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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: February 2, 2010 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. (p -(~ <br />SUBJECT: Second Reading: Amendments to the EMS Franchise Agreement entitled "An <br />Ordinance Regulating Emergency Medical, First Responder and Rescue <br />Service and Granting of Franchise and Contracts to the Operators In the <br />County of Oran e" <br />DEPARTMENTS: Emergency Services <br />County Attorney <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Proposed Amendments to "An Ordinance <br />Regulating Emergency Medical, First <br />Responder and Rescue Service and <br />Granting of Franchise and Contracts to <br />the Operators In the County of Orange" <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Frank Montes de Oca, Emergency <br />Services, 245-6100 <br />Annette M. Moore, Staff Attorney, <br />245-2317 <br />PURPOSE: To consider on second reading approving amendments to the EMS Franchise <br />Ordinance entitled, "An Ordinance Regulating Ambulance and Emergency Medical, First <br />Responder and Rescue Services and Granting of Franchise and Contracts to the Operators In <br />the County of Orange." <br />BACKGROUND: On May 1, 1981 Orange County enacted its first EMS Franchise Ordinance, <br />"An Ordinance Regulating the Operation of Ambulance Services and the Administration of <br />Emergency Medical Assistance in Orange County, North Carolina" (EMS Franchise Ordinance). <br />On April 20, 1993, Orange County repealed the original EM;S .Franchise Ordinance and enacted <br />the current ordinance entitled, "An Ordinance Regulating Ambulance and Emergency Medical, <br />First Responder and Rescue Services and Granting oi` Franchise and Contracts to the <br />Operators In the County of Orange." Since 1993, the EMS Franchise Ordinance has not been <br />updated with any statutory or regulatory changes'. In the inltervening years and especially since <br />the events of September 11, 2001 there have been changes in both state law and regulations <br />as well as the practices, policies, procedures, terminologyā€˛ and the responsibilities placed on <br />the County by both state and federal government governincl the services provided by the EMS <br />Franchise Ordinance. <br />The amendments update the EMS Franchise Ordinance making it consistent with the existing <br />authority mandated to the County by state law and regulations including, but not limited to, the <br />following: <br />1. North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 131 E, Articlle 7 <br />2. North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 143, Article 56 <br />3. North Carolina General Statutes section 153A-250 <br />~ In January 2009, extensive revisions were made to l0A NCAC 13P .0101 et se;q. <br />