[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of
Port Vue 5-17-1994 by Ord. No. 451 (Ch. 13, Part 4, of the 1989 Code
of Ordinances). Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Emergency services — See Ch. 153.
The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall
have the meanings given to them in this chapter unless the context
clearly indicates otherwise:
Any vehicle which is specifically designed, constructed or
modified and equipped and is used or intended to be used and is maintained
or operated, for the purpose of providing emergency medical care to,
and transportation of, patients. The term includes advanced or basic
life support vehicles that may or may not transport patients.
An individual who holds a valid certificate evidencing the
successful completion of a course in advanced first aid sponsored
by the American Red Cross and a valid certificate evidencing the successful
completion of a course in cardiopulmonary resuscitation sponsored
by the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross or an
individual who can evidence the successful completion of an equivalent
training program approved by the Department.
An entity which regularly engages in the business or service
of providing emergency medical care and transportation of patients
within this commonwealth. The term includes mobile advanced life support
services that may or may not transport patients.
The Department of Health of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
A combination of circumstances resulting in a need for immediate
medical intervention.
The services utilized in responding to the needs of an individual
for immediate medical care in order to prevent loss of life or aggravation
of physiological or psychological illness or injury.
An individual who is trained to provide emergency medical
services and is certified as such by the Department in accordance
with the current national standard curriculum for basic emergency
medical technicians as set forth in the rules and regulations promulgated
by the Department.
An emergency medical technician specifically trained to provide
advanced life support services who is certified as such by the Department
in accordance with the current national standard curriculum for emergency
medical technician-paramedics as set forth in the rules and regulations
promulgated by the Department.
Any facility, basic life support service or advanced life
support service.
A vehicle which is designed or modified and equipped for
rescue operations to release persons from entrapment and which is
not routinely used for emergency medical care or transport of patients.
A.
An ambulance service or provider of emergency medical services, regardless
of the geographical location of any such service's base of operations,
upon dispatching an ambulance or rescue vehicle in response to an
emergency call to a site located within the geographical boundaries
of the Borough of Port Vue, where it appears from the nature of the
call that the ambulance attendant, emergency medical technician or
emergency medical technician-paramedic accompanying said ambulance
or rescue, upon arriving at the site, may be required to administer
emergency medical services, shall notify the Borough of Port Vue Police
Department of the nature of the emergency call and the address within
the Borough to which the ambulance or rescue vehicle has been dispatched.
This notification and information shall be provided to the Borough
of Port Vue Police Department prior to the ambulance's or rescue
vehicle's arrival at the destination to which it has been dispatched
in response to the emergency call for the purpose of having police
assistance available at the site of the emergency.
B.
To constitute compliance with the notification requirement established
by this section, the responding ambulance service or provider of emergency
medical service, immediately upon receiving a call for assistance
from within the Borough, shall call the Council of Governments Dispatch
Center at 675-5011 to advise the dispatcher of the nature of the emergency
to which they are responding and the precise address, or if there
is no street address available, the exact location in the Borough
which is the site of the emergency call to which the service is responding.
The responding service shall further advise the aforesaid dispatch
center that a police call for the Port Vue Police is necessary to
alert the police that an emergency situation exists within the Port
Vue police jurisdiction.
C.
The purpose of the foregoing notification procedure and the intent
of this chapter is to assure a police presence at the site of the
emergency to protect and safeguard the health, safety and welfare
of the residents of the Borough and of the ambulance personnel responding
to the emergency.
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay
a fine of not more than $600 and/or imprisonment for a term not to
exceed 90 days.
