103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB0081

 

Introduced 1/20/2023, by Sen. Jil Tracy

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
720 ILCS 5/47-5

    Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that it is a public nuisance for a hotel, other business, or person to provide sleeping accommodations for hire or rent for transient occupancy by guests to rent or hire, or for any lessor of real property, whether by tenancy or contract for deed, to rent a dwelling unit that has a sleeping accommodation in which an infestation of any bed bugs is found or suspected or for any person to place, discard, or dispose of any bedding, clothing, or other materials infested with bed bugs on the public way or in a refuse container or dumpster located on the public way, except when such bedding, clothing, or other material is placed in or near the person's refuse container or dumpster for pick-up as trash and the bedding, clothing, or other material is totally enclosed in a plastic bag and labeled as being infested with bed bugs, or for any person to recycle any furnishing, bedding, clothing, or other material infested with bed bugs.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by
5changing Section 47-5 as follows:
 
6    (720 ILCS 5/47-5)
7    Sec. 47-5. Public nuisance. It is a public nuisance:
8    (1) To cause or allow the carcass of an animal or offal,
9filth, or a noisome substance to be collected, deposited, or
10to remain in any place to the prejudice of others.
11    (2) To throw or deposit offal or other offensive matter or
12the carcass of a dead animal in a water course, lake, pond,
13spring, well, or common sewer, street, or public highway.
14    (3) To corrupt or render unwholesome or impure the water
15of a spring, river, stream, pond, or lake to the injury or
16prejudice of others.
17    (4) To obstruct or impede, without legal authority, the
18passage of a navigable river or waters.
19    (5) To obstruct or encroach upon public highways, private
20ways, streets, alleys, commons, landing places, and ways to
21burying places.
22    (6) To carry on the business of manufacturing gunpowder,
23nitroglycerine, or other highly explosive substances, or

 

 

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1mixing or grinding the materials for those substances, in a
2building within 20 rods of a valuable building erected at the
3time the business is commenced.
4    (7) To establish powder magazines near incorporated towns,
5at a point different from that appointed according to law by
6the corporate authorities of the town, or within 50 rods of an
7occupied dwelling house.
8    (8) To erect, continue, or use a building or other place
9for the exercise of a trade, employment, or manufacture that,
10by occasioning noxious exhalations, offensive smells, or
11otherwise, is offensive or dangerous to the health of
12individuals or of the public.
13    (9) To advertise wares or occupation by painting notices
14of the wares or occupation on or affixing them to fences or
15other private property, or on rocks or other natural objects,
16without the consent of the owner, or if in the highway or other
17public place, without permission of the proper authorities.
18    (10) To permit a well drilled for oil, gas, salt water
19disposal, or any other purpose in connection with the
20production of oil and gas to remain unplugged after the well is
21no longer used for the purpose for which it was drilled.
22    (11) To construct or operate a salt water pit or oil field
23refuse pit, commonly called a "burn out pit", so that salt
24water, brine, or oil field refuse or other waste liquids may
25escape from the pit in a manner except by the evaporation of
26the salt water or brine or by the burning of the oil field

 

 

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1waste or refuse.
2    (12) To permit concrete bases, discarded machinery, and
3materials to remain around an oil or gas well, or to fail to
4fill holes, cellars, slush pits, and other excavations made in
5connection with the well or to restore the surface of the lands
6surrounding the well to its condition before the drilling of
7the well, upon abandonment of the oil or gas well.
8    (13) To permit salt water, oil, gas, or other wastes from a
9well drilled for oil, gas, or exploratory purposes to escape
10to the surface, or into a mine or coal seam, or into an
11underground fresh water supply, or from one underground
12stratum to another.
13    (14) To harass, intimidate, or threaten a person who is
14about to sell or lease or has sold or leased a residence or
15other real property or is about to buy or lease or has bought
16or leased a residence or other real property, when the
17harassment, intimidation, or threat relates to a person's
18attempt to sell, buy, or lease a residence, or other real
19property, or refers to a person's sale, purchase, or lease of a
20residence or other real property.
21    (15) To store, dump, or permit the accumulation of debris,
22refuse, garbage, trash, tires, buckets, cans, wheelbarrows,
23garbage cans, or other containers in a manner that may harbor
24mosquitoes, flies, insects, rodents, nuisance birds, or other
25animal pests that are offensive, injurious, or dangerous to
26the health of individuals or the public.

 

 

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1    (16) To create a condition, through the improper
2maintenance of a swimming pool or wading pool, or by causing an
3action that alters the condition of a natural body of water, so
4that it harbors mosquitoes, flies, or other animal pests that
5are offensive, injurious, or dangerous to the health of
6individuals or the public.
7    (17) To operate a tanning facility without a valid permit
8under the Tanning Facility Permit Act.
9    (18) For a hotel, other business, or person to provide
10sleeping accommodations for hire or rent for transient
11occupancy by guests to rent or hire, or for any lessor of real
12property, whether by tenancy or contract for deed, to rent a
13dwelling unit that has a sleeping accommodation in which an
14infestation of any bed bugs is found or suspected or for any
15person to place, discard, or dispose of any bedding, clothing,
16or other materials infested with bed bugs on the public way or
17in a refuse container or dumpster located on the public way,
18except when such bedding, clothing, or other material is
19placed in or near the person's refuse container or dumpster
20for pick-up as trash and the bedding, clothing, or other
21material is totally enclosed in a plastic bag and labeled as
22being infested with bed bugs, or for any person to recycle any
23furnishing, bedding, clothing, or other material infested with
24bed bugs. In this paragraph (18):
25        "Bed bug" means a wingless bloodsucking hemipterous
26    bug (Cimex lectularius) that infests houses, beds, and

 

 

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1    clothing and feeds on human blood.
2        "Bedding" means any mattress, box spring, foundation,
3    or studio couch made in whole or part from new or
4    secondhand fabric, filling material, or other textile
5    product or material and that can be used for sleeping or
6    reclining purposes.
7        "Dwelling unit" means a room or suite of rooms used
8    for human habitation and for which a lessor and a lessee
9    have a written or oral lease agreement
10        "Hotel" means any building or buildings in which the
11    public may, for a consideration, obtain living quarters,
12    sleeping, or housekeeping accommodations. "Hotel"
13    includes, but is not limited to, inns, motels, tourist
14    homes or courts, bed and breakfasts, lodging houses,
15    rooming houses and apartment houses, retreat centers,
16    conference centers, and hunting lodges.
17        "Other business" means any business engaging in
18    commerce or medical treatment.
19    Nothing in this Section shall be construed to prevent the
20corporate authorities of a city, village, or incorporated
21town, or the county board of a county, from declaring what are
22nuisances and abating them within their limits. Counties have
23that authority only outside the corporate limits of a city,
24village, or incorporated town.
25(Source: P.A. 89-234, eff. 1-1-96.)