It is hereby declared to be a nuisance and to be against the health, peace and comfort of the Village, for any person, firm or corporation within the limits of the Village to permit the following; but the enumeration of the following nuisances shall not be deemed to be exclusive:
(A) Filth. 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, to the prejudice of others.
(B) Deposit of Offensive Materials. To throw or deposit any offal or other offensive matter, or the carcass of any dead animal in any water course, lake, pond, spring, well or common sewer, street or public highway.
(C) Corruption of Water. To corrupt or render unwholesome, or impure, the water of any spring, river, stream, pond or lake, well, public or private, to the injury or prejudice of others.
(D) Highway Encroachment. To obstruct or encroach upon public highways, private ways, streets, alleys, commons, landing places, and ways to burying places.
(E) Manufacturing Gunpowder. To carry on the business of manufacturing gunpowder, nitroglycerine, or other highly explosive substances, or mixing or grinding the materials therefore, in any building within three hundred (300) feet of any valuable building erected at the time such business may be commenced.
(F) Powder Magazines. To establish powder magazines near incorporated towns, at a point different from that appointed according to law by the corporate authorities of the town, or within eight hundred (800) feet of any occupied dwelling house.
(G) Noxious Odors. 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.
(H) Unlawful Advertising. To advertise wares or occupations by painting notices of the same on, or affixing them to fences or other 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.
(I) Bodies of Water. To create any condition, thro0ugh the improper maintenance of a swimming pool or wading pool, or by causing any action which alters the condition of a natural body of water or ground surface, so that it harbors mosquitoes, flies or other animal pests that are offensive, injurious or dangerous to the health of individuals or the public.
(J) Harassment. 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 person's attempt to sell, buy or lease a residence, or other real property, or refers to a person's sale, purchase or lease of a residence or other real property.
(K) Business. To establish, maintain, and carry on any offensive or unwholesome business or establishment within the limits of the Village or within one and one-half (1 ½) miles of the Village limits.
(L) Filthy Premise Conditions. To keep or suffer to be kept in a foul, offensive, nauseous or filthy condition, any chicken coop, barn, stable, cellar, vault, drain, privy, sewer or sink upon any premises belonging to or occupied by any person, or any building, yard, grounds, and premises belonging to or occupied by any person.
(M) Expectorate. To expectorate on any public sidewalk or street, or other public building or floor or walk of any public vehicle or hall.
(N) Litter on Streets. It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit upon or allow trash, paper, cardboard, wire, dirt, rock, stone, glass, brick, lumber, wood or litter of material objects of any size or description to fall upon the streets of the Village from any moving vehicle, or to be thrown from a moving vehicle, or to throw from a moving vehicle and to remain thereon.
(O) Accumulation of Junk And Trash. To deposit or pile up any rags, old rope, paper, iron, brass, copper, tin, aluminum, used lumber, derelict truck trailers, camping trailers, or boats, appliances, construction materials, demolition debris, ashes, garbage, refuse, plastic, brush, litter, weeds, slush, lead, glass bottles or broken glass upon any residential home lot, piece or parcel of land or upon any public or private alley, street or public way within the Village.
(P) Rodents. To cause or permit any condition or situation to exist that shall attract, harbor, or encourage the infestation of rodents.
(Q) Bringing Nuisances into the Village. To bring into the Village or keep therein for sale or otherwise, either for food or for any other purpose, any dead or live animal or any matter, substance, or thing which shall be a nuisance, or which shall occasion a nuisance in the Village, or which may or shall be dangerous or detrimental to health.
(R) Offensive Liquids. To keep nauseous, foul or putrid liquid or substance or any liquid or substance likely to become nauseous, foul, offensive, or putrid, nor permit any such liquid to be discharged, placed, thrown, or to flow from or out of any premise into or upon any adjacent premises or any public street or alley, nor permit the same to be done by any person connected with the premises.
(S) Dense or Offensive Smoke. To cause or permit the emission of dense smoke from any fire, chimney, engine, oil burner or any other agency in the Village so as to cause annoyance or discomfort to the residents thereof.
(T) Scrap Tires, Both Mounted and Dismounted. To keep any scrap tires, either mounted or dismounted, in open view, or so as to allow such tires to accumulate stagnant water so as to provide a breeding ground for mosquitoes and other pests.
(U) Motor Transport Engines. To operate motor vehicle transport engines or electric reefers in the nighttime between the hours of eight (8:00) o'clock P.M. and six (6:00) o'clock A.M., in any place in which a majority of the buildings, within a radius of four hundred (400) feet are used exclusively for residence purposes, excluding state and federal highways.
(V) Accumulation of Debris. To store, dump or permit the accumulation of debris, refuse, garbage, trash, tires, buckets, cans, wheelbarrows, garbage cans or other containers in a manner that may harbor mosquitoes, flies, insects, rodents, nuisance birds or other animal pests that are offensive, injurious or dangerous to the health of individuals or the public.
(W) Discarded Machinery or Materials. To store, keep or maintain outside of a closed building the following: (1) used appliances, used or dilapidated furniture, bathroom fixtures, tires, old iron or metal, motor vehicle parts and all other parts, tools, machinery, and equipment in inoperable condition, for longer than a two-week time period; or, (2) used lumber, bricks, blocks, or other building salvage or construction material, unless such material is intended for reuse and arranged in an orderly fashion.
(X) Generally. To commit any act which is a nuisance according to the common law of the land or made such by statute of the State. (740 ILCS 55/221 – 55/222)
Nothing in this Section shall be construed to prevent the corporate authorities of this Village from declaring what shall be nuisances and abating them within the Village limits.