HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrdinance No. 588-88 10-24-1988 ORDINANCE NO. 588
• AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 1, SUBSECTION E,
"AMBULANCE FEES AND CHARGES" OF SECTION 12,
"AMBULANCE SERVICE" OF "GENERAL PROVISIONS" OF THE
CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF RICHLAND HILLS,
TEXAS TO ENUMERATE AMBULANCE FEES AND CHARGES;
PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; PROVIDING A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS, THAT,
I.
That Chapter 1, Subsection E "Ambulance Fees and
Charges" of Section 12 of Chapter 1, Code of Ordinances,
City of Richland Hills, Texas, as amended be hereby amended
to hereafter be and read as follows:
E. AMBULANCE FEES AND CHARGES
The total fees and charges for the use of the City of
Richland Hills, Texas ambulance shall be as follows:
(1) Resident of Richland Hills: $ 250.00
• (2) Non-Resident of Richland Hills: $ 350.00
(3) Charge for Aid, but no transport,
Resident: $ 50.00
(4) Charge for Aid, but no transport,
Non-Resident: $ 100.00
(5) Additional fee for transportation
to destination outside
of Tarrant County. $ 100.00
II.
SAVINGS CLAUSE. That Chapter 1 of the Code of Ordinances,
City of Richland Hills, Texas, as amended, shall remain in
full force and effect, save and except as amended by this
ordinance.
III.
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. That it is hereby declared to be the
intention of the City Council that the sections, paragraphs,
sentences, clauses and phrases of this ordinance are
• severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or
section of this ordinance shall be declared invalid or
unconstitutional by the valid judgment or decree of any
court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity or
unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining
phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs or sections of this
ordinance, since the same would have been enacted by the
City Council without the incorporation in this ordinance of
any such invalid or unconstitutional phrase, clause,
sentence, paragraph or section.
IV.
EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance shall be in full force and
effect from and after its passage and publication as
provided by the Richland Hills City Charter and the laws of
the State of Texas.
PRESENTED, GIVEN FIRST READING AND APPROVED at a regular
meeting of the Richland Hills City Council on the 24 day of
October 1988; by a vote of 4 ayes, 1 nays and
0 abstentions.
APPROVED:
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W. H. (Bill) Vincent, Jr., Mayor
ATE ST:
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• Pauline Kempe, City Secretary
'APPROVED TO FORM:
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Paul F. Wieneskie, ty Attorney
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