A. “Ambulance” means a ground vehicle designed and used to transport the ill and injured and to provide personnel, facilities, and equipment to treat patients before and during transportation.

B. “Availability Costs” means those costs attributable to the basic infrastructure needed to respond to a single call for service within the utility’s response criteria, including costs for dispatch, labor, training of personnel, equipment, patient care supplies, and maintenance of equipment.

C. “Demand Costs” means those costs attributable to the burden placed on the ambulance service by individual calls for ambulance service, including costs related to frequency of calls, distances from hospitals, and other factors identified in a cost-of-service study conducted to assess burdens imposed on the Utility.

D. “Occupant” means a person who is employed by a Moses Lake business at a Moses Lake business location or is a tenant of a Moses Lake property or business.

E. “Patient” means an individual who is sick, injured, wounded, or otherwise incapacitated or helpless.

F. “Person” means any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, group of individuals acting together for a common purpose, or organization of any kind, including a government agency.

G. “Place of Business” means a business located and operating within the City and paying a service fee under the chapter.

H. “Resident” means a person who utilizes a dwelling unit inside the City as a fixed abode, and is not a guest, visitor, or other temporary inhabitant. A student who is regularly enrolled in an educational institution outside the City but who would normally and regularly be a City resident but for attendance at such educational institution, shall be deemed to reside within the City.

I. “Utility” means the City of Moses Lake, Washington Ambulance Service Utility, including without limitation all equipment, employees, agents, supplies, overhead and other associated costs incurred to deliver all regulatory and ambulance services. (Ord. 2280, 12/12/06)