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| 1 | AN ACT concerning local government.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by | ||||||
| 5 | changing Section 11-10-2 as follows:
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| 6 | (65 ILCS 5/11-10-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-10-2)
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| 7 | Sec. 11-10-2. A department foreign fire insurance board | ||||||
| 8 | shall be created within the fire department of each | ||||||
| 9 | municipality with fewer than 500,000 inhabitants that has an | ||||||
| 10 | organized fire department. The board shall consist of 7 | ||||||
| 11 | trustees; the fire chief, who shall hold office by virtue of | ||||||
| 12 | rank, and 6 members, who shall be elected at large by the sworn | ||||||
| 13 | members of the department. If there is an insufficient number | ||||||
| 14 | of candidates to fill all these positions, the number of board | ||||||
| 15 | members may be reduced, but not to fewer than 3 trustees. All | ||||||
| 16 | members of the department shall be eligible to be elected as
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| 17 | officers of the department foreign fire insurance board. The | ||||||
| 18 | members of this board shall annually elect officers. These | ||||||
| 19 | officers
shall be a chairman and a treasurer. The trustees of | ||||||
| 20 | the department foreign fire insurance board shall make all | ||||||
| 21 | needful rules and
regulations with respect to the department | ||||||
| 22 | foreign fire insurance board and
the management of the money to | ||||||
| 23 | be appropriated to the board. The officers of the department | ||||||
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| 1 | foreign fire insurance board
shall develop and maintain a | ||||||
| 2 | listing of those items that the board feels are
appropriate
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| 3 | expenditures under this Act. The treasurer of the department | ||||||
| 4 | foreign
fire insurance board shall give a sufficient bond to | ||||||
| 5 | the municipality
in which the fire department is organized. | ||||||
| 6 | This bond shall be approved by
the mayor or president, as the | ||||||
| 7 | case may be, conditioned upon the faithful
performance by the | ||||||
| 8 | treasurer of his or her duties under the ordinance and
the | ||||||
| 9 | rules and regulations provided for in this section. The | ||||||
| 10 | treasurer
of the department foreign fire insurance board shall | ||||||
| 11 | receive the
appropriated money and shall pay out the money upon | ||||||
| 12 | the
order of the department foreign fire insurance board for | ||||||
| 13 | the
maintenance, use, and benefit of the department.
As part of | ||||||
| 14 | the annual municipal audit, these funds shall be audited to | ||||||
| 15 | verify
that the funds have been expended by that board only for | ||||||
| 16 | the maintenance, use, and benefit of the
department.
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| 17 | The provisions of this Section shall be the exclusive power | ||||||
| 18 | of the
State, pursuant to subsection (h) of Section 6 of | ||||||
| 19 | Article VII of the
Constitution.
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| 20 | (Source: P.A. 95-807, eff. 8-12-08; 96-505, eff. 8-14-09.)
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| 21 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 22 | becoming law.
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