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| AN ACT concerning local government.
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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 Emergency Telephone System Act is amended by |
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| changing Section 15.4 as follows:
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| (50 ILCS 750/15.4) (from Ch. 134, par. 45.4)
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| Sec. 15.4. Emergency Telephone System Board; powers.
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| (a) The corporate authorities of any county or municipality
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| that imposes a surcharge under Section 15.3 shall establish an |
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| Emergency
Telephone System Board. The corporate authorities |
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| shall provide for the
manner of appointment and the number of |
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| members of the Board, provided that
the board shall consist of |
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| not fewer than 5 members, one of whom
must be a
public member |
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| who is a resident of the local exchange service territory
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| included in the 9-1-1 coverage area, one of whom (in counties |
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| with a
population less than 100,000) must be a member of the |
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| county
board, and
at least 3 of whom shall be representative of |
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| the 9-1-1 public safety agencies,
including but not limited to |
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| police departments, fire departments, emergency
medical |
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| services providers, and emergency services and disaster |
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| agencies, and
appointed on the basis of their ability or |
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| experience. Elected officials, including members of a county |
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| board, are
also eligible to serve on the board. Members of the |
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| board shall serve without
compensation but shall be reimbursed |
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| for their actual and necessary
expenses. Any 2 or more |
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| municipalities, counties, or combination thereof,
that impose |
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| a surcharge under Section 15.3 may, instead of establishing
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| individual boards, establish by intergovernmental agreement a |
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| Joint
Emergency Telephone System Board pursuant to this |
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| Section. The manner of
appointment of such a joint board shall |
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| be prescribed in the agreement.
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| (b) The powers and duties of the board shall be defined by |
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| ordinance
of the municipality or county, or by |
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| intergovernmental agreement in the
case of a joint board. The |
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| powers and duties shall include, but need not
be limited to the |
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| following:
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| (1) Planning a 9-1-1 system.
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| (2) Coordinating and supervising the implementation, |
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| upgrading, or
maintenance of the system, including the |
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| establishment of equipment
specifications and coding |
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| systems.
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| (3) Receiving moneys
from the surcharge imposed under |
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| Section 15.3, and
from any other source, for deposit into |
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| the Emergency Telephone System Fund.
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| (4) Authorizing all disbursements from the fund.
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| (5) Hiring any staff necessary for the implementation |
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| or upgrade of the
system.
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| (c) All moneys
received by a board pursuant to a surcharge |
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| imposed under
Section 15.3 shall be deposited into a separate |
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| interest-bearing
Emergency Telephone System Fund account. The |
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| treasurer of the municipality or
county that has established |
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| the board or, in the case of a joint board, any
municipal or |
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| county treasurer designated in the intergovernmental |
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| agreement,
shall be custodian of the fund. All interest |
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| accruing on the fund shall remain
in the fund. No expenditures |
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| may be made from such fund except upon the
direction of the |
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| board by resolution passed by a majority of all members of the
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| board. Expenditures may be made only to pay for the costs |
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| associated with the
following:
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| (1) The design of the Emergency Telephone System.
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| (2) The coding of an initial Master Street Address |
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| Guide data base, and
update and maintenance thereof.
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| (3) The repayment of any moneys
advanced for the |
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| implementation of
the system.
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| (4) The charges for Automatic Number Identification |
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| and Automatic
Location Identification equipment,
a |
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| computer aided dispatch system that records, maintains, |
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| and integrates
information,
mobile data transmitters |
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| equipped with
automatic vehicle locators, and maintenance, |
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| replacement and
update thereof
to increase operational |
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| efficiency and improve the provision of emergency
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| services.
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| (5) The non-recurring charges related to installation |
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| of the Emergency
Telephone System and the ongoing network |
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| charges.
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| (6) The acquisition and installation, or the |
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| reimbursement of costs
therefor to other governmental |
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| bodies that have incurred those costs, of road
or street |
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| signs that are essential to the implementation of the |
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| emergency
telephone system and that are not duplicative of |
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| signs that are the
responsibility of the jurisdiction |
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| charged with maintaining road and street
signs.
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| (7) Other products and services necessary for the |
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| implementation,
upgrade, and maintenance of the system and |
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| any other purpose related to the
operation of
the system, |
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| including costs attributable directly to the construction, |
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| leasing,
or maintenance of any buildings or facilities or |
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| costs of personnel
attributable directly to the operation |
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| of the system. Costs attributable
directly to the operation |
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| of an emergency telephone system do not include the
costs |
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| of public safety agency personnel who are and equipment |
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| that is
dispatched in response to an emergency call. |
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| (8) In the case of a municipality that imposes a |
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| surcharge under subsection (h) of Section 15.3, moneys may |
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| also be used for any anti-terrorism or emergency |
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| preparedness measures, including, but not limited to, |
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| preparedness planning, providing local matching funds for |
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| federal or State grants, personnel training, and |
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| specialized equipment, including surveillance cameras as |
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| needed to deal with natural and terrorist-inspired |
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| emergency situations or events.
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| (9) The purchase of automatic external defibrillators |
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| (AEDs) for use at any facilities located within the |
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| jurisdiction of the board and operated by any entity that |
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| may lawfully receive public funds, including, but not |
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| limited to, public facilities and educational facilities, |
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| provided that the expenditure of funds for the purchase of |
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| AEDs does not and will not cause an increase in the amount |
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| of the surcharge imposed pursuant to Section 15.3. |
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| Moneys in the fund may also be transferred to a |
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| participating fire protection district to reimburse volunteer |
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| firefighters who man remote telephone switching facilities |
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| when dedicated 9-1-1 lines are down.
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| (d) The board shall complete the data base before |
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| implementation of the
9-1-1 system. The error ratio of the data |
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| base shall not at any time
exceed 1% of the total data base.
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| (Source: P.A. 95-698, eff. 1-1-08; 95-806, eff. 1-1-09.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
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| becoming law.
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