Bill Text: IL HB5197 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that a department foreign fire insurance board shall be created within the fire department of all municipalities (rather than municipalities with fewer than 500,000 inhabitants) that have an organized fire department. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 34-6)

Status: (Passed) 2018-07-31 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0656 [HB5197 Detail]

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HB5197 Engrossed LRB100 19037 AWJ 34291 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
changing Section 11-10-2 as follows:
(65 ILCS 5/11-10-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-10-2)
Sec. 11-10-2. A department foreign fire insurance board
shall be created within the fire department of each
municipality with fewer than 500,000 inhabitants that has an
organized fire department. The board shall consist of 7
trustees; the fire chief, who shall hold office by virtue of
rank, and 6 members, who shall be elected at large by the sworn
members of the department. If there is an insufficient number
of candidates to fill all these positions, the number of board
members may be reduced, but not to fewer than 3 trustees. All
members of the department shall be eligible to be elected as
officers of the department foreign fire insurance board. The
members of this board shall annually elect officers. These
officers shall be a chairman and a treasurer. The trustees of
the department foreign fire insurance board shall make all
needful rules and regulations with respect to the department
foreign fire insurance board and the management of the money to
be appropriated to the board. The officers of the department

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foreign fire insurance board shall develop and maintain a
listing of those items that the board feels are appropriate
expenditures under this Act. The treasurer of the department
foreign fire insurance board shall give a sufficient bond to
the municipality in which the fire department is organized.
This bond shall be approved by the mayor or president, as the
case may be, conditioned upon the faithful performance by the
treasurer of his or her duties under the ordinance and the
rules and regulations provided for in this section. The
treasurer of the department foreign fire insurance board shall
receive the appropriated money and shall pay out the money upon
the order of the department foreign fire insurance board for
the maintenance, use, and benefit of the department. As part of
the annual municipal audit, these funds shall be audited to
verify that the funds have been expended by that board only for
the maintenance, use, and benefit of the department.
The provisions of this Section shall be the exclusive power
of the State, pursuant to subsection (h) of Section 6 of
Article VII of the Constitution.
(Source: P.A. 95-807, eff. 8-12-08; 96-505, eff. 8-14-09.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.