(A) The city hereby elects to participate in the programs provided for in the State Fire Protection Training Act.
(B) Before an individual may commence regular full-time employment as a firefighter, he or she must have been certified by the State Fire Marshal as a Firefighter II, as having successfully completed an approved training course as provided in the above Act.
(C) The Firefighter II training must be completed by the trainee within his or her probationary period of 60 months, except for volunteers, part-time, and paid-on-call personnel.
(D) The Police and Fire Commission is hereby instructed and directed to make the necessary amendments to the personnel rules, the manual of rules of the City Fire Department, and rules of the Police and Fire Commission in order to require that any person appointed to the Fire Department of the city shall not become a regular member of the City Fire Department unless and until he or she shall complete, pursuant to the State Fire Protection and Training Act, the approved training course within 60 months of the date of his or her initial employment.
(1983 Code, § 8-65) (Ord. 2361, passed 12-9-1982; Am. Ord. 2476, passed 3-5-1987)
Statutory reference:
Participation in programs under the State Fire Protection Training Act, see ILCS Ch. 50, Act 740, §§ 1 et seq.