The following are nuisances:
(A) Any act done, or any substance or thing kept, maintained, placed or found in or upon any public or private place which is injurious or dangerous to the public health.
(B) Any pursuit followed or act done to the hurt, injury, annoyance, inconvenience or damage of the public.
(C) Any building, bridge or other structure in a condition unsafe, dangerous, unhealthy, injurious or annoying to the public.
(D) Any obstruction caused or permitted on any street or sidewalk or public or private alley to the danger or annoyance or inconvenience of the public, and any stones, dirt, carcass, offal, filth, slops, vegetable matter or other article thrown or placed in any street, alley, sidewalk or other public place which may cause injury or inconvenience or annoyance to the public.
(E) Any sign projecting farther into a street than two feet (2') or hanging in such a way as to interfere with the free use of any sidewalk.
(F) Any house, shed or other building, or any fence standing wholly or in part on any street or alley or on any public grounds.
(G) Any slaughterhouse or animals or fowls offensive, annoying or injurious to the public, or kept without special permission of the city council.
(H) Any corral, enclosure or other premises used as a stockyard which is adjacent to lands or property used for residential purposes, except that a public stockyard may be located on any railroad right of way.
(I) The business of buying, selling, keeping or transporting of horses, cattle, hogs or sheep within any residential area to the prejudice of others, except that a public stockyard may be located on any railroad right of way.
(J) Any stable, cattle yard, hog, sheep or cow pen offensive, annoying or injurious to the public, or any hog pen or enclosure within three hundred feet (300') of any residence in the city.
(K) Any animal or vegetable matter, or other substance liable to become putrid, offensive or unhealthy.
(L) Any pond or pool of stagnant water and any foul or dirty water or liquid discharged through any drainpipe or spout or thrown into a street, alley, thoroughfare, or lot to the injury or annoyance of the public.
(M) Any cellar, vault, private drain, pool, privy, sewer or sink nauseous, foul, offensive or injurious to the public health, or any privy, vault or cesspool erected or constructed after September 30, 1947, on premises which are adjacent to and served by a sanitary sewer.
(N) Any radio, television set, or musical instrument or device operated in such manner or at such hours as to injure, annoy, inconvenience or damage the public or persons living or doing business in the neighborhood.
(O) The storage for sale or otherwise upon real property within the city or within a distance of one-half (1/2) mile of the corporate limits of the city, of junked automobiles, motor vehicles, tractors or trucks, used tires, old iron or other metals, rags or rubber.
(P) The operation or maintenance of any establishment for sale, purchase or exchange of junked motor vehicles, old iron or other metals, rags or rubber within the city or within the distance of one-half (1/2) mile of the corporate limits of the city.
(Q) The planting or placing in the ground within the area included between the right of way lines of any street or alley in the city or within two feet (2') of same in any direction, for the purpose of growing the same, any of the following:
American elm (Ulmus americana)
Box elder (Acer negundo)
Catalpas (Catalpa species)
Chinese elm (Ulmus parvifolia)
Poplar (Populus species)
Silver or soft maple (Acer saccharinum)
Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis)
Tree of heaven (Ailanthus altissima)
Willows (Salix species)
(R) The planting or placing in the ground for the purpose of growing the same, a tree of any species so that the center of the trunk of same is within two feet (2') of any existing public sidewalk in the city.
(S) To corrupt or render unwholesome or impure, the water of any spring, river, stream, pond or lake to the injury or prejudice of others.
(T) It shall be unlawful for any person to allow trash, paper, cardboard, wire, dirt, glass, brick, lumber, wood or litter of material objects of any size or description to fall or be thrown upon city streets.
(U) To permit the deposit, accumulation or piling up of any rags, old rope, paper, iron, brass, copper, tin, aluminum, ashes, garbage, refuse, plastic, brush, litter, weeds, slush, lead, glass bottles or broken glass upon any lot, piece or parcel of public or private property.
(V) To construct or maintain any buildings or structures in violation of any of the building provisions of this city, or any building which is in an unsanitary condition, or in an unsafe or dangerous condition, or which in any manner endangers the health or safety of any person or persons, is hereby declared a public nuisance. (Ord. 88-921, 6-6-1988)
(W) To deposit into or onto any public street located in the city of Flora, Illinois, green waste from any adjoining real estate along said roadway. Green waste shall consist of grass clippings, leaves and cuttings from shrubs and hedges as well as any green debris. The mowing of grass causing discharge of green waste clippings and vegetation into the streets shall be deemed a nuisance. Any individual or owner of real estate which causes said discharge into the street shall remove the green waste including grass clippings from the public street within two (2) hours after mowing or any other method causing the same to be placed in said roadway. The individual mowing or causing the discharge of green waste into the streets or the owner of said real estate upon which said mowing or cutting occurs shall be the responsible party to prevent the accumulation and deposit of grass and yard waste into any public street in the city of Flora, Illinois. (Ord. 06-2016, 9-18-2006)
When violations of this chapter occur, the city administrator, or other duly authorized personnel, may issue a ticket to the owner, occupant, agent or person in possession or control of any lot, building or premises in or upon which any nuisance may be found, or who may be the owner or the cause of any such nuisance. The city may file a civil action in the appropriate circuit court of the state of Illinois to enforce the provisions hereof. Any attorney fees, court costs or other costs involved in the filing of the suit to enforce these provisions may be collected by the city against the defendant. (Ord. 92-1110, 5-4-1992)
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