720 ILCS 5/47-5
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 720 - CRIMINAL OFFENSES|720 ILCS 5/ - Criminal Code of 2012.|Title V - Added Articles

Sec. 47-5.     Public nuisance.     It is a public nuisance:(1) To cause or allow the carcass of an animal or offal, filth, or a  noisome substance to be collected,  deposited, or to remain in any place to the prejudice of others.(2) To throw or deposit offal or other offensive  matter or the carcass of a dead animal in a water  course, lake, pond, spring, well, or common sewer, street, or public  highway.(3) To corrupt or render unwholesome or impure the water of  a spring, river, stream, pond, or lake to the injury or  prejudice of others.(4) To obstruct or impede, without legal authority, the passage  of a navigable river or waters.(5) To obstruct or encroach upon public highways, private ways,  streets, alleys, commons, landing places, and ways to burying places.(6) To carry on the business of manufacturing gunpowder,  nitroglycerine, or other highly explosive substances, or mixing or grinding the  materials for those substances, in a building  within 20 rods of a valuable building erected  at the time the business is commenced.(7) 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 an occupied dwelling  house.(8) To erect, continue, or use a building or  other place for the exercise of a trade, employment, or  manufacture that, by occasioning noxious exhalations, offensive  smells, or otherwise, is offensive or dangerous to the health of  individuals or of the public.(9) To advertise wares or occupation by painting notices of the  wares or occupation 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.(10) To permit a 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 the well is no  longer used for the purpose for which it was drilled.(11) To construct or operate a 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 from the  pit in a manner except by the evaporation of  the salt water or brine or by the burning of the oil  field waste or refuse.(12) To permit concrete bases, discarded machinery, and  materials to remain around an oil or gas well, or to fail to fill holes,  cellars, slush pits, and other excavations made in  connection with the well or to restore the surface of the  lands surrounding the well to its condition before the  drilling of the well, upon abandonment of the  oil or gas well.(13) To permit salt water, oil, gas, or other  wastes  from a well drilled for oil, gas, or exploratory purposes to escape  to the surface, or into a mine or coal seam, or into an underground  fresh water supply, or from one underground stratum to another.(14) To harass, intimidate, or threaten a  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.(15) 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, or  dangerous to the health of individuals or the public.(16) To create a condition, through the improper  maintenance of a swimming pool or wading pool, or by causing an  action that 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.(17) To operate a tanning facility without a valid permit under  the Tanning Facility Permit Act.Nothing in this Section shall be construed to prevent the corporate  authorities of a city, village, or incorporated town, or the  county board of a county, from declaring what are  nuisances and abating them within their limits. Counties have that authority  only outside the corporate limits of a city,  village, or incorporated town.    (Source: P.A. 89-234, eff. 1-1-96.)