Record #: O2021-3618   
Type: Ordinance Status: Failed to Pass
Intro date: 9/14/2021 Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Public Safety
Final action: 5/24/2023
Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Section 8-4-040 to prohibit defacing or destroying of property memorializing or honoring police officers
Sponsors: Tabares, Silvana, O'Shea, Matthew J., Cardona, Jr., Felix , Gardiner, James M. , Nugent, Samantha , Moore, David H., Sawyer, Roderick T., Dowell, Pat, Beale, Anthony, Thompson, Patrick D., Cardenas, George A., Burke, Edward M., Lopez, Raymond A., Curtis, Derrick G., Brookins, Jr., Howard, Scott, Jr. Michael, Burnett, Jr., Walter, Ervin, Jason C., Taliaferro, Chris, Waguespack, Scott, Villegas, Gilbert, Mitts, Emma, Sposato, Nicholas, Napolitano, Anthony V., Reilly, Brendan, Tunney, Thomas
Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 8 - Offenses Affecting Public Peace, Morals & Welfare - Ch. 4 Public Peace & Welfare
Attachments: 1. O2021-3618.pdf
Related files: R2023-766
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:

SECTION 1. Section 8-4-040 of the Municipal Code of Chicago Is hereby amended by Inserting the language underscored, as follows:

8-4-040 Defacing and Injuring houses of worship and cemeteries.



Any person who wilfully defaces, mars, injures, destroys or removes any vault, tomb, monument, gravestone, memorial of the dead, veterans' or other military monument or memorial, property that memorializes or honors an individual or group of police officers. church, synagogue, or any other structure constituting a place of worship of any religion, sect or group, or any part of any contents thereof, or any fence, tree, shrub or plant appurtenant thereto, shall be fined not less than $100.00 nor more than $750.00, or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both such fine and Imprisonment, for each offense. Each such act of marring, injuring, destroying or removal shall constitute a separate offense.



SECTION 2. This ordinance shall take effect upon passage and publication.

Silvana Tabares
Alderman 23rd Ward
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