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AN ORDINANCE
ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE DEFINING THE TERMS
" lITERGENCY CALL" AND "DISPATCHER".. PROVIDING
DUTIES OF DISPATCHER, MAKING IT UNLAI F'UL FOR
ANY PERSON, FII OR CORPORATION TO OPERATE AN
AMBULANCE IN THE CITY WITHOUT FIRST .CALLING
THE DISPATCHER, PROVIDING I1,1ETHOD OF DISPATCHING
AMBULANCES, PROVIDING PENALTY AND SAVINGS
CLAUSES AND DECLARING AN 11=GENCY.
BE -IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF BEAUMONT;
Section 1.
The term." emergency calls11 shall be held to mean
any and all calls and requests for ambulance service on ac-
count of circumstances which are, or are represented to be,
such as come within the general definition of the term
"emergency", whether such call be transmitted by a private
individual, by telephone or in person, or whether such call
be transmitted by radio or otherwise.
Section 2.
The "dispatcher" referred to herein shall be the
person or persons designated by the Chief of Police of the
City
of
Beaumont and shall
be
available
by telephone at all
hours
at
the Police Station
of
the City
of Beaumont.
Section 3.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or cor-
poration to drive or operate any ambulance on the streets
of the Cite of Beaumont on any emergency call without first
having called the Police Station of the City of Beaumont
, . ';0
except in cases where additional ambulances are needed, in
which cases he shall authorize the making of such call by
such other ambulances as are needed.
Section 4.
Any person guilty of a violation of any of the
provisions of this Ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
and shall be subject to a fine of not more than One - Hundred
and 001100 ($100.00) Dollars.
Section 5.
In the event any section, portion or phrase of
this "Ordinance is declared invalid -by --a court -of competent
jurisdiction, such action shall not.aff ect the remaining
portions of this Ordinance.
Section 6.
The fact that the existing Ordinances of the City
of Beaumont do not-- afford adequate regulation of emergency
ambulance calls and the further fact that several ambulances -
answering the same emergency call race to -the point of desti-
nation, thus, endangering the lives -and property of citizens
of Beaumont, createsa great public emergency necessitating
the suspension of the rule requiring Ordinances to be read
on three several days before their passage, and. -same is here-
by suspended and this Ordinance shall be -in effect from and
after the date of its enactment
PASSED -by the affirmative vote of all members of
the City Commission, this 6th day of August,