Bill Text: IL HB4522 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that municipalities may fix, charge, and collect fees not exceeding the reasonable cost of the service for all services rendered by a volunteer municipal fire department or a volunteer firefighter of any municipal fire department for persons, businesses, and other entities who are not residents of the municipality. Sets limits on the amount of fees that may be fixed, charged, and collected. Provides that the new provisions do not allow a fee to be fixed, charged, or collected that is not allowed under any contract that a fire department has entered into with another entity, including, but not limited to, fire protection districts. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2016-08-12 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 99-0770 [HB4522 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-HB4522-Chaptered.html

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Public Act 099-0770
HB4522 Enrolled LRB099 14427 AWJ 38526 b
AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by adding
Section 11-6-10 as follows:
(65 ILCS 5/11-6-10 new)
Sec. 11-6-10. Reimbursement of volunteer fire protection
assistance.
(a) Municipalities may fix, charge, and collect fees not
exceeding the reasonable cost of the service for all services
rendered by a volunteer municipal fire department or a
volunteer firefighter of any municipal fire department for
persons, businesses, and other entities who are not residents
of the municipality.
(b) The charge for any fees under subsection (a) shall be
computed at a rate not to exceed $250 per hour and not to
exceed $70 per hour per firefighter responding to a call for
assistance. An additional charge may be levied to reimburse the
district for extraordinary expenses of materials used in
rendering such services. No charge shall be made for services
for which the total amount would be less than $50.
(c) All revenue from the fees assessed pursuant to this
Section shall be deposited to the general fund of the

municipality.
(d) Nothing in this Section shall allow a fee to be fixed,
charged, or collected that is not allowed under any contract
that a fire department has entered into with another entity,
including, but not limited to, a fire protection district.
Section 10. The Fire Protection District Act is amended by
changing Section 11f as follows:
(70 ILCS 705/11f) (from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 31f)
Sec. 11f. Charge against non-residents.
(a) The board of trustees of a fire protection district may
fix, charge, and collect fees not exceeding the reasonable cost
of the service for all services rendered by the district
against persons, businesses and other entities who are not
residents of the fire protection district.
(b) Such charge may not be assessed against residents of
the fire protection district or persons who request fire
protection coverage for an unprotected area and who pay to the
fire protection district an amount equal to the district's Fire
Protection Tax pursuant to Section 4 of the Fire Protection of
Unprotected Area Act.
(c) The charge for such services shall be computed at a
rate not to exceed $250 per hour per vehicle and not to exceed
$70 per hour per firefighter responding to a call for
assistance. An additional charge may be levied to reimburse the

district for extraordinary expenses of materials used in
rendering such services. No charge shall be made for services
for which the total charge would be less than $50.
(d) All revenue from the charges assessed pursuant to this
Section shall be deposited to the general fund of the fire
protection district.
(Source: P.A. 96-370, eff. 8-13-09.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.