The city shall participate in the programs provided for in the Illinois Fire Protection Training Act as set forth below.
(A) Prior to any trainee commencing regular full-time employment as a firefighter, such trainee must have been certified by the Illinois State Fire Marshal as a Firefighter II, and as having successfully completed and approved training course as provided in said Act.
(B) The Firefighter II training must be completed by a trainee within the trainee’s probationary period of 12 months, except for volunteers, part-time and paid-on-call personnel.
(C) The Civil Service Commissioners of the City Fire and Police Departments shall make the necessary amendments to the personnel rules, the manual of rules of the City Fire Department, and the rules of the Civil Service Commission of the city in order to require that any person appointed to the Fire Department of the city shall not become a regular member of the Fire Department unless and until such person shall complete, pursuant to the Illinois Fire Protection Training Act, being 50 ILCS 740/15, the approved training course within 12 months of the date of such person’s initial employment.
(Prior Code, § 33.016) (Ord. 2594, passed 9-28-1982)