A. The Illinois General Assembly has enacted the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act, as amended, (hereinafter the "Act"), which is a comprehensive revision of State statutes regulating ethical conduct, political activities, the solicitation and acceptance of gifts by State officials and employees, and prohibiting sexual harassment.
B. The Act requires all units of local government to adopt ordinances or resolutions regulating the political activities of, and the solicitation and acceptance of gifts by, the officers and employees of such units and prohibiting sexual harassment “in a manner no less restrictive” than the provisions of the Act.
C. The clear intention of the Act to require units of local government to implement regulations that are at least as restrictive as those contained in the Act, and to impose penalties for violations of those regulations that are equivalent to those imposed by the Act, notwithstanding that such penalties may exceed the general authority granted to units of local government to penalize ordinance violations.
D. The clear intention of the Act to provide units of local government with all authority necessary to implement its requirements on the local level regardless of any general limitations on the power to define and punish ordinance violations that might otherwise be applicable.
(Ord. O-201205-12-027, § 1, passed 5-15-2012; Ord. O-202002-12-013, passed 2-18-2020)