The purpose of this article is to protect the public health,
safety, and welfare by establishing minimum standards governing the
maintenance, appearance, and condition of the residential and nonresidential
premises, to fix certain responsibilities and duties upon owners and
operators and distinct and separate responsibilities and duties upon
occupants to authorize and establish procedures for the inspection
of residential and nonresidential premises and to provide for the
repair, demolition or vacation of premises unfit for human habitation,
occupancy, or use.
The following words and terms, wherever used herein or referred
to in this article, shall have the respective meanings designated
to them unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context.
DETERIORATION
The condition of a building or part thereof characterized
by holes, breaks, rot, crumbling, peeling, rusting, or other evidence
of physical decay or neglect, lack of maintenance or excessive use.
All exterior wood and composition surfaces shall be properly protected
from the elements and against decay by paint, stain, or other protective
coating and applied in a workmanlike manner.
ELEMENTS
Any elements, whether created by nature or by man, which,
with reasonable foresight, could carry litter from one place to another.
Elements shall include, but not be limited to, air current, rain,
water current, and animals.
EXPOSED TO PUBLIC VIEW
Any premises or part thereof, or any building or part thereof,
which may be viewed by the public.
EXTERMINATION
The control and elimination of insects, rodents, and vermin.
GARBAGE
Decayed and decomposed animal and vegetable waste resulting
from the handling, preemption, cooking, and consumption of food.
INFESTATION
The presence of insects, rodents, vermin, or other pests
on the premises which constitute a health hazard.
LITTER
Includes any uncontainerized man-made or man-used water which
is deposited with the Village, other than in a litter receptacle,
tends to create a danger to public health, safety, and welfare, or
to impair the environment of citizens of the Village. Litter may include,
but is not limited to, any garbage, trash, refuse, confetti, debris,
grass clippings or other lawn or garden waste, newspaper, magazine,
glass, metal, plastic or paper container, or other construction material,
motor vehicle part, furniture, oil, carcass of a dead animal, or nauseous
or offensive matter of any kind or any object likely to injure any
person or create a traffic hazard.
MIXED OCCUPANCY
Any building containing one or more dwelling units or rooming
units and also having a portion thereof devoted to non-dwelling uses.
NUISANCE
Any public nuisance as defined by state law, and/or this
municipal Code, or any physical conditions dangerous to human life
or detrimental to the health of persons on or near the premises where
the conditions exist.
OPERATOR
Any person who has charge, care, or control of a dwelling
or premises, or part thereof, whether with or without the knowledge
and consent of the owner.
OWNER
Any person who, alone or jointly with severally others, shall
have legal or equitable title to any premises, with or without accompanying
actual possession thereof. Any person who is a lessee subletting or
reassigning any or all of any dwelling or dwelling unit shall be deemed
to be a co-owner with the lessor and shall have joint responsibility
over the portion of the premises sublet or assigned by said lessee.
PARK
A public or private park, reservation, playground, recreation
center, or any public park or private area devoted to active or passive
recreation or any other area under the supervision of the Village.
PARKING LOT
Any public or private property with provisions for parking
vehicles to which the public is invited or which the public is permitted
to use which is visible from any public place or private premises.
PREMISES
A lot, plot, or parcel of land, including the buildings or
structures thereon.
PRIVATE PREMISES
Any dwelling, house, building, or other structure designed
to be used, either wholly or in part, for private residential purposes,
whether inhabited or temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant,
and shall include any yard, grounds, walk, driveway, porch, steps,
vestibule, mailbox, or other structures appurtenant to such dwelling,
house, building, or other structure.
PUBLIC PLACE
All streets, boulevards, avenues, culs-de sac, lanes, alleys,
or other public ways and parks, squares, plazas, grounds and buildings
frequented by the general public, whether publicly or privately owned.
REFUSE
All wastes, including, but not limited to, decaying and decomposed
waste matter, garbage, rubbish, ashes, dead animals, abandoned autos,
and solid wastes.
RUBBISH
Solid wastes consisting of both combustible and noncombustible
wastes such as paper, wrappings, cigarettes, cardboard, tin cans,
yard clippings, leaves, wood, glass, crockery, and similar materials.
Every residential, nonresidential, or mixed occupancy building
and the land on which it is situated, used or intended to be used
for dwelling, commercial, business, or industrial use shall comply
with the provisions of this article, whether or not such building
shall have been constructed, altered, or repaired before or after
the enactment of this article.
In addition to the provisions of Chapter 406-4, any person who shall violate any provision of this article and any rules and regulations adopted hereunder shall be subject to the penalties as provided in §
1-5 of this Code.