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90_HB3421

      65 ILCS 5/11-8-2          from Ch. 24, par. 11-8-2
          Amends the Illinois  Municipal  Code.   Provides  that  a
      municipality  shall  allow churches, not for profit entities,
      volunteer or charitable organizations, or similar entities to
      install residential grade stoves, ovens, ranges, and hoods in
      their kitchens to serve their own memberships.
                                                     LRB9010249PTsb
                                               LRB9010249PTsb
 1        AN ACT to amend the Illinois Municipal Code  by  changing
 2    Section 11-8-2.
 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section 5.  The Illinois Municipal  Code  is  amended  by
 6    changing Section 11-8-2 as follows:
 7        (65 ILCS 5/11-8-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-8-2)
 8        Sec.  11-8-2.  Fire  or heating apparatus.  The corporate
 9    authorities of each municipality may  prevent  the  dangerous
10    construction,   installation   and   condition  of  chimneys,
11    fireplaces, hearths, stoves, furnaces, pipes, ovens, boilers,
12    fuel conduits, electric wiring, and any other fire or heating
13    apparatus used in and about any building, structure, or  camp
14    accommodating  persons in house trailers, house cars, and, if
15    such enumerated are in a dangerous condition may  cause  them
16    to  be  removed  or placed in a safe condition. The corporate
17    authorities also may cause all buildings and enclosures  that
18    which  are  in a dangerous fire condition to be put in a safe
19    fire condition, may regulate and prevent the carrying  on  of
20    factories  that  are dangerous in causing or promoting fires,
21    and may prevent the deposit of ashes in places that create  a
22    fire hazard.
23        The  corporate  authorities of a municipality shall adopt
24    ordinances  to  allow  churches,   not-for-profit   entities,
25    volunteer or charitable organizations, or similar entities to
26    install  in  their  kitchens residential grade stoves, ovens,
27    ranges, and hoods to serve their own memberships  instead  of
28    requiring  the installation of commercial or industrial grade
29    stoves, ovens, ranges, or hoods.
30    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

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