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MUNICIPALITIES
(65 ILCS 5/) Illinois Municipal Code.

65 ILCS 5/11-80-13

    (65 ILCS 5/11-80-13) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-13)
    Sec. 11-80-13. The corporate authorities of each municipality may regulate the use of sidewalks, the construction, repair, and use of openings in sidewalks, and all vaults and structures thereon and thereunder, including telephone booths, and may require the owner or occupant of any premises to keep the sidewalks abutting the premises free from snow and other obstructions.
(Source: Laws 1963, p. 2430.)

65 ILCS 5/11-80-14

    (65 ILCS 5/11-80-14) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-14)
    Sec. 11-80-14. The corporate authorities of each municipality may regulate and prevent the use of streets, sidewalks, and public property for signs, sign posts, awnings, awning posts, telegraph poles, watering places, racks, posting handbills and advertisements.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-80-15

    (65 ILCS 5/11-80-15) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-15)
    Sec. 11-80-15. Street advertising; adult entertainment advertising.
    (a) The corporate authorities of each municipality may license street advertising by means of billboards, sign boards, and signs and may regulate the character and control the location of billboards, sign boards, and signs upon vacant property and upon buildings.
    (b) The corporate authorities of each municipality may further regulate the character and control the location of adult entertainment advertising placed on billboards, sign boards, and signs upon vacant property and upon buildings that are within 1,000 feet of the property boundaries of schools, day care centers, cemeteries, public parks, and places of religious worship.
    For the purposes of this subsection, "adult entertainment" means entertainment provided by an adult bookstore, striptease club, or pornographic movie theater whose business is the commercial sale, dissemination, or distribution of sexually explicit materials, shows, or other exhibitions.
(Source: P.A. 89-605, eff. 8-2-96.)

65 ILCS 5/11-80-16

    (65 ILCS 5/11-80-16) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-16)
    Sec. 11-80-16. The corporate authorities of each municipality may regulate and prohibit the exhibition or carrying of banners, signs, placards, advertisements, or handbills on the sidewalks, streets, or other municipal property.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-80-17

    (65 ILCS 5/11-80-17) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-17)
    Sec. 11-80-17. The corporate authorities of each municipality may regulate and prevent the flying of flags, banners, or signs across streets or from houses.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-80-18

    (65 ILCS 5/11-80-18) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-18)
    Sec. 11-80-18. The corporate authorities of each municipality may regulate the numbering of buildings and lots. No change in the numbering of buildings and lots shall be effective until 30 days after the election authorities having jurisdiction in the area in which such numbering is changed and the post office branch serving that area have been notified by the corporate authority initiating such action of the change in writing by certified or registered mail.
(Source: P.A. 80-398.)

65 ILCS 5/11-80-19

    (65 ILCS 5/11-80-19) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-19)
    Sec. 11-80-19. The corporate authorities of each municipality may name originally and then may change the name of any street, avenue, alley, or other public place. No change in the name of any street, avenue, alley or other public place shall be effective until 30 days after the election authorities having jurisdiction in the area in which the name of the public place is changed and the post office branch serving that area have been notified by the corporate authority initiating such action of the change in writing by certified or registered mail.
(Source: P.A. 80-398.)

65 ILCS 5/11-80-20

    (65 ILCS 5/11-80-20) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-20)
    Sec. 11-80-20. The corporate authorities of each municipality may regulate traffic and sales upon the streets, sidewalks, public places, and municipal property.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-80-21

    (65 ILCS 5/11-80-21) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-80-21)
    Sec. 11-80-21. The corporate authorities by condemnation or otherwise may extend any street or alley over or across, or may construct any sewer under any railroad track, or through the right-of-way or land of any railroad company. Where no compensation is made to the railroad company, however, the municipality shall restore the railroad track, right-of-way, or land so that its usefulness will not be impaired more than is reasonably necessary.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)