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There is hereby created within the city treasury a special fund to be known as the “liquid waste management fund” constituted from the fees and fines collected pursuant to Section 11-4-140. The fund is to be utilized for the regulation of liquid waste, including monitoring, planning, inspecting, providing technical assistance, and enforcing rules, regulations and ordinances with respect to the management, transportation, disposal, recycling and characterization of liquid waste. This includes hazardous materials incidents, leaking underground storage tanks and liquid waste handling facilities.
(Prior code § 17-1.12.2; Amend Coun. J. 12-18-86, p. 38637; Amend Coun. J. 9-1-99, p. 10082, § 2)
All fees, fines or penalties prescribed for the issuance of permits, licenses or certificates or for the inspection of premises or equipment, or for the regulation of liquid waste and construction or demolition debris, under any provision of this chapter, shall be paid to the commissioner, or to the comptroller, who shall render to the person making such payment a receipt stating the amount and purpose for which such fee or penalty has been paid. All fees and penalties thus received shall be deposited with the city comptroller for the corporate fund; provided however, that the fees and fines collected pursuant to Section 11-4-140 shall be deposited in the special fund known as the “liquid waste management fund”, as described in Section 11-4-150; and that the fees and fines collected pursuant to Section 11-4-1961 shall be deposited in the special fund known as the “construction/demolition debris management fund”, as described in Section 11-4-1961.
(Prior code § 17-1.16; Amend Coun. J. 12-18-86, p. 38637; Amend Coun. J. 9-1-99, p. 10082, § 3; Amend Coun. J. 12-12-07, p. 17167, § 5; Amend Coun. J. 11-16-11, p. 13798, Art. I, § 9)
All fees, fines or penalties prescribed for payment required under any provision of this chapter shall constitute a debt due the city. No civil judgment, or any act by the corporation counsel, the commissioner, or the violator, shall bar or prevent a criminal prosecution for each and every violation of this chapter as provided.
(Prior code § 17-1.17; Amend Coun. J. 9-1-99, p. 10082, § 4)
Any person found guilty of violating, disobeying, omitting, neglecting, refusing to comply with or resisting or opposing the enforcement of any of the provisions of this chapter, except when otherwise specifically provided, upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than $100.00 nor more than $300.00 for the first offense, and not less than $300.00 nor more than $500.00 for the second and each subsequent offense, in any 180-day period. Repeated offenses in excess of three within any 180-day period may also be punishable as a misdemeanor by incarceration in the county jail for a term not to exceed six months under the procedure set forth in Section 1-2-1.1 of the Illinois Municipal Code (Illinois Revised Statutes 1969, Chapter 25, paragraph 1-2-1.1) and under the provisions of the Illinois Code of Criminal Procedure (Illinois Statute 1969, Chapter 38, paragraph 100-1, et seq.) in a separate proceeding. A separate and distinct offense shall be regarded as committed each day on which such person shall continue or permit any such violation or failure to comply is permitted to exist after notification thereof. In addition to such fines and penalties, the permit, or certificate of operation of such person, or of the offending property may be suspended or revoked as hereinbefore provided.
(Prior code § 17-1.20; Amend Coun. J. 11-8-12, p. 38872, § 195)
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