[Ord. No. 136 §I, 8-15-1985]
A. General.
1. The Director of Public Safety may cause to be periodically surveyed
and inspected each occupancy, including dwelling units offered or
occupied for rent or lease as provided for elsewhere in this Section
but excluding single-family dwellings not for rent or lease, except
that the Director of Public Safety may offer fire safety surveys of
such single-family dwelling.
2. The Director of Public Safety shall specify suitable fire detection
and fire suppression equipment or systems as shall be necessary to
provide reasonable safety to persons and property.
B. Smoke Detectors.
1. Effective October 1, 1986, each level of each dwelling unit offered
or occupied for rent or lease (including rooms in hotels, motels and
lodging houses) shall be equipped with one (1) operable smoke detector
listed by Underwriters' Laboratories and installed in accordance with
guidelines promulgated by the Director of Public Safety by the owner
of such dwelling unit.
2. Effective October 1, 1986, each common stairwell of hotels, motels,
apartment buildings and other multi-unit complexes containing dwelling
units offered or occupied for rent or lease shall be equipped with
one (1) operable smoke detector at each one-story landing level for
unenclosed stairwells and in the common area outside each stair landing
door for enclosed stairwells listed by Underwriters' Laboratories
and installed in accordance with guidelines promulgated by the Director
of Public Safety by the owner of such building or complex.
3. Responsibility for testing and maintaining such smoke detectors shall
be apportioned as follows:
a. The owner of an apartment building or other multi-dwelling unit complex
containing dwelling units offered or occupied for rent or lease shall
be responsible for testing and maintaining smoke detectors placed
in common stairwells.
b. The owner of any dwelling unit offered for rent or lease shall be
responsible for the operability of the detector(s) in that unit at
the time a tenant takes possession of the unit.
c. The tenant of any dwelling unit occupied for rent or lease shall
be responsible for notifying the owner or owner's agent when that
tenant becomes aware that the detector is not working.
d. The owner of any dwelling unit occupied for rent or lease shall correct
any reported deficiency provided that the owner has received notice
of the deficiency.
e. Malicious destruction of a smoke detector in any dwelling unit offered
or occupied for rent or lease or in common stairwells in buildings
containing such dwelling units shall be a violation of this Chapter.
4. Effective January 1, 1986, each level of each dwelling unit offered
for sale shall be equipped with one (1) operable smoke detector listed
by Underwriters' Laboratories and installed in accordance with guidelines
promulgated by the Director of Public Safety by the owner of such
dwelling unit at the time of closing or completion of sale.
5. For purposes of this Section, "dwelling unit offered for
sale" includes a single-family home, duplex, condominium,
town house, used mobile home, used manufactured home and single- dwelling
unit in a multiple-unit dwelling complex. For purposes of this Section, "sale" does not include transfers of property ordered by
a Probate Court in administration of an estate, pursuant to a writ
of execution, to a trustee in bankruptcy, under eminent domain, to
a mortgagee by a mortgagor in default, to a beneficiary of a deed
of trust by a trustor in default, by any foreclosure sale after default,
or between spouses resulting from a decree of dissolution of a marriage
or a legal separation; further, a transfer of title shall not be invalidated
upon the basis of a failure to comply with this Section.
[Ord. No. 136 §II, 8-15-1985]
Any person convicted of a violation of this Chapter shall be
punished by imposition of a fine of not less than five dollars ($5.00)
and not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or confinement in
the County Jail for not more than six (6) months or both such fine
and confinement and the costs of such action shall be taxed against
the defendant.
[Ord. No. 9 §§1 —
6, 5-9-1961]
A. Definitions. The following definitions shall control in
construing this Section:
TRAILER, AUTOMOBILE TRAILER OR TRAILER COACH
Any vehicle or structure so designed and constructed in such
manner as will permit occupancy thereof as sleeping quarters for one
(1) or more persons and so designed that it is or may be mounted on
wheels and used as a conveyance on highway or City streets, propelled
or drawn by its own or other motive power, excepting a device used
exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
TRAILER CAMP OR TRAILER PARK
Any park, court, camp, site, lot, parcel or tract of land
designed, maintained or intended for the purpose of supplying a location
or accommodations for two (2) or more trailers and upon which any
trailers are parked and shall include all buildings used or maintained
for use as part of the equipment thereof, whether a charge is made
for the use of the park and its facilities or not. "Trailer
park" shall not include automobile or trailer sales lots
on which unoccupied trailers are parked for purposes of inspection
and sale.
B. Water Supply In Trailer Parks. All water provided in any
trailer park shall be from the public water system. Water shall be
available at convenient locations not more than two hundred (200)
feet from any trailer. No common drinking vessels shall be provided.
If any drinking fountain is furnished, it shall be of an approved
sanitary type. Waste from the water supply shall be emptied into a
drain connected to an approved and sanitary disposal system. An abundant
supply of hot water shall be provided at all times for bathing, washing
and laundry facilities. No drinking water shall be made available
in toilet compartments.
C. Sewage And Refuse Disposal.
1. Waste from showers, toilets, slop sinks and laundries shall be wasted
into a public sewer system in a sanitary manner approved by the Health
Officer or if no public sewer connection is assessable, then into
a private sewer and disposal plant or septic tank system approved
by the County or State Health Officer.
2. All kitchen sinks, lavatories, showers and bathtubs in any trailer
coach located in a trailer park shall empty into an approved and sanitary
receptacle or disposal system.
3. Toilets and water closets in trailers not connected with an approved
disposal system shall not be used and it shall be unlawful to use
or permit the use of such fixtures.
D. Garbage Receptacles In Trailer Camps. The park shall provide
supervision and equipment sufficient to prevent littering the ground
with rubbish and debris. Flytight metal depositories with tight-fitting
covers shall be conveniently located not farther than two hundred
(200) feet from any trailer coach. Depositories shall be kept in sanitary
condition and covered at all times. Garbage and rubbish shall not
be mixed.
E. Toilets In Trailer Parks. Each park shall have flush toilers
in conveniently located buildings not more than two hundred (200)
feet from any trailer unit. The buildings for same shall be well lighted
at all time, have ventilated floors, including slightly pitched hard
surfaces for draining purposes.
F. Penalty. Any person found guilty of violating or failing
to comply with any provision of this Section shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not less than
one dollar ($1.00) or more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or
imprisonment in a place of confinement for a period not to exceed
six (6) months, or both fine and imprisonment.
[Ord. No. 32 §1, 7-15-1971; Ord. No. 579, 11-13-2018]
A. Purpose.
For the purpose of promoting health and the general welfare; to provide
adequate light and air; to prevent the overcrowding of land; to avoid
undue concentration of population; to lessen congestion in the streets;
to facilitate the adequate provision of transportation, schools and
other public requirements.
B. Limitations
Of Construction. The Board of Trustees does hereby limit the construction
of residences within the confines of the Village to single-family
dwellings above the ground, with a square footage of one thousand
two hundred (1,200) feet of living space, constructed and used and
a minimum of eighty (80) feet frontage.
C. Mobile
Homes Prohibited. No mobile homes, or similar structures shall be
permitted, used or constructed for living quarters or business use
within the confines of the Village. For purposes of this Subsection,
the term "mobile homes," shall include, but not be limited to, the
following:
4. Pole barns when used as living quarters;
5. Predominantly metal buildings, or what is called a shipping container
home;
6. Any structure or vehicle falling outside of the scope of or compliance with the Building Codes adopted in Section
500.010.
D. Permits.
Permits shall be issued by the Clerk of the Village Board, the cost
of which shall be determined by separate ordinance.