No person shall, by violent conduct, disturb any Sheriff’s deputy or 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 County 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 constitute a crime unless the language is directed at the officer and provokes a breach of the peace.
No person in the County shall falsely represent himself to be an officer of the County or shall, without being duly authorized by the County, exercise or attempt to exercise any of the duties, functions or powers of the County deputy, or hinder, obstruct, resist or otherwise interfere with any County officer in the discharge of the duties of his office. (See 720 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.
A person commits mob action when he or she engages in any of the following:
(A)
The knowing or reckless use of force or violence disturbing the public peace by two (2) or more persons acting together and without authority of law;
(B)
The knowing assembly of two (2) or more persons with the intent to commit or facilitate the commission of a felony or misdemeanor; or
(C)
The knowing assembly of two (2) or more persons, without authority of law, for the purpose of doing violence to the person or property of anyone 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)
A person commits looting when he or she knowingly without authority of law or the owner enters any home or dwelling or upon any premises of another, or enters any commercial, mercantile, business, or industrial building, plant, or establishment, in which normal security of property is not present by virtue of a hurricane, fire, or vis major of any kind or by virtue of a riot, mob, or other human agency, and obtains or exerts control over property of the owner. (See 720 ILCS 5/25-4)
No person shall disturb the peace of any individual or private family, or of any lawful congregation within the County by any noise or amusement, or by vulgar or profane language, or by any disorderly or unreasonable conduct.
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.
(A)
No person under twenty-one (21) 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 person under twenty-one (21) years of age.
(B)
No person under sixteen (16) years of age may sell any tobacco product at a retail establishment selling tobacco products. This subsection does not apply to a sales clerk in a family-owned business which can prove that the sales clerk is in fact a son or daughter of the owner.
(C)
No person under twenty-one (21) years of age in the furtherance or facilitation of obtaining any tobacco product shall display or use a false or forged identification card or transfer, alter, or deface an identification card.
(D)
No person under twenty-one (21) years of age shall possess any cigar, cigarette, smokeless tobacco, or tobacco in any of its forms.
(E)
A person shall not distribute without charge samples of any tobacco product to any other person, regardless of age:
(1)
Within a retail establishment selling tobacco products, unless the retailer has verified the purchaser’s age with a government issued identification;
(2)
From a lunch wagon; or
(3)
On a public way as a promotion or advertisement of a tobacco manufacturer or tobacco product.
This subsection (E) does not apply to the distribution of a tobacco product sample in any adult-only facility.
(F)
Tobacco products listed in this Section may be sold through a vending machine only if such tobacco products are not placed together with any non-tobacco product, other than matches, in the vending machine and the vending machine is in any of the following locations:
(1)
Places to which persons under twenty-one (21) years of age are not permitted access.
(2)
Places where alcoholic beverages are sold and consumed on the premises and vending machine operation is under the direct supervision of the owner or manager.
(3)
Places where the vending machine can only be operated by the owner or an employee over age twenty-one (21) either directly or through a remote control device if the device is inaccessible to all customers.
(G)
The sale or distribution by any person of a tobacco product in this Section, including but not limited to a single or loose cigarette, that is not contained within a sealed container, pack, or package as provided by the manufacturer, which container, pack, or package bears the health warning required by federal law, is prohibited.
(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 twenty-one (21). No person shall sell any smokeless tobacco product to any person under the age of twenty-one (21).
(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 curb line 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.
(C)
It shall be unlawful to urinate on public ways.
(D)
It shall be unlawful to urinate on private property when such conduct could be seen from a public way or from private property open to the public.
(E)
It shall be unlawful to throw or deposit any glass, cans, paper objects, bottles, tacks, nails or other refuse material on the streets or roads of the county public ways or on the property abutting said streets or public ways.
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 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 County, 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 County or the private grounds of any of the inhabitants thereof, or being drunk as aforesaid, shall disturb the peace, order and quiet of the County, 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.
No person shall beg or solicit alms within the County without having obtained permission in writing from the Mayor.
No person shall, within the County, carry or wear under his clothes, or concealed about his person, any pistol or handgun, without being the holder of an Illinois Concealed Carry License. Additionally, no person, shall within the County, carry or wear under his clothes or conceal about his person any sling-shot, cross knuckles, knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, 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. (See 430 ILCS 66/1 et seq.)
It shall be unlawful to discharge any firearm, bow and arrow or air gun in the County or so that the bullet, arrow, missile or projectile therefrom enters the County 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 prevent any citizen from discharging a firearm when lawfully defending his person or property; nor to prevent the discharge of bow and arrow by students upon school grounds while under the direct and immediate supervision of teachers or other school supervisory personnel.
No person shall, upon any County street or road, 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 County, 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 County in any quantity exceeding five (5) pounds.
No person in the County 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 County shall deface, destroy, or in any way, injure any public property, or any other apparatus of the County.
No person in the County 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 one and one-half (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)
It shall be illegal for any person to engage in Halloween practice, commonly called “Trick or Treat”, by calling at the homes or dwelling places within the County, either masked or unmasked, except on a day designated by the County Board and no later than 8:00 P.M.
It shall be unlawful for any person to collect, obtain, possess or pickup any recyclable item(s) from any receptacle or collection point where service is provided by an authorized waste hauler licensed by the County or from any specified recycling center within the County limits unless said person is acting as an agent for the County or acting as an agent for a waste hauler licensed by the County.
Pursuant to the police powers it shall be unlawful for any person occupying or driving a motor vehicle, whether moving or not, to shoot, throw, cast, launch or drop any object, liquid or substance at any person, animal or structure, wherein the possibility of harm, injury or damage may occur as a result of these actions.
The driver and/or all passengers shall be, upon conviction, fined in accordance with the provisions of the County Code and shall be liable for all damage, injury or harm caused by the activity. (See Section 27-3-2)
No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited any snow and ice on or against a fire hydrant or on any sidewalk, roadway, or loading or unloading areas of a public transportation system, except that snow and ice may be windrowed on curbs incident to the cleaning of sidewalks in business districts.
Any person, corporation or partnership which either owns, or maintains, or uses, or abandons any open well, cesspool, cistern, quarry, recharging basin, catch basin, sump, excavation for the erection of any building structure or excavation created by the razing or removal of any building structure without covering or surrounding such installation with protective fencing is guilty of a violation of Section 1-1-20 of this Code. The provisions of this Act shall not apply during the course of repair, construction, removal or filling of any of the structures or conditions herein described while any worker is present at the location thereof either performing services thereon or as a watchman to guard such location. (See 720 ILCS 605/1)
(A)
Definitions. Whenever used in this Section.
(1) CURFEW HOURS
Means:
(2) EMERGENCY
Means an unforeseen combination of circumstances or the resulting state that calls for immediate action. The term includes, but is not limited to, a fire, a natural disaster, an automobile accident, or any situation requiring immediate action to prevent serious bodily injury or loss of life.
(3) ESTABLISHMENT
Means any privately-owned place of business operated for a profit to which the public is invited, including but not limited to, any place of amusement or entertainment.
(6) OPERATOR
Means any individual, firm, association, partnership, or corporation operating, managing, or conducting any establishment. The term includes the members or partners of an association or partnership and the officers of a corporation.
(8) PUBLIC PLACE
Means any place to which the public or a substantial group of the public has access and includes, but is not limited to, streets, highways, and the common areas of schools, hospitals, apartment houses, office buildings, transport facilities and shops.
(10) SERIOUS BODILY INJURY
Means bodily injury that creates a substantial risk of death or that causes death, serious permanent disfigurement or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ.
(B)
Offenses.
(1)
A minor commits an offense if he remains in any public place or on the premises of any establishment within the County during curfew hours.
(2)
A parent or guardian of a minor commits an offense if he knowingly permits, or by insufficient control allows, the minor to remain in any public place or on the premises of any establishment within the County during curfew hours.
(3)
The owner, operator or any employee of an establishment commits an offense if he knowingly allows a minor to remain upon the premises of the establishment during curfew hours.
(C)
Defenses.
(1)
It is a defense to prosecution under subsection (B) that the minor was:
(a)
Accompanied by the minor’s parent or guardian;
(b)
On an errand at the direction of the minor’s parent or guardian, without any detour or stop;
(c)
In a motor vehicle involved in interstate travel;
(d)
Engaged in an employment activity, or going to or returning home from an employment activity, without any detour or stop;
(e)
Involved in an emergency;
(f)
On the sidewalk abutting the minor’s residence or abutting the residence of a next-door neighbor if the neighbor did not complain to the police department about the minor’s presence;
(g)
Attending an official school, religious, or other recreational activity supervised by adults and sponsored by the County, a civil organization, or another similar entity that takes responsibility for the minor, or going to or returning home from, without any detour or stop, an official school, religious, or other recreational activity supervised by adults and sponsored by the County, a civic organization or another similar entity that takes responsibility for the minor;
(h)
Exercising First Amendment rights protected by the United States Constitution, such as the free exercise of religion, freedom of speech, and the right of assembly; or
(i)
Married or had been married or is an emancipated minor under the Emancipation or Mature Minors Act, as amended.
(D)
Enforcement. Before taking any enforcement action under this Section, a police officer shall ask the apparent offender’s age and reason for being in the public place. The officer shall not issue a citation or make an arrest under this Section unless the officer reasonably believes that an offense has occurred and that, based on any response and other circumstances, no defense in subsection (C) is present. (See 720 ILCS 555/1)
It shall be unlawful for a person to violate any of the following provisions of this Section:
(A)
Engaging in any loud protest of singing, chanting, whistling or yelling with, or without, noise amplification including but not limited to bullhorns, auto horns and microphones within three hundred (300) feet of any entrance of a facility being used for a funeral or memorial service at any time during the period starting thirty (30) minutes before any funeral or memorial service is scheduled to begin and ending thirty (30) minutes after the funeral or memorial service terminates; or
(B)
Displaying any visual images that convey fighting words, actual or veiled threats against any other person within three hundred (300) feet of any entrance of a facility being used for a funeral or memorial service at any time during the period starting thirty (30) minutes before any funeral or memorial service is scheduled to begin and ending thirty (30) minutes after the funeral or memorial service terminates; or
(C)
Blocking access to any facility being used for a funeral or memorial service at any time during the period starting thirty (30) minutes before any funeral or memorial service is scheduled to begin and ending thirty (30) minutes after the funeral or memorial service terminates; or
(D)
Ending in a directed protest march or picket at any public location within three hundred (300) feet of any entrance of a facility being used for a funeral or memorial service at any time during the period starting thirty (30) minutes before any funeral or memorial service is scheduled to begin and ending thirty (30) minutes after the funeral or memorial service terminates. (See 720 ILCS 5/26-6)
(A)
Prohibited; enumeration. The creating of any unreasonably loud, disturbing and unnecessary noise within the County limits is prohibited. Noise of such character, intensity or duration as to be detrimental to the life or health of any individual or in disturbance of the public peace and welfare is prohibited. The following, among others, are declared to be loud, disturbing and unnecessary noises and noises in violation of this Section, but this enumeration shall not be deemed to be exclusive:
(1)
Blowing horns. The sounding of any horn or signal device on any automobile, motorcycle or bus, while not in motion, except as a danger signal if another vehicle is approaching apparently out of control or if in motion only as a danger signal after or as brakes are being applied and deceleration of the vehicle is intended; the creation by means of any such device of any unreasonably loud or harsh sound; and the sounding of such device for an unnecessary and unreasonable period of time.
(2)
Radios, etc. The playing of any radio, music player such as a boom box, tape cassette, disc player or television, audio system or musical instrument or live band in such a manner or with such volume, between the hours of 10:00 P.M. and 7:00 A.M. Sunday through Thursday and 11:00 P.M. and 7:00 A.M. Friday and Saturday in such a manner as to be plainly audible beyond the boundaries of the premises upon which such equipment is operated or used, shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of this Section.
It is unlawful for a person to knowingly make a false report of a theft, destruction, damage or conversion of any property to a law enforcement agency or other governmental agency with the intent to defraud an insurer. (See 720 ILCS 5/26-1.1)
(A)
Definitions. As used in this Section:
(1) ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION
Means any transfer of signs, signals, writings, images, sounds, data or intelligence of any nature transmitted in whole or in part by a wire, radio, electromagnetic, photoelectric or photo-optical system. “Electronic communication” includes transmissions through an electronic device including, but not limited to, a telephone, cellular phone, computer, or pager, which communication includes, but is not limited to, e-mail, instant message, text message, or voice mail.
(2) FAMILY OR HOUSEHOLD MEMBER
Includes spouses, former spouses, parents, children, stepchildren and other persons related by blood or by present or prior marriage, persons who share or formerly shared a common dwelling, persons who have or allegedly share a blood relationship through a child, persons who have or have had a dating or engagement relationship, and persons with disabilities and their personal assistants. For purposes of this Article, neither a casual acquaintanceship nor ordinary fraternization between two (2) individuals in business or social contexts shall be deemed to constitute a dating relationship.
(3) HARASS or HARASSING
Means knowing conduct which is not necessary to accomplish a purpose that is reasonable under the circumstances, that would cause a reasonable person emotional distress and does cause emotional distress to another.
(B)
Transmission of obscene messages.
(1)
A person commits transmission of obscene messages when he or she sends messages or uses language or terms which are obscene, lewd or immoral with the intent to offend by means of or while using a telephone or telegraph facilities, equipment or sires of any person, firm or corporation engaged in the transmission of news or messages between states or within the State of Illinois.
(2)
The trier of fact may infer intent to offend from the use of language or terms which are obscene, lewd or immoral.
(C)
Harassment by telephone.
(1)
A person commits harassment by telephone when he or she uses telephone communication for any of the following purposes:
(a)
Making any comment, request, suggestion or proposition which is obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent with an intent to offend;
(b)
Making a telephone call, whether or not conversation ensues, with intent to abuse, threaten or harass any person at the called number;
(c)
Making or causing the telephone of another repeatedly to ring, with intent to harass any person at the called number;
(d)
Making repeated telephone calls, during which conversation ensues, solely to harass any person at the called number;
(e)
Making a telephone call or knowingly inducing a person to make a telephone call for the purpose of harassing another person who is under thirteen (13) years of age, regardless of whether the person under thirteen (13) years of age consents to the harassment, if the defendant is at least sixteen (16) years of age at the time of the commission of the offense; or
(f)
Knowingly permitting any telephone under one’s control to be used for any of the purposes mentioned herein.
(2)
Every telephone directory published for distribution to members of the general public shall contain a notice setting forth a summary of the provisions of this Section. The notice shall be printed in type which is no smaller than any other type on the same page and shall be preceded by the word “WARNING”. All telephone companies in this State shall cooperate with law enforcement agencies in using their facilities and personnel to detect and prevent violations of this Article.
(See 720 ILCS 5/26.5)
(A)
Definitions. For the purpose of this Section, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them:
(1) TOBACCO PRODUCTS
Any substance containing tobacco leaf, including, but not limited to, cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, snuff, chewing tobacco or dipping tobacco, nicotine gels and dissolvable nicotine products or any electronic smoking device.
(2) ELECTRONIC SMOKING DEVICE
An electronic and/or battery-operated device, the use of which may resemble smoking, which can be used to deliver an inhaled dose of nicotine or other regulated substances. “Electronic smoking device” includes any such device, whether manufactured, distributed, marketed, or sold as an electronic cigarette, an electronic cigar, an electronic cigarillo, an electronic pipe, an electronic hookah, hookah pen, vape pens or any other product name or descriptor. An electronic smoking device excludes any product approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration as a nontobacco product used for medicinal purposes and is being marketed and sold solely for that approved purpose.
(B)
Purchases by minors prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person under the age of twenty-one (21) years to purchase tobacco products or electronic smoking devices, or to misrepresent their identity or age, or to use any false or altered identification for the purpose of purchasing tobacco products and electronic smoking devices.
(C)
Possession by minors prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person under the age of twenty-one (21) years to possess any tobacco products or electronic smoking devices, provided that the possession by a person under the age of twenty-one (21) years under the direct supervision of the parent or guardian of such person in the privacy of the parent’s or guardian’s home shall not be prohibited.
(D)
Use in County Parks. It shall be unlawful for any person to smoke tobacco products and electronic smoking devices in the County Parks.
It shall be unlawful for any person to erect or maintain any barbed wire or other such sharp, pointed fence below eight (8) feet in height an no electrically charged fence shall be erected or maintained, except in an agricultural or conservation zone district. (See Chapter 40 – Zoning)
It shall be unlawful for any person in the County to commit the offense of criminal housing management. A person commits the offense of criminal housing management when, having personal management or control of residential real estate, whether as legal or equitable owner, or as a managing agent or otherwise, he knowingly permits by his gross carelessness or neglect the physical condition or facilities of the residential real estate to become or remain so deteriorated that the health or safety of any person is endangered.