A. Local Liquor Control Commissioner: The mayor shall be the local liquor control commissioner of the city. The commissioner may appoint, with the advice and consent of the city council, a person or persons to assist him/her in the exercise of the powers and the performance of the duties herein provided for such local liquor control commissioner.
When in this chapter the local liquor control commissioner shall be referred to, it shall include any committee or other agency appointed by the commissioner.
B. Duties Of Commissioner: Subject to any restrictions imposed by the Illinois liquor control act 1 , the local liquor control commissioner shall have the following powers, functions, and duties with respect to licenses and licensees in the city:
1. To grant and revoke for cause all local licenses issued to persons for premises within the jurisdiction of the commissioner.
2. To enter or to authorize any law enforcing officer to enter at any time upon any premises licensed hereunder to determine whether any of the provisions of the state law relating to alcoholic liquor or any rules or regulations adopted pursuant thereto or any of the provisions of this chapter have been or are being violated and to act upon such complaints in the manner hereinafter provided.
3. To receive local license fees and pay the same forthwith to the city clerk.
4. The commissioner shall have the right to examine or cause to be examined under oath, any applicant for a local license or renewal thereof, or any licensee upon whom notice of revocation has been served in the manner hereinafter provided, and to examine or cause to be examined, the books and records of any such applicant or licensee; to hear testimony and take proof of information in any manner from the applicant or licensee, pertaining to any part of his/her performance of his/her duties, and for any such purpose to issue subpoenas which shall be effective in any part of this state. For the purpose of obtaining information as allowed under this section, the local liquor control commissioner may authorize his/her agent to act on his/her behalf.
5. The commissioner shall keep or cause to be kept a complete record of all such licenses issued by him/her, and shall furnish the clerk, treasurer and chief of police with copies thereof. Upon issuance of any new license or the revocation of an old license, he/she shall give written notice of such action to each of these officers within forty eight (48) hours of such action.
6. The commissioner may without notice or hearing, close an establishment upon the issuance of a written order in the event the public peace or welfare of the community is likely to be threatened or endangered by the keeping open of the establishment in accordance with the Illinois liquor control act. The chief of police shall also be given the power to close a premises if the premises constitutes a crime scene and such closing could prevent the loss or destruction of evidence and facilitate a police investigation or if the premises was the scene of a violent disturbance involving injury or threat to citizens. The chief of police will document such closing and the reasons therefor and submit a written report to the commissioner.
7. To exercise such other powers as are granted to him/her under the Illinois liquor control act. (Ord. 2013-22, 10-28-2013)
Notes
| 1 | 1. 235 ILCS 5/1-1 et seq. |