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; amended by Ord. No. 04-18-16E; Ord. No. 12-18-23]
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 Marshal (70 ILCS 705/11f), the City of Mendota
Fire Department shall charge for vehicles, personnel and supplies
used when responding to incidents within City limits to out-of-district
people. The various rates and fees will be as established by the City
Council from time to time.
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 at the request of such
emergency response agency, to cover costs incurred. Those costs for
vehicles, personnel and supplies used will be as established by the
City Council from time to time.
C. Technical
rescue services – high angle rescue/recovery, confined space
rescue/recovery, trench engulfment rescue/recovery, structural collapse
rescue/recovery, water rescue/recovery. Charges for such services
shall be as established by the City Council from time to time.
[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.