[Ord. 421, 10/12/1994; as amended by Ord. 656, 4/9/2015]
1. 
The Emergency Medical Services System Act (EMSSA), 35 Pa.C.S.A. § 8101 et seq., as amended, was enacted to assure readily available and coordinated emergency medical services of the highest quality to residents and visitors to Pennsylvania.
2. 
The EMSSA mandates minimum standards for basic life support ambulance services, advanced life support ambulance services and the staffing of such services.
3. 
The Board of Supervisors finds that only the operation of a unified and comprehensive emergency medical service operating complete medical care and transportation services including, but not limited to, basic life support services, advanced life support services, stretcher vehicle services and wheelchair vehicle services, through one highly trained staff, from one central facility, using the highest quality equipment, can ensure the continuous and stable provision of such services, which are necessary to ensure the health, safety and welfare of residents and visitors to the Township.
[Ord. 421, 10/12/1994; as amended by Ord. 656, 4/9/2015]
Therefore, through this Part, it is the intent of the Board of Supervisors to rely on the Emergency Medical Service Institute (EMSI) and its minimum standards, which are intended to be and shall be in addition to and supplementary to those standards contained in the EMSSA, to license, regulate and control emergency medical services and related transportation services in order to ensure, protect and guarantee the availability of continuous and stable emergency medical services and related transportation of the highest quality for all of the residents of and visitors to the Township.
[Ord. 421, 10/12/1994; as amended by Ord. 656, 4/9/2015]
1. 
No person shall in any way operate an emergency medical service in the Township without the required license from EMSI.
2. 
Every emergency medical service operating in the Township shall provide, at least, the following services:
A. 
Twenty-four-hour a day, seven-day a week advanced life support ambulances, basic life support ambulances, stretcher vehicle services, and wheelchair vehicle services in adequate quantity to reasonably service the residents of and visitors to the Township. Such service shall be made available regardless of a resident's or visitor's ability to pay for such services or failure to pay in the past. Nothing herein shall preclude an emergency medical service from using all lawful means, except refusal to provide full services upon request, to collect its lawful debts.
B. 
Full participation and agreement in any mutual aid agreement which may be proposed for the Township and surrounding municipalities.
[Ord. 421, 10/12/1994; as added by Ord. 656, 4/9/2015]
Valley Ambulance Authority, and any other emergency medical services entity licensed to operate in the Township by the EMSI, is designated as the official emergency medical service for the Township.
[Ord. 421, 10/12/1994; as amended by Ord. 656, 4/9/2015]
Any person, firm, or corporation who shall violate any provision of this Part, or fails to comply therewith, or with any of the requirements thereof, upon conviction thereof in an action brought before a magisterial district judge in the manner provided for the enforcement of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000 plus costs, including reasonable attorney fees incurred by the Township, and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment to the extent permitted by law for the punishment of summary offenses. A separate offense shall arise for each day or portion thereof in which a violation of this Part is found to exist and for each section of this Part found to have been violated. The Township may also commence appropriate actions in equity or other to prevent, restrain, correct, enjoin, or abate violations of this Part. All fines and penalties collected for violations of this Part shall be paid to the Township Treasurer. The initial determination of ordinance violation is hereby delegated to the Township Manager, the Police Department, the Code Official, the authorized designee of the Township Manager, and to any other officer or agent that the Township Manager or the Board of Supervisors shall deem appropriate.