HomeMy WebLinkAbout021210 ORD - 08/06/1991AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING THE CITY CODE BY AMENDING SECTION 18-20,
AMBULANCE RATES, TO PROVIDE FOR AN INCREASE IN FEES;
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 amending Article II,
Emergency Medical Service, Chapter 18, Fire Prevention and Protection, Section 18-20,
Ambulance Rates, 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 transport (Charged to the requesting
hospital)
(4) Neonate transport (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
(9) Basic Aid, no transport, outside city limits
(10) Advanced Aid, no transport, outside city limits
$250.00
350.00
275.00
110.00
300.00
400.00
60.00
300.00
85.00
350.00
B. Supplementary Charges
(1) Emergency runs within or outside the city, but within Nueces
County, requiring the administration of oxygen, providing a
$15.00 charge in addition to the appropriate charge defined in
Subsection A of this Section.
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Providing a mileage charge of $3.00 per mile for those calls
inside the city limits and $6.00 for those calls out of the city
limits, from patient pick up point to the hospital.
Providing a fee for responding to a medical alarm which is a
malfunction, no one at home, no one injured, $60.00
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(4) The City Manager is authorized to establish charges, not to
exceed the reasonable cost of providing the service, for other
supplementary services such as providing standby equipment
and crews at special events and attending training courses.
C. That the Corpus Christi EMS ambulance service rates be reviewed as
needed to determine the need for increases.
SECTION 2. 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 3. 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 upon such publication.
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That the foregoing ordinan
the ,22). day of
Mary Rhodes
Cezar Galindo
Leo Guerrero
e was read for t first time and passed to its
, 19 I , by the following vote:
Betty Jean Longoria thy
That the foregoing ordnance was read for thR
9 - by the following vote:
this the ;') day of,�r ✓ , 1
Mary Rhodes C C 1 -
Cezar Galindo (7
Leo Guerrero i %
Betty Jean Longoria (11/ -
Edward A. Martin
Joe McComb
Dr. David McNichols
Clif Moss
Mary Pat Slavik
second time and passed
Edward A. Martin
Joe McComb
Dr. David McNichols
Clif Moss
Mary Pat Slavik
second reading on zrns
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to its third reading on
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That the oregoin rdinance1 w s read for the third time and passed finally on this the
day of I.(.Lt�it ,191
Mary Rhodes . C kt- j Edward A. Martin
Cezar Galindo tit 1,1 Joe McComb
Leo Guerrero OlLa L il:f, Dr. David McNichols
Betty Jean Longoria ai1;-i. Clif Moss
Mary Pat� Slavik
PASSED AND APPROVED, this the - day of LLU
by the following vote:
ATTEST:
City Secretary
APPROVED: /1 DAY OF Jv �y
JAMES R. BRAY, JR., CITY ATTORNEY
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THE CIT CORPUS CHRISTI
, Assistant City Attorney
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PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT
State of Texas, }
County of Nueces ) ss:
CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI
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Before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public, this day personally
came Kerri Lesmeister, who being first duly sworn, according to
law, says that she is a Business Office Secretary 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 Oak, Nueces, Refugio, San
Patricio, Victoria, and Webb Counties, and that the publication
of NOTICE OF PASSAGE OF ORDINANCE NO. 021210 AMENDING THE CITY
which the annexed is a true copy, was published in the Corpus
Christi Caller -Times on the 12th day of August 1991.
One Time(s)
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Business Office Secretary
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 19th day of
August , 1991.
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Notary Public, Nueces County, Texas
My commission expires on
Corpus
Napa OF PASSAGE
U QtiJMAICE N0.021210
AMENDING TIE CITY CODE
1BY8— Gwe RATE, n
TO VIDE FOR NEIN Ic
CREASE 91 FEES; PROVIDING
FOR SEVERANCE; AND PRO- W
VIDISS.FOR PUBUCATIQN.
The ordinance was passed
and approved by the City
Council of Ow City of Carpus
ChitSL.Zsxas on the Oth day
of Atywt 1991.
/s/ Armando Chaps
City Secretary —
psy of Corpus Christi
NOTICE OF PASSA€ E
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