(A) Definitions. For the purposes of this Section the following definitions shall apply:
1. "Person" shall include any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
2. "Property" shall include any real estate including improvements thereon, and tangible personalty.
3. "Parent" shall include the lawful father or mother of a minor child, whether by birth or adoption.
4. "Legal guardian" shall include a person appointed guardian of the person, or given custody of a minor by a circuit court of this State or any other state, but does not include a person appointed guardian only of the estate of a minor, or appointed guardian, or given custody of a minor under the Illinois Juvenile Court Act.
5. "Minor" shall include a person who is above the age of eleven (11) years, but not yet eighteen (18) years of age.
6. "Vandalism" shall include any of the following acts:
(a) Maliciously, recklessly, or knowingly damage, deface or destroy any property of another person without his consent; or
(b) Maliciously, recklessly, or knowingly by means of fire or explosive device damage, deface, or destroy any property of another person; or
(c) Maliciously, recklessly, or knowingly start a fire on the land of another person without his consent; or
(d) Maliciously, recklessly, or knowingly deposit on the land or in a building of another person, without his consent, any stink bomb, or any offensive smelling compound and thereby interfere with the use and occupancy by another of the land or building; or
(e) Maliciously, recklessly, or knowingly and without authority enter into any building, house trailer, motor vehicle, aircraft or watercraft or any part thereof of another person without his consent.
7. "Sufferance of an act of vandalism" shall mean the failure to interfere, prohibit and prevent the commission of an act of vandalism by a minor.
(B) Vandalism Prohibited: It shall be unlawful for any person to commit any act of vandalism upon either public or private property within the village of Posen. Each separate act of vandalism shall be considered as a separate violation of this section.
(C) Sufferance Of Acts Of Vandalism By Minors Prohibited: It shall be unlawful for any parent or legal guardian of an unemancipated minor who resides with such parent or legal guardian to suffer such minor to commit an act of vandalism upon either public or private property within the village of Posen. Each separate act of vandalism shall be considered as a separate violation of this section. (Ord. 76-21, 11-23-1976)