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The City Attorney is hereby authorized and directed to institute lien foreclosure proceedings in the name of the city in any court having jurisdiction over the matter, against any property for which such bill has remained unpaid for 60 days after it has been rendered.
(1969 Code, § 25-16) (Ord. 1961-23, passed 8-14-1961)
PEST CONTROL
(A) The city shall provide pest control activities on any parcel of private property located within the within the city limits if, after reasonable notice, the owners of that parcel refuse or neglect to prevent the ingress of pests to their property or to exterminate pests on their property.
(B) For purposes of this section, PESTS means undesirable arthropods (including certain insects, spiders, mites, ticks and related organisms), wood infesting organisms, rats, mice, and other obnoxious and undesirable animals, but does not include a feral cat, a companion animal as that term is defined in the Humane Care of Animals Act, ILCS Chapter 510, Act 70, § 1 et seq., animals as that term is defined in the Illinois Diseased Animals Act, ILCS Chapter 510, Act 50, § 1 et seq., or animals protected by the Wildlife Code, ILCS Chapter 520, Act 5, § 1 et seq.
(C) The municipality may collect from the owner of the underlying property the cost of removal, which includes the total cost of all pest control activities, and these removal costs shall become a lien upon the property in accordance with ILCS Chapter 65, Act 5, § 11-20-15 or 11-20-15.1 for abandoned residential property.
(Ord. 2016-19, passed 9-26-2016)
(A) It shall be unlawful for any resident or property owner or both to allow the accumulation of any material, whether organic, non-organic or a mixture of both, on any property within the city that harbors, attracts, or serves as a habitat for vermin and insects, including mosquitoes, flies, disease carrying insects, rabbits, snakes, rats, chipmunks, voles, moles, gophers, groundhogs or any similar animal or insect and such an accumulation is hereby declared a public nuisance.
(B) Said violation is punishable as set forth in § 10.99 of this code.
(C) If the responsible party does not abate the nuisance within a reasonable timeframe after notice of the violation, the city may proceed to abate, remove or ameliorate the condition so the nuisance no longer exists.
(D) If the city must proceed to abate, remove or ameliorate the nuisance then the responsible party and/or the landowner will be responsible to reimburse the city for the costs incurred by the city. These costs shall become a lien on the real estate and the city shall have the enforcement rights to the lien in accordance with the provisions of ILCS Ch. 65, Act 5, §§ 11-20-15 and 11-20-15.1.
(Ord. 2020-18, passed 10-26-2020)