[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners
of the Village of Ridgefield Park 4-28-1998 by Ord. No. 98-5 (Ch.
9 of the 1985 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
There be and hereby is established in the Village
of Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, a volunteer ambulance corps which
shall be known in perpetuity as "Dr. Charles A. Knox Memorial Volunteer
Ambulance Corps of the Village of Ridgefield Park, New Jersey," and
which may also be recognized as and trade as the "Ridgefield Park
Volunteer Ambulance Corps."
B.
The Corps shall be considered as a separate division
of the Village government and is hereby assigned to the Department
of Public Safety. The Corps, upon appropriate resolution of the Board
of Commissioners, may be assigned under the supervision of another
Commissioner.
This chapter shall be known and may be cited
as the "Ambulance Corps Ordinance of Ridgefield Park"; and unless
otherwise expressly stated, the following terms, for the purpose of
this chapter, shall have the meanings herein indicated:
The Director of the Department as designated by the Board
of Commissioners of the Village of Ridgefield Park.
The Dr. Charles A. Knox Memorial Volunteer Ambulance Corps
of the Village of Ridgefield Park.
The Village of Ridgefield Park.
[Amended 3-26-2013 by Ord. No. 2013-01]
A.
The Corps is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational
and scientific purposes, including, for such purpose, the making of
distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations
under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or corresponding
section of any future federal tax code.
B.
It shall be the function of the Corps to render routine ambulance
and emergency medical services when called upon, in accordance with
the bylaws and standard operating procedures established by the Corps.
[Amended 3-26-2013 by Ord. No. 2013-01]
A.
With the approval of the Commissioner, the membership shall promulgate
and may from time to time amend and supplement the bylaws and standard
operating procedures, which shall provide for the administration and
operation of the Corps, and shall provide for the duties and rules
of conduct of the members thereof, and shall contain such other matters
as are necessary for the proper functioning of the Corps.
B.
Changes to the bylaws will be approved by a majority vote of the
voting membership at a general business meeting.
[Amended 9-26-2006 by Ord. No. 06-18; 12-28-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-13; 3-26-2013 by Ord. No. 2013-01]
A.
All apparatus and equipment of the Corps shall be and remain the
property of the Village of Ridgefield Park, and the costs of operation,
maintenance, repair and replacement shall be provided for in the Village
budget.
B.
The apparatus and equipment assigned to the Corps shall be used only
for the purposes for which the Corps is established, or as authorized
by the chief of operations.
C.
The membership of the Corps shall be responsible for the care and
operation of the apparatus and equipment entrusted to them by the
Village of Ridgefield Park and shall observe all Corps standard operating
procedures regarding such operation and care.
D.
No one but a member of the Corps or a member of a Village emergency
services unit duly licensed to operate a motor vehicle shall operate
any of the ambulance apparatus of the Village.
[Amended 12-28-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-13; 3-26-2013 by Ord. No.
2013-01]
A.
The Board of Commissioners may, by resolution, fix the compensation,
if any, to be paid to members of the Corps to cover any losses that
any and each of them may incur in performing their duties as members
of the Corps.
B.
The officers of the Corps shall annually, and not later than December
31 of each year, submit to the Commissioner a detailed estimate of
the funds required for the maintenance and operation of the Corps
for the next calendar year.
[Amended 12-28-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-13; 3-26-2013 by Ord. No.
2013-01]
Upon the dissolution of the organization, assets shall be distributed
for one or more exempt purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3)
of the United States Internal Revenue Code, or corresponding section
of any future federal code, or shall be distributed to the federal
government, or to a state or local government, for a public purpose.
Any such assets not disposed of shall be disposed of by a court of
competent jurisdiction in the county in which the principal office
of the organization is then located, exclusively for such purposes
or to such organization or organizations, as said court shall determine,
which are organized and operated exclusively for such purposes. [1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 17-8, Apparatus and
equipment, and § 17-9, Compensation; funds; new ambulance
trust; disposition of gifts, as amended, which immediately followed
this section, were repealed 3-26-2013 by Ord. No. 2013-01.
