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10-11-60
AN ORDINANCE DEFINING CERTAIN
NI5DEMEANORS WITHIN THE VILLAGE
OF OAKBROOK, DU PAGE COUNTY,
ILLINOIS, AND PROVIDING FOR
CERTAIN PENALTIES THEREFOR
BE IT ORDAINED by the President and Board of Trustees of the Village
of Oakbrook, Du Page County, Illinois:
Section 1. Vagrants--Vagabonds. All persons who, not having any
visible means of support, live without lawful employment; all persons habitually
idle, loitering or wandering or staying about stores, residences, hotels,
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factories, shops or railroad depots or lodging in outhouses, sheds, barns or
in the open air, and not giving a good account of themselves; all persons
wandering abroad and begging or who go from door to door or place themselves
in the streets or other public places to beg or receive alms shall be deemed
vagrants and vagabonds, and shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 2, Indecent Exposures-Indecent Publications or Shows. Any
person who shall appear in a public place in a state of nudity, or in any in-
decent or lewd dress, or shall make any indecent exposure of his or her person,
or be guilty of any lewd or indecent act or behavior, or exhibit, sell or offer
to sell any indecent or lewd book, picture or other thing, or exhibit or perform
any indecent, immoral or lewd play or representation shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor.
Section 3. Cruelty to Animals. Any person who shall inhumanely or
cruelly beat, injure or otherwise abuse any animal shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor.
Section 4* Cruelty to Children. 'Whoever shall cruelly or inhumanely
whip, injure, beat or mistreat his own child or step-child, or apprentice or
other child under his care or control, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 5. Desertion or Exposure of Children. Any parent, guardian
or other person having the custody of a child, or upon whom, by law or nature,
the care or maintenance of such child devolves, who shall in this village desert
or expose such child or neglect suitably and to the extent of his or her ability
to provide for its wants, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 6. Intoxication. Any person who shall be in a state of
intoxication in any highway, street, alley, thoroughfare or public place
in the village, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 7. Prescription under Deceptive Namee Any doctor, druggist
or other person who shall make, sell, put up, prepare or administer any pre-
scription, decoction or medicine under any deceptive or fraudulent name,
direction or pretense shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 8. Poisonous Medicine-Labels. Any person who shall sell or
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hold for sale any poisonous medicine, substance or compound for unlawful pur-
poses or who shall sell or deliver the same to any person unless the container
thereof is marked "Poison" shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 9. Obstructing Streets or Sidewalks. Any person who shall,
without prior authorization by the President and Board of Trustees of the
Village, engage in any game, sport, amusement, business or exhibition upon
the streets or sidewalks, which shall collect any crowd of persons so as to
interfere with the passage of vehicles or of persons passing along the streets
or sidewalks, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 10. Assault. Any person mho shall assult another person
within the limits of the village shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 11. Assault and Battery. Any person who shall commit an
assault and battery upon the person of another within the limits of the village
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 12. Disorderly Conduct. Any person who shall be guilty of
disorderly conduct or shall make, aid, countenance or assist in making any
improper noise, riot, disturbance, breach of the peace or diversion tending
to a breach of the peace in the streets or elsewhere in this village, or shall
advise any person to assault or beat the person of another within the limits
of the village, or who shall collect with others in bodies or crowds for
unlawful purposes or for any purpose, to the amoyance or disturbance of
citizens or travellers, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
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Section 13. Indecent Act--Abusive Language. Any person who shall
commit any indecent, lewd or filthy act in any place in the village, or shall
utter any lewd or filthy words, or use any threatening or abusive language
toward any other person, tending to a breach of the peace, or shall make any
obscene gesture to or about any person publicly, shall be deemed a disorderly
person and guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 14* Disturbing Religious Worship. Any person who shall in
this village disturb any congregation or assembly met for religious worship,
by rude or indecent behavior or otherwise, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor.
Section 150 Disturbing Schools. Whoever shall in this village
disturb any school or other assembly of people met for a lawful purpose, by
rude and indecent behavior or otherwise, shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor.
Section 16. Noise upon Streets. Any person who shall, without
prior authorization by the President and Board of Trustees of the village,
operate or cause, permit or allow to be operated upon any public street in
the village any mechanically operated piano, phonograph or other musical
instrument, radio or similar mechanical or electrical device or wind instrument
�... or noise making device of any character whatsoever, for the purpose of ad-
vertising any goods, wares, merchandise or other articles for sale, barter
or exchange, or for the purpose of attracting attention, or of inviting the
patronage of any person to any business whatsoever, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor.
Section 17. Houses of Ill-Fame. Any person who shall in any way
keep or maintain or be an inmate of, or in any manner contribute to the
support of any house of ill-fame or assignation located in the village,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person found in any house
of ill-fame or assignation house within the limits of the village shall be
considered an inmate within the meaning of this section and subject to
prosecution hereunder.
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Section 18. Posting Bills on Public Proper . Any person who shall
affix any handbill, sign, poster, advertisement on any curbstone, flagstone
or other part of any sidewalk, or upon any tree, fence, lamp post, hitching post,
telephone or power pole, or hydrant within the streets or alleys or upon any
village property, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, provided that this
section shall not be construed so as to prohibit the posting of legal notices.
Section 19. Throwing Articles in Streets. Any person who shall throw,
drop, place or leave in or on any road, street, alley, sidewalk, or public place
in the village any handbills, dodgers, posters, boxes, paper, or any stone,
�-- missiles, nails, glass, iron or metal, trash, garbage, or any other article
or thing, except gravel, bituminous material, concrete, or cinders or chemical
compound either for street improvement or ice and snow removal, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor.
Section 20. Obstructing Sewers, etc. Any person who shall stop or
obstruct the passage of the water of any street, gutter or public sewer, drain,
culvert, water pipe or hydrant laid or placed in the village shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 21. Defacing Trees or Buildings. Any person who shall cut,
injure, mark or deface any building, structure or property not his own, or any
tree, grass, shrub or walk in any square, street, or public park, shah be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 22. Damaging Sewer, etc. Any person who shall wilfully or
carelessly break, damage, deface or destroy any sewer, cesspool, culvert, catch
basin, manhole, water pipe or hydrant, laid or placed in, upon or under any
street, sidewalk, highway, thoroughfare, or public place within the village,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 230 Improper use of Hydrants. Any person who shall, without
authority, use, tamper with, turn on, or otherwise manipulate any fire hydrant
within the village, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 24. Throwing Stones. Any person who shall throw any stone
�.. or other missile upon or at any building, tree or other public or private
property, or upon or at any person in any street, avenue, alley, lane, public
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place or enclosed or unenclosed ground in the village, or aid or abet in the
same shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 25. Loitering. Any person who shall obstruct or encumber
any depot, street corner or other public place in the village by loitering
or lounging in or about the same shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 26. Removing Sod from Street. Any person who shall dig,
out or remove any sod, gravel, sand or earth from any street or other public
place within the village without a permit from the President and Board of
Trustees, or from any premises not his own without the consent of the owner,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 27. Possession of Burglar's Tools. Any person who shall
have in his possession any nippers of the description known as burglar's
nippers, any pick-lock, skeleton-key, key to be used with a bit or bits,
jimmy or other burglar's instrument or tool of whatsoever kind or description,
unless it be shown that such possession is innocent or for a lawful purpose,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 28. Merchandise Stands in Streets. Any person who shall
expose for sale any fruit, vegetables or other commodities on the roads,
streets, public right-of ways, or sidewalks of the village, or in wagons or
other vehicles, or shall sell the same when so exposed, or who shall erect
a booth or establish or fix any stand, for the sale of fruit, books or
other merchandise of any kind, which encumbers or obstructs any part of any
street or sidewalk or road of the village shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor.
Section 29, Obscene Pictures. Any person who shall sell or offer
to sell, give away or offer to give away, any obscene or indecent book,
pamphlet, paper, drawing, lithograph, engraving, picture, photograph,
stereoscopic picture, model, cast, or instrument or article of indecent
or immoral use shat] be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 30. Protection at Excavations. Any person who shall dig
or cause to be dug any excavation in or adjoining any highway, thoroughfare
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or other public place in the village and shall not cause the same to be fenced
in during the night time with a substantial fence or barricade at least three
feet high, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 31. Warning Light at Excavations. Any person, whether a
village officer or employee or not, who shall make any excavation in any
highway or thoroughfare, and shall not cause poles or timbers raised at least
three feet above the ground to be so placed as to prevent persons, animals
or vehicles from falling into the same, and burning red lights or lanterns
to be placed or secured thereon during the night time shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor.
Section 32. Defacing Markers. Any person who shall purposely break,
change, remove, deface or otherwise injure any sign, stake, post or stone,
placed or set to designate the corner or line of any lot, block, land or
street, or to show the grade of any street or sidewalk in the village, shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 330 Damaging Shrubbery. Any person mho shall cut down,
,dig up, damage or destroy any fruit or ornamental tree or cultivated plant,
standing or growing on the land or premises of another, or pick, destroy,
or carry away therefrom, any part, bud, flower or fruit of any cultivated
`- tree, plant, vine or bush, mi thout permission from the owner or occupant of
said land or premises, or shall without lawful authority cut down, uproot,
damage or destroy any fruit or ornamental tree or shrubbery, planted or
growing on any street, highway, public thoroughfare, park or public grounds,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 34. Shitting on Sidewalks. Any person who shall spit upon
any public sidewalk or upon the floor of any hall, assembly room or public
building in the village shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 35• Tampering with Telephone Coin Boxes or Coin Operated
Vending Machines. Any person who shall insert or attempt to insert into the
coin box cr money receptable of any telephone or coin operated vending machine
any slug, button, wire, hook or other implement or substance with the intent
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to obtain the use of said telephone or machine, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor.
Section 36. Traction Engines on Streets. Any person who shall haul,
drive, or operate any vehicle on or through any road, street, or alley of the
village unless the wheels or tracks thereof are equipped with treads which
will not damage the pavement, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 37. Trespass. Any person who shall enter into or upon any
lot, block or tract of ground of another in the village, whether enclosed or
unenclosed, and is forbidden so to do by the owner or occupant, or by his
agent or servant, and thereafter enters upon such lot, block or tract of
ground, or any person who is unlawfully upon the enclosed or unenclosed lot,
block or tract of ground of another and is notified to depart therefrom by
the owner, or occupant, or his agent or servant, and neglects or refuses so
to do, or whoever wilfully or unnecessarily or without right enters any lot,
block, or tract of ground of another when a printed or written notice for-
bidding or prohibiting trespass in general or in any detail has been con-
spicuously posted or exhibited, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 38. Use of Firearms by Minors Prohibited. Any minor
under the age of eighteen years, who shall shoot or discharge any firearms
within the village, shall be guilty of a ni sdemeanor unless such minor is
accompanied by and under the direct control and supervision of an adult person.
Section 390 Operating Gambling Device. Whoever, in any room,
saloon, inn, tavern, shed, booth or building, or enclosure, or in any part
thereof, operates, keeps, owns, rents or uses any clock, joker, tape, or slot
machine, or any other device upon which money is staked or hazarded, or into
which money is paid or played upon chance, or upon the result of the action
of which money or other valuable thing is staked, bet, hazarded, won or lost,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 40. Bookmaking and Pool Selling. Any person who keeps
any room, shed, tenement, tent, booth, or building, or any part:thereof, or
�.- who occupies any place upon any public or private grounds within the village,
with any book, instrument or device for the purpose of recording or registering
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bets or wages, or of selling pools, or any person who records or registers
bets or wages or sells pools upon the result of arty trial or contest of
skill, speed or power of endurance of man or beast, or upon the result of
any political nomination, appointment or election shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor.
Section 41. Penalty. Any person who is guilty of any misdemeanor
as defined herein, where no other -penalty is provided, shall be fined not
`. less than Five and No/100ths ($5.00) Dollars nor more than Tm Hundred and
No/looths ($2C)0.00) Dollars fr each offense.
Passed and approved by the President and Board of Trustees of the
Village of Oakbrook this � day of C�'�; ,4-z , A. D. 196o.
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C E R T I F I C A T E
I, PHYLLIS PERKINS, Village Clerk of the Village of
Oakbrook, and keeper of the records thereof, do hereby certify
that I did on the 11th day of October, A. D. 19600 publish the
above and foregoing ordinance, duly passed and approved by the
President and Board of Trustees of the Village of Oakbrook being
a municipality with less than five hundred population in which
no newspaper is published) by posting a notice and copy of said
ordinance in three prominent places within said municipality,
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and
the seal of said Village this 11th day of October, A. D. 1960.
Village` lerk