The following acts, conduct and conditions are hereby declared and defined to be nuisances, and when committed, performed or permitted to exist by any individual, firm, association or corporation within the territorial limits of the Village are hereby declared to be unlawful and prohibited:
A. Any act or offense which is a nuisance according to the common law of the State of Illinois or declared or defined to be a nuisance by the ordinances of the Village. In addition, the officials of the Village shall be authorized to abate any nuisance which, while not specifically defined within this chapter, shall constitute the unreasonable, unwarrantable or unlawful use by a person of property, real or personal, or from his own improper, indecent or unlawful personal conduct which works an obstruction or injury to a right of another, or of the public, and produces such material annoyance, inconvenience, discomfort or hurt that the law will presume an actionable nuisance. Nuisances may be abated which are public or which are both public and private in nature.
B. To cause or suffer the carcass of any animal or any offal, filth or noisome substance to be collected, deposited or to remain in any place under his ownership or control to the prejudice of others.
C. To throw or deposit any offal or other offensive matter, or the carcass of any dead animal in any watercourse, lake, pond, spring, well or common sewer, street, alley, public highway, churches, school premises, or park.
D. To corrupt or render unwholesome or impure the water of any spring, river, stream, pond or lake, to the injury or prejudice of others.
E. To obstruct or encroach upon public highways, private ways, streets, alleys, commons, landing places, and ways to burying places.
F. To erect, continue or use any building or other place for the exercise of any trade, employment or manufacture, which, by occasioning noxious exhalations, offensive smells or otherwise, is offensive or dangerous to the health of individuals, or of the public.
G. To advertise wares or occupations by painting notices of the same on, or affixing them to fences, walls, windows, building exteriors, utility poles, or on hydrants, other public or private property, or rocks or other natural objects, without the consent of the owner, or if in the highway or other public place, without permission of the proper authorities.
H. To harass, intimidate or threaten any person who is about to sell or lease or has sold or leased a residence or other real property or is about to buy or lease or has bought or leased a residence or other real property, when the harassment, intimidation or threat relates to a person's attempt to sell, buy or lease a residence, or other real property, or refers to a person's sale, purchase or lease of a residence or other real property.
I. To dump, abandon, deposit, dismantle or burn upon any public property or right-of-way, highway, park, street, or parkway anywhere in the Village, any trash, garbage, ashes, junk, junked or wrecked motor vehicles or parts thereof, or miscellaneous waste. (1987 Code § 8-1-1)
J. To store, keep or maintain outside of a closed building, any junk, parts, machinery or equipment not in an operable condition, or motor vehicle not in an operable condition, where such inoperable motor vehicle is an actual danger or detriment to life, safety, health or peaceful enjoyment of the property of surrounding landowners. (1987 Code § 8-1-1; amd. 2018 Code)
K. To own, maintain or keep a dwelling unit unfit for human habitation, or dangerous or detrimental to life, safety or health because of lack of repair, defects in the plumbing system, lighting or ventilation, the existence of contagious diseases or unsanitary conditions likely to cause sickness among persons residing in said premises or residing in proximity thereof.
L. To store or place any materials in a manner which may harbor rats.
M. To produce or permit to be produced, whether on public or private property, any offensive noise to the disturbance of the peace or quiet of any person residing in the vicinity.
N. To stockpile firewood unless same is stacked in an orderly fashion, off the ground, and on a hard surface.
O. To grade, fill, excavate or otherwise alter real property in a manner which causes an unreasonable amount of water to be discharged on adjoining property.
P. To locate or maintain a stable, pigsty, or privy within the corporate limits of the Village.
Q. To locate or maintain at any place within the Village or within a radius of one mile from the corporate limits and without the Village, any slaughterhouse, packing house, rendering establishment or bone factory; or to suffer or permit any premises at any place within the corporate limits to become foul or offensive.
R. To permit foul or stagnant water to stand upon any premises to the prejudice of others.
S. To suffer any cellar, vault, drain, privy, yard or premises to become, for any cause, foul or offensive or injurious to public health.
T. To suffer any premises where any animal is kept to become nauseous, foul or offensive to any neighborhood, family or person.
U. To deposit or permit to remain on any premises or public street or alley, slops or animal or vegetable matter of any kind, which is likely to become putrid and offensive. (1987 Code § 8-1-1)