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Statutes > Illinois > Chapter65 > 802 > 006500050HArt_11_Div_8 (65 ILCS 5/11‑8‑1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11‑8‑1) Sec. 11‑8‑1. The corporate authorities of each municipality may establish and maintain for reasonable charges electrical appliances in public or private buildings for fire and police protection upon application of the custodian of public buildings, or of the owner of private buildings. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.) |
(65 ILCS 5/11‑8‑2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11‑8‑2) Sec. 11‑8‑2. The corporate authorities of each municipality may prevent the dangerous construction, installation and condition of chimneys, fireplaces, hearths, stoves, furnaces, pipes, ovens, boilers, fuel conduits, electric wiring and any other fire or heating apparatus used in and about any building, structure or camp accommodating persons in house trailers, house cars, and, if such enumerated are in a dangerous condition may cause them to be removed or placed in a safe condition. The corporate authorities also may cause all buildings and enclosures which are in a dangerous fire condition to be put in a safe fire condition, may regulate and prevent the carrying on of factories that are dangerous in causing or promoting fires, and may prevent the deposit of ashes in places that create a fire hazard. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.) |
(65 ILCS 5/11‑8‑3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11‑8‑3) Sec. 11‑8‑3. For the purpose of guarding against the calamities of fire, the corporate authorities of each municipality may prescribe the limits within which wooden buildings shall not be erected, placed, or repaired, without permission, and, whenever buildings within the fire limits have deteriorated or have been damaged by any means to the extent of 50% of their value, may direct that such buildings shall be torn down or removed, and to prescribe the manner of ascertaining whether the specified damage has occurred. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.) |
(65 ILCS 5/11‑8‑4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11‑8‑4) Sec. 11‑8‑4. The corporate authorities of each municipality may regulate and prevent the storage of turpentine, tar, pitch, resin, hemp, cotton, gunpowder, nitroglycerine, petroleum, or any of their products, and other similar combustible or explosive materials; may regulate and prevent the use of lights and combustible liquids in buildings, and the building of bonfires; and may regulate and prevent the use of firecrackers, torpedoes, and all sorts of fireworks provided that such regulation or prohibition is consistent with the provisions of the following acts as such acts are heretofore and hereafter amended: "The Fireworks Regulation Act of Illinois" and "An Act to prohibit the sale, offering or exposing for sale of fireworks; defining fireworks and to regulate the manner of using fireworks, and to provide penalties for the violation of the provisions of the Act," approved July 1, 1941. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.) |
(65 ILCS 5/11‑8‑5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11‑8‑5) Sec. 11‑8‑5. The corporate authorities of each municipality may regulate and prohibit the keeping of any lumber or coal yard, or the placing, piling, or selling of any lumber, timber, wood, coal, or other combustible material within the fire limits of the municipality. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.) |
(65 ILCS 5/11‑8‑6) (from Ch. 24, par. 11‑8‑6) Sec. 11‑8‑6. The corporate authorities of each municipality may regulate persons engaged in the business of servicing, repairing or refilling fire extinguishers. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.) |
