[Amended 7-27-2016 by Ord. No. 16-16]
No person shall knowingly, without proper authorization, cut,
injure, damage, deface, destroy or tamper with any fire hydrant or
any public or private fire-fighting equipment, or any apparatus pertaining
to fire-fighting equipment, or intentionally open any fire hydrant
without proper authorization. [720 ILCS 5/21-1(a)(8), (9)]
It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly commit any
of the following:
A. Obtain or exert unauthorized control over property or services of
the owner.
B. Obtain by deception control over property or services of the owner.
C. Obtain by threat control over property or services of the owner.
D. Obtain control over stolen property knowing the property to have
been stolen by another or under any circumstances as would reasonably
induce him or her to believe that the property was stolen and:
(1) Intend to deprive the owner permanently of the use or benefit of
the property;
(2) Knowingly use, conceal, or abandon the property in such manner as
to deprive the owner permanently of such use or benefit; or
(3) Use, conceal, or abandon the property knowing this use, concealment,
or abandonment will probably deprive the owner permanently of any
use or benefit.
[Amended 7-27-2016 by Ord. No. 16-16]
It shall be unlawful for any person to, knowingly and with an
intent to injure or defraud, injure, alter, obstruct or prevent the
action of a gas, water or electric meter or to make a connection with
a gas or water pipe or electrical conductor that does not register
by a meter without the express written consent of the public body
or utility furnishing or transmitting the gas, water or electric current.
Any person violating this section commits a Class B misdemeanor.
It shall be unlawful for any person to dig, make, or cause to
be dug or made any hole, pit, ditch, vault, or other excavation in
or upon any street, lane, avenue, alley, sidewalk, or other public
place or dig, make, or cause to be dug or made any excavation upon
any lot adjoining or bounded by any street, lane, avenue, alley, public
place, or sidewalk and not cause the same to be fenced in with a substantial
fence at least three feet high, the boards or rails of which shall
not be more than one foot apart, and fail to place sufficient red
lights in conspicuous places in front of the fence during the night.
It shall be unlawful for any person to take, haul, carry away
or remove any sand or gravel or any material containing either sand
or gravel or both off or from any public park, street, avenue, alley,
or highway in the Village.
[Added 2-27-1995 by Ord. No. 95-04]
A. It shall be unlawful for any resident of the Village to dump motor
oil on the ground, in ditches, roadways, gullies, within the storm
sewer system, or to bury or burn motor oil, whether new or used.
B. It shall be unlawful for any resident of the Village to attempt to
dispose of motor oil, whether new or used, through the regular garbage
or curbside pick-up available to Village residents.
C. It shall be unlawful for any person to dispose of any motor oil,
whether new or used, within the Village limits by dumping such motor
oil on the ground, in ditches, roadways, gullies, within the storm
sewer system, within the sanitary sewer system, or to bury or burn
motor oil.