(65 ILCS 5/Art. 10 Div. 5 heading)
DIVISION 5.
INSURANCE FOR VOLUNTEER
FIREMEN
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(65 ILCS 5/10-5-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-5-1)
Sec. 10-5-1.
Every city, village or incorporated town in this State, which
adopts this Division 5, as hereinafter provided, now having or which may
hereafter have a volunteer fire department or a fire department composed in
part of volunteer firemen, shall procure, in the name and for the benefit
of the volunteer members of such fire department, a policy or policies of
insurance, conditioned as hereinafter provided.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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(65 ILCS 5/10-5-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-5-2)
Sec. 10-5-2.
Each such policy of insurance shall provide for the payment to every
volunteer member of such fire department receiving any injury, which injury
was sustained through accidental means and was caused by and arose out of
the duties of such member as a volunteer fireman, causing a disability
which prevents such member from pursuing his usual vocation, as follows:
In such cities, villages and incorporated towns having a population of
less than 1,000, a weekly indemnity of not less than $20,
In such cities, villages and incorporated towns having a population of
1,000 or more, a weekly indemnity of not less than $30.
Every such policy shall further provide:
(a) That the weekly indemnity payable thereunder shall be paid as long
as such disability shall continue, not however, to exceed a period of 52
weeks.
(b) That in the event of the death or total permanent disability of such
volunteer fireman, the sum of not less than $3,500 shall be paid to the
estate of any such volunteer fireman or to such total permanently disabled
volunteer fireman, as the case may be.
(c) For the payment of such medical, surgical, hospital and nurse
services and supplies, as may be necessary on account of such injury, the
total sum thereof, however, not to exceed $750, for injuries sustained as
the result of any one accident.
This amendatory act of 1973 does not apply to any municipality which is
a home rule unit.
(Source: P.A. 78-481.)
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(65 ILCS 5/10-5-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-5-3)
Sec. 10-5-3.
For the purposes of this Division 5, "volunteer fireman"
or "volunteer member" means a person having regular employment, at work
other than that of a fireman, but who is carried on the rolls of a
regularly constituted fire department either for the purpose of the prevention
or control of fire or the underwater recovery of drowning victims, the members
of which are under
the jurisdiction of the corporate authorities of city, village or
incorporated town and who may receive some compensation for his services
as a fireman. "Volunteer fireman" or "volunteer member" does not mean an
individual who volunteers assistance and is not a regularly enrolled
fireman. However, nothing herein contained shall be construed to
prohibit any city, village or incorporated town from procuring insurance
to cover persons acting as firemen who are not regularly enrolled as
such.
(Source: P.A. 80-597.)
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(65 ILCS 5/10-5-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-5-4)
Sec. 10-5-4.
If the corporate authorities of any city, village or
incorporated town, which adopts this Division 5, neglect, refuse or fail to
procure the insurance policies prescribed in this Division 5, within 30
days after the adoption hereof, except as provided in Section 10-5-5,
neglect, refuse or fail to keep such policies in force, then such city,
village or incorporated town shall be liable in an action at law to such
volunteer firemen or their estates, as the case may be, for all amounts
which would have been payable under the provisions of such insurance
policies had such policies been procured by such city, village or
incorporated town.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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(65 ILCS 5/10-5-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-5-5)
Sec. 10-5-5.
Any city, village or incorporated town which, at the time it
adopts this Division 5, is carrying insurance policies with provisions for
the payment of indemnities to volunteer firemen, shall have one year from
such time within which to procure insurance policies containing provisions
which meet the requirements of this Division 5.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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(65 ILCS 5/10-5-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-5-6)
Sec. 10-5-6.
Whenever the legal voters of such city, village or
incorporated town equal in number to 10% of the legal votes cast at the
last preceding general municipal election petition the city, village or
incorporated town clerk for the submission of the proposition as
to whether such city,
village or incorporated town, shall adopt the provisions of this
Division 5, then such clerk shall certify
the proposition accordingly, for submission
at an election in accordance
with the general election law, and if such proposition be not
adopted at such election, the same may in like manner be submitted to
any general municipal election thereafter.
The proposition shall be substantially
in the following form:
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Shall the city (or village or
incorporated town) of.... adopt YES
Division 5 of Article 10 of the - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Illinois Municipal Code providing for NO
insurance coverage for volunteer firemen?
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If a majority of the votes cast upon such proposition
shall be for such proposition, then this Division 5 shall be in force in
such city, village or incorporated town, as of the beginning of the
third month of the next fiscal year of such city, village or
incorporated town.
(Source: P.A. 81-1489 .)
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