It is hereby declared to be a nuisance and to be against the health, peace and comfort of the City for any person, business, firm or corporation within the limits of the City to permit the following; but the enumeration of the following nuisances shall not be deemed to be exclusive:
(A) Filth. To cause or suffer the carcass of any animal or any offal, filth or noisome substance to be collected, deposited or to remain in any place, to the prejudice of others.
(B) Deposit of Offensive Materials. To throw or deposit any offal or other offensive matter, or the carcass of any dead animal in any water course, lake, pond, spring, well or common sewer, street or public highway.
(C) Corruption of Water/Stagnant Pools of Water. To corrupt or render unwholesome, or impure, the water of any swimming pool, landscaping water feature, spring, river, stream, pond or lake, well, public or private, to the injury or prejudice of others. Any stagnant pool of water in the City is hereby declared to be a nuisance. It shall be unlawful for any person to permit such a nuisance to remain or exist on any property under his or her control.
(D) Highway Encroachment. To obstruct or encroach upon public highways, private ways, streets, alleys, commons, landing places, and ways to burying places. This prohibited encroachment specifically includes trees, shrubs, bushes, landscaping or other vegetation which impedes or in any way blocks visibility of public traffic signs or traffic regulatory devices.
(E) Manufacturing Gunpowder. To carry on the business of manufacturing gunpowder, nitroglycerine, or other highly explosive substances, or mixing or grinding the materials therefore, in any building within three hundred (300) feet of any valuable building erected at the time such business may be commenced.
(F) Powder Magazines. To establish powder magazines near incorporated towns, at a point different from that appointed according to law by the corporate authorities of the town, or within eight hundred (800) feet of any occupied dwelling house.
(G) Noxious Odors. 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 of the public.
(H) Unlawful Advertising. To advertise wares or occupations by painting notices of the same on, or affixing them to fences or other private property, or on rocks or other natural objects without the consent of the owner, or if in the highway or other public place, without permission of the proper authorities.
(I) Wells Unplugged. To permit any well drilled for oil, gas, salt water disposal or any other purpose in connection with the production of oil and gas, to remain unplugged after such well is no longer used for the purpose for which it was drilled.
(J) Burn-Out Pits. To construct or operate any salt water pit or oil field refuse pit, commonly called a “burn-out pit” so that salt water, brine or oil field refuse or other waste liquids may escape therefrom in any manner except by the evaporation of such salt water or brine or by the burning of such oil field waste or refuse.
(K) Discarded Materials. To permit concrete bases, discarded machinery and materials to remain around any oil or gas well or to fail to fill any holes, cellars, slush pits and other excavations made in connection with any such well or to restore the surface of the lands surrounding any such well to its condition before the drilling of any such well, upon abandonment of any such oil or gas well.
(L) Underground Wells. To permit any salt water, oil, gas or other wastes from any well drilled for oil, gas or exploratory purposes to escape to the surface, or into a mine or coal seam, or into any underground fresh water supply or from one underground stratum to another.
(M) Harassment. To harass, intimidate or threaten any person who is about to sell or lease or has sold or leased a residence or other real property, or is about to buy or lease, or has bought or leased a residence or other real property, when the harassment, intimidation, or threat relates to a person's attempt to sell, buy or lease a residence, or other real property, or refers to a person's sale, purchase or lease of a residence or other real property.
(N) Business. To establish, maintain, and carry on any offensive or unwholesome business or establishment within the City limits.
(O) Filthy Premise Conditions. To keep or suffer to be kept any chicken coop, cow barn, stable, cellar, vault, drain, privy, sewer or sink upon any premises belonging to or occupied by any person, or any railroad car, building, yard, grounds, and premises belonging to or occupied by any person.
(P) Expectorate. To expectorate on any public sidewalk or street, or other public building or floor or walk of any public vehicle or hall.
(Q) Litter on Streets, Sidewalks or Ditches. It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit upon or allow trash, paper, cardboard, wire, dirt, rock, stone, glass, brick, lumber, wood or litter of material objects of any size or description to fall upon the streets, sidewalks or ditches of the City from any moving vehicle, or to be thrown from a moving vehicle, or to throw from a moving vehicle and to remain thereon.
(R) Accumulation of Junk And Trash. To deposit or pile up any rags, old rope, paper, iron, brass, copper, tin, aluminum, used lumber, derelict truck trailers, camping trailers, bicycles or boats, appliances, inoperable gas/electric equipment, construction materials, demolition debris, ashes, garbage, refuse, plastic, brush, litter, weeds, slush, lead, glass bottles, barrels, containers, bottles, cans, glass, wire, paper, cardboard, personal belongings, inoperable bicycles or broken glass upon any residential home lot, piece or parcel of land or upon any public or private alley, street or public way within the City.
(S) Rodents. To cause or permit any condition or situation to exist that shall attract, harbor, or encourage the infestation of rodents.
(T) Bringing Nuisances into the City. To bring into the City or keep therein for sale or otherwise, either for food or for any other purpose, any dead or live animal or any matter, substance, or thing which shall be a nuisance or which shall occasion a nuisance in the City, or which may or shall be dangerous or detrimental to health.
(U) Offensive Liquids. To keep nauseous, foul or putrid liquid or substance or any liquid or substance likely to become nauseous, foul, offensive, or putrid, nor permit any such liquid to be discharged, placed, thrown, or to flow from or out of any premise into or upon any adjacent premises or any public street, alley, or ditches, nor permit the same to be done by any person connected with the premises.
(V) Dense or Offensive Smoke. To cause or permit the continual emission of dense smoke from any fire, chimney, engine, oil burner or any other agency in the City so as to cause annoyance or discomfort to the residents thereof.
(W) Scrap Tires, Both Mounted and Dismounted. To keep any scrap tires, either mounted or dismounted, in open view, or so as to allow such tires to accumulate stagnant water so as to provide a breeding ground for mosquitoes and other pests.
(X) Motor Transport Engines/Idle Engines. To operate motor vehicle transport engines, or to idle motor vehicle transport engines in the nighttime between the hours of ten (10:00) o'clock P.M. and six (6:00) o'clock A.M., in any place in which a majority of the buildings, within a radius of four hundred (400) feet are used exclusively for residence purposes, excluding state and federal highways.
(Y) Accumulation of Debris. To store, dump or permit the accumulation of debris, refuse, garbage, trash, tires, buckets, cans, wheelbarrows, garbage cans or other containers in a manner that may harbor mosquitoes, flies, insects, rodents, nuisance birds or other animal pests that are offensive, injurious or dangerous to the health of individuals or the public.
(Z) Generally. To commit any act which is a nuisance according to the common law of the land or made such by statute of the State. (740 ILCS 55/221 – 55/222)
(AA) Firewood. Cord of Wood means a unit for quantity for cut fuel wood, equal to one hundred twenty-eight (128) cubic feet in a stack measuring four feet by eight feet (4’ x 8’).
Firewood means neatly stacked burnable wood cut into lengths of approximately one (1) to two (2) feet that require no further cutting of the wood prior to placing it in a wood burner or fireplace. Firewood does not mean pallets, shipping containers, lumber, construction products, or tree limbs or brush that are not cut to usable firewood and neatly stacked. No person shall store Firewood on residentially zoned property, except for use on the premises, and in conformance with the following: (1) not more than six (6) cords of firewood shall be stored at any time; and (2) the Firewood must be cut and neatly stacked in the rear or side yard of the residential property; and (3) all brush, debris and refuse from processing of firewood shall be removed within thirty (30) days of its creation.
(BB) Indoor Furniture/Appliances Outdoors. Indoor Furniture means any furniture or appliance not manufactured for outdoor use, including without limitation upholstered chairs, sofas, mattresses, water heaters, sinks, cabinets, refrigerators, freezers, stoves, carpet, washing machines, clothes dryers, televisions, sewing machines or microwave ovens. No person shall place, use, keep, store or maintain any Indoor Furniture in any outdoor area, on any porch, patio, rooftop, balcony or other unenclosed structure. Indoor Furniture placed for curb side pick-up for not more than forty-eight (48) hours or placed outside for sale in a garage or yard sale for not more than seventy-two (72) hours shall not be deemed a nuisance.
(CC) Inoperable Motor Vehicle/Motor Equipment. An Inoperable Motor Vehicle is one which not equipped with all parts required to legally operate on public streets or one that cannot be driven under its own power, or an unlicensed or unregistered motor vehicle. Storage of these vehicles outside a fully enclosed structure is prohibited. “Motor Equipment” includes boats, boat motors, utility trailers, motorcycles, lawn mowers, push mowers, golf carts, snowmobiles, forklifts, ATV’s go carts, campers and recreational vehicles not equipped with all parts required to legally operate on public streets or that cannot be operated under their own power, or which are unlicensed. Storage of this Motor Equipment outside a fully enclosed structure is prohibited.
Nothing in this Section shall be construed to prevent the corporate authorities of this City from declaring what shall be nuisances, and abating them within the City limits.
(Ord. No. 1812; 10-26-15)