[Adopted as Ch. 8.20, Sec. 8.20.010 through Sec. 8.20.030, of the Village Code]
It is a public nuisance:
A. 
To cause or suffer the carcass of any animal or any offal, filth or noisome substance to be collected or remain upon any premises or place to the prejudice of others;
B. 
To suffer any premises where any animal is kept to become nauseous, foul or offensive to any neighborhood, family or person, including a dirty or unkempt coop and/or run for housing hens (see Chapter 108, Article IV, of the Village Code);
[Amended 7-17-2014 by Ord. No. 2014-07-17]
C. 
To throw or deposit any offal or other offensive matter or the carcass of any animal in any watercourse, lake, pond, spring, well or street, alley, public highway or park;
D. 
To suffer any cellar, vault, drain, privy, yard or premises to become, from any cause, foul and offensive or injurious to public health;
E. 
To deposit or permit to remain upon any premises or public street or alley slops, animal or vegetable matter of any kind which is or is likely to become putrid and offensive;
F. 
To permit foul or stagnant water to stand upon any premises to the prejudice of others;
G. 
To permit the growth upon any premises of any noxious weeds, such as jimson, burdock, ragweeds, thistles, cockleburs and the like;
H. 
To locate or maintain a stable, pigsty or privy within 15 feet of any public street, or within 25 feet of any residence;
I. 
To establish any powder magazine or to store any gunpowder, dynamite or other explosive substance within 20 rods of any building occupied for business or residence purposes;
J. 
To encroach upon or obstruct any street, alley or public ground with any building, fence or structure of any kind.
K. 
To permit the growth upon any premises of any wildflowers, prairie grass or similar type of vegetation, except in an area no more than six feet from a residential structure and not greater than nine inches in height.
[Added 7-20-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-0720E]
[Added 7-20-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-0720E]
No area or portion of real property within the corporate limits of the Village may be designated as a wildflower, butterfly, hummingbird, wildlife or similar area, conservation area, habitat, preserve or other such type of designation by any federal, state or local agency, board, commission, committee, federation to similar organization or entity. Any such area is declared to be a nuisance within the corporate limits of the village.
It is the duty, jointly and severally, of every person creating or causing a nuisance, of every owner of property and of every person in possession or control of any property on which any nuisance may be found or maintained to immediately abate the same.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Whoever causes or maintains a public nuisance as described in § 217-4, being the owner or in possession or control of any premises upon which any nuisance is found, maintained or suffered to exist, or who knowingly maintains or suffers the same to exist, shall be subject to a fine of not more than $750 for each offense. Any person who, after being served with a notice to abate any such nuisance, shall fail to do so within the time fixed within the notice shall be subject to a penalty of not more than $750.