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Short title. This Act may be cited as the State Fire Marshal Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
Illinois · statute · 20 ILCS 2905 · 10 active provisions
Short title. This Act may be cited as the State Fire Marshal Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
There is hereby created the Office of the State Fire Marshal, hereinafter referred to as the Office. The Office shall be under an executive director who shall be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate. The executive director of the Office shall be known as the State Fire Marshal. For terms…
The Office shall have the following powers and duties: 1. To exercise the rights, powers and duties which have been vested by law in the Illinois State Police as the successor of the Department of Public Safety, State Fire Marshal, inspectors, officers and employees of the State Fire Marshal, including arson investigat…
Equipment exchange program. (a) The Office shall create and maintain an equipment exchange program under which fire departments, fire protection districts, and township fire departments can donate or sell equipment to, trade equipment with, or buy equipment from each other. (b) Under this program, the Office, in consul…
Small Fire-fighting and Ambulance Service Equipment Grant Program. (a) The Office shall establish and administer a Small Fire-fighting and Ambulance Service Equipment Grant Program to award grants to fire departments, fire protection districts, and volunteer, non-profit, stand alone ambulance services for the purchase…
Fire Station Rehabilitation and Construction Grant Program. The Office shall establish and administer a Fire Station Rehabilitation and Construction Grant Program to award grants to units of local government for the rehabilitation or construction of fire stations. The Office shall adopt any rules necessary for the impl…
State Fire Marshal Special Purposes Fund. The State Fire Marshal Special Purposes Fund is established as a State trust fund to be held outside of the State treasury, with the State Treasurer as ex officio custodian. The Office is authorized to accept and deposit into the Fund moneys received from grants, gifts, or any…
There is created the Illinois Fire Advisory Commission which shall advise the Office in the exercise of its powers and duties. The Commission shall be appointed by the Governor as follows: (1) 3 professional, full-time paid firefighters; (2) one volunteer firefighter; (3) one Fire Protection Engineer who is registered…
Rebuilt flame safeguard controls. (a) Beginning July 1, 2012, the use of a rebuilt flame safeguard control in forced air heating equipment in any non-residential structure is prohibited, unless the rebuilt flame safeguard control is labeled and listed by a nationally recognized testing agency. This prohibition does not…
Tracking firefighter mortality. Beginning no later than 6 months after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 104th General Assembly, the Office of the State Fire Marshal shall track and record the manner of death for all firefighters in Illinois, including suicide and the various types of cancer.(Source: P.A…