(A) Definitions.
"GARBAGE." Waste resulting from the handling, processing, preparation, cooking, and consumption of food, and wastes from the handling, processing, storage, and sale of produce.
(ILCS Ch. 415, Act 5 § 3.200)
"HAZARDOUS WASTE." A waste, or combination of wastes, which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics, may cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious, irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness; or pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, or disposed of, or otherwise managed, and which has been identified, by characteristics or listing, as hazardous pursuant to Section 3001 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, P.A. 94-580 (42 USCA Section 6921) or pursuant to Pollution Control Board regulations.
(ILCS Ch. 415, Act 5 § 3.220)
"LANDSCAPE WASTE." All accumulations of grass or shrubbery cuttings, leaves, tree limbs and other materials accumulated as the result of the care of lawns, shrubbery, vines and trees.
(ILCS Ch. 415, Act 5 § 3.270)
"MUNICIPAL WASTE." Any garbage, refuse, industrial lunchroom or office waste, and material resulting from operation of residential, municipal, commercial or institutional establishments and from community activities, general household waste, landscape waste and construction or demolition debris.
(ILCS Ch. 415, Act 15 § 3; ILCS Ch. 415, Act 5 § 3.290)
“RECREATIONAL FIRES.”
(a) Fires for the express purpose to cook food for human consumption, such fires shall be contained in grills, charcoal burners, or the like.
(b) Fires within a dry stacked stone, masonry, or metal fire pit or ring or within commercially manufactured portable fireplaces, but only if:
1. Location. The location of the stone, masonry, or metal fire pit or ring or commercially manufactured portable fireplace shall be at a safe and reasonable distance from any building, structure, or vehicle and from any container or other source of flammable liquids or vapors. A metal fire ring or commercially manufactured portable fireplace shall not be placed on any combustible surface.
2. Fuel. The fuel shall be dry, seasoned wood or equal and no garbage, household waste, landscape waste, municipal waste, hazardous waste or leaves shall be burned.
3. Attendance. No burning shall take place on private property without the presence and oversight of an adult over 18 years of age. No fires shall be left unattended until entirely extinguished.
(B) It is unlawful for any private citizen or business to burn or attempt to burn garbage, municipal waste, landscape waste, or hazardous waste at any time within the city. The open burning of leaves within the city limits of the city is prohibited. Exceptions include the following:
(1) Cardboard and paper may be burned in furnaces (not burn barrels) approved by the city Fire Chief.
(2) Wood may be burned in an appropriate fireplace.
(3) This section is not intended to cover recreational fires.
(4) Any environmental or special burn approved by the city Fire Chief and conducted pursuant to this direction.
(C) It shall be unlawful to deposit within the city any garbage, municipal waste, landscape waste, or hazardous waste except at the city's landfill or waste transfer station, when a permit is issued in accordance with the regulations of the transfer station and the landfill. It shall be unlawful to deposit hazardous waste at any location within the city.
(Ord. 90-0-13, passed 10-8-90; Am. Ord. 2001-0-20, passed 11-26-01; Am. Ord. 2014-O-12, passed 8-11-14) Penalty, see § 10.99
Cross-reference:
Disposal of landscape waste, see § 136.26(F)
Statutory reference:
Fire safety regulations, see ILCS Ch. 65, Act 5 § 11-8-1 et seq.