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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
No person owning, leasing, occupying or having charge of any premises shall maintain or keep any nuisance thereon, nor shall any person keep or maintain such premises in a manner causing, substantial diminution in the value of the other property in the neighborhood in which the premises are located or which shall be harmful to anyone or the public at large, nor shall any person allow the keeping of any animals which shall cause unreasonable disturbance to others.
(Ord. 1187, passed 9-19-1988) Penalty, see § 91.99
The owner, owners, tenants, lessees, and/or occupants of any lot within the corporate limits of the city or within the extra-territorial jurisdiction of the city upon which such storage is made, and also the owner, owners, and/or lessees of said personalties involved in such storage (all of whom are hereinafter referred to collectively as owners) shall jointly and severally abate said nuisance by the prompt removal of said personalty and to completely enclose buildings authorized to be used for such storage or such other manner necessary to abate such nuisance.
(Ord. 1187, passed 9-19-1988)
If said owners shall allow said nuisance to exist or fail to abate the nuisance, they, and each of them, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined as set forth in § 91.99. In addition to the fine the owners shall be ordered to abate the nuisance within a designated time, after which the building inspector may proceed to abate the nuisance according to the provisions of § 91.05.
(Ord. 1187, passed 9-19-1988)
(A) Whenever, in the opinion of the Building Inspector of the city, the maintenance or a continuance of a nuisance creates an imminent threat of serious injury to persons or serious damage to persons or real property, or if the nuisance can be abated summarily without or with only minor damage to the items or premises which are creating nuisance, and/or the continuation of the nuisance poses a substantial threat of injury to persons or property or a substantial interference with the quiet enjoyment of life normally present in the community, the Building Inspector shall proceed to abate such nuisance; provided, further, that whenever the owner, occupant, agent or person in possession, charge or control of the real or personal property which has become a nuisance is unknown or cannot regularly be found, the Building Inspector may proceed to abate such nuisance without notice. Where the abatement of the nuisance requires continuing acts by the corporate authorities beyond initial summary abatement and any other additional emergency abatement, it shall seek abatement of such nuisance on a permanent basis through judicial process as soon as reasonably possible.
(B) When any personalty has been removed and placed in storage by the city, as provided for herein, said personalty shall be sold by the city after the last of 30 days. If the proceeds of such sale are insufficient to pay the cost of abatement, the owner shall be liable to the city for the balance of the cost, jointly and severally, to be recoverable in a suit at law. If the proceeds are in excess of the cost, the balance shall be paid to said owners or deposited in the city treasury for their use.
(C) The Building Inspector or his or her duly authorized representative shall compile the cost of such work done and improvements made in abating such nuisance and shall charge the same against the owner of the premises. It is hereby provided that general overhead of administrative expenses of inspection, locating the owner, issuing a notice, reinspection and ordering such work, together with all necessary incidents of same, shall require a charge of $100 for each lot, series of 2 or more adjacent and contiguous lots, or tracts or parcels of acreage, and such minimum charge is hereby established and declared to be an expense of such work and improvement. Notwithstanding thereof, any tabulation of recorded cost, a minimum charge of $200 shall be assessed against each lot so improved upon the terms of this section, but such sum of $200 is hereby expressly stated to be a minimum charge only, and shall have no obligation when the tabulated cost of the work shall exceed such minimum charge.
(Ord. 1187, passed 9-19-1988)
The Building Inspector shall compile such cost of the work and after charging the same against the owner of the premises, the Building Inspector shall certify a statement of such expense and shall file the same with the County Recorder which shall create a lien upon the property. For any such expenditures and interest, suit may be instituted by the City Attorney and recovery and foreclosure had in the name of the city; and the statements so made, as aforesaid, or a certified copy thereof, shall be prima facie evidence of the amount expended in any such work or improvements.
(Ord. 1187, passed 9-19-1988)
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