HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 417 Creating the Fire Department and establishing emergency ambulance serviceTOWN OF WESTLAKE
ORDINANCE NO. 417
AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF WESTLAKE, TEXAS, CREATING THE TOWN
OF WESTLAKE FIRE DEPARTMENT; ESTABLISHING EMERGENCY
AMBULANCE SERVICE IN THE TOWN OF WESTLAKE; PRESCRIBING THE
POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT; PROVIDING A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the Town of Westlake is authorized to organize and create a fire department
pursuant to Section 342.004 of the Local Government Code; and
WHEREAS, the Town of Westlake is authorized to provide emergency ambulance
service; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Aldermen determines that it is in the best interest of the
citizens of Westlake to create the Town of Westlake Fire / Rescue Department.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF
THE TOWN OF WESTLAKE, TEXAS:
SECTION 1: All matters stated in the preamble are found to be true and correct and are
incorporated herein by reference as if copied in their entirety,
SECTION 2: There is created and established Westlake Fire / Rescue, consisting of fire
companies, the Fire Chief, and any assistant engineers. The Fire Chief and members shall be
appointed in the manner provided by law.
SECTION 3: The Fire Chief shall have the control, subject to the order and direction of
the Town Manager, of the Fire Department and all fire and emergency apparatus belonging to the
Town. The Fire Chief shall also function as the Town's Fire Marshal; administering the Town's
Fire Code and performing Fire and Arson Investigation duties as necessary.
SECTION 4: In case of fire, the Fire Chief and his assistants shall rank in the order
named and the officer of the highest rank at the fire shall take command of the Fire Department,
and direct the management thereof for the suppression of the fire, in the best manner possible;
and when it may be necessary for the protection of other property and to prevent the spread of
the conflagration, the officer in command may cause buildings to be removed, torn down or
destroyed in the best manner possible.
SECTION 5: Emergency Ambulance Service shall be provided within the corporate
limits of the Town of Westlake, Texas by Westlake Fire / Rescue.
Ambulance attendants shall have the authority to pick up any injured or sick person(s) found on
public or private property whenever the need arises and also when and if requested to do so by
some person responsible for the sick or injured person.
Ambulance Service will be provided to persons outside the City when a mutual aid agreement
has been agreed upon and approved by the Board of Aldermen.
It shall be the sole responsibility of the Fire Department person in charge of the ambulance at the
emergency scene as to which hospital the patient will be taken, based on the hospital's capability
and severity of the case.
The person transported, or in the event such person is a minor or incompetent, then such person's
parent or guardian, shall be responsible for the fees or charges incurred for the City Emergency
Ambulance Service. Such fees or charges shall be payable to the Town of Westlake, Texas.
False Statement of Emergency: It shall be unlawful or any person to willfully inform the
Police/Fire Dispatcher, or other police or fire official that an ambulance or more than one
ambulance is needed at a location or address when such person knows that such statement is
false.
Private ambulance service in the Town of Westlake will only be allowed upon the issuance of a
permit through the Fire Chief of Westlake, Texas. Private ambulance companies will be
restricted to the non -emergency calls, transfers, removing of deceased persons, sick calls of a
non -emergency nature. This section excludes all mortuaries from requiring the permit
requirement.
This Ordinance will authorize the Fire Chief to permit a private ambulance company to respond
to emergency calls only if the Town ambulance or mutual aid ambulance is not available for the
call.
SECTION 6: No officer shall be elected or appointed within the organization of the Fire
Department without the approval of the Town Manager.
SECTION 7: Every officer, agent or employee of the Town while responding to
emergency calls or reacting to emergency situations, regardless of whether any declaration of
emergency has been declared or proclaimed by a unit of government or subdivision thereof; is
hereby authorized to act or not to act in such a manner to effectively deal with the emergency.
An action or inaction is "effective" if it in any way contributes or can reasonably be thought by
the provider of such emergency service to contribute to preserving any lives or property. This
Section shall prevail over every other Ordinance, Resolution, Rule, or Order of the Town and, to
the extent to which the Town has the authority to so authorize, over any other law establishing a
standard of care in conflict with this section. Neither the Town nor the employee, agent or
officer thereof, or any other unit of government or subdivision thereof, or its employees, agents
or officers shall be liable for failure to use ordinary care in such emergency.
SECTION 8: Members of the Fire Department are authorized to go outside the
corporate limits of the Town of Westlake for the purpose of rendering aid to other fire
departments, or of extinguishing fires or rendering aid in the case of accidents. Provided, that
the Fire Department shall not render such service outside the corporate limits excepting upon
orders of the Fire Chief, the assistant chief or the Town Manager, excepting that where the Town
has undertaken by contract to render service to property outside the corporate limits the Fire
Department may leave the corporate limits in the fulfillment of such contract.
SECTION 9: The Town Manager is authorized to assign the duties and responsibilities
of the Fire Department to another governmental entity pursuant to contract. In the case of such
an assignment, the Town Manager may authorize the utilization of Town of Westlake fire
equipment and resources by the contracting entity.
SECTION 10: That this Ordinance shall be cumulative of all other Ordinances and shall
not repeal any of the provisions of such Ordinances except for those instances where there are
direct conflicts with the provisions of this Ordinance. Ordinances or parts thereof in force at the
time this Ordinance shall take effect and that are inconsistent with this Ordinance are hereby
repealed to the extent that they are inconsistent with this Ordinance.
SECTION 11: If any section, article, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase or word in this
Ordinance, or application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid or
unconstitutional by a Court of competent _jurisdiction, such holding shall not affect the validity of
the remaining portions of the Ordinance, and the Board of Aldermen hereby declares it would
have passed such remaining of the Ordinance despite such invalidity, which remaining portions
shall remain in full force and effect.
SECTION 12: All other Ordinances in effect and not in conflict with this Ordinance
shall remain in full force and effect.
SECTION 13: The Town Secretary of the Town of Westlake is hereby directed to
engross and enroll this Ordinance by copying the exact Caption and Effective Date clause in the
minutes of the Board of Aldermen of the Town of Westlake and by filing this Ordinance in the
Ordinance records of the Town.
SECTION 14: This Ordinance shall take effect from and after its date of passage in
accordance with law, and it is so ordained.
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PASSED AND APPROVED THIS 13TH DAY OF MAY 2002.
Scott Bradley. Mayor
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I solemnly swear that a true and correct copy of the Public Notice Ordinance No.
417 was published in THE KELLER CITIZEN, a newspaper having general
circulation in the counties of Denton and Tarrant, and that the dates that said
issues of the newspaper bore in which such notice was published were May 21,
2002.
A copy of the notice as published, clipped from the newspaper is attached hereto.
Pam Nolte, Classified Ad Manager
THE STATE OF TEXAS §
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COUNTY OF TARRANT
SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED BEFORE ME
Pam Nolte
this 29th day of May, 2002, to certify which
witness my hand and seal of office.
Notary Public, State of Texas
Printed Name of Notary j'
My commission expires
ALCA G, IVICRAY
Notary Putsiio, 5iaof Texas
My Commission 6x0es
April 17, 2006
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vide plenty of love and PUBLIC NOTICE The information was obtained from the workfo
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GuaranteedPlease call 817-491-1141. the end of the year.
INSURED- ORDINANCE NO. 418 Bank One opened a branch on
9 An ordinance approving the Village Center Drive in Southlake
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agreement dated May 13
,�- 2002, between the State of in the past few weeks.
_ Texas and the Town of West-
lake, for the blanket cover- _
age of variousprojects' cov-
ering the installation, con- Two Keller residents were named
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struction, existence, use, op- to the Great 100 Nurses list by the
eration, and maintenance of
highwaysignals/lighting in Texas Nurses ,Association. Ruth
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Trees - Trees the Town of Westlake; pro- Lucas is a restorative -care, nurse at
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said agreement; and declar- Harris Methodist` Fort 'Worth
Ing an emergency hospital, and Sandy Salmon is a
PUBLIC NOTICE
Trim Shape, Tree& BI® NOTICE BID'
Stump Removal PUBLIC HEARING TOWN OF WESTLAKE
Mistletoe Removal
Dead Wood Removal NOTICE OF A ORDINANCE NO. 417 ADVERTISEMENT FOR ADVERT
PUBLIC HEARING OF THE BIDS
Retaining Walls ECONOMIC An ordinance of the Town of The Northwest Independent The Northu
All Types of Rock Work DEVELOPMENT Westlake, Texas, creating
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Cc3RlaE}R,t�TION 48 OF the Town of Westlake .Fire
Xenc%f L7r r THE TOWN OF TROPHY: Department; establishing competitive sealed bids competitiy
_ Service Drains CLUB,TEXAS Emergency Ambulance Ser -
(CSB) on the Northwest in (CSB) on t
REGARDING vice in the Town of Westlake; dependent School District dependent
Jnsured for Your Protection prescribing the powers Additions and Alterations at Additions a
EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS. P g p Prairie View Intermediate the High Sc
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On the 10th day of June, clausproviding n severability
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School and Hatfield nterme- & Wilkiucti.
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be a public hearing of the clause; and providing an ef-
Economic Development Cor- fective date. Road, Su:
TREE STUMP Grinding: poration 4B of. the Town of Construction Manager: Hill Texas 750
Reduces tree ` stumps to Trophy Club, Texas, at the & Wilkinson, Ltd., 800 Klein 299-430Q
sawdust. Free estimates. Municipal Utility District PUBLIC .NOTICE Road, Suite 100,' Piano, 4444.
.=817451-8544 or 817-368- II Building, 100 Municipal Dri- Texas 75074, Phone: 214-
4 6270 (cell). ve, Trophy Club, Texas, TOWN OF WESTLAKE 299-4300, Fax: 214-299- Competiti
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�r considering the expenditure ORDINANCE NO. 416 Competitive Sealed Bids referenced
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May 4, 2002, regular election and suppliers for the above Ltd. at the t
The Town of Trophy Club and declaring each unop- referenced project will be re- 800 Klein I
,• Economic Development Cor- posed candidate elected to ceived by, Hill & Wilkinson, Piano', Texa
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■� poration 46 will enter into a office; providing that this ordi- Ltd. at thefollowing location:
600 Klein Road, Suite 100, Late bids v
contract with the Town of nance shall be cumulative of
SpeciaTrophy Club to reimburse up all ordinances; providing a Piano, Texas 75074. ed. All bid!
I, l to 25% of theopened dol- severability clause and pro- opened anc
t tar debt service for the con- vidin an effective date. late bids will not be accept Owner, Ar
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Tile Installed g ed. All bids will be publicly Gonstructioi
struction of the pool and the
t from phase 2 and phase 3 of the
10 -acre park. BI® NOTICE opened and reviewed by the compietior
a .* Owner, Architect and the recommend
$200 Construction Manager. Upon sented to t
The Town of Trophy Club LEGAL NOTICE completion of this review, dependent;:
Economic Development Cor- REQUEST FOR recommendations will be pre contracts t
sented to he Northwest In- contracts t
sq.. poration 4B will enter into'a I V^ PROPOSALS*�-
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