[Ord. 2011-727, 8-1-2011]
(A) Definitions: For the purpose of this section, unless context clearly
indicates otherwise, the following words and terms are defined as
follows:
ALARM
Any audible, visible, mechanical or electrical signal or
intelligence indicating existence of a supposed fire or emergency
requiring both response and emergency action on the part of the firefighting,
police or other emergency services; and additionally, the alarm device
or devices by which fire, emergency or other disturbance signals are
received.
ALARM ANSWERING POINT
A facility operated and maintained at a location, other than
Logan dispatch, wherein alarm systems terminate and are initially
received and answered.
ALARM SYSTEM
Any alarm initiating device or assembly of equipment that
automatically detects heat, smoke or other products of combustion
or the need of other public safety or emergency response.
ALARM USER
A person(s), firm, partnership, cooperation, association,
organization, company, or other entity in control of a protected premises
where an alarm system is located.
AUTOMATIC DIALING DEVICE
A device programmed to transmit by telephone line or computer
line to a telephone number or web based system in advance.
FALSE ALARM
Activation or transmission of any alarm signal caused by
human error, mechanical or electronic malfunction, negligence of the
alarm user or alarm user's employee, whether or not the exact cause
of the alarm activation is determined, or any other activation or
transmission or any alarm signal where no actual fire emergency, or
other emergency, actually exists. Severe weather, power outages, transmission
line malfunctions, acts of God, malicious acts of persons not under
the control of the alarm user, or any other cause clearly beyond the
control of the alarm user will be considered in the determining if
an alarm activation was false and whether or not any occurrence, fine,
warning or other punitive action will be taken against the alarm user
as provided by this section.
(B) Approved Alarm System: All alarms shall be UL or FM approved. All
installed fire alarm systems shall meet OSFM 2000 life safety codes
and current fire prevention codes and building codes as established
by the City of Lincoln.
(C) Good Working Order:
1. Alarm systems shall be installed, maintained and operated so as not
to generate false alarms due to system defect, lack of maintenance,
employee error or other malfunction. All alarm systems shall be installed,
operated and maintained in accordance with the current City of Lincoln
building code and fire code and NFPA 72, and the manufacturer's recommendations.
2. Every alarm system so installed or maintained shall be so operated
as not to transmit false alarms.
(D) List Of Names: Every alarm user of an alarm system so installed and
operated, within the City limits, shall provide the alarm company,
answering service, or other termination point to which the alarm is
directed with a current list of persons who are authorized and readily
available to assist at the premises or facility at any time an alarm
is transmitted therefrom.
(E) Violation: Any alarm user which has over and above three false alarms
within a year shall be subject to penalties as outlined herein.
(F) Charges For False Alarm:
Commercial facilities: A fine of $100 for each false alarm up
to and including six within a year; a fine of $200 for each false
alarm up to and including 10 within a year; and a fine of $300 for
each false alarm over and above 10 within a year.
Residential facilities: A fine of $50 for each false alarm up
to and including six within a year; a fine of $100 for each false
alarm up to and including 10 within a year; and a fine of $150 for
each false alarm over and above 10 within a year.
(G) Nonpayment Of Charge: Should any alarm user fail to reasonably and
promptly pay a response charge after being billed for the same, said
charge may be recovered by appropriate court action.
[1960 Code § 11.08.040; amended Ord. 2020-931, 8-17-2020]
Whoever shall throw, place or leave any live coals or fire or
make or kindle any fire upon any blacktopped street or concrete sidewalk,
shall be liable to a fine of not less than $100 for the first offense,
$200 for the second offense, and $500 for the third and any subsequent
offense.
[1960 Code § 11.08.070; amended Ord. 2020-931, 8-17-2020]
No person shall boil any pitch, resin, coal tar or other inflammable
liquids or substance, except in a fireproof building, or in some open
place at least 30 feet distant from any building or other property
likely to be endangered or injured thereby, under a penalty of not
less than $100 for the first offense, $200 for the second offense,
and $500 for the third and any subsequent offense.
[1960 Code § 11.08.090; amended Ord. 2020-931, 8-17-2020]
No person shall strew, trail or leave any shavings, straw or
other like combustible materials in, around or near any building or
other property so as to endanger or likely to endanger or damage the
same in case of fire, under penalty of not less than $100 for the
first offense, $200 for the second offense, and $500 for the third
and any subsequent offense.
[1960 Code § 11.08.100; amended Ord. 2020-931, 8-17-2020]
No person shall stack or deposit any hay, straw or other like
combustible materials within 80 feet of any dwelling house, or other
building in which fire may be kept, without the same being so covered
or enclosed as to be protected from sparks of fire, under a penalty
of not less than $100 for the first offense, $200 for the second offense,
and $500 for the third and any subsequent offense.
[Ord. 2014-804, 4-21-2014; amended Ord. 2020-931, 8-17-2020]
(A) The area within the City which is bounded as follows hereby is declared
to be the business district of the City: Beginning at the intersection
of the Southwest Line of Keokuk Street with the Southeast right-of-way
line of the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad; thence Southwesterly
along said right-of-way line to the Southwest Line of Pekin Street,
thence Northwesterly along said Southwest Line of Pekin Street to
the alley between Kankakee Street and Logan Street; thence Southwesterly
along the Southeast Line of said alley to Clinton Street, thence Southeasterly
along the Southwest Line of Clinton Street to Logan Street; thence
Southwesterly along the Southeast Line of Logan Street to Decatur
Street; thence Southeasterly along the Southwest Line of Decatur Street
to Hamilton Street; thence Northeasterly along the Southeast Line
of Hamilton Street to Clinton Street, thence Southeasterly along the
Southwest Line of Clinton Street to Sherman Street; thence Northeasterly
along the Southeast Line of Sherman Street to Pekin Street; thence
Northwesterly along the Northeast Line of Pekin Street to Kickapoo
Street; thence Northeasterly along the Southeast Line of Kickapoo
Street to Delavan Street, thence Northeasterly along the Northeast
Line of Delavan Street to the alley between Chicago Street and Kickapoo
Street; thence Northeasterly along the Southeast Line of the last-mentioned
alley to Tremont Street; thence Northwesterly along the Northeast
Line of Tremont Street to Chicago Street, thence Northeasterly along
the Southeast Line of Chicago Street to Keokuk Street; and thence
Northwesterly along the Southwest Line of Keokuk Street to the point
of beginning.
(B) No person shall kindle or maintain any open fire anywhere within
the boundaries of the business district described in Subsection (A)
of the section, and no person shall permit or suffer the kindling
or maintenance of any open fire upon any premises located within the
district which may be owned or controlled by him.
(C) No person shall construct, maintain or employ, or shall permit or
suffer the construction, maintenance or employment of any incinerator
or other device for the destruction by fire of wastepaper, garbage
or other refuse anywhere within the boundaries of the business district
described in Subsection (A) of this section, unless the incinerator
or other device be constructed wholly of fireproof material and be
housed completely, save for its smoke outlet, within a building situated
within the district. It shall be the duty of the owner and tenant
of any premises located within the business district whereon any type
of burner or incinerator other than the type prescribed in this subsection
is situated, to destroy, remove or block up such type of burner or
incinerator.
(D) Any violation of Subsections (B) and (C) of this section shall be
punishable by a fine of not less than $100 for the first offense,
$200 for the second offense, and $500 for the third and any subsequent
offense.
(E) No person shall set fire to any items, whether it be leaves, rubbish,
or other combustible matter within the City limits unless that burning
is as follows:
[Amended 6-21-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-983]
1. Recreational Fires: The burning of fuels for legitimate campfire
recreation and cooking purposes, or in domestic fireplaces, in areas
where such burning is consistent with other laws; provided, that no
garbage shall be burned in such cases only firewood or materials suitable
for cooking including, but not limited to, cobs, pellets, and charcoal.
Garbage, building materials, and other hazardous materials are prohibited
from being burned within the City of Lincoln.
(a)
Recreational fires shall be limited in size not to exceed 36
inches in diameter.
(b)
Recreational fires may not be started until 800 hours (8:00
a.m.) and must be extinguished by 24 hours (12:00 midnight).
(c)
Recreational fires must be tended to at all times that flame,
smoke and embers are present, with an adequate water source nearby.
2. Burning Landscape Waste:
(a)
Between April 1 through October 1 on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and
Saturdays, from 8:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m., residents of the City shall
be entitled to burn landscape waste only.
(b)
Between October 2 through March 31 on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and
Saturdays, from 8:00 a.m. until four 4:00 p.m., residents of the City
shall be entitled to burn landscape waste only.
(c)
Any landscape waste that is burned pursuant to the provision
hereof shall be burned until the fire is completely out, no later
than the times set forth above, and shall be attended to by the individual
conducting the landscape waste burn. Any burning done pursuant to
the provisions hereof shall be done only on concrete or brick streets
or on the citizen's property, but the location of such burning must
be a minimum of 50 feet from any structure or non-building (fences,
telephone poles, etc.) and tended to at all times that flames, smoke,
and embers are present. The individual conducting the burn must have
any operable hose, of sufficient size and capacity to extinguish the
fire, available at the burning site at all times.
(d)
Pursuant to the provisions of this Subsection (E)2, only landscape
waste may be burned and must be burned in the open and shall not be
contained in any barrel or other similar device. "Landscape waste"
is hereby defined as any vegetable or plant refuse except garbage
and agricultural waste. The term includes trees, tree trimmings, branches,
stumps, brush, weeds, leaves grass, shrubbery, and yard trimmings.
(e)
Notwithstanding anything herein contained to the contrary, any
police officer or firefighter of the City of Lincoln, or the Lincoln
City Code Enforcement Officer may require any fire being burned pursuant
to the provisions hereof to be extinguished if, in his or her opinion,
such fire and the related smoke therefrom are injurious to the health
or safety of any other citizens of the City.
(f)
Lincoln City fire department has the right to withhold or rescind
permission for any recreational or landscape burning for any reason
including, but not limited to, weather, wind, or red flag conditions
set by the National Weather Service and/or Logan Emergency Management.
3. Violation; Penalties: Any violation of this subsection shall be punishable
by a fine less than $100 for the first offense, $200 for the second
offense, and $500 for the third offense within a calendar year. Any
offense beyond the third offense in a calendar year shall result in
a fine of no less than $500.
[Repealed by Ord. 444, 8-18-1997]
[Ord. 236, 7-6-1987; Ord. 414, 3-4-1996]
(A) Adoption Of Code: The provisions of the life safety code, 1994 edition,
are hereby adopted as fire safety regulations for the City.
(B) References: As used in this section, a reference to the life safety
code, 1994 edition, and all references to standards not otherwise
identified refer to the standards set out in said code. The fire department
and the City Building and Safety Official shall keep on hand at least
three copies of said code for public inspection.
(C) Enforcement: The fire department is hereby empowered and instructed
to enforce the provisions of the code as it applies to fire and safety
regulations for the City.
(D) Copies Of Code: Three copies of such code shall be kept on file in
the City Clerk's office for the use of the public, the building inspector,
the fire inspector and any other inspectors having need to consult
such code.
(E) Interpretation: Whenever in the code it is provided that anything
is to be done with the approval or subject to the direction of the
fire inspector or any other inspector or officer of the City, this
shall be construed to give such officer only the discretion of determining
whether the rules and standards established by ordinance have been
complied with; and no such provision shall be construed to give any
officer discretionary powers as to what such regulations or standards
shall be, or power to require conditions not prescribed by the code
or by ordinance or to enforce ordinance provisions in an arbitrary
or discriminatory manner.
(F) Certificate Of Occupancy: No certificate of occupancy shall be issued
for any building, unless the pertinent provisions of the code have
been complied with.
(G) Stop Order: Whenever any work is being done in violation of these
regulations, or in variance with the terms of any permit issued for
such work, the fire inspector may order all work stopped until and
unless all violations or variances are eliminated and any work or
installation made under the provisions of these regulations is corrected.
Such stop order, if oral, shall be followed by a written stop order
within 24 hours, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays or holidays. It shall
be unlawful to do or perform any work in violation of such stop order,
except as may be necessary to prevent injury to persons or damage
to property. Such stop order may be revoked by the fire inspector
or by the Mayor or Council.
[Ord. 2011-728, 8-1-2011]
(A) It shall be unlawful for any person or entity to put on a public
display of fireworks within the corporate limits of the City prior
to obtaining a public display of fireworks permit from the Lincoln
City fire department.
(B) Any person or entity wishing to obtain a permit for a supervised
public display of fireworks must apply to the Lincoln City fire department,
at least 15 days in advance of the display date, for a permit using
the permit application form provided by the Lincoln City fire department
and paying the application fee of $195. The Lincoln City fire department
will review all applications and if, after payment of the appropriate
fees and/or deposits, the Lincoln City fire department determines
the proposed display can be safely accomplished and the applicant
has the appropriate licenses, training, and qualifications, then a
permit shall be issued.
(C) All applicants for a permit for supervised public display of fireworks
shall possess all training, licenses, and qualifications as required
by the laws of the state of Illinois.
(D) All applicants for a permit for supervised public display of fireworks
shall be required to obtain liability coverage in a minimum amount
as provided by the office of the state Fire Marshal and list the City
and City agencies as named insured parties on the insurance policy.
(E) In order to obtain a permit to put on a public display of fireworks
within the corporate limits of the City, the applicant shall deposit
with the City Clerk the sum of no less than $1,000 as a guarantee
that all City property, both real and personal, will be restored to
its original condition upon completion of public display of fireworks
covered by the permit.
(F) A violation of any of the provisions of this section shall subject
the offender to a penalty of not less than $25 nor more than $500
for each offense, and the required bond amount.
[Ord. 2011-729, 8-1-2011]
(A) The City of Lincoln fire department may hereby fix, charge, and collect
reasonable fees for specialized rescue services provided by the department.
The fee may be charged to the owner of the property on which the specialized
rescue services occurred, any person involved in an activity that
caused or contributed to the emergency, an individual who is rescued
during the emergency and his or her employer if the person was acting
in furtherance of the employer's interests, and/or in cases involving
the recovery of property, any person having control or custody of
the property at the time of the emergency, but only after there has
been a finding of fault against that party by the occupational safety
and health administration or the Illinois department of labor.
(B) For the purposes of this section, the term "specialized rescue services"
includes, but is not limited to, structural collapse, tactical rescue,
high angle rescue, underwater rescue and recovery, confined space
rescue, below grade rescue, and trench rescue.
(C) The total amount collected may not exceed the reasonable cost of
providing those specialized rescue services and may not, in any event,
exceed $125 per hour per vehicle and $35 per hour per firefighter.