(A) The City Commission shall, by resolution, adopt a schedule of fees and costs included within the expenses of an emergency response by the Fire Department.
(B) The schedule shall include an hourly rate for the use of Fire Department equipment, motor vehicles and personnel. This schedule shall be available to the public from the City Clerk’s office.
(C) The costs and charges shall hereafter be due and payable to the city from a recipient of any of the following enumerated emergency response services from the Fire Department:
(1) For any spill or release of a hazardous or toxic material. For purposes of this section, a
HAZARDOUS OR TOXIC MATERIAL is defined by applicable federal or state laws and regulations and includes, but is not limited to, an actual release of or a threatened release of polychlorinated biphenlys (PCBs), or explosives, pyrotechnics, flammable compressed gas, natural gas, flammable liquid, combustible liquid, oxidizing material, poisonous gas, poisonous liquid, poisonous solid, irritating material, etiologic material, radioactive material, corrosive material, liquefied petroleum gas and petroleum products; or
(2) Responses involving electrical power distribution systems, including, but not limited to, fires, arching wires, leaking transformer fluid and downed power lines.
(Ord. 181, passed 4-1-2002)