Bolingbrook, IL Public Conduct: Loud Party Ordinance (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing section
- Code of Ordinances § 36-439
- Fine range
- $200.00 to $500.00 per offense
- Per-minor counting
- Each underage invitee is a separate offense
- Exception
- Religious ceremony or service use
- Adopted
- Ord. No. 05-079, July 12, 2005
Summary
A Bolingbrook resident who knowingly lets an invitee under 21 possess or drink alcohol in the home, or on any land or room they control, faces a $200 to $500 fine under the village's social hosting ordinance. Each underage invitee counts as a separate offense.
(a)It is unlawful for any person to knowingly authorize, enable or permit minors under the age of 21 years, who are invitees of the person or of the person's child or ward, to possess or to consume any alcoholic liquor in the person's residence or on any land, building, structure or room, including a hotel or motel room, occupied or procured by such person.(b)Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the giving of alcoholic liquor to a minor under the age of 21 years in the performance of a religious ceremony or service.(c)Any person who shall be convicted of violating any provision of this section shall be fined not less than $200.00 nor more than $500.00, and each minor invitee, who is permitted to possess or consume alcoholic liquor on the host premises, shall be deemed a separate offense.
Full Breakdown
Section 36-439, titled Social Hosting, sits in Chapter 36's Alcoholic Beverages division and targets the adult who hosts a gathering rather than the minors who drink at it. Subsection (a) makes it unlawful for any person to knowingly authorize, enable or permit an invitee under 21, whether the host's own guest or a guest of the host's child or ward, to possess or consume alcoholic liquor in the host's residence or on any land, building, structure or room the host occupies or procures, expressly including a rented hotel or motel room.
The ordinance carves out one narrow exception in subsection (b): giving liquor to a minor as part of a religious ceremony or service is not a violation. 00 per conviction, and critically counts each minor invitee found possessing or consuming alcohol on the host's premises as its own separate offense, so a party with several underage drinkers can generate several fines from a single citation. The ordinance dates to Ordinance No. 05-079, adopted July 12, 2005, and traces to former Code 1973 Sec. 1. It complements the village's separate underage-possession ordinance at Sec.
36-440, which penalizes the minors themselves, and its minor-in-tobacco-possession counterpart at Sec. 36-420, showing a broader village scheme of holding both the supplying adult and the underage user accountable.
Violations & Fines
A social hosting conviction under Sec. 36-439(c) carries a fine of not less than $200.00 nor more than $500.00. Because each minor invitee possessing or consuming alcohol on the premises is deemed a separate offense, a host can face multiple stacked fines from one incident.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can a Bolingbrook homeowner be fined if a teenager drinks at their party?
Does it matter if the minor is my own child's friend rather than my guest?
Is there any exception to Bolingbrook's social hosting law?
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