R-2672-10-07RESOLUTION NO. 2672-10-07tR)
' A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ALLEN, COLLIN
COUNTY, TEXAS, ESTABLISHING USER FEES FOR EMERGENCY AMBULANCE
SERVICES; PROVIDING A REPEALING CLAUSE; PROVIDING A SEVERABH.TY
CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the Code of Ordinances of the City of Allen authorizes the City Council to establish foes for
Emergency Ambulance Services, by Resolution.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ALLEN,
COLLIN COUNTY, TEXAS, THAT:
SECTION 1. The foes for emergency ambulance service provided by the City of Allen Fire Department shall
be eight hundred fifty-five dollars ($855) per patient per call for resident and non-resident users, plus a mileage
Ice of fifteen dollars ($15) per mile to an area Hospital with a certified Emergency Department. The patient will
also receive an itemized bill for procedures performed as well as medications and disposable supplies utilized in
thew care.
SECTION 2. The City of Allen desires to accept a resident's insurance, including Federal Health Care
Programs, as "payment in full" for Emergency Ambulance Services and will treat revenue from local taxes as
payment of any otherwise applicable cost-sharing amounts from its residents (i.e. "insurance only billing").
SECTION 3. All provisions of any Resolution of the City of Allen, Texas, in conflict with the provisions of this
' Resolution be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and all other provisions not in conflict with the provisions of this
Resolution shall remain in full force and effect.
SECTION 4. Should any word, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase or section of this Resolution, as
amended hereby, be adjudged or held to be void or unconstitutional, the same shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of said Resolution, as amended hereby, which shall remain in full force and effect
SECTION 5. This Resolution shall become effective immediately from and after its passage, and it is
accordingly so resolved.
DULY PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ALLEN, COLLIN
COUNTY, TEXAS, ON THIS THE 23RD DAY OF OCTOBER, 2007.
APPRO D:
Stephen Terrell, MAYOR
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Shelley B. George, UMC, CITY SEC ARY