(a) 
The city fire department shall provide emergency medical services within the city. This department shall provide “basic life support services” and “advanced support life services.”
(b) 
Fees for such services shall be as set forth in the master fee schedule.
(c) 
The city emergency medical services department and operations shall conform and comply with any and all applicable federal and state law. Minimum equipment and personnel standards shall be established by the department of state health services and the area medical director.
(Ordinance 18-3676 adopted 5/8/18; Ordinance 23-3746 adopted 5/23/2023)
The area covered by the city emergency medical services shall consist of the corporate limit of the city and other entities or political subdivisions which have contracted with the city for service. The document detailing the area to be covered shall be on file at the city secretary’s office for public inspection.
(2000 Code, sec. 4-12)
The emergency medical services dispatcher shall be designated by the city manager, or his/her designate, to handle calls for emergency medical services, and shall be available by telephone at all hours.
(2000 Code, sec. 4-13)
(a) 
It shall be unlawful for any person, including the holder of the transfer service permit, or anyone other than a member of the city fire department emergency medical services department officially on duty, or an agency of the United States, to furnish, operate, conduct, maintain, advertise for, or otherwise be engaged or profess to be engaged in the operation of an emergency ambulance or the providing of emergency service upon the streets of the city except in the following circumstances:
(1) 
It shall not be unlawful for a person operating a transfer ambulance with a city permit, upon responding to a direct call for nonemergency conditions, to use emergency equipment after notifying the central dispatcher and receiving permission to make an emergency run, when a determination is made by the transfer ambulance attendant that an emergency exists requiring the sick or injured person to be transported with all practical speed to a hospital.
(2) 
It shall not be unlawful for any person operating a transfer ambulance with a city permit, who is performing the service of maintaining an ambulance at a particular location for a sporting event, to operate such ambulance under emergency conditions, using emergency equipment, after notifying the central dispatcher and receiving permission to make an emergency run, when a determination is made by the transfer ambulance attendant that an emergency exists requiring the sick or injured person to be transported with all practical speed to a hospital.
(3) 
It shall not be unlawful for any person to operate an emergency ambulance to a hospital within the city, if the place of emergency at which the sick or injured person was picked up by the ambulance is outside the city limits and the ambulance making the emergency run is licensed and operated in accordance with all applicable state laws. On each emergency run into the city, ambulance personnel must notify the central dispatcher and receive permission to make an emergency run, unless otherwise notified by the fire chief of the city fire department EMS.
(4) 
It shall not be unlawful for any person to operate a transfer ambulance with a city permit on an emergency run when city fire department EMS ambulances are not available, and the central dispatcher requests the operator furnish backup emergency ambulance service for the city fire department EMS.
(b) 
The transfer service with a city permit shall be subject to revocation if it is found that the holder of said permit or any company, service, or corporation that the holder is affiliated or in partnership with is duplicating emergency service in areas outside the city, in which the city is under contract to provide such service. If the transfer ambulance holder of said permit receives an emergency call from any source to respond either in the city or these areas under contract with the city, permittee shall immediately notify the EMS communication center and shall not respond unless requested to do so by the emergency medical service department dispatcher. Duplication of emergency service is responding without the request of the dispatcher to the same call as a city emergency medical services department unit.
(Ordinance 07-3478, sec. II (4-14), adopted 5/8/07)