Long Beach Municipal Code Ch. 2.75 Ambulance Service

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State Law reference— Provisions authorizing cities to contract for ambulance service to serve their residents, Gov. Code § 38794.

A. Except as provided in Section 2.75.020, each person to or for whom emergency ambulance transportation service is furnished by the City by means of the municipally owned or operated emergency vehicle shall pay to the City a fee for such service in accordance with rates established by the City Council.

B. The amount of any fee established until paid shall be deemed a debt to the City and every such person shall be liable in an action in the name of the City in any court of competent jurisdiction therefor. The City Council is invested with the authority to prescribe reasonable rules and regulations with reference to such service.

(Ord. C-5691 § 1, 1981; prior code § 4280)

A. A person in the custody of the Police Department or an employee of the City injured while on duty to or for whom emergency ambulance transportation service is furnished by the City is exempt from the payment of the fee prescribed in Section 2.75.010.

B. The City Manager may authorize the charging of and releasing from further accountability of all accounts incurred as the result of orders or instructions received from civilian defense or other competent major disaster relief authority or of any account determined by him to be noncollectible. Such authorization shall authorize the City accountant to discharge such item from his books and shall relieve such official from any further accountability therefor but such discharge shall not constitute a release of any person from liability for payment of any such account.

(Prior code § 4280.1)