Council hereby approves the following procedure for writing off uncollected and uncollectible EMS accounts:
(a) The account is received from the Division of Fire and Emergency Rescue Services and certified by the Chief or Assistant Chief that a valid transport has occurred and that the sum is due and owing.
(b) The Finance Department renders an invoice to the person who has utilized the City's EMS services, and after thirty days, if the same is not paid, a statement is remitted. After sixty days, a second and final statement is sent. If the second statement remains unpaid for thirty more days, then a legal letter is sent. If this letter remains unpaid for thirty days, then the account is remitted to the City's authorized collection agency, to wit: Akron Credit Bureau.
(c) The Akron Credit Bureau utilizes all of its collection procedures to collect the account. If the account is either wholly or partially uncollected, then a report is received that the same has not been collected either through collection procedures or court action by the Akron Credit Bureau.
(d) The account is then returned to the Director of Finance, who will make a recommendation to the Director of Law that the account is either wholly or partially uncollectible and that the same should be written off as a bad debt by the City.
(e) As a final measure, at the end of each calendar year, a listing of the accounts written off will be submitted to Council for its approval.
(Ord. 1989-96. Passed 7-10-89.)