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All ORDINANCE CREATING A, FIRE DEPARTIME14T IN
ADM FOR THE VILLAGE OF OAKBROOK., DU PAGE
COUNTY, ILLINOIS., DES IG-NATING7 THE PERSONNEL
THEREFOR AND ESTABLISHING RULES A14-D REGULATIONS
WITH RESPECT TO ThE Fl`HTIN`z OF FIRES AND
PREVENTION THEREOF, AND DEFININ�Gl THE DUTIES
OF VARIOUS MEMBERS OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT
BE IT ORDAINED by the President and Board of Trustees of
the Village of Oakbrook:
Section 1. Creation, There is hereby created a fire
department,, an administrative department of the Village of Oakbrook.
This department shall consist of a fire chief appointed by the
President, with the approval of the Board of Trustees, who shall
be the head of the department, and three firemen appointed by the
Board of Fire and Police Commissioners in accordance with the statutes
of the State of Illinois and the rules and regulations of such
Commission.
Section 2. "16mbers--Appointment, The members of such
fire, department shall be considered officers of the Village as de-
fined and determined by the statutes of the State of Illinois; they
need not be residents of the Village at the time of their original
appointment. The fire chief shall not hold any other village office,
elective or appointive, except he may complete any term of office
he may be holding when appointed fire chief,, and provided further
that he does not seek or accept any other pelit Scat office, elective
or appointive, during his term as fire chief.
Section 3. Compensation: Members of the fire department,
including the chief, shall receive such compensation as the President
and the Board of Trustees shall from time to time determine.
Section 4. Fire Chief--Powers and Duties,
A. Attendance at Fires. The fire chief shall, if in his
power, attend all fires occurring in the Village, or in such other
areas as may hereinafter be designated, and, in the case
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of his absence from any fire, the officer in command of the
fire company first on the ground at said fire shall take
charge of the department, and during the absence of the fire
chief shall have and exercise all the powers of the fire chief.
B. Administrative Duties. The fire chief shall have sole
and absolute control and command over all persons connected with
the fire department of the Village, while on duty; he shall
possess full power and authority over its organization, govern-
ment and discipline, and to that end he may prescribe and
establish, from time to time, such rules and regulations as
he may deem advisable, consistent with and subject to such
rules and regulations as may be adopted by the Board of Eire
and Police Commissioners and by the President and Board of
Trustees. He shall establish and maintain a comprehensive
training program to the end that all firemen become thoroughly
familiar with and capable of operating all the equipment of the
department.
C# Custody of Property. The fire chief, subject to the
direction of the Village President, shall have the custody of
and full responsibility for the pumpers, tankers, trucks,
ladders, and all property and equipment belonging to the fire
department.
D. Investigation of_Fires* The fire chief shall in-
vestigate the causes of all fires which may occur in the
jurisdiction of the department as soon as may be after they
occur, and shall make and keep a record of his investigation
and of the circumstances of each case, and shall render a
monthly report of the department activities to the Village
Board.
E. Inspection and Repair of Apparatus. The fire chief
shall frequently examine into the condition of the fire house,
and all of the fire apparatus and equipment, and shall report
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all defects and needs for repair to the Village President.
F. .Annual Report. The fire chief shall, on the first day
of June each year, make a full and complete report which shall
show, as nearly as can be ascertained, the number of fires, the
causes thereof, all accidents by fire:, the number of and a
description of the buildings destroyed and damaged, together
with the names of the owners or lessees, and shall contain such
other data and suggestions as he may deem appropriate, lie shall
file this report with the Village. President.
F. Inspection of Premises. The fire chief shall make or
cause to be made regular inspections, with sufficient frequency
to secure efficient supervision, of all buildings, structures
and places used for manufacturing; or commercial purposes, or
occupied or frequented by large numbers of people, and of all
school buildings, public halls, churches, institutional buildings,
theaters, and all places of amusement, recreation or employment
in order (1) to determine the safety of the occupants of such
buildings, structures, or pleces in the event of fire, panic
or accident; (2) to examine the working order and state: of
repair of all doors, fire escapes and fire fighting appliances,
the condition and freedom from obstruction of exits, corridors, stair-
ways, fire escapes and their approaches, the disposition, arrange-
ment and protection of stock, combustible material and rubbish,
heating devises and ovens, inflammable liquids and explosives,
and the protection of hazardous machinery, appliances and apparatus ;
and (3) to ascertain whether the applicable fire regulations are
being efficiently carried out. No person shall exclude the fire
chief or any one of his deputies or assistants from any such
building, structure or premises.
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H, Prescribing Limits at Fires. The fire chief or other
officers in command at any fire may prescribe limits in the
vicinity of the fire within which no persons, excepting those
who reside therein, firemen, policemen, officers of the Village
and those admitted by any officer of the fire department, shall
be permitted to go,
I. Removal of Property. The fire chief shall have power
to cause the removal of any property whenever it shall become
necessary for the preservation of said property from fire, or
to prevent the spreading of fire, or to protect adjoining
properties.
J. Destruction of Buildings. The fire chief, or, in his
absence, the acting fire officer in command at any fire, may
direct the members of the fire department to tear down and re-
move any building, structure or fence for the purpose of check-
ing the progress of any fire, and in case of need may blow up
or cause to be blown up, with powder or otherwise, any building
or erection, during the progress of a fire, for the purpose of
extinguishing or checking the same.
Section 5, Hindering Firemen--Damaging Apparatus. No
person shall offer any hindrance to any officer or fireman in the
performance of his duty at a fire, or in any manner destroy, damage
or deface any engine or other fire apparatus belonging to the Village.
Section 6. Driving over Hose. No wagon, automobile, motor
truck, or other vehicle shall be driven over any unprotected hose of
the fire department of the Village, when laid down by order of the
fire dhief'1or other officer or member in charge of said hose.
Section 7. Obstructing Fire Hydrants. No person shall in
any manner obstruct the use of any fire hydrant, or have or place
any material or vehicle in front thereof, or within fifteen feet
from either side thereof, under the penalty as hereinafter provided;
and in addition to such penalty any and all materials or vehicles
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found as an obstruction
as aforesaid may be forthwith removed by
any member or members of the fire department
cost and expense of ' and at the risk,
the owner or claimant
Section 8;1rs'opersonati
Firemen. No person not a member
Of the fire department s
hall"personate a fire
fire department b man or Officer
ca of the
y wearing a
P or badge or in any other way.
Section 9, Salvaged Protaert�r. No
any propert person shall take away
y in the possession of the fire department and s
from any fire until proof of alvaged
ownership be made satisfactory to the
fire chief or acting fire chief.
Section 10. Uniform and Bad e. The fire chief, subject
to the approval of the Board t
' s hall make suitable regulations under*
Which the officers and men of the department shall be re uir
wear an a 4 ed to
Ppropriate uniform or badge, by which, in case of fire,
the authority of such officers and men in said department p rtment may be
known.
Section 11. Police Power of Firemen. The fire chief
and any member of the fire department shall have the power and
authority during the time of a fire to arrest any suspected person
or persons or any person hindering, resisting or conducting himself
in a disorderly manner, or refusing to obey any such firemen while
acting in the discharge of their duties and, as soon as their duties
in relation to the extinguishment of the fire will permit, to take
such person before a magistrate to be dealt with according to law.
All firemen shall, during such time, be severally vested with the
�5 boxer ad authority of pollee officers to command all persons
ha iU the performance of such duty.
0 a �i8t t �], teer °n• In addition to the
4tj4n 12 ve set forth, there is hereby
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Members of such Volunteer department shall not be
d officers of the Village.
The chief of the regular department shall be ea-officio
chiei ;he volunteers and the shall at all times be
y under his
command and Jurisdiction.
C. Such volunteers may elect from their own membership an
assistant chief, a fire captain, and a fire lieutenant, who
shall exercise such Jurisdiction over the volunteers as the
chief shall direct, provided, however, that such officers shall
not exercise nor be granted any authority over the firemen in
the regular department.
D. Such volunteers shall, as directed by the chief,
assist the regular department in the discharge of its duties
as prescribed herein.
E. Such volunteers shall work only on a part-time basis
and shall be compensated for services actually rendered upon
an hourly rate as from time to time established by the President
and Board of Trustees.
F. Such volunteers shall be appointed by the President
subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees and shall
serve at the pleasure of the President and Board of Trustees.
They shall not be subject to the jurisdiction of the Fire and
Police Commission of the Village of Oakbrook.
Section 13. Territory. The fire department of the
Village of Oakbr*ek shall answer all f1re salt's Witl the Village
of Oakbrook, and in addition thereto, pursuant to contract with
the Oakbrook Volunteer Firemen's Association, dated the 7th day of
November, A. D. 1962, answer all fire calls in that portion of the
following described territory not located within the Village of
Oakbrook free of charge for a period of twenty years from said date
87CGept that if any portion of the said territory shall, within said
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period of time, become a part of, or be annexed to, any city, village
or organized fire protection district, then in such event such
territory shall be excluded from the following described territory
located outside the village limits and receiving fire protection as
herein described:
The Oakbrook Volunteer Firemen's Association District is the area
included within the following boundaries:
Starting at the DuPage-Cook County line and the center of 22nd Street
which point is the northeast corner of Section 25; thence proceeding
west along 22nd Street to the intersection of Salt Creek; thence in
a general direction north and west, following Salt Creek to a point
where Salt Creek would meet an extension of Spring goad; thence south
along an extension of Spring Road and Spring Road to 22nd Street;
thence west along 22nd Street to the intersection of Butterfield Road;
thence southwest along Butterfield Road to the intersection of Meyers
Road; thence south along Meyers Road to the north line of the south-
west one-quarter of Section 289 extended; thence west along the north
line of the southwest one-quarter of Section 28 to a point 570' east
of the west line of the southwest one-quarter of Section 28; thence
south to the north line of Section 33; thence west to the west line
of Section 33; thence south to the south line of the north one-half
of the northwest one-quarter of Section 33; thence east to Meyers
Road; thence south on Meyers Road to a line 500' south of 35th Street;
thence east along said line to Cass Avenue; thence north on Cass Avenue
to 35th Street; thence east on 35th Street to the west line of Section
35; thence south along the west line of Section 35 to Ogden Avenue;
thence following Ogden Avenue east and north to Madison Street; thence
north on Madison Street to 39th Street; thence east on 39th Street to
an extension of Grant Street of Hinsdale, which is the east end of iron
fence; thence south along said extension of Grant Street to Ogden
Avenue; thence following Ogden Avenue east and north to Washington
Street; thence in a general direction north on Washington Street to
39th Street; thence east on 39th Street to a point 1600 feet west of
the DuPage County Line; thence north from said point parallel to the
DuPage-Cook line to an intersection with Salt Creek; thence following
Salt Creek north and east to the DuPage County line; thence north on
the DuPage-Cook County line to 31st Street; (the above described
property# all- lying within DuPage County) ; thence east along 31st
Street to the east line of the southwest one-quarter of the southeast
one-quarter of Section 309 Township 39; thence north to the north line
of the northwest one-quarter of the southeast one-quarter of Section
309 Township 399 which is 28th Street extended; west on said line to
the DuPage-Cook County line; thence north on the DuPage-Cook County
line to 22nd. Street; the point of the beginning (the latter described
property lying within Cook County) ;
ALSO
Place of beginning - SE 1/4 Sec. 24, T. 39 N, Range 119 E of 3rd P.M.
The center line of 22nd Street (Route 55) and the Cook County-DuPage
County line north 2655.151 , thence due west along one-quarter Section
24 line 20001 , then,-due south 466.18' , then west 660' to the center
line of York Road, proceeding west across York Road 1125' into the
southwest one-quarter of Section 249 Township 39 North, Range 11,
East of the Third Principal Meridian to the center line of Salt Creek,
then southerly along the center line of Salt Creek to the center line
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of Route 55 (22nd Street),, which is located on the south line of the
above mentioned southwest one-quarter of ;section 24, then due east
46001 along said one:-quarter section line across York Road, and along
the south line of the southeast one-quarter of Section 24 to the
Cook County-DuPage County line; the place of beginning, all in the
Village of Oakbrook, DuPae County, Illinois.
Section 14, Fees--Outside Territory, On all fire calls
outside the Village limits of the Village of Oakbrook and the above
described territory answered by the Oakbrook fire Department except
mutual aid calls there shall be a service charge of One Hundred and
no/100ths Dollars (4100.00). which said charge shall be collected from
the property owner or the person requesting the service, as the case-
may be., and which said charge shall be billed promptly to said person
by the Village Clerk.
Section 15. Penalty, any person, firm or corporation
violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined a sum
of money not less than One Dollar nor more than Two Hundred Dollars
for each such offense.
Section 16, Ordinance No, J_ , adopted by the Presi-
dent and Board of Trustees of the Village of Oakbrook on the
day of, -f,L�c� ��r:t , 194 is hereby repealed.
Passed aL approved by the President and the Board of
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Trustees of the Village of Oakbrook this day of L-� � �,
1967„
President
Attest:
Clerk
Ayes:
Nays: