Forest Preserve District of Cook County - File #: 23-0332

• File #: 23-0332
• Version: 2
• Type: Ordinance Amendment
• Status: Approved
• File created: 4/25/2023
• In control: Finance Committee
• On agenda: 5/23/2023
• Final action: 6/27/2023
• Title: PROPOSED SUBSTITUTION TO 23-0332 PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT POLLUTING AND LITTERING BE IT ORDAINED, by the Forest Preserve District of Cook County Board of Commissioners, that TITLE 3 - POLICE REGULATIONS, CHAPTER 3 - MISCELLANEOUS MISCONDUCT, SECTION 3-3-19 - POLLUTING AND LITTERING of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County Code of Ordinances is hereby amended as Follows: 3-3-19. POLLUTING AND LITTERING. A. Littering: No unauthorized person shall bring into, leave behind, or dump any material of any kind, whether waste or otherwise, in the Forest Preserve, except refuse, ashes, garbage and other material arising from the normal use and enjoyment of a picnic or other permitted activity provided such material is deposited in receptacles provided for such purposes. B. Polluting: No material of any kind shall be left or deposited in the Forest Preserve so as to pollute the land, waters or air coursing through or over the Forest Preserve or otherwise to interfere with prope...
• Sponsors: BILL LOWRY, FRANK J. AGUILAR, ALMA E. ANAYA, SCOTT R. BRITTON, JOHN P. DALEY, BRIDGET DEGNEN, BRIDGET GAINER, MONICA GORDON, DONNA MILLER, STANLEY MOORE, JOSINA MORITA, KEVIN B. MORRISON, SEAN M. MORRISON, ANTHONY J. QUEZADA, MAGGIE TREVOR
• Related files: 19-0448, 19-0449

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/27/2023	1	FPD Board of Commissioners	approve as substituted	Pass
6/27/2023	1	Finance Committee	accept a substitute	Pass
6/27/2023	1	Finance Committee	recommend for approval as substituted	Pass
5/23/2023	1	FPD Board of Commissioners	refer	Pass

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PROPOSED SUBSTITUTION TO 23-0332

PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT

POLLUTING AND LITTERING

BE IT ORDAINED, by the Forest Preserve District of Cook County Board of Commissioners, that TITLE 3 - POLICE REGULATIONS, CHAPTER 3 - MISCELLANEOUS MISCONDUCT, SECTION 3-3-19 - POLLUTING AND LITTERING of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County Code of Ordinances is hereby amended as Follows:

3-3-19. POLLUTING AND LITTERING.

A. Littering: No unauthorized person shall bring into, leave behind, or dump any material of any kind, whether waste or otherwise, in the Forest Preserve, except refuse, ashes, garbage and other material arising from the normal use and enjoyment of a picnic or other permitted activity provided such material is deposited in receptacles provided for such purposes.

B. Polluting: No material of any kind shall be left or deposited in the Forest Preserve so as to pollute the land, waters or air coursing through or over the Forest Preserve or otherwise to interfere with proper use and enjoyment of the Forest Preserve. No person shall throw, cast, deposit, damage, lay, place or scatter in the waters adjacent to the Forest Preserve, or on any waterway, harbor or lagoon of the Forest Preserve or upon any bathing beaches of the Forest Preserve any glass, bottles, nails, cans or other sharp or cutting substances of any kind. No person shall throw, cast, lay, drop or discharge into or leave in the bathing beaches or waters in any Forest Preserve or in any storm sewer, or drain flowing into said waters, any substance, matter or thing, liquid or solid, which may or shall result in the pollution of said waters.

C. Penalty: Any person or entity violating any of the provisions of this Section 3-3-19 shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00) for each offense. In addition to the above-referenced fine, any person or entity deemed to be in breach of the provisions...