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8-11-75
ORDINANCE NO. NS- 1273
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA AMENDING THE
SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE BY AMENDING SECTION
14-23 BY PROVIDING THE AUTHORITY TO ESTABLISH AND
COLLECT FEES FOR MEDICAL CARE AND EMERGENCY SER-
VICES RENDERED BY PARAMEDICS USING PARAMEDIC VEHI-
CLES OWNED BY THE CITY OF SANTA ANA OR OTHER CITY
OF SANTA ANA FIRE DEPARTMENT VEHICLES WHERE THE
PERSON IS NOT TRANSPORTED BY A CITY OWNED PARAMEDIC
OR OTHER FIRE DEPARTMENT VEHICLE
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1: That the Santa Aha Municipal Code is hereby
amended by amending Section 14-23, to read as follows:
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 owned by the City of Santa Aha to a hospital for
medical care and for emergency services rendered to persons
by paramedics, and for emergency services and medical care
rendered to persons by paramedics using City of Santa Aha
owned paramedic vehicles or other City of Santa Ana Fire
Department vehicles where the person is not transported by
a City owned paramedic or other Fire Department vehicle.
The City Council may establish such fees by resolution.
The Fire Chief shall notify the Director of Finance
following such emergency transportation, medical care, or
emergency services, in writing of the name and address of
the person, date and time of the transportation, medical care,
or emergency 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, medical care
gency services shall not be less than the average
by commercial ambulances for comparable services
and emer-
fees charged
in the City.
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 action brought in the name of
the City for recovery of such amount, including reasonable
attorney's 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 irrespec-
tive of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections,
clauses, phrases or portions be declared invalid or unconstitu-
tional.
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SECTION 3: The adoption of this Ordinance shall not
in any manner affect any billing or collection of any fee esta-
blished pursuant to City Council resolution pursuant to
City Ordinance No. NS-1255 which fee became due or payable
tO the City of Santa Ana prior to the effective date of this
Ordinance, and all rights and obligations under Ordinance
No. NS- 1255and any resolutions adopted pursuant thereto shall
continue in full force and effect.
SECTION 4: This Ordinance shall take effect 30 (thirty)
days from and after the date of its adoption.
SECTION 5: The Clerk of the Council shall certify
to the passage and adoption of this ordinance and shall cause
the same to be published in the official newspaper of the
City of Santa /kna within fifteen (15) days after its adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City
of Santa A~a at its regular meeting held on the
2nd day of September , 1975.
ATTEST:
~.CLERK OF T}IE 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
foregoing Ordinance was introduced to said Council at its
regular meeting held on the 18th day of August ,
1975, and was again considered by said Council at its
regular meeting held on the 2nd day of
September, 1975, and was at said meet-~i~-passed and adopted
by the following vote, to wit:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
COUNCILMEN: Evans, Bricken, 0rtiz, Yamamoto,
Garthe, Brandt, Ward
COUNCILMEN: None
COUNCIIJMEN: None
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
KEITH L. GOW, CITY ATTORNEY