HB4675sam001 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. Pamela J. Althoff

Filed: 5/20/2008

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4675

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4675 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The Fire Protection District Act is amended by changing Section 11f as follows:

(70 ILCS 705/11f) (from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 31f)

Sec. 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 the service for all services rendered by the district against persons, businesses and other entities who are not residents of the fire protection district.

(b) Such charge may not be assessed against residents of the fire protection district or persons who request fire protection coverage for an unprotected area and who pay to the fire protection district an amount equal to the district's Fire Protection Tax pursuant to Section 4 of the Fire Protection of Unprotected Area Act.

(c) Until January 1, 2009, the The charge for such services shall be computed at a rate not to exceed $250 $125 per hour per vehicle and not to exceed $70 $35 per hour per firefighter responding to a call for assistance. Beginning January 1, 2009, and each year thereafter, those amounts shall be increased or decreased by the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index-U during the previous 12-month period. An additional charge may be levied to reimburse the district for extraordinary expenses of materials used in rendering such services. No charge shall be made for services for which the total charge would be less than $50.

(d) All revenue from the charges assessed pursuant to this Section shall be deposited to the general fund of the fire protection district.

(e) In this Section, "Consumer Price Index-U" means the index published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor that measures the average change in prices of goods and services purchased by all urban consumers, United States city average, all items, 1982-84 = 100.

(Source: P.A. 89-180, eff. 7-19-95.)".

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.".