The Department of Public Safety of the Town.
That individual hired and employed by the Town, assigned
to the Department of Public Safety, who is responsible for the dispatching
of Town equipment on emergency medical calls.
Any circumstance that calls for immediate action and in which
the element of time in transporting the sick, wounded or injured for
medical treatment is essential to the health or life of the person.
Such circumstances include, but are not limited to, accidents generally,
traffic accidents, acts of violence resulting in personal injury and
sudden illness.
Any call for emergency medical service that is made by telephone
or other means of communication in circumstances which are, or have
been represented to be, an emergency and requiring immediate medical
service.
The emergency medical service response by an emergency medical
services vehicle to the place where the emergency exists, or from
the place of such emergency to a hospital, medical clinic or medical
office or other appropriate destination for the patient.
Any vehicle as defined under the Emergency Medical Services
Act, V.T.C.A., Health and Safety Code, chapter 773.
A vehicle that is especially designed for transporting the
sick or injured and carries sufficient equipment and supplies to provide
cardiac monitoring, defibrillation, cardioversion, drug therapy and
two-way radio as defined by V.T.C.A., Health and Safety Code, chapter
773.
Any individual, firm, association, partnership, corporation,
or body politic or corporate.
(1971 Code, sec. 6-1)
Any person or entity violating any of the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof may be fined as provided in section 1.01.009 of this code.
(1971 Code, sec. 6-6)
No person, firm or corporation shall operate or cause to be
operated in the Town any emergency medical services vehicle, public
or private, or any other vehicle commonly used for the transportation
or conveyance of the sick or injured, without first securing a permit
therefor from the Department of State Health Services.
(1971 Code, sec. 6-2)
(a)
The
Department of Public Safety shall provide emergency medical services
within the Town or, when requested by the proper authorities, within
the city limits of the City of University Park or the City of Dallas.
(b)
A
fee shall be charged per trip for the transportation by a Town MICU
of a person or persons to a hospital providing emergency medical aid
and located within the city limits of the City of Dallas in response
to a call received by the Department of Public Safety for emergency
medical service. In all cases, whether one (1) person or more than
one (1) person is transported in the same MICU, the per-trip charge
applies to each individual.
(c)
The
fee for such service shall be set by the Town Council, duly authorized
to do so, by means of resolution.
(d)
The
person receiving emergency medical service from the Department of
Public Safety and any person contracting for the service shall be
responsible for payment of the fee.
(1971 Code, sec. 6-3)
It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully inform the
Department of Public Safety Dispatcher or any other Town employee
that emergency medical service is needed at a location or address
when such person or persons know that such emergency does not exist.
(1971 Code, sec. 6-4)
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate an emergency
medical services vehicle within the Town without first notifying the
Department of Public Safety Dispatcher of the route over which the
emergency medical service run will be made.
(1971 Code, sec. 6-5)
