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HomeMy WebLinkAboutO-1978-1127 - e e e e . ORDINANCE NO. 1127 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 4, AMBULANCES, OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES, REQUIRING T~T A COpy OF TIlE CHAUFFEUR'S LICENSE OF EACH DRiVER BE FILED WITH THE CITY CLERK; PROVIDING THAT ATTENDANTS MUST BE EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER; REQUIRING THAT EACH DRIVER MUST HAVE A CURRENT EMERGENCY CARE ATTENDANT CERTIFICATE; REQUIRING THAT EACH ATTENDANT MUST HAVE A CURRENT EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN CERTIFICATE; REQUIRING THAT SUCH CERTIFICATES BE FILED WITH THE CITY CLERK; REQUIRING THAT COMMUNICATIONS ON ,RADIO AIRWAYS 'BE BRIEF, PUNCTUAL AND FACTUAL; PROVIDING THAT ANY PERSON VIOLATING THE TERMS OF THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE DEEMED GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR AND UPON CONVICTION THEREOF SHALL BE FINED IN ANY SUM NOT MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS ($200.00); AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LA PORTE: Section 1. The Code of Ordinances, City of La Porte, Texas is hereby amended by adding a section, to be numbered 4-2~, which said section reads as follows: "Sec. 4-2~ Copies of Chauffeur's Licenses to be Filed. "Each emergency ambulance operator must file with the City Clerk a photostatic; copy of the current chauffeur's licenses issued by the Texas Department of Public Safety, of each person employed by him who operates or drives an emergency ambulance upon the s tree ts - of the City." Section 2. Section 4-3(1) of the Code of Ordinances, City of La Porte, Texas is hereby amended to read as follows: "(1) The attendant must be eighteen (18) years of age or older." Section 3. Section 4-4 of the Code of Ordinances, City of La Porte, Texas is hereby amended to read as follows: "Sec. 4-4 Driver and Attendant must be Certified. (a) It shall be unlawful to 'operate or drive, or cause to be operated or driven, an emergency ambulance on the public streets of the City of La Porte for the purpose of furnishing emergency ambulance service unless the dirver thereof has a current Emergency Medical Technician certificate issued by the Texas Department of Health. (b) Each emergency ambulance operator must file with the City Clerk, a photostatic copy of each certificate required under this section." Section 4. Section 4-14 of the Code of Ordinances, City of La Porte, Texas is hereby amended to read as follows: "Sec. 4-14. Failure to render emergency first aid and assistance. lilt shall be unlawful for the driver or the attendant of an emergency ambulance to fail to render emergency first aid and - e e e . . Ordinance No. 1127 , Page 2. assistance to the sick or injured at the place of the emergency.1I Section 5. The Code of Ordinances, City of La Porte, Texas is hereby amended by adding a section, to be numbered 4-8~, which said section reads as follows: "Sec. 4-8~ '. Abuse of radio airways. IIA11 holders of emergency ambulance operator's permits and all employees thereof shall, when communicating via airways also used by a City department, take care to see that all communications are as brief, punctual and factual as the circumstances may a11ow.1I Section 6. If any section, sentence, phrase, clause, or any part of any section, sentence, phrase, or clause, of this Ordinance shall, for any reason, be held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the remaining portions of this Ordinance, and it is hereby declared to be the intention of this City Commission to have passed each sect.ion, sentence, phrase, clause, or part thereof, irrespective of the fact that any other section, sentence phrase or clause, or part thereof, may be declared inv1aid. Section 7. Any person, as defined in Section 1.07(27), Texas Penal, Code,: who s:h~ll violate any provisions of this Ordinance, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine not to exceed Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00). Each day that the violation continues shall con- stitute a separate offense. Section 8. This' Ordinance shall be effective fourteen (14) days after its passage and approval. The City Clerk shall give notice of the passage of this ordinance by causing the caption hereof to be published in the official newspaper in the City of La Porte at Least'twice within ten (10) days after the passage of this ordinance. PASSED AND APPROVED, this 19th. day of ,July 1978. CI~ - .Hy -- J. J. Meza, yor e . Ordinance No. 1127 , Page 3. tit ATTEST: ~~~ City Attorney APPROVED: W<L1J - e e .