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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by adding
5Section 10-4-12 as follows:
 
6    (65 ILCS 5/10-4-12 new)
7    Sec. 10-4-12. Cessation of existing municipal fire
8departments. If a city or village with 500 or more residents
9owns, operates, or maintains any fire department or
10departments, that city or village may not cease the operation
11and maintenance of that fire department or those fire
12departments unless the proposed cessation is first submitted by
13referendum to the voters of the city or village as provided by
14Section 15b of the Fire Protection District Act.
 
15    Section 10. The Fire Protection District Act is amended by
16changing Section 11b and by adding Section 15b as follows:
 
17    (70 ILCS 705/11b)  (from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 31b)
18    Sec. 11b. In case any fire protection district organized
19hereunder is coterminous with or includes within its corporate
20limits in whole or in part any city, village or incorporated
21town authorized to provide protection from fire and to regulate

 

 

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1the prevention and control of fire within such city, village or
2incorporated town and to levy taxes for any such purposes, then
3such city, village or incorporated town shall not exercise any
4such powers as necessarily conflict with the powers to be
5exercised by such district in respect to such fire protection
6and regulation within the fire protection district from and
7after the date that it receives written notice from the State
8Fire Marshal to cease or refrain from the operation of any fire
9protection facilities and the exercise of such powers, which
10notice shall be given only after the State Fire Marshal has
11ascertained that the Fire Protection District has placed its
12fire protection facilities in operation. Such city, village or
13incorporated town shall not thereafter own, operate, maintain,
14manage, control or have an interest in any fire protection
15facilities located within the corporate limits of the fire
16protection district, except water mains and hydrants and except
17as otherwise provided in this Act. Where any city, village, or
18incorporated town with 500 or mre residents is in fact owning,
19operating, and maintaining a fire department or fire
20departments located in whole or in part within or adjacent to
21the corporate limits of a fire protection district organized
22under this Act, such city, village, or incorporated town shall
23not cease operating and maintaining the fire department or
24departments unless such proposed cessation of services is first
25submitted by referendum to voters, as provided by Section 15b
26of this Act. In addition, where any city, village, or

 

 

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1incorporated town is in fact owning, operating, and maintaining
2a fire department or fire departments located within the
3corporate limits of a fire protection district organized under
4this Act, such city, village, or incorporated town The State
5Fire Marshal, upon request of the Board of Trustees of any Fire
6Protection District, shall ascertain whether the District's
7fire protection facilities are in operation so that it may
8supersede the power of any city, village or incorporated town
9to operate fire protection facilities within the boundaries of
10the District. Where in case any city, village or incorporated
11town is in fact owning, operating and maintaining fire
12protection facilities located within the corporate limits of a
13fire protection district organized under this Act, such city,
14village or incorporated town shall be paid and reimbursed for
15its actual expenditures and for all existing obligations
16incurred, including all pension and annuity plans applicable to
17the maintenance of fire protection facilities theretofore made
18in establishing such facilities and in acquiring,
19constructing, improving or developing any such existing
20facilities in the manner provided for by this Act. The terms of
21payment shall provide for reimbursement in full within not less
22than 20 years from the date of such agreement.
23(Source: P.A. 80-147.)
 
24    (70 ILCS 705/15b new)
25    Sec. 15b. Petition to cease operations; referendum.

 

 

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1    (a) Any local unit of government serving 500 or more
2residents operating a fire department organized under the
3provisions of the Municipal Code may cease the operation and
4maintenance of the fire department or fire departments by
5submitting a referendum to the voters served by the fire
6department or departments. The referendum proposing the
7dissolution of the fire department or departments shall be
8conducted in a manner that is consistent with the requirements
9provided by subsection (a) of this Section, except that the
10ballot for such election shall be in substantially the
11following form:
12------------------------------------------------------------- 
13    Shall the (name of fire 
14department) serving the citizens with         YES 
15(list local unit(s) of government) cease    ------------------------------------------------------------- 
16to provide emergency services and be          NO 
17dissolved and discontinued? 
18------------------------------------------------------------- 
19    If a majority of the votes cast on the question are in
20favor of such dissolution, the court shall enter an order
21discontinuing the fire department or departments.
22    The rights of the employees of the dissolved fire
23department or departments provided by the Personnel Code, any
24applicable collective bargaining agreements, or under any
25pension, retirement, or annuity plan shall not be affected by
26this amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly.

 

 

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1    (b) A municipality that is a home rule or non-home rule
2unit may not dissolve a fire department or fire departments in
3a manner that is inconsistent with this Section. This Section
4is a limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article
5VII of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by
6home rule units of the powers and functions exercised by the
7State.
 
8    Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
9Section 8.38 as follows:
 
10    (30 ILCS 805/8.38 new)
11    Sec. 8.38. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8
12of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the
13implementation of any mandate created by this amendatory Act of
14the 98th General Assembly.