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92_HB4338eng HB4338 Engrossed LRB9215303BDpk 1 AN ACT concerning fire protection districts. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 5. The Fire Protection District Act is amended 5 by changing Section 6 as follows: 6 (70 ILCS 705/6) (from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 26) 7 Sec. 6. The trustees shall constitute a board of 8 trustees for the district for which they are appointed, which 9 board of trustees is declared to be the corporate authority 10 of the fire protection district, and shall exercise all of 11 the powers and control all the affairs and property of such 12 district. The board of trustees at their initial meeting and 13 at their first meeting following the commencement of the term 14 of any trustee shall elect one of their number as president 15 and one of their number as secretary and shall elect a 16 treasurer for the district, who may be one of the trustees or 17 may be any other citizen of the district and who shall hold 18 office during the pleasure of the board and who shall give 19 such bond as may be required by the board. Except as 20 otherwise provided in Sections 16.01 through 16.18, the board 21 may appoint and enter into a multi-year contract not 22 exceeding 3 years with a fire chief and may appoint any 23 firemen that may be necessary for the district who shall hold 24 office during the pleasure of the board and who shall give 25 any bond that the board may require. The board may prescribe 26 the duties and fix the compensation of all the officers and 27 employees of the fire protection district. A member of the 28 board of trustees of a fire protection district may be 29 compensated as follows: in a district having fewer than 4 30 full time paid firemen, a sum not to exceed $1,000 per annum; 31 in a district having more than 3 but less than 10 full time HB4338 Engrossed -2- LRB9215303BDpk 1 paid firemen, a sum not to exceed $1,500 per annum; in a 2 district having either 10 or more full time paid firemen, a 3 sum not to exceed $2,000 per annum. In addition, fire 4 districts that operate an ambulance service pursuant to 5 authorization by referendum, as provided in Section 22, may 6 pay trustees an additional annual compensation not to exceed 7 50% of the amount otherwise authorized herein. The 8 additional compensation shall be an administrative expense of 9 the ambulance service and shall be paid from revenues raised 10 by the ambulance tax levy. The trustees also have the 11 express power to execute a note or notes and to execute a 12 mortgage or trust deed to secure the payment of such note or 13 notes; such trust deed or mortgage shall cover real estate, 14 or some part thereof, or personal property owned by the 15 district and the lien of the mortgage shall apply to the real 16 estate or personal property so mortgaged by the district, and 17 the proceeds of the note or notes may be used in the 18 acquisition of personal property or of real estate or in the 19 erection of improvements on such real estate. The trustees 20 have express power to purchase either real estate or personal 21 property to be used for the purposes of the fire protection 22 district through contracts which provide for the 23 consideration for such purchase to be paid through 24 installments to be made at stated intervals during a certain 25 period of time, but, in no case, shall such contracts provide 26 for the consideration to be paid during a period of time in 27 excess of 25 years. The trustees have express power to 28 provide for the benefit of its employees, volunteer firemen 29 and paid firemen, group life, health, accident, hospital and 30 medical insurance, or any combination thereof; and to pay for 31 all or any portion of the premiums on such insurance. Such 32 insurance may include provisions for employees who rely on 33 treatment by spiritual means alone through prayer for healing 34 in accord with the tenets and practice of a well recognized HB4338 Engrossed -3- LRB9215303BDpk 1 religious denomination. The board of trustees has express 2 power to change the corporate name of the fire protection 3 district by ordinance provided that notification of any 4 change is given to the circuit clerk and the Office of the 5 State Fire Marshal. The board of trustees may impose 6 reasonable civil penalties on individuals who repeatedly 7 cause false fire alarms. The trustees have the express power 8 to create incentive programs to encourage the installation of 9 fire protection equipment on residential property in the 10 district. The board of trustees has full power to pass all 11 necessary ordinances, and rules and regulations for the 12 proper management and conduct of the business of the board of 13 trustees of the fire protection district for carrying into 14 effect the objects for which the district was formed. 15 (Source: P.A. 91-948, eff. 1-1-02.)