093_HB1416
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1 AN ACT in relation to fire protection.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
5 changing Section 11-10-2 as follows:
6 (65 ILCS 5/11-10-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-10-2)
7 Sec. 11-10-2. Department Foreign Fire Insurance Board. A
8 department foreign fire insurance board shall exist within
9 the fire department of each municipality with fewer The
10 corporate authorities of any municipality containing less
11 than 250,000 inhabitants that which has an organized fire
12 department. The department shall provide shall pass an
13 ordinance providing for the election of officers of the
14 department foreign fire insurance board by the members of the
15 department. All members of the department shall be eligible
16 to be elected as officers of the department foreign fire
17 insurance board. These officers shall include a treasurer,
18 and they shall make all needful rules and regulations with
19 respect to the department foreign fire insurance board and
20 the management of the money to be appropriated to the board.
21 The officers of the department foreign fire insurance board
22 shall develop and maintain a listing of those items that the
23 board feels are appropriate expenditures under this Act. All
24 of the money paid to the municipal treasurer as provided in
25 Section 11-10-1 shall be set apart and shall be appropriated
26 annually by the corporate authorities to the department
27 foreign fire insurance board. The treasurer of the
28 department foreign fire insurance board shall give a
29 sufficient bond to the municipality in which the fire
30 department is organized. This bond shall be approved by the
31 mayor or president, as the case may be, conditioned upon the
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1 faithful performance by the treasurer of his or her duties
2 under the ordinance and the rules and regulations provided
3 for in this Section. The treasurer of the department foreign
4 fire insurance board shall receive the appropriated money and
5 shall pay out the money upon the order of the department
6 foreign fire insurance board for the maintenance, use, and
7 benefit of the department. As part of the annual municipal
8 audit, these funds shall be audited to verify that they have
9 been properly appropriated to and held by the department
10 foreign fire insurance board and have been expended by that
11 board only these purchases are for the maintenance, use, and
12 benefit of the department.
13 The provisions of this Section shall be the exclusive
14 power of the State, pursuant to subsection (h) of Section 6
15 of Article VII of the Constitution.
16 (Source: P.A. 89-63, eff. 6-30-95.)
17 Section 10. The Fire Protection District Act is amended
18 by adding Section 11h as follows:
19 (70 ILCS 705/11h new)
20 Sec. 11h. Department foreign fire insurance board.
21 (a) A department foreign fire insurance board shall
22 exist within the fire department of each fire protection
23 district that has an organized fire department.
24 (b) The department shall provide for the election of
25 officers of the department foreign fire insurance board,
26 including a treasurer. All members of the department shall
27 be eligible to vote for and be elected as officers of the
28 department foreign fire insurance board.
29 (c) The treasurer of the department foreign fire
30 insurance board shall give a sufficient bond to the board of
31 trustees of the fire protection district, conditioned upon
32 the faithful performance by the treasurer of his or her
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1 duties under this Section. This bond must be approved by the
2 board of trustees of the fire protection district.
3 (d) The officers of the department foreign fire
4 insurance board shall develop and maintain a listing of those
5 items that the board feels are appropriate expenditures under
6 this Section. The officers shall make all needful rules and
7 regulations with respect to the department foreign fire
8 insurance board and the management of the money to be
9 appropriated to the board.
10 (e) All of the money paid to the secretary of the fire
11 protection district under Section 11-10-1 of the Illinois
12 Municipal Code shall be set apart and shall be appropriated
13 annually by the board of trustees of the fire protection
14 district to the department foreign fire insurance board.
15 (f) The treasurer of the department foreign fire
16 insurance board shall receive the appropriated money and
17 shall pay out the money upon the order of the department
18 foreign fire insurance board for the maintenance, use, and
19 benefit of the department. As part of the fire protection
20 district's annual audit, these funds shall be audited to
21 verify that they have been properly appropriated to and held
22 by the department foreign fire insurance board and have been
23 expended by that board only for the maintenance, use, and
24 benefit of the department.
25 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
26 becoming law.