The following acts, conduct and conditions are hereby declared and defined to be nuisances and when committed, performed or permitted to exist by any individual, firm, association or corporation within the territorial limits of the city or within the extra territorial zoning jurisdiction of the city are hereby declared to be unlawful and prohibited.
(A) Any act or offense which is a nuisance according to the common law or statutes of the State of Illinois or declared or defined to be a nuisance by the ordinances of the city.
(B) Any condition or use of any premises or buildings or improvements located thereon which is detrimental to the property of others or which causes or tends to cause diminution in value of other property in the neighborhood in which the premises are located, or which causes unreasonable disturbance to another.
(C) Any condition or use of any premises or buildings or improvements located thereon which is detrimental to the public good or which causes an unreasonable disturbance to another.
(D) Anything which shall constitute the unreasonable, unwarrantable or unlawful use by a person or property, real or personal, or from his own improper, indecent or unlawful personal conduct which works an obstruction or injury to the right of another or of the public, and produces such material annoyance, inconvenience, discomfort, or hurt that the law will presume an actionable nuisance.
(E) 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.
(F) To erect, continue or use any building or other place for the exercise of any trade, employment or manufacture, which, by occasioning noxious exaltations, offensive smells or otherwise, is offensive or dangerous to the health of individuals or of the public.
(G) To obstruct or encroach upon public highways, private ways, streets, alleys, commons, landing places, and rights-of-way.
(H) To keep or deposit on or scatter over any premises lumber, junk, trash, debris, or unused, unusable or inoperative objects, or equipment such as automobiles, furniture, stoves, refrigerators, or containers.
(I) To allow the emission of unnecessary noise from the premises including, but not limited to the keeping of animals which cause an unreasonable disturbance to another or to the public.
(J) The accumulation of waste, refuse, trash or other deleterious substances on the premises of private residences, commercial institutions and in the streets and alleys which may cause the increase of danger of fire or the spread of infectious, contagious and epidemic diseases or anything thereof which shall constitute a public menace.
(K) Any act by an owner, occupant or agent of any owner or occupant of lots, parcels or areas which permits the premises to become unsanitary or a fire menace by allowing any offensive or unsafe matter to grow, accumulate or otherwise occupy and remain upon such premise.
(L) To permit, allow or to keep any compost pile which is of such a nature as to spread or harbor disease, emit unpleasant odors or harmful gas, or attract rodents, vermin or other disease carrying pests, animals or insects, provided that the presence of earthworms and a compost pile shall not constitute a nuisance.
(M) To place, deposit, leave or dump any trash, ashes, broken articles, garbage, junk, refuse or waste material of any kind on any premises in the city without the consent of the owner or tenant in possession thereof.
(N) To own, maintain or keep a dwelling unit unfit for human habitation or dangerous or detrimental to life, safety or health because of lack of repair, defects in the plumbing system, lighting or ventilation, the existence of contagious diseases or unsanitary conditions likely to cause sickness among persons residing in said premises or residing in proximity thereof or detrimental to the public good.
(O) To store or place any materials in a manner which may harbor rats.
(P) To maintain or permit the existence of any dangerous or unsanitary building or structure.
(Q) Any other uses or conditions of property which, due to their existence, create an environment which could be prejudicial or detrimental to the public health or welfare.
(R) To park a semi-tractor and/or semi-trailer and/or to allow a semi-tractor and/or semi-trailer to remain on premises in R-1 through R-4 inclusive (as said zoning has been defined as set forth within City of LaSalle Ordinance No. 590 as amended) for any purpose other than delivery and/or pick up of personal property at the residence.
(S) The allowance of the commission (which shall be determined by either plea of guilty or conviction) of 4 or more city ordinance violations on the premises in a 1 year period and/or the occurrence of 4 or more police service calls to the premises in a 1 month time period and/or the occurrence of 6 or more police service calls to the same premises within a 3-month time period, all of which shall be considered unreasonably high and to constitute a nuisance in reference to the premises.
(T) The open storage of junk, refuse, scrap, disabled or damaged vehicles, whether awaiting repair or not, is prohibited in the city. For the purpose of interpretation, open storage shall be any storage not contained completely within a building or structure enclosed on all sides by walls and by a solid roof on the top.
(Ord. 1187, passed 9-19-1988; Am. Ord. 1771, passed 6-24-2002; Am. Ord. 2080, passed 5-21-2007; Am. Ord. 2213, passed 4-6-2010) Penalty, see § 91.99