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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA ANA AMENDING THE SANTA ANA
MUNICIPAL CODE BY ADDING SECTION 14-23
PROVIDING AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH AND
COLLECT FEES FOR PARAMEDIC SERVICES
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION l: That the Santa
by adding a section, to be
section reads as follows:
Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended
numbered Section 14-23, which said
Sec. 14-23. Fees for Paramedic Services
The City may establish and collect fees for emergency
transportation of persons in paramedic or other Fire
Department vehicles to a hospital for medical care
and for emergency services rendered to persons by
paramedics. The City Council may establish such
fees by resolution.
The Fire Chief shall notify the Director of Finance
following such emergency transportation and/or services
in writing of the name and address of the person,
date and time of the services performed, and such
other information as may be required. The Director
of Finance shall thereafter cause appropriate billings
to be made.
Such fees for transportation shall not
the average fees charged by commercial
for comparable services in the city.
be less than
ambulances
The amount of such fees charged shall be deemed a
debt to the city of the person or persons receiving
said services and, if minors, their parents or guardians.
Any person owing money shall be liable in an an action
brought in the name of the city for recovery of such
amount, including reasonable attorney fees.
SECTION 2: If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase
or portion of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid
or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent
jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council of the
City of Santa Ana hereby declares that it would have adopted
this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause,
phrase or portion thereof irrespective of the fact that any one
or more sections, subsections, clauses, phrases or portions be
declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 3: This ordinance shall take effect thirty days after
'its adoption.
SECTION 4: The Clerk of the Council shall certify to the passage
6f this ordinance and cause the same to be published in some
daily newspaper printed and published in the City of Santa Ana.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City
Santa Ana at its regular
meeting held on the Sth day of MaT
19 75
Council of the City of
ORDINANCE NO. NS- 1255
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ATTEST:
CLERK OF THE COUNCIL
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.:
CITY OF SANTA ANA )
I, FLORENCE I. MALONE, do hereby certify that I am the
Clerk of the Council of the City of Santa Ana; that the fore-
going Ordinance was introduced to said Council at its
regular meeting held on the 21stday of Apr±l , 1975,
and was again considered by said Council at its
regular meeting held on the 5th day of MaX ,
1975, and was at said meeting passed and adopted by the
following vote, to wit:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: Evans, Yamamoto, Ortiz,
Brandt, Ward
NOES: COUNCILMEN: None
Garthe,
ABSENT:
COUNCILMEN: Bricken
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