For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
EMERGENCY RESPONSE. Providing or utilizing public safety officers, emergency medical or rescue personnel by the city, or by a private individual or corporation operating at the request or direction of the city, in connection with any incident involving a driver of a motor vehicle operating under the influence of an intoxicating liquor or a controlled substance, or a combination of intoxicating liquor and a controlled substance. Such incidents shall include any accident involving a motor vehicle where one or more of the drivers was operating the motor vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicating liquor or a controlled substance, or a combination of intoxicating liquor and a controlled substance; and any traffic stop and arrest by a public safety officer when the driver was operating the motor vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicating liquor or a controlled substance, or a combination thereof.
EXPENSE OF AN EMERGENCY RESPONSE. All direct and reasonable expenses related to an emergency response. These expenses shall include, but are not limited to, the costs of police, firefighting, emergency medical and rescue services, the salaries and wages of any personnel responding to the incident, the salaries and wages of any personnel engaged in investigating the incident and all costs of any reports connected therewith, all costs connected with the supervision personnel responding to or investigating any incident, all costs connected with the administration and processing of chemical tests of the blood, breath or urine of the driver, and all costs related to any prosecution of the person causing the incident.
(Prior Code, § 10.81) (Ord. effective 12-14-1990; Ord. effective 4-26-1991)