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PROPOSED SUBSTITUTE TO FILE ID 15-4287
Law Enforcement Committee 7/29/2015
Distributed on 7/28/2015
Sponsored by: STANLEY MOORE, County Commissioner
PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT
ORDINANCE AMENDMENT REGARDING CURFEW FOR UNDERAGE PERSONS
BE IT ORDAINED, by the Cook County Board of Commissioners that Chapter 58, Offenses and Miscellaneous Provisions, Sec. 58-1 is hereby amended as follows:
Sec. 58-1. - Curfew for underage persons.
(a) Short title. This section shall be known and may be cited as the Children's Curfew Ordinance.
(b) Definitions. The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this section, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this subsection, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Child means any person, male or female who has not reached their 17th birthday is considered, for purposes of this section only, to be a child or children as the case may be.
County means any unincorporated area or territory of Cook County, Illinois, and does not include any incorporated city, village, or town lying in whole or in part within the territory of Cook County, Illinois.
Enforcement Area means the County and any area of primary local police enforcement by the Cook County Sheriff's Office as defined by an intergovernmental agreement between the County and the local municipality, which authorizes the Sheriff to provide primary local police enforcement and expressly references the local municipality's agreement to comply with County Ordinances, which many in any manner relate to the provision of primary local police enforcement by the Cook County Sheriff's Office.
(c) Curfew hours. It shall be unlawful for any child as defined in Subsection (b) of this section to be upon any public place in the County Enforcement Area between the hours of 11:30 p.m. Friday and 6:00 a.m. Saturday, or between the hours of 11:30 p.m. Saturday and 6:00 a.m. Sunday, or between the hours of 10:30 p.m. ...
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