Cicero, IL Public Conduct: Outdoor Smoking Restrictions (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing section
- Cicero Code § 82-391
- Scope
- All Public Parks, including buildings on them
- Designated area exception
- None, unlike indoor smoking rule
- Fine range
- $250.00 to $750.00 per violation (Sec. 82-397)
- Enforcement
- Cicero Police Dept. and Community Service Officers
Summary
Cicero prohibits smoking cigarettes, cigars, pipes or other tobacco products anywhere in a town public park, including inside the buildings and structures on park grounds, with no designated outdoor smoking area exception like the town allows indoors.
No person shall smoke cigarettes, cigars, pipes or other tobacco products in any Public Park, which includes the buildings and structures located within any Public Park.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 121).
Full Breakdown
Article X of Chapter 82, General Regulations Governing the Use of Public Parks, sets outdoor conduct rules distinct from the indoor Clean Indoor Air Regulations in Chapter 46. Sec. 82-391 states flatly that "no person shall smoke cigarettes, cigars, pipes or other tobacco products in any Public Park, which includes the buildings and structures located within any Public Park." Unlike the indoor smoking law in Sec. 46-660, which lets a proprietor designate a posted smoking area, the park smoking ban carries no such carve-out: the prohibition covers the entire park property and any structure on it. The provision sits alongside other outdoor park restrictions in the same article, including a total ban on open fires or bonfires (Sec. 82-390, fined at a flat $750.00) and a ban on bringing or drinking alcoholic liquor without a town permit or concession (Sec. 82-393). The Cicero Police Department and Community Service Officers are the designated enforcement authorities for the entire article.
Violations & Fines
Sec. 82-397 sets the general Article X penalty at a fine of not less than $250.00 nor more than $750.00 for any violation without its own specific fine, which applies to smoking under Sec. 82-391 since that section states the prohibition without a separate penalty amount. Each day a violation continues counts as a separate offense, the town may seek restitution for related property damage, and the town may bar a repeat violator from future use of any or all public parks.
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