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Oak Park, IL Code of Ordinances
THE CODE OF THE VILLAGE OF OAK PARK, ILLINOIS
PREFACE TO OAK PARK CODE
PREAMBLE
ORDINANCES PENDING REVIEW FOR CODIFICATION
ADOPTING ORDINANCE
CHAPTER 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 2 ADMINISTRATION
CHAPTER 3 ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR DEALERS
CHAPTER 4 AMBULANCES
CHAPTER 5 ANIMALS
CHAPTER 6 AUCTIONS
CHAPTER 7 BUILDINGS
CHAPTER 8 BUSINESS LICENSING
ARTICLE 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
ARTICLE 2 FEE SCHEDULE
ARTICLE 2 FEE SCHEDULE
ARTICLE 3 ADVERTISING AND BILL POSTING
ARTICLE 4A GENERAL BROKERS
ARTICLE 4B PAWNBROKERS
ARTICLE 5 CATCH BASIN CLEANERS
ARTICLE 6 COMPREHENSIVE REGULATION OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS
ARTICLE 7 CONTRACTOR'S STORAGE YARD, COAL OR LUMBER YARD
ARTICLE 8 DATING SERVICES
ARTICLE 9 ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS
ARTICLE 10 FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS
ARTICLE 11 FLORISTS
ARTICLE 12 PARKING GARAGES AND PARKING LOTS
ARTICLE 13 ADULT DAY CARE CENTERS
ARTICLE 14 DAY AND NIGHT CARE CENTERS AND HOMES
ARTICLE 15 JUNK DEALERS
ARTICLE 16 LAUNDRIES, LAUNDROMATS, DRY CLEANING ESTABLISHMENTS AND DRY CLEANERS
ARTICLE 17 MODEL REFERRAL SERVICE
ARTICLE 18 PUBLIC PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIOS
ARTICLE 19 RENTAL REFERRAL AGENCIES
ARTICLE 20 SERVICE STATIONS
ARTICLE 21 THEATERS
ARTICLE 22 UNDERTAKERS AND FUNERAL DIRECTORS
ARTICLE 23 AMUSEMENTS
ARTICLE 23A DANCES AND DANCE HALLS
ARTICLE 24 FOODS AND FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS
ARTICLE 25 LONG TERM CARE FACILITIES
ARTICLE 26 MASON CONTRACTORS, GENERAL
ARTICLE 27 PUBLIC CARRIERS
ARTICLE 28 BARBERS AND BARBERSHOPS
ARTICLE 29 GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALES
ARTICLE 30 CURRENCY EXCHANGES
ARTICLE 31 HORSE DRAWN CARRIAGE RIDE
ARTICLE 32 BED AND BREAKFAST ESTABLISHMENTS
ARTICLE 33 ACCESSORY USE TOUR HOUSES
ARTICLE 34 TOUR TROLLEYS
ARTICLE 35 VALET PARKING
ARTICLE 36 DONATION BOXES
ARTICLE 37 SECONDHAND GOODS DEALERS
ARTICLE 38 MASSAGE ESTABLISHMENTS AND MASSAGE SERVICES
ARTICLE 39 CANNABIS BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENTS
ARTICLE 40 SHORT-TERM RENTALS
ARTICLE 41 LAWN MAINTENANCE/LANDSCAPING
CHAPTER 9 FIRE DEPARTMENT
CHAPTER 10 RESERVED
CHAPTER 11 GAMBLING
CHAPTER 12 HOUSING
CHAPTER 13 HUMAN RIGHTS
CHAPTER 14 LIBRARY
CHAPTER 15 MOTOR VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
CHAPTER 15A NEWSPAPERS AND NEWSPAPER STANDS
CHAPTER 16 NUISANCES
CHAPTER 17 OFFENSES
CHAPTER 18 PEDDLERS AND SOLICITORS
CHAPTER 19 POLICE DEPARTMENT
CHAPTER 20 PUBLIC HEALTH
CHAPTER 21 SMOKE ABATEMENT AND AIR POLLUTION CONTROL
CHAPTER 22 STREETS AND SIDEWALKS
CHAPTER 23 SUBDIVISIONS
CHAPTER 23A TAXES
CHAPTER 24 TAXICABS
CHAPTER 25 TREES, SHRUBS AND OTHER PLANTS
CHAPTER 26 WATER
CHAPTER 27 WEAPONS
CHAPTER 28 WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
CHAPTER 29 ADMINISTRATIVE ADJUDICATION
CHAPTER 30 SPECIAL EVENTS
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8-23-17: POOLROOMS, ETC., TO CLOSE BY MIDNIGHT:
It shall be unlawful for any person licensed to own or keep any billiard, pigeon-hole or pool table, or pin or ball alley, or shooting gallery, to keep the hall or room used therefor open after twelve o'clock (12:00) midnight.
8-23-18: PRESENCE OF MINORS IN POOLROOMS, ETC.; RESTRICTED:
It shall be unlawful for any person licensed to own or keep any billiard hall, pigeon-hole or pool table, or pin or bowling alley, roller skating rink, or shooting gallery, for gain or public use, within the Village, to permit any minor under the age of seventeen (17) years to loiter in or about such premises wherein the same is kept or operated, or play billiards, pigeon-hole or pool or bowl in such bowling alley, or shoot in such shooting gallery, without first obtaining the written consent of the parent or guardian of such minor under the age of seventeen (17) years to do so.
ARTICLE 23A
DANCES AND DANCE HALLS
SECTION:
8-23A-1: Definitions
8-23A-2: License Required; Exception
8-23A-3: Application for License
8-23A-4: Public Dance Application Information
8-23A-5: Public Dance Hall Application Information
8-23A-6: Investigation; Issuance of License
8-23A-7: Denial of License
8-23A-8: Suspension and Revocation
8-23A-9: Appeal
8-23A-10: Rules
8-23A-11: Application for Renewal of License; Extension
8-23A-12: Extension of Expiration Date Based on Appeal
8-23A-13: Hearing Re-Extension
8-23A-14: Public Dance and Public Dance Hall Regulation
8-23A-15: Teenage Dance Regulation
8-23A-16: Violation, Penalty
8-23A-1: DEFINITIONS:
CHARITABLE: Includes the words religious, patriotic, social welfare, welfare, benevolent, educational, civic or fraternal.
PERSON: All natural persons and all legal entities and organizations.
PUBLIC DANCE: Any dance where a charge or fee for admission to the public is made, paid or received; or where a charge or fee is made, paid or received for a service or activity which is incidental to a dance.
PUBLIC DANCE HALL: Any room, place or space in which a public dance shall be held.
TEENAGE DANCE: A dance conducted exclusively for minors between the ages of thirteen (13) and eighteen (18) years, both inclusive, to which no person nineteen (19) years of age or over, or twelve (12) years of age or younger is admitted as a participant, and at which no alcoholic beverage is sold, serviced, provided free of charge, or is permitted or allowed on the premises.
TEENAGE DANCE HALL: Any room, place or space in which a teenage dance shall be held.
8-23A-2: LICENSE REQUIRED; EXCEPTION:
   A.   No person shall hold any public dance in any room, place or space within the limits of the Village until the room, space or place in which the public dance may be held has been duly licensed for such purposes as a public dance hall. The public dance hall license shall be required whether or not the dance hall is incidental to another business or businesses which are operated on the premises. Any person, other than the owner or operator of a licensed public dance hall, who wishes to conduct a public dance in any licensed public dance hall, must also obtain a public dance license. Provided, however, that such per son or persons obtaining such licenses must enforce at such dance the requirements herein provided for the governing of public dance halls.
   B.   Failure on the part of any person or persons to obtain such license or to comply with the foregoing shall subject him or them to the penalties provided for in this Section.
No license issued pursuant to the provisions of this Section shall be assignable. An attempted transfer of any such permit shall constitute an automatic revocation thereof.
No person shall knowingly participate in any such dance conducted without a license.
   C.   The provisions of this Section, however, shall not apply to licensed dance academies and to dances given by governmental, quasi-governmental or charitable organizations as defined herein. Further, the owners and/or operators of any public dance hall licensed under the provisions of this Article shall not be required to obtain a public dance license for any public dance conducted by the owners and/or operators in their licensed public dance hall.
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