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It shall be unlawful and a nuisance for any person to obstruct or pollute any watercourse or source of water supply in the city.
(1969 Code, § 12-3) Penalty, see § 10.99
Any stagnant pool of water in the city is hereby declared to be a nuisance. It shall be unlawful for any person to permit any such nuisance to remain or exist on any property under his or her control.
(1969 Code, § 12-4) Penalty, see § 10.99
It shall be unlawful for any person to permit or maintain the existence of any nuisance on any property under his or her control. This shall include any use of property, substances, or things within the city, emitting or causing any foul, offensive, noisome, nauseous, noxious or disagreeable odors or stenches which are repulsive to the physical senses of ordinary persons and which annoy, discomfort, injure, or inconvenience the health of any persons within the city. The Chief of Police, the Health Officer, or designee are hereby authorized to abate any such nuisances existing in the city, whether these nuisances are specifically recognized by ordinance or not.
(1969 Code, § 12-5) (Ord. 2006-30, passed 9-11-2006; Am. Ord. 2009-7, passed 6-8-2009) Penalty, see § 10.99
CONTAGIOUS DISEASE PREVENTION
Every physician called in to care for or treat a person afflicted with a contagious disease or any epidemic disease shall make a report to the Health Officer of the disease within 24 hours after being called in. In case no physician is in attendance, it shall be the duty of the person in charge of or having the care of that person to make a report within 24 hours from the time the disease is recognized.
(1969 Code, § 12-58) Penalty, see § 10.99
The Health Officer shall have charge of the enforcement of quarantine rules; he or she shall have the power and the authority to place any premises within which a contagious or epidemic disease occurs under quarantine, and the Health Officer shall determine the time when the quarantine ends.
(1969 Code, § 12-59)
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Reports of diseases required by law are confidential and maker of report is immune from slander or libel suit, see ILCS Chapter 745, Act 45, § 1
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