(a) No parent or legal guardian of an unemancipated minor residing with such parent or guardian shall fail to exercise proper parental responsibility by allowing or permitting the minor to violate a Village ordinance or State statute concerning vandalism, battery, curfew, disorderly conduct, fireworks, obscene conduct, indecent exposure, trespass, possession of alcoholic liquor, cannabis or another controlled substance, or any other offense of willful or malicious acts to persons or property.
(b) Such a parent or legal guardian shall be presumed to have allowed or permitted such a minor to violate such a Village ordinance or State statute under the following conditions:
(1) Such minor has been either adjudicated to have violated any ordinance or State statute as described in subsection (a) hereof; has been charged with such violation (except if found to be not guilty); has incurred nonjudicial sanctions from any peace officer or conservator of the peace resulting from an admission of guilt regarding such violation; and
(2) Such parent or legal guardian has received a written notice by certified mail (return receipt requested) or by personal service, in substantially the following form:
LEGAL NOTICE
TO: (Name of parent or legal guardian)
FROM: Village of Palos Park
You are hereby notified that (minor's name) has been involved in a violation of an ordinance or State statute concerning vandalism, battery, curfew, disorderly conduct, fireworks, obscene conduct, indecent exposure, trespass, possession of alcoholic liquor, cannabis or another controlled substance, or any other offense of willful or malicious acts to persons or property.
(Ord. 1976-17. Passed 12-6-76.)