Section
General Provisions
91.01 Enactment
91.02 Definition
91.03 Maintaining public nuisance prohibited
Conditions of Public Nuisance
91.15 Public nuisances affecting health
91.16 Public nuisances offending morals and decency
91.17 Public nuisances affecting peace and safety
91.18 Open burning
91.19 Permitting or depositing garbage or debris on property
Weeds
91.30 Permitting weeds to grow prohibited; nuisance
91.31 Height
91.32 Notice to remove; abatement
Abandoned Vehicles
91.45 Definitions
91.46 Abandonment of vehicles
91.47 Removal of abandoned, unattended or inoperable vehicles
91.48 Inoperable motor vehicles
Abatement Procedure
91.60 Inspection of premises
91.61 Summary abatement
91.62 Abatement by court action
91.63 Cost of abatement
91.99 Penalty
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GENERAL PROVISIONS
For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
PUBLIC NUISANCE. A thing, act, occupation, condition or use of property which shall continue for such length of time as to:
(1) Substantially annoy, injure or endanger the comfort, health, repose or safety of the public;
(2) In any way render the public insecure in life or in the use of property;
(3) Greatly offend the public morals or decency; or
(4) Unlawfully and substantially interfere with, obstruct or tend to obstruct or render dangerous for passage any street, alley, highway, navigable body of water or other public way.
(Ord. 533, passed 4-20-87)
No person shall erect, contrive, cause, continue, maintain or permit to exist any public nuisance within the city limits.
(Ord. 533, passed 4-20-87) Penalty, see § 91.99
CONDITIONS OF PUBLIC NUISANCE
The following acts, omissions, places, conditions and things are hereby specifically declared to be public health nuisances, but shall not be construed to exclude other health nuisances coming within the definition of § 91.02:
(A) All decayed, harmfully adulterated or unwholesome food or drink sold or offered for sale to the public.
(B) Carcasses of animals, birds or fowl not buried or otherwise disposed of in a sanitary manner within 24 hours after death.
(C) Accumulations of decayed animal or vegetable matter, trash, rubbish, rotting lumber, bedding, packing material, scrap metal or any material in which flies, mosquitoes, disease-carrying insects, rats or other vermin may breed, or which constitute a fire hazard.
(D) All stagnant water in which mosquitoes, flies or other insects can multiply.
(E) Garbage cans that are not fly- tight.
(F) The escape of smoke, soot, cinders, noxious acids, fumes, gases, fly ash or industrial dust within the city limits in such quantities as to endanger the health of persons of ordinary sensibilities or to threaten or cause substantial injury to property.
(G) The pollution of any public well or cistern, stream, lake, canal or body of water by sewage, creamery or industrial wastes or other substances.
(H) Any use of property, substances or things within the city emitting or causing any foul, offensive, noisesome, nauseous, noxious or disagreeable odors, effluvia or stenches extremely repulsive to the physical senses of ordinary persons which annoy, discomfort, injure or inconvenience the health of any appreciable number of persons within the city;
(I) Any barn, stable, yard, shed, pen or other place where animals or fowl are kept which is not maintained in a clean condition; or any animals or fowl which because of disease, unsanitary conditions, odor or noise, discomfort or injure the health or well being of residents of the city.
(J) All abandoned wells or cisterns not securely covered or secured from public use.
(K) All noxious weeds defined by Ill. Rev. Stat. Ch. 18, or in this chapter.
(L) Any place harboring vermin and/or rodents.
(M) To allow abandoned refrigerators/freezers to remain on any premises that does not have the door, lock or latches removed.
(N) To allow any building, mobile home, shed, fence or other man-made structure to exist which is dangerous to public health because of its condition, construction or lack of proper repair and which may cause or aid in the spread of disease or injury to the health of its occupants and/or neighboring structures and occupants.
(O) To allow excessive amounts of manure, refuse, human or noxious or offensive waste to accumulate.
(P) To allow diseased animals to run at large.
(Q) To allow wells, cisterns, and root cellars to remain open.
(R) To allow the carcasses of dead animals and vermin or any part of decaying animal matter to remain not buried, destroyed or collected within 24 hours after death or dismemberment.
(Ord. 533, passed 4-20-87; Am. Ord. 937, passed 7-7-14) Penalty, see § 91.99
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