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90_SB0598
720 ILCS 5/47-5
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that it is a
public nuisance to solicit anyone for any purpose at the
intersection of any street or public highway or at the on or
off ramp to and from an expressway unless a permit has been
issued by the county or municipality having jurisdiction of
the street, highway, or expressway for that purpose.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Criminal Code of 1961 by changing
2 Section 47-5.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by
6 changing Section 47-5 as follows:
7 (720 ILCS 5/47-5)
8 Sec. 47-5. Public nuisance. It is a public nuisance:
9 (1) To cause or allow the carcass of an animal or offal,
10 filth, or a noisome substance to be collected, deposited, or
11 to remain in any place to the prejudice of others.
12 (2) To throw or deposit offal or other offensive matter
13 or the carcass of a dead animal in a water course, lake,
14 pond, spring, well, or common sewer, street, or public
15 highway.
16 (3) To corrupt or render unwholesome or impure the water
17 of a spring, river, stream, pond, or lake to the injury or
18 prejudice of others.
19 (4) To obstruct or impede, without legal authority, the
20 passage of a navigable river or waters.
21 (5) To obstruct or encroach upon public highways,
22 private ways, streets, alleys, commons, landing places, and
23 ways to burying places.
24 (5.5) To solicit a driver or passenger in a motor
25 vehicle or a pedestrian for any purpose at the intersection
26 of any street or public highway or at the on or off ramps to
27 and from an expressway unless a permit has been issued by the
28 county or municipality having jurisdiction of the street,
29 public highway, or expressway authorizing that solicitation.
30 (6) To carry on the business of manufacturing gunpowder,
31 nitroglycerine, or other highly explosive substances, or
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1 mixing or grinding the materials for those substances, in a
2 building within 20 rods of a valuable building erected at the
3 time the business is commenced.
4 (7) To establish powder magazines near incorporated
5 towns, at a point different from that appointed according to
6 law by the corporate authorities of the town, or within 50
7 rods of an occupied dwelling house.
8 (8) To erect, continue, or use a building or other place
9 for the exercise of a trade, employment, or manufacture that,
10 by occasioning noxious exhalations, offensive smells, or
11 otherwise, is offensive or dangerous to the health of
12 individuals or of the public.
13 (9) To advertise wares or occupation by painting notices
14 of the wares or occupation on or affixing them to fences or
15 other private property, or on rocks or other natural objects,
16 without the consent of the owner, or if in the highway or
17 other public place, without permission of the proper
18 authorities.
19 (10) To permit a well drilled for oil, gas, salt water
20 disposal, or any other purpose in connection with the
21 production of oil and gas to remain unplugged after the well
22 is no longer used for the purpose for which it was drilled.
23 (11) To construct or operate a salt water pit or oil
24 field refuse pit, commonly called a "burn out pit", so that
25 salt water, brine, or oil field refuse or other waste liquids
26 may escape from the pit in a manner except by the evaporation
27 of the salt water or brine or by the burning of the oil field
28 waste or refuse.
29 (12) To permit concrete bases, discarded machinery, and
30 materials to remain around an oil or gas well, or to fail to
31 fill holes, cellars, slush pits, and other excavations made
32 in connection with the well or to restore the surface of the
33 lands surrounding the well to its condition before the
34 drilling of the well, upon abandonment of the oil or gas
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1 well.
2 (13) To permit salt water, oil, gas, or other wastes
3 from a well drilled for oil, gas, or exploratory purposes to
4 escape to the surface, or into a mine or coal seam, or into
5 an underground fresh water supply, or from one underground
6 stratum to another.
7 (14) To harass, intimidate, or threaten a person who is
8 about to sell or lease or has sold or leased a residence or
9 other real property or is about to buy or lease or has bought
10 or leased a residence or other real property, when the
11 harassment, intimidation, or threat relates to a person's
12 attempt to sell, buy, or lease a residence, or other real
13 property, or refers to a person's sale, purchase, or lease of
14 a residence or other real property.
15 (15) To store, dump, or permit the accumulation of
16 debris, refuse, garbage, trash, tires, buckets, cans,
17 wheelbarrows, garbage cans, or other containers in a manner
18 that may harbor mosquitoes, flies, insects, rodents, nuisance
19 birds, or other animal pests that are offensive, injurious,
20 or dangerous to the health of individuals or the public.
21 (16) To create a condition, through the improper
22 maintenance of a swimming pool or wading pool, or by causing
23 an action that alters the condition of a natural body of
24 water, so that it harbors mosquitoes, flies, or other animal
25 pests that are offensive, injurious, or dangerous to the
26 health of individuals or the public.
27 (17) To operate a tanning facility without a valid
28 permit under the Tanning Facility Permit Act.
29 Nothing in this Section shall be construed to prevent the
30 corporate authorities of a city, village, or incorporated
31 town, or the county board of a county, from declaring what
32 are nuisances and abating them within their limits. Counties
33 have that authority only outside the corporate limits of a
34 city, village, or incorporated town.
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1 (Source: P.A. 89-234, eff. 1-1-96.)