City of Maroa, IL Nuisances

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 500 feet of any valuable building erected at the time such business may be commenced.

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 1,000 feet of any occupied dwelling house.

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.

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.

Wells unplugged. To permit any well drilled for oil, gas, salt water disposal or any other purpose in connection with the production of oil and gas to remain unplugged after such well is no longer used for the purpose for which it was drilled.

Burn-out pits. To construct or operate any salt water pit or oil field refuse pit, commonly called a "burn-out pit," so that salt water, brine or oil field refuse or other waste liquids may escape therefrom in any manner, except by the evaporation of such salt water or brine or by the burning of such oil field waste or refuse.

Discarded materials. To permit concrete bases, discarded machinery and materials to remain around any oil or gas well or to fail to fill any holes, cellars, slush pits and other excavations made in connection with any such well or to restore the surface of the lands surrounding any such well to its condition before the drilling of any such well, upon abandonment of any such oil or gas well.

Underground wells. To permit any salt water, oil, gas or other wastes from any well drilled for oil, gas or exploratory purposes to escape to the surface, or into a mine or coal seam or into any underground freshwater supply or from one underground stratum to another.

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.

Business. To establish, maintain and carry on any offensive or unwholesome business within the limits of the City or within 1 1/2 miles of the limits.

Filthy premises conditions. To keep or suffer to be kept any chicken coop, cow barn, stable, cellar, vault, drain, privy, sewer or sink upon any premises belonging to or occupied by any person, or any railroad car, building, yard, grounds and premises belonging to or occupied by any person.

Expectorate. To expectorate on any public sidewalk or street, or other public building or floor or walk of any public vehicle or hall.

Litter on streets. 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 City from any moving vehicle, or to be thrown from a moving vehicle, or to throw from a moving vehicle and to remain thereon.

Accumulations of junk and trash. To deposit or pile up any rags, old rope, paper, iron, brass, copper, tin, aluminum, ashes, garbage, refuse, 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 City.

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

Bringing nuisances into the City. To bring into the City 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 City or which may or shall be dangerous or detrimental to health.

Offensive liquids. To keep any nauseous, foul or putrid liquid or substance or any liquid or substance likely to become nauseous, foul, offensive or putrid, or permit any such liquid to be discharged, placed, thrown or to flow from or out of any premises into or upon any adjacent premises or any public street or alley, or to permit the same to be done by any person connected with the premises.

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.

Storm damage debris. To allow storm damage debris of any kind to collect and/or remain upon a property for a period more than 30 days.

[Added 11-1-2021 by Ord. No. 2021/11/01-1]