(A) Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ACTS OF VANDALISM AND SIMILAR OFFENSES. Include any of the following acts:
(a) Maliciously, recklessly, negligently, or knowingly damaging or destroying or defacing any property within the city, whether such property is owned by the state, county, or governmental body or owned by any private person, firm, partnership, or association;
(b) Maliciously, recklessly, or knowingly, by means of fire or explosive device, damaging, debasing, or destroying any property of another person;
(c) Maliciously, recklessly, negligently, or knowingly starting a fire on land of another person without his or her consent;
(d) Maliciously, recklessly, or knowingly depositing on land or in the building of another person, without his or her consent, any stink bomb or any offensive smelling compound and thereby interfering with the use and occupancy by another of the land or building; or
(e) Maliciously, recklessly, or knowingly and without authority entering into or obtaining control over any building, house trailer, motor vehicle, aircraft, or watercraft or any part thereof of another person without his or her consent.
LEGAL GUARDIAN. Includes a foster parent, a person appointed guardian of a person or given custody of a minor by a Circuit Court of this state, but does not include a person appointed guardian only to the estate of a minor or appointed guardian or given custody of a minor under the State Juvenile Court Act.
MINOR. A person who is above the age of seven years but not yet 18 years of age.
PARENT. The lawful father and mother of a minor child, whether by birth or adoption.
PROPERTY. Any real estate including improvements thereon and tangible personal property.
(Prior Code, § 27-7-1)
(B) Parents and guardians responsible for acts. The parent or legal guardian of an unemancipated minor residing with such parent or legal guardian shall be presumed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, to have failed to exercise proper parental responsibility, and said minor shall be deemed to have committed the acts described herein with the knowledge and permission of the parent or guardian in violation of this chapter upon the occurrence of the events described in divisions (B)(1) through (B)(3) below.
(1) An unemancipated minor residing with said parent or legal guardian shall either be adjudicated to be in violation of any ordinance, law, or statute prohibiting willful and malicious acts causing injury to a person or property or shall have incurred non-judicial sanctions from another official agency resulting from an admission of guilt of a violation of any ordinance, law, or statute prohibiting willful and malicious acts causing injury to a person or property.
(2) Said parent or legal guardian shall have received a written notice thereof, either by certified mail (return receipt requested) or by personal service (with a certificate of personal service returned from the city) following said adjudication or non-judicial sanctions.
(3) If, at any time within one year following receipt of notice set forth in division (B)(2) above, said minor is either adjudicated to be in violation of any ordinance, law, or statute, as described in division (B)(1) above, or shall have incurred non-judicial sanctions from another official agency resulting from an admission of guilt of violation of any ordinance, law, or statute, as described in division (B)(1) above.
(Prior Code, § 27-7-2)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see 740 ILCS 5/21-1.2 et seq., 740 ILCS 115/1 et seq., and 740 ILCS 115/4