Office of the City Clerk - Record #: O2020-2113

• Record #: O2020-2113
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Failed to Pass
• Intro date: 4/24/2020
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Health and Human Relations
• Final action: 5/24/2023
• Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Chapter 4-4 by adding new Section 4-4-311 requiring licensed businesses to comply with emergency procedures issued by Governor of Illinois and Mayor of City of Chicago during declared disasters or emergency operations
• Sponsors: Vasquez, Jr., Andre, La Spata, Daniel , King, Sophia D., Hairston, Leslie A., Sadlowski Garza, Susan, Cardenas, George A., Burke, Edward M., Moore, David H., Taylor, Jeanette B. , Rodriguez, Michael D., Scott, Jr. Michael, Sigcho-Lopez, Byron, Maldonado, Roberto, Taliaferro, Chris, Cardona, Jr., Felix , Waguespack, Scott, Rodriguez Sanchez, Rossana , Ramirez-Rosa, Carlos, Smith, Michele, Martin, Matthew J. , Hadden, Maria E. , Silverstein, Debra L.
• Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 4 - Businesses, Occupations & Consumer Protection - Ch. 4 General Licensing Provisions
• Related files: R2023-766

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
5/24/2023		City Council	Failed to Pass
4/24/2020	16498	City Council	Referred

Committee on Health and Human Relations

ORDINANCE

WHEREAS, the outbreak ofthe novel coronavirus 2019-ncov, also known as COVID-19, has precipitated a worldwide public health crisis, and,

WHEREAS, Executive Order 2020-10, issued by Governor Pritzker on March 20, 2020, implemented a "stay at home" order, categorizing businesses as essential or non-essential and establishing conditions to encourage employees considered essential to work from home, and

WHEREAS, The City of Chicago has a duty to its residents to ensure that all licensed businesses within the City operate in a manner that does not endanger the health or welfare of workers, customers, or City residents, and

WHEREAS, in this time of crisis we are called upon to evaluate our ordinary and emergency operating procedures, and to better prepare for future crises, now therefore,

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:

SECTION 1. A new section 4-4-311 ofthe Municipal Code ofthe City of Chicago is hereby added with the following language:

4*3-311 Declared disasters and emergency operations

A license may be suspended or revoked for failure to comply with emergency procedures during a disaster or emergency declared by the federal government ofthe United States, the State of Illinois, the County of Cook, or the City of Chicago, within the boundaries of which a licensed business is located.
Licensed businesses shall comply with all orders issued during a declared disaster or emergency by the Governor of Illinois and the Mayor of Chicago within their statutory emergency authority.
In the event of any quarantine, stay at home, shelter in place, work/business closure or hour restrictions, or similar order or orders restricting the movement and/or performance of duties by workers, under which "essential" workers or workers similarly deemed by the relevant order or orders may still perform their duties, businesses employing workers so deemed must provide for all essential workers during the perfo...