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:
ACCESSORY STRUCTURE
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.
BREEDING AREA
Any condition which provides the necessary environment for
the birth or hatching of vectors.
COLLECTION OF WATER
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.
DISPOSAL
Includes the storage, collection, disposal or handling of
refuse.
DWELLING
A building or structure used for residential purposes.
DWELLING UNIT
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.
EXTERMINATION
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.
GARBAGE
All animal and vegetable wastes resulting from the handling,
preparation, cooking or consumption of foods.
HARBORAGE
Any place where vectors can live, nest or seek shelter.
OCCUPANT
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.
OWNER
Any person who, alone or jointly or severally with others:
A.
Has legal title to any premises, dwelling or dwelling unit,
with or without accompanying actual possession thereof; or
B.
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.
PERSON
Any natural person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company or organization of any kind.
REFUSE
All solid wastes, except body wastes, and shall include garbage,
ashes and rubbish.
RUBBISH
Includes glass, metal, paper, plant growth, wood or nonputrescible
solid wastes.
VILLAGE
The Village of Homer Glen, Will County, Illinois.
VECTOR
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.
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.