[Adopted 7-29-2003 by Ord. No. 03-042]
The following words and phrases, when used herein, shall have
the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context
or language clearly indicates or requires a different meaning:
A detached structure which is not used or not intended to
be used for living or sleeping by human occupants and which is located
on or partially on any premises.
Any condition which provides the necessary environment for
the birth or hatching of vectors.
Water contained in ditches, pools, ponds, streams, excavations,
holes, depressions, open cesspools, privy vaults, fountains, cisterns,
tanks, shallow wells, barrels, troughs, urns, cans, boxes, bottles,
tubs, buckets, roof gutters, tanks of flush closets, reservoirs, vessels,
receptacles of any kind or other containers or devices which may hold
water.
Fallen into partial ruin or decay.
Includes the storage, collection, disposal or handling of
refuse.
A building or structure used for residential purposes.
One or more rooms in a dwelling, which room or rooms have
fixed cooking facilities arranged for occupancy by one person, two
or more persons living together or one family.
The control and elimination of vectors by eliminating their
harborage places, by removing or making inaccessible materials that
may serve as their food, by poisoning, spraying, fumigating, fogging,
larviciding or trapping, or by any other recognized and legal vector
control elimination methods.
All animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking or consumption of foods.
Any place where vectors can live, nest or seek shelter.
Any person, over one year of age, living, sleeping, cooking
or eating in or actually having possession of a dwelling unit or a
rooming unit, except that in dwelling units, a guest will not be considered
an occupant.
Any person who, alone or jointly or severally with others:
Has legal title to any premises, dwelling or dwelling unit,
with or without accompanying actual possession thereof; or
Has charge, care or control of any premises, dwelling or dwelling
unit as owner or agent of the owner or an executor, administrator,
trustee or guardian of the estate of the owner. Any such person thus
representing the actual owner shall be bound to comply with the provisions
of this article and of the rules and regulations adopted pursuant
thereto to the same extent as if he or she were the owner.
Any natural person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company or organization of any kind.
All solid wastes, except body wastes, and shall include garbage,
ashes and rubbish.
Includes glass, metal, paper, plant growth, wood or nonputrescible
solid wastes.
The Village of Homer Glen, Will County, Illinois.
A rodent, arthropod or insect capable of transmitting a disease
or infection. Vectors shall include but not be limited to rats, mosquitoes,
cockroaches, flies, ticks, etc.
A.Â
No person shall deposit any refuse, offal, dead animals, decaying
matter or organic substance of any kind in or upon any private lot,
building structure, accessory structure or premises or in or upon
any street, avenue, alley, parkway, ravine, ditch or gutter or into
any of the runs, creeks or bodies of water within or bounding the
Village so that the same shall or may afford food, harborage or breeding
areas for rats, flies, mosquitoes or other vectors.
B.Â
No person shall deposit or permit to accumulate in or upon any premises,
improved or vacant, or on any open lot or alley any lumber, boxes,
barrels, bottles, cans, glass, scrap iron, wire, metal articles, pipe,
broken stone, concrete or cement, broken crockery, broken plaster
or rubbish of any kind in such a manner as may afford harborage or
breeding areas for vectors, and further any such material, refuse
or rubbish located on the premises on a temporary basis shall be kept
in approved covered receptacles or placed on open racks that are elevated
not less than 12 inches above the ground and evenly piled or stacked
or disposed of. The provisions of this subsection shall not prohibit
the orderly stacking of firewood for residential use on the premises,
provided such firewood is stacked so as not to afford harborage breeding
areas for vectors.
C.Â
No person shall maintain or store disassembled, dilapidated, wrecked
or abandoned automobiles, trucks, tractors or machinery of any kind
or any of the parts thereof in such a manner as may afford harborage
or breeding areas for vectors.
D.Â
No person shall store refuse in containers other than those which
are made of durable, watertight, rust-resistant material having a
close-fitting lid which must be kept on the container when in use
or in plastic bags which are durable and watertight and are secured
or tied and stored in such a manner so as to prevent access to such
bags by vectors. These containers must be kept clean by thorough rinsing
and draining as often as necessary so as not to provide food or breeding
areas for vectors.
E.Â
No person shall construct, maintain or use a sewage system, privy,
urinal, cesspool or other receptacle for human excrement so that vectors
may have access to the excrementitious matter contained therein.
F.Â
No person shall have, keep, maintain, cause or permit any collection
of standing or flowing water in which mosquitoes or other vectors
breed or are likely to breed, unless such collection of water is treated
or maintained effectually so as to prevent such breeding. No pool
shall be permitted to contain water which is not disposed of or filtered
less frequently than every fifth day in which water is contained within
the pool, excluding those periods in which pool is closed and properly
treated or maintained effectively so as to prevent harborage or breeding
of vectors. This article is not intended to inhibit the encouragement
or continued existence of ecosystems and the natural environment,
wildlife habitats, natural landscape features, or otherwise prohibit
the implementation and use of stormwater best management practices,
nor shall this article be construed or applied to prevent or restrict
the cultivation or harvesting of agricultural products pursuant to
accepted agricultural practices.
G.Â
No person shall permit the collection of stagnant water in barrels,
containers, tires, pools, pool covers, refuse collection devices and
other similar vessels in such a manner as may afford harborage or
breeding areas for vectors.
A.Â
The Village is empowered to make inspections of the interior and
exterior of all dwellings, buildings, structures and accessory structures,
premises, collections of water or any other places to determine full
compliance with this article and to determine evidence of vector infestation
and the need for extermination.
B.Â
Whenever it is determined that any dwelling, building, structure,
accessory structure, premises, collection of water or any other place
is in violation of this article, a written notice shall be issued
setting forth the alleged violations and advising the owner, occupant,
operator or agent that such violations must be corrected. The notice
may be personally served upon the owner, occupant, operator or agent
or served upon the same by certified mail or personal service. The
time for the correction of the violations must be given, as well as
the necessary methods to be employed in the correction, which time
shall not exceed 30 days.
C.Â
Whenever the violations fail to be corrected within the time set
forth in the written notice, the Village may proceed to abate the
violations in the manner provided by law. Any costs incurred by the
Village in connection with the abatement process shall be recoverable
in an appropriate action from the persons responsible for the violations
in question.
Whoever violates any provision of this article shall, upon conviction,
be fined not less than $100 and not more than $1,000, and, in addition
thereto, shall be liable to reimburse the Village for any and all
costs incurred in any abatement efforts undertaken by the Village
in connection with the violations at issue, or, as the case may be,
shall be subject to appropriate injunctive relief in favor of the
Village requiring the persons responsible for the violations at issue
to abate the same. Each day's violation of any provision of this article
shall constitute a separate offense.
