Within the territorial jurisdiction of the Village, it is hereby declared to be a nuisance for any person:
A. To so negligently conduct any business or use any premises as to create an offensive smell as may taint the air and render it unwholesome and disagreeable to other persons.
B. To cause or to suffer the carcass of any animal or other offal, filth or noisome substance to be collected, deposited or remain in any place to the prejudice of other persons.
C. To throw or deposit any offal or otherwise offensive matter or the carcass of any animal in any watercourse, pond, spring or well.
D. To deposit any night soil, dead animal or other filthy, offensive or noisome substance upon any lot, street, alley, highway, park or other place.
E. To obstruct or impede, without legal authority, the passage of any gutter or natural drainage of any public or private property.
F. To obstruct or encroach upon public highways, private ways, streets, alleys or commons.
G. To establish, maintain or carry on any offensive or unwholesome business within the limits of the Village, or within one mile of the limits thereof.
H. To throw or deposit any straw, dirt, filth, chips, ashes or other rubbish in any alley or other public place.
I. To permit or suffer any offal, filth, refuse, animal or vegetable matter, which is liable to become putrid or offensive or injurious to health, to remain on any premises used or occupied by him for a longer period than four (4) hours at any one time.
J. To keep or suffer to keep, in a foul, offensive, nauseous or filthy condition any railroad car, building, yard, cellar, barn, sewer, pig sty or privy.
K. To own, keep or use any railroad car, yard, pen, place or premises in or upon which cattle or swine may be confined or kept, as to be offensive to persons residing in the vicinity of the same.
L. 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 the public.
M. To locate and use, without first having obtained permission of the Village President and Board of Trustees, to do so, any packing house, rendery, tallow chandlery, bone factory, tannery, brewery, distillery, livery stable, blacksmith shop or foundry.
N. To erect or use habitually any house or lot for the purpose of butchering or slaughtering cattle, calves, sheep or swine without the permission of the President and Board of Trustees.
O. To boil or render tainted lard or other animal substance so as to taint the air, render it unwholesome or offensive.
P. To use in the erection of, or repairing of any building a scaffold or scaffolds not wide enough to ensure the safety of the persons passing under or near the same.
Q. To suffer any bitch or slut, owned by him to run at large while in heat.
R. To suffer any horse, ox, cow, calf, hog, dog, cat or other animal owned by him or in his charge which may come to its death in any manner, to lie for more than twenty four (24) hours after its death, in or upon any street, alley or other ground, public or private.
S. To erect or continue any public sign indicating that any premises or building owned, occupied or in charge of such person is used in whole or in part as a saloon or dramshop, unless such person shall have a license to keep a dramshop, issued by the village president and the board of trustees. (1904 Code § 17.1; amd. 1997 Code)
T. To leave any vehicles parked on a village street during street cleaning or snow removal operations. (Ord. 1978-5, 1978)
U. To demolish any structure by fire. (Ord. 1987-5, 2-25-1987)
V. In an eviction by a landlord of a tenant, it shall be a nuisance: (Ord. 1988-15, 10-10-1988)
1. For a landlord to cause tenant's goods and chattels to be removed from the landlord's premises and deposited upon any street, alley, avenue or other public ground within the village, unless such goods and chattels shall be enclosed within a good and sufficient container as provided in section 7-2-4 of this title. Twenty four (24) hours shall be considered a reasonable time to remove or abate such nuisance.
2. For the owner of goods and chattels which a landlord has caused to be removed from the landlord's premises and deposited upon any street, alley, avenue or other public ground within the village, to allow such goods and chattels to remain upon the public grounds. If such goods and chattels are not enclosed in a container as provided in section 7-2-4 of this title, then twenty four (24) hours shall be considered a reasonable time to remove or abate such nuisance. If such goods and chattels are enclosed within a container as provided in section 7-2-4 of this title, then seven (7) days shall be considered a reasonable time to remove or abate such nuisance. (Ord. 1988-15, 10-10-1988; amd. Ord. 2014-32, 12-16-2014)
W. To pull up or break down or otherwise injure any of the trees, grass, shrubbery, fences, seats, stands or other fixtures or things in or about, or appertaining to any public square or park in the village; or to erect any booth or other structure on any such public square or park without the written permission of the president of the village first being obtained by such person. (1904 Code § 26.11)