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Panguitch presents draft ordinance to bill for emergency responses outside city limits
Summary
A draft 'Emergency Services Cost Recovery' ordinance would allow Panguitch to invoice responsible parties or insurers for fire department responses outside city limits while exempting incidents within city limits; the packet sets billing procedures, appeals, and collection remedies but the transcript does not record a council vote.
PANGUITCH, Utah — Panguitch City circulated a draft ordinance on April 28 proposing to recover costs for emergency services the Panguitch City Fire Department provides outside the city’s incorporated boundaries.
The proposed ‘‘Panguitch City Emergency Services Cost Recovery Ordinance’’ describes recoverable costs to include personnel (wages, benefits, overtime), apparatus deployment, equipment usage, consumable materials, hazardous-materials remediation, technical-rescue expenses, administrative billing costs, and contracted cleanup or towing services. The ordinance explicitly states that incidents occurring within Panguitch’s incorporated boundaries would not be billed to residents because those services are funded through municipal revenues.
Definitions in the draft establish terms such as "Responsible Party," "Outside Response," and "Billing Schedule." The Fire Chief would be authorized to determine eligible incidents for billing, calculate costs using an adopted schedule or actual documented costs until the schedule is set, issue invoices to responsible parties or insurers, negotiate payment arrangements, and retain third-party billing services. The draft also includes an appeals process to the Fire Chief and, if necessary, to the City Council.
The ordinance packet cites statutory authority generally (e.g., Utah Code provisions) and references Utah Code § 53-2a-703 in the document language regarding hazardous-materials recovery. It also notes that mutual-aid or automatic-aid agreements that govern costsharing would control where those agreements conflict with the ordinance. The attestation page lists Kim Soper as Mayor and Tyrissa Howell as Panguitch City Clerk. The transcript does not record whether the council adopted the ordinance during the April 28 meeting.
