Village of Brownstown, IL Generally

It is hereby declared to be a nuisance and to be against the health, peace and comfort of the Village for any person, firm or corporation within the limits of the Village to permit the following; but the enumeration of the following nuisances shall not be deemed to be exclusive:

(A)

Filth. To cause or suffer the carcass of any animal or any offal, filth or noisome substance to be collected, deposited or to remain in any place, to the prejudice of others.

(B)

Deposit of Offensive Materials. To throw or deposit any offal or other offensive matter or the carcass of any dead animal in any watercourse, lake, pond, spring, well or common sewer, street or public highway.

(C)

Corruption of Water. To corrupt or render unwholesome or impure the water of any spring, river, stream, pond or lake, to the injury or prejudice of others.

(D)

Highway Encroachment. To obstruct or encroach upon public highways, private ways, streets, alleys, commons, landing places, and ways to burying places.

(E)

Manufacturing Gunpowder. To carry on the business of manufacturing gunpowder, nitroglycerine, or other highly explosive substances, or mixing or grinding the materials therefor, in any building within 20 rods of any valuable building erected at the time such business may be commenced.

(F)

Powder Magazines. To establish powder magazines near incorporated towns, at a point different from that appointed according to law by the corporate authorities of the town, or within 50 rods of any occupied dwelling house.

(G)

Noxious Odors. To erect, continue or use any building or other place for the exercise of any trade, employment or manufacture which, by occasioning noxious exhalations, offensive smells or otherwise, is offensive or dangerous to the health of individuals or of the public.

(H)

Unlawful Advertising. To advertise wares or occupations by painting notices of the same on, or affixing them to fences or other private property, or on rocks or other natural objects without the consent of the owner, or if in the highway or other public place, without permission of the proper authorities.

(I)

Bodies of Water. To create any condition, through the improper maintenance of a swimming pool or wading pool, or by causing any action which alters the condition of a natural body of water, so that it harbors mosquitoes, flies or other animal pests that are offensive, injurious or dangerous to the health of individuals or the public.

(J)

Storing Debris. To store, dump or permit the accumulation of debris, refuse, garbage, trash, tires, buckets, cans, wheelbarrows, garbage cans or other containers in a manner that may harbor mosquitoes, flies, insects, rodents, nuisance birds or other animal pests that are offensive, injurious and dangerous to the health of individuals or the public.

(K)

Discarded Materials. To permit concrete bases, discarded machinery and materials to remain around any construction site or demolition project for period exceeding 14 days beyond the conclusion of the construction project.

(L)

Harassment. To harass, intimidate or threaten any person who is about to sell or lease or has sold or leased a residence or other real property, or is about to buy or lease or has bought or leased a residence or other real property, when the harassment, intimidation or threat relates to a person's attempt to sell, buy or lease a residence, or other real property, or refers to a person's sale, purchase or lease of a residence or other real property.

(M)

Business. To establish, maintain and carry on any offensive or unwholesome business within the Village limits.

(N)

Filthy Premise Conditions. To keep or suffer to be kept in a foul, offensive, nauseous or filthy condition any chicken coop, cow barn, stable, cellar, vault, drain, privy, sewer or sink upon any premises belonging to or occupied by him, or any railroad car, building, yard, grounds, and premises belonging to or occupied by him.

(O)

Litter on Streets. It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit or allow trash, paper, cardboard, wire, dirt, rock, stone, glass, brick, lumber, wood or litter of material objects of any size or description to fall upon the streets of the Village from any moving vehicle, or to be thrown from a moving vehicle, or to throw from a moving vehicle and to remain thereon.

(P)

Accumulation of Junk and Trash. To deposit or pile up any rags, old rope, paper, iron, brass, copper, tin, aluminum, ashes, garbage, refuse, hazardous waste, plastic, brush, litter, weeds, slush, lead, glass bottles or broken glass upon any lot, piece or parcel of land or upon any public or private alley, street or public way within the Village.

(Q)

Rodents. To cause or permit any condition or situation to exist that shall attract, harbor, or encourage the infestation of rodents.

(R)

Bringing Nuisances into the Village. To bring into the Village, or keep therein for sale or otherwise, either for food or for any other purpose, any dead or live animal or any matter, substance or thing which shall be a nuisance or which shall occasion a nuisance in the Village, or which may or shall be dangerous or detrimental to health.

(S)

Offensive Liquids. To keep nauseous, foul or putrid liquid or substance or any liquid or substance likely to become nauseous, foul, offensive or putrid, nor permit any such liquid to be discharged, placed, thrown or to flow from or out of any premise into or upon any adjacent premises or any public street or alley, nor permit the same to be done by any person connected with the premises.

(T)

Motor Transport Engines. To operate a motor transport engine for a continuous period in excess of 30 minutes between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., in any location where the majority of buildings situated within a radius of 400 feet from that location are used exclusively for residence purposes, excluding state and federal highways.

(U)

Generally. To commit any offense which is a nuisance according to the common law of the land or made such by statute of the state.