2018-36 Amending City Code Chapter 53 Ambulance Service

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received by the ambulance service from the dispatching agency, no less than ninety (90) percent of the time all calls received during each calendar month. (c) Any ambulance service licensed to operate within the City of Decatur shall provide to the Decatur Fire Chief or designee, a written monthly report of response time performance. (d) At the reasonable request of the Fire Chief, an audit of response times provided by an ambulance service may be conducted. The cost of the audit will be charged to the ambulance service. 17. CHANGE IN OPERATIONS. Any change of vehicles, location or substantial change in operating procedures, from that contained in the application for the license currently in effect and supporting data,shall be promptly reported in writing to Licensing in the City of Decatur Finance Department and the Decatur Fire Chief. Personnel and changes in personnel shall be provided annually in the license application or renewal process. 18. COOPERATION. All ambulance services licensed by the City and the personnel thereof shall cooperate with one another and with the other public safety and emergency services of and operating within the City, both generally and specifically at the scene of an emergency. 19. MANNER OF DISPATCH AND CALLS FOR SERVICE. In the event there is more than one licensed ambulance service in the City of Decatur,the City's Fire Department shall determine the manner of dispatch utilizing a method to dispatch the closest ambulance to the call for service location. No ambulance service licensed by the City, or the personnel thereof, shall respond to a call for service directed to another such ambulance service unless requested so to do by the ambulance service originally called. (a) Each licensed ambulance service shall comply with all emergency dispatch procedures established by the City's Fire Department and any dispatching agency for the Fire Department. (b) If for any reason a licensed ambulance service is not able to comply with the operational requirements set forth in this article it shall immediately report that status to the Fire Department in accordance with the Decatur Fire Chief's emergency dispatch procedures. (c) An ambulance service shall not respond to any requests for emergency assistance unless it is in compliance with the operational requirements set forth in this article and it's specifically authorized to respond by the Decatur Fire Chief or the designee as provided for in the Decatur Fire Chief's emergency dispatch procedures. (d) Personnel affiliated with a licensed ambulance service or hospital who wish to respond to an emergency scene in an emergency vehicle other than an ambulance must: (1) Identify their response to the Central Illinois Regional Dispatch Center; (2) Be in compliance with all City, State, or Federal laws and regulations in regard to emergency response; (3) Be in compliance with the current Emergency Medical Dispatch System; and shall not respond to Alpha, Bravo, or Omega calls with the use of lights and sirens; (4) Have insurance naming the City as an additional insured. (e) An ambulance service licensed to operate within the Decatur City limits shall have in place and utilize the current system used for Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD). 20. MONITORING POLICE OR FIRE CALLS. Responses originated by monitoring Emergency Communications Center radio communications in the absence of specific radio or telephone request from the concerned Department directed specifically to the responding ambulance service is prohibited. (Amended, Ordinance No. 98-06; Ordinance No. 90-35) 21. REVOCATION. In addition to any penalty that may be provided in this Chapter, violation of any of the provisions hereof, or a failure to comply with any of the standards or