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City of Paterson, NJ
Passaic County
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There is hereby established an Ambulance Service Bureau under the jurisdiction of the Department of Fire, Fire Division.
B. 
The Ambulance Service Bureau shall be responsible for the procurement, operation, maintenance and manning of ambulances to meet the present need in the city for emergency transportation of persons who require emergency treatment at hospitals operating in or pursuant to arrangement made with the city.
A. 
There shall be a Bureau head, who shall be a superior officer of the Fire Division who has had training in first aid and in light rescue work and has some degree of administrative experience. Said officer shall be assigned as Bureau head by the Fire Chief.
B. 
In addition thereto, there shall be a Captain of the Fire Division, an unspecified number of civilian supervisors and an emergency medical technician records clerk as part of the Ambulance Service Bureau.
A. 
There shall be in said Bureau both full-time and part-time emergency medical technicians (EMT).
B. 
The emergency medical technicians shall meet the requirements and qualifications for permanent appointment as civilian employees in the Bureau as established by the Council, by resolution.
Ambulances owned or leased and operated by the Bureau shall be garaged in and shall operate from such firehouses as the Bureau head shall designate in conjunction with the Fire Chief.
The Bureau is authorized and empowered to charge and collect such fees for ambulance service as shall be fixed from time to time by resolution of the Council. The money so collected shall be paid over to the Revenue Collections Division of the Department of Finance.