(A) 
Applicability.
(1) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, deposit, or permit to be deposited in any unsanitary manner upon public or private property within the Village or in any area under the jurisdiction of the Village, any human or animal excrement, garbage, or other objectionable waste.
(2) 
This Article 4 shall apply to all water entering the storm drain system generated on any developed and undeveloped lands unless explicitly exempted by the Village.
(3) 
All buildings, structures and premises located within the Village shall be connected to the sanitary sewer system of the Village.
(B) 
Definitions. For the purposes of this Article 4, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth in this Section 12-4-1(B).
AUTHORIZED ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
Employees or designees of the Village Director of Public Works.
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (BMPS)
Schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, general good housekeeping practices, pollution prevention and educational practices, maintenance procedures, and other management practices to prevent or reduce the discharge of pollutants directly or indirectly to stormwater, receiving waters, or stormwater conveyance systems. BMPs also include treatment practices, operating procedures, and practices to control site runoff, spillage or leaks, sludge or water disposal, or drainage from raw materials storage.
CLEAN WATER ACT
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq.), as may be amended.
CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY
Activities subject to NPDES construction permits. These include construction projects resulting in land disturbance of one acre or more. Such activities include, but are not limited to, clearing and grubbing, grading, excavating, and demolition.
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Any material, including any substance, waste, or combination thereof, which, because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics may cause, or significantly contribute to, a substantial present or potential hazard to human health, safety, property, or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, disposed of, or otherwise managed.
ILLEGAL DISCHARGE
Any direct or indirect non-stormwater discharge to the storm drain system, except as exempted in Section 12-4-10 of this Code.
ILLICIT CONNECTION
An "illicit connection" is defined as either of the following:
(1) 
Any drain or conveyance, whether on the surface or subsurface, that allows an illegal discharge to enter the storm drain system including, but not limited to, any conveyances that allow any non-stormwater discharge including sewage, process wastewater, and wash water to enter the storm drain system and any connections to the storm drain system from indoor drains and sinks, regardless of whether said drain or connection had been previously allowed, permitted, or approved by an authorized enforcement agency; or
(2) 
Any drain or conveyance connected from a commercial or industrial land use to the storm drain system that has not been documented in plans, maps, or equivalent records and approved by an authorized enforcement agency.
INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY
Activities subject to NPDES industrial stormwater permits as defined in 40 CFR 122.26(b)(14).
MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM SEWER SYSTEM (MS4)
The system of conveyances (including sidewalks, roads with drainage systems, municipal streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters, ditches, man-made channels, or storm drains) owned and operated by the Village and designed or used for collecting or conveying stormwater, and that is not used for collecting or conveying sewage.
NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES) STORMWATER DISCHARGE PERMIT
A permit issued by EPA [or by a state under authority delegated pursuant to 33 U.S.C. § 1342(b)] that authorizes the discharge of pollutants to waters of the United States, whether the permit is applicable on an individual, group, or general area-wide basis.
NON-STORMWATER DISCHARGE
Any discharge to the storm drain system that is not composed entirely of stormwater.
POLLUTANT
Anything which causes or contributes to pollution. Pollutants may include, but are not limited to: paints, varnishes, and solvents; oil and other automotive fluids; nonhazardous liquid and solid wastes and yard wastes; refuse, rubbish, garbage, litter, or other discarded or abandoned objects, ordinances, and accumulations, so that same may cause or contribute to pollution; floatables; pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers; hazardous substances and wastes; sewage, fecal coliform and pathogens; dissolved and particulate metals; animal wastes; wastes and residues that result from constructing a building or structure; and noxious or offensive matter of any kind.
PREMISES
Any building, lot, parcel of land, or portion of land, whether improved or unimproved, including adjacent sidewalks and parking strips.
REVERSE-SLOPE GARAGE
A garage for which the point of access is below the grade of the public street from which driveway access to the garage is provided.
[Added 6-15-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-3535]
STORM DRAINAGE SYSTEM
Publicly owned facilities by which stormwater is collected and/or conveyed, including, but not limited to, any roads with drainage systems, municipal streets, gutters, curbs, inlets, piped storm drains, pumping facilities, retention and detention basins, natural and human-made or altered drainage channels, reservoirs, and other drainage structures.
STORMWATER
Any surface flow, runoff, and drainage consisting entirely of water from any form of natural precipitation, and resulting from such precipitation.
STORMWATER MANAGEMENT PLAN
A document which describes the best management practices and activities to be implemented by a person or business to identify sources of pollution or contamination at a site and the actions to eliminate or reduce pollutant discharges to stormwater, stormwater conveyance systems, and/or receiving waters to the maximum extent practicable.
WASTEWATER
Any water or other liquid, other than uncontaminated stormwater, discharged from a facility.
It shall be unlawful to construct or maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool, or other facility intended or used for the disposal of sewage.
(A) 
All buildings, structures or premises zoned for industrial use shall be connected to separate sewers for stormwater and sanitary sewage, provided that separate sewers are available in the vicinity of the building, structure, or premises.
(B) 
Without limitation of the general authority of the Village to amend this Code, in the event that the Village determines that nondomestic discharges from industrial uses tributary to the combined sewer outflow are significantly impacting water quality in downstream areas, the Village may, but shall not be obligated to, amend this Article 4 to control pollutants in those discharges.
(A) 
No stormwater drainage system draining vacant lands of one acre or more in area within the Village shall be connected to any stormwater sewers or combination stormwater and sanitary sewers of the Village until such time as the stormwater facilities of the Village are expanded or otherwise made adequate to serve such vacant tracts without endangering the public health, safety and welfare of the Village and the residents thereof.
(B) 
Upon installation of a new storm sewer in an area served by a combined sanitary and storm sewer system, all inflow sources that exist in immediate proximity of the new storm sewer shall be: 1) connected to the new storm sewer within one year of completion thereof; and 2) completely disconnected from the combined sewer system. All remaining connections to the combined sewer system shall be permanently abandoned to prevent any future connection of inflow sources.
[Amended 2-21-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-3252]
(A) 
No footing drains or drainage tile shall be connected to the sanitary sewer or combined sewers.
(B) 
Footing drains shall be connected to sump pumps, and discharge shall be made into storm sewers or into drainage ditches, unless an alternate discharge method has been approved in advance and in writing by the Village Engineer. All footing drains and sump pumps constructed or installed after May 1, 2017, must discharge into drainage ditches or storm sewers a minimum of five feet away from the property line, and in a manner so as not to flow toward adjacent buildings.
(C) 
All footing drains and sump pumps, whether new or preexisting, must be located so they do not, in the opinion of the Village Engineer, damage or create a nuisance to the subject property or adjacent properties.
(A) 
Downspouts, rainwater leaders, cisterns and overflows shall not be connected to any sanitary or combined sewer within the Village.
(B) 
Downspouts and rainwater leaders may be connected to separate storm sewers upon the prior written approval of the Community Development Director.
(C) 
All downspouts constructed after May 1, 2017, must discharge toward the front or rear of the property and not toward adjacent properties.
[Added 2-21-2017 by Ord. No. 2017-3252]
(D) 
All downspouts, whether new or preexisting, must be located so they do not, in the opinion of the Village Engineer, damage or create a nuisance to the subject property or adjoining properties.
It shall be unlawful for any person to injure, deface, mar, damage, destroy or in any manner to interfere with any equipment or any other part of the municipal storm or sanitary sewerage system.
It shall be unlawful for any person to, in any manner, obstruct or cause to be obstructed the free access of any duly authorized officer or employee of the Village to any equipment or any portion of the storm or sanitary sewerage system by any means or device whatsoever, or to prevent free access thereto by such officer or employee.
It shall be unlawful for any person to cause or allow to be discharged sewage or wastes of any kind into any waters, or sewerage system of the Village which does not conform to the criteria or water quality standards established in this Section 12-4-9.
The following are the maximum concentrations acceptable for discharge in the municipal sewerage system:
Waste or Chemical
Concentration mg/l
Boron
1.0
Chromium (total)
25.0
Chromium (hexavalent)
10.0
Copper
3.0
Cyanide (total)
10.0
Cyanide (readily released at 150° and pH = 4.5)
2.0
Iron
50.0
Lead
0.5
Nickel, temperature not over 150° F. (65° C.)
10.0
pH
4.5 - 10.0
Zinc
15.0
Cadmium
2.0
Any discharge of wastes or waters into a sewer which terminates in or is a part of the sewerage system of the Village must not contain the following:
(A) 
Fats, oils or greases. Water or wastes containing more than 100 milligrams per liter of fats, oils or greases (hexane solubles).
(B) 
Flammable or explosive liquids, solids or gases. Liquids, solids or gases which by reason of their nature or quantity are sufficient to cause fire or explosion or be injurious in any other way to the sewerage system or to the operation of the water reclamation plants.
(C) 
Noxious or malodorous liquids, gases or substances. Noxious or malodorous liquids, gases or substances which either singly or by interaction with other wastes are sufficient to create a public nuisance or hazard to life, to cause injury or to prevent entry into the sewers for their maintenance and repair.
(D) 
Toxic substances. Water or wastes containing toxic substances in quantities which are sufficient to interfere with the biological processes of the water reclamation plants.
(E) 
Nonground garbage. Garbage that has not been ground or comminuted to such a degree that all particles will be carried freely in suspension under conditions normally prevailing in public sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
(F) 
Radioactive wastes. Radioactive wastes, except in compliance with all applicable federal and state laws and regulations.
(G) 
Solid or viscous wastes. Solid or viscous wastes which cause obstruction to flow in sewers or other interference with the proper operation of sewerage systems or water reclamation plants, such as grease, uncomminuted garbage, animal guts or tissues, paunch manure, bone, hair, hides, fleshings, entrails, feathers, sand, cinders, ashes, spent lime, stone or marble dust, metal, glass, straw, shavings, grass clippings, rags, spent grain, wastepaper, wood, plastic, gas, tar, asphalt residues, residues from refining or processing of fuel or lubricating oil, gasoline, naphtha, and similar substances.
(H) 
High temperature liquids or vapors. Liquids or vapors having a temperature higher than 150° F. at the point of entrance into public sewers.
(I) 
Hard to treat waters or waste. Waters or waste containing substances which are not amenable to treatment or reduction by the sewage treatment process employed or are amenable to treatment only to such degree that the water reclamation plants' effluent cannot meet the requirements of other agencies having jurisdiction over discharge to the receiving waters.
(J) 
Dye waste and vegetable tanning solutions. Excessive discoloration such as, but not limited to, dye waste and vegetable tanning solutions.
(K) 
Mercury as Hg. Concentrations of mercury shall not exceed the standards set forth in the Illinois Pollution Control Board's Mercury Regulation No. R 70-5, adopted March 31, 1971.
(A) 
The commencement, conduct or continuance of any illegal discharge to the storm drain system is prohibited except as described as follows:
(1) 
The following discharges are exempt from discharge prohibitions established by this Article 4: water line flushing, landscape irrigation, diverted stream flows, rising groundwaters, uncontaminated groundwater infiltration, uncontaminated pumped groundwater, discharges from potable water sources, foundation drains, air conditioning condensation, irrigation water, springs, water from crawl space pumps, footing drains, lawn watering, individual residential car washing, flows from riparian habitats and wetlands, dechlorinated swimming pool discharges, and street wash water.
(2) 
Discharges or flow from firefighting, and other discharges specified in writing by the Village as being necessary to protect public health and safety.
(3) 
Discharges associated with dye testing, however, this activity requires a verbal notification to the Village prior to the time of the test.
(4) 
The prohibition shall not apply to any non-stormwater discharge permitted under an NPDES permit, waiver, or waste discharge order issued to the discharger and administered under the authority of the United States environmental protection agency (EPA), provided that the discharger is in full compliance with all requirements of the permit, waiver, or order and other applicable laws and regulations, and provided that written approval has been granted for any discharge to the storm drain system.
(B) 
Illicit connections are prohibited as follows:
(1) 
The construction, use, maintenance or continued existence of illicit connections to the storm drain system is prohibited.
(2) 
This prohibition expressly includes, without limitation, illicit connections made in the past, regardless of whether the connection was permissible under law or practices applicable or prevailing at the time of connection.
(3) 
A person is considered to be in violation of this Article 4 if the person connects a line conveying sewage to the MS4, or allows such a connection to continue.
(4) 
Improper connections in violation of this Article 4 must be disconnected and redirected, if necessary, to an approved on-site wastewater management system or the sanitary sewer system upon approval of the Village.
(C) 
Any drain or conveyance that has not been documented in plans, maps or equivalent, and which may be connected to the storm sewer system, shall be located by the owner or occupant of that property upon receipt of written notice of violation from the Village requiring that such locating be completed. Such notice will specify a reasonable time period within which the location of the drain or conveyance is to be determined, that the drain or conveyance be identified as storm sewer, sanitary sewer or other, and that the outfall location or point of connection to the storm sewer system, sanitary sewer system or other discharge point be identified. Results of these investigations are to be documented and provided to the Village.
(A) 
Any new construction or development which is tributary to an existing or proposed combined sewer system shall be designed to minimize and/or delay inflow contribution to the combined sewer system. Techniques, methods, or devices that delay or restrict inflow into the sewer system shall be incorporated into any proposed construction and shall be approved by the Village Engineer prior to installation. All restriction or delaying methods shall be designed in accordance with all stormwater management requirements and policies of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago.
(B) 
All new buildings shall include a domestic waste connection distinctly separate from the building inflow connection in order to facilitate a disconnection to the combined sewer system upon the availability of a connection to a storm sewer. Any connection that is not in service shall be properly capped and sealed to prevent any inflow from entering the system.
(C) 
For all new residential construction, all reconstruction of at least 50% of an existing residential structure, and all additions to existing residential structures of at least 50% of the square footage of the existing structure, the owner shall either: (1) provide, proof that the existing sanitary sewer lateral line and sewer cleanouts are in a condition of good repair, and capable of being operated in compliance with applicable laws and regulations; or (2) disconnect the existing sanitary sewer lateral line from the sewer main, and install a new sanitary sewer lateral line and/or sewer cleanout.
(D) 
Any person subject to an industrial or construction activity NPDES stormwater discharge permit shall comply with all provisions of such permit. Proof of compliance with said permit may be required in a form acceptable to the Village prior to the allowing of discharges to the MS4.
(E) 
The operator of a facility, including construction sites, required to have an NPDES permit to discharge stormwater associated with industrial activity shall submit a copy of the notice of intent (NOI) to the Village at the same time the operator submits the original NOI to the EPA as applicable.
(F) 
The copy of the NOI may be delivered to the Village either in person or by mailing it to:
Village of Lincolnwood — Department of Public Works
Notice of Intent to Discharge Stormwater
6900 N. Lincoln Avenue
Lincolnwood, IL 60712
(G) 
A person commits a violation if the person operates a facility that is discharging stormwater associated with industrial activity without having submitted a copy of the required notice of intent to the Village.
(H) 
Reverse-slope garages may not be constructed except upon the prior approval of: (1) the Village Engineer, with respect to stormwater considerations; and (2) the Village Manager, or his or her designee, with respect to safety of persons or property in the public right-of-way.
[Added 6-15-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-3535]
Every person owning property through which a watercourse passes, or such person's lessee, shall keep and maintain that part of the watercourse within the property free of trash, debris, excessive vegetation, and other obstacles that would pollute, contaminate, or significantly retard the flow of water through the watercourse. In addition, the owner or lessee shall maintain existing privately owned structures within or adjacent to a watercourse, so that such structures will not become a hazard to the use, function, or physical integrity of the watercourse.
The Village shall be permitted to enter and inspect facilities subject to regulation under this Article 4 as often as may be necessary to determine compliance with this Article 4.
(A) 
If a discharger has security measures in force which require proper identification and clearance before entry into its premises, the discharger shall make the necessary arrangements to allow access to representatives of the Village.
(B) 
Facility operators shall allow the Village ready access to all parts of the premises for the purposes of inspection, sampling, examination and copying of records that must be kept under the conditions of an NPDES permit to discharge stormwater, and the performance of any additional duties as defined by state and federal law.
(C) 
The Village may set up on any permitted facility such devices as are necessary in the opinion of the Village to conduct monitoring and/or sampling of the facility's stormwater discharge.
(D) 
The Village may require the discharger to install monitoring equipment as necessary. The facility's sampling and monitoring equipment shall be maintained at all times in a safe and proper operating condition by the discharger at its own expense. All devices used to measure stormwater flow and quality shall be calibrated to ensure their accuracy.
(E) 
Any temporary or permanent obstruction to safe and easy access to the facility to be inspected and/or sampled shall be promptly removed by the operator at the written or oral request of the Village and shall not be replaced. The costs of clearing such access shall be borne by the operator.
(F) 
Unreasonable delays in allowing the Village access to a permitted facility is a violation of a stormwater discharge permit and of this Article 4. A person who is the operator of a facility with an NPDES permit to discharge stormwater associated with industrial activity violates this Article 4 if the person denies the Village reasonable access to the permitted facility for the purpose of conducting any activity authorized or required by this Article 4.
(A) 
The Village will adopt requirements identifying best management practices for any activity, operation, or facility which may cause or contribute to pollution or contamination of stormwater, the storm drain system, or waters of the United States. The owner or operator of such activity, operation, or facility shall provide, at his or her own expense, reasonable protection from accidental discharge of prohibited materials or other wastes into the municipal storm drain system or watercourses through the use of these structural and nonstructural BMPs.
(B) 
Further, any person responsible for a property or premises that is, or may be, the source of an illicit discharge, may be required to implement, at said person's expense, additional structural and nonstructural BMPs to prevent the further discharge of pollutants to the MS4. Compliance with all terms and conditions of a valid NPDES permit authorizing the discharge of stormwater associated with industrial activity, to the extent practicable, shall be deemed compliance with the provisions of this Section 12-4-14. These BMPs shall be part of a stormwater management plan (SWMP) as necessary for compliance with requirements of the NPDES permit.
Notwithstanding other requirements of law, as soon as any person responsible for a facility or operation, or responsible for emergency response for a facility or operation has information of any known or suspected release of materials which are resulting or may result in illegal discharges or pollutants discharging into stormwater, the storm drain system, or waters of the United States, said person shall take all necessary steps to ensure the discovery, containment, and cleanup of such release. In the event of such a release of hazardous materials, said person shall immediately notify emergency response agencies of the occurrence via emergency dispatch services. In the event of a release of nonhazardous materials, said person shall notify the Village in person or by phone or facsimile no later than the next business day. Notifications in person or by phone shall be confirmed by written notice addressed and mailed to the Village within seven business days of the phone notice. If the discharge of prohibited materials emanates from a commercial or industrial establishment, the owner or operator of such establishment shall also retain an on-site written record of the discharge and the actions taken to prevent its recurrence. Such records shall be retained for at least three years. Failure to provide notification of a release as provided above is a violation of this Article 4.
(A) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any provision or fail to comply with any of the requirements of this Article 4. Any person who has violated or continues to violate the provisions of this Article 4, may be subject to the enforcement actions outlined in this Section 12-4-16 or may be restrained by injunction or otherwise abated in a manner provided by law. In the event the violation constitutes an immediate danger to public health or public safety, the Village is authorized to enter upon the subject private property, without giving prior notice, to take any and all measures necessary to abate the violation and/or restore the property. The Village is authorized to seek costs of the abatement as outlined in Section 12-4-21 of this Code.
(B) 
When the Village finds that any person has violated, or continues to violate, any provision of this Article 4, or any order issued hereunder, the Village may serve upon that person a written warning notice, specifying the particular violation believed to have occurred and requesting the discharger to immediately investigate the matter and to seek a resolution whereby any offending discharge will cease.
(C) 
Investigation and/or resolution of the matter in response to the warning notice in no way relieves the alleged violator of liability for any violations occurring before or after receipt of the warning notice. Nothing in this Section 12-4-16 shall limit the authority of the Village to take any action, including emergency action or any other enforcement action, without first issuing a warning notice.
(D) 
Whenever the Village finds that a person has violated a prohibition or failed to meet a requirement of this Article 4, the Village may order compliance by written notice of violation to the responsible person. The notice of violation shall contain all of the following:
(1) 
The name and address of the alleged violator;
(2) 
The address when available or a description of the building, structure or land upon which the violation is occurring, or has occurred;
(3) 
A statement specifying the nature of the violation;
(4) 
A description of the remedial measures necessary to restore compliance with this Article 4 and a time schedule for the completion of such remedial action;
(5) 
A statement of the penalty or penalties that shall or may be assessed against the person to whom the notice of violation is directed;
(6) 
A statement that the determination of violation may be appealed to the Village by filing a written notice of appeal within 30 days of service of notice of violation; and
(7) 
A statement specifying that, should the violator fail to restore compliance within the established time schedule, the work will be done by a designated governmental agency or a contractor and the expense thereof shall be charged to the violator.
(E) 
Such notice may require any of the following, without limitation:
(1) 
The performance of monitoring, analyses, and reporting;
(2) 
The elimination of illicit connections or discharges;
(3) 
That violating discharges, practices, or operations shall cease and desist;
(4) 
The abatement or remediation of stormwater pollution or contamination hazards and the restoration of any affected property;
(5) 
Payment of a fine to cover administrative and remediation costs; and
(6) 
The implementation of source control or treatment BMPs.
(F) 
In lieu of enforcement proceedings, penalties, and remedies authorized by this Article 4, the Village may impose upon a violator alternative compensatory actions, including, but not limited to, storm drain stenciling, attendance at compliance workshops, and creek cleanup.
(A) 
Emergency order.
(1) 
When the Village finds that any person has violated, or continues to violate, any provision of this Article 4, or any order issued hereunder, or that the person's past violations are likely to recur, and that the person's violation(s) has (have) caused or contributed to an actual or threatened discharge to the MS4 or waters of the United States which reasonably appears to present an imminent or substantial endangerment to the health or welfare of persons or to the environment, the Village may issue an order to the violator directing it immediately to cease and desist all such violations and directing the violator to:
(a) 
Immediately comply with all requirements of this Article 4; and
(b) 
Take such appropriate preventive action as may be needed to properly address a continuing or threatened violation, including immediately halting operations and/or terminating the discharge.
(2) 
Any person notified of an emergency order directed to it under this Section 12-4-17(A) shall immediately comply and stop or eliminate its endangering discharge. In the event of a discharger's failure to immediately comply voluntarily with the emergency order, the Village may take such steps as deemed necessary to prevent or minimize harm to the MS4 or waters of the United States, and/or endangerment to persons or to the environment, including immediate termination of a facility's water supply, sewer connection, or other municipal utility services. The Village may allow the person to recommence its discharge when it has demonstrated to the satisfaction of the Village that the period of endangerment has passed, unless further termination proceedings are initiated against the discharger under this Article 4. A person that is responsible, in whole or in part, for any discharge presenting imminent endangerment shall submit a detailed written statement, describing the causes of the harmful discharge and the measures taken to prevent any future occurrence, to the Village within seven days of receipt of the emergency order. Issuance of an emergency cease and desist order shall not be a bar against, or a prerequisite for, taking any other action against the violator.
(B) 
The Village may, without prior notice, suspend MS4 discharge access to a person when such suspension is necessary to stop an actual or threatened discharge which presents or may present imminent and substantial danger to the environment, or to the health or welfare of persons, or to the MS4 or waters of the United States. If the violator fails to comply with a suspension order issued in an emergency, the Village may take such steps as deemed necessary to prevent or minimize damage to the MS4 or waters of the United States, or to minimize danger to persons.
(C) 
Any person discharging to the MS4 in violation of this Article 4 may have his or her MS4 access terminated if such termination would abate or reduce an illicit discharge. The Village will notify a violator of the proposed termination of its MS4 access. The violator may petition the Village for a reconsideration and hearing.
(D) 
A person violates this Article 4 if the person reinstates MS4 access to premises terminated pursuant to this Section 12-4-17, without the prior approval of the Village.
(A) 
It shall be unlawful for any alleged violator of the provisions of this Article 4 to fail to take the remedial measures set forth in the notice of violation or to otherwise fail to cure the violations described therein within 30 days, or such greater period as the Village shall deem appropriate.
(B) 
Any person that has violated or continues to violate this Article 4 shall be liable to criminal prosecution to the fullest extent of the law. Each act of violation and each day upon which any violation shall occur shall constitute a separate offense.
Any person receiving a notice of violation may appeal the determination of the Village. The notice of appeal must be received within 30 days from the date of the notice of violation. Hearing on the appeal before the appropriate authority or his or her designee shall take place within 30 days from the date of receipt of the notice of appeal. The decision of the municipal authority or his or her designee shall be final.
If the violation has not been corrected pursuant to the requirements set forth in the notice of violation, or, in the event of an appeal, within 30 days of the decision of the municipal authority upholding the decision of the Village, then representatives of the Village shall enter upon the subject private property and are authorized to take any and all measures necessary to abate the violation and/or restore the property. It shall be unlawful for any person, owner, agent or person in possession of any premises to refuse to allow the government agency or designated contractor to enter upon the premises for the purposes set forth above.
Within 30 days after abatement of the violation, the owner of the property will be notified of the cost of abatement, including administrative costs. The property owner may file a written protest objecting to the amount of the assessment within 10 days. If the amount due is not paid within a timely manner as determined by the decision of the municipal authority or by the expiration of the time in which to file an appeal, the charges shall become a special assessment against the property and shall constitute a lien on the property for the amount of the assessment.
In addition to the enforcement processes and penalties provided, any condition caused or permitted to exist in violation of any of the provisions of this Article 4 is a threat to public health, safety, and welfare, and is declared and deemed a nuisance, and may be summarily abated or restored at the violator's expense, and/or a civil action to abate, enjoin, or otherwise compel the cessation of such nuisance may be taken.