5 ILCS 235/12

in effect

(5 ILCS 235/12) (This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date) Sec. 12. Emergency aid to bordering states. Notwithstanding any provision of this Act to the contrary, any public safety agency, including, but not limited to, a fire department, a fire protection district, emergency medical services, a municipal police department, a county sheriff's department, a local emergency management agency, a local public works department, or public or private contractors of any such public safety agency, may provide assistance to any other public safety agency in the State or in a bordering State at the time of a disaster, such as a fire, earthquake, flood, tornado, hazardous material incident, or other such disaster. (Source: P.A. 104-364, eff. 1-1-26.)

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