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
Attachments: 1. O2015-2679.pdf
Related files: R2015-407
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)
  1. 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;
  1. Prohibited acts. It shall be unlawful for any licensee engaged in the business of booting motor vehicles to:
  1. 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;
  2. 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;
  3. 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 parked vehicle, and license plate of the parked vehicle.
    1. {4} assess a fee in excess of $140.00 to remove a boot;
  2. (5) use any boot of a color prohibited by the commissioner in duly promulgated rules and regulations. The commissioner may prohibit any color which might be confused with a boot used by the City as part of the City's vehicle immobilization program; and
 
 
{5} 161 engage in booting operations at any location that is outside the 1st Ward, 12th Ward, 15th Ward, 21st Ward, 22nd Ward, 23rd Ward, 25th Ward, 26th Ward, 27th Ward, 30th Ward, 32nd Ward, 33rd Ward, 34th Ward, 36th Ward, 37th Ward, 38th Ward, 40th Ward, 42nd Ward, 43rd Ward, 44th Ward, 45th Ward, 46th Ward, 47th Ward, 48th Ward, or 49th Ward.
Proco Joe Moreno Alderman, 1st Ward
 
SECTION 2. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and publication.