A fee shall be assessed for all responses made to non-citizens of the village or the taxable district of the village. All response fees will be established by the village board and will include the fees required by mutual aid responses. No fee assessment will be made to citizens of another taxable district when village employees and equipment are summoned under an established mutual aid agreement.

(Code 2024, § 4.11.1)

Emergency response fees shall be assessed for any responses to assist non-tax-paying customers or residents who do not reside in the village or the taxable district. This fee will be assessed regardless of who requested the response. In such cases where multiple customers utilize the village's services, each one will be charged accordingly.

(Code 2024, § 4.11.2)

Village employees or retired employees who are non-citizens will be excluded from fee assessment in the event that they require the village's emergency services. This policy will be in effect regardless of whether they are on village time or not.

(Code 2024, § 4.11.3)

These provisions will be in effect except in cases where the emergency response is hazardous material related, then village hazmat regulations will supersede. Customers can be assessed costs covered in this article that are not covered in the village hazmat regulations.

(Code 2024, § 4.11.4)

1. The village's fire department charges for such services shall be computed at a rate not to exceed $250.00 per hour per vehicle and not to exceed $70.00 per hour per firefighter responding to a call for assistance. A charge for the actual replacement of any supplies used (plus 25 percent) stocking fee will be assessed additionally. The village's fire department may charge additionally to reimburse for extraordinary expenses of materials used in rendering such services for which the total charge would be less than $50.00.
2. All billings shall be rounded off upwards to 15-minute increments, and charges shall be made based on 15-minute proration of the hourly charge.

(Code 2024, § 4.11.5)

All customers will be subject to legal fees to pursue cost recovery if required.

(Code 2024, § 4.11.6)

The standard system for identifying hazards of chemicals of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) based on NFPA Standard 704-1980 is adopted by reference.

1. Size. The signs shall be at least 7.5 inches on each side. The signs shall have four spaces each at 3.75 inches on each side. Numbers and symbols within each of the four spaces shall be at least three inches in height.
2. Location. If a building or structure has a floor space of 5,000 square feet or less, an employer shall post signs on the outside of the building or structure identifying the type of each hazardous chemical contained in the building or structure. If the building has more than 5,000 square feet, the employer shall post a sign at the place within the building where each hazardous chemical is permanently stored to identify the type of hazardous chemical. If the hazardous chemical is moved within the building, the employer shall also move the sign or post an additional sign at the location where the hazardous chemical is moved.
3. Categories. The sign shall identify hazards of a chemical in terms of the principal categories (health, flammability, reactivity, other instability and indicate the order of severity numerically by five classifications ranging from four, indicating a severe hazard, to zero, indicating no hazard. This information is to be presented by a spatial system of diagrams with "health" always on the left; "flammability" at the top; and "reactivity" (instability) on the right. Color backgrounds and numbers are used for the three categories with blue representing health hazard, red representing flammability and yellow representing reactivity (instability). The fourth space shall be at the bottom and used to indicate unusual reactivity or other special hazard warnings in black and white colors.
4. Explosive exemption. Any building or structure, other than an explosives manufacturing building, approved for the storage of explosive materials shall have signs located so as to minimize the possibility that a bullet shot at the sign will hit the magazine.

(Code 2024, § 4.12.1)

In instances where posting of a sign for each hazardous chemical would be ambiguous, repetitive, or where space is limited by the physical characteristics of the structure, or in situations such as in a building, structure or location where a wide variety of materials may be stored having varying degrees of hazards, the identifying symbol shall indicate the most severe degree of hazard in each category except when a high hazard rating would be misleading because of the presence of an insignificant quantity of the material requiring the rating.

(Code 2024, § 4.12.2)

An employer may make application to the fire chief for less stringent sign posting requirements.

1. The employer shall make written application for variance.
2. The employer shall have the burden of proof to show that compliance imposes an undue hardship on the employer and that less stringent sign posting requirements as proposed by the employer offer substantially the same degree of notice and protection to emergency responders as if this chapter were strictly enforced.

(Code 2024, § 4.12.3)

The cost of sign production and acquisition of required signs will be at the expense of the employer.

(Code 2024, § 4.12.4)

Hazard class will be identified and rated by the fire department based on current standards set by the National Fire Protection Association.

(Code 2024, § 4.12.5)

It shall be the duty of the fire department to inspect any building, yard or premises in the village which contains hazardous chemicals and enforce this chapter as written. Directions shall be given the owner, agent or occupant of any premises containing hazardous chemicals to comply with this chapter within five days. Failure to correct the condition within the specified time can result in a fine of $100.00 and a further sum of $25.00 every day the condition remains.

(Code 2024, § 4.12.6)

Charges will be assessed to the owner of spilled hazardous materials for the cost of cleanup and mitigation. These fees will include the cost of equipment repair or replacement, supplies used, wages and established equipment charges, as well as fees charged by mutual aid agencies and cleanup crews of the village. Prices will be established by the village board.

(Code 2024, § 4.12.7)

Costs shall be in accordance with those costs reflected in the price lists maintained by the fire chief and the village clerk.

(Code 2024, § 4.12.8)