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Home My WebLink About96-20 - Amending Chapter 5.14 of the Newport Beach Municipal Code Pertaining to Ambulance RegulationsORDINANCE NO. 96-20 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH AMENDING CHAPTER 5.14 OF THE NEWPORT BEACH MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO AMBULANCE REGULATIONS. • The City Council of the City of Newport Beach does hereby ordain that Chapter 5.14 of the Newport Beach Municipal Code is amended to read as follows: Section 1: Section 5.14.020 Definitions shall be amended to read as follows: A. "Advanced life support" as defined in the California Health and Safety Code, Section 1797.52, as now in existence or hereafter amended or changed, means special services designed to provide definitive pre - hospital emergency medical care, including, but not limited to, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, cardiac monitoring, cardiac defibrillation, advanced airway management, intravenous therapy, administration of specified drugs and other • medical preparations, and other specified techniques and procedures administered by authorized personnel under the direct supervision of a base hospital as part of a local EMS system at the scene of an emergency, during transport to an acute care hospital, during interfacility transfer, and while in the emergency department of an acute care hospital until responsibility is assumed by the emergency or other medical staff of that hospital. B. 'Basic life support" as defined in the California Health and Safety Code, Section 1797.60, as now in existence or hereafter amended or changed, means emergency first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation procedures which, as a minimum, include recognizing respiratory and cardiac arrest and starting the • proper application of cardiopulmonary resuscitation to maintain life without invasive techniques until the victim may be transported or until advanced life support is available. C. "Ambulance" means any motor vehicle that is specifically designed, constructed, modified, equipped, or arranged and operated for the purpose of transporting patients requiring immediate or on -going medical services. D. "Ambulance attendant" means a trained, qualified individual who, • regardless of whether he or she also serves as a driver, is responsible to care for sick, injured, or disabled persons while they are being transported in an ambulance. E. "Ambulance driver" means a person whose primary duty is to drive an ambulance. F. "Ambulance service operator" means any privately operated-person, firm, partnership, corporation or other organization which furnishes or offers to furnish emergency ambulance transportation services within the City. G. "Agreement" means the agreement between the City of Newport Beach and an ambulance service operator to provide emergency ambulance transportation services as provided in this chapter. • H. "City" means the City of Newport Beach. I. "County" means the County of Orange. "Emergency ambulance transportation service" means transportation by an ambulance of one or more patients in response to an emergency giving rise to the need for basic or advanced life support services. This transportation may require Code 3 response (red lights and siren). K. "Fire Chief' means the Director of Fire Services for the City. L. "Licensee" means an ambulance service operator which has been granted and maintains the appropriate license by the County for the services to be provided. M. "Nonemergency ambulance transportation service" means • transportation by ambulance of a patient who is medically stable but may need basic life support and requires transportation from one location to another. This transportation does not normally require Code 3 response. N. "Person" means any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, association or other group or combination of individuals acting as a unit. Section 2: Section 5.14.030 License Required shall be amended to read as follows: A. It shall be unlawful for any person to be an ambulance service • operator, or to act in such a capacity either directly or indirectly, without possession of a license issued pursuant to ordinances, rules and regulations of the County of Orange and any other licenses or permits as may be required. B. The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to: Ambulances operated at the request of a public safety agency during any "state of war emergency," "state of emergency," or "local emergency" as defined in the Government Code. 2. Ambulance service transporting a patient from a location outside of the City limits regardless of destination. In the event of a mass casualty situation, as determined by • the City. 4. Emergency ambulance transportation services operated by the City of Newport Beach Fire and Marine Department. Section 3: Section 5.14.040 Emergency Ambulance Transportation Service Providers shall be amended to read as follows: A. The Fire and Marine Department may, upon resolution of the City Council, provide emergency ambulance transportation services as part of its paramedic services program. B. No ambulance service operator shall provide emergency ambulance transportation services in response to, or as a result of an emergency, unless that • person has been selected to provide such services pursuant to this chapter. Any ambulance service operator receiving a request for emergency ambulance transportation service from other than a public safety agency shall immediately, by telephone, notify a designated fire department communication center. • • • C. The City may contract with an ambulance service operator or another public agency to provide backup emergency ambulance transportation service within the City limits. A backup emergency ambulance service operator shall be selected and designated to provide emergency ambulance transportation service at the request of the Fire Chief throughout the City of Newport Beach. The contracts shall be made on a competitive basis as provided in this chapter. In awarding the contract, the City shall consider the comparative value of competing proposals. D. The Fire Chief shall administer the contract for emergency ambulance transportation services awarded by the City Council pursuant to this chapter. E. In the event no proposal acceptable to the City under the provisions of this section is received for the provision of emergency ambulance transportation services, the City Council shall designate one or more qualified licensees to provide emergency services on a month -to -month basis until such time an emergency ambulance transportation service agreement is signed. Section 4: Section 5.14.075 Franchise Fee is hereby deleted. Section 5: The Mayor shall sign and the City Clerk shall attest to the passage of this Ordinance. The City Clerk shall cause the same to be published once in the official newspaper of the City, and it shall be effective thirty (30) days after the date of its adoption. Section 6: That if any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance is, for any reason, held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed this ordinance, and each • section, subsection, clause or phrase hereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses and phrases be declared unconstitutional. Section 7: This Ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Newport Beach held on the 13thday of MaY 1996, and adopted on the 28th day of May 1996, by the following vote, to -wit: • ATTEST: 1 IM • AYES, COUNCRMEMBERS DEBAY, GLOVER. EDWARDS, WATT, O'NEIL, COX NOES, COUNCHMEMBERS HEDGES ABSENT COUNCU MEMBERS NONE MAYOR