§ 9.85.040 — Definitions

9.85.040 - Definitions.

The following words shall have the following meanings: A. "City" means the City of El Paso. B. "Emergency" means any circumstance that calls for immediate action and in which the element of time in transporting the sick, wounded or injured for medical treatment is essential to the health or life of the person. C. "Emergency ambulance" means any motor vehicle especially designed, constructed, equipped and used for transporting the injured or sick in answer to an emergency call. D. "Emergency call" means any request for ambulance service that is made by telephone or other means of communication in circumstances which are, or have been represented to be, an emergency requiring immediate ambulance service. E. "Emergency dispatch system" means the facility from which EMS units are radio dispatched. F. "Operator" means any individual, firm or corporation engaged in the business of transporting the injured, wounded, sick or deceased and using the streets of the city for such purpose. G. "Response time" means the time from which a call is received until the time of arrival at the scene. H. "Street" means any street, alley, avenue, boulevard, drive or highway commonly used for the purpose of travel within the corporate limits of the city. I. "Transfer ambulance" means any ambulance meeting current Texas Department of State Health Services construction requirements, equipped and used for transferring the injured or sick under circumstances which do not constitute an emergency and which have not been represented as an emergency.

(Ord. No. 18547, § 1, 8-9-2016; Ord. No. 18691, § 2, 6-13-2017)