It is hereby declared to be unlawful and a nuisance for any person within the limits of the City to violate any provision of this chapter as follows:
A. Odors: To so negligently conduct any business or use any premises as to create such an offensive smell as may taint the air and render it unwholesome or disagreeable to the neighborhood.
B. Animal Refuse Or Carcasses: To cause the carcass of any animal or any animal or vegetable matter, slops, swill, suds, garbage, filth, stable drippings or offal or noisome substance of any kind to be collected, deposited, or to remain in any place in the City to the prejudice of others.
C. Garbage; Time Limit: For any person to permit any slops, swill, garbage, stable drippings, offal, filth, refuse, animal or vegetable matter, which is liable to become putrid or offensive or injurious to health, to remain on any premises used or occupied by him, for a longer period than four (4) hours at any one time.
D. Night Soil: To deposit any night soil, dead animal or other filthy, offensive or noisome substance upon any lot, street, alley, park or other place.
E. Polluting Water: To corrupt or render unwholesome or impure the water of any drinking hydrant, spring, stream, pond or lake, to the injury or prejudice of others.
F. Obstruction Of Highways: To obstruct or encroach upon any public highway, private way, street, alley, common or landing place.
G. Offensive Businesses: To establish, maintain or carry on any offensive business within the City, or within one mile of the limits thereof, without the consent of the Mayor and City Council. (1956 Code)
H. Apiaries: It shall be unlawful to keep, harbor or maintain any bees or to operate any apiaries for housing the same, except that bees may be kept and used only for educational purposes under the following conditions:
1. Beehives are located no closer than two hundred fifty feet (250') from a residence;
2. No more than four (4) beehives are kept and maintained; and
3. Beekeepers must register their beehive(s) with the Illinois Department of Agriculture and provide proof of registration to the City. (Ord. M-19-18, 9-17-2018)
I. Smoke: To allow or permit any dense smoke to come or be emitted from any chimney, locomotive or engine, within the City; provided, however, that chimneys for buildings used exclusively for private residences shall not be deemed within the provisions of this section.
J. Wastepaper: Any person engaged in the business of sale of foodstuffs, including ice cream, for consumption on or off the premises and served in paper boxes, containers, dishes, wastepaper materials or containers of like substance shall provide a receptacle within their premises for the disposal of such wastepaper and shall not permit or allow any person to place, leave, throw or scatter the wastepaper and refuse in or upon the streets, sidewalks or public grounds abutting the premises; provided, however, that in case any paper or wastepaper shall for any reason be scattered upon the streets, sidewalks or public places, and emanating from the business, the same shall forthwith be removed by the person in charge of the business. (1956 Code)
K. Inoperable Motor Vehicles: It shall be unlawful for any person to leave an inoperable motor vehicle or parts thereof on public or private property, in view of the general public, for a period of forty eight (48) hours or longer, unless such place be the premises of a business duly authorized to deal with junk motor vehicles. "Inoperable motor vehicle" shall mean any motor vehicle from which, for a period of at least forty eight (48) hours or longer, the engine, wheels or other parts have been altered, damaged or otherwise so treated that the vehicle is incapable of being driven under its own motor power, and shall not mean a motor vehicle which has been rendered temporarily incapable of being driven under its own motor power in order to perform ordinary service or repair operations. (Ord. M-4-89, 2-6-1989; amd. 2002 Code)
L. Bird Feeding: It shall be unlawful for any owner of any lot, place or area within the City to allow, keep, maintain or permit upon any such lot, place or area more than ten (10) pounds of bird feed at any time which is available to birds. (Ord. M-27-76, 6-21-1976)
M. Offensive Lights: It shall be unlawful for any owner or tenant of real estate within the City to permit lights to illuminate onto property owned by another person in such a manner as to be offensive to the owner or a tenant or to interfere with the same. (Ord. M-16-78, 6-5-1978)
N. Site Distance At Intersection: It shall be unlawful for any person to allow bushes, shrubs or other plant material other than trees to grow to a height in excess of twenty four inches (24") above the elevation of the centerlines of intersection streets within a sixty foot (60') radius of the intersecting centerlines of said streets. Trees may be maintained within said area as long as there is no foliage within thirty six inches (36") as measured from the ground to the lowest foliages. (Ord. M-31-78, 9-15-1978)
O. Use Of Equipment: It shall be unlawful for any person to use any pile driver, shovel, hammer derrick, hoist tractor, roller or other mechanical apparatus operated by fuel or electric power in building or construction operations between the hours of seven o'clock (7:00) P.M. and seven o'clock (7:00) A.M. on Monday through Saturday, and between the hours of six o'clock (6:00) P.M. and ten o'clock (10:00) A.M. on Sundays and holidays, except for work on public improvements and work of public service utilities, within six hundred feet (600') of any building used for residential or hospital purposes. (Ord. M-58-04, 10-4-2004)
P. Scavenger, Garbage, Refuse Or Recycling Trucks: Scavenger, garbage, refuse, or recycling trucks shall not pick up garbage, scrap metal, or recycling before seven o'clock (7:00) A.M. Monday through Saturday mornings or before ten o'clock (10:00) A.M. on Sunday mornings. Upon application, the Director of Community and Economic Development is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to allow exceptions in such a manner as he may direct in writing. (Ord. M-7-06, 3-20-2006)
Q. Mufflers: To operate a motor vehicle that: 1) is not equipped at all times with a muffler upon the exhaust of the vehicle that is in good working order and in constant operation to prevent excessive or unusual noise, or 2) is equipped with a cutout, bypass, or similar muffler elimination appliance.
R. Excessive Noise: To engage in any activity that causes any sound or noise that violates section 6-2-7 of this Code.
S. Contagious or Infectious Disease: To engage in any activity that promotes the spread of contagious or infectious diseases throughout the City, including the maintenance of unsanitary conditions, hosting gatherings or conducting business in violation of public health orders, and failure to maintain or operate properties in compliance with health and safety codes, regulations, ordinances, and orders.
T. Unscheduled stops of intercity buses, as defined in Section 7-3-5
.D. (Ord. M-32-14, 9-15-2014; amd. Ord. M-10-20, 8-3-2020; Ord. M-2-24, 1-16-2024)