The following terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates that a different meaning is intended. All other terms stated in this chapter shall have the same definition as stated in specific chapters of the code.
CITY: The city of Carbondale, Illinois, and its employees and agents.
CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES: Any "substance" defined and included in the schedules of article II of the Illinois controlled substances act and "cannabis" as defined in the cannabis control act, 720 Illinois Compiled Statutes 570/201 et seq., and 720 Illinois Compiled Statutes 550/1 et seq. (1994).
NUISANCE: To commit any offense which is in fact a nuisance or which is a nuisance according to common law, or which is made such by any ordinance of the city or the statutes of the state of Illinois and shall include any act, occupation or use of property or premises or equipment, or structure of any kind which:
A. Annoys, injures, or endangers the safety, health, comfort, or repose of others;
B. Offends public decency; or
C. Unlawfully interferes with, obstructs or tends to obstruct, or renders dangerous for passage a lake or basin or any public place, park, square, alley, highway, or street.
OWNER: Any owner, owners, agent, lessee, tenant, or occupant.
PERSON IN CONTROL: The owner of the premises, or if the property is rented, that person(s) who has rented or leased the property from the owner or owner's agent.
PERSONALTY: Personal property. (Ord. 97-132)