10-02-04 City Council Retreat Agenda

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. rules promulgated by the Texas State Board of Medical Examiners pursuant to terms of the Medical Practice Act. Patient means any person desiring transportation to an appropriate medical facility either on an emergent or transfer basis. Police means any officer of the City of La Porte, TX Police Department. Protocol means written medical orders signed and dated by a licensed physician serving as medical director for an ambulance giving medical direction to provide treatment for certain emergencies or other pre-hospital situations requiring physician's orders. These orders must conform to all applicable laws. Street means any street, alley, avenue, boulevard, drive, or highway commonly used for the purpose of travel within the corporate city limits of La Porte, TX Transfer ambulance means any motor vehicle constructed, equipped, and used for transferring the sick and injured under circumstances which do not constitute an emergency and which have not been represented as an emergency. Transfer call means any request for ambulance service that is made by telephone or other means of communication in circumstances which are or have been represented to be, and . . . non-emergency requmng non-emergency seTVlce. . Section 2 Licenses Required (a) No person, either as owner, agent, or otherwise shall operate, conduct, maintain, advertise, or otherwise be engaged in or profess to be engaged in the business of ambulance service upon the streets, alleys or any public way or place of La Porte, TX unless he holds a currently valid license for an ambulance vehicle and an ambulance company, issued pursuant to this chapter. (b) Ambulance vehicle licenses, ambulance company licenses, and attendants' licenses shall be issued for one year or any portion thereof during which and ambulance service is maintained, and the license fee of fifty dollars ($50) per unit or two hundred dollars ($200) per fleet for four or more apparatus, five dollars ($5) per attendant, and fifty dollars ($50) per company shall be due and payable at the time of application. The license period shall be from to the last day of of the subsequent year. The attendant's license shall be issued to an individual and is not transferable. The term of attendants' licenses shall be governed by Texas Department of Health CE requirements. Therefore, attendants' licenses shall be renewable on a semi annual basis at recertification and CE reporting periods. (c) No person shall act as an attendant or driver on any ambulance operated under this chapter unless he or she holds valid attendants' license issued pursuant to this .