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Rep. Dan Reitz
Filed: 4/24/2007
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2306
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2306 by replacing |
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| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by adding Section |
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| 5-1129 as follows: |
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| (55 ILCS 5/5-1129 new) |
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| Sec. 5-1129. False alarms. The county board of each county |
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| may, by ordinance, impose a fee against persons making false |
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| alarms. A fee may not be imposed, however, if the emergency |
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| telephone system or a public safety agency is notified that the |
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| alarm is unfounded before a public safety agency responds to |
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| the alarm or if the alarm system is being installed, repaired, |
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| maintained, or tested and the emergency telephone system and |
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| public safety agency are notified in advance of the activity in |
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| connection with the alarm system. In addition, a fee may not be |
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| imposed against a person if the call was initiated due to |
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| symptoms that could require emergency medical attention. |
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| For the purposes of this Section, "alarm" means any |
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| mechanical or electric device or assembly of equipment, |
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| designed or arranged to signal the occurrence of an illegal |
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| entry, a fire, an emergency medical assistance need, or other |
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| activity requiring urgent attention and to which the police |
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| department, the fire department, or an emergency medical |
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| service are expected to respond.
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| For the purposes of this Section, "false alarm" means an |
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| alarm signal to which a police department, a fire department, |
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| or emergency medical service of the county responds with |
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| emergency service personnel, equipment, or both when a |
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| situation requiring that response does not, in fact, exist, if |
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| the signal is caused by the inadvertence, negligence, or an |
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| intentional act or omission on the part of an alarm company or |
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| alarm user or a malfunction of the alarm.
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| Section 10. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by |
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| adding Section 11-5.3-2 as follows: |
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| (65 ILCS 5/11-5.3-2 new) |
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| Sec. 11-5.3-2. False alarms. The corporate authorities of |
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| each municipality may, by ordinance, impose a fee against |
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| persons making false alarms. A fee may not be imposed, however, |
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| if the emergency telephone system or a public safety agency is |
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| notified that the alarm is unfounded before a public safety |
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| agency responds to the alarm or if the alarm system is being |
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| installed, repaired, maintained, or tested and the emergency |
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| telephone system and public safety agency are notified in |
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| advance of the activity in connection with the alarm system. In |
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| addition, a fee may not be imposed against a person if the call |
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| was initiated due to symptoms that could require emergency |
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| medical attention. |
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| For the purposes of this Section, "alarm" means any |
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| mechanical or electric device or assembly of equipment, |
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| designed or arranged to signal the occurrence of an illegal |
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| entry, a fire, an emergency medical assistance need, or other |
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| activity requiring urgent attention and to which the police |
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| department, the fire department, or an emergency medical |
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| service are expected to respond.
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| For the purposes of this Section, "false alarm" means an |
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| alarm signal to which a police department, a fire department, |
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| or emergency medical service of the municipality responds with |
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| emergency service personnel, equipment, or both when a |
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| situation requiring that response does not, in fact, exist, if |
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| the signal is caused by the inadvertence, negligence, or an |
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| intentional act or omission on the part of an alarm company or |
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| alarm user or a malfunction of the alarm. ".
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