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150-0-19
AN ORDINANCE
Amending City Code Subsection 9-2-3 to Add Emergency Incident Cost
Recovery Fees
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
EVANSTON, COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS:
SECTION 1: Subsection 9-2-3, of the Evanston City Code of 2012, as
amended, is hereby further amended as follows:
9-2-3. — FEES CHARGED.
(A) The Fire Chief may charge a reasonable fee for all salvage and overhaul work
performed and for standby use of fire equipment and personnel. Such fees shall
not exceed actual costs plus ten percent (10%) and all fees collected shall be
remitted to the City Collector.
(B) Both nonresidents and residents of the City of Evanston who have been provided
emergency ambulance transport service by the City shall be required to pay a fee
to the City, for each incident. All persons requiring transport to a hospital by the
Evanston Fire Department (or its designees) and related services hereafter
defined, shall be charged, per person, as follows:
BLS Transport $1,500.00
ALS Transport $1,500.00
ALS2 Transport $1,500.00
Mileage $10.00
BLS TRANSPORT: Transportation that requires basic life
support service.
ALS TRANSPORT: Transportation that requires advanced life
support service
ALS2 TRANSPORT: Transportation that requires more
extensive/invasive advanced life support
services.
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MILEAGE: Charge per miles of transport in
ambulance.
VEHICLE OWNER The registered or legal owner or person
who is otherwise entitled to possession of
the motor vehicle.
(C) Each property owner or vehicle owner that receives any of the following
emergency services from the City shall be charged the corresponding recovery
fee for such services:
1. Fire Department response to a motor vehicle accident shall be charged a fee
of $520.00;
2. Fire Department response to a vehicle fire shall be charged $605.00;
3. Fire Department response to a structure fire shall be charged $500.00; or
4. Fire Department response to an incident requiring a special rescue, including
but not limited to: industrial or vehicle extrication, above & below grade,
confined space, structural and/or trench collapse incidents, shall be charged a
fee of $400.00.
(D) The City Manager or designee shall cause a bill to be issued and sent to the
appropriate entity or person responsible for payment for said person having been
transported by ambulance, having received emergency medical services, or Fire
Department Response specified in this section. The City Manager is -authorized
to modify or change the fees that may be charged from time to time after
consideration of certain factors. Such factors that may be considered by the City
Manager include, but are not limited to, applicable Medicare rates,
reimbursement rates, cost standards in the insurance or health care industry, and
actual cost of services and supplies. The City Manager shall cause such
schedule of fees to be made available to the public on the City's website.
The City Manager way waive or reduce the fees charged in Section 9-2-3 if the
individual demonstrates financial hardship. Waiver or reduction in fees shall not
create a precedent and shall be performed at his/her sole discretion.
(E) The City Manager or designee is hereby authorized to accept payment from
Medicare, Medicaid, any Federal health care program, insurers, or other third
party payers for any fee charged under this section. The fees that are to be
charged to persons shall differentiate between nonresidents and residents.
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1. In relation to residents, the City will charge and collect only those amounts
that are covered by Federal health care programs, including but not limited to
Medicare and Medicaid, insurers, or any other third party payers. Such bills
will be sent directly to the third parties, with a statement to the resident
indicating that the City will accept the payment by the third party as payment
in full. Any and all payments made by the aforesaid third parties for residents,
will be accepted by the City as paid in full and the resident will have no
obligation to make any additional payment as a co -payment, deductible, or
otherwise.
2. In relation to nonresidents, the nonresident shall be liable and responsible for
full payment of the transportation and services provided.
3. All fees collected in conformance with this section shall be deposited in the
general fund of the City.
(F) The City Manager is hereby authorized to promulgate rules, regulations, and
procedures for the implementation of this section.
(G) Nonemergency use of Fire and Life Safety Services Department personnel,
vehicles, equipment or building shall not be permitted without written approval by
the Fire Chief or his/her duly authorized representative.
SECTION 2: All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are
hereby repealed.
SECTION 3: The findings in this Ordinance, and the legislative Record, are
declared to be prima facie evidence of the law of the City of Evanston, and shall be
received in evidence as provided by the Illinois Compiled Statutes and the courts of the
State of Illinois.
SECTION 4: If any provision of this ordinance or application thereof to
any person or circumstance is ruled unconstitutional or otherwise invalid, such invalidity
shall not affect other provisions or applications of this ordinance that can be given effect
without the invalid application or provision, and each invalid provision or invalid
application of this ordinance is severable.
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SECTION 5: Ordinance 150-0-19 shall be in full force and effect after its
passage and approval.
Introduced: SovenbL�r 18
Adopted: �Jo%emhrr 9,5
Attest:
, 2019 Approved:
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Stephen H. Hage y,
Approved as to form:
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Michelle L. Masoncup, CorporAtion
Counsel