It is hereby declared to be a nuisance for any person within the limits of the village: (1970 Code § 49.01)
A. Offensive Odors: To so negligently conduct any business or use any premises as to create such an offensive odor as may taint the air and render it unwholesome or disagreeable to the neighborhood. (1970 Code § 49.02)
B. Offensive Noises: To produce or permit to be produced, in or upon any premises, or upon any street or public place, any offensive noise to the disturbance of the peace or quiet of the neighborhood, or of any person residing in the vicinity of such premises. (1970 Code § 49.03)
C. Deposits Of Offensive Matter:
1. Watercourses And Wells: To throw or deposit, or cause to be thrown or deposited, any offal or other offensive matter, or the carcass of any animal into any watercourse, pond, spring or well, or into Lake Michigan within one mile of any portion of the shore of said lake, lying within the limits of the village. (1970 Code § 49.04)
2. Streets And Public Ways: To deposit any nightsoil, dead animal or other filthy, offensive or noisome substance upon any lot, street, alley, highway, park or other place. (1970 Code § 49.05)
D. Unwholesome Drinking 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. (1970 Code § 49.06)
E. Obstructing Navigable Waters: To obstruct or impede, without legal authority, the passage of any navigable waters. (1970 Code § 49.07)
F. Encroachment Upon Public Ways; Dirt On Pavements: To obstruct or encroach upon public highways, private ways, streets, alleys, commons, wharves and landing places, or to cause or suffer to be drawn, deposited or remain, any mud, dirt or filth upon any paved street in the village. (1970 Code § 49.08)
G. Offensive Or Unwholesome Businesses:
1. Prohibited: To establish, maintain and carry on any offensive or unwholesome business within the limits of the village or within one mile of the limits thereof. (1970 Code § 49.09)
2. Packinghouses, Renderies; Permission Required: To locate and carry on without having obtained permission of the board of trustees to do so any manufactories, steam laundry, packinghouses, renderies, tallow chandleries, glue or bone factories, soap factories or tanneries within the village and within the distance of one mile without the village limits. (1970 Code § 49.21)
H. Cemeteries; Burials: To establish a cemetery, or to bury any person within the village limits or within one mile thereof, outside of an established cemetery. (1970 Code § 49.12)
I. Dangerous Buildings; Inspection: To permit any building, structure or place to remain in such a condition as to be dangerous to the public health or safety in any way. Any such structure, building or place is hereby declared to be a nuisance. No building or other premises which has been vacant or untenanted continuously for a period of six (6) months or more shall be occupied or otherwise used until the same has been inspected by the building commissioner and a certificate of safety issued by such commissioner as herein provided. If, upon such inspection, the commissioner shall find said building or other premises to be in a safe condition, he shall issue such certificate forthwith; otherwise, he shall specify in what respect said premises is not safe, and such certificate shall not issue until such unsafe condition shall have been corrected. At the time the application for such inspection is made, the applicant shall pay the building commissioner an inspection fee in the amount as set out in section 1-12-3 of this code, under the category "construction/building fees". (1970 Code § 49.13; amd. 2009 Code)
J. Gas Appliances Improperly Vented Or Safeguarded:
1. Venting: To permit to exist in any building, house or premises in which gas water heaters, gas clothes driers, gas incinerators, central house heating gas appliances, space heaters (except radiant types unless the radiant type consumes more than 30 Btu per hour per cubic foot of room content), are maintained and used, unless the same are vented to a properly operating flue. (1970 Code § 49.14)
2. Safeguarding: To permit to exist in any building, house or premises wherein gas appliances burning such a quantity of gas that the surrounding atmosphere will be vitiated to an extent dangerous to life and health are maintained and used, and where every automatically controlled gas appliance is not properly safeguarded against the hazard resulting from extinction or flashback of the burner flame, unless such appliances shall be connected to an effective flue. (1970 Code § 49.15)
K. Endangering Public Health: To commit or do any act which endangers the public health or results in annoyance or discomfort to the public. (1970 Code § 49.16)
L. Common Drinking Cups: To maintain any common drinking cup or cups, dipper or other similar utensil for the use of more than one person in any public hall, theater, store or other place frequented by the public. (1970 Code § 49.17)
M. Offensive Premises: To keep or suffer to be kept in a foul, offensive, nauseating or filthy condition, any chicken coop, cow house, stable 1 , cellar, vault, drain, pool, sewer or sink upon any premises belonging to or occupied by such person. (1970 Code § 49.18)
N. Deposits Of Organic Or Combustible Matter: For any person, either as owner, lessee, agent, tenant or otherwise, to throw, cast or deposit, or to cause or permit to run, drop or remain, or to be thrown, cast, or deposited, any decomposable organic matter which might act as a breeding place for flies or as food for rats, discarded things capable of holding water which might serve as a breeding place for mosquitoes, or combustible matter which might serve to increase the fire hazard of neighboring property in or upon any vacant lot or land, enclosed or otherwise, within the village, except at such place or places designated or provided by the board of trustees; provided, that garbage, manure, offal and other putrescible matter may be temporarily kept in suitable cans, vessels, tanks or containers which are watertight and provided with tightly fitting covers. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed as to prohibit the depositing of manure upon any private property for the purpose of cultivating the same. (1970 Code § 49.19)
O. Stagnant Water: For any person, either as owner, lessee, agent, tenant or otherwise, to permit or allow in or upon any vacant lot or premises within the limits of the village, any water to collect or lie stagnant in which mosquito larvae breed, or are likely to breed. (1970 Code § 49.20)
P. Houses Of Ill Fame: To maintain, frequent or patronize any house of ill fame or house of assignation, where men and women resort for the purposes of prostitution. (1970 Code § 49.22)
Q. Privies: For any person to erect or maintain any privy within the limits of the village. (1970 Code § 49.23)
R. Keeping Swine: To keep or suffer to be kept any swine in any enclosure or pen in the village so as to be offensive to those residing in the vicinity. (1970 Code § 49.24)
S. Slaughtering Animals: To slaughter any meat cattle, hogs, or sheep, or keep, maintain or use any house or place in which the business of slaughtering any of said animals may be carried on in the village, without first having obtained a permit so to do from the board of trustees; except, that the owner of animals may slaughter them for his own use upon his own premises without such permit. (1970 Code § 49.25)
Notes
| 1 | 1. See also section 5-9A-5 of this code. |