Illinois Compiled Statutes 70 Special Districts: Article -

• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 0.01
  Short title. This Act may be cited as the Fire Protection District Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 1
  It is hereby declared as a matter of legislative determination that in order to promote and protect the health, safety, welfare and convenience of...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 1.01
  Where an election has been held to organize any territory as a Fire Protection District under this Act, at which election a majority of...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 1.02
  When an election is held to organize a fire protection district and the proposition fails, and the proposed district is wholly included in, or...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 1.03
  Whenever a proposition or public question is required to be submitted, pursuant to this Act, for approval or rejection by the electors at an...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 1.04
  Whenever a county clerk or other election authority places upon a ballot the question of creating or altering a fire protection district, such clerk...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 1.05
  The Office of the State Fire Marshal may distribute grants to groups of registered voters to defray the expenses of organizing a new fire...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 2
  All courts in this State shall take judicial notice of the existence of all fire protection districts organized under this Act and every such...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 3
  Additional contiguous territory having the qualifications set forth in Section 1 may be added to any fire protection district as provided for in this Act...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 3.1
  Annexation under a comprehensive county fire protection plan. (a) Additional contiguous territory having the qualifications set forth in Section 1 and in this Section...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 3.2
  Annexation of surrounded unincorporated territory under 60 acres. (a) Unincorporated territory containing 60 acres or less that is wholly bounded by (i) one or...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 4
  Trustees; conflict of interest; violations. (a) A board of trustees consisting of 3 members for the government and control of the affairs and business of...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 4.01
  Five-member boards. (a) Any appointed board of trustees of a fire protection district may provide for the establishment of a 5-member board of trustees by...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 4.02
  In a district governed by an elected or appointed 5-member board, upon presentation of a petition, signed by not less than 5% of the...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 4.03
  Elected 5-member board. (a) Any elected board of trustees of a fire protection district may provide for the establishment of a 5-member board of trustees...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 4.04
  Change from a 7-member board to a 5-member or 3-member board. In a district governed by an elected or appointed 7-member board, upon presentation of...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 4a
  Change to elected board of trustees; petition; election; ballot; nomination and election of trustees. Any fire protection district organized under this Act may determine, in...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 4b
  Any fire protection district, that has determined to have an elected rather than an appointed board of trustees pursuant to Section 4a, may, in...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 5
  Whenever a member of an elected board of trustees of a fire protection district ceases to be an inhabitant of the district, his or...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 6
  Board of trustees; powers. (a) The trustees shall constitute a board of trustees for the district for which they are appointed, which board of trustees...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 6.1
  When an audit is required under the Governmental Account Audit Act, the trustees of the Fire Protection District created under this Act shall employ...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 6.2
  Purchases made pursuant to this Act shall be made in compliance with the "Local Government Prompt Payment Act", approved by the Eighty-fourth General Assembly....
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 7
  All ordinances imposing any penalty or making any appropriations shall, within one month after they are passed, be published at least once in a...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 8
  All ordinances, orders, and resolutions and the date of publication thereof, may be proven by the certificate of the secretary under the seal of...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 8.20
  Open burning. (a) The board of trustees of any fire protection district incorporated under this Act may, by ordinance, require that the district be notified...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 9
  In acquiring from any city or village or incorporated town any fire protection facilities including without limiting the generality of the foregoing, all obligations...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 10
  The Board of Trustees of any fire protection district incorporated under this Act has the power to acquire private property by gift, grant, lease, purchase,...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 10.1
  Eligibility requirements for board members. No person is eligible to serve on the board of any fire protection district if that person has been convicted...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 10.5
  Eminent domain. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, any power granted under this Act to acquire property by condemnation or eminent domain is subject...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 10a
  Sale or exchange of property. (a) The board of trustees of any fire protection district incorporated under this Act may sell, lease or exchange...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 10b
  Any two or more fire districts or one or more fire protection districts and one or more cities, villages or incorporated towns may provide...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 10c
  Asset distribution; contracts. Upon termination of a contract between a fire protection district and a separate fire department entity or upon dissolution of the fire...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 11
  The board of trustees of any fire protection district incorporated under this Act has the power and it is its legal duty and obligation...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 11a
  The Board of Trustees of any fire protection district organized hereunder may contract with any corporation organized to furnish fire protection service or with...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 11b
  In case any fire protection district organized hereunder is coterminous with or includes within its corporate limits in whole or in part any city, village...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 11c
  The board of trustees of any fire protection district organized hereunder shall provide fire protection service for public school buildings situated outside the district...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 11d
  The board of trustees of any fire protection district organized under this Act may contract with the board of any public community college district...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 11e
  The board of trustees of any fire protection district is authorized to plan, adopt, implement and maintain an addressing system within the district for...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 11f
  Charge against non-residents. (a) The board of trustees of a fire protection district may fix, charge, and collect fees not exceeding the reasonable cost of...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 11g
  The board of trustees of any fire protection district may provide for the planning and implementation of services necessary to prevent or respond to...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 11h
  Fire suppression grant program. The board of trustees of any fire protection district may, by ordinance, establish a program to award grants to the owners...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 11i
  Department foreign fire insurance board. (a) A department foreign fire insurance board shall exist within the fire department of each fire protection district that has...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 11j
  Installation of access or key boxes. The board of trustees of any fire protection district may, by ordinance, require the installation of an access or...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 11k
  Competitive bidding; notice requirements. (a) The board of trustees shall have the power to acquire by gift, legacy, or purchase any personal property necessary for...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 12
  Any fire protection district incorporated under this Act may borrow money for corporate purposes and may issue bonds therefor, but shall not become indebted...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 13
  At the time of or before incurring any indebtedness the board of trustees shall provide for the collection of a direct annual tax sufficient...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 14
  The Board of Trustees may levy and collect other taxes for all corporate purposes, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the payment...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 14.01
  Any two or more adjoining fire protection districts may merge and form a single consolidated district which shall thereafter be subject to the provisions...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 14.02
  A consolidated district may be formed upon petition signed by 50 or more of the legal voters resident within the limits of each of...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 14.03
  The clerk of the court shall give notice of the hearing substantially in the form and in the manner and for the length of...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 14.04
  Notice of the hearing on the petition shall be given by publishing the notice in a newspaper of general circulation published in the county...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 14.05
  At the hearing the court shall first determine whether the districts are adjoining, as described in Section 14.01, and whether the petition is signed...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 14.06
  Upon the entry of an order consolidating two or more districts, the individual districts shall lose their separate existence and be consolidated into the...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 14.07
  Upon the organization of the consolidated district, the duties of trustees and other officers of each district consolidated therein shall cease. If a consolidated...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 14.08
  In case any district consolidated into a consolidated district has bonds or notes outstanding which are a lien on funds on hand in the...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 14.09
  The consolidation of any district into a consolidated district shall not affect the obligation of any contract entered into by the district consolidated into...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 14.10
  Consolidation not to interfere with tax collection. The consolidation of the districts shall not adversely affect proceedings for the collection or enforcement of any...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 14.11
  All suits pending in any court on behalf of or against any district, when the district is consolidated into a consolidated district, may be...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 14.12
  The title to all property of a district consolidated into a consolidated district is transferred to the consolidated district and is vested therein, to...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 14.13
  All firemen lawfully in the employment of any district consolidated into a consolidated district shall become members of the fire department of the consolidated...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 14.14
  (a) In a county having a population of between 500,000 and 750,000, territory within the boundaries of a non-home rule municipality that receives fire...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 15
  Whenever any property within a fire protection district, organized under this Act, does not have the territorial qualifications described in Section 1 of this...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 15a
  Any fire protection district organized under the provisions of this Act may be dissolved and discontinued upon like petition, hearing and election as is...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 15b
  Petition to cease operations; referendum. (a) Any local unit of government serving 500 or more residents operating a fire department organized under the provisions of...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 16
  Territory included within the limits of any fire protection district may be disconnected from the district and added to another district to which the territory...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 16a
  The owner or owners of record of any area of land consisting of one or more tracts, lying within the corporate limits of any...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 16b
  Appeals from final orders and judgments may be taken from the circuit court as in other civil cases. (Source: Laws 1965, p. 3748.)
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 16c
  Territory included within the limits of any fire protection district may be disconnected from the district and organized in a new fire protection district...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 16d
  Transfer of property between districts. When a fire protection district has another fire protection district adjoining it and the adjoining district can provide better fire...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 16.01
  Every fire protection district having a fire department of which any officers or members are full time, paid members shall be subject to Sections...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 16.02
  Within thirty days after Sections 16.01 to 16.18, inclusive, become effective in a fire protection district, the Board of Trustees of a fire protection...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 16.03
  Appointed members of a board of fire commissioners shall possess the qualifications required of other officers of the fire protection district and by Section 16.02...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 16.04a
  The board of fire commissioners shall appoint all officers and members of the fire departments of the district, except the Chief of the fire department....
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 16.05
  The board shall make rules (1) to carry out the purpose of Sections 16.01 to 16.18 inclusive, and (2) for appointments and removals in...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 16.06
  Eligibility for positions in fire department; disqualifications. (a) All applicants for a position in the fire department of the fire protection district shall be under...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 16.06b
  Original appointments; full-time fire department. (a) Applicability. Unless a commission elects to follow the provisions of Section 16.06c, this Section shall apply to all original...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 16.06c
  Alternative procedure; original appointment; full-time firefighter. (a) Authority. The Joint Labor and Management Committee (JLMC), as defined in Section 50 of the Fire Department Promotion...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 16.07
  Additional credit or points. (a) All persons who, when this amendatory Act takes effect, are, or have been, full-time paid officers or members of...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 16.08a
  (a) Persons who were engaged in the military or naval service of the United States for a period of at least one year and...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 16.08b
  Emergency medical technician licensure. The board of trustees of a fire protection district may require that all firefighters hired on or after January 1, 2005...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 16.09
  Notice of the time and place of every examination shall be given by the board by a publication at least two weeks preceding the...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 16.10
  The board of fire commissioners shall prepare and keep a register of persons whose general average standing, upon examination, is not less than the...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 16.11
  The board, by its rules, shall provide for promotion in the fire department on the basis of ascertained merit and seniority in service and...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 16.11a
  Subject to the exemptions enumerated in Section 16.11b, no person employed in the fire department of any fire protection district organized under this Act...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 16.11b
  The provisions of Section 16.11a do not apply: (1) To the person in command of a fire protection district fire department; (2) To employees...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 16.12
  In order to prevent a stoppage of public business, to meet extraordinary exigencies, or to prevent material impairment of the fire department, the board...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 16.13a
  When the force of the Fire Department is reduced, and positions displaced or abolished, seniority shall prevail, and the officers and members so reduced...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 16.13b
  Unless the employer and a labor organization have agreed to a contract provision providing for final and binding arbitration of disputes concerning the existence of...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 16.13c
  When the force of the fire department is reduced, and positions displaced or abolished, seniority shall prevail and the officers and members so reduced...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 16.13d
  (a) A firefighter who is an elected state officer of a statewide labor organization that is a representative of fire protection district firefighters in...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 16.14
  Annually, at any time the corporate authorities may provide, the board of fire commissioners shall submit to the board of trustees a report of...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 16.15
  The board may employ a secretary, or may designate one of its own members to act as secretary. The secretary (1) shall keep the...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 16.16
  No person holding a lucrative office under the United States, this State, or a municipality or fire protection districts shall be a member of...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 16.16a
  (a) No fire protection district may make or enforce any rule or ordinance which will in any way inhibit or prohibit any employee from...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 16.17
  The board of trustees shall provide suitable rooms for the board of fire commissioners, and shall allow reasonable use of public buildings for holding...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 16.18
  The secretary shall be paid a reasonable compensation for his services, to be fixed by the board of trustees. The board of trustees shall...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 17
  If any section, paragraph, clause or provision of this Act is held invalid, the invalidity of such section, paragraph, clause or provision shall not...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 18
  In any case where a fire protection district does not own or operate any fire fighting equipment and there are no bonds of such...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 19
  Territory may be disconnected from a fire protection district in the manner provided by this section but only (1) when the territory comprised of...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 19a
  (a) In any county having a population of more than 600,000 but less than 1,000,000, territory located within the corporate limits of any municipality...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 20
  Disconnection by operation of law. (a) Any territory within a fire protection district that is or has been annexed to a city, village or...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 20a
  (a) Territory not exceeding 100 acres included within the limits of any fire protection district and a home rule municipality that provides fire protection...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 21
  The territory of a fire protection district within the limits of any city, village or incorporated town may be disconnected from the district in...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 21.1
  Any resident of a county containing a fire protection district which has no legal voters residing therein may file a petition to dissolve the...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 22
  The Board of Trustees of any fire protection district incorporated under this Act is authorized under the terms and conditions hereinafter set out, to provide...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 23
  The board of trustees of a fire protection district which: (1) lies within a single county which has a population between 400,000 and 575,000;...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 24
  (a) In addition to any other tax authorized by law, the board of trustees of a fire protection district may, subject to the requirements...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 25
  Reimbursement for specialized rescue services. A fire protection district may fix, charge, and collect reasonable fees for specialized rescue services provided by the district. The...
• Illinois Fire Protection District Act. - 70 ILCS 705, Section 26
  Technical rescue services. A fire protection district may fix, charge, and collect reasonable fees for technical rescue services provided by the district. The total amount...

Last modified: February 18, 2015