Rock Island County, IL Public Conduct: Public Urination (2026)

County Code Sec. 17, part of the Public Transportation subchapter that governs the County Metropolitan Mass Transit District, prohibits anyone on or in a transit facility or conveyance from littering, dumping garbage or liquids, or creating a nuisance, hazard, or unsanitary condition, and specifically calls out spitting and urinating as covered conduct. The only exception is a facility or conveyance area the agency has actually designated for that purpose. FACILITIES is defined broadly in Sec. 16 to include stations, terminals, storage yards, maintenance shops, parking lots, and other real estate used by the agency, while CONVEYANCE covers buses, paratransit vehicles, rapid transit, and other agency vehicles carrying passengers.

The same section, in adjacent subsections, also bars drinking or carrying open alcohol on transit property, disorderly conduct that could provoke a breach of the peace, false emergency reports, graffiti and vandalism to agency property, and carrying weapons other than by law enforcement. Sec. 15 clarifies that conduct otherwise prohibited is lawful when performed by an agency officer, employee, or agent acting within the scope of employment, which covers, for example, transit maintenance staff working on a facility. Because this chapter is scoped specifically to the transit agency's property and vehicles, it does not create a general county-wide ban on urinating in a park, street, or other public place; conduct outside transit facilities would fall instead under the state disorderly conduct statute cross-referenced in the code, 720 ILCS 5/26-1.