Springfield, IL Public Conduct: Public Urination (2026)

01(g) folds public urination and defecation into the city's disorderly conduct chapter alongside false alarms and peeping offenses, listing it as one of the acts that constitutes disorderly conduct within the corporate limits. The prohibited act is urinating or defecating "on or about any public street, road, highway, alleyway, sidewalk, park or other public place open to public view which is not a lavatory facility," so the location has to be publicly visible and outside a restroom to trigger the violation. The ordinance dates to Ordinance No.

597-10-04, adopted October 19, 2004, which also set the dedicated penalty tier for this subsection. 01(g) violation carries its own elevated fine floor: not less than $200 nor more than $500 per offense. Springfield Police officers issue citations for violations observed downtown, in parks, and along commercial corridors where the conduct is most commonly reported. Because the offense sits in the disorderly conduct chapter rather than a standalone public-health ordinance, a citation can accompany other disorderly conduct charges arising from the same incident, and each act is treated as a separate offense for fine purposes.