[Amended 1-3-1984 by Ord.
No. 432]
A. Subscription service required. All owners of property in the Village
which is occupied shall subscribe to, and be a customer of, a scavenger
licensee for refuse and recyclables removal, and it shall be unlawful,
a nuisance and a violation of this section for any such owner to fail
at any time to be fully and lawfully entitled to receive refuse and
recyclables removal service from a scavenger licensee. It shall be
a defense to any prosecution for violation hereof that the scavenger
licensee from whom the property owner is required to receive removal
service has failed to provide such service in material breach of any
applicable law, ordinance or code, or is in material breach of any
lawful agreement between said property owner and scavenger licensee.
It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit anywhere in the Village
any uncovered piles of refuse, garbage, offal or carcasses of dead
animals. All such refuse must be properly disposed of by a currently
licensed scavenger service. Any uncovered piles of refuse are hereby
declared to be a nuisance.
[Amended 9-18-2000 by Ord. No. 573; 12-5-2016 by Ord. No. 712]
B. Combustible refuse, storage. It shall be unlawful to permit or store
any combustible refuse in such a way as to create a fire hazard. Any
combustible refuse stored in such a way as to create a fire hazard
is hereby declared to be a nuisance.
C. Public disposal. It shall be unlawful to store, throw away, or otherwise
dispose of any refuse of any kind on any street, alley or other public
place.
D. Disclosure. Every agent or other person having charge, control or
management or who collects or receives the rents of any land, premises
or other property in the Village shall disclose the name of the person
for whom such agent or other person is acting upon demand of any inspector
or agent of the Village.
E. Notice for removal. The Village Administrative Clerk shall give notice
to any person who maintains a nuisance, in violation of this section,
to abate the said nuisance within 10 days after receipt of the said
notice.
[Amended 7-17-2017 by Ord. No. 717]
F. Abatement. If, within 10 days after receipt of the notice of the
Village Administrative Clerk for maintaining the nuisance, the said
nuisance is not abated, or whenever the owner, occupant or person
in charge is unknown or cannot be found, the Village may abate without
further notice and the expense thereof is recoverable from the person
who may have created, continued or suffered such nuisance to exist
and is a lien on the premises on which such nuisance was found in
addition to any fine or penalty.
[Amended 7-17-2017 by Ord. No. 717]
G. Lien for cost of removal and expense. Pursuant to state statute,
the Village Administrative Clerk may file notice of lien in the office
of the recorder for the cost and expense of abating the nuisance and
upon payment of the cost and expense the lien shall be released.
H. Penalty. Any person who shall violate any provision of this section shall be fined in accordance with Chapter
100, Article
III, of the Village Code. Each day on which a violation occurs or continues shall be considered a separate offense.
[Amended 6-7-2021 by Ord.
No. 764]
It shall be unlawful to spit or expectorate on any public sidewalk
or other public place, or on the floor or walls of any store, theater,
hall, public vehicle or other place frequented by the public or to
which the public is invited.
It shall be unlawful for any person to establish a cemetery
or to bury any person within the Village limits, or within 3/4 of
a mile thereof, except in an established cemetery.
[Amended 6-7-2021 by Ord.
No. 764]
It shall be unlawful for any person to permit or maintain the existence of any nuisance, as defined in §
100-17 of the Village Code, on any property under his control.