Full Text of HB4725 95th General Assembly
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| AN ACT concerning local government.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Emergency Telephone System Act is amended by | 5 |
| changing Section 15.4 as follows:
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| (50 ILCS 750/15.4) (from Ch. 134, par. 45.4)
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| Sec. 15.4. Emergency Telephone System Board; powers.
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| (a) The corporate authorities of any county or municipality
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| that imposes a surcharge under Section 15.3 shall establish an | 10 |
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Telephone System Board. The corporate authorities | 11 |
| shall provide for the
manner of appointment and the number of | 12 |
| members of the Board, provided that
the board shall consist of | 13 |
| not fewer than 5 members, one of whom
must be a
public member | 14 |
| who is a resident of the local exchange service territory
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| included in the 9-1-1 coverage area, one of whom (in counties | 16 |
| with a
population less than 100,000) must be a member of the | 17 |
| county
board, and
at least 3 of whom shall be representative of | 18 |
| the 9-1-1 public safety agencies,
including but not limited to | 19 |
| police departments, fire departments, emergency
medical | 20 |
| services providers, and emergency services and disaster | 21 |
| agencies, and
appointed on the basis of their ability or | 22 |
| experience. Elected officials , including members of a county | 23 |
| board, are
also eligible to serve on the board. Members of the |
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| board shall serve without
compensation but shall be reimbursed | 2 |
| for their actual and necessary
expenses. Any 2 or more | 3 |
| municipalities, counties, or combination thereof,
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| a surcharge under Section 15.3 may, instead of establishing
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| individual boards, establish by intergovernmental agreement a | 6 |
| Joint
Emergency Telephone System Board pursuant to this | 7 |
| Section. The manner of
appointment of such a joint board shall | 8 |
| be prescribed in the agreement.
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| (b) The powers and duties of the board shall be defined by | 10 |
| ordinance
of the municipality or county, or by | 11 |
| intergovernmental agreement in the
case of a joint board. The | 12 |
| powers and duties shall include, but need not
be limited to the | 13 |
| following:
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| (1) Planning a 9-1-1 system.
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| (2) Coordinating and supervising the implementation, | 16 |
| upgrading, or
maintenance of the system, including the | 17 |
| establishment of equipment
specifications and coding | 18 |
| systems.
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| (3) Receiving moneys
from the surcharge imposed under | 20 |
| Section 15.3, and
from any other source, for deposit into | 21 |
| the Emergency Telephone System Fund.
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| (4) Authorizing all disbursements from the fund.
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| (5) Hiring any staff necessary for the implementation | 24 |
| or upgrade of the
system.
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| (c) All moneys
received by a board pursuant to a surcharge | 26 |
| imposed under
Section 15.3 shall be deposited into a separate |
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| interest-bearing
Emergency Telephone System Fund account. The | 2 |
| treasurer of the municipality or
county that has established | 3 |
| the board or, in the case of a joint board, any
municipal or | 4 |
| county treasurer designated in the intergovernmental | 5 |
| agreement,
shall be custodian of the fund. All interest | 6 |
| accruing on the fund shall remain
in the fund. No expenditures | 7 |
| may be made from such fund except upon the
direction of the | 8 |
| board by resolution passed by a majority of all members of the
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| board. Expenditures may be made only to pay for the costs | 10 |
| associated with the
following:
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| (1) The design of the Emergency Telephone System.
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| (2) The coding of an initial Master Street Address | 13 |
| Guide data base, and
update and maintenance thereof.
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| (3) The repayment of any moneys
advanced for the | 15 |
| implementation of
the system.
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| (4) The charges for Automatic Number Identification | 17 |
| and Automatic
Location Identification equipment,
a | 18 |
| computer aided dispatch system that records, maintains, | 19 |
| and integrates
information,
mobile data transmitters | 20 |
| equipped with
automatic vehicle locators, and maintenance, | 21 |
| replacement and
update thereof
to increase operational | 22 |
| efficiency and improve the provision of emergency
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| services.
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| (5) The non-recurring charges related to installation | 25 |
| of the Emergency
Telephone System and the ongoing network | 26 |
| charges.
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| (6) The acquisition and installation, or the | 2 |
| reimbursement of costs
therefor to other governmental | 3 |
| bodies that have incurred those costs, of road
or street | 4 |
| signs that are essential to the implementation of the | 5 |
| emergency
telephone system and that are not duplicative of | 6 |
| signs that are the
responsibility of the jurisdiction | 7 |
| charged with maintaining road and street
signs.
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| (7) Other products and services necessary for the | 9 |
| implementation,
upgrade, and maintenance of the system and | 10 |
| any other purpose related to the
operation of
the system, | 11 |
| including costs attributable directly to the construction, | 12 |
| leasing,
or maintenance of any buildings or facilities or | 13 |
| costs of personnel
attributable directly to the operation | 14 |
| of the system. Costs attributable
directly to the operation | 15 |
| of an emergency telephone system do not include the
costs | 16 |
| of public safety agency personnel who are and equipment | 17 |
| that is
dispatched in response to an emergency call. | 18 |
| (8) In the case of a municipality that imposes a | 19 |
| surcharge under subsection (h) of Section 15.3, moneys may | 20 |
| also be used for any anti-terrorism or emergency | 21 |
| preparedness measures, including, but not limited to, | 22 |
| preparedness planning, providing local matching funds for | 23 |
| federal or State grants, personnel training, and | 24 |
| specialized equipment, including surveillance cameras as | 25 |
| needed to deal with natural and terrorist-inspired | 26 |
| emergency situations or events.
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| Moneys in the fund may also be transferred to a | 2 |
| participating fire protection district to reimburse volunteer | 3 |
| firefighters who man remote telephone switching facilities | 4 |
| when dedicated 9-1-1 lines are down.
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| (d) The board shall complete the data base before | 6 |
| implementation of the
9-1-1 system. The error ratio of the data | 7 |
| base shall not at any time
exceed 1% of the total data base.
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| (Source: P.A. 95-698, eff. 1-1-08.)
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