HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 1511 ORDINANCE N0. 1511
AN ORDINANCE DECLARING THE BUSINESS OF TRANSPORTING PERSONS WITHIN THE CITY
OF FAYETTEVILLE BY MOTOR AMBULANCE FOR COMPENSATION TO BE A NECESSARY PUBLIC
SERVICE UTILITY SUBJECT TO REGULATION BY THE CITY ; PROVIDING FOR THE LICENSING
OF AMBULANCE SERVICE OPERATORS AND DRIVERS ; PROVIDING FOR REGULATIONS ON
OPERATING AMBULANCES ; PROVIDING FOR APPROVAL OF RATE SCHEDULES ; PROVIDING
PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS ; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES , AS AMENDED .
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE CITY OF FAYETTEVILLE,
ARKANSAS:
SECTION 1 . Definitions
(a ) Ambulance is defined to be any privately-owned vehicle equipped
and used for transporting the wounded, injured or sick, but
shall not include funeral coaches .
( b) Ambulance service operator or ambulance operator is defined as
a person, firm, or corporation which engages in the business
of dispatching and operating ambulances .
( c ) Ambulance driver is defined to be a person whose occupation is
to drive an ambulance .
(d ) Board of directors of the city is defined to include not only
the board itself, but also any officer or subdivision of the
municipal government duly designated by the board .
( e) Chief of police is defined to include not only that officer, but
also any officer or employee of the police department duly
designated by him.
SECTION 2. Ambulance Service A Necessary Public Service Utility
The business of transporting persons within the city limits of
Fayetteville for compensation is hereby declared to be a necessary
public service utility by the City Board of Directors and thereby
subject to regulation .by . the City. ,
SECTION 3 . Ambulance Operator Permits - Required ; Exemptions .-
The Board of Directors of said City- may grant permits to persons ,
firms, or corporations for the privilege, exclusive or otherwise ,
dependent upon the public convenience and necessity of using the streets ,
alleys , public ways and public grounds of said City for the purpose of
operating an ambulance service business for the inhabitants of and all
other persons within said City, which said permits shall require that
said ambulance service, including emergency ambulance service , must be
maintained continuously during all hours of the day provided that an
ambulance operator whose regular base of operations and disMVALpis
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located outside the City of Fayetteville and who operates ambulances
in the City on a casual basis only shall not be required to procure a
license required by this section. Provided, further, no ambulance
operator whose regular base of operations is outside the city shall
respond to an emergency call within the City unless requested to do so
by the Chief of Police .
SECTION 4 . Ambulance Operator- Fermits - Contents of Application . Fee
An application for license as ambulance service operator shall
be made upon such forms as are furnished by the Board of Directors and
shall state the name and address of the applicant , a description of
the vehicle or vehicles intended for use as ambulance or ambulances by
applicant and the place of operation of the applicant . Every application
shall be accompanied by an application fee of five dollars . Said
application fee does not relieve such ambulance service operators from
the payment of occupation or privilege license* tax now or hereinafter
levied by the City .
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SECTION 50 . Ambulance Operator Permits -- Conditions o£ Grantin¢ , Liability
Insurance ; Period; Renewal
No license shall be granted an applicant as ambulance service operator
unless the Board of Directors determines (1) that the public convenience
and necessity requires the proposed ambulance service ; (2) that applicant
is a fit , financially responsible person with proper equipment to render
the proposed service; and (3 ) that the applicant has in force at the time
his application is approved an insurance policy providing insurance
coverage for each and every ambulance owned, operated and leased by the
applicant indemiifying the applicant for liability incurred by reason
of the injury to or- death of persons in accidents , and property damage
caused by accidents , resulting from any cause for which the owner of
such ambulance would be liable, regardless of whether the ambulance was
being driven by the owner , his agent or lessee ; such insurance policy
or policies to carry minimum limits of twenty thousand dollars for injury
to or death of any one person, fifty thousand dollars for injury or death
resulting to more than one person as a result of any one accident , and
five thousand dollars property damage, or cash bond in lieu thereof .
All licenses to ambulance service operators issued in pursuance of the
authority of this chapter shall extend for a period of not more than one
year and shall be renewable only by authority of the Board of Directors . Each
application for renewal shall be accompanied by an application fee in the
amount of five dollars .
. SECTION 6 . Ambulance Operator Permits - Periodic Inspections • Suspension
of Permit
The Chief of Police shall cause to have made periodic inspections of the
ambulances of all ambulance service operators licensed hereunder at least every
six (6 ) months . If any ambulance be found mechanically defective , the operator
of such ambulance service shall immediately withdraw such :; a _a..ce em . uec
until the mechanical defect is corrected and written authority is procured.
from the Chief of Police or his authorized representative permitting the
re-use of such ambulance .
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SECTION 7 . Ambulance Operator Permits - Grounds for Revocation of Permit
Said Board of Directors may revoke any permit granted hereunder when any
holder thereof shall violate or fail to comply with the provisions of this
and all other valid ordinances or laws regulating ambulances , and when any
such permit be revoked, any further operation of said business shall be unlawful
and a violation of this ordinance ; provided, no permit shall be revoked
except upon the giving to the person, firm or corporation whose permit is
sought to be revoked, ten ( 10 ) days notice of such intention, and such person,
firm or corporation shall have an opportunity to appear before said Board of
Directors and show cause why permit should not be revoked .
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. . , . . SECTION 8 . Ambulance Driver License - Application, Qualification, Period ,
and Renewal
An application for license as ambulance driver shall be made upon- such -
forms as are furnished by the Chief of Police and shall state the name , age,
address , experience in driving motor vehicles and whether the applicant has
ever been convicted of a motor vehicle violation . Every application shall be
accompanied by an application fee of five dollars .
No license shall be granted an applicant as ambulance driver unless the
Chief of Police determines that the applicant is a fit person, physically,
mentally and morally, to drive an ambulance . No person shall be granted a
license as ambulance driver who is under twenty-one years of age or who
habitually uses or is addicted to narcotics or intoxicating liquors .
All licenses to ambulance drivers issued in pursuance of the authority
of Section 8, shall extend for a period of one (1) year . Each application
for renewal shall be accompanied by an application fee in the same amount as
the' original application fee called for under Section 8.
Upon applying for the original or renewal of any license issued to any
ambulance driver the applicant shall submit evidence that he has , within the
months preceding his application, completed a standard course in First Aid
as taught by the American Red Cross . It is the intention of this chapter
that every licensed ambulance driver shall complete such a course every year
while he continues to be licensed as an ambulance driver .
SECTION 9 . Permits and Licenses - Transferability
No permit or license issued under the terms of this ordinance shall be
sold, transferred, assigned, leased or otherwise disposed of without the con-
sent of said Board of Directors .
SECTION 10 . Rates
The Board of Directors shall determine and approve all rates to be charged
by licensed ambulance service operators within the city limits of Fayetteville
and no operator shall charge any other rates . Such rates shall be reviewed
and, revised periodically by the Board of Directors .
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SECTION 11 . Standards for Ambulance Equipment
Required equipment in each ambulance shall include , at all times when the
ambulance is in use as such , equipment adequate in the judgment of the Chief
of Police for dressing' wounds , splinting fractures , controlling hemorrhage,
providing for suction, and providing oxygen . In determining the adequacy
of equipment , the Chief of Police shall take into consideration the current
list of minimal equipment for ambulances , adopted by the American College of
Surgeons or its duly authorized Committee on Trauma . Each licensee of an
ambulance shall comply with such reasonable regulations hereunder as may be .
promulgated by the Chief of Police and shall maintain in each such ambulance ,
at all times uhen it is in use as such , all such equipment as may be prescribed
by the Chief of Police hereunder .
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SECTIC:' 12a rr.:dience to Traffic Laws , Ordinances and Regulations
Ambulances lawfully operating under the provisions of this ordinance-
shall. be 1*athorized Emergency Vehicles' as provided for in Sections 19-1,
19-25 , Fayettevilic Code of Ordinances .
SECTION 1� . Pena.lty
Any person who shall drive an ambulance or engage in the business of
ambulance service operator without having first obtained the license required
by this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor which shall be punished by
the i_mnosition of a fine in an amount of not less than fifty dollars and not
more than five hundred dollars or a jail sentence of not less than three nor
r.-,ore than thirty days or both fine and jail sentence.
SECTION 144 Emergency
It having been found and determined that inadequate emergency ambulance
service within said City will result in a condition menacing to the public
peace , health and safety and, therefore, an emergency exists and this ordinance
being necessary for the immediate preservation of said public peace , health and
safety, same shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and
approval .
PASSED AND APPROVED this —,15t day of Aueust 1966.
APPROVED :
SY IA Si'-TART Z , ACTI MYOR
ATTEST:
a'
GEORGE J . c'DAVIS, CITY CLERK
I
ORDNANCE NO. 1511
AN ORDINANCE DECLARING
THE BUSINESS OF TRANSPORT-
ING PERSONS WITHrN THE CITY STATE of ARKANSAS '
OF FAYETTEVILLE UY MOTOR 55.
AMBULANCE .FOA y Of Washington COMPENSA-
TIC011ntJ
ON TO BE A NECESSARY PUB_
LIC SERVICE UTILITY SUBJECT
TO REGULATION BY THE CITY,
PROVIDING FOR THE LICENSING
OF AMBULANCE SERVICE OP- Ir __ L . ____lL________. _____.__________.____ , hereby certify that I
OPERARN AMBAND ULANCES.
ONS oN am the ( Gederal Mana1ger) of THE NORTHWEST ARKANSAS TIMES,
OPERATING AMBULANCES; PRO-
VIDING FOR APPROVAL OF a daily newspaper having a second Class mailing privilege, and being not
RATE_SCHEDULES; PROVIDING less than four pages of five columns each, published at a fixed place of
PENAND FOR OTHER FOR VIOLATIONS;
(daily) Y Y
business and at a fixed dail intervals continuous] in the Cit of
ASBE IT EMENDED. Fayetteville, County of Washington, Arkansas for more than a period
BOARD OF ORDAINED
TTfHE of twelve months, circulated and distributed from an established place of
CITY OF FAYETTEILLE, ARKAN-
SAS: generally of all classes in the City
osis: business to subscribers and readers
SECTION 1. Definitions & County for a definite price for each copy, or a fixed price per annum,
(a) Ambulance
n b prjvately-owued vehicle which price was fixed at what is considered the value of the publication,
equipped and used for trans- based upon the news value and service value it contains, that at least fifty
or sick but wounded,
ldnot nclude percent of the subscribers thereto have paid cash for their subscriptions
funeral coaches. to the newspaper or its a agents or through recognized news dealers over a
(b) Ambulance service operatorg g g
or ambulance operator is de- period of at least six months ; and that the said newspaper publishers an
fined as a person, firm, or
corporation which engages in average of more than forty percent news matter.
the business of dispatching
and operating ambulances. I further certify that the legal notice hereto attached in the matter of
(c) Ambulance driver is defined.
to be a person whose occw
pation is to drive an am-
bulance. /
(d) Board of directors of the city _� _ J _S��_______________ _
is defined to include not only -___
the board itself, but also any
officer or subdivision of the was published in the regular dailyissue of said newspaper for_____..]
desiiggnatteed bgyvthe bbooarfl dtl eeweeeative- insertionpf as follows:
(e) Chief of police is defined to /J /
include not only that
cep, but also any officerr or ---------or The first insertion on the / p _ ___
_ ___ _ . day of
employee the police de-
partment duly designated by
him. the second insertion on the ------ day of
SECTION 2. Ambulance Service
A Necessary Public service Utility
The business of transporting the third insertion on the ___—_______ ""-"""'-___ da of _---------------------- 19—
Favne within the city limits of - y
_ _ _ _
tfor compensation is
herer eebyy declared to be a necessary
public service utility by the City and the fourth insertion on the ------- `d' 1�V of -ty_OslWp �����-Y-_- 19
Board of Directors and thereby t�
subject to regulation by the City.
SECTION 3. Ambulance Operator T/u W7C —
Permits - Required; Exemptions. -- }.—
The Board of Directors of said
Cir may grant permits to persons,
firms, or corporations for the
Privilege, exclusive or otherwise. Sworn to and subscribed before me on this ______ day of --------------
dependent upon the public con.
venience and necessity of using -
the streets, alleys, p u b I f;� i } _ - / /
ways and public grounds of s C.K_( ______ 19f(.�j_
City for the purpose of operating —__.___.______ ___—__—
an ambulance service business for
the inhabitants of and all other /
persons within sold City, which
said permits shall require that
gr Public
said ambulance service, includingO*XY
emergency ambulance service,
must be maintained continuously
during all hours of the day pro
vided that an ambulance operator My Commission Expires:
whose regular base of operations A
and dispatch ;t located outside the
City of Fayetteville and
th who on
a casual
ambulances in the City e-
a credal bests only shall not be re-
quired to thisProcure a license
re-
quIred by this section. Provided,
^_
further, no ambulance operator Fees for Printing
whose regular base of operations
outside the city shall respond to
a
emergency call within the City Coat of Proof ._____
un
unless requested to do so by the
Chief of Police
SECTION 4. Ambulance Operator Total
Permits Contents of Application,
Fee
An application for license as am
bulance service operator shall be
made upon such forms as are fur-
nished by the Board of Directors .
and shall state the name and ad-
dress of the applicant, a descrip-
tion of the vehicle or vehicles in-I
tended for use as ambulance or am-1
bulances by applicant and the
place of operation of the applicant.
Every application shall be accompa-
nied by an application fee of five
dollars. Said application fee does
not relieve such ambulance service
operators from the payment of oc-
cupation or privilege license tax
now or hereinafter levied by the ,
City.
SECTION 5. Ambulance Operator
Permits — Conditions of Granting;
Liability Insurance; Period; Re-
Rewal
No license shall tx granted an .
applicant as ambulance service ep- I
orator unless the Board of Direc- 11
tors determines (1) thnt the public
convenience and necesaitp -equires
the proposed ambu:..nce sel .ice,
12) that applicant is a fit, financial-
]. responsible person with proper
equipment to render the proposed
service! and (3) that the applicant
has in force at the time his appli-
cation is approved an insurance
policy providing insurance cover-
age for each and every ambulance
owned, operated and leased by the
applicant indemnifying the appli-
ant ter liability incurred by rea-
soc of the injury to or death of
persons in ccidents. and l rnpertc
daoiage caused b� accidents. ro-
ullLMT ItIlto - �Nuth
,, b
IhP �rntl 1
vould be liable. regardless Of SE( TION 9 Parma. Meld Licenses '
whether the ambulance was being ) —7ronsfa%*WA,y�
driven by the owner, his agent ori No peemtt or�llaerdel Payed un
lessee; such insurance pokey limits
der the terms of this ordinance
policies to carry minimum limited shall be sold, transferred assigned. '
ju M death of any one per .
twenty thousand dollars for based or otherwise disposed of
jury o - � without the consent of said Board
son, fifty thousand dollars for in- of Directors.
jury or death resulting to more SECTION 10. hates
than one person as a result of any The Hoard of 13irectors shall de-
one accident, and five thousand termine and approve all rates to
dollars property damage, or cash be charged by licensed ambulance
bond in lieu thereof, service operators within the city
Ali license to ambulance service limits of Fayetteville and no op-
operators isaued in pursuance of
clasper shall ) Stator shall charge any other rates.
the authority of this c
extend for a period of not more Such rates shall be reviewed and
than one year and shall be renewa- ' revised periodically by the Board
bel only by authority of the Board of Directors.
Am-
of Directors Each application for SECTION 11. Standards far Am-
bulance Equiynnent
renewal shall be accompanied by AogiNrtQ3 eq MErit in each am-
en application fee in the amount of bn]ance 111 Include. at all times
Five dollars. when the ambulance is in use as
SECTION 6. Ambulant! Operatg such, . equipment adequate in the
Permits — Periodic Inspettie9g . judgment of the Chief of Police
Suspension of Permit for drpsoing wounds, splirsting
The Chief of Police shall cause fracturds, controlling hemorrhage,
to have made periodic Inspections providing for suction, said provid-
of the ambulances of all ambulance ing oxygen. In determining the
service operators licensed here- adequacy of equipment, the Chief
under at least every six (6) months. of Police stall take into considers-
If any ambulance be found me- tion the ¢01fent list of minimal
chemically defective, the operator equipment for ambulances; adopted
of such ambulance service shall by the American College of bur.
immediately withdraw she . ambu- geone or its duly authorized Com- 1
lance from use until the mechanI- mitten on Trauma. Each licensee of
cal defect is corrected and written an ambulance shall comply with
authority is procured from the sugh reasonable regulations here-
Chief of Police p his authorized under as may be Promulgated by
representative permitting the re- the Chief of Police and shall main-
use of such ambulance. tain in each such ambulance, at
SECTION 7. Ambulance Opera- all times when it is in use as such,
ter Permits — Grounds for Revoca- all such equipment al; may be prd-
tion of Permit scribed by the Chief of Polic'
Said Board of Directors may re- hereunder.
voke any permit granted hereun- r SECTION 12. Obedience to Trak.
der when any holder thereof shall fie saws, Ordinances and Regula-
violate or fail W comply with the tions
provisions of this and all other Ambulances lawfully ap�'sting
valid ordinances or laws regulating under the' Vilions of this ordi-
ambulances, and when any such nance.shalh "Authorized Emer-
permit be revoked, any further op geennppy Vgb)cles" as provided for in
oration of said business shall be Sections :196] 019-L5. Fayetteville )
unlawful and a violation of this ', Code of Ordinances.
Ordinance; provided, no permit SECTION.i13. Pena RP
shall be revoked exec M upon the AtgF Wea�rr- wfto ah4ll drive an
giving to the person, firm or cot- ambula cg'or ge m the busi-
poration whase permit is sought to mess a K91 41 opera-
Obtained
revoked, ten (10) days notice for wit ` a 1 lilt Obtained
of such intention, and such person, the license required by this chap-
firm or corporation shall have an ter shall Ifs' 94aty of a misde-
opportunity to appear before said meanor which shall be punished
Board of Directors and show cause by the Imposition of a fine in an
why permit should not be revoked. amount of not less than fifty dol-
SECTION 8. Ambulance Driver Lars and not mora than five hun-
L)cense — Application, Qualifies- dyed dollars or a jail sentence of
tion, Period, and Renewal not less than tt��aatp more than
An application for license as thirty days or bd(lI-'fie end jail
ambulance driver shall be made sentence. -
upon such forms as are furnished SECTION It. "a VMBN
by the Chief of Police and shall It having beenfouW
de
sante the mine, age, address, ex- termined that Ina and
perience in driving motor vehicles cy ambulance servvith wipphiin d
and whether the applicant has City win result in a cOnWon men-
ever been convicted of a motor acing to the public p�ea lth
vehicle violation. Every applica- and safety and, they ?GMM. _
tion shall be accompanied by an gency exists and this ce
application fee of five dollars. being necessary for th@ to
No license shall be granted an pr aRiort of said psddfa„pewee,
applicant as ambulance driver un- h9a,{1t11 t. 4aifl4efety, come3Ydl
- ehae in
less the Chief of Police determines full {prof and effe it frOratand after
that the applicant is a fit person. IJAIL pat&9age and approval
physically, mentally and morally, PA$$ED AND APPRRpp]]�� this.
W drive an ambulance. No person 15th day of August, 194?W 1
shall be granted a license as am- APPROVED:
bulance driver who is under twen- SYLVIA SWAB,
ty-one years of age or who habitu- Acting Mayer
ally uses or is addicted to narcotics ATTEST'
or intoxicating liquors. GEORGE f DAVIS
ALL Rcemse ; tc ambrtlar•ce drly- City Clerk
an imutd in ptMulance Of the au-
thority of Seddon 8, shall eAeAd
for a period of one ((1) year. Each
aPPlieetiosi ¢op .'}ene(Lal "I be
accompablad by, an a¢p cis fee
in "I
finthe orig-
al appl{eet3on' iga
r ` for un-
dor 8eetto0 C 1 11
Upon apD} ing for the Original
or rencewal of any license issued
jp. asyi am w�drT the that
WNW9apirat n men�Jtdheks�Drecedt
ing his application, completed a
standard -e r ^ Ia illltnt Aid as
to by American Red Cross.
,eg able chapter
RMajd ambulance
Mmp1Me auob a course
MYdb Ilaa lana driver.to
�P aq an pltbRlanoe driver.