Earlier editions: 2026-07
Title 10 — Vehicles and Traffic
Oroville Municipal Code Ch. 10.24 Emergency Response Cost Recovery Program
Oroville Municipal Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · Oroville
Cite as: Oroville Municipal Code Chapter 10.24 · Text as of 2026-10-04
§ 10.24.010. Liability for costs of emergency response.¶
Pursuant to the authority vested in the City of Oroville by state statute, each person who is under the influence of an alcoholic beverage or any drug, or the combined influence of an alcoholic beverage and any drug, whose negligent operation of a motor vehicle, boat, vessel, or aircraft caused by that influence proximately causes any incident resulting in an appropriate emergency response, or whose intentionally wrongful conduct proximately causes any incident resulting in an appropriate emergency response, shall pay to said city the expense of such an emergency response. In no event shall a person's liability under this section exceed the maximum allowable under state statute.
(Ord. 1512 § 1)
§ 10.24.020. Collection of costs.¶
A. The expense of an emergency response shall be charged against the person liable for the expenses under this chapter. The charge constitutes a debt of that person to the City of Oroville, and is collectible by said city in the same manner as in the obligation under a contract, express or implied.
B. No person acquitted of or receiving a dismissal of all criminal charges arising out of the incident which resulted in the emergency response shall be charged for the costs of said emergency response, and any costs paid shall be refunded.
(Ord. 1512 § 1)
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