As used in this chapter, the following terms shall be defined as indicated in this section, unless the context clearly requires otherwise. Other definitions as stated in rules and regulations that are referenced in this chapter shall apply.
AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES: The growing, developing, processing, conditioning, or selling of farm crops and farm seeds, truck garden crops, animal and poultry husbandry, apiculture, aquaculture, dairying, floriculture, horticulture, nurseries, tree farms, sod farms, pasturage, viticulture, and wholesale greenhouses when such agricultural purposes constitute the principal activity on the land.
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE: Any duly sworn officer of the village of Campton Hills, building and zoning officer, building officer, or Kane County health officer.
BRUSH: Tree trunks, limbs, branches, and twigs.
BUILDING: Any structure which is designed, used or intended for the support, enclosure, shelter, or protection of persons, animals, or other property and which is permanently affixed to the land.
CEREMONIAL FIRE: An outdoor fire larger than three feet by three feet by two feet (3' x 3' x 2') which is used for entertainment purposes as part of a specifically scheduled public or private event and excludes leaves, grass or shrubbery clippings or cuttings.
DISEASED ANIMAL: An animal showing symptoms of a disease or having an illness or being in an unhealthy state.
DWELLING: A building, or portion thereof, designed or used exclusively for residential occupancy, including single-family dwellings, two-family dwellings, multiple-family dwellings and apartment hotels, but not including hotels, motels, trailer coaches or mobile homes.
DWELLING UNIT: Any room or group of rooms located within a dwelling and forming a single habitable unit with facilities that are used, or intended to be used, for living, sleeping, cooking and eating.
EXTERMINATION: The control and elimination of insects, rodents or other pests by eliminating their harborage places, by removing or making inaccessible materials that may serve as their food, by poisoning, spraying, or trapping, or by any other recognized and legal method of pest elimination, which has been approved by the village or Kane County health officer.
GARBAGE: Organic waste resulting from the preparation, processing, handling and storage of food and all decayed or spoiled food from any source whatsoever.
GRASS: All vegetative ground cover located within a yard, excluding noxious weeds.
HUMAN WASTES: Food and byproducts of metabolism which are passed out of the human body.
INFESTATION: The presence within a building of any insects, rodents, vermin or other pests.
INOPERABLE MOTOR VEHICLE: Any motor vehicle from which, for more than fourteen (14) days, the engine, wheels or other parts have been removed, or on which the engine, wheels or other parts have been altered, damaged or otherwise so treated that the vehicle is incapable of being driven or operated under its own motor power. "Inoperable motor vehicle" shall not include a motor vehicle which has been rendered temporarily incapable of being driven in forward drive and also in reverse under its own motor power in order to perform ordinary service or repair operations nor a motor vehicle kept within a completely enclosed building when not in use. This chapter shall not apply to any motor vehicle that is kept within a building when not in use, to operable historic vehicles over twenty five (25) years of age, or to a motor vehicle on the premises of a place of a duly licensed business engaged in the wrecking or junking of motor vehicles.
JUNK: Is defined as, but not limited to, car parts, scrap metal, furniture, appliances, equipment, glass, and paper irrespective of whether these materials may be reused.
JUNK VEHICLE: Shall include any unlicensed, stripped, junked and/or wrecked motor vehicle not in safe operating condition.
LANDSCAPE WASTE: All accumulations of cut grass or shrubbery cuttings, leaves, flowers, and weeds.
MANURE: Stable bedding and excrement of all domestic animals and fowl.
NOXIOUS WEED: An annual, biennial or perennial plant propagated by seed or vegetative parts, listed herein and/or in the Illinois noxious weed law, which is injurious to public health, crops, livestock, land or other property. Noxious weeds as identified herein and by the Illinois noxious weed law shall include, but are not limited to, the following: marihuana (Cannabis sativa L.), Sandbar Willow (Salix), Phragmites, Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense), perennial sow thistle (Sonchus arvensis), musk thistle (Carduus nutans), perennial members of the Sorghum genus including Johnson grass (Sorghum halepense), Sorghum almum, and other Johnson grass X sorghum crosses with rhizomes, quack grass (Agropyron repens), curled (curly) dock (Rumex crispus), corn cockle (Agrostemma githago), wild morning glories (Ipomoea coccinea, Ipomoea hederacea, Ipomoea pandurata, Ipomoea purpurea), poison ivy (Rhus radicans), purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata), multiflora rose (Rosa multaflora), and burdock (Arctium minus).
NUISANCE: Anything offensive or obnoxious to the sensibilities of reasonable persons, or any act or activity creating a hazard which threatens the health and welfare of inhabitants of the village, or any activity which, by its perpetuation. can reasonably be said to have a detrimental effect on the property of a person or persons within the community. Nuisance includes, but is not limited to, those activities and/or conditions declared in section 5-1-2.
OCCUPANT: Any individual living or sleeping in a building, or having possession of space within in a building.
OWNER: Any person, agent, operator, firm or corporation having a legal or equitable interest in real property; or recorded in the official records of the county as holding title to the property; or otherwise having control of such property, including the guardian of the estate of any such person, and the executor or administrator of the estate of such person having a legal interest in real property.
PRAIRIE PLANTS: Any one of eight hundred fifty one (851) species of plants defined as a prairie plant by the Illinois plant information network maintained by the Illinois natural history survey.
RECREATIONAL FIRE: An outdoor fire for warmth, cooking for human consumption or temporary nonceremonial purposes where the fire is not larger than three feet by three feet by two feet (3' x 3' x 2') and excludes burning of leaves, grass or shrubbery clippings or cuttings.
REFUSE: Garbage, rubbish, ashes, sweepings, manure, dead animals, privy or cesspool contents or litter.
RIGHT OF WAY SIGNS: Any sign placed within the right of way on any public road, street or highway other than signs authorized by the village, and signs installed by or on behalf of any governmental agency.
RODENTS: Rats and mice.
RUBBISH: Combustible and noncombustible waste material, except garbage; the term shall include the residue from the burning of wood, coal, coke and other combustible materials, paper, rags, cartons, boxes, wood, excelsior, rubber, leather, tree branches, cans, metals, mineral matter, glass, crockery, and dust from similar materials.
STRUCTURE: Anything erected, the use of which requires a location on or in the ground, or attached to something having a location on or in the ground.
TENANT: A person, corporation, partnership, group, or other entity, whether or not the legal owner of record, occupying a building or portion thereof as a unit.
VERMIN: Roaches, bedbugs, fleas, lice, termites, mosquitoes, flies or similar pestlike insects.
YARD: An open space on the same lot with a structure. (2013 Code § 7-2-1; amd. 2016 Code; amd. Ord. O-20-11, 8-18-2020; Ord. O-22-03, 2-1-2022)