(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)