(A) Any person who is under the influence of an alcoholic beverage or any drug, or the combined influence of an alcoholic beverage and any drug, whose negligent operation of a motor vehicle, boat, vessel or aircraft caused by that influence proximately causes any incident resulting in an appropriate emergency response, shall pay to the city the reasonable costs of providing such emergency response. In no event shall a person's liability under this chapter exceed the maximum allowable under state law at the time of the incident.
(B) The city departments involved in the emergency response shall compute the reasonable costs of providing such response and advise the City Manager of such costs. The value of the individual emergency response services may be prescribed by resolution of the City Council, or, if they have not been so prescribed, shall be determined by the city departments involved in the emergency response in conjunction with the Finance Department. The person responsible for the emergency response incident shall be billed for the reasonable costs of the response by the Finance Department, and payment shall be due and payable within 15 days of the billing date. Should the amount of the bill not be paid when due, the city may collect the debt, as well as any costs incurred in collecting the debt due to nonpayment, pursuant to any available provision of the law.
(`83 Code, § 9.45.030) (Ord. 92-18 § 1 (part), 1992)