(A) Authority. By contract with school boards, community college boards, educational institutions, hospitals, churches, shopping centers or malls, apartment complex owners, not-for-profit corporations and other owners of private property within the limits of the city, the city may be and is empowered to regulate and enforce laws, ordinances, rules and regulations pertaining to the parking of automobiles or motor vehicles, the traffic at parking areas and, in general, traffic and vehicles, on or at private property. The contracts may be entered into pursuant to ILCS Ch. 625, Act 5, §§ 11-209 and § 11-209.1, §§ 6 (pertaining to home rule) and 10 (pertaining to intergovernment cooperation) of Article VII (Local Government) of the State Constitution or any other applicable or successor provisions of law.
(B) Effect of contract. No contract entered into extending jurisdiction to private property shall be construed to:
(1) Obligate or require the city to enforce laws, ordinances, rules or regulations;
(2) Remove or alter any rights, powers, duties or obligations of the property owner; or
(3) Limit or construct existing authority of the city on private property.
(C) Interpretation of ordinances.
(1) In general. Where the city has extended its jurisdiction on or at private property, the laws, ordinances, rules and regulations pertaining to the parking of automobiles or motor vehicles, the traffic at parking areas and, in general, traffic and vehicles, shall be appropriately construed or interpreted to apply to private property to the same effect and purposes as if the private property is or was public property, streets, rights-of-way, lanes or areas.
(2) Examples. Without limiting the scope or intent of this section:
(a) Provisions that may be enforced on private property include, but are not limited to, the provisions of this Title VII of this code;
(b) Private signs, markings or designations shall be deemed and considered official signs, markings or designations;
(c) Alleys, crosswalks, fire lanes, intersections, loading zones, rights-of-way, roadways, sidewalks or streets shall be deemed and considered as if public notwithstanding its location on private property;
(d) Fire lanes shall be and include any area so indicated by the private owner and posted with signs, markings or designations;
(e) Curbs located within private property shall be deemed public curbs; and
(f) The private property shall be considered a public ground, place or building, provided this shall not be deemed to allow access or use of the private property or any part thereof other than as or in excess of that permitted by the property owner.
(1980 Code, § 20.109)