For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
HEALTH OFFICER. An officer of health as appointed by the Council of the village.
NUISANCE.
(1) Whatever is dangerous or injurious to human life, health or habitation;
(2) Whatever causes or has a tendency to cause the air, food, water or other drink in any place or manner in the village to be injurious to or to endanger the health, safety, welfare, or comfort of any person or of the public;
(3) Whatever building, erection, structure, cellar, or part thereof is overcrowded or not provided with adequate means of ingress or egress or for the disposal of human excreta, or for obtaining a reasonably necessary amount of clean water for use on the premises, or is unfit for human habitation, or is not sufficiently supported, ventilated, drained, cleaned or lighted;
(4) Any and all conditions, premises, building, or structures that harbor or are conducive to the harboring or breeding of insects, vermin, rats or other rodents;
(5) All ponds of stagnant water;
(6) All cellars and foundations of and excavations for houses, the bottoms of which contain stagnant or putrid water;
(7) All dead and putrefied animals or rubbish lying about the roadways, lanes, streets, alleys, vacant lots, or yards, or upon the surface of the ground or not buried in the ground a sufficient depth;
(8) All methods of human excreta disposal except toilets or water closets properly maintained and connected with a sanitary sewer or septic tank that have been constructed and are being maintained in accordance with laws and the ordinances of the village and which are screened against flies and which are maintained in compliance with health measures, or other disposal system authorized by and maintained in accordance with the provisions of law and village;
(9) All abandoned or discarded ice boxes or refrigerators wherein the doors have not been removed;
(10) All choked or clogged sewers and house drains;
(11) All slaughter houses;
(12) All unreasonable accumulation of garbage, ashes or refuse;
(13) All pig pens and stables, and all wells, cisterns and reservoirs from which water for drinking or other domestic purposes may be obtained which are not constructed or maintained in accordance with the provisions of the village ordinances and which show pollution;
(14) The storing, depositing or dumping of so-called foundry sand, after its use in any foundry, ash residue or similar substances upon any vacant lot or property with a dwelling or building, is declared a nuisance unless such foundry sand is covered with adequate stable soil, all of which is to be approved by the Health Officer as to quantity and type of soil covering.
PUBLIC NUISANCES. Those things, acts, or uses or property that annoy, injure, or endanger the safety, health, comfort or repose of the public, or in any way render the public insecure in life or in the use of their property and said term “nuisance” shall be held to embrace public nuisances as known at common law or in equity jurisprudence and whatever is dangerous to human life, detrimental to health or makes the free and unrestricted use of a person's property undesirable or whatever renders the air or human food or drink unwholesome are all nuisances and as such are hereby declared illegal.
(Ord. 7.01, passed 10-11-71)