Cicero, IL Fire Regulations: Outdoor Burning (2026)

Sec. 42-34, adopted by Ordinance No. 00. Read together with the rest of Chapter 42, the underlying prohibition it enforces is Sec. 42-16, which already bars kindling, maintaining, or furnishing materials for a bonfire on a street, alley, road, public ground or private lot without a written permit from the fire marshal first secured. Sec. 00 range replaced what would otherwise be the Code's default penalty at Sec. 00), signaling the town treats an unpermitted open fire more seriously than an ordinary uncodified violation. Enforcement runs through the Bureau of Fire Prevention under the Fire Marshal, per Sec.

42-5, which also administers the Fire Prevention Codes adopted in Sec. 42-2, the International Fire Code, 2009 Edition, and NFPA 101, Life Safety Code. A person cited for open burning can appeal a fire marshal decision, including a permit refusal, to the Town President and Board of Trustees within 30 days under Sec. 42-4. Nothing in the section exempts recreational fires; the town's only path to a lawful outdoor fire is the written permit process in Sec. 42-16. Each day an unpermitted fire is maintained is treated, under the Code's general continuing-violation rule in Sec. 1-12(a), as a separate offense, so a fire left burning over a weekend can generate multiple citations rather than a single flat fine.