(a) Any person who, or entity which owned, leased, operated, commissioned the use or operation of, contracted for the use or operation of, or otherwise had any possession or control of a motor vehicle or other transportation device, which operation, use, possession, or control results in an emergency response, shall be responsible and liable to the City and any municipal mutual aid association of which the City is a member, as applicable, for the expenses of the emergency response.
(b) The owner or lessor or operator of the fixed facility which is the subject of an emergency response shall be liable to the City and any municipal mutual aid association of which the City is a member, as applicable for the expense of an emergency response.
(c) The following persons shall be jointly and severally liable for all costs to the City incurred in performing the technical rescue:
(1) Any person or the parent or guardian of a minor, who accidentally, negligently, intentionally, or unintentionally causes or is responsible for the need for technical rescue shall be jointly and severally liable for all costs to the City incurred in performing the technical rescue.
(2) The owner(s) of real property on which services are rendered in a technical rescue shall be jointly and severally liable for all costs to the City incurred in performing the technical rescue.
(3) The owner(s) of a vehicle from which persons or property must be rescued by technical rescue and the person to whom the services are rendered shall be jointly and severally liable for all costs to the City incurred in performing the technical rescue.
(4) Any person(s) involved in any activity which caused or contributed to the causation of the incident giving rise to the need for a technical rescue shall be jointly and severally liable for all costs to the City incurred in performing the technical rescue.
(5) Any person(s) who makes a false report that results in the unnecessary dispatch of personnel to perform a technical rescue shall be jointly and severally liable for all costs to the City incurred in responding to the report.
(6) The employer(s) of a person who, in the course of his or her employment, is involved in an incident requiring a technical rescue shall be liable for all costs to the City incurred in performing the technical rescue.
(7) Any person(s) involved in any construction project in which a technical rescue is needed on the construction site shall be jointly and severally liable for all costs to the City incurred in performing the technical rescue.
(8) In the case of the technical rescue of any property, the owner and titleholder of the property and the person in possession of the property at the time of the incident giving rise to the need for technical rescue are jointly and severally liable for all costs to the City incurred in performing the technical rescue.
(Ord. 2022-03. Passed 5-17-22)
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