No person shall, by violent conduct, disturb any police officer
in the discharge of his duties; nor shall any person assault, strike,
or fight with any police officers in the discharge of his/her duties
or permit such conduct in or upon any house or premises in the Village
owned or possessed by him/her or under his/her management and control.
Abusive or vulgar language in the presence of an officer does not
evoke into a crime unless the language provokes a breach of the peace
or constitutes fighting words evoking some violent response. (See
65 ILCS 5/11-1-1)
No person in the Village shall falsely represent himself to
be an officer of the Village or shall, without being duly authorized
by the Village, exercise or attempt to exercise any of the duties,
functions or powers of the Village officer, or hinder, obstruct, resist
or otherwise interfere with any Village officer in the discharge of
the duties of his office, or attempt to prevent any such officer from
arresting any person, either by force or by giving notice to such
person, or attempt to rescue from such officer any person in his custody,
or impersonate any of the members of the police force of this Village,
or maliciously or with the intention of deceiving any person, wear
the uniform of or a uniform similar to that worn by the members of
the Police Department, or use any of the signs, signals or devices
adopted and used by the Police Department. (See 65 ILCS 5/32-5.1)
It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully interrupt or
disturb any funeral assembly, funeral procession, school, any assembly
met for the worship of God or any other assembly met for a lawful
purpose by any offensive behavior, or by any disorderly conduct. (See
65 ILCS 5/11-5-2.)
It shall be illegal for persons to assemble unlawfully in the
following situations:
(A) The use of force or violence disturbing the public peace by two or
more persons acting together and without authority of law; or
(B) The assembly of two or more persons to do an unlawful act; or
(C) The assembly of two or more persons, without authority of law, for
the purpose of doing violence to the person or property of any one
supposed to have been guilty of a violation of the law, or for the
purpose of exercising correctional powers or regulative powers over
any person by violence. (See 720 ILCS 5/25-1.) (See 65 ILCS 5/11-5-2.)
No person shall disturb the good order of society, or the peace
of any private family, or of any congregation within the Village by
any noise or amusement, or by vulgar or profane language, or by any
disorderly or immoral conduct. (See 65 ILCS 5/11-5-2.)
It shall be unlawful for any person to erect or maintain any
electrically charged fence or barbed wire or other such sharp, pointed
fence below eight feet in height, except in an agricultural or conservation
zone district.
It shall be unlawful for any person to fraudulently enter, without
payment of the proper admission fee, any theater, ballroom, lecture,
concert or other place where admission fees are charged; provided,
however, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to prohibit
or restrict the free admission of police officers engaged in the performance
of police duties to any place of public entertainment or amusement.
No minor under 18 years of age shall buy any cigar, cigarette,
smokeless tobacco or tobacco in any of its forms. No person shall
sell, buy for, distribute samples of or furnish any cigar, cigarette,
smokeless tobacco or tobacco in any of its forms, to any minor under
18 years of age.
For the purpose of this section, "smokeless tobacco" means any
tobacco products that are suitable for dipping or chewing. (See 720
ILCS 675/1.)
(A) Definition. For the purposes of this section, the term "smokeless
tobacco" means any finely cut, ground, powdered, or leaf tobacco that
is intended to be placed in the oral cavity.
(B) Sales of smokeless tobacco products to persons under 18. No person
shall sell any smokeless tobacco product to any person under the age
of 18.
(C) Distribution. No person shall distribute or cause to be distributed
to any person under the age of 18, without charge or at a nominal
cost, any smokeless tobacco product. (See 720 ILCS 680-1 et seq.)
(A) It shall be unlawful for a pedestrian to stand upon any sidewalk
or public way, except as near as reasonably possible to the building
line or curbline if such standing interferes with the use of said
sidewalk by other pedestrians.
(B) It shall be unlawful to impede or interfere with another person's
use of a public way.
It shall be unlawful to rescue or attempt to rescue or shall
abet or encourage the rescue or escape of any person from the custody
of any officer or other person legally having him in charge, or shall
molest or interfere with any officer or other person so legally having
him in charge, or shall, in any manner, aid, abet or encourage the
rescue or the attempt to escape from any person legally committed
thereto, or shall supply or attempt to supply any such person with
any weapon or with any implement or means whereby an escape might
be affected, or with any intoxicating liquors, drugs or other article(s)
without the consent of the officer in charge. (See 720 ILCS 5/31-7.)
It shall be unlawful for any person convicted of any offense
or in lawful custody to escape or attempt to escape from custody.
[See 720 ILCS 5/31-6(C).]
It shall be unlawful for any person to obtain any food, drink,
goods, wares, or merchandise under false pretenses, or to enter public
places and call for refreshments or other articles and receive and
refuse to pay for same, or to depart without paying for or satisfying
the person from whom he received the food, goods, wares, and/or merchandise.
It shall be unlawful for any person to rent, use, or allow to
be used, any building or property owned by him, for any purpose whereby
riotous or disorderly persons are gathered.
It shall be unlawful for any person, in any way or manner, to
aid, abet, counsel, advise or encourage any other person in the commission
of any of the acts mentioned herein or in any manner encourage the
commission of such offense hereby defined.
It shall be unlawful for any person to paste, post, paint, print
or nail any handbill, sign, poster, advertisement, or notice of any
kind on any curbstone, flagstone, or any other portion or part of
any sidewalk, or upon any tree, lamppost, utility pole, hydrant, or
upon any private wall, door, or gate without the consent, in writing,
of the owner of the wall, door or gate; provided, however, that this
section shall not prevent posting by proper Village and county officials
of election signs, polling place signs and other signs or placards
necessary under the law to the conduct of elections, except they may
not be attached to a tree.
No person shall, in the Village, be found in a state of intoxication
or drunk in any street or other public place, or shall be found drunk
lying or roving about the streets, alleys, or sidewalks of this Village
or the private grounds of any of the inhabitants thereof, or being
drunk as aforesaid, shall disturb the peace, order and quiet of the
Village, or the peace and quiet of the citizens thereof by loud and
unusual noises, disorderly conduct, indecent language or behavior
or in any other manner. (See 65 ILCS 5/11-5-3.)
No person shall beg or solicit alms within the Village without
having obtained permission in writing from the Mayor. (See 65 ILCS
5/11-5-4.)
No person shall, within the Village, carry or wear under his
clothes, or concealed about his person, any pistol or colt, or slingshot,
or cross knuckles or knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, or any
switchblade knife or razor, bowie knife, dirk knife or dirk, dagger
or any other dangerous or deadly weapon. This section does not apply
to the officers or members of the Police Department, nor to any sheriff
or deputy sheriff or constable of this state, nor to any United States
Marshal.
It shall be unlawful to discharge any firearm, bow and arrow
or air gun in the Village or so that the bullet, arrow, missile or
projectile therefrom enters the Village without written permission
from the Mayor, provided that this section shall not be construed
to prohibit any officer of the law to discharge a firearm in the performance
of his duty; nor to any citizen to discharge a firearm when lawfully
defending his personal property.
No person shall, upon any Village street, fly any kite or play
any game of ball or engage in any amusement or practice having a tendency
to injure or annoy any person passing in the streets or on the sidewalks.
(A) Nitroglycerine; dynamite, etc. No person shall have, keep, possess,
or store at or in any place within the Village, any nitroglycerine,
dynamite or giant powder, or any form or combination of any of them.
(B) Blasting powder, etc. No person shall keep, possess or store any
gun or blasting powder or any gun or explosive cotton at or in any
one place in the Village in any quantity exceeding five pounds. (See
65 ILCS 5/11-8-4.)
No person in the Village shall throw or cast any rock or stone
or any other missile upon or at any building, tree, or other public
or private property, or at any person in any street, avenue, alley
or public place.
No person in the Village shall deface, destroy, or in any way,
injure any public property, or any other apparatus of the Village.
No person in the Village shall pursue the calling of a fortune-teller
or practice fortune-telling, soothsaying, or the like and receive
payment in any manner therefor.
It shall be unlawful for any person to abandon or discard in
any place accessible to children any refrigerator, icebox or ice chest,
of a capacity of 1 1/2 cubic feet or more, which has an attached
lid or door which may be opened or fastened shut by means of an attached
latch. The owner, lessee, or manager of such place, who knowingly
permits such abandoned or discarded refrigerator, icebox or ice chest
to remain there in such condition, shall be guilty of violating this
Code. (See 720 ILCS 505/1.)
[Amended 3-27-2017 by Ord. No. 17-01]
It shall be illegal for any person to engage in the Halloween
practice commonly called "trick or treat" by calling at the homes
or dwelling places within the Village, either masked or unmasked,
except on October 31 between the hours of 5:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.
(A) Established. It shall be unlawful for a person less than 17 years
of age to be present at or upon any public assembly, building, place,
street or highway at the following times, unless accompanied and supervised
by a parent, legal guardian or other responsible companion at least
18 years of age, approved by a parent or legal guardian, or unless
engaged in a business or occupation which the laws of this state authorize
a person less than 17 years of age to perform:
(1)
Between 11:00 p.m. on Sunday to Thursday, inclusive and 6:00
a.m. on the following day.
(2)
Between 12:00 midnight on Friday and Saturday, inclusive and
6:00 a.m. on the following day.
(B) Responsibility of parents and guardians. It shall be unlawful for
a parent, legal guardian or other person to knowingly permit a person
in his custody or control to violate Subsection (A) of this section.
(See 65 ILCS 5/11-1-5.)
It shall be unlawful for any person to collect, obtain, possess
or pick up any recyclable item(s) from any receptacle or collection
point where service is provided by an authorized waste hauler licensed
by the municipality or from any specified recycling center within
the Village limits unless said person is acting as an agent for the
Village or acting as an agent for a waste hauler licensed by the Village.