§ 95.99 PENALTY.

   (A)   Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision of §§ 95.01 through 95.03 shall be subject to a fine of not less than $75 nor more than $750 for each offense. A separate offense shall be deemed committed on each day during or on which the nuisance is permitted to exist.

(1986 Code, § 5.04.040)

   (B)   (1)   Whoever causes, erects or continues any nuisance enumerated in the provisions of §§ 95.15 and 95.16 shall, for the first offense, be fined not less than $75 nor more than $750. Each day a nuisance remains following the seven-day notice shall constitute a separate offense.

      (2)   Every nuisance enumerated in §§ 95.15 and 95.16 may be removed as provided in ILCS Ch. 65, Act 5, § 11-20-13 which provides for the removal of garbage and debris from private property when the owner of the property, after reasonable notice, refuses or neglects to remove garbage and debris; and the city may collect from the owner the reasonable cost of the removal. This cost is a lien upon the real estate affected, superior to all subsequent liens and encumbrances, except tax liens, if within 60 days after the costs and expenses incurred the city or person performing the service by authority of the city, in his or her or its own name, files notice of the lien in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of the county. The notice shall consist of a sworn statement setting out:

         (a)   A description of the real estate sufficient for the identification thereof;

         (b)   The amount of money representing the cost and expense incurred or payable for the service; and

         (c)   The date or dates when the costs and expense were incurred by the municipality.

      (3)   Upon payment of the cost and expense by the owner of or persons interested in the property after notice of lien has been filed, the lien shall be released by the city or person in whose name the lien has been filed and the release may be filed of record as in the case of filing notice of lien.

(1986 Code, § 5.06.030)

(Ord. 1544, passed - -2001; Ord. 20-1013-228, passed 10-13-2020)