Ordinances against EMS abuse

[Guest guest]

Does anybody know of a city or a county that has enacted an ordinance that

attempts to make an offense out of a person calling EMS over and over for things

that are not emergencies?

If so, could you forward me a copy of it?

Gene G.

[Guest guest]

City of Baytown Code of Ordinances. We've used this section a couple of

times for willful false calls.

Jack Pitcock

EMS Division Manager

Baytown Health Dept EMS

Sec. 30-154. False call or request for service.

Any person who shall willfully, in writing or orally or by use of any

telephone, telegram, radio or mechanical device or contrivance whatsoever or

by any name known, make, give, send a report or communicate any false call

or request for emergency medical service or communicate any false report or

falsely report any act or fact situation initially and voluntarily to the

dispatcher or to any person operating an ambulance or emergency medical

service vehicle in the city for the purpose of causing or which report or

false call or request for services is calculated to cause an ambulance or

emergency medical services vehicle to respond or to do or perform some act

or to do or render some service as a result thereof shall be guilty of an

offense. The offense denounced in this section is basically the offense of

giving or causing to be given by any means a false emergency medical service

alarm or false emergency medical service request, and nothing in this

section shall be construed as including a prohibition against the offense of

false alarm or report prohibited by V.T.C.A., Penal Code § 42.06.

(Ord. No. 8840, § 1, 2-24-00)

Ordinances against EMS abuse

Does anybody know of a city or a county that has enacted an ordinance that

attempts to make an offense out of a person calling EMS over and over for

things

that are not emergencies?

If so, could you forward me a copy of it?

Gene G.

[Guest guest]

City of Baytown Code of Ordinances. We've used this section a couple of

times for willful false calls.

Jack Pitcock

EMS Division Manager

Baytown Health Dept EMS

Sec. 30-154. False call or request for service.

Any person who shall willfully, in writing or orally or by use of any

telephone, telegram, radio or mechanical device or contrivance whatsoever or

by any name known, make, give, send a report or communicate any false call

or request for emergency medical service or communicate any false report or

falsely report any act or fact situation initially and voluntarily to the

dispatcher or to any person operating an ambulance or emergency medical

service vehicle in the city for the purpose of causing or which report or

false call or request for services is calculated to cause an ambulance or

emergency medical services vehicle to respond or to do or perform some act

or to do or render some service as a result thereof shall be guilty of an

offense. The offense denounced in this section is basically the offense of

giving or causing to be given by any means a false emergency medical service

alarm or false emergency medical service request, and nothing in this

section shall be construed as including a prohibition against the offense of

false alarm or report prohibited by V.T.C.A., Penal Code § 42.06.

(Ord. No. 8840, § 1, 2-24-00)

Ordinances against EMS abuse

Does anybody know of a city or a county that has enacted an ordinance that

attempts to make an offense out of a person calling EMS over and over for

things

that are not emergencies?

If so, could you forward me a copy of it?

Gene G.