(A) Definitions. As used in this ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires, the terms specified have the meanings ascribed to them.
LEGAL GUARDIAN. A person appointed guardian, or given custody or a minor by a Circuit Court of the state, but does not include a person appointed guardian or given custody of a minor under the Juvenile Court Act, being 705 ILCS 405\.
MINOR. A person who is above the age of 11 years, but not yet 18 years of age.
(B) 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 below with the knowledge and permission of the parent or guardian, in violation of this ordinance, upon the occurrence of the events described in (B)(1), (B)(2) and (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 violation of any ordinance, law or statute prohibiting willful and malicious acts causing injury to a person or property; and
(2) Said 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 Police Department of the City of Mt. Vernon following said adjudication or non-judicial sanction, and
(3) If at any time within one (1) year following receipt of the notice set forth in (B)(2) above, said minor is either adjudicated to be in violation of any ordinances, law of statute as described in (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 of statute as described in (B)(1) above.
(Prior Code, Art. 12, § 12.19)