2023-21 Ordinance Amending City Code Chapter 53 Ambulance Service

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(b) Be equipped with a mobile data computer (MDC) and an automatic vehicle locator (AVL) that is interoperable with the Decatur Fire Department's CAD system. The MDC, and AVL, shall be working at all times the ambulance is in-service. (c) Be adequately insured with liability insurance in the amounts listed below, to sufficiently protect the public and naming the City of Decatur as an additional insured. Each Occurrence Aggregate General liability $1,000,000 $3,000,000 (including bodily injury and property damage) Automobile liability $1,000,000 $1,000,000 Worker's compensation Each occurrence $1,000,000 Disease—policy limit $1,000,000 Disease—each employee $1,000,000 Section 4. That Chapter 53 of the City Code of the City of Decatur, Illinois,be, and the same is hereby modified and amended by amended Sections 11-13, so that Sections 11-3 as so modified and amended, shall provide as follows: 11. EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS. Each licensed ambulance service operating within the City of Decatur shall provide a minimum of four Illinois licensed Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT)on duty at all times with an additional two such Illinois licensed Emergency Medical Technicians on immediate reserve. The Illinois licensed Emergency Medical Technicians who are functioning at any EMT level with the ambulance service must be affiliated with the local or other EMS Resource Hospital and be approved to function within the EMS System which serves the City and be approved to function under the supervision of the EMS Resource Hospital's EMS Project Medical Director. The total number of EMTs operating will be determined by the number of ambulances required to operate in the City as determined by the City Manager. 12. EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN'S REQUIREMENTS. Each Illinois licensed Emergency Medical Technician who is functioning at any EMT level with the ambulance must: (a) Be affiliated with the local or other EMS Resource Hospital and be approved to function within the EMS System which serves the City and be approved to function under the supervision of the EMS Resource Hospital's EMS Project Medical Director. (Amended, Ordinance No. 98-06, February 16, 1998). (b) Be trained annually on the Decatur Fire Department's Incident Command System with proof of such initial training provided to the Decatur Fire Chief by August 7, 2019, and annually thereafter. (c) Be trained in Hazardous Material Awareness by August 7, 2019. (d) Be trained in Technical Rescue Awareness by August 7, 2019. (e) Be trained to the National Incident Management System(NIMS) 100 and 700 level within 90 days of their date of hire.