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ORDINANCE NO. 1801
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORTH
RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS ESTABLISHING EMERGENCY AMBULANCE
SERVICE IN NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS ESTABLISHING THE
BASIS FOR SETTING RATES FOR THE USE OF SUCH SERVICE;
PROHIBITING FALSE STATEMENT OF EMERGENCY; ORDAINING OTHER
MATTERS RELATING TO THE SUBJECT; PROVIDING A PENALTY;
PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION; AND PRESCRIBING AN EFFECTIVE
DATE.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of North Richland
Hills has determined that it is in the best interest of the
citizens of North Richland Hills to make Emergency Ambulance
Service available to said citizens; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of North Richland
Hills deems the availability of such service to be a municipal
function and that charges should be made to those who utilize such
service and that charges should be established.
THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS; that
Section 1. The City of North Richland Hills shall provide
Emergency Ambulance Service wi thin the
corporate limits of the City of North Richland
Hills, 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 North Richland Hills and other
cities and as herein further provided.
Section 2. Requests for Emergency Ambulance Service
shall be made to the 9-1-1 Public Safety
Dispatcher. Calls shall be answered by
the Fire Department of the City of North
Richland Hills. Ambulance attendants shall
have the authority to pick up any injured or
sick person (s) found on public or private
property whenever the need arises and also
when and if requested to do so by some person
responsible for the sick or injured person
when that person is a minor child or of other
incompetence that they are unable to express
their desire for treatment and transportation
to a hospital.
Section 3. Ambulance Service shall be provided by the
Fire Department of the City of North Richland
Hills and shall be under the supervision and
control of the Chief of the Fire Department
and subject to the rules and regulations set
forth in this ordinance and subject to any
rules and regulations which may hereafter be
established by Ordinance, Resolution or order
of the City Council, and subject to the
guidelines herein established and under such
rules and regulations as the Chief of the
North Richland Hills Fire Department may
promulgate for the proper operation thereof.
Section 4. Ambulance Service will be provided to persons
outside the City only when:
a. A mutual aid agreement has been agreed upon
and approved by the City Manager and Fire
Chief.
b. Any emergency which shall be determined
to be an emergency by the authority of the
Fire Chief of the City of North Richland
Hills or by his designate in the event of
the Fire Chief's absence.
Section 5. Only Emergency ambulance calls will be
answered.
Section 6. It shall be the sole responsibility of the
Fire Department person in charge of the
ambulance at the emergency scene as to which
hospital the patient will be transported to
based on the patients condition and the
capabilities of the receiving hospital.
Section 7. The fees and charges for the use of the City
of North Richland Hills, Texas, ambulance
service shall be established by action of the
City Council.
Section 8. The person transported, or in the event such
person is a minor or incompetent, then such
person's parent or guardian, shall be
responsible for the fees or charges incurred
for the City Emergency Ambulance Service.
Such fees or charges shall be payable to the
City of North Richland Hills at 7301 N.E. Loop
820, or Post Office Box 820609, North Richland
Hills, Tarrant County, Texas 76182-0609.
Section 9. False alarm or report: It shall be unlawful
for any person to willfully inform the 9-1-1
Public Safety Dispatcher, or other police or
fire official that any ambulance or more than
one ambulance is needed at a location or
address when such person knows that such
statement is false.
Section 10. Any person, firm, corporation, agent or
employee thereof who violates any of the
provisions of section 9, of this ordinance
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
conviction thereof shall be punished by:
a. A fine not to exceed two hundred dollars
($200.00).
b. Confinement in the county jail for a term
not to exceed one year, or
c. Both such fine and imprisonment. Each such
violation shall be deemed a separate
offense and shall be punishable as such
hereunder.
Section 11. This ordinance is not to limit a subsidy plan
with any other municipal government if
approved by the majority of Council of the
City of North Richland Hills, Texas.
Section 12. No person, firm or corporation shall provide
ambulance service for the transport of persons
from locations within the corporate limits of
the City of North Richland Hills, Texas except
only for non-emergency calls or the transport
of deceased persons, except as may be
specifically authorized under mutual aid
agreements of the City of North Richland
Hills, Texas or by the fire chief of the
North Richland Hills Fire Department or his
designate, upon the determination of the
existence of an emergency.
Section 13. This Ordinance rescinds Ordinances #698 and
#707, effectively upon the passage of this
Ordinance by the Council of the City of North
Richland Hills, Texas.
Section 14. The caption and penalty clause of this
Ordinance shall be published in the official
City newspaper.
Section 15. This Ordinance shall be effective immediately
upon its passage and the publication of its
caption and penalty clause as provided by law.
PASSED AND APPROVED at a regular City Council Meeting of
the City of North Richland Hills, Texas this 11 th day of
May , 1992.
APPROVED:
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City Secretary
TO FORM AND LEGALITY:
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LEGAL AFFIDAVIT
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An ordlancei..,""ØIIIIíItrtIII ...he City of North
Rlehland Hllis. Texas:' estabUshlngemergency am-
bulance servtce In North Rlchland .Hills; estabUsh.
.Ing the b8$ls for setlng rates for the ute of such
·..rvtee; prohibiting falsa statement of emergency'
ordaining other matters relating to the subject:
providing a penalty of a fine not to exceed $200:
and prescribing an effective date. .
APPROVED:
/e/Tommy Brown
Mayor
ATTEST:
Is/Jeanette Rewis
City Secretary
MCN CPN' 871
PUB: 05/17/92
THE STATE OF TEXAS:
COUNTY OF TARRANT
Before me, the undersigned authority on this day personally ap-
peared MARGIE LANGLEY
known to me to be a credible person, who
first being sworn, deposed and upon her oath said:
That she is the C. L . A. R . of the MID C I TI ES NFWS
, a newspa-
per which has been regularly and continuously published and of general
circulation in the City!Town of N. RICHLAND HILLS ,for a period of
,more than one year next preceding the first publication of the attached
LEGAL AD
and that he caused said notice to be published in
said newspaper on the following date(s).
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That the attached is a true and correct copy of said notice as
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published on said date(s) in said NEWSPAPER /]
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Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the {ttLday of {ftq,ð-
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TARRANT County, Texas