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Home My WebLink About978 08-09-1988ORDINANCE NO. 978 AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING EMERGENCY AMBULANCE SERVICE; PROVIDING FOR THE OPERATION THEREOF BY THE CITY OF EULESS FIRE DEPARTMENT; PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF FEES AND CHARGES FOR EMERGENCY AMBULANCE SERVICE; PROVIDING AN OFFENSE FOR A FALSE REQUEST FOR EMERGENCY AMBULANCE SERVICE; PROVIDING AN OFFENSE FOR THE HINDERING, INTERFERING OR OBSTRUCTING OF EULESS FIRE DEPARTMENT EMERGENCY AMBULANCE PERSONNEL IN PROVIDING EMERGENCY CARE OR TRANSPORT OF INJURED OR ILL PERSONS; PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Euless, Texas, has determined that it would serve the best interests, health, safety and welfare of the citizens of Euless, Texas, to provide emergency ambulance service to the citizens of such city; and WHEREAS, the City Council has concluded that the most efficient and effective emergency ambulance service would be provided by the city through the Euless Fire Department; and WHEREAS, the City Council desires by the enactment of this ordinance to establish an emergency ambulance service and provide for the operation and administration thereof. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EULESS, TEXAS: I. The City of Euless, Texas, shall provide emergency ambulance service within the corporate limits of the City of Euless, Texas, and outside such corporate limits under such mutual aid agreements as may be from time to time established by and between the City of Euless and other political subdivisions and as herein further provided. II. The City Manager of the City of Euless, Texas, is authorized to provide for the equipping, operation and administration of such emergency ambulance service, which emergency ambulance service shall be operated by the Euless Fire Department and shall be under the supervision and control of the Chief of the Fire Department, subject to the guidelines herein established and under such rules and regulations as the Chief of the Euless Fire Department shall, with the approval of the Euless City Manager, from time to time promulgate for the proper c aeration thereof. III. The Euless City Manager shall designate an emergency ambulance medical director who shall be a physician licensed to practice medicine in the state of Texas and who shall advise the Chief of the Euless Fire Department in the administration, equipping, training and operation of the Euless emergency ambulance service. IV. The Euless Fire Department shall provide only emergency ambulance service and requests for emergency ambulance service shall be made to the Euless Police Department and /or the Euless Fire Department. The Chief of the Euless Fire Department and Chief of the Euless Police Department shall establish the appropriate procedures, rules and regulations for the receipt and coordination of requests for emergency ambulance service and the dispatch of Fire Department personnel and equipment in response thereto. Euless Fire Department emergency ambulance attendants shall have the authority to pick up and transport any injured or sick persons found on public or private property as determined by such emergency ambulance attendants to then and there have need for emergency care and /or transport for such injury or illness. Emergency ambulance attendants, under rules and regulations promulgated as herein provided, shall have the sole authority to determine the medical facility to which the injured or ill person requiring emergency medical transport shall be taken. V. Emergency ambulance service may be provided to injured or ill persons outside the corporate limits of the City of Euless, Texas, when a mutual aid agreement exists by and between the City of Euless, Texas, and the political subdivision wherein such injured or ill person shall be located, or upon determination of the existence of emergency circumstances by the Fire Chief of the City of Euless, Texas, or his designate. VI. Fees and charges for emergency ambulanc Euless, Texas, will be as established and as may, action of the Euless City Council, which action minute order of such Council. The person for and /or transport has been provided, or, in the e-v such person's parent, spouse or guardian shall be fees or charges for such emergency ambulance fees shall be payable to the City of Euless, Texas. service provided by the City of .rom time to time be amended, by nay be by ordinance, resolution or vhom emergency ambulance care ant such person be under disability, responsible for the payment of all care and/or transportation, which EMERGENCY AMBULANCE SERVICE ORDINANCE Page 2 ORDINANCE NO. 978 PAGE 2 OF 4 ►"J No person shall initiate, communicate or request the dispatch of emergency medical or ambulance service of the City of Euless, Texas, knowing that such request is false or baseless. VIII. No person shall, with intent, hinder, interfere or obstruct personnel of the Euless Fire Department in providing emergency medical care or transport for any person or persons. IX. No person, firm or corporation shall provide ambulance service for the transport of persons from locations within the corporate limits of the City of Euless, texas, except only for non — emergency calls, transfers or the transport of deceased persons, except as may be specifically authorized under mutual aid agreements of the City of Euless, Texas, or by the Fire Chief of the City of Euless, Texas, or his designate, upon the determination of the existence of an emergency as provided in Article V. above. X. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the terms and provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in an amount not more than $1,000.00. Each such violation shall be deemed a separate offense and shall be punishable as such hereunder. XI. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and publication as provided by the Euless City Charter and the laws of the State of Texas. XII. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this ordinance are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this ordinance shall be declared invalid or unconstitutional by the valid judgment cr decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections of this ordinance, since the same would have been enacted by the City Council without the incorporation in this ordinance of any such invalid or unconstitutional phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section. EMERGENCY AMBULANCE SERVICE ORDINANCE Page 3 ORDINANCE NO. 978 PAGE 3 OF 4 XIII. By the affirmative vote of four or more of its members, the City Council declares that this is an ordinance for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health, and safety, and is an emergency measure within the meaning of Article 11, Section 11 of the City Charter; and the requirement that it be read at two meetings, as specified in Section 11, is hereby dispensed with. PRESENTED AND PASSED on first and final reading on the 9th day of August, 1988, at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Euless, Texas, by a vote of 5 ayes, 0 nayes and 0 abstentions. APPROVED: Harold Samuels, Mayor ATTEST: %�- Kay Ralney 'Ity Secretary ' APP AS 10 Bob McFarland, City Attorney MRM:0101a:msl:8988 EMERGENCY AMBULANCE SERVICE ORDINANCE Page 4 ORDINANCE NO. 978 PAGE 4 OF 4 RATE SCHEDULE MEISSNER -BROWN OXYGEN $ 20.00 OXYGEN MASK/NASAL COLLAR 5.75 AIRWAY 3.00 E. T. TUBE 10.00 SUCTION CATHETER /TUBING 1.00 NS 0.9% 500 ML IRR 14.50 IV CATHS 4.00 IV OCCULSIVE DRESSING 1.50 IV EXTENSION 5.00 IV MINI DRIP 14.50 IV STANDARD 14.50 D5W 500 ML 14.50 D5W/0.45% NS 18.00 NS 1,000 CC 14.50 RINGERS LACTATE 1,000 ML. 20.00 BLOOD TUBES .50 EXTRICATION COLLAR 40.00 EKG 35.00 EOA - ET THERAPY 40.00 IV THERAPY BANDAGING MATERIAL 18.50 0. B. KIT 21.50 BURN SHEET 15.00 AMINOPHYLLINE 6.50 ATROPINE 18.00 BENEDRYL 50 MG. 6.00 BRETYLOL 500 MG. INJ. 46.00 CALCIUM CHLORIDE 18.00 DECADRON 24 MG. INJ. 10.00 DEXTROSE 50% 50 ML SYRINGE DOPAMINE 400 MG 12.75 EPINEPHRINE 1:1,000 5.00 EPINEPHRINE 1:10,000 14.50 HYPERSTAT 300 MG SYRINGE 75.00 INSTAGLUCOSE 5.00 ISUPREL 1 MG. LASIX 40 MG. 18.00 LIDOCAINE 100 MG. SYRINGE 18.50 LIDOCAINE 2 GM. SYRINGE 22.50 MORPHINE SULFATE 15 MG TBX 6.50 NARCAN 0.4 MG INJ. 21.50 NITROGLYCERINE TABLETS 0.4 MG. 1.25 (250 MG.) CITY OF EULESS $ 25.00 25.00 40.00 25.00 40.00 25.00 25.00 8.00 6.00 8.00 5.00 12.00 6.00 65.00 15.00 15.00 4.00 5.00 60.00 3.00 8.00 8.00 5.00 8.00 4.00 4.00 1.00 (500 MG) NITRONOX NITROL OINT /DOSE NUBAIN 10 MG. INJ. PHENERGAN 25 MG. INJ. PROCAINAMIDE PHYSOSTIGMINE 2 MG. INJ. PITOCIN SODIUM BICARB 50 MEQ (ADULT) SODIUM BICARB (PEDIATRICT) SYRUP OF IPECAC THIAMINE 100 MG TBX VALIUM 10 MG. SYRINGE VERAPIMIL MEISSNER -BROWN CITY OF EULESS $ 30.00 $ 20.00 1.00 5.50 4.00 3.50 3.00 38.50 15.00 5.00 3.00 3.00 18.50 8.00 15.50 8.00 5.00 4.00 6.00 4.00 11.00 5.00 17.00