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, or declared or defined to be a nuisance by the ordinances of the village. In addition, the officials of the municipality 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 or her 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 or her 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, or public highway;
(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 occupation 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 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;
(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 persons’ attempt to sell, buy, or lease a residence or other real property, or refers to a persons’ 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;
(J) To store, keep, or maintain outside of a closed building or property under his or her ownership or control any junk, parts, machinery, or equipment not in an operable condition, or motor vehicle not in an operable condition, provided, however, that this provision shall not apply to a properly licensed junk yard;
(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 garbage or debris on private property, or any materials in any 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 permit any weeds such as jimson, burdock, ragweed, thistle, cocklebur, or other weeds of a like kind, to grow or remain in any lot or tract of land in the village under his or her ownership or control;
(O) To permit any weeds, grass, or plants, other than trees, bushes, flowers, or other ornamental plants, to grow to a height exceeding six inches on any lot anywhere in the village under his or her ownership or control;
(P) To place, erect, or maintain any obstruction in or across any water course, stream, brook, or ravine within the village so as to cause water to stand and stagnate therein; and
(Q) To keep upon property under his or her ownership or control two or more motor vehicles, whether on public or private property, without a current valid registration and license plates properly displayed on the vehicle issued by the office of the Secretary of State.
(Prior Code, § 12-1) (Ord. passed 6-4-1990; Ord. 07-02, passed 3-5-2007)