Ordinance No. 4,576Published in: THE BAYTOWN SUN 61113 -4
Friday, Nov. 21, 1986
Sunday, Nov. 23, 1986
ORDINANCE NO. 4576
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN
ADOPTING A NEW CHAPTER OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE
CITY OF BAYTOWN, ENTITLED EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE;
DESCRIBING THE AREA SERVED; SETTING FEES TO BE CHARGED;
PROVIDING FOR THE REPEAL OF CONFLICTING ORDINANCES;
CONTAINING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR A PENALTY OF
TWO HUNDRED AND N01100 ($200.00); AND REQUIRING
PUBLICATION THEREOF.
Section 1: That the.Code of Ordinances, City of Baytown,
Texas, is hereby amended by adding a chapter, to be numbered
Chapter 10, which said chapter reads as follows:
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE
Sec. 10 -1. Definitions.
For the purposes of this chapter the following words
and phrases are defined as follows:
Additional Service Area. That area north of the
corporate limits of the City of Baytown as designated
on the additional emergency medical service area map
which is on file with the City Clerk's office, less any
area within such designated boundaries that is within
the city limits as defined in this chapter.
City Limits. For the purposes of this ordinance,
the city limits shall be that area in the City of
Baytown within its corporate limits, plus the plant
sites of those industries which have an industrial
district agreement with the City of Baytown, whether or
not such plant site is within or without the corporate
limits of the City of Baytown.
Emergency Ambulance. An ambulance used, designed,
or redesigned, and equipped for the primary purpose of
transporting sick or injured persons under emergency
circumstances, rendering of first aid or the
performance of rescue work, or both, under such
circumstances.
Emergency Circumstance. The existence of
circumstances in which the element of time and
expeditiously transporting an injured person for
medical or surgical treatment is essential to the
health or life of such person, in which rescue
operations or competent first aid or both at the place
of emergency may be essential to the health or life of
such person.
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Emergency Medical Service. A trip made by
emergency ambulance under emergency circumstances to
the place of emergency, performance of the necessary
rescue operations, rendering of any necessary first -aid
assistance and trip to the hospital or other place for
medical attention. An emergency ambulance shall be
considered on an emergency medical service call when it
is responding to a call for emergency assistance even
though, upon arrival of the place of emergency, it is
found no further emergency medical assistance is
required or when it is responding to a call for routine
service and during such trip, emergency circumstances
develop (whether because the call for assistance was
falsely made, or otherwise).
Person. The term "person" includes partnership,
firm, association, and corporation.
Sec. 10 -2. False calls or request for service.
Any person who wilfully, in writing or orally, or
by use of any telephone, telegram, radio or mechanical
device or contrivance whatsoever, or by any name known,
shall make, give, send a report, or communicate any
false call or request for emergency medical service or
communicate any false report or falsely report any act
or fact situation initially and voluntarily to the
dispatcher or to any person operating an ambulance
service in Baytown for the purpose of causing, or which
report or false call or request for services is
calculated to cause an ambulance to respond thereto, or
to do or perform some act or to do or render some
service as a result thereof, shall be guilty of an
offense. The offense denounced herein is basically the
offense of giving or causing to be given by any means a
false emergency medical service alarm or false
emergency medical service request, and nothing herein
shall be construed as including a prohibition against
the offense of false alarm or report already prohibited
by Section 42.06 of the Penal Code of the State of
Texas.
Sec. 10--3. Fees.
(a) To partially defer the cost incurred by the
City in providing emergency medical service, the
following fees are hereby established to be collected
from the user of emergency medical service for the
provision of such service by the City:
(1) For emergency medical service within the
city limits - $100.00.
(2) For emergency medical service to areas
within the City's additional service area -
$150.00.
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(b) Bills for emergency medical service that have
not been paid within 30 days of the date that such bill
was mailed by the City, shall be deemed delinquent.
Delinquent bills for emergency medical service shall be
charged 10% interest, plus reasonable attorney's fees if
a law suit is filed to collect the delinquency.
Sec. 10- 4.Emergency Medical Service Advisory Committee.
An ambulance medical service advisory committee is
hereby created, to consist of seven citizens who are
residents of the City. It shall be the duty of such
committee to recommend to the City Council
specifications for construction, equipment, and numbers
of emergency ambulances necessary to provide service by
the City of Baytown. It shall be the further duty of
such committee to meet at least two times per year. The
committee shall submit to the City Council from time to
time, its recommendations as to any specifications for
emergency ambulances and its recommendations as to
revisions to this chapter.
Section 2: All ordinances or parts of ordinances
inconsistent with the terms of this ordinance are hereby
repealed, provided however, that such repeal shall be only to the
extent of such inconsistency and in all other respects this
ordinance shall be cumulative of other ordinances regulating and
governing the subject matter covered by this ordinance.
Section 3: If any provision, section, exception,
subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this
ordinance or the application of same to any person or set of
circumstances, shall for any reason be held unconstitutional,
void or invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the validity of
the remaining provisions of this ordinance or their application
to other persons or sets of circumstances and to this end all
provisions of this ordinance are declared to be severable.
Section 4: Any person who shall violate any provision
of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not more than Two
Hundred and No /100 ($200.00) Dollars.
Section 5: This ordinance shall take effect from and
after ten (10) days from its passage by the City Council. The
City Clerk is hereby directed to give notice hereof by causing
the caption of this ordinance to be published in the official
newspaper of the City of Baytown at least twice within ten (10)
days after the passage of this ordinance
INTRODUCED, READ, and PASSED by the affirmative vote of
the City Council of the City of Baytown, this the 13th day of
November, 1986.
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ATTEST:
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EILEEN P. HALL, City Clerk
APPROVED:
RANDALL B. STRONG, Cit ttorney
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