HomeMy WebLinkAbout020409 ORD - 07/26/1988AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING THE CITY CODE, BY ADDING A NEW ARTICLE II,
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES, SECTION 18-20, AMBULANCE RATES,
TO CHAPTER 18, FIRE PREVENTION AND PROTECTION; PROVIDING FOR
SEVERANCE; AND PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI,
TEXAS:
SECTION 1. That the City Code is hereby amended by adding a new
Article I I , Emergency Medical Service, Section 18-20, Ambulance Rates, to
Chapter 18, Fire Prevention and Protection, to read as follows:
Sec. 18-20. Ambulance Rates.
Ambulance rates for Emergency Medical Service shall be
charged as follows:
A. Base Rates
(1) Basic life support base rate (BLS)
(2) Advanced life support base rate (ALS)
(3) Neonate transports
(4) Neonate Transports (additional charge for
those calls which exceed one hour in
length or any part thereof)
(5) Out of city calls, basic life support
(6) Out of city calls, advanced life support
(7) Basic aid, no transport
(8) Advanced aid, no transport
$110.00
175.00
250.00
100.00
175.00
225.00
50.00
150.00
B. Supplementary Charges
(1) Emergency runs within or outside the city, but
within Nueces County, requiring the administration
of oxygen, providing a $10.00 charge in addition
to the appropriate charge defined in Subsection A
of this Section.
(2) Providing a mileage charge of $2.00 per mile, for
those calls out of the city limits, from patient
pick up point to the hospital
C. That the Corpus Christi EMS ambulance service rates be
reviewed annually, in June, to determine the need for
increases.
206JB150.ord
20409
SECTION 2. Ordinances 14936, 15886, 16069, 16474, and 19707 are
repealed.
SECTION 3. If for any reason any section, paragraph, subdivision,
clause, phrase, word or provision of this ordinance shall be held invalid or
unconstitutional by final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, it
shall not affect any other section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word
or provision of this ordinance for it is the definite intent of this City
Council that every section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word or
provision hereof be given full force and effect for its purpose.
SECTION 4. Publication shall be made one time in the official
publication of the City of Corpus Christi by publishing the caption stating in
substance the purpose of the ordinance, this ordinance to become effective
August 1, 1988.
206JB150.ord
That the foregoing ordinance was read for he first time and passed to its
second reading on this the faday of 197Y by the
following vote:
Betty N. Turner Bill Pruet
David Berlanga, Sr.
Leo Guerrero
Clif Moss
J41,01411,
Mary Rhodes
Frank Schwing, Jr.
Mary Pat Slavik
Linda Strong
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That the foregoing ordinance tv.§ read for he second time and passed to its
third reading on this the /f+4i day of 19 gg by the
following vote:
Betty N. Turner
David Berlanga, Sr.
Leo Guerrero
Clif Moss
atiL,
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That the foregoing ordinance
this th%2C0 day of
Betty N. Turner
David Berlanga, Sr.
Leo Guerrero
Clif Moss
was
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(te-p
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Bill Pruet
Mary Rhodes
Frank Schwing, Jr.
Mary Pat Slavik
Linda Strong
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read for the third time and passed finally on
19 ,cq by the following vote:
Bill Pruet
Mary Rhodes
Frank Schwing, Jr.
Mary Pat Slavik
Linda Strong
PASSED AND APPROVED, this the og'40 day of
ATTEST:
C'ty Secretary
APPROVED:
7/A DAY OF 5r -
HAL
GEO'. , ITY ATTOR
By
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Assis ant City Attorney
99.044.01
AYOR
THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
204e9 MICROFILMED
PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT
State of Texas, ] CITY OF C C
County of Nueces ] ss: Ad # 12824
Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally came
Iris Yap, who being first duly sworn, according to law, says
that she is a Senior Accounting Clerk of the Corpus Christi Caller -
Times, a daily newspaper published at Corpus Christi in said County
and State, generally circulated in Aransas, Bee, Brooks, Cameron,
Duval, Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Karnes, Kenedy, Kleberg, Live
Qak, Refugio, San Patricia, and Victoria Counties, and that the;,
publication of"NOTICE OF PASSAGE OF ORDINANCE #20409 "of
which the annexed is a true copy, was published in the Corpus Christi
Caller -Times on the lst day of August 1988 and each day there-
after for consecutive day(s)
One Times
$33.60
Subibed and s�to before me this _8th day of August ,1988
‘L'\CL.A11>
Senior Aecvunttg Clerk
EDNAKOSTER
Notary Public, Nces County, Texas
My commission expires on 11.30.1988