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92_HB4338

 
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 1        AN ACT concerning fire protection districts.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The Fire Protection District Act  is  amended
 5    by changing Section 6 as follows:

 6        (70 ILCS 705/6) (from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 26)
 7        Sec.  6.   The  trustees  shall  constitute  a  board  of
 8    trustees for the district for which they are appointed, which
 9    board  of  trustees is declared to be the corporate authority
10    of the fire protection district, and shall  exercise  all  of
11    the  powers  and control all the affairs and property of such
12    district. The board of trustees at their initial meeting  and
13    at their first meeting following the commencement of the term
14    of  any  trustee shall elect one of their number as president
15    and one of their  number  as  secretary  and  shall  elect  a
16    treasurer for the district, who may be one of the trustees or
17    may  be  any other citizen of the district and who shall hold
18    office during the pleasure of the board and  who  shall  give
19    such  bond  as  may  be  required  by  the  board.  Except as
20    otherwise provided in Sections 16.01 through 16.18, the board
21    may  appoint  and  enter  into  a  multi-year  contract   not
22    exceeding  3  years  with  a  fire  chief and may appoint any
23    firemen that may be necessary for the district who shall hold
24    office during the pleasure of the board and  who  shall  give
25    any bond that the board may require.  The board may prescribe
26    the  duties  and fix the compensation of all the officers and
27    employees of the fire protection district.  A member  of  the
28    board  of  trustees  of  a  fire  protection  district may be
29    compensated as follows: in a district  having  fewer  than  4
30    full time paid firemen, a sum not to exceed $1,000 per annum;
31    in  a  district having more than 3 but less than 10 full time
 
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 1    paid firemen, a sum not to exceed  $1,500  per  annum;  in  a
 2    district  having  either 10 or more full time paid firemen, a
 3    sum not  to  exceed  $2,000  per  annum.  In  addition,  fire
 4    districts  that  operate  an  ambulance  service  pursuant to
 5    authorization by referendum, as provided in Section  22,  may
 6    pay  trustees an additional annual compensation not to exceed
 7    50%  of  the  amount  otherwise   authorized   herein.    The
 8    additional compensation shall be an administrative expense of
 9    the  ambulance service and shall be paid from revenues raised
10    by the ambulance  tax  levy.   The  trustees  also  have  the
11    express  power  to  execute  a note or notes and to execute a
12    mortgage or trust deed to secure the payment of such note  or
13    notes;  such  trust deed or mortgage shall cover real estate,
14    or some part thereof,  or  personal  property  owned  by  the
15    district and the lien of the mortgage shall apply to the real
16    estate or personal property so mortgaged by the district, and
17    the  proceeds  of  the  note  or  notes  may  be  used in the
18    acquisition of personal property or of real estate or in  the
19    erection  of  improvements on such real estate.  The trustees
20    have express power to purchase either real estate or personal
21    property to be used for the purposes of the  fire  protection
22    district    through   contracts   which   provide   for   the
23    consideration  for  such  purchase   to   be   paid   through
24    installments  to be made at stated intervals during a certain
25    period of time, but, in no case, shall such contracts provide
26    for the consideration to be paid during a period of  time  in
27    excess  of  25  years.   The  trustees  have express power to
28    provide for the benefit of its employees,  volunteer  firemen
29    and  paid firemen, group life, health, accident, hospital and
30    medical insurance, or any combination thereof; and to pay for
31    all or any portion of the premiums on such  insurance.   Such
32    insurance  may  include  provisions for employees who rely on
33    treatment by spiritual means alone through prayer for healing
34    in accord with the tenets and practice of a  well  recognized
 
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 1    religious  denomination.  The  board  of trustees has express
 2    power to change the corporate name  of  the  fire  protection
 3    district  by  ordinance  provided  that  notification  of any
 4    change is given to the circuit clerk and the  Office  of  the
 5    State   Fire  Marshal.  The  board  of  trustees  may  impose
 6    reasonable civil  penalties  on  individuals  who  repeatedly
 7    cause  false fire alarms. The trustees have the express power
 8    to reasonably require that specific fire protection equipment
 9    be installed on commercial property in the  district  and  to
10    create  incentive  programs  to encourage the installation of
11    fire protection equipment  on  residential  property  in  the
12    district.  The  board  of trustees has full power to pass all
13    necessary ordinances,  and  rules  and  regulations  for  the
14    proper management and conduct of the business of the board of
15    trustees  of  the  fire protection district for carrying into
16    effect the objects for which the district was formed.
17    (Source: P.A. 91-948, eff. 1-1-02.)

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