The City Council finds that it is in the best interests of the health and safety of the citizens of the City for ambulance transport services to be provided by the City Fire Department. In order for the ambulance service to be self-supporting and in order to deliver the highest quality of patient care, the Fire Department shall be authorized to charge the user of ambulance services for the reasonable costs of providing those services, including those paramedic services used in ambulance transport. The City Council also finds that it is necessary to provide emergency and nonemergency ambulance services as well as ambulance services outside of the corporate limits of the City in order to operate a self-supporting ambulance service which will not require subsidy from the General Fund.
(1979 Code 8.50.010; Ord. 91-34, 8-22-1991)