Sen. Pamela J. Althoff
Filed: 5/20/2008
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4675
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4675 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) Until January 1, 2009, the The charge for such services | ||||||
4 | shall be computed at a
rate not to exceed $250 $125
per hour | ||||||
5 | per vehicle and not to exceed $70 $35 per hour per firefighter
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6 | responding to a call
for assistance. Beginning January 1, 2009, | ||||||
7 | and each year thereafter, those amounts shall be increased or | ||||||
8 | decreased by the percentage change in the Consumer Price | ||||||
9 | Index-U during the previous 12-month period. An additional | ||||||
10 | charge may be levied to reimburse the district
for | ||||||
11 | extraordinary expenses of materials used in rendering such | ||||||
12 | services.
No charge shall be made for services for which the | ||||||
13 | 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 | (e) In this Section, "Consumer Price Index-U" means the | ||||||
18 | index published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United | ||||||
19 | States Department of Labor that measures the average change in | ||||||
20 | prices of goods and services purchased by all urban consumers, | ||||||
21 | United States city average, all items, 1982-84 = 100. | ||||||
22 | (Source: P.A. 89-180, eff. 7-19-95.)".
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23 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
24 | becoming law.".
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