08/12/2025
Open Burning
91.30 Definitions
Agricultural Waste. Any refuse, except garbage and dead animals, generated on a farm or ranch by crop and livestock production practices, including such items as bags, cartons, dry bedding, structural material, grass weeds, and crop residue, but excluding landscape waste.
Garbage or Household Trash. Refuse resulting from the handling, processing, preparation, cooking, and consumption of food or food products, including plastic containers.
Landscape Waste. Any vegetable or plant refuse, except garbage and agricultural waste. The term includes trees, tree trimmings, branches, stumps, brush, leaves, shrubbery, and yard trimmings.
91.31 Prohibited Burning
It shall be unlawful to cause or allow the open burning of agricultural waste, household trash, or garbage.
91.32 Restrictions on Landscape Waste Burning
The open burning of landscape waste shall be permitted only on the following conditions:
(A) Landscape waste shall be burned on the premises on which such waste is generated.
(B) Landscape waste may be burned only if such burning does not create a visibility hazard on roadways, walkways or railroad tracks.
(C) Open burning of landscape waste may only take place during DAYLIGHT hours with a person over 18years of age in attendance during the entire period of burning.
(D) No open burning of landscape waste shall be permitted on any streets or roads.
(E) No open burning shall occur during periods, as determined by the Fire Chief or the Chief of Police, that atmospheric conditions or local circumstances make such fires hazardous.
OPEN BURNING. The combustion of any matter in such a way that the products of the combustion are emitted to the open air without originating in or passing through equipment for which a permit could be issued under of the Environmental Protection Act of the State of ILLINOIS.
