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    AN ACT concerning fire safety.

 
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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 Fire Investigation Act is amended  by 
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changing Section 6 and  by adding Section 6.1 as follows:
 



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    (425 ILCS 25/6)  (from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 6)



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    Sec. 6. The chief of the fire department of every 
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municipality in
which a fire department is established and the

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fire chief of every legally organized fire protection district 
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shall
investigate the cause, origin and circumstances of every 
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fire occurring
in such municipality or fire protection 
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district, or in any area or on
any property which is furnished 
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fire protection by the fire department of
such municipality or 
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fire protection district, by
which property has been destroyed 
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or damaged, and shall especially make
investigation as to 
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whether such fire was the result of carelessness or
design. 
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Such investigation shall be begun within two days, not 
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including
Sunday, of the occurrence of such fire, and the 
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Office of the State Fire
Marshal shall have the right to 
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supervise and direct such investigation
whenever it deems it 
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expedient or necessary. The officer making
investigation of 
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fires occurring in cities, villages, towns, fire
protection 
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districts or townships shall forthwith notify the Office of
the 
 


 






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State Fire Marshal and shall by the 15th of the month following

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the occurrence of
the fire, furnish to the Office a statement 
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of all facts
relating to the cause and origin of the fire, and 
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such other information
as may be called for in a format 
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approved or on forms
provided by the Office. The Office of
the 
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State Fire Marshal shall keep a record of all fires occurring 
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in the
State, together with all facts, statistics and 
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circumstances, including
the origin of the fires, which may be 
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determined by the investigations
provided by this act; such 
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record shall at all times be open to the
public inspection, and 
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such portions of it as the State Director of
Insurance may deem 
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necessary shall be transcribed and forwarded to him
within 
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fifteen days from the first of January of each year. In 
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addition to the reporting of fires, the chief of the fire 
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department shall furnish to the Office such other information 
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as the State Fire Marshal deems of importance to the fire 
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services.


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(Source: P.A. 82-706.)

 
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    (425 ILCS 25/6.1  new)
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    Sec. 6.1. Rules. The State Fire Marshal may adopt necessary 
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rules for the administration of the reporting of fires, 
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hazardous material incidents, and other incidents or events 
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that the State Fire Marshal deems of importance to the fire 
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services. The reporting of such information shall be based upon 
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the nationally recognized standards of the United States Fire 
 


 






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Administration's National fire Incident Reporting System 
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(NIFRS).