Ordinance 2025-69UNITED CITY OF YORKVILLE
KENDALL COUNTY, ILLINOIS
ORDINANCE NO. 2025-59
AN ORDINANCE OF THE UNITED CITY OF YORKVILLE, KENDALL
COUNTY, ILLINOIS AMENDING THE YORKVILLE CITY CODE
Passed by the City Council of the
United City of Yorkville, Kendall County, Illinois
This 23`d day of September, 2025
Published in pamphlet forth by the
authority of the Mayor and City Council
of the United City of Yorkville, Kendall
County, Illinois on September 29, 2025.
Ordinance No. 2025-69
AN ORDINANCE OF THE UNITED CITY OF YORKVILLE, KENDALL
COUNTY, ILLINOIS AMENDING THE YORKVILLE CITY CODE
Be It Ordained by the Mayor and City Council to amend the Yorkville City Code as
follows:
Section 1. Title 4, Chapter 1, Section 4-1-1 is hereby amended by deleting Subsection B in
its entirety and replacing it with the following:
B. The City Police, officers, inspectors or authorized employees may enter upon
private property and summarily abate any fire or burning deemed to be a health
hazard and a public nuisance in violation of A.1 or A.4 above.
Section 2. Title 4, Chapter 1, Section 4-1-5, Subsections C and D are hereby amended by
deleting said Subsections C and D in their entirety and replacing with the following:
C. Liability for costs: In the event of the failure of any person to abate a nuisance, the
City shall have the authority to abate the nuisance and to bill and collect reasonable
costs it shall incur to abate such nuisance.
D. Notice of the costs incurred by the City to abate the nuisance shall be given to the
violator and if not paid in full within five (5) business days from the date of an
invoice for the amount due, the violator shall be provided with a notice of a hearing
before a Hearing Officer pursuant to Section 1-14-5 of this code to determine
whether the violator has failed to pay the expenses incurred by the City for the
abatement of the violation of this code, which notice shall not be less than seven
(7) days from the date the notice is served or deposited in the mail. The total amount
due to the City may be enforced as provided in Section 1-14-5 of this code.
Section 3. Title 4, Chapter 1, Section 4-1-5, Subsection H is hereby amended by deleting
said Subsection H in its entirety and replacing with the following:
Notice of Violation; Nuisance Abatement:
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The City Police, officers, Community Development Director or any member of this
Department, or any authorized employee are authorized to issue a notice of a violation of
this Chapter 1. In the event the violation of this Section 4-1-5 is deemed to be a public
nuisance and an immediate health hazard, the City Police, officers, Community
Development Director or any member of this Department or any authorized employee may
enter upon private property and summarily abate the nuisance.
Section 4. Title 4, Article A, Section 4-2A-2 is hereby amended by deleting said section in
the entirety and replacing it with the following:
4-2A-2: - Notice to abate; duty of owners to remove:
A. The Community Development Director or his or her representative, or the Director
of Public Works or his or her representative shall give a written notice of the
existence of a nuisance described in section 4-2A-I of this article to the owner of
property whereon the public nuisance is found. Such notice shall describe the
nuisance, state the City ordinance which has been violated, identify the property by
common description and the tree or trees affected, and require the removal of the
nuisance within thirty (34) days. After notice has been given, it shall become the
duty of the property owner to abate the nuisance. The removal and disposal of the
nuisance shall be under the direction and supervision of the Community
Development Director or his or her representative, or the Director of Public Works
or his or her representative. Said notice shall also notify the property owner that
unless the nuisance is removed and disposed of in compliance with the terms of
notice, the City shall issue an ordinance violation citation and request that the
Hearing Officer direct the removal and disposal of the nuisance.
B. Such notice shall be given by personal service or sent by registered mail to the
person to whom the tax bill for the general taxes for the last precedent year on the
property was sent.
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Section 5. Title 4, Article A, Section 4-2A-3 and Section 4-2A-4 are hereby deleted in their
entirety and replaced with the following:
4-2A-3: - Abatement by City; costs:
If the property owner shall neglect to abate the nuisance within thirty (30) days after
notice is given and thereafter causes the removal of such nuisance by the City, then the
City shall provide the property owner of a notice of a hearing before a Hearing Officer,
in accordance with Section 1-14-5 of this code, which notice shall be served or deposited
in the mail no less than seven (7) days prior to the date of the hearing ordering the
abatement of the nuisance by the City and assessing the property owner with one hundred
percent (100%) of all of the costs incurred by the City in the event the City abates the
nuisance, which costs and all fines assessed shall be a debt due and owing to the City and
if unpaid within five (5) business days shall be enforced as provided in Section 1-14-5 of
this Code.
Section 6. Title 4, Chapter 3, Section 4-3-4 and 4-3-5 are hereby deleted in their entirety
and replaced with the following:
4-3-4: - Failure to abate:
In the event the owner or occupant of the property where a nuisance violation of Section
4-3-2 of this chapter exists, has failed, within the prescribed time to abate such nuisance
after notice pursuant to Section 4-3-3, shall be subject to a fine for each day the nuisance
continues.
Section 7. Title 1, Chapter 14, Section 1-14-3, subsection A.I. is hereby amended by
deleting Section 1-14-3, subsection A.1. in its entirety and replacing it with the following.
1. Violation notices if any ordinance violation shall be issued by the Mayor,
Administrator, City Attorney, officers, City Police,Department Directors and any
such person as authorized by any of them.
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Section 8. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect upon its passage, approval and
publication as provided by law.
Passed by the City Council of the United City of Yorkville, Kendall County, Illinois this
Z.) day of SepXHWer, A.D. 2025.
KEN KOCH AYE
ARDEN JOE PLOCHER AYE
CHRIS FUNKHOUSER AYE
RUSTY CORNEILS AYE
DAN TRANSIER AYE
CRAIG SOLING AYE
MATT MAREK AYE
RUSTY HYETT AYE
APPROVED by me, as Mayor of the United City of Yorkville, Kendall County, Illinois
thisZ day of A.D. 2025.
MAYOR /
Attest:
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