(A) It is hereby declared to be a nuisance and to be against the health, peace, and comfort of the city for any person, firm, or corporation within the limits of the city to permit the following, but the enumeration of the following nuisances shall not be deemed to be exclusive:
(1) Filth. 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 to the prejudice of others;
(2) Deposit of offensive materials. To throw or deposit any offal or other offensive matter or the carcass of any dead animal in any water course, lake, pond, spring, well, or common sewer, street, or public highway;
(3) Corruption of water. To corrupt or render unwholesome or impure the water of any spring, river, stream, pond, lake, or well, public or private, to the injury or prejudice of others;
(4) Highway encroachment. To obstruct or encroach upon public highways, private ways, streets, alleys, commons, landing places, and ways to burying places;
(5) Manufacturing gunpowder. To carry on the business of manufacturing gunpowder, nitroglycerine, or other highly explosive substances or mixing or grinding the materials therefor in any building within 500 feet of any valuable building erected at the time such business may be commenced;
(6) Powder magazines. To establish powder magazines near incorporated towns at a point different from that appointed according to law by the corporate authorities of the town or within 1,000 feet of any occupied dwelling house;
(7) Noxious odors. 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;
(8) Unlawful advertising. To advertise wares or occupations by painting notices of the same on or affixing them to fences or other private property or on 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;
(9) Wells unplugged. To permit any well drilled for oil, gas, salt water disposal, or any other purpose in connection with the production of oil and gas to remain unplugged after such well is no longer used for the purpose for which it was drilled;
(10) Burn-out pits. To construct or operate any salt water pit or oil field refuse pit, commonly called a “burn-out pit,” so that salt water, brine, or oil field refuse or other waste liquids may escape therefrom in any manner except by the evaporation of such salt water or brine or by the burning of such oil field waste or refuse;
(11) Discarded materials. To permit concrete bases, discarded machinery, and materials to remain around any oil or gas well or to fail to fill any holes, cellars, slush pits, and other excavations made in connection with any such well or to restore the surface of the lands surrounding any such well to its condition before the drilling of any such well upon abandonment of any such oil or gas well;
(12) Underground wells. To permit any salt water, oil, gas, or other wastes from any well drilled for oil, gas, or exploratory purposes to escape to the surface or into a mine or coal seam or into any underground fresh water supply or from one underground stratum to another;
(13) Harassment. 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;
(14) Business. To establish, maintain, and carry on any offensive or unwholesome business or establishment within the limits of the city or within one and one-half miles of the city limits;
(15) Filthy premises conditions. To keep or suffer to be kept any chicken coop, cow barn, stable, cellar, vault, drain, privy, sewer, or sink upon any premises belonging to or occupied by any person or any railroad car, building, yard, grounds, and premises belonging to or occupied by any person;
(16) Expectorate. To expectorate on any public sidewalk or street or other public building or floor or walk of any public vehicle or hall;
(17) Litter on streets. It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit upon or allow trash, paper, cardboard, wire, dirt, rock, stone, glass, brick, lumber, wood, or litter or material objects of any size or description to fall upon the streets of the city from any moving vehicle or to be thrown from a moving vehicle or to throw from a moving vehicle and to remain thereon;
(18) Accumulation of junk and trash. To deposit or pile up any rags, old rope, paper, iron, brass, copper, tin, aluminum, used lumber, derelict truck trailers, camping trailers or boats, appliances, construction materials, demolition debris, ashes, garbage, refuse, plastic, brush, litter, weeds, slush, lead, glass bottles, or broken glass upon any residential home lot, piece, or parcel of land or upon any public or private alley, street, or public way within the city;
(19) Rodents. To cause or permit any condition or situation to exist that shall attract, harbor, or encourage the infestation of rodents;
(20) Bringing nuisances into the city. To bring into the city or keep therein for sale or otherwise, either for food or for any other purpose, any dead or live animal or any matter, substance, or thing which shall be a nuisance or which shall occasion a nuisance in the city or which may or shall be dangerous or detrimental to health;
(21) Offensive liquids. To keep nauseous, foul, or putrid liquid or substance or any liquid or substance likely to become nauseous, foul, offensive, or putrid nor permit any such liquid to be discharged, placed, thrown, or to flow from or out of any premises into or upon any adjacent premises or any public street or alley nor permit the same to be done by any person connected with the premises;
(22) Dense or offensive smoke. To cause or permit the emission of dense smoke from any fire, chimney, engine, oil burner, or any other agency in the city so as to cause annoyance or discomfort to the residents thereof;
(23) Scrap tires, both mounted, and dismounted. To keep any scrap tires, either mounted or dismounted, in open view or so as to allow such tires to accumulate stagnant water so as to provide a breeding ground for mosquitoes and other pests;
(24) Motor transport engines. To operate motor vehicle transport engines in the nighttime between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. in any place in which a majority of the buildings within a radius of 400 feet are used exclusively for residence purposes, excluding state and federal highways;
(25) Accumulation of debris. To store, dump, or permit the accumulation of debris, refuse, garbage, trash, tires, buckets, cans, wheelbarrows, garbage cans, or other containers in a manner that may harbor mosquitoes, flies, insects, rodents, nuisance birds, or other animal pests that are offensive, injurious, or dangerous to the health of individuals or the public; and
(26) Generally. To commit any act which is a nuisance according to the common law of the land or made such by statute of the state. (See 740 ILCS 55/221 through 55/222.)
(B) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the corporate authorities of this city from declaring what shall be nuisances and abating them within the city limits.
(Prior Code, § 25-1-1) Penalty, see § 93.99
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see 740 ILCS 55/221 through 55/222