[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Mendota
as Ch. 5 of the 1998 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
Department created. There is hereby created an executive department
of the municipal government of the City of Mendota, which shall be
known as the "Fire Department," and shall consist of a Fire Chief,
and such other persons as may from time to time be approved by the
City Council.
B.
Organization; officers. The several members of the Fire Department
shall, at their first meeting in each fiscal year of the City, organize
by electing two officers to be known as "Secretary" and "Treasurer,"
respectively, of the Fire Department, and such other officers as they
may deem expedient, who shall hold office for which qualified. Such
officers shall serve in this capacity without extra compensation.
C.
Chairman. The Fire Chief shall be ex-officio Chairman of the Fire
Department and shall, when possible, preside at all meetings.
D.
Secretary. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Fire Department
to keep the minutes and records of all meetings of the Fire Department;
to issue calls for special meetings when so ordered by the Fire Chief;
to keep an accurate account of all moneys and funds of such Department
coming into his hands and turn all such over to the Treasurer at least
once a month, taking his receipt therefor. He shall audit all claims
against the funds of said Department and shall draw all warrants for
the payment of the same upon the Treasurer. He shall also perform
such other duties as may be required by the bylaws and rules of the
Department.
E.
Treasurer. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer of the Fire Department
to receive all moneys belonging to the Department; to issue a receipt
to every person paying money into the treasury of such Department,
and to pay out such money only upon the warrant of the Secretary,
as provided herein. He shall keep an accurate account of all receipts
and disbursements of the Department and shall make a monthly report
of the same in writing to the City Council at its first regular meeting
in each month; and shall make an annual report to the Council at the
last regular meeting in the fiscal year of all such receipts and disbursements
for the preceding year. He shall turn over all records and funds in
his possession and control as such Treasurer to his successor in office
immediately upon completion of his term of office, taking receipt
therefor.
F.
Firefighter-driver-engineers.
(1)
Before an individual may commence regular full-time employment as
a firefighter, he must have been certified by the Illinois State Fire
Marshal as a Firefighter II, as having successfully completed an approved
training course as provided in said Act.
(2)
The Firefighter II training must be completed by the trainee within
his probationary period of 36 months, for regular volunteers.
(3)
The Board of Fire and Police Commissioners is hereby instructed and
directed to make the necessary amendments to the Personnel Rules,
the Manual of Rules of the City of Mendota Fire Department, and Rules
of said Board of Fire and Police Commissioners in order to require
that any person appointed to the Fire Department of the City of Mendota
shall not become a full-time Engineer of the Mendota Fire Department
unless and until he shall complete, pursuant to said Illinois Fire
Protection and Training, his initial employment.
A.
Creation; appointment. There is hereby created the office of Fire
Chief, who shall be the head of the Fire Department. He shall hold
his office for the term of one year and until his successor shall
be appointed and qualified. The Fire Chief and the Assistant Fire
Chief of the Mendota Fire Department shall be appointed by the Mayor
with the advice and consent of the City Council. Said appointments
will be for one-year terms and shall be made at the first meeting
in May of each year.
B.
At all times hereunder, the Fire Chief must be a full-time driver/engineer
for the City of Mendota, while the Assistant Chief shall be filled
by either a full-time driver/engineer or a volunteer of the City of
Mendota Fire Department.
C.
Powers and duties. The Fire Chief shall be the Chief of the Fire
Department and subordinate to the Mayor and shall have full command
and control of the Department and over all the members thereof. He
shall have the general care and custody of all property and equipment
belonging to the Fire Department, and he shall personally attend to
all repairs required to be made upon the same.
D.
Command at fires. The Fire Chief shall attend all fires and take
command of the organization, and shall see that the several members
of the Fire Department faithfully perform their respective duties.
With the concurrence of the Mayor or any two Aldermen, the Fire Chief
may order the tearing down and removal of any building, or may direct
the blowing up of any building, when, in either case, is shall be
deemed necessary to check the progress of any fire.
E.
Enforce ordinances. It shall be the special duty of the Fire Chief
to see that all the ordinances of the City, having any relation to
the protection of life or property of the City from fire, or relating
to the Fire Department, are enforced, and that all the members of
the Fire Department are faithful in the discharge of their duties.
F.
Inspections. It shall be the duty of the Fire Chief to visit and
examine, or cause the same to be done, all places reported to him
as being liable to cause or occasion the breaking out or spread of
fire, and to make such orders in relation thereto as the protection
of life and property of the City may require.
G.
Prescribe rules. It shall be the duty of the Fire Chief, in conjunction
with the Mayor, to prescribe such rules and regulations for the government
of the Fire Department as they shall deem expedient for the welfare
and efficiency of the Department.
H.
Preferring charges. The Fire Chief may, either upon his own knowledge
or upon information communicated to him by others, prefer formal charges
to the Fire Department against any member of the Fire Department for
incompetency, neglect of duty, disobedience of orders or violation
of any of the standing rules and regulations of the Department; and
pending such charges, shall suspend such delinquent member from duty,
and such suspension shall continue in force until the charges can
be investigated by the Fire Department and final action taken thereon
by the Department.
I.
Records; annual report.
(1)
The Fire Chief shall keep, in a book to be provided by the City for
that purpose, a full and accurate record of all the property and equipment
of the Fire Department, together with a record of all transactions
in the Fire Department, and of all property placed in his charge and
custody, and he shall, annually, at the close of each fiscal year,
make a written report to the City Council, showing the condition of
the Department under his management, together with a complete list
of all fires occurring in the City during the preceding year, the
date and location of each fire, the name of the owner of the property
destroyed, the cause of the fire, loss incurred thereby, amount of
insurance, and such information as he may deem important to the City.
(2)
Successor. On the expiration of his term of office, or his resignation
or removal therefrom, the Fire Chief shall, on demand, deliver to
his successor in office all books, records, apparatus, equipment and
property of every description in his possession, belonging to the
City or appertaining to his office.
There are hereby created and prescribed five fire districts
in the City of Mendota, as follows:
A.
All of the First Ward, except that part contained in Fire District
No. 5, shall constitute Fire District No. 1.
B.
All of the Second Ward shall constitute Fire District No. 2.
C.
All of the Third Ward shall constitute Fire District No. 3.
D.
All of the Fourth Ward, except that part contained in Fire District
No. 5, shall constitute Fire District No. 4.
E.
Those parts of the First and Fourth Wards, bounded as follows, shall
constitute Fire District No. 5: commencing at a point at the intersection
of Meriden Street and the right-of-way of the Illinois Central Railroad
Company, thence east on Meriden Street and Twelfth Street to the right-of-way
of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company, thence northeasterly
along the right-of-way to its intersection with First Avenue, thence
north on First Avenue to its intersection with Twentieth Street, thence
west on Twentieth Street and on a continuation of the line of said
street to the right-of-way of the Illinois Central Railroad Company,
thence southeasterly along said right-of-way to the place of beginning.
A.
In case of fire or national emergency or civil disaster, only a duly
authorized person or persons shall engage the mechanism to sound the
proper alarm for fire, national emergency or civil disaster.
B.
There shall be placed on file in the police station, in City Hall,
a list of duly authorized personnel who have authority and control
over the warning system, and the Police Department shall restrain
any person, other than those listed as authorized personnel, from
tampering with, turning in alarms, or operating the system in any
way.
A.
The Fire Department is hereby authorized and directed to furnish
or use fire apparatus, equipment and personnel within a radius of
three miles of the corporate limits of the City of Mendota in the
preservation or conservation of life and property of any industrial
plant, provided such use will in no way interfere with or hinder the
protection of life and property within the corporate limits of the
City, and provided that weather and road conditions safely permit
such use and that said equipment, fire apparatus and personnel can
be spared from municipal service.
B.
The rates of such service shall be $150 in advance for each fiscal
year or fraction thereof of the City of Mendota and the additional
sum of $250 for each call to said industrial plant plus an additional
$150 per hour after the first hour of service, said time to be computed
from the time the fire apparatus or equipment first leaves its quarters
to the time of its official return thereto.
C.
Before any such service is rendered, any industrial plant desiring
such service shall enter into a written contract with the City, which
contract shall incorporate therein payment for all charges for services
rendered and shall indemnify, keep and save harmless the City of Mendota
and the members of the Fire Department against any loss, cost, damage,
expense, judgment or liability of any kind whatsoever which the City
or any Fire Department member may suffer or which may accrue against,
be charged to or be recovered from said City or any member of the
Fire Department, or any of the officials of the City, from or by reason,
or on account of injuries to persons or property during the performance
of said service between the time the fire apparatus or equipment first
leaves its quarters to the time of its official return thereto.
D.
The Fire Chief, or, in his absence, the assistant chief, is hereby
given full discretion on answering any alarm from or to a contracted
industrial plant.
E.
The Mayor and the City Clerk hereby are authorized to execute a contract
as above mentioned with any industrial plant situated within a three-mile
radius of the corporate limits of the City of Mendota.
F.
The Mendota Fire Department is granted authorization from the Mendota
City Council, as documented, to enter into separate mutual aid agreements
for cooperative fire protection as follows: Cities of LaSalle, Mendota,
Peru, Oglesby, Spring Valley and the Village of Utica, Illinois.
[Added by Ord. No. 01-17-05A]
A.
Responses within the City limits for accidents involving out-of-district
people. As set forth by Illinois Fire Protection Districts and the
Illinois State Fire Marshall (70 ILCS 705/11f), the City of Mendota
Fire Department, as of May 1, 2016, will increase the rate schedule
for the response of fire personnel and vehicles within the City limits
to administer to out-of-district people. Such rates shall be $250
per hour per response vehicle and $70 per hour per firefighter.
[Amended by Ord. No. 04-18-16E]
B.
Hazardous material incidents/emergency response. It shall be the
duty and obligation of the responsible party to reimburse, in a timely
and reasonable manner, the Mendota Fire Department for responding
to a hazardous material emergency incident, and any private contractor
responding to the incident at the request of such emergency response
agency, to cover costs incurred, at the rate of $125 per hour per
vehicle and $35 per hour per firefighter, plus supplies and other
costs associated with such emergency response. Said rates shall be
effective as of February 1, 2005. In the event that the Mendota Fire
Department is not reimbursed as described above, the appropriate officer
or officials of such agency shall make application to the emergency
response reimbursement fund of the State of Illinois pursuant to the
provisions of Section 5(b) and (c) of the Hazardous Materials and
Emergency Response Reimbursement Act [430 ILCS 55/5(b) and (c)].
[Amended by Ord. No. 04-06-15A]
A.
The Firefighter's Pension Board, to be known as "Board of Trustees
of the Firefighter's Pension Fund for the City of Mendota, Illinois,"
consisting of the duly elected Mayor, City Treasurer, City Clerk,
and Fire Chief, together with three other persons who shall be chosen
from the active firefighters from the City of Mendota and one other
person who shall be chosen from the firefighters thereof who have
been retired under the "Firemen's Pension Fund Act of 1919" or under
Chapter 40, Act 5, Article 4, of the Illinois Compiled Statutes.
B.
This Board is created by authority set forth in 40 ILCS 5/4-121.
Rules and regulations relating to the storage, transportation,
sale and use of gasoline and volatile oils and control of the color
and label of gasoline or benzol receptacles are adopted.
No person shall use or cause or permit to be used, or engage
in the business of providing any telephone device or telephone equipment
that automatically selects a public trunkline of the Police or Fire
Department of the City of Mendota, County of LaSalle and State of
Illinois, which then reproduces any prerecorded message to report
any robbery, burglary, fire or other emergency.
[Amended by Ord. No. 04-06-15A]
A.
Public Act 85-143 (Smoke Detector Act, 425 ILCS 60/1 et seq.) is
hereby adopted by reference hereto and incorporated in this chapter.
B.
In addition to the penalty set forth in said statute, there is hereby adopted a separate penalty provision in addition to and as provided in this section, which shall be as set forth in Chapter 1, Article III, Penalties and Enforcement, of the City Code for the following:
[Amended by Ord. No. 04-06-15A]
(1)
Any willful failure to install or maintain in operating condition
any smoke detector required by this section.
(2)
Any tampering with, removing, destroying, disconnecting or removing
the batteries from any installed smoke detector, except in the course
of inspection, maintenance or replacement of the detector.
