or training facilities owned or operated by the United States government and operating on federal property;

(3) Agencies operating within the District of Columbia pursuant to mutual aid agreements;

(4) Validly licensed or certified emergency medical response vehicles based outside the District which do not otherwise constitute public vehicles for hire; and

(5) Validly licensed vehicles operated solely for the transportation of non-emergency patients to and from treatment facilities as outpatients; provided, that this exemption shall not apply to any vehicle which is in any way held out as an emergency medical response vehicle.