2022-19 A By-law to enter into a Cross Border Land Ambulance Mutual Aid Agreement_UA

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The Corporation of the County of Essex By-Law Number 2022-19 A By-law to enter into a Cross Border Land Ambulance Mutual Aid Agreement between the Corporation of the County of Essex and the Municipality of Chatham-Kent for cross border land ambulance services. Whereas the Corporation of the County of Essex and the Municipality of Chatham-Kent wish to agree, as between them, on both the criteria and process for the provision of land ambulance services provided by each of them for the benefit of the other, and in which circumstances payment for same from the other shall be required; And whereas Section 6 of the Ambulances Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. A.19, as amended, authorizes the dispatching of ambulances from and within an upper-tier municipality to areas outside the municipality and authorizes the affected municipalities to enter into an agreement with respect to same; And whereas Section 13(3) of the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. E.9, as amended authorizes the Council of a municipality to make an agreement with the Council of any other municipality for the provision of personnel, service, equipment, and/or material during an emergency; And whereas the Corporation of the County of Essex and the Municipality of Chatham-Kent have previously provided land ambulance services to one another pursuant to the terms of an Agreement Under Subsection 6(3) of the Ambulance Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. A.19, as amended, dated July 22, 2013, as authorized pursuant to By-law No. 35-2013; And whereas the respective Councils for both the Corporation of the County of Essex and the Municipality of Chatham-Kent have each agreed and directed that the Agreement Under Subsection 6(3) of the Ambulance Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. A.19, as amended, be rescinded and a Cross Border Land Ambulance Mutual Aid Agreement be entered into;