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MUNICIPAL CODE OF CHICAGO
TITLE 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
TITLE 2 CITY GOVERNMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
TITLE 3 REVENUE AND FINANCE
TITLE 4 BUSINESSES, OCCUPATIONS AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
TITLE 5 HOUSING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
TITLE 6 HUMAN RIGHTS*
TITLE 7 HEALTH AND SAFETY
TITLE 8 OFFENSES AFFECTING PUBLIC PEACE, MORALS AND WELFARE
TITLE 9 VEHICLES, TRAFFIC AND RAIL TRANSPORTATION
TITLE 10 STREETS, PUBLIC WAYS, PARKS, AIRPORTS AND HARBORS
TITLE 11 UTILITIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
TITLE 12 RESERVED
TITLE 13 BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION
TITLE 14 RESERVED*
TITLE 14A ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS OF THE CHICAGO CONSTRUCTION CODES*
TITLE 14B BUILDING CODE*
TITLE 14C CONVEYANCE DEVICE CODE*
TITLE 14E ELECTRICAL CODE*
TITLE 14F FIRE PREVENTION CODE*
TITLE 14G FUEL GAS CODE*
TITLE 14M MECHANICAL CODE*
TITLE 14N 2022 ENERGY TRANSFORMATION CODE*
TITLE 14P PLUMBING CODE*
TITLE 14R BUILDING REHABILITATION CODE*
TITLE 14X MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR EXISTING BUILDINGS*
TITLE 15 FIRE PREVENTION
TITLE 16 LAND USE
TITLE 17 CHICAGO ZONING ORDINANCE
TITLE 18 BUILDING INFRASTRUCTURE
APPENDIX TO THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF CHICAGO (RESERVED)*
TABLES
Chicago Zoning Ordinance and Land Use Ordinance
CHAPTER 8-8
PUBLIC MORALS
8-8-010   House of ill-fame or assignation.
8-8-020   Directing persons to houses of ill-fame.
8-8-030   Prostitution or lewdness in conveyances.
8-8-040   Revocation of license.
8-8-050   Reserved.
8-8-060   Solicitation for prostitution.
8-8-070   Reserved.
8-8-080   Indecent exposure or dress.
8-8-090   Indecent publications and exhibitions.
8-8-100   Sale of literature represented as immoral.
8-8-110   Material harmful to minors unlawful.
8-8-120   Violation – Penalty for Section 8-8-110.
8-8-130   Reserved.
8-8-140   Reserved.
8-8-150   Reserved.
8-8-160   Selling nontransferable railroad tickets.
8-8-170   Selling or giving away transfers.
8-8-180   Manipulating telephone coin boxes.
8-8-190   Violation – Penalty.
8-8-010 House of ill-fame or assignation.
   Every house of ill-fame or house of assignation where men and women resort for the purpose of fornication, prostitution, or lewdness is hereby declared to be a nuisance.
   No person shall keep or maintain a house of ill- fame or assignation, or a place for the practice of fornication, prostitution, or lewdness. Each 24 hours that such house or place shall be kept or maintained for such purpose shall constitute a separate and distinct offense.
   No person shall patronize, frequent, be found in, or be an inmate of any such house or place used for any of the purposes set forth in this section.
   No person shall lease to another any house, room, or other premises, in whole or in part, for any of the uses or purposes set forth in this section or knowingly permit the same to be used or occupied for such purposes.
(Prior code § 192-1)
8-8-020 Directing persons to houses of ill-fame.
   No person knowingly shall direct, take, transport, or offer to direct, take, or transport, any person for immoral purposes to any other person, or assist any person by any means to seek or to find any prostitute or other person engaged in immoral practices, or any brothel, bawdy house, or any other place of ill-fame.
   Any person that shall violate the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than $100.00 nor more than $400.00 for each offense.
(Prior code § 192-2; Amend Coun. J. 9-4-02, p. 92888, § 1)
8-8-030 Prostitution or lewdness in conveyances.
   No person shall knowingly receive any person for purposes of lewdness, assignation, or prostitution into or upon any vehicle or other conveyance or permit any person to remain for any of the said purposes in or upon any such vehicle or other conveyance.
   Any person that shall violate the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than $100.00 nor more than $400.00 for each offense.
(Prior code § 192-3; Amend Coun. J. 9-4-02, p. 92888, § 1)
8-8-040 Revocation of license.
   The license of any such person or employees thereof directly involved in the violation of Sections 8-8-020 or 8-8-030 may be revoked, and also the license of the vehicle or conveyance used may be revoked in the discretion of the mayor. No license so revoked hereunder shall be reinstated until the lapse of a period of one year after such revocation.
(Prior code § 192-4)
8-8-050 Reserved.
Editor’s note – Coun. J. 6-27-18, p. 80207, § 2, repealed § 8-8-050, which pertained to soliciting – penalty.
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