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.
[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)].
C. Technical
rescue services (high angle rescue/recovery, confined space rescue/recovery,
trench engulfment rescue/recovery, structural collapse rescue/recovery,
water rescue/recovery.
[Amended by Ord. No. 04-18-16E]
(1) For
residents, the amount charged shall be the sum of:
(a) One hundred twenty-five dollars per hour per vehicle.
(b) Thirty-five dollars per hour per firefighter.
(c) Cost of all supplies used.
(2) For
nonresidents, the amount charged shall be the sum of:
(a) Two hundred fifty dollars per hour per vehicle.
(b) Seventy dollars per hour per firefighter.
(c) Cost of all supplies used.
[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]
Any person violating any of the provisions of this article shall be fined as set forth in Chapter
1, Article
III, Penalties and Enforcement, of the City Code.