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| 1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 566
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| 2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 566 by replacing | ||||||
| 3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | "Section 5. The Fire Protection District Act is amended by | ||||||
| 5 | changing Section 11f as follows:
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| 6 | (70 ILCS 705/11f) (from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 31f)
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| 7 | Sec. 11f. Charge against non-residents.
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| 8 | (a) The board of trustees of a fire protection district may
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| 9 | fix, charge, and collect fees not exceeding the reasonable cost | ||||||
| 10 | of the
service for all services rendered by the district | ||||||
| 11 | against persons,
businesses and other entities who are not | ||||||
| 12 | residents of the fire protection
district.
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| 13 | (b) Such charge may not be assessed against residents of
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| 14 | the fire protection district or
persons who request fire | ||||||
| 15 | protection coverage for an unprotected area and who
pay to the | ||||||
| 16 | fire protection district an amount equal to the district's Fire
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| 1 | Protection Tax pursuant to Section 4 of the Fire Protection of | ||||||
| 2 | Unprotected
Area Act.
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| 3 | (c) The charge for such services shall be computed at a
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| 4 | rate not to exceed $250
per hour and not to exceed $70 per hour | ||||||
| 5 | per firefighter
responding to a call
for assistance. An | ||||||
| 6 | additional charge may be levied to reimburse the district
for | ||||||
| 7 | extraordinary expenses of materials used in rendering such | ||||||
| 8 | services or for equipment and apparatus utilized in response to | ||||||
| 9 | the call for assistance where it can be demonstrated by the | ||||||
| 10 | district that such additional equipment or apparatus were | ||||||
| 11 | needed in the circumstances presented and at a rate not to | ||||||
| 12 | exceed $100 per hour, per vehicle.
No charge shall be made for | ||||||
| 13 | services for which the total charge would be
less than $50.
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| 14 | (d) All revenue from the charges assessed pursuant to this | ||||||
| 15 | Section shall
be deposited to the general fund of the fire | ||||||
| 16 | protection district.
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| 17 | (Source: P.A. 99-770, eff. 8-12-16.)".
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