§ 20-311. Public nuisance rental residential premises.

(a)

It is hereby declared a public nuisance contrary to the health, safety, peace, and comfort of the village and a violation of this section for any owner or manager to allow or permit criminal activity to take place on or within any rental registration premises if that owner or manager had knowledge or reasonably should have known of facts indicating a reason to believe that any such criminal activity:

(1)

Was about to occur or was occurring and took no action reasonably calculated to prevent or stop such criminal activity; or

(2)

Occurred and took no action reasonably calculated to prevent the same or similar criminal activity from happening again.

Action reasonably calculated to prevent or stop criminal activity or to prevent the same or similar criminal activity from happening again shall include, but is not limited to, giving notice to the department of the suspected criminal activity and the identity of the person(s) suspected to have been involved in the criminal activity; initiating eviction proceedings consistent with a crime-free lease addendum or substantially similar clause; or barring the presence of a person who is not a tenant or member of the tenant's household from the multi-family rental residential premises in the manner specified in the eviction proceedings; and following through with any recommendations of the department to reduce such criminal activity.

(Ord. No. 2569, § 1, 4-17-2018; Ord. No. 2591, § 1, 12-11-2018)