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For purposes, of this Chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

A. "Ambulance" means a ground vehicle designed and used to transport the ill and injured and to provide personnel, facilities, and equipment to treat patients before and during transportation.

B. "Ambulance Service" or "Ambulance Operator" means an agency, public or private, that operates one or more ambulances, responding to a 911 or aid call for service within the city, including advanced life support, basic life support and transport services.

C. "Dispatch" means the Grays Harbor E911 Dispatch Center.

D. "Emergency Medical Care" or "Emergency Medical Service" means medical treatment and care which may be rendered at the scene of any medical emergency or while transporting any patient in an ambulance to an appropriate medical facility, including ambulance transportation between medical facilities.

E. "Operating an Ambulance" means the use of an ambulance in any of the following manners:

1. An ambulance stationed within the city.

2. An ambulance dispatched from within or without the Aberdeen city limits which repeatedly or customarily makes trips for hire to pick up the sick or injured from within the city.

F. "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, group of individuals acting together for a common purpose, or organization of any kind, including a government agency.

G. "Response Time" means the time from the ambulance service being notified by dispatch to arrival of the ambulance on scene.

H. “Service Fee” means the monthly fee levied by the Utility upon persons within the boundaries of the city.

I. “System” means the entire system of ambulance services provided by the Utility or over which the Utility has regulatory control by virtue of contract, franchise, or other service agreement or arrangement legally recognized by the city.

J. “Unit” means either “dwelling unit” as defined by Title 17 AMC, where appropriate, or the unit of occupancy for each utility user classification. The unit of occupancy for assisted living and nursing home facilities shall be beds rented or leased on an individual basis.

K. “Utility” means the City of Aberdeen Ambulance and Emergency Medical Services Utility, including without limitation all equipment, employees, agents, supplies, overhead and other associated costs incurred to deliver all regulatory and ambulance services.

(Ord. 6424, Added, 12/13/2006)