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0010.90~ DLF 12/3/98 R: 12/9/98nk R: 12/18198 1/4/99 ORDINANCE NO. -i z I r AN ORDINANCE OF TH CITY OF ISSAQUAH, , AMDING SECTION 2.16.010 AN 2.16.020 OF THE ISSAQUAH MUNCIPAL CODE, REPEALING SECTIONS 2.16.030, 2.16.04, 2.16.050, 2.16.060, 2.16.070, AND 2.16.080 AN CHAlER 5.08 OF THE ISSAQUAH MUNCIPAL CODE RELATIG TO THE PROVISION OF FI AN EMERGENCY SERVICES, AN ADOPTING A NEW CHAPlER 5.08 REULATIG AMBULANCES WIIN TH CIT, AN ESTABLISllG AN EFFECTI DAlE.

WHEREAS, the City and Fire Distct 10 are scheduled to consolidate lire and emergency servces on Januar 1, 1999 by way of interlocal agreement, and the City Council desires to update its muncipal code to reflect the consolidation, and

WHREAS, the City Counci also desires to repea Chapter 5.08 of the Issaquah

Muncipal Code and adopt new regulations pertnig to ambulance services within the City, and to provide for the health, safety and welfare of its citizens; NOW, THERFORE,

THE CITY COUNCIL OF TH CIT OF ISSAQUAH, WASHINGTON, DO

ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:

Section 1. Section 2.16.010 of the Issaquah Muncipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows:

2.16.010 Created. Fire and emergency medical servces for the City shall be provided by Eastside Fire and Rescue, which has been created through an Interlocal Agreement, dated November 3, 1998,

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between the City of Issaquah and Kig County Fire Protetion District #10.

Section 2. Section 2.16.020 of the Issaquah Muncipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows:

2.16.020 Fi Chef an Fire Ma. The of Eatside Fire and Rescue shal serve as the City's Fire Chief, and the Fire Marshal of Eastside Fire and Rescue shal serve as the City's Fire Marshal.

Section 3. Sections 2.16.030, 2.16.04, 2.16.050, 2.16.06, 2.16.070, and

2.16.080 of the Issaquah Muncipal Code are hereby repealed in their entirety.

Section 4. Chapter 5.08 of the Isaquah Muncipal Code is hereby repealed.

Section 5. A new Chapter 5.08, entitled "Ambulances" is hereby adopted to read as follows:

Chpter 5.08

AMBULNCES

Sections:

5.08.010 Purpose. 5.08.020 Definitions. 5.08.030 Busines license required for each ambulance company. 5.08.040 Application for business licens -- Issuance. 5.08.050 Denial, revocation or suspension of business license. 5.08.060 Insurace and Indemnication. 5.08.070 State license and stadards and requirements. 5.08.080 Ambulance attndants. 5.08.090 Verication. 5.08.100 Kig County medical program director authority. 5.08.110 Authority of deparent. 5.08.120 Rates to be fied. 5.08.130 Response criteria. 5.08.140 Community events. 5.08.150 Violation a civi violation.

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5.08.010 Puse.

The City Council declares it to be in the public interest, and for the protection of the heath, saety and welfare of the residents of the City and its environs to provide for the highest level of emergency medical services reaonably practicable. The City Counci finds it to be in the public interest to provide for the inspection, regulation and control of emergency medical servces to achieve high stadards and thereby to eliinate inadequate, improper and harul practices that may endager the health and safety of the people.

5.08.020 Defitions.

As used in ths chapter, the following words and phrases shal have the following meag uness the context clearly requires otherwse: A. "Ambulance," means any pnvately owned vehicle that is espealy desgned, constrcted, equipped, maitaed or us for the transporttion of patents who are sick, injured or otherw incapacitated, which is operated as par of an ambulance company for hire. B. "Ambulance attendant" mean any traied or otherwis qualed individual responsible for the operation of an ambulance and the care of the patients, whether or not the medical attendant also serves as a dnver, who is the holder of a vald certcate isued under ths chapter. C. "Ambulance company" means any person, corporation or other legal entity. as defined in!MC 1.04.010(1), who operate an ambulance for hire which: 1. Is stationed with the corporate lits of the City; or 2. Is dispatched from with or without the corporate liits of the City and repeatedly or customany makes tnps for hire with the City to pick up injured or sick fares; or 3. Makes any tnps into the City for hire to pick up injured or sick fares after occasional or repeated adverting, with the City, for such servce. Provided, that the provisions of ths chapter shal not apply to any ambulance which shall pass through the City in the delivery of fares picked up at points beyond the corporate liits of the City. D. "City Clerk" mea the City Clerk or other City employee designated by the Mayor as licensing offcial under this chapter. E. "Departent" mean the Joint Fire Departent providig consolidated servces to the City. F. "Fire offcial" means the Fire Chief or such other of Eastside Fire and Rescue employees as the Fire Chief may designate to peiform the duties provided for in ths chapter. G. "Patient" means an individual who is sick, injured, wounded or otherwise incapacitated or helpless.

5.08.030 Busnes license required for each ambulance company. Every person who operates an ambulance company shall be required to obtan a business license from the City Clerk. The busiess license shall be renewed on an annual basis. The City

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Clerk shal not issue such business license unless the applicant has fuiled all requirements of ths chapter and any applicable provisions of state law relatig to personnel, equipment and operations including but not limted to Chapter 18.73 RCW and Chapter 246-976 WAC as now or hereater amended.

5.08.04 Application for busess licens .. Is. Application for a busness license to operate an ambulance company shall be made upon forms provided by the City and shal conta: A. Name, home address and telephone number of the applicant; B. Busies name under which the ambulance company wil be operate with the City, and busess address and telephone number; C. The number of ambulances to be intialy placed in servce with the City; D. The number of licensed ambulance attendats intialy to be employed; E. A roster of ambulances to be usd in the City with proof that each ambulance is currently licens as an ambulace by the state of Washigton; F. A roster of certed ambulance attndants with proof that each attndant is currently certed as an emergency medcal techncian (EM1) by the state of Washigton (includig certcation expiration date); G. Proof that ambulances and personnel ar veried trauma providers as provided in Chapter 246976 WAC; H. Certcate of Inurance and indemncation as required in IMC 5.04.06; and i. The fee as reuire by IMC 5.02.070. Prior to the issuance of a busess license, the application and all pertent records shall be reviewed and al equipment proposed for use shal be inspected by the fire offcial, who shall determine whether said records and equipment conform to all the reuirements of ths chapter, and any rues or regulations referenced herein or issued hereunder. Upon approval of the application, the City Clerk shal issue an ambulance operator's business license. 5.08.050 DelÙaI, revoction or sunson of busnes licens. The issuance of a business license to operate an ambulance company may be denied, or such licens may be suspended or revoked by the City Clerk, upon the recommendation of the fire offcial, when the public interest wil be served thereby, upon any of the following grounds: A. The makg of a false statement of material fact in the application for the business license or any data or inormation required to be contaied in such application attched thereto; or B. Faiure to comply with any provision of ths chapter or any rues or regulations referenced herein or issued pursuant to ths chapter; or C. Faiure to pay City business and occupation ta pursuant to Chapter 5.04 IMC; or D, Overcharging of customer rates set fort in the company's schedule of rates fIed pursuant to IMC 5.04.120; or E. Faiure to maita ambulances and equipment to the stadards set fort in Chapter 246-976 WAC.

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5.08,060 Inurace an Indemncation. No ambulance operators business licens shal be issued, nor shal such license be vald after issuace, nor shal any ambulance be operated in the City, unes the operator maitas a policy or policies of insurance agaist claims for injunes to persons or damages to propert which may anse from or in connection with the performance of activities asocated with the operation of the ambulance company. Such inurance shal name the City as an additional inured. The ambulance company shal also indemni and hold the City harless from any cause of action ansing from the operation of the ambulance company. The minum scope and liits of coverage shal be set by the City's nsk manager or other person designated by the Mayor. A certcate of insurance shal accompany the application for license and shal be maitaed on a contiuous basis through subseuent license renewal penods. The certcate of insurace, policy and indemnication shal be in a form approved to by the City Attorney.

5.08.070 State licens an st an reuirements. Al ambulances operating in the City must be licensed by the stte of Washigton and must meet the stadards and reuirements set fort in Chapter 246-976 WAC, as now or hereafter amende. Proof of a state licens as a tranport ambulance must be provided with any application for a City business license for each transport vehicle.

5.08.080 Ambulce attndts. Each ambulance company shal have, for each ambulance in servce, on duty and avaiable for imediate respons, two ambulance attndants who are currntly certed as emergency medcal tehncian (EM1), as provided in Chapter 246-976 WAC. A certcate of license shal be cared on the person of each ambulance attndant whie on duty.

5.08.09 Verification. Any ambulance company operatig in the City must be a venfed trauma provider and must meet the reuirements for personnel and equipment as required in chapter 246-976 WAC for truma providers. The ambulance company must speccaly be authonzed to act as a truma provider by the Seatte/Kig County trauma council or successor. 5.08.100 King County meca pro direr authority. Each ambulance company shal provide proof at tie of business license application that such ambulance company is venfed to provide prehospita patient care by the Kig County medical program director or successor as state approved and has appropnate licensing certcation. 5.08.110 Authority of deparnt. The departent shal make all necessary investigations and inspections for enforcement of ths chapter. As a condition of issuance of a business license, the operator of each ambulance company consents to the followig: An authonzed representative of the departent shal be permittd to make regular inspections of any ambulance company operatig under a business licens issued pursuant to IMC

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5.08.040, at al reaonable hours, with or without advance notice, upon the presentation of appropriate credenti to an authorized representative of the company, and shall make such report relative to conditions exitig at such ties and in such maner as the deparent may direct.

5.08.120 Rate to be filed. Each ambulance company applying for a business license or renewal of licens pursuant to th chapter shal, at the tie of filng its application therefor, fie with the City Clerk its schedule of rates to be charged for servces durig the license period for which application is made. Such schedule of rate shal be a mattr of public record open to public inspetion in the City Clerk's offce durig normal City business hours and such schedule mus be adhered to by the license thoughout the period for which the license is issued.

5.08.130 Resons crtena. The City wil provide first response emergency medical servces (EMS). Ambulance companes receivig a direct reuest for EMS servces shal notiy the fire deparent's 911 communications center immediately so that a fire departent first response can be intiated. The only exception to ths requiement shal be for the transport of stale patients from one medical facty to another and routie medcal transport and exams. The 911 system must be activate for all prehospita EMS priar examations and untable patient care. The deparent shal estalih ambulance response criteria and make such criteria known to each ambulance company at the tie of applicaton and renewal of busines licens. Each ambulance company shal submit a respons report quarerly or on demand of the fire offcial outlg compliance with the response criteria.

5.08.140 Communty events. When an ambulance company is contracte to provide emergency medical stadby (i.e., 10K Fun Runs, etc.) by communty event promoters, the following conditions shal apply: A. The ambulance company shal noti the fire offcial in writig 14 days prior to the date of the event, or as soon to the event as reasnably possible, statig the date, time and scope of stadby responsibilties. B. Ambulance companes engaging in stadby activities shall noti the fire deparent's 911 communications center immediately on al advanced lie supporte threatening cals as requied pursuat to !MC 5.04.130. C. Ambulance company stadby for handling basic lie support cals must obtan prior approval and parameters for care set by the fire offcial. D. Al EMS activity provided by the ambulance company at such events shal be documented and a report forwarded to the fire offcial withi one week subsequent to the completion of the event.

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5.08.150 Violation a civi violation. Violation of any provion of ths chapter is a civi violation as provided for in Chapter 1.06 !MC, for which a moneta penalty may be asssed and abatement may be required as pro- vided therein. Th setion shal be adtered by the City mayor or his/her designee.

Setion 6. If any setion, sentence, clause or phras of ths ordiance should be

held to be invald or unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdction, such invaldity or

unconstitutionalty shal not affect the valdity or constitutionalty of any other section, sentence,

clause or phras of ths ordiance.

Setion 7. Th ordiance or a sumar thereof consisting of the title shall be

published in the offci newspaper of the City, and shal tae effec and be in ful force five (5)

days after publication.

Pasd by the City Council of the City of Issauah, the "rl day of 9~ ,1999. Approved by the Mayor of the City of Issua the 1- tt day of 9~, 1999. APPROVED: A~~~ :d.. ) AVA FRSINGER, YOR

ATIST/AUTENTCATED: ~ Æ~UL C CLERK, LINDA RUEHLE

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APPROVED AS TO FORM: OFFICE OF THE CIT ATIORNY: BY~~

FILED WI TH CITY CLER: 12-2-'1-7J' PASSED BY THE CIT COUNCIL: I - 'f - '/ '/ PUBUSHED: I - , 7' '1'1 EFFECTI DATE: I - I,K - 'i '1 ORDINANCE NO. :J 1- I "

Dl.218102.1 -8- , Legal Notice No. 99-004 ~ .

Affidavit of Publication

STATE OF WASHINGTON L COUNTY OF KING r 55. 99 LEGAL NOTICE I, Adrienne Turley, being first duly sworn on oath, deposes ciTY OF ISSAOUAH and says that she is the deputy clerk of The Issaquah NOTICE OF ORDINANCE Press, a weekly newspaper. That said newspaper is a PASSEO BY ISSAQUAH legal newspaper of general circulation and it is now and crr COUNCil has been for more than six months prior to the date of the Following is a summary of an publications hereinafter referred to, published in the ordmance passed by the Jssa~ English language continuously as a weekly newspaper in quah Cit Council on 1-4-99" Issaquah, in King County, WashinQton, and it is now,and ORDINANCE NO. 2219 during all of said time was printed In an office maintained at the aforesaid place of publication of said newspaper. A, Ordinance of the Cit of Is- saquah, Washington, amend. That the said THE ISSAQUAH PRESS was on the First ing Section 2.16.010 and day of January 1900, approved as a legal newspaper by 2.16.020 of the Issaquah Mu- the Superior Court of said King County. nicipal COde, repealing Sec- !tons 2.16.030 and 2.16040 2.16.050.2.16.060,216:070: This is a true copy of Legal Notice 99-004 City of and 2.16.080 and Chapter Issaquah, Notice of Ordinance Passed by Issaquah City 5.08 of the Issaquah Municipal Council, Ordinance # 2219 Code relating 10 the provision of fire and emergency serv- ices, and adopting a new Chapter 5.08 regulating ambu- lanc:es. within the City, and es- tablishing an effecive date. (Effecive 1-18-99.) Complete text of this ordi. as was published (and not in supplement form) of said nance is posted af City Hall newspaper once each week for a period of one consecu- NOr1hwesl, 1775 - 121h Ave- tive week, commencing on the 13th day of January, 1999 nue NW, and the Issaquah public Library, 120 E. Sunset and ending on the 13th day of January, 1999 paper as Way. Upon request 10 the City was regularly distributed to its subscribers during all of clerks Office (425)837-3000), said period. That the full amount of the fee charged for the a COPy will also be mailed for a foregoing publication is the sum of $55.00 at the rate fee. structures of $11.00 per column inch. Linda Ruehle City ClerkGeneral Servce Di. rector Published in Ihe Issaquah Press January 13, 1999,

dr nne Turley Chief Clerk The Issaquah Press

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