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CC RES 1973-015 RESOLUTION NO. 15 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES AUTHORIZING EXECUTION OF A CONTRACT WITH THE COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES CONCERN- ING AMBULANCE SERVICE THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The Mayor of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes is hereby authorized to execute, for and in behalf of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes, a contract with the County of Los Angeles providing for ambulance facilities within the city limits of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes, a true, full, and correct copy of which said contract is affixed hereto, and reference to which is hereby made. PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 7th day of September, 1973. MA R ATTEST: CI CLERK STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) s s. CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES I, Marilyn R. Cortina, City Clerk of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes, California, do hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council of said City is five; that the foregoing resolution, eing Resolution No. 15, was duly and regularly adopted by the City Council of said City at a regular meeting thereof, duly and regularly held on the 7th day of September,. 1973 , and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: COUNCILMEN: Buerk, Dyda, Ruth, Ryan and Ryan. NOES: COUNCILMEN: None. ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: None. / City Cl' , Ranc o Palos Verdes Califotl . a. q ' aA AGREEMENT -- AMBULANCE SERVICE THIS AGREEMENT, made and entered into this - day of , 1923, by and between the COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, hereinafter referred to as the "County", and the CITY OF ; : , . ft , , hereinafter referred to as the "City', WITNESSE T H: For and in consideration of the mutual promises and cove- nants herein contained, and under authority of Title 1, Division 5 p ?' Chapter, Cha Article I, Sections 6500 through 6514, Government Code of the State of California, the County and the City agree: 1. The County agrees that as long as private contractors maintain ambulance facilities on behalf of the County of Los Angeles in the vicinity of City, and as long as said private contractors so orally agree with the County, then said ambulance facilities will be available to answer official calls from the police enforcement agencies operative in the City of Rancho Palos Verdes on a twenty--four hours, seven-day week basis, except when such ambulance facility and service are otherwise engaged. - 2. The service shall be rendered only on the official call of the police department of the City or the call of such other departments, agencies, or entities as are designated by the City aspproviding police protection therein. Such calls shall be deemed official only if originating from said police department or other authorized and designated enforcement agencies after a representative of such department or agency has viewed the scene - 1- • and ascertained that the person or persons needing such service are within the geographical confines of the City of • . 3, Each official call shall be reported by the department or agency rendering law enforcement within the City in the manner designated by the Sheriff of the County, and all information in the possession of the City or such enforcement agencies relating to each ambulance call shall be at all times available to the County. 4. The ambulance service which may be furnished by the County under the terms of this agreement shall not include more than transportation of the injured from the scene of the accident to the nearest hospital, as designated in writing by the County, provided that if the patient specifically directs otherwise said ambulance service shall be the sole responsibility of the patient and not • fall within the confines of this agreement. .5. The County shall not be liable to City for any liabil- ity alleged or claimed as a result of this contract or services furnished hereunder. 6. City agrees to pay the County for all ambulance service furnished as a result of the law enforcement agencies of the City, or those designated thereby, wherein the County has paid the private contractor. City shall pay to the County the pre- cise amount which the County has paid the private contractor for such service. The County shall render to the City, on or about July. 1, October 1, January 1, and April 1 of each year, an itemized statement covering all services performed and payments -2- . made, and said City shall pay said County therefore within ten days after receipt of such statement. No services shall be • P performed hereunder unless the City shall have available funds to cover the cost thereof. . 7. The County agrees that it may furnish necessary hospital care to indigent patients only as long as City refers the patient to the hospital designated in writing by the County. It is expressly understood that the County will not be liable for any hospitalization and medical treatment furnished to an individual who is not an indigent, and should an individual who is not an indigent fail to pay the hospital, that the City will hold the County harmless from any claim that might be made by . the hospital against the County for any hospital service or medical attention furnished to pay patient. It is further agreed that the County will be the sole agent to determine indigency. 8. This agreement shall become operative immediately and shall continue in effect to and including the 30th day of June, 1974 The agreement shall, without further action of the contracting parties, be thereafter renewed from year to year unless the desire of either contracting party to terminate the same shall be given in writing not less than sixty days prior to the close of any fiscal year. • IN WITNESS WHEREOF, said County has, by order of its Board of Supervisors, caused these presents to be subscribed by the Chairman of said Board, and the seal of said Board to • _3_ • ) *I Y - • A r • a ♦ • .be affixed thereto and attested by the Executive Officer-Clerk of said Board, and said City has caused these presents to be subscribed by its Mayor and the seal of said City to be affixed thereto and attested by the Clerk of said City, on the day and - year first above-written. • • CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES By May r ATTEST: //" I 141 ity Cle k COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES By Chairman, Board of Supervisors ATTEST: JAMES S. MIZE, Executive-Officer- Clerk of the Board of Supervisors By _.._. Deputy APPROVED AS TO FORM JOHN. H. 4ARSON, County Counsel `•°pr: BY Deputy _4_ •