2005 Illinois 65 ILCS 5/      Illinois Municipal Code. Division 5 - Public Order Regulations


      (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 5 heading)
DIVISION 5. PUBLIC ORDER REGULATIONS

    (65 ILCS 5/11‑5‑1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11‑5‑1)
    Sec. 11‑5‑1. The corporate authorities of each municipality may suppress bawdy or disorderly houses and also houses of ill‑fame or assignation, within the limits of the municipality and within 3 miles of the outer boundaries of the municipality. The corporate authorities may suppress gaming, gambling houses, lotteries, and all fraudulent devices or practices for the purpose of obtaining money or property and may prohibit the sale or exhibition of obscene or immoral publications, prints, pictures, or illustrations.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

    (65 ILCS 5/11‑5‑1.5)
    Sec. 11‑5‑1.5. Adult entertainment facility. It is prohibited within a municipality to locate an adult entertainment facility within 1,000 feet of the property boundaries of any school, day care center, cemetery, public park, forest preserve, public housing, and place of religious worship.
    For the purposes of this Section, "adult entertainment facility" means (i) a striptease club or pornographic movie theatre whose business is the commercial sale, dissemination, or distribution of sexually explicit material, shows, or other exhibitions or (ii) an adult bookstore or adult video store whose primary business is the commercial sale, dissemination, or distribution of sexually explicit material, shows, or other exhibitions.
(Source: P.A. 90‑394, eff. 1‑1‑98; 90‑634, eff. 7‑24‑98.)

    (65 ILCS 5/11‑5‑2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11‑5‑2)
    Sec. 11‑5‑2. The corporate authorities of each municipality may prevent or suppress riots, routs, affrays, noises, disturbances, trespasses, and disorderly assemblies in any public or private place.
(Source: P. A. 76‑639.)

    (65 ILCS 5/11‑5‑3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11‑5‑3)
    Sec. 11‑5‑3. The corporate authorities of each municipality may prevent intoxication, fighting, quarreling, dog fights, cock fights, and all other disorderly conduct.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

    (65 ILCS 5/11‑5‑4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11‑5‑4)
    Sec. 11‑5‑4. The corporate authorities of each municipality may prevent vagrancy, begging, and prostitution.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

    (65 ILCS 5/11‑5‑5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11‑5‑5)
    Sec. 11‑5‑5. The corporate authorities of each municipality may prohibit the parking of motor vehicles on private property without the consent of the owner of the private property.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

    (65 ILCS 5/11‑5‑6) (from Ch. 24, par. 11‑5‑6)
    Sec. 11‑5‑6. The corporate authorities of each municipality may prohibit cruelty to animals.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

    (65 ILCS 5/11‑5‑7) (from Ch. 24, par. 11‑5‑7)
    Sec. 11‑5‑7. The corporate authorities of each municipality may license and regulate and establish standards for the operation of ambulances. The corporate authorities of each municipality may either contract for the operation of or operate ambulances as a municipal service and may make reasonable charges therefor and, in addition, may levy a tax for such purpose not to exceed .015% of the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, of all the taxable property in the municipality if the question of such tax has been submitted to the electors of the municipality and approved by a majority of those voting on the question. The corporate authorities of any municipality which has approved by referendum a tax of not to exceed .015% of the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, of all the taxable property in the municipality, may cause to be submitted to the electors of the municipality the question of increasing the said tax to not to exceed .25% of the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, of all the taxable property in the municipality. The corporate authorities of any municipality which has not approved by referendum a tax of not to exceed .015% of the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, of all the taxable property in the municipality, may cause to be submitted to the electors of the municipality the question of adopting a tax at a rate not to exceed .25% of the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, of all taxable property in the municipality. Such question shall be certified by the clerk and submitted by the proper election authority at an election in accordance with the general election law. The tax authorized in this Section shall be in addition to and in excess of the amount authorized to be levied for general purposes by Section 8‑3‑1 of this Code.
    This amendatory Act of 1971 does not apply to any municipality which is a home rule unit.
    This amendatory Act of 1972 does not apply to any municipality which is a home rule unit.
(Source: P.A. 82‑783.)

    (65 ILCS 5/11‑5‑7.1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11‑5‑7.1)
    Sec. 11‑5‑7.1. The corporate authorities of any municipality which: (1) has a population between 10,000 and 45,000 and lies within 2 counties with respective populations between 400,000 and 575,000 and between 900,000 and 1,000,000; or (2) has a population between 9,000 and 25,000 and lies within a single county with a population between 400,000 and 575,000, may levy an annual tax at a rate not exceeding .095% of the value, as equalized and assessed by the Department of Revenue, of all taxable property therein, for the purpose of providing ambulance services pursuant to an intergovernmental cooperation agreement with any other unit of local government. However, no tax may be levied pursuant to this Section with respect to any property which is subject to any other tax levied for the purpose of providing ambulance services.
(Source: P.A. 92‑662, eff. 7‑16‑02.)

    (65 ILCS 5/11‑5‑7.2)
    Sec. 11‑5‑7.2. Emergency medical services outside corporate limits. A municipality may choose to provide emergency medical services on property outside its corporate limits. The corporate authorities of each municipality may fix, charge, and collect emergency medical service fees not exceeding the actual cost of the service for all emergency medical services rendered by the municipality against persons, businesses, and other entities that are not residents of the municipality. An additional charge may be levied to reimburse the municipality for extraordinary expenses of materials used in rendering the services. Nothing in this Section shall impact any agreement entered into by a municipality and persons, businesses, and other entities that are not residents of the municipality. Nothing in this Section shall require a municipality to supply any emergency medical services on property located outside the corporate limits of the municipality.
(Source: P.A. 93‑304, eff. 7‑23‑03.)

    (65 ILCS 5/11‑5‑8) (from Ch. 24, par. 11‑5‑8)
    Sec. 11‑5‑8.
    The corporate authorities of each municipality may regulate mobile homes, house trailers or similar portable structures used or so constructed as to permit their being used as a dwelling place for one or more persons. The corporate authorities may also locate or prohibit such structures which are not within the confines of a mobile home park as authorized by law. This amendatory Act of 1971 does not apply to any municipality which is a Home Rule unit.
(Source: P. A. 77‑1849.)

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