Manual Of Juvenile Laws | by Harry E. Smoot
This book is intended to aid all social workers, either in the field or in court. The text in most instances is a condensed statement of the law. The marginal references indicate where the law in full may be found. Persons who use this manual should consult the full text cited whenever there is any doubt as to the application or construction of the law in question. Many additions to and changes from the first manual have been made in this revision. An arrangement which seemed best adapted to the needs of all social workers, whether in Chicago or elsewhere in the state, has been used. It is believed that workers outside of Chicago will find the manual of great assistance to them.
| Title | Manual Of Juvenile Laws |
| Author | Harry E. Smoot |
| Publisher | Juvenile Protective Association Of Chicago |
| Year | 1911 |
| Copyright | 1911, Juvenile Protective Association Of Chicago |
| Amazon | Manual Of Juvenile Laws |
Compiled and Revised by Harry E. Smoot. Attorney
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- Laws
- Note. - The references R. S. are to Revised Statutes, Hurd, 1908; the references R. M. C. are to the Revised Municipal Code of Chicago of 1905. Constitutional Rights. Extradition A person charge...
- Abandonment
- Abandonment Of Wife And Children Every person who shall, without good cause, abandon his wife and neglect and refuse to maintain and provide for her, or who shall abandon his or her minor children ...
- Abduction
- Of Female Whoever entices or takes away any unmarried female of chaste life and conversation from the parent's home or wherever she may be found, for the purpose of prostitution or concubinage, or ...
- Abortion
- Producing Whoever by means of any instrument or medicine produces an abortion or miscarriage or attempts to produce the same, unless it is necessary to save life, shall be imprisoned in the peniten...
- Adoption
- Who May Adopt Any reputable person can petition Circuit or County Court for leave to adopt a child or to change a child's name. (See sections 2 and 6 for form of petition, rights of child, parent, ...
- Adulteration
- Of Foods, Candies, Etc Adulterating food substances, candy or confection with any substance which is poisonous or injurious to health for the purpose of sale; keeping, selling or offering for sale ...
- Adultery
- Every man and woman living together in an open state of adultery or fornication shall be fined not exceeding $500, or confined in county jail not exceeding one year. Punishment doubled for second offe...
- Advertisements
- Medical Advertisements Prohibited It shall be unlawful for anyone to post in any place advertisements giving information from whom or where remedies of any kind may be obtained for the cure, preven...
- Amusements
- Amusements, Classification For License. Intoxicating Liquors All theatricals, shows and amusements offered, operated, presented or exhibited for gain or for admission, to which a fee is charged, ar...
- Apprentices
- Age And Who May Bind Children under 16 years of age may be bound out as apprentices, etc., until they arrive at that age, by the parents or guardians or the judges of the County or Circuit Courts, ...
- Arbor And Bird Day
- The governor shall each spring designate a day to be known as Arbor and Bird Day, and to be observed throughout the state for planting trees, shrubs and vines about the homes and along highways, and...
- Arrest
- Without Warrant An officer or private person may arrest without warrant for a criminal offense committed or attempted in his presence. An officer may arrest also without warrant when he has reasona...
- Bastardy And Illegitimates
- Complaint By Mother Complaint may be made by an unmarried woman who shall be pregnant or delivered of a child, before a justice of the peace or in the Municipal Court in the City of Chicago, accusi...
- Billiards And Pool
- Billiards And Pool - Minors Not To Play No person who keeps, conducts or operates any billiard or pool table for profit or who conducts or operates any room wherein is kept or operated for profit a...
- Candy Stores
- Selling Liquor In Candy Stores, Etc No license shall be issued for the purpose of keeping a saloon or dram shop in connection with a candy store, ice cream parlor, fruit store or bakery; nor shall ...
- City Councils
- Powers Of The City Council The city council in cities, and the president and the board of trustees in villages, shall have, among others, the following powers: Forty-First To license, tax, re...
- Child Labor
- Certain Employments Of Children Forbidden It shall be unlawful for any person having the care, custody or control of any child under the age of 14 years to exhibit, use or employ, sell, apprentice,...
- Cocaine And Opium
- Sale Of Cocaine Forbidden It shall be unlawful for any druggist or other person to retail, sell or give away, any cocaine, alpha or beta, eucaine, or any salt or any compound or derivative of the f...
- Continuances In Court
- Continuance For Evidence A motion for the continuance of a case on account of the absence of material evidence must be supported by an affidavit showing that due diligence has been used to obtain s...
- Contributing To Dependency Or Delinquency Of Children
- Penalty For Contributing To Dependency Of Children - Suspension Of Sentence Any parent or parents, or legal guard-dian or person having the custody of any dependent, neglected or delinquent child, ...
- Crimes Against Children
- Penalty For Crimes Against Children Any person 17 years of age or older who takes or attempts to take any immoral, improper or indecent liberties with any child of either sex under the age of 15 ye...
- Crimes - Definitions
- Felony A felony is an offense punishable with death or imprisonment in the penitentiary. R. S., ch. 38, sec. 277. Misdemeanor Every other offense is a misdemeanor. Sec. 278. What Con...
- Crimes - Who Not Guilty
- Infant An infant under the age of 10 years shall not be found guilty of any crime or misdemeanor. R. S., ch. 38, sec. 283. Insanity An insane person without lucid intervals shall not be ...
- Cruelty To Children
- Cruelty To Children And Others Any person willfully and unnecessarily exposing to the inclemency of the weather, or injuring the health of any child under his or her legal control, is punishable by...
- Custody And Support Of Children
- Divorce - Custody Of Children During the pendency of a divorce suit, on application of either party the court may enter such order concerning the custody of the minor children as may be deemed for ...
- Disorderly Conduct
- Punishment Whoever shall be guilty of open lewdness, disorderly conduct or other notorious act of public indecency, tending to debauch the public morals, shall be fined not exceeding $200. R. S....
- Employment Agencies
- Creation Of Free Employment Offices Section provides for the creation of free employment offices. R. S., ch. 48, sec. 53. No Fee To Be Charged Person Applying For Employment No fee shall b...
- Executor
- Minor May Be Executor A person of the age of 17 years, of sound mind and memory, may be appointed executor. But such person cannot serve in such capacity during his minority. R. S., ch. 3, sec. ...
- Explosives
- Explosives - Sale To Minors Forbidden It is unlawful to sell any kind of dangerous explosives to minors under 18 years of age. Penalty : fine of from $50 to $200. Amend. to R. M. C, p. 226. ...
- Extradition
- Fugitives From This State - Warrant Whenever the executive of this state shall demand a fugitive from justice from any other state he shall issue his warrant to some messenger, commanding him to re...
- Fireworks
- No fireworks, firecrackers, torpedoes, etc., or other thing containing any substance of an explosive nature intended to be used as fireworks shall be discharged within the city except on the Fourth of...
- Flipping Cars
- No minor under 18 years of age shall climb upon or cling to any street car or railroad car of any kind while the same is in motion, under a penalty of from $2 to $10. R. M. C, sec. 1437. ...
- Fruit Stores And Ice Cream Parlors
- Fruit Stores And Ice Cream Parlors To Be Licensed No one shall keep or manage a retail fruit store or ice cream parlor without a license. All applicants for such licenses shall furnish bond cond...
- Gaming
- Playing Cards, Etc., In Saloons By Minors All saloons where intoxicating liquors are sold, in which minors are permitted to play with cards, dice, etc., are hereby declared to be disorderly houses....
- Guardian And Ward
- Guardian And Ward - Who Minors Males of the age of 21 and females of the age of 18 years shall be considered of full age for all purposes. R. S., ch. 64, sec. 1. Nomination If a minor is u...
- Habeas Corpus
- Habeas Corpus. Who May Prosecute Every person imprisoned or otherwise restrained of his liberty, except as is otherwise provided by law, may prosecute a writ of habeas corpus to obtain relief from ...
- Hand Organs
- The Use Of Hand Organ Or Other Musical Instrument The use of hand organ or other musical instrument for pay in the streets or public places before 9 o'clock a. m. or after 9 o'clock p. m. is forbid...
- Health
- Department Of Health - Supervision Of Health Commissioner Commissioner shall have and exercise a general supervision over the health and sanitary conditions of the city. R. M. C., sec. 1026. ...
- Home For Juvenile Female Offenders
- Establishment Of Home Authorizes the establishment and maintenance of a State Home for Juvenile Offenders, the object of which shall be to provide for the maintenance, discipline and reformation ...
- Humane Societies
- Humane Societies - Fines - Special Policemen Fines paid through the agency of humane societies shall be transferred to their credit if they are incorporated under the laws of Illinois. The gener...
- Husband And Wife
- Evidence - Husband And Wife No husband or wife shall, by virtue of section 1 of this act, be rendered competent to testify for or against each other as to any transaction or conversation occurring ...
- Incest
- Incest - Father With Daughter A father who rudely and licentiously cohabits with his own daughter shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary for not more than 20 years. R. S., ch. 38, sec. 156. ...
- Information And Publicity Bureau
- Bureau Of Information And Publicity There is hereby created a bureau for the city of Chicago which shall be known as the Bureau of Information and Publicity and shall embrace a Commissioner of Info...
- Interest - Rates
- Interest - Penalty For Contracting More Than Seven Per Cent If any person shall contract to receive a greater rate of interest than 7 per cent upon any contract, verbal or written, such person shal...
- Intoxicating Liquors
- Dram Shop Defined A dram shop is a place where spirituous, vinous or malt liquors are retailed by less quantity than one gallon, and intoxicating liquors shall be deemed to include all such liquors...
- Junk And Second-Hand Stores
- Second-Hand Stores - License - Buying From Minors No person shall conduct a second-hand store without being specially licensed for that purpose. No person so licensed shall be permitted to solic...
- Juvenile Court And Institutions. Treatment And Control Of Dependent, Neglected And Delinquent Children
- Definition That all persons under the age of 21 years shall, for the purposes of this act only, be considered wards of this state and that their persons shall be subject to the care, guardianship a...
- Kidnapping
- Kidnapping - Carrying Away Infant Whoever wilfully and without authority forcibly takes or entices away any infant under the age of 12 years, without the consent of the parent or guardian, with int...
- Library
- This section establishes the Chicago public library as a free public library and reading room for the use of the inhabitants of the city. R. M. C., sec. 1320. ...
- Licenses
- Licenses To Be Posted Every license granted by the mayor for the purpose of conducting any business required by this ordinance to be licensed, and having designated therein a particular place in wh...
- Limitations
- Statutes Of Limitation - Infants With reference to rights of entry or of action upon or for lands, the Statute of Limitation does not run against minors until after the expiration of two years afte...
- Lodging Houses
- State Board Of Health - Supervision Of Lodging Houses The State Board of Health shall have supervision of all lodging and boarding houses, etc., and shall properly inspect the same to see that the ...
- Lunatics
- Lunatics - Insane Defined That the word insane shall mean any person who, by reason of unsoundness of mind, is incapable of managing and caring for his own estate, or is dangerous to himself or o...
- Marriages
- When Marriage Is Illegal Marriages between parents and children, including grandparents and grandchildren of every degree, between brothers and sisters of the half as well as of the whole blood, be...
- Maternity Hospitals
- Hospitals And Maternity Hospitals A maternity hospital is any institution or place used for the reception and care, temporary or continuous, of one of more women during pregnancy, while awaiting co...
- Mines
- Mines - No Boy Under 16 And No Woman Or Girl To Do Manual Labor No boy under 16 years of age, or no woman or girl of any age, shall be permitted to do any manual labor in or about any mine, and bef...
- Mortgage On Household Goods
- Foreclosure - Chattel Mortgages On Household Goods No chattel mortgage on necessary household goods, wearing apparel or mechanics' tools of any person or family shall be foreclosed except in a cour...
- Motion Pictures And Arcades
- Censorship Of Moving Picture Theaters It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to show or exhibit in a public place any pictures of the kind commonly shown in mutoscopes, etc., and ...
- Municipal Court Of Chicago
- Jurisdiction The Municipal Court shall have jurisdiction in, among others, the following cases: Third In all criminal cases in which the punishment is by fine or imprisonment, otherwise than ...
- Name - How To Change
- Name - Change Of, For Infant Whenever an infant has resided in the family of any person for three years and has been known as an adopted child in such family, the person having such infant in his f...
- Obscene Literature And Immoral Exhibitions
- Circulating Obscene Books, Etc Whoever brings, or causes to be brought, into this state for sale or exhibition, or shall sell or offer to sell, or shall give away, or have in his possession, any ob...
- Parks And Playgrounds
- Parks, Public Playgrounds And Bathing Beaches Section establishes the Bureau of Parks, Public Playgrounds and Bathing Beaches, which shall embrace the superintendent of city parks, the superintende...
- Paupers
- Paupers - Who Liable To Support Every poor person who shall be unable to earn a livelihood because of any bodily infirmity, idiocy, lunacy, or other unavoidable cause, shall be supported by the fat...
- Pawnbrokers And Societies
- Pawnbrokers - Pledge From Minor No pawnbroker shall receive in pledge any property of any kind from a minor, or which is claimed by a minor, or in the possession of a minor, for money loaned. R....
- Peddlers
- Definition Of Peddlers Every person who shall sell or offer to sell, barter, etc., at retail, any goods, fruits, merchandise, etc., traveling from place to place along the streets of the city, or w...
- Perjury
- Perjury - Punishment Every person having taken a lawful oath, or made affirmation in any judicial proceeding, or in any other matter where, by law, an oath is required, who shall swear wilfully, co...
- Prosecuting Attorney
- Department Of Law - Prosecuting Attorney There is hereby established an executive department of the municipal government, to be known as the Department of Law, which shall embrace the Corporation C...
- Prostitution
- Disorderly House - Ill Fame (a) Persons keeping houses of ill fame for the practice of prostitution or lewdness; (b) persons patronizing such places; (c) persons letting houses or rooms for such pu...
- Publications - Criminal News
- Sale Of Certain Publications To Minors Prohibited It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, lend, give away, etc., to any minor child, literature of any sort devoted to the publication of crimin...
- Punishment Of Offenders Under 18
- Persons under 18 years of age shall not be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary except for murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery, burglary or arson. In all other cases persons between 16 and 18 ...
- Rape
- Rape - Punishment Rape is the carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will. Every male person of the age of 17 years and upwards, who shall have carnal knowledge of a female under 16 ...
- Schools
- Length Of Time Children Must Be Sent To School Every person having control of any child between 7 and 16 years of age shall cause such child to attend public or private school the entire time durin...
- Search Warrants
- Any judge may issue search warrants, when there is reasonable cause, in the following cases, to wit: (1) to search for, and seize books, pamphlets, ballads and printed papers or other things containin...
- Seduction
- Seduction - Defined Whoever seduces and obtains carnal knowledge of any unmarried female under the age of 18 years, of previous chaste character, shall be fined not less than $1,000 nor more than $...
- Soldiers' Orphans' Home
- The soldiers orphans' home shall be provided for the nurture and intellectual, moral and physical culture of all indigent children of old soldiers. The home receives (1) children under 5 years of age ...
- Suits In Chancery
- Suits In Chancery By Minors Suits in chancery may be commenced and prosecuted by minors either by guardian or next friend. R. S., ch. 22, sec. 5. Guardian Ad Litem The court may appoint a ...
- Tobacco
- Sale Of Tobacco To Minors It is unlawful to sell, buy for, or furnish any cigarette or tobacco in any of its forms, to any minor under 16 years of age, unless upon written order of parent or guardi...
- Vagabonds
- R. S., ch. 38, sec. 270. Vagabonds - What Shall Constitute All persons who are idle and dissolute and who go about begging. All persons who use any juggling or other unlawful plays or games........
- Voters
- Qualification Of Voters Every person above the age of 21 years, having resided in this state one year, in the county ninety days, and in the election district thirty days next preceding any electio...
- Weapons
- Having In Possession Or Selling Deadly Weapons Anyone having in his possession, or who shall sell or offer to sell, etc., any slung-shot, knuckles, or other deadly weapon, shall be guilty of misdem...
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