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RESOLUTION NO.
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A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF AZUSA,
L•OS AITGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA,
ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL THEREOF,
FIXING THE fiXOUNTS TO BE PAID BY THE
CITY TO PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
RENDERING SERVICES AT THE BEHEST OF THE
CITY, AND REGULATING SAID HATTERS.
The City Council of the City af.Azusa does resolve as
WHEREAS, occurences in the City of
Azusa frequently take place wherein a
natural person becomes incapacitated
through illness or injuries and is at
the time apparently in immediate need
of•medical attention, but is unable
by reason of such illness or injuries to
himself or herself summon a physician:
2:017 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that in
Instances where physicians are called
upon to render first aid to persons suffer-
ing from injuries or illness within the
City of Azusa, The City of Azusa will not
pay the doctor, ambulance, hospital or
other bill or bills or charges incident to
such first aid unless the services on
which such charges are based shall have
been first requested to be rendered by a
police officer in the employ of the City
of Azusa at the time.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that in no
instance will the city pay for first aid
rendered by any physician or any sur�yeon, at
the request of a police officer in the employ of
the City of Azusa at the time, in excess of
the sum of $3.00 for first aid rendered in the
daytime and $5.00 for first aid rendered in the
nighttime, which first aid must have been
rendered by a physician and surgeon regularly
licensed to practice at the time and having and
maintaining offices within the City of Azusa,
which said amount of 5;3.00 for first aid
rendered in the daytime and $5.00 for first aid
rendered in the nig1time by any such physician
and surgeon shall include all charges of any sort
or description as yell as x-rays and treatment.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that all provisions
of this resolution regulating charges of $3.00
for first aid rendered in the daytime and x'5.00
for first aid rendered in the nighttime at the
behest of a police officer of the City of Azusa as
aforesaid, shall likewise apply to any and ail
:oLriety tests or other similar examinations.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that within the
contemplation of this resolution services rerd-red
in the daytime shall be construed to mean and include
services rendered between 7:00 A. U. and 10:00 P.I4.
and services rendered in the nib; ttime shall be
construed to mean and include services rendered
between 10:00 P.M. and 7:00 A. P:.
BE IT FTMTHER RESOLVED that the City of
Azusa shall pay no further charges for services
rendered or examinations made or to be made by
any physician or surgeon as aforesaid, unless
and e::cept such further charges be first
authorized by a member of the City Council of
the City of Azusa before the services are rendered
on which such charges are based..
BE I^1 FURTHER RESOLVED that payment by the
City of Azusa of any bill or charge of any
physician or surgeon shall not in any manner impede
or prejudice the right of the physician or surgeon
to collect a greater sum or any sum from the patient
or the family or friends of the patient, or impede
or prejudice the richt of the City to recover from
such patient or from his fami l.r or friends the
amount paid by the City on behalf of such patient.
BE IT FURTHE' RESOLVED that a copy of this
resolution shall be mailed by the City Clerk
of the City of Azusa to each arf� every physician and
surgeon having offices in the City of Azusa.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the ;:Iayor shall
sign this resolution and the City Clerk attest
same and certify to the passage and adoption
thereof.
OY P.P.IvOLD, t:4ayor of
the City of Azusa.
Approved and adopted
this 62 day of
December,1938
ATTEST:
2 aA CZ y
T_;ae A. Iin„s, City --Cler'•c
of the City of Azusa.
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I do hereby certify that the foregoing
resolution was regularly adopted by the City Council
of the City of Azusa at a regular meeting of said
Council held in the regular Council Chambers of said
City Council in said city on December 5,1938, and that
the same was passed by the following vote of the
Council:
L-1.
Ayes: Councilmenc
Aloes: Councilmen:
Absent: Councilmen �70111'0�
Mae A. Hynes, Ci Clerk
of the City of Azusa.