Office of the City Clerk - Record #: O2019-4121

• Record #: O2019-4121
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Failed to Pass
• Intro date: 6/12/2019
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Public Safety
• Final action: 5/24/2023
• Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Section 8-4-030 by restricting consumption or prohibiting unlawful transportation of alcoholic liquor on public way
• Sponsors: Hopkins, Brian
• Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 8 - Offenses Affecting Public Peace, Morals & Welfare - Ch. 4 Public Peace & Welfare
• Related files: R2023-766

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
5/24/2023		City Council	Failed to Pass
7/23/2019		Committee on Public Safety	Add Co-Sponsor(s)
6/12/2019	2044	City Council	Referred

Committee on Public Safety June 12,2019

WHEREAS, The City of Chicago is a home-rule unit of government under Article VII, Section 6(a) of the 1970 Constitution of the State of Illinois and, as such, may exercise any power and perform any function pertaining to its government and affairs; and

WHEREAS, Promoting the safety, health, and welfare of those who work, visit, and reside within the City of Chicago's borders plain meets this criterion; and

WHEREAS, Encouraging the responsible sales and consumption of alcohol is a reasonable means to promote and enhance the public safety and welfare of residents and visitors within the City of Chicago; and

WHEREAS, Consuming alcohol in motor vehicles while parked on the public way is a likely contributor to drunken or impaired driving; and

WHEREAS, Illegal consumption of open containers of alcohol on the public way diminishes the beauty, serenity, and public safety of the City of Chicago and its neighborhoods and business districts; now therefore:

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

SECTION 1. The foregoing recitals, are hereby incorporated as the findings of the Chicago City Council.

SECTION 2. Section 8-4-030 of the Municipal Code of Chicago is amended by deleting the language stricken through and inserting the language underscored, as follows:

8-4-030 Drinking in public ways - Exceptions.
(a) (1) It shall be unlawful for any person to drink any alcoholic liquor as defined by law on any public way or in or about any motor vehicle upon a public way in the city. Provided, however, that this subsection (a)(1) shall not apply to:
any portion of the public way occupied by a sidewalk cafe permitted pursuant to Chapter 10-28 of this Code which is properly licensed to sell alcoholic liquor, or
any portion of the public way located on Navy Pier, if: (1) the alcoholic liquor being carried and consumed on such public way was purchased at an establishment holding a valid liquor license at Navy Pier under S...