§ 90.50. SPECIFIC NUISANCES NAMED.

It is hereby declared to be a nuisance and to be against the health, peace and comfort of the village for any person, firm or corporation within the limits of the village to permit the following, but the enumeration of the following nuisances shall not be deemed to be exclusive:

(A)

Creating Offensive Smells: To so negligently conduct any business or use any premises as to create such an offensive smell as may taint the air and render it unwholesome or disagreeable to the neighborhood.

(B)

Permitting Offensive Matter to Remain: To cause or suffer the vegetable matter, slops, swill, suds, garbage, filth, stable droppings or offal, or noisome substance of any kind, to be collected, deposited, or to remain in any place in the village to the prejudice of others.

(C)

Depositing Offensive Matter: To deposit, throw or place manure, dead animals or any other filthy, offensive or noisome substance in or upon any street, lot, alley, highway, park, watercourse, lake, pond, spring or other place within the village with the exception of fertilizer normally used for home gardening or farming.

(D)

Slaughtering, Slaughterhouses, Etc.: To locate or maintain at any place within the village or within a radius of one mile without the village, any slaughterhouse, packinghouse, rendering establishment or bone factory, or to suffer or permit any premises at any place within the limits aforesaid used for any of the purposes aforesaid to become foul or offensive.

(E)

Accumulations of Junk, Trash: To deposit or pile up any rags, old rope, paper, brush, old iron, brass, copper, tin, ashes, garbage, refuse, litter, weeds, slush, lead, glass bottles, broken glass or waste material of any kind upon any lot, piece or parcel of land or upon any public or private alley or street within the village, except as otherwise provided in the village ordinances.

(F)

Dense or Offensive Smoke: To cause or permit the emission of dense smoke from any fire, chimney, engine, oil burner or any other agency in the village so as to cause annoyance or discomfort to the residents thereof.

(G)

Buildings: To construct or maintain any buildings, structure or excavation in violation of any of the building provisions of this village, or any building or excavation which is an unsanitary condition, or in an unsafe or dangerous condition, or which in any manner endangers the health or safety of any person or persons, is hereby declared a public nuisance. Every building or part thereof which is in an unsanitary condition by reason of the basement or cellar being damp or wet, or by reason of the floor of such basement or cellar being covered with stagnant water, or by reason of the presence of sewer gas, or by reason of any portion of a building being infected with disease or being unfit for human habitation, or which by reason of any other unsanitary condition, is a source of sickness or which endangers the public health, is hereby declared to be a public nuisance.

(H)

Bringing Nuisances Into Village: To bring into the village 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 village, or which may or shall be dangerous or detrimental to health.

(I)

Residential Property: For either an owner or a tenant to allow or permit, in addition to any other nuisance according to the common law, other ordinances of the village, or the statutes of the State of Illinois, or which deleteriously affect public health, safety or welfare or greatly offends the public morals or decency, the following to occur on residential property located within the village:

1.

Any offensive noise which disturbs the peace or quiet of the neighborhood or of any person residing in the vicinity of such premises.

2.

The keeping, depositing of, or the scattering of lumber, junk, trash or debris or abandoned, discarded or unused objects or equipment such as automobiles, furniture, stoves, refrigerators, freezers, cans or containers.

3.

The discharge, display, disposal, possession or use of fireworks, as defined in 425 ILCS 35/1 et seq.

(Ord. 480, passed 4-9-1968; Am. Ord. 15-114 , passed 10-13-2015)