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PROPOSED SUBSTITUTE TO FILE ID 15-4288
Law Enforcement Committee 7/29/2015
Distributed on 7/28/2015
Sponsored by: STANLEY MOORE, County Commissioner
PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT
DRINKING ON THE PUBLIC WAY
BE IT ORDAINED, by the Cook County Board of Commissioners that Chapter 58, Offenses and Miscellaneous Provisions, Sec. 58-171 is hereby amended as follows:
Sec. 58-171. - Drinking on the public way.
(a) 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.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to drink any alcoholic liquor as defined by law on any public way under the jurisdiction of the County within the Enforcement Area. This section shall not apply to portions of the public way occupied by a sidewalk cafe, which is properly licensed to sell alcoholic liquor.
(c) Any person violating any provision of this section shall be fined $75.00.
Effective date: This ordinanc...
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