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

§ 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

§ 36.15 FIRE CHIEF; APPOINTMENT.

   There is hereby created the office of Fire Chief, an executive office of the city. The Fire Chief shall be appointed and dismissed by the City Council by a minimum vote of a 4/5 majority.

(1969 Code, § 9-29) (Ord. 1995-10, passed 5-8-1995)

Statutory reference:

   Appointment authority of board of fire and police commissioners, see ILCS Chapter 65, Act 5, §§ 4-5-7, 10-2.1-4

§ 36.16 SUPERVISION OF DEPARTMENT AND EQUIPMENT.

   It is the Fire Chief who shall have control, subject to the order and direction of City Council, of the Fire Department and all fire apparatus belonging to the city. Whenever any fire apparatus needs repairing, the Fire Chief shall cause the same to be done without delay.

(1969 Code, § 9-30) (Ord. 1995-10, passed 5-8-1995)

§ 36.17 COMMAND AT FIRES.

   In case of fire, the Fire Chief and his or her assistants shall rank in the order named, and the officer of the highest rank at the fire shall take command of the Fire Department, and direct the management thereof for the suppression of the fire, in the best manner possible; and when it may be necessary for the protection of other property and to prevent the spread of the conflagration, the officer in command may cause buildings to be removed, torn down, or destroyed in the best manner possible.

(1969 Code, § 9-31) (Ord. 1995-10, passed 5-8-1995)