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PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT
FOREST PRESERVE LANDS AND PROPERTY
Amending the Forest Preserve District of Cook County (the "Preserves") code of ordinances to facilitate the ability of owners of residential property adjacent to land owned by the Preserves to obtain a license to allow them to continue to maintain building or other structures on land owned by the Preserves under certain very limited circumstances.
BE IT ORDAINED , by the Forest Preserve District of Cook County Board of Commissioners, that Title 2 - Forest Preserve Lands and Property, Chapter 3 - Trespass and Use of Property, Section 1 - Erection and Ownership of Structures of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County Code is hereby amended as Follows:
Chapter 3 -Trespass and Use of Property.
2-3-1: ERECTION AND OWNERSHIP OF STRUCTURES.
2-3-2: DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY.
2-3-3: GOODS AND VEHICLES AS OBSTRUCTIONS.
2-3-4: OBSTRUCTING USE OF PREMISES.
2-3-5: DUMPING GARBAGE; LITTERING.
2-3-6: SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS.
2-3-7: ABANDONED MOTOR VEHICLES.
2-3-8: GLASS BEVERAGE CONTAINER ORDINANCE.
2-3-9: PENALTY.
2-3-1: ERECTION AND OWNERSHIP OF STRUCTURES.
A. Permit to Erect; License to Use: No person shall stage any equipment or erect, construct or maintain any fence, building or other structure within the Forest Preserve District, or assert any right to the exclusive use and occupancy of any structure or any portion of said structure, without first having obtained a permit in writing from the District for the staging of equipment, or erection, construction or maintenance of such fence, building or other structure, or a license for the use and occupancy of such property. Where private property, located adjacent to property of the Forest Preserve District, benefits from an unlawful fence, building or other structure within the Forest Preserve District, described in this Chapter, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that the owner of the private property is responsible for ...
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