96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
SB2637


 
Introduced 1/28/2010, by Sen. Dave Syverson
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		





 







65 ILCS 5/11-6-1.2 new











     Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that the corporate  authorities of a municipality may fix, charge, and collect fees not  exceeding  the  reasonable cost  of  the  service  for  all  emergency services  rendered  by  the municipality  against persons, businesses, and other entities who are not residents of the municipality. Specifies that the fee 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 emergency assistance. Provides that those amounts shall be adjusted annually to reflect changes in the Consumer Price Index during the previous 12-month period. Effective immediately.
  















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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 Illinois Municipal Code is amended  by adding 
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Section 11-6-1.2 as follows:
 
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    (65 ILCS 5/11-6-1.2 new)
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    Sec. 11-6-1.2. Fee for emergency services.
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    (a)  The  corporate  authorities of a municipality may fix, 
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charge, and collect fees not  exceeding  the  reasonable cost  of  
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the  service  for  all  emergency services  rendered  by  the 
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municipality  against persons, businesses, and other entities 
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who are not residents of the municipality.
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    (b)  The fee may not be assessed against residents  of the  
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municipality  or  persons  who  request  fire protection coverage  
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for  an  unprotected  area  and  pay  to   the municipality  an  amount  
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equal  to  the  municipality's fire protection tax levied pursuant 
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to Section  11-7-1.
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    (c)  The fee shall be computed at a rate not to exceed $250 
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per hour  per  vehicle  and  not  to exceed  $70 per hour per 
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firefighter responding to a call for emergency assistance.  
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Beginning January 1, 2011, those amounts shall be adjusted 
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annually to reflect changes in the consumer price index-u 
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during the previous 12-month period. An additional charge may 
 


 






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be levied to reimburse the municipality for extraordinary 
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expenses of materials used in rendering such  emergency 
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services.  No fee shall be imposed for services for which the 
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total cost is less than $50.
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    (d)  All revenue from the fees assessed pursuant to this 
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Section shall be deposited into the general fund of the 
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municipality.
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    (e)  For the purpose of this Section, "consumer price 
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index-u" means the index published by the Bureau of Labor 
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Statistics of the United States Department of Labor that 
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measures the average change in prices of goods and services 
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purchased by all urban consumers, United States city average, 
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all items, 1982-84 = 100.
 
 
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    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
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becoming law.