Ordinance 1735ORDINANCE NO. 1735
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON,
AMENDING CHAPTER 4.08 OF THE EDMONDS CITY CODE TO
PERMIT LICENSED PRIVATELY OWNED AMBULANCE COMPANIES
TO INTERCEPT POLICE AND FIRE CALLS; PROHIBITING
SAID COMPANIES FROM RESPONDING ON AN EMERGENCY
BASIS UNLESS EXPRESSLY DIRECTED; PROVIDING FOR THE
PUBLICATION OF SAID RATE SCHEDULES AND THE PRIOR
APPROVAL OF SAID SCHEDULES BY THE STATE OF WASHING -
TON AND THE CITY; REQUIRING THAT AT ALL TIMES THERE
BE TWO (2) ATTENDANTS, ONE TRAINED AS AN EMERGENCY
MEDICAL TECHNICIAN (EMT) AND ONE (1) WITH ADVANCED
FIRST AID TRAINING; SETTING FORTH GUIDELINES FOR
DETERMINING WHO WILL TRANSPORT INJURED OR ILL VICTIMS
AND REQUIRING THE MAINTENANCE OF CERTAIN PUBLIC
LIABILITY INSURANCE LIMITS.
WHEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Edmonds, Washington,
has reviewed the problems created by more than one emergency
vehicle responding to the scene of an accident or other
emergency and,
WHEREAS, it is in the public health, safety and general
welfare that certain minimum standards be required of private
ambulance companies with respect to the expertise of their
personnel, the adequacy of liability insurance and the adequacy
of their equipment, now, therefore,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON, DO
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 4.08.060 of the Edmonds City Code is
hereby amended to read as follows:
"4.08.060 Insurance -- No license or inspection
certificates shall be issued under this chapter
nor shall any ambulance be operated in this
City, unless there is at all times in full force
and effect, insurance coverage issued by an
insurance company licensed to do business in
the State of Washington, for each and every
ambulance to be operated under the license,
and attendant riding in or operating said
ambulance, providing for public liability insurance
in the amount of one million dollars for personal
injuries to any person or persons arising out of
each accident or occurrence and property damage
insurance in the amount of twenty-five thousand
dollars for each accident or occurrence. Evidence
of insurance policies for the full -term of the
license shall be submitted to the City Clerk at
time of application for license. Such evidence
shall be a certificate from the licensee's
insurance company that the insurance exists, shall
name the City of Edmonds as an additional insured
and provide specifically that the insurance will
not be cancelled without written notice having
been delivered to the City Clerk not less than ten
(10) days prior to the effective date of said
cancellation. In the event of a cancellation of
a licensee's insurance policy required to be
carried hereunder, and said licensee does not
obtain a replacement insurance policy and supply
proof of the same to the City Clerk before the
effective date of cancellation of prior insurance,
then licensee's license shall be deemed revoked
without further notice from the City Clerk.
Section 2. Section 4.08.100 is hereby amended to read as
follows:
"4.08.100 Standards for Ambulance Eauipment--
Qualifications for Attendants -- (a) Each ambulance
shall be equipped at all times with all equipment
required for vehicles of similar size and use by
the State of Washington. In addition thereto, each
ambulance licensed hereunder to respond to aid calls
shall maintain such additional equipment as is
necessary to be comparable to the equipment main-
tained on any aid car operated by the City of Edmonds.
Equipment required to be carried on each such
ambulance shall at all times be maintained in a
workable and usable condition and shall include
but is not limited to the following items:
1.
(1)
Portable resuscitator;
2.
(1)
Oxygen tank with regulator, liter
gauge and mask;
3.
(1)
Collapsible stretcher;
4.
(1)
Urinal;
5.
(2)
Blankets for each stretcher;
6.
(2)
Sand bags (5 lb.);
7.
(1)
Emesis basin;
8.
(1)
Adult size leg splint;
9.
(1)
Child size leg splint;
10.
(1)
Bed pan;
11.
( 2 )
Restraint straps;
12.
(2)
Plastic covers for patients;
13.
(1)
Spare size E oxygen tank;
14.
(1)
Nonfolding stretcher (4 wheel gurny)
2 level;
15.
(1)
Robinson orthopedic stretcher;
16.
(4)
Changes of pillow cases, sheets and towels;
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17. An attendant's bag which shall contain the
following:
(1) Bandage shears,
(2) Flashlights (1 regular and 1 pencil type),
(1) Small airway,
(1) Large airway,
(6) Rolls 3-inch bandages,
(2) Rolls 1-inch adhesive tape,
(4) Arm splints,
(6) Tongue depressors,
(1) Infant's oxygen face cone;
(2) Cravats,
(3) 18-inch pieces surgical rubber tubing,
(10) 4-inch x 4-inch gauze packs
(2) Rolls 1-1/2 inch or 2-inch adhesive tape.
All linens shall be changed after each use and
laundered before reuse. After being used in a
communicable disease, blankets shall be dry-
cleaned. Blankets shall be kept in a clean,
sanitary condition.
(b) Each ambulance operating under the provisions
of this chapter shall be equipped with a two-way
radio operating on an independent radio frequency
authorized by the Federal Communications Commission.
(1) Such radio communication shall be between
each such vehicle and the operator's headquarters;
(2) The operator's headquarters shall be
staffed on a twenty-four (24) hour basis, with a
telephone dispatcher and a licensed radio dispatcher
qualified to process any and all calls. The
telephone operator and the radio dispatcher may be
the same person (Ord. 1476 [part], 1970.)
(c) Each vehicle licensed hereunder shall, at all
times, be staffed with two attendants, one trained
as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) and one
trained in Red Cross Advanced First Aid or its
equivalent. Each such attendant shall be required
to submit proof of such training and maintaining of
such training prior to the issuance of any license
provided by this chapter and on the annual renewal
of each such license.
Section 3. Chapter 4.08 of the Edmonds City Code is
hereby amended by adding a new section, 4.08.105, to read as
follows:
"4.08.105 Licensees to Respond to Aid Calls on
Non Code Basis -- Licensed private ambulance
operators shall be permitted to monitor short
wave radio, fire or police calls for the
purpose of being apprised of the scene of an
accident or other emergency. Said licensees
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shall be permitted and required, unless other-
wise engaged, to respond immediately to all
aid car calls. Such responses shall be on a
non code basis without the use of emergency
lights and/or sirens unless otherwise specifically
directed by the dispatcher for the City, the
Municipal Aid Car Commander or the Fire Chief or
his designee."
Section 4. A new section, 4.08.106, is hereby added to the
Edmonds City Code, to read as follows:
"4.08.106 Schedule of Rates'.-- -City Approval
Required -- All licensees shall keep in effect
a published rate schedule, which rates have
been approved by the Washington State Public
Utilities and Transportation Commission or
other applicable State agency and further, have
been approved by the Edmonds City Council. The
published charges for services rendered by any
licensee hereunder shall not be levied until
such prior approval has been obtained.
Section 5. A new section, 4.08.121 is hereby added to the
Edmonds City Code, to read as follows:
"4.08.121 Policy and Procedure for Transportation
of Injured or Ill Person -- Municipal Aid Car at
The Scene -- In addition to other provisions of this
chapter relating to the transportation of injured
or ill persons by any ambulance licensed hereunder,
the following procedures shall be followed in the
event of a simultaneous response by the municipal
aid car and an ambulance licensed hereunder to the
scene of an accident or other emergency response:
(a) The municipal aid car commander shall be in
charge and the attendants on any such ambulance
shall report to him.
(b) The aid car commander shall make the deter-
mination as to whether the victim is in such condi-
tion that as a matter of life or death, he should
be immediately transported to a medical establishment
by the aid car.
(c) In the event the condition of the victim is not
such that the immediate delivery of the victim by
the aid car to a hospital or other medical establish-
ment is a matter of life or death, then said aid car
commander shall cause the victim to be prepared for
transportation by private ambulance or by privately
furnished transportation.
(d) The aid car commander shall ha-ve the lright to rely
upon the expressed desire of the victim or the members
of his family as to where the victim shall be transported.
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(e) Transportation to a point outside the City of
Edmonds shall not be done by the municipal aid car.
Section 6. Section 4.08.150 of the Edmonds City Code is
hereby amended to read as follows:
"4.08.150 Revocation of Ambulance and/or Operator.
License -- In the event of a violation of any of the
provisions of this chapter, an ambulance operator
license or driver attendant license, granted under
this chapter, may be revoked or suspended by the
City Council. Complaints for termination or sus-
pension of any license issued in this chapter shall
be filed with the City Clerkand served on the
licensee not less than thirty (30) days prior to
the date set by the City Council for the hearing to
determine if any license shall be revoked or suspended.
The complaint shall specify the facts giving rise
to the alleged violation and a copy of said complaint
shall be sent with the notice of the hearing to the
licensee at the address shown on the license issued
by the City. Notice shall be conclusively established
to have been served by evidence of delivery either
by certified or registered mail to the address shown
on the application and/or license.
The City Council shall conduct a hearing in accordance
with its own rules and may adjourn the hearing from
time to time and request such additional information
or evidence from the licensee or other sources as it
deems necessary to apprise itself of all of the facts
it deems relevant to the complaint.
The decision of the Council shall be final with respect
to any revocation or suspension of any license issued
under this chapter. Any licensee whose license is
suspended or revoked may appeal the decision of the
Council by making application for a Writ of Certiorari
to the Superior Court of Snohomish County within ten
(10) days of the date of the final decision by the
City Council. This shall be an exclusive remedy of
any licensee under this chapter. During the pendency of
any such appeal, the decision of the City Council to
suspend or revoke a license shall be stayed until final
disposition of the matter by the Superior Court.
ATTEST:
APPROVED:
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MAYOR - .
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CITY CLERK
Passed by the City Council: October 22, 1974
Filed with. the City Clerk: October 18, 1974
Published: October 30, 1974
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