Resolution 8302 RESOLUTION NO. 8302
WHEREAS, the City of Miami Beach deems it advisable to
arrange for a twenty-four hour a day ambulance service for the
public within the corporate limits of the City, and
WHEREAS, the City Manager has negotiated a contract with
Beach Memorial Chapel, Inc . , Gordon Funeral Home, Inc . , Hellman
Funeral Chapels, Inc . , Niceley Funeral Home, Inc . , Riverside
Memorial Chapel, Miami Beach, Inc . , and Walsh & Wood Funeral
Irome, Inc . for such ambulance service, and
`T REAS, the results of such negotiations between the
City Manager and the said funeral homes have been reduced to
writing and placed, by the City Attorney, in the form of an
agreement between said funeral homes and the City, and the City
Council being familiar with the terms of said agreement, and
'REAS, the City Council deems it to be to the best interest
of said City to enter into said agreement,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the
City of Miami Beach, Florida, that the Mayor and the City Clerk
be and they are hereby authorized and directed to execute the
said agreement in the name of and on behalf of said City.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 20th day of March, A.D. 1953 .
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Mayor
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OFFICE OF CITY ATTORNEY - CITY HALL - MIAMI BEACH 39, FLORIDA
COPY
THIS AGREEMENT, Made and entered into this day of March, A. D.
1953, by and between the CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, au in. ee ipal Corporation
created and existing under the laws of the State of Florida, hereinafter
called "The Ci "„ and EACH SIAL CHAPS. INC. GORDON FUNERAL Mme,
INC. ; ULLMAN !i#RiRAt+ CHAPELS, INC.; MEM FUNERAL HOPE, INCe INC. RIVER-
SIDE 1R/AL CHAPEL, NMAMI BEACH, INC . : and WALE* i WOOD FUNERAL HOME,
INC . ; each of which is a Florida Corporation, hereinafter called the
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WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, The City deems it advisable to arrange for a twenty--Pour
hour a day ambularuos service for the public within the boundaries of the
City, notwithstanding that there is no public ambulance in said City, and
WHEREAS, the Operators own and operate ambulances provided with skilled
drivers and attendants and the Operators are willing to provide the service
desired by The City, on behalf of its citizens and inhabitants,
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the sum of $1 .00 paid to each of
the Operators by The City, receipt of which is acknowledged, it is mutually
agreed as follows
1 . That this agreement shall be effective and shall continue from
until midnight of the anniversary of the effective
date hereof .
2 . That each of the Operators will provide and place and maintain on
duty at all times at least one (1) ambulance, specially designed, equipped
and prepared for the transportation of sick end injured persons and each
of said vehicles shall have on hand, available at the place where each of
the ambulances shall be kept, a skilled driver and trained attendant, the
latter of whom shall have satisfied a Medical officer appointed by The City
for that purpose that he has reeseived adequate first aid training, at least
compsrale to that offered by the haerisan Red Cross Society.
3 . Each of said ambulances shall at all time be equipped with a
siren, omen tank, masks and other appliances needed to administer oxygen
enroute to passengers, stretchers, first aid kits completely outfitted at
all times, reseseitator, and red lights, all of which appliances and equip-
ment must be and shall be kept in good working order at all times.
4. That each of said ambulances shall be insured against "public lia-
bility
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bitity to the extent of $50,000.00 for one injury jury and $100,000.00 for
several Injuries growing out of the same accident, and $5,000.00 property
damage . The contract of insurance providing such insurance shall be writ-
ten in companies satisfactory to The City and shall provide for continuance
in full force until not less than five (5) days after notice to The City
of cancellation thereof, to the end that The City may at all times be as-
sured that insurance coverage as required is in effect .
5 . Calla for ambulance service which must be recognised and *esepted
by an Operator may be made (a) by a Police Dispatcher losated at the Police
Station, or (b) emergency calls by any citizen, provided he shall give his
name and address and state the nature of the need for ambulance service at
the time the service is requested.
In the event any emergency call, other than a call from the Police
Dispatcher is recognized and accepted by an Operator or the Operators, the
Police Dispatcher shall be not if Zed forthwith. Each ambulance upon return-
ing from a call shall immediately notify the Police Dispatcher. All calls
for ambulance eerrice made by the Dispatcher at Police Headquarters shall
be promptly accepted and honored and the Dispatcher's authority to ask for
ambulance service Shall be recognized at all times.
6. No Operator shall at any time convey any sick or injured person
to any place against the will of such person, provided, that if any sick or
injured person is unable to give direetion in his own behalf, direction as
to destination shall be taken from an immediate relative, if any be present,
and, If there be none such available, such sick or injured person shall be
conveyed to the nearest regularly licensed hospital which will accept him.
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OFFICE OF CITY ATTORNEY - CITY HALL - MIAMI BEACH 39, FLORIDA
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7, The City shall pay to the Operators $10.00 for each trip or call
made within the boundaries of The City; if a sick or injured person is
transported from a point within the City to a point outside the City and
within Dads County, Florida, The City shall pay the Operators the sum of
$15.00; if a sick or injured person is carried from a point within the
City to a regularly licensed hospital within the limits of the City and
then transported to a point outside the limits of the City and within
Dade County, Florida, The City shall pay the Operators the sum of $25 .00 ;
in the event oxygen is administered enrouto to a sick or Injured poison
The City Spall pay the Operators $5.00 for oath tank of oxygen consumed.
8. Provided, however, none of the payments above set forth shall
be made by The City to an Operator unless the Operator has submitted a
bill to the sick or injured person transported within mei! 'olio after ren-
derirg the service and shall have furnished the City Clerk gift a copy
thereof by mailing the same on the day the bill is transmitted to the
sick or Injured person and thereafter in the event the Operator is not
paid for its charges by the sick or injured person transported within
thirty (30) days after rendition of service, the Operator Shall notify
The City Clerk of the City of Miami ]leach, whose duty it will be to pro-
cess the charge for payment and secure payment of the charge not later
than sixty (60) days after the rendition of servioe; provided further,
however, that the City shall under no circumstances be liable x"or the pay-
ment of anything whatsoever except for ambulance sertices rendered as a
result of a call by the Dispatcher at Felice aeadgearters. Provided fur-
ther, when the Dispat hir at Police Headquarters requests ambulance service
and the Operator provides and sends an ambulatese to the point indicated
the Operator shall receive a fee of $1Q.00, even though the sick or injured'
person refused to be transported in the Orator'a ambulance .
9. This contract is intended to cover only services rendered when
the sick or injured person is in need' of Immediate transportation and
when the absence or lack or such transportation may endanger the chance
of recovery of the sick or injured person or the delay incident to secur-
ing a private ambulance may be da Brous to the life or well-being of the
sick or in j sued person requiring ambulance sery ice .
WITNESS WHEREOF the parties, etc,
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