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PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT
DISORDERLY CONDUCT
BE IT ORDAINED, by the Forest Preserve District of Cook County Board of Commissioners, Title 3 - POLICE REGULATIONS, Chapter 3 - MISCELLANEOUS MISCONDUCT, Section 1 - DISORDERLY CONDUCT of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County Code of Ordinances is hereby amended as follows:
3-3-1: DISORDERLY CONDUCT.
A. The following shall constitute disorderly conduct:
1. All persons who 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 within the limits of any forest preserve;
2. All persons lodging in or found at any time in areas that the General Superintendent has designated as prohibited from public access;
3. All persons who shall willfully assault another while in any forest preserve or be engaged in or abet or aid in any fight, quarrel or other disturbance in any forest preserve;
4. All persons who stand, loiter or stroll about within any forest preserve waiting or seeking to obtain money or other valuable things from others by trick or fraud or to aid or assist therein;
5. All persons that shall engage in any fraudulent scheme, device or trick to obtain money or other valuable things in any said forest preserve or who shall aid or abet or in any manner be concerned therein;
6. All touts, ropers, steerers or cappers so called for any gambling room or house who shall ply or attempt to ply their calling within any forest preserve;
7. All persons who shall have or carry any firearm, dirk, brass knuckles, slingshot or other dangerous weapon concealed on or about their person;
78. All persons who shall have or carry a knife, commonly referred to as a switchblade knife, which has a blade that opens automatically by hand pressure applied to a button, spring or other device in the handle of the knife, or a ballistic knife, which is a device that propels a knifelike blade as a projectile by means of a coil spring, elastic material or compressed gas;
89. All persons who are bare-chested while on Forest Preserve District golf courses or golf driving ranges, and all persons who indecently expose themselves while on Forest Preserve property;
910. All persons who appear in any public place manifestly under the influence of alcohol, narcotics or other drug, not therapeutically administered, to the degree that he/she they may endanger himself/herself themselves or other persons or property, or disturb the peace of persons in their his/her vicinity;.
shall be deemed guilty of disorderly conduct and upon conviction thereof shall be deemed guilty of disorderly conduct.
B. Penalty: Any person violating any of the provisions of this Section shall be fined not less than seventy-five dollars ($75.00) or more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each offense.
Effective date: This ordinance shall be in effect immediately upon adoption.
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