7-28-640 Prescription required – Violation – Penalty.

   It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or give away any corrosive or caustic acid or any phosphorus or solution thereof, or any hydrogen sulphide, valerianic acid, ammonium valerianate, valerianate of zinc, or any solution or mixture of said substances, or any other nauseous, offensive, or filthy substances of like or similar nature, except upon the written prescription of a physician licensed under the laws of the state, which prescription shall be filled only once and shall have written upon it the name and address of the patient. This section shall not apply to sales at wholesale by manufacturing or wholesale druggists to retail druggists, physicians, or chemists.

   Any person violating any provision of this section shall be fined not less than $50.00 nor more than $200.00 for each offense.

(Prior code § 99-54)

7-28-650 Offensive bombs in public places – Violation – Penalty.

   It shall be unlawful for any person to cast, throw, deposit, or place any stink ball, fire ball, or bomb, described in Section 7-28-630 hereof, or to cast, deposit or place any substance described in Section 7-28-640 hereof, from, upon, or to any public way or public place in the city, or at, upon, or within any public conveyance, or upon the floor or within any restaurant, theater, hall, assembly room or public building, or at, upon, or within any automobile or other vehicle within the city.

   Any person violating any provision of this section shall be fined not less than $50.00 nor more than $200.00 for each offense.

(Prior code § 99-55)

ARTICLE V. RAT CONTROL (7-28-660 et seq.)

7-28-660 Reserved.

Editor's note – Coun. J. 1-21-15, p. 102083, § 2, repealed § 7-28-660, which pertained to rat-stoppage.

7-28-670 Inspection notice.

   Inspectors from the department of buildings and the department of streets and sanitation shall have authority to inspect the interior and exterior of buildings, other structures, or parcels on which a building has been demolished or is being constructed to determine evidence of rat harborage, rat infestation and the existence of new breaks or leaks in the rat-stoppage, and when any evidence is found indicating the presence of rats or openings through which rats may enter such buildings or structures, to report such evidence to the appropriate commissioner, who shall serve the owner, agent, or occupant of such building, structure or, parcel with written notice to abate the conditions found.

(Prior code § 99-61.2; Amend Coun. J. 11-16-94, p. 61204; Amend Coun. J. 5-20-98, p. 68997)

7-28-680 Maintenance.

   The owner, agent, or occupant in charge of all rat-stopped buildings or structures shall maintain them in a rat-stopped condition and repair all breaks or leaks that may occur in the rat-stoppage.

(Prior code § 99-61.4)

7-28-690 Unlawful to remove rat-stoppage.

   It shall be unlawful for the owner, occupant, contractor, public utility company, plumber, or any other person, to remove the rat-stoppage from any building or structure for any purpose and fail to restore the same in satisfactory condition, or to make any new openings that are not closed or sealed against the entrance of rats.

(Prior code § 99-61.5)

7-28-700 Structural changes.

   Whenever conditions inside or under any building or structure provide such extensive harborage for rats that the building commissioner deems it necessary to eliminate such harborage he may require the owner or occupant in charge of any such building or structure to install suitable cement floors in basements, or to require such owner or occupant to correct such rat harborage as may be necessary in order to facilitate the eradication of rats.

(Prior code § 99-61.6)

7-28-710 Dumping prohibited.

   (a)   It shall be unlawful for any person to place, leave, dump, or permit to accumulate any garbage or trash in any building, structure or premises so that the same shall afford food or harborage for rats, or to dump or place on any premises, land or waterway any dead animals or waste vegetable matter of any kind.

   Any person who violates this section shall be fined not less than $300 nor more than $600 for each offense. Each day that a violation continues shall constitute a separate and distinct offense to which a separate fine shall apply.

   (b)   Nothing in this section shall prohibit the composting of organic waste or land application of composted organic waste in accordance with Sections 7-28-715 and Chapter 11-4 of this Code. For the purposes of this section and Section 7-28-715, the following definitions apply:

   "Commissioner" means the commissioner of streets and sanitation or the commissioner of health. When used in the plural, the term means both commissioners.

   “Compost” means the humus-like product of the process of composting organic waste, which may be used as a soil conditioner.

   “Composting” means a controlled biological treatment process by which microorganisms or worms decompose the organic fraction of waste, producing compost.

   “Composting material” means organic waste undergoing composting.

   “Composting operation” means all composting activities conducted on a site, including all composting material, stored organic waste and end-product compost located on any site at any one time.

   "Food scrap" means garbage that is (i) capable of being composted, (ii) separated by the generator from other waste, including non-compostable garbage; and (iii) managed separately from other waste, including non-compostable garbage. Food scrap includes packaging, utensils, and food containers composed of readily biodegradable material in accordance with the ASTM D6400 standard required for use under Section 3.197 of the Illinois Environmental Protection Act, codified at 415 ILCS 5/3.197. For purposes of this definition, the term "garbage" has the meaning ascribed to the term in Section 11-4-120 of this Code.

   “In-vessel” means composting which is conducted entirely within a fully enclosed container, with no opening having a dimension greater than 1/4 inch in any direction.

   “Landscape waste” means grass or shrubbery cuttings, leaves, tree limbs and other materials accumulated as a result of the care of lawns, shrubbery, vines and trees, and includes any discarded fruits, vegetables and other vegetative material or crop residue generated in the care of a garden. The term "landscape waste" does not include soil other than incidental soil (e.g., soil attached to sod or attached to other materials accumulated as a result of the care of lawns, shrubbery, vines, trees or a garden).

   "Limited organic waste" means organic waste, other than landscape waste, which does not include: fish; fish products; poultry; poultry products; meat; meat products; eggs (excluding egg shells); cheese, butter or other dairy products; fat; grease; oil or oily food; cat, dog, or other animal excreta; animal feed losses or animal bedding; colored or glossy paper; sawdust from pressure-treated plywood or lumber; diseased or insect-infested houseplants or soil; or biodegradable or compostable plastic.

   "Operator" means any person who is engaged in a garden composting operation.

   “Organic waste” means food scrap, landscape waste, uncontaminated wood waste or other non- hazardous carbonaceous waste that is collected and processed separately from the rest of the municipal waste stream.

   "Owner" means any person who has legal title to any premises or structure where a garden composting operation is conducted.

   "Uncontaminated wood waste" means untreated, unpainted and unvarnished wood.

   “Vector” means any living agent, other than human, capable of transmitting, directly or indirectly, an infectious disease.

(Prior code § 99-61.7; Amend Coun. J. 7-31-90, p. 19384; Amend Coun. J. 4-11-07, p. 102577, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 7-28-10, p. 97912, § 7; Amend Coun. J. 11-16-11, p. 14596, Art. II, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 7-29-15, p. 4110, § 1)