2023-21 Ordinance Amending City Code Chapter 53 Ambulance Service

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ORDINANCE NO._ Z: -a ORDINANCE AMENDING CITY CODE -CHAPTER 53- -AMBULANCE SERVICE- BE IT ORDANCED, BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS: Section 1. That Chapter 53 of the City Code of the City of Decatur, Illinois,be, and the same is hereby modified and amended by amended Section 3, so that Section 3 as so modified and amended, shall provide as follows: 3. AMBULANCE SERVICE DEFINED. "Ambulance service within the City" means the transportation by medical transport vehicle from a place within the City to some other place of persons who are sick, injured, wounded or otherwise incapacitated or helpless whether in emergency or otherwise in vehicles based within the City. Ambulance means any publicly or privately owned vehicle that is specifically designed, constructed, or modified and equipped, and is intended to be used for, and maintained and operated for the emergency transportation of persons who are sick, injured,wounded or otherwise incapacitated or helpless (Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act, 210 ILCS 50). It does not include transportation of such persons from outside the City to hospitals or other places within the City by ambulance services based outside the City, or the transportation of such persons from hospitals or other places within the City to places in locales where such ambulance services are based outside the City, nor does it include transportation of handicapped persons under programs operated by or on behalf of the City. Section 2. That Chapter 53 of the City Code of the City of Decatur, Illinois, be, and the same is hereby modified and amended by amended Section 5, so that Section 5 as so modified and amended, shall provide as follows: 5. LICENSE FEE. All applications for licenses or renewal thereof shall be accompanied by an application fee of One Thousand Dollars ($1000) for the license year which shall commence on October I and end the following September 30. Section 3. That Chapter 53 of the City Code of the City of Decatur, Illinois,be, and the same is hereby modified and amended by amended Section 9, so that Section 9 as so modified and amended, shall provide as follows: 9. LICENSED VEHICLES. At all times when an ambulance is in use in the City as an ambulance, the same shall: (a) Be currently licensed by the Division of Highway Safety and EMS of the Illinois Department of Public Health and be equipped and staffed as provided by the Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.