For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
NUISANCE VEGETATION. Includes:
(1) Trees, shrubs, bushes, WEEDS, or plants permitted to grow on premises adjacent to any street, alley, or other public way, in a manner as to obstruct the view and endanger traffic conditions;
(2) WEEDS and dead or dying trees or bushes, stumps, and roots, on land within the village
(3) Elm trees infected with Dutch elm disease or ash trees infected with the emerald ash borer.
(4) Grasses, weeds or other vegetation which impairs the use of paved sidewalks in the village.
PESTS. Undesirable arthropods (including certain insects, spiders, mites, ticks, and related organisms), wood infesting organisms, rats, mice, and other obnoxious undesirable animals, but does not include a feral cat, a "companion animal" as that term is defined in the Humane Care for Animals Act (510 ILCS 70), "animals" as that term is defined in the Illinois Diseased Animals Act (510 ILCS 50), or animals protected by the Wildlife Code (520 ILCS 5).
RUBBISH. Any unsightly material, waste products, refuse, debris, trash, or waste lumber deposited, left, piled or scattered that may become a breeding place for insects, rodents, or vermin, or that may give off unpleasant odors or create a health or fire hazard where located.
WEEDS. An annual or perennial herbaceous plant of volunteer growth, not cultivated or useful for human food or enjoyment, and shall include, but not be limited to the following: jimson, burdock, ragweed, thistles of all kinds, cockleburr, barberry (tall, common or other horticultural varieties), poison ivy, yellow dock, Indian mallow, sweet clover, wild mustard (including black mustard and yellow mustard), May weed, lambs' quarters, pig weed, beggar ticks, wild lettuce, shepherds purse, smart weed, sow-thistle, tumble-weed, milk weed, dandelions, and the like; any plant that, when in blossom, gives off an unpleasant or obnoxious order or pollen irritating to human tissue, and any plant growth that may conceal rubbish, debris or filthy deposits or constitute a fire hazard when dry; grass that is more than 12 inches in height; random growth or volunteer growth of bushes or brush that may conceal rubbish, debris, or filthy deposits or constitute a fire hazard when dry; any plant that causes or adds its influence in bringing on hay fever; other similar or noxious plant, and all plants fitting within the term WEEDS as used in the Illinois Municipal Code. (Ord. 18-005, passed 4-16-2018; Ord. 22-16, passed 8-1-2022)