It shall be the duty of all owners, agents, occupants or persons in possession of property, either real or personal, within the territorial limits of the Village to abate any nuisance as directed by the Village. The following acts, conduct and conditions are hereby declared and defined to be "nuisances", and when committed, performed and permitted to exist by any person within the territorial limits of the Village, are hereby declared to be unlawful and prohibited: (Ord. 2000-5, 2-3-2000)
A. Any act or offense which is a nuisance according to the common law of the State, or declared or defined to be a nuisance by the ordinances of the Village or the statutes of the State. In addition, the officials of the Village shall be authorized to abate any nuisance which, while not specifically defined within this Chapter, shall constitute the unreasonable, unwarrantable, or unlawful use by a person of property, real or personal, or from his own improper, indecent or unlawful personal conduct which works in obstruction or injury to a right of another, or of the public, and produces such material annoyance, inconvenience, discomfort or hurt that the law will presume an actionable nuisance. Nuisances may be abated which are public or which are both public and private in nature.
B. Any thing, act, occupation or use of property, premises, equipment or structure adversely affecting the health, welfare and safety of individuals or of the public.
C. Any act or omission, occupation and use of property, equipment or structure of any kind which shall annoy, injure or endanger the safety, health, welfare, comfort or repose of the public.
D. Any act or omission, occupation and use of property, equipment or structure which shall in any way threaten the life or the use of property of individuals or of the public.
E. All buildings, walls and other structures which have been damaged or neglected by fire, decay or otherwise so as to constitute a menace to the health, welfare or safety of individuals or of the public.
F. To cause or suffer the carcass of any animal, or any offal, filth or noxious substance to be collected, deposited or to remain in any place under his ownership or control to the injury of others.
G. To throw or deposit any offal or any other offensive matter or the carcass of any dead animal in any watercourse, lake, pond, spring, well or common sewer, street or public highway.
H. To corrupt or render unwholesome or impure, the water of any spring, river, stream, pond or lake to the injury of others.
I. To obstruct or encroach upon public highways, private ways, streets, alleys, commons and landing places.
J. To erect, or continue to use any building or other place for the exercise of any trade, employment or manufacture, which, by occasioning noxious fumes, offensive smells, or otherwise is offensive or dangerous to the health of individuals or of the public.
K. To advertise wares or occupation by painting notices of the same on or affixing them to fences, walls, windows, building exteriors, utility poles or on hydrants, other public or private property or on rocks, or other natural objects, without the consent of the owner, or if in the highway right of way or other public place, the permission of the Village authorities.
L. 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.
M. To dump, abandon, deposit, dismantle or burn upon any public property or right of way, highway, park, street or parkway anywhere in the village, any trash, garbage, ashes, junk, junked or wrecked automobiles or parts thereof, or miscellaneous waste.
N. To store, keep or maintain outside of a closed building, any junk parts, machinery or equipment not in an operable condition or motor vehicle not in an operable condition where such inoperable motor vehicle is a detriment to life, safety, health or peaceful enjoyment of the property of surrounding landowners; provided however, that this provision shall not apply to a properly licensed junkyard or other permitted outdoor storage use which is in full compliance with all the ordinances of the village governing the same.
O. To own, maintain or keep a dwelling unit unfit for human habitation, or dangerous or detrimental to life, safety or health because of lack of repair, defects in the plumbing system, lighting or ventilation, the existence of contagious diseases or unsanitary conditions likely to cause sickness among persons residing in said premises or residing in the proximity thereof.
P. All infestations of flies, fleas, roaches, lice, ticks, rats, mice, fly maggots and mosquitoes and mosquito larvae. (1994 Code)
Q. To store, keep or maintain outside of a garage or accessory structure, an inoperable motor vehicle. An "inoperable motor vehicle" shall be defined for purposes of this chapter as any motor vehicle which is and has been incapable of being driven under its own motor power for a period of at least seven (7) days, for reasons including, but not limited to, the engine, wheels or other parts having been removed, altered, or damaged or other events which have otherwise caused such motor vehicle to be incapable of being driven under its own motor power. In addition, an inoperable motor vehicle shall be any vehicle which has been cited a minimum of two (2) times within a thirty (30) day period for failure to display a valid state registration tag. However, the definition of an "inoperable motor vehicle" shall not include a motor vehicle which is located on the premises of a place of business engaged in the wrecking or junking of motor vehicles which is properly licensed by the village. (Ord. 2000-5, 2-3-2000; amd. Ord. 2005-4, 1-20-2005; Ord. 2010-12, 7-15-2010)