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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1081
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 1081 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
4 "Section 5. The Fire Protection District Act is amended
5 by adding Section 8.20 as follows:
6 (70 ILCS 705/8.20 new)
7 Sec. 8.20. Open burning.
8 (a) The board of trustees of any fire protection district
9 incorporated under this Act may, by ordinance, regulate open
10 burning within the district for the purpose of preventing and
11 controlling fire. The ordinance must require that the
12 district be notified of open burning before it takes place,
13 but may not require that a permit for open burning be
14 obtained from the district. An ordinance adopted under this
15 Section must be consistent with the Department of Natural
16 Resources' standards for controlled burns on public and
17 private lands. The district may not enforce an ordinance
18 adopted under this Section within the corporate limits of a
19 municipality with a population of 1,000,000 or more.
20 (b) The fire department of a fire protection district
21 that has adopted an open burning ordinance may extinguish an
22 open burn that does not comply with the provisions of the
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1 ordinance.
2 (c) The fire protection district may provide that persons
3 setting open burns on any agricultural land with an area of
4 50 acres or more may voluntarily comply with the provisions
5 of an ordinance adopted under this Section and with the
6 Department of Natural Resources' standards for controlled
7 burns.".