[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. 414, 3-4-1996]
(A) 
Adoption Of Fire Prevention Code: A certain document, three copies of which are on file in the office of the City Clerk, being marked and designated as the BOCA national fire prevention code, 1996 edition, as published by the Building Officials and Code Administrators International, Inc., be and is hereby adopted as the fire prevention code of the City for the control of buildings and structures as herein provided; and each and all of the regulations, provisions, penalties, conditions and terms of said BOCA national fire prevention code, 1996 edition, are hereby referred to, adopted and made a part hereof as if fully set out in this chapter, with the additions, insertions, deletions and changes, if any, prescribed in Subsection 5-3-9(B) of this section.
(B) 
Additions, Insertions And Changes: The BOCA national fire prevention code, 1996 edition, is amended and changed in the following respects:
1. 
Section 100.1 Title: These regulations as set forth herein shall be known as the fire prevention code of the City and are herein referred to as such or as "this Code".
2. 
Section 104.2 Membership: Same as the board of appeals of the national building code of 1987.
[Ord. 324, 4-8-1991]
(A) 
Buildings, General: All new commercial and/or manufacturing buildings constructed after the effective date of this section, and all existing commercial and/or manufacturing buildings shall be required to comply within 12 months of the effective date of this section. Any commercial and/or manufacturing buildings requesting the City fire department to either retain or obtain access to the building shall be required to use a master key Knox box at a location approved by the fire department. Such box shall be provided with master keys necessary for access to all portions of the premises. Such box and keys shall be provided any time the building shall change. This section does not apply to residential dwellings under four units.
(B) 
Buildings With Elevators: Any buildings equipped with elevators who desire to make accessible to the knox box system shall provide:
1. 
Two sets of keys for entry to building and all portions of premises.
2. 
Two sets of elevator control keys if elevators are equipped with fire department bypass switches.
[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.