County of San Bernardino v. City of San Bernardino

BROWN, J., Dissenting.

I. Introduction

The majority adopts a schizophrenic construction of the Emergency Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel *941Act (the EMS Act). (See Health & Saf. Code, § 1797 et seq.; all further . statutory references are to this code unless otherwise indicated.) On the one hand, the majority correctly and repeatedly stresses “the Legislature’s desire to achieve coordination and integration is evident throughout the [EMS] [A]ct” and the “manifest legislative expectation [is] that cities and counties will eventually come to an agreement…