(A) Local Liquor Control Commissioner. The Mayor shall be the Local Liquor Commissioner. He or she shall receive such salary as determined by the City Council. He or she may make such rules and regulations to govern the conduct of licensees as are consistent with this chapter and state law.
(B) Powers of Local Liquor Commissioner. The Local Liquor Commissioner shall have the following powers, functions and duties with respect to licenses, other than licenses to manufacturers, importing distributors, distributors, foreign importers, non-resident dealers, non-beverage users, brokers, railroads, airplanes and boats:
(1) To grant and or suspend for not more than 30 days or revoke for cause all local licenses issued to persons for premises within his or her jurisdiction;
(2) To enter or to authorize any law enforcement officer to enter at any time upon any premises licensed hereunder to determine whether any of the provisions of this chapter or the State Liquor Control Act, 235 ILCS 5, or any rules or regulations adopted by him or her or by the State Commission have been or are being violated, and at such time to examine said premises of said licensee in connection therewith;
(3) To notify the Secretary of State where a club incorporated under the General Not for Profit Corporation Act of 1986, 805 ILCS 105, or a foreign corporation functioning as a club in the state under a certificate of authority issued under the Act has violated the Act by selling or offering for sale at retail alcoholic liquors without a retailer’s license;
(4) To receive complaint from any citizen within his or her jurisdiction that any of the provisions of the Act, or any rules or regulations adopted pursuant hereto, have been or are being violated and to act upon such complaints, as provided;
(5) To receive local license fees and pay the same forthwith to the City Treasurer as the case may be;
(6) To levy fines; and
(7) To appoint a person or persons to assist him or her in the exercise of the powers and the performance of duties herein provided for such Local Liquor Control Commissioner.
(Prior Code, § 111.03) (Ord. 99-287, passed 12-14-1999)
Statutory reference:
Local Liquor Control Commissioners, see 235 ILCS 5/4-1 et seq.