CHAPTER 36: FIRE DEPARTMENT

Section

General Provisions

   36.01   Establishment

   36.02   Duties

   36.03   Service outside corporate limits

Fire Chief; Firefighters

   36.15   Fire Chief; appointment

   36.16   Supervision of Department and equipment

   36.17   Command at fires

   36.18   Records

   36.19   Fire investigation; report

   36.20   Tenure of Fire Chief

   36.21   Firefighters; appointment, promotion, and discharge

   36.22   Equal opportunity policy

   36.23   Rules and regulations

   36.24   Firefighters to obey orders

   36.25   Public to obey firefighters

   36.26   Custody of property at fire scene

   36.27   Arrest authority

Pension Fund

   36.40   Board of Trustees

   36.41   Duties of Trustees

Department Board

   36.55   Department officers

   36.56   Budget and expenditures

Cross-reference:

   Board of Fire and Police Commissioners, see §§ 33.01 et seq.

   Directing traffic at fire, see § 70.01

   Fire Prevention, see Chapter 92

   Law enforcement authority, see § 32.012

GENERAL PROVISIONS

§ 36.01 ESTABLISHMENT.

   There is hereby created the Fire Department, which shall be an executive department of the city. The Fire Department shall be assigned to the Department of Public Health and Safety and shall consist of the Fire Chief and such other members as may be determined from time to time by the City Council.

(1969 Code, § 9-27) (Ord. 1995-10, passed 5-8-1995)

Cross-reference:

   Commissioner of Public Health and Safety, see §§ 31.100 et seq.

Statutory reference:

   Authority to create Fire Department, see ILCS Chapter 65, Act 5, § 11-6-2