(A) Designation.
(1) The Village President is hereby designated as the Local Commissioner and shall be charged with the administration of the Liquor Control Act and of ordinances and resolutions relating to alcoholic liquor as may be enacted.
(2) The President may appoint a person or persons to assist in the exercise of the powers and the performance of the duties provided for in division (B) below.
(B) Powers, duties and functions. The Local Commissioner shall have all the powers, functions and duties with respect to local liquor licenses granted by the Liquor Control Act, including:
(1) To grant and/or suspend for not more than 30 days or revoke for cause all local licenses issued to persons or entities for premises within the Commissioner’s jurisdiction, and to impose fines as set forth herein;
(2) To enter or to authorize any law enforcement officer to enter, at any time, upon the premises licensed hereunder to determine whether any of the provisions of the Liquor Control Act or this chapter, or any rules or regulations adopted by the Local Commissioner or by the State Commission, have been or are being violated, and at such time to examine the premises of the licensee in connection therewith;
(3) To receive complaints from any citizen with the Local Commissioner’s jurisdiction that any of the provisions of the Liquor Control Act or of this chapter have been or are being violated, and to act upon these complaints in the manner provided by law;
(4) To receive local license fees and pay same to the Village Treasurer;
(5) To examine, or cause to be examined, under oath, any applicant for a local license or for a renewal thereof, or any licensee upon whom notice of revocation or suspension has been served, or any licensee against whom a citation proceeding has been instituted by the state Liquor Control Commission; to examine, or cause to be examined, the books and records of any applicant or licensee or respondent; and to hear testimony and take proof for information in the performance of the Local Commissioner’s duties; and for these purposes, to issue subpoenas which shall be effective in any part of this state. For the purpose of obtaining any of the information desired by the Local Commissioner under this section, the Commissioner may authorize his or her agent to act on his or her behalf;
(6) To order, upon the issuance of a written order, the licensed premises closed for not more than seven days, giving the licensee an opportunity to be heard during that period, if the Local Commissioner has reason to believe that any continued operation of a particular licensed premises will immediately threaten the welfare of the community; except that, if the licensee shall also be engaged in the conduct of another business or businesses on the licensed premises, the order shall not be applicable to the other business or businesses; and
(7) If the village permits club licenses, to notify the Secretary of State where a club incorporated under the General Not for Profit Corporation Act or a foreign corporation functioning as a club in the state under a certificate of authority issued under that Act has violated the Liquor Control Act by selling or offering for sale at retail alcoholic liquors without a retailer’s license.
Statutory reference:
Powers and duties of Local Commissioners, see 235 ILCS 5/4-2, 4-4 and 4-5