Office of the City Clerk - Record #: O2015-2679

• Record #: O2015-2679
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Failed to Pass
• Intro date: 4/15/2015
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Zoning, Landmarks and Building Standards
• Final action: 5/20/2015
• Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Section 4-6-230 regarding legal duties and prohibited acts of licensees engaged in business of booting and to allow booting of motor vehicles on private property within 1st Ward
• Sponsors: Moreno, Proco Joe
• Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 4 - Businesses, Occupations & Consumer Protection - Ch. 6 Regulated Business License
• Related files: R2015-407

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
5/20/2015		City Council	Failed to Pass	Fail
4/15/2015	107524	City Council	Referred

SUBSTITUTE

ORDINANCE

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:
SECTION 1. Section 4-6-230(f)(3)(g)(3-6) ofthe Municipal Code of Chicago is hereby amended by inserting the underscored language and deleting the language struck through, as follows:

4-6-230 Booting of motor vehicles.

(omitted text is unaffected by this ordinance)
Legal duties. Each licensee engaged in the business of booting of motor vehicles shall have a duty to:
(3) post, no fewer than 14 days prior to the commencement of a booting operation at each and every location where a booting operation is to be conducted, and to maintain in a conspicuous location signs at every entry and exit of the parking areas, in clear view and unobstructed from any natural or manmade objects, a minimum of two signs no smaller than 24 inches in height and 36 inches in width, setting forth: (i) the date upon which a booting operation shall commence; (ii) the terms of use of the subject property; (iii) the fee for removal of a boot; (iv) the name, address and a 24-hour telephone number for the licensee; (v) the name and telephone number of the property owner or manager; and (vi) a statement notifying consumers of their rights under this section with language provided by the department. Such signs shall remain in place as long as a booting operation is being conducted;
Prohibited acts. It shall be unlawful for any licensee engaged in the business of booting motor vehicles to:

provide booting service at any property at which any person having a beneficial interest in the licensee also has a beneficial interest in the subject property;
place a boot upon any occupied motor vehicle or upon any motor vehicle parked in accordance with the terms of use for the subject property;
place a boot upon any motor vehicle parked for less than 10 minutes. Just cause for booting vehicles parked for over 10 minutes shall be established bv no less than two time-stamped photographs which clearly depict the parking space, the...