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

§ 36.02 DUTIES.

   It shall be the function and duty of the Fire Department, and the duty of the members thereof, to prevent and extinguish accidental or destructive fires occurring in the city, and to enforce all ordinances relating to fire hazards.

(1969 Code, § 9-28) (Ord. 1995-10, passed 5-8-1995)

§ 36.03 SERVICE OUTSIDE CORPORATE LIMITS.

   Members of the Fire Department are authorized to go outside the corporate limits of the city for the purpose of rendering aid to other fire departments, or of extinguishing fires or rendering aid in the case of accidents. That the Fire Department shall not render this type of service outside the corporate limits excepting upon orders of the Chief of the Fire Department (Fire Chief), the Captain, or the Mayor; excepting that where the city has undertaken by contract to render service to property outside the corporate limits in the fulfillment of such contract.

(1969 Code, § 9-32) (Ord. 1995-10, passed 5-8-1995; Am. Ord. 2004-51, passed 10-25-2004)

FIRE CHIEF; FIREFIGHTERS