[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Salem 12-19-1977
as Ord. No. 7726. Amendments noted where applicable.]
There is hereby established a Department for Ambulance Services in and
for the City of Salem.
The Council shall annually appoint a committee from its membership,
of such number as it shall designate, to oversee ambulance services.
The function of the Department for Ambulance Services shall be as follows:
A.Â
To provide the vehicle for use by the local service organization
in rendering emergency transport to persons within the City of Salem requiring
medical attention at area hospitals or other similar institutions and also
for use in area mutual aid medical transport services within and outside the
City of Salem pursuant to agreement with area ambulance corps;
B.Â
To provide shelter for the storage of said vehicle and
for the use of the local ambulance service organization in connection with
providing ambulance service.
C.Â
To provide the funding for the operation of the emergency
and mutual aid medical transport service, by receiving donations for said
purpose for deposit in municipal general account and by appropriating the
remainder of the necessary funds to operate said service in the City of Salem
annual budget.
The City of Salem may enter into an agreement with a local
nonprofit organization for the mutual supplying of emergency and mutual aid
medical transport and related services to the citizens of the City of Salem
and such surrounding areas as are agreed upon.
The organization operating the aforesaid emergency transport service
shall be governed by its own articles of incorporation and bylaws, so long
as said operation is not in violation of the laws of the United States or
State of New Jersey or ordinances of the City of Salem and so long as said
organization qualifies as a nonprofit organization.
The title and ownership of the vehicle or vehicles and equipment utilized
by said organization in the supplying of emergency and mutual aid medical
transport and the shelter for said vehicle shall be in the name of the City
of Salem, which shall, through receipt of donations and appropriation of funds,
finance the operation of said service.
