(A) Definitions. As used in this section, the terms specified have the meanings ascribed to them.
LEGAL GUARDIAN. A person appointed guardian, or given custody of a minor by a Circuit Court of Illinois, but does not include a person appointed guardian, or given custody of a minor under the Juvenile Court Act.
MINOR. A person who is above the age of 11 years, but not yet 13 years of age.
(B) Responsibility of parent. The parent or legal guardian of an unemancipated minor residing with the parent or legal guardian shall be presumed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, to have failed to exercise proper parental responsibility of the minor [who] shall be deemed to have committed the acts described below with the knowledge and permission of the parent or guardian, in violation of this section, upon the occurrence of the events described in subsections (B)(1), (B)(2), and (B)(3) below:
(1) An unemancipated minor residing with the 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 violation of any ordinance, law, or statute prohibiting willful and malicious acts causing injury to a person or property;
(2) The parent or legal guardian shall have received a written notice thereof, either by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, or by personal service, with a certificate of personal service returned, from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office, following the adjudication or non-judicial sanction; and
(3) If at any time within one year following receipt of the notice set forth in subsection (B)(2) above, the minor is either adjudicated to be in violation by reason of acts committed in the unincorporated limits of this county of any ordinance, law or statute as described in subsection (B)(1) above, or shall have incurred non-judicial sanctions from another official agency resulting from an admission of guilt of a violation by reason of acts committed in the unincorporated limits of the county of any ordinance, law, or statute as described in subsection (B)(1) above.
(C) Effective date. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect 30 days and after its passage, approval on June 13, 1977, and publication to appear in the newspaper of county-wide circulation and within ten days from the date of passage.
(1977 Code, § 3:4-2) (Ord. passed 6-13-1977) Penalty, see § 130.99