[Ord. 778, 6/16/1999, § 1]
EXPENSES, COSTS AND FEES
Those expenses, costs and fees that are incurred by the Borough, or charged to the Borough by any local agency, state, or federal department or agency, emergency services organization and from any contractor employed by the Borough for actual costs or charges for labor, materials, or damaged or destroyed equipment or property in responding to an occurrence and associated with the implementation of a protective action (i.e., detour, evacuation) to protect the public health, safety and welfare. The cost of labor shall include the actual rates, including fringe benefits, paid by the Borough of Stroudsburg to its employees, the Borough Local Emergency Management Coordinator and Deputy Coordinator.
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS OR SUBSTANCES
Petroleum and its derivatives, explosives, flammables, acids, oxidizing chemicals, poison gases, defoliants, and any materials or substances regarded and defined as hazardous by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection or its successor agency.
NONHAZARDOUS MATERIALS OR SUBSTANCES
Any materials or substances in any shape, form, or composition, including but not limited to garbage, trash, vegetation, construction and demolition, equipment, machinery, vehicles or similar items that require a halting or detouring of traffic for the removal or cleaning and repair of the roadway or area damaged or causes the evacuation of persons, animals or property to insure the safety, health and welfare of persons, animals or property.
OCCURRENCE
An occurrence involving hazardous or nonhazardous material or a hazardous or nonhazardous substance that is or may result in Borough employees, volunteers or Borough equipment being called to the scene; released into the air, ground or water or the threat of any potential release into the air, ground or water or the threat of any potential release; or a situation that requires a halting or detouring of traffic or an evacuation of persons or animals from an area to insure the health, safety and welfare of persons or their property.
PROTECTIVE ACTION
An action, such as traffic control, detours, covering, cleanup, removal or evacuation, taken by the Borough or by other officials or agencies in order to protect the public health, safety and welfare.
SERVICES
A service performed by the Borough departments or employees or any public or private sector organization, agency or company directly associated with traffic control and monitoring or otherwise mitigating the occurrence or involved in providing service to implement a protective action. These services may include but are not limited to the abatement and disposition of hazardous and nonhazardous materials, spills, releases or the threat of spills or releases of hazardous and nonhazardous materials, utility line breaks or leakages and other imminent or perceived or potential threats to the health, safety and welfare of the public that may be detailed or contemplated in the definition of "expenses, costs and fees" above.
[Ord. 778, 6/16/1999, § 2]
1. 
The Borough of Stroudsburg shall impose and collect from the person, partnership, corporation or other entity responsible for an occurrence the following costs, expenses and fees incurred:
A. 
Fees and costs (including overhead costs) shall encompass all personnel, equipment, fuel, materials and maintenance expenses in such a form as to insure for full reimbursement for charges from both the public and private sectors for services actually rendered.
B. 
Within 30 days of the date of the occurrence giving rise to the service, the affected public agencies, departments, or private companies shall submit their service-related costs, fees, charges and expenses to the Borough for review. At such time as all costs, fees, charges and expenses related to the services have been collected and reviewed, but in any case not later than 60 days from the date of determining the combined cost of rendering services, the Borough of Stroudsburg shall submit a bill for all costs, fees, charges and expenses to the owner, agent, or manager of the vehicle or fixed facility that caused the occurrence requiring services, with a demand that a full remittance be made within 30 days of receipt.
C. 
All monies received under the provisions of this chapter shall be placed into the general fund and reimbursement shall be made to all public and private sector departments or agencies that had submitted related costs, fees, charges and expenses for providing an extraordinary service as outlined herein, either in full or pro rata as the funds recovered allow.
[Ord. 778, 6/16/1999, § 3]
In the event of a spill, leak or fire involving petroleum, chemicals, and/or hazardous or nonhazardous materials if the shipper, carrier, or owner of said products does not have a contract with a professional hazardous materials cleanup crew (DEP-EPA approved) and/or if conditions warrant, the Borough of Stroudsburg Emergency Services Coordinator shall have the authority to contact a private firm for cleanup, control, containment or extinguishment and shall not be limited to the disposal of said hazardous or nonhazardous products or substances.
[Ord. 778, 6/16/1999, § 4]
The Borough of Stroudsburg may enforce the provisions of this Part by civil action in a court of competent jurisdiction for the collection of any amounts due hereunder plus attorney's fees and costs or for any other relief that may be appropriate.
[Ord. 778, 6/16/1999, § 5]
Nothing in this Part shall authorize any Borough of Stroudsburg department or staff members to refuse or delay an emergency service to any person, firm, organization or corporation that has not reimbursed the Borough of Stroudsburg for services. Furthermore, nothing in this section shall be construed to require reimbursement to the Borough of Stroudsburg for those municipal services normally provided to the Borough of Stroudsburg residents and others as a matter of the Borough of Stroudsburg's general operating procedure and for which the levying of taxes or for which the demand for reimbursement is normally made under the provisions of other Borough ordinances.