For the purpose of this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
ACTS OF VANDALISM AND SIMILAR OFFENSES
Includes any of the following acts:
A. 
Maliciously, recklessly, negligently or knowingly damaging or destroying or defacing any property within the City, whether such property is owned by the state, county, or governmental body or owned by any private person, firm, partnership or association; or
B. 
Maliciously, recklessly, negligently or knowingly, by means of fire or explosive device, damaging, debasing or destroying any property of another person; or
C. 
Maliciously, recklessly, negligently or knowingly starting a fire on land of another person without his consent; or
D. 
Maliciously, recklessly or knowingly depositing on the land or in the building of another person, without his consent, any stink bomb or any offensive-smelling compound and thereby interfering with the use and occupancy by another of the land or building; or
E. 
Maliciously, recklessly or knowingly, and without authority, entering into or obtaining control over any building, house trailer, motor vehicle, aircraft or watercraft, or any part thereof, of another person without his consent.
LEGAL GUARDIAN
Includes a foster parent, a person appointed guardian of a person or given custody of a minor by a Circuit Court of this state, but does not include a person appointed guardian only to the estate of a minor, or appointed guardian, or given custody of a minor under the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (705 ILCS 405/1-1 et seq.).
MINOR
Includes a person who is above the age of 11 years but not yet 19 years of age.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
PARENT
Includes the lawful father and mother of a minor child, whether by birth or adoption.
PROPERTY
Includes any real estate, including improvements thereon, and tangible personal property.
The parent or legal guardian of an unemancipated minor residing with such parent or legal guardian shall be presumed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, to have failed to exercise proper parental responsibility and said minor shall be deemed to have committed the acts described above with the knowledge and permission of the parent or guardian, in violation of this article, upon the occurrence of the events described in Subsections A, B and C below:
A. 
An unemancipated minor residing with said parent or legal guardian shall either be adjudicated to be in violation of any ordinance, law or statute prohibiting willful and malicious acts causing injury to a person or property, or shall have incurred nonjudicial sanctions from another official agency resulting from an admission of guilt of a violation of any ordinance, law or statute prohibiting willful and malicious acts causing injury to a person or property; and
B. 
Said parent or legal guardian shall have received a written notice thereof, either by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, or by personal service, with a certificate of personal service returned from the Police Department of the City, following said adjudication or nonjudicial sanctions; and
C. 
If, at any time within one year following receipt of the notice set forth in Subsection B above, said minor is either adjudicated to be in violation of any ordinance, law or statute as described in Subsection A above, or shall have incurred nonjudicial sanctions from another official agency resulting from an admission of guilt of violation of any ordinance, law or statute as described in Subsection A above.