Full Text of HB4970 94th General Assembly
HB4970 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006 HB4970
Introduced 1/19/2006, by Rep. Jim Watson SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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50 ILCS 750/15.4 |
from Ch. 134, par. 45.4 |
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Amends the Emergency Telephone System Act. Authorizes the transfer of moneys in the Emergency Telephone System Fund to a participating fire protection district to reimburse volunteer firefighters that man remote telephone switching facilities when dedicated 9-1-1 lines are down. Makes other changes.
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A BILL FOR
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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 | 5 |
| 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 | 10 |
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Telephone System Board. The corporate authorities | 11 |
| shall provide for the
manner of appointment and the number of | 12 |
| members of the Board, provided that
the board shall consist of | 13 |
| not fewer than 5 members, one of whom
must be a
public member | 14 |
| 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 | 16 |
| with a
population less than 100,000) must be a member of the | 17 |
| county
board, and
at least 3 of whom shall be representative of | 18 |
| the 9-1-1 public safety agencies,
including but not limited to | 19 |
| police departments, fire departments, emergency
medical | 20 |
| services providers, and emergency services and disaster | 21 |
| agencies, and
appointed on the basis of their ability or | 22 |
| experience. Elected officials are
also eligible to serve on the | 23 |
| board. Members of the board shall serve without
compensation | 24 |
| but shall be reimbursed for their actual and necessary
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| expenses. Any 2 or more municipalities, counties, or | 26 |
| combination thereof,
that impose a surcharge under Section 15.3 | 27 |
| may, instead of establishing
individual boards, establish by | 28 |
| intergovernmental agreement a Joint
Emergency Telephone System | 29 |
| Board pursuant to this Section. The manner of
appointment of | 30 |
| such a joint board shall be prescribed in the agreement.
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| (b) The powers and duties of the board shall be defined by | 32 |
| ordinance
of the municipality or county, or by |
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| intergovernmental agreement in the
case of a joint board. The | 2 |
| powers and duties shall include, but need not
be limited to the | 3 |
| following:
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| (1) Planning a 9-1-1 system.
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| (2) Coordinating and supervising the implementation, | 6 |
| upgrading, or
maintenance of the system, including the | 7 |
| establishment of equipment
specifications and coding | 8 |
| systems.
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| (3) Receiving moneys
monies from the surcharge imposed | 10 |
| under Section 15.3, and
from any other source, for deposit | 11 |
| into 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 | 14 |
| or upgrade of the
system.
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| (c) All moneys
monies received by a board pursuant to a | 16 |
| surcharge imposed under
Section 15.3 shall be deposited into a | 17 |
| separate interest-bearing
Emergency Telephone System Fund | 18 |
| account. The treasurer of the municipality or
county that has | 19 |
| established the board or, in the case of a joint board, any
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| municipal or county treasurer designated in the | 21 |
| intergovernmental agreement,
shall be custodian of the fund. | 22 |
| All interest accruing on the fund shall remain
in the fund. No | 23 |
| expenditures may be made from such fund except upon the
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| direction of the board by resolution passed by a majority of | 25 |
| all members of the
board. Expenditures may be made only to pay | 26 |
| for the costs 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 | 29 |
| Guide data base, and
update and maintenance thereof.
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| (3) The repayment of any moneys
monies advanced for the | 31 |
| implementation of
the system.
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| (4) The charges for Automatic Number Identification | 33 |
| and Automatic
Location Identification equipment,
a | 34 |
| computer aided dispatch system that records, maintains, | 35 |
| and integrates
information,
mobile data transmitters | 36 |
| equipped with
automatic vehicle locators, and maintenance, |
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| replacement and
update thereof
to increase operational | 2 |
| efficiency and improve the provision of emergency
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| services.
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| (5) The non-recurring charges related to installation | 5 |
| of the Emergency
Telephone System and the ongoing network | 6 |
| charges.
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| (6) The acquisition and installation, or the | 8 |
| reimbursement of costs
therefor to other governmental | 9 |
| bodies that have incurred those costs, of road
or street | 10 |
| signs that are essential to the implementation of the | 11 |
| emergency
telephone system and that are not duplicative of | 12 |
| signs that are the
responsibility of the jurisdiction | 13 |
| charged with maintaining road and street
signs.
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| (7) Other products and services necessary for the | 15 |
| implementation,
upgrade, and maintenance of the system and | 16 |
| any other purpose related to the
operation of
the system, | 17 |
| including costs attributable directly to the construction, | 18 |
| leasing,
or maintenance of any buildings or facilities or | 19 |
| costs of personnel
attributable directly to the operation | 20 |
| of the system. Costs attributable
directly to the operation | 21 |
| of an emergency telephone system do not include the
costs | 22 |
| of public safety agency personnel who are and equipment | 23 |
| that is
dispatched in response to an emergency call.
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| Moneys in the fund may also be transferred to a | 25 |
| participating fire protection district to reimburse volunteer | 26 |
| firefighters that man remote telephone switching facilities | 27 |
| when dedicated 9-1-1 lines are down.
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| (d) The board shall complete the data base before | 29 |
| implementation of the
9-1-1 system. The error ratio of the data | 30 |
| base shall not at any time
exceed 1% of the total data base.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-202, eff. 1-1-02.)
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