Unless the context otherwise requires the words and phrases
herein defined are used in this article in the sense given them in
the following definitions:
Any refuse, except garbage and dead animals, generated on
a farm or ranch by crop and livestock production practices including
such items as bags, cartons, dry bedding, structural materials, and
crop residues but excluding landscape waste.
Refuse resulting from the handling, processing, preparation,
cooking and consumption of food or food products; including plastic
containers.
Any vegetable or plant refuse, except garbage and agricultural
waste. The term includes trees, tree trimmings, branches, stumps,
brush, weeds, leaves, grass, shrubbery, and yard trimmings.
The combustion of any matter in such a way that the products
of the combustion are emitted to the open air without originating
in or passing through equipment for which a permit could be issued
under § 9(b) of the Environmental Protection Act of the
State of Illinois.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See 415 ILCS 5/1 et seq.
It shall be unlawful to cause or allow open burning of agricultural
waste, household trash or garbage.
The open burning of landscape waste shall be permitted only
on the following conditions:
(A)
Landscape waste shall be burned on the premises on which such waste
is generated; and
(B)
Landscape waste shall be burned only when atmospheric conditions
shall readily dissipate contaminants; and
(C)
Landscape waste may be burned only if such burning does not create
a visibility hazard on roadways, walkways, or railroad tracks; and
(D)
Open burning of landscape waste may only take place during daylight
hours with a person over 18 years of age in attendance during the
entire period of burning; and
(E)
No open burning of landscape waste shall be permitted on any streets
or roadways; and
(F)
No open burning shall occur during periods of time when the Fire
Chief or the Chief of Police have determined that atmospheric conditions
or local circumstances make such fires hazardous and dangerous.
