For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BLOCK. To interfere with unobstructed travel by any means, including, but not limited to standing on the part of the sidewalk or street that is fit for travel or placing any object or vehicle whatsoever on the sidewalk or street.
CITY. The City of Madison, Illinois.
GUARDIAN. A person who, under court order, is the guardian of the person of a juvenile or minor or a public or private agency with whom a juvenile or minor has been placed by a court.
IN LOCO PARENTIS. A person who stands in place of or acts instead of a parent or is charged, factitiously, with a parent’s rights, duties and responsibilities.
JUVENILE. Any person under the age of 18 or, in equivalence phrasing, any person 17 years of age or less.
LOCO PARENTIS. See IN LOCO PARENTIS.
MINOR. See JUVENILE.
OBSTRUCT. To hinder, prevent, check, stop, block, retard, make difficult and slow, be or come in the way of, congregate on, interpose obstacles to, render impassable, fill with barriers or impediments or interpose impediments in the way of free and open use or intended use of any sidewalk or street in the city or which prevent the public from going where it has a right to go or where it finds it is necessary to go in its travels by use of any sidewalk or street in the city.
PARENT. A person who is a natural parent, adoptive parent, step-parent or surrogate parent of another person.
PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE. Evidence that, in the judgment of the law, is sufficient to establish a given fact, or the group or chain of facts, constituting the city’s claim and, if not rebutted or contradicted, is sufficient to sustain a judgment in favor of the issue(s) which it supports.
PUBLIC. Relating to or affecting the whole people of the city, state or whole community and not limited or restricted to any particular class of the community.
PUBLIC PLACE. Any place to which the public or a substantial group of the public has access and includes, but is not limited to streets, highways, vacant lots, common areas of schools, parks, playgrounds, parking lots, public buildings, public housing developments, hospitals, apartment houses, motels, hotels, office buildings, transport facilities, shops, shopping centers or plazas, places of amusement or entertainment and similar areas that are open to the use of the public.
SIDEWALK. The portion of a street between the curb lines or the lateral lines of a roadway and the adjacent property lines intended for pedestrian travel in the city, including any grass plots or other grounds found within the portion of a street, or the walkways for pedestrian travel in a public place.
STATE. The State of Illinois.
STREET. The entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel in the city. The term STREET applies irrespective of what it is called or formerly named, whether alley, avenue, court, road or otherwise. The term STREET shall also include driveways for vehicular travel in a public place.
SURROGATE PARENT. A person other than a parent who stands in loco parentis to the child by virtue of his or her voluntary assumption of parental rights and responsibilities or is appointed by a juvenile court as a child’s advocate in the educational decision-making process in place of the child’s natural parents or guardian.
TRAFFIC. Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars and other conveyances either singly or together while using any sidewalk or street for purposes of travel.
VEHICLE. Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a street.
(Ord. 1317, passed 7-16-1996)