A. 
The Palisades Park Voluntary Ambulance and Rescue Squad is hereby established, to be known as the "Palisades Park Emergency Medical Services."
B. 
It shall be the function of the Palisades Park Emergency Medical Services to render ambulance and first aid service in emergencies and when called upon.
C. 
The Palisades Park Emergency Medical Services shall be organized as a voluntary division under the administration of the Police Department and shall serve as the basic life emergency/medical services unit in and for the Borough whose chief function shall be to render ambulance and first aid services in emergencies.
D. 
No other ambulance, first-aid, rescue squad or paramedical emergency service organization shall be organized or hereafter be recognized in and for the Borough.
A. 
There is hereby created the position of Administrator who shall be the chief and only executive officer of the Palisades Park Emergency Medical Services.
B. 
The Administrator shall be appointed by the Mayor with the advice and consent of the Council at an annual salary as determined by the Annual Salary Ordinance of the Borough.
C. 
The Administrator shall be a resident of the Borough at the time of his appointment and during his term.
D. 
The Administrator shall at all times possess valid current New Jersey EMT and CPR Certification and such other licenses and/or certifications as may be required from time to time by the State of New Jersey and any other agencies having jurisdiction hereunder.
E. 
The Administrator shall report directly to the Mayor and Council through their selected liaison to the Police Department and shall present a written report to said liaison for its submission to the Mayor and Council on a monthly basis.
F. 
Within 90 days of the appointment of an Administrator, the Administrator, in concert with the Chief of Police, shall submit his recommendations for a constitution and bylaws for the Palisades Park Emergency Medical Services to the Council Liaison, who shall present same to the Mayor and Council for review, modification, approval and adoption by the Mayor and Council. No constitution and/or bylaws shall be effective until adopted by the governing body by resolution or ordinance and, once adopted, can only be modified by the governing body in the same manner.
A. 
The Palisades Park Emergency Medical Services shall consist of not more than 75 members, and no person shall be admitted to membership under the age of 18.
B. 
Every candidate for membership, before his application, shall present to the Administrator a certificate from his family physician that he is in good health and in sound physical condition and able to perform the duties ordinarily required. Each candidate shall file such certificate along with a membership application with the Borough Clerk. Each membership application must be approved by the Mayor and Council.
C. 
The Mayor and Council may order the physical examination of any member of the Palisades Park Emergency Medical Services at any time and direct the member to furnish a certificate of good health and sound physical condition. If such certificate is not furnished within 10 days after notice is delivered to the member, he shall cease to be a member of the Palisades Park Emergency Medical Services. In the event a member is examined and found to be unable to perform his duties, he shall cease to be an active member.
D. 
No person shall be allowed membership if he has been convicted of a crime.
E. 
The Palisades Park Emergency Medical Services may accept youth members to supplement the squad, as provided herein.
F. 
Each emergency medical unit and each emergency medical member shall be certified and operate in compliance with all requirements of the New Jersey statutes and New Jersey administrative codes and shall be equipped as required by all such rules and regulations.
The Palisades Park Emergency Medical Services shall be governed and controlled by such other reasonable rules and regulations for the organization and better efficiency of the squad as may be adopted by the Mayor and Council.
A. 
There is hereby established in the Palisades Park Emergency Medical Services a Youth Squad to work with the Palisades Park Emergency Medical Services in the emergency and nonemergency care and transportation of the sick and injured of the Borough of Palisades Park.
B. 
Only those members of the Youth Squad who have met the minimum training required for membership shall be permitted to perform the duties of members of the Youth Squad. No Youth Squad member shall be permitted to drive the ambulance, to be a crew chief or to ride on the same crew as another Youth Squad member.
C. 
A member of the Youth Squad shall be required to ride as a fourth member on an ambulance crew until the Palisades Park Emergency Medical Services determines that such member is capable of being a third member of the crew. No member of the Youth Squad shall be permitted to ride in the back of the ambulance when a patient is being transported, unless an active member of the First-Aid Squad is present.
All members of the Palisades Park Emergency Medical Services are required to attain formal training consistent with local, state and federal guidelines to continue as a member of the squad. All training shall be completed within a reasonable time after acceptance by the governing body.
All apparatus and equipment of the Palisades Park Emergency Medical Services shall be and remain the property of the Borough of Palisades Park, and the costs of operation, maintenance, repair and replacement shall be as provided for in the local municipal budget. No one other than a member of the squad, properly licensed under the laws of the State of New Jersey to operate an ambulance, shall operate any of the ambulance apparatus owned by the Borough. Except in the case of an emergency call, no apparatus belonging to the Borough utilized by the Palisades Park Emergency Medical Services shall be removed from the Borough limits by any member of the squad without the approval of the Mayor and Council. In the event that any such approval is given, any equipment so removed from the Borough limits shall be returned immediately in the case of an alarm within the Borough and, in all other cases, immediately after the occasion for its absence shall have ended.
All money, funds or other matters of value are and shall remain the property of the Palisades Park Emergency Medical Services and shall be forthwith turned over to the Borough's Chief Financial Officer for deposit in an account specifically for the use for the Palisades Park Emergency Medical Services.