Ordinance No. 10,239ORDINANCE NO. 10,239
Published in the Baytown Sun
on January 17, 2006 and
January 19, 2006
® AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS, AMENDING CHAPTER
30 "EMERGENCY SERVICES," ARTICLE III "EMERGENCY MEDICAL
SERVICES," DIVISION 3 "SERVICES," SECTION 30 -153 "FEES" OF THE CODE
OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS, TO REVISE
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE CHARGES AND CONFORM THE SAME TO
THE MEDICARE REIMBURSEMENT GUIDELINES; PROVIDING A REPEALING
CLAUSE; CONTAINING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR THE
PUBLICATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE THEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS:
Section 1: That Chapter 30 "Emergency Services," Article III "Emergency Medical
Services," Division 3 "Services," Section 30 -153 "Fees" of the Code of Ordinances, City of Baytown,
Texas, is hereby amended to read as follows:
CHAPTER 30 EMERGENCY SERVICES
ARTICLE III. EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
Division 3. Services
See. 30 -153. Fees.
(a) To partially defer the cost incurred by the city in providing emergency medical service, the
following basic fees are established to be collected from the user of emergency medical service
provided by the city:
Treatment - -no transport .......................
Basic life support, emergency .............
Advanced life support, emergency......
Advanced life support II, emergency..
Ambulance Stand -By .......................
..... $ 150.00
........500.00
........600.00
........700.00
.. $150/hour
(b) In addition, the following fees are established to be collected as applicable:
Mileage (per patient mile) ................................. ..............................$ 10.00
Response to areas outside city limits ....................... .........................150.00
(c) 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 ten percent interest, plus reasonable attorney's fees if a lawsuit is filed to
collect the delinquency.
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ordinance are hereby repealed; provided, however, that such repeal shall be only to the extent of such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 or 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 the 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: 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 passage of this ordinance.
INTRODUCED, READ, and PASSED by the affirmative vote of the City Council of the City of
Baytown, this the 12'h day of January, 2006.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
4AC10 RAMIREZ, SR., C' Attorney
CALVIN MUNDINGER, Mayor
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