CHAPTER 412
Obstruction and Special Uses of Public Ways

412.01   Placing injurious material or obstruction in street.

412.02   Zones of quiet.

412.03   Play streets.

412.04   Toy vehicles on roadway.

412.05   Freeway use prohibited by pedestrians, bicycles and animals.

412.06   Parades, special events and assemblages; permits.

412.99   Penalty.

CROSS REFERENCES

   See section histories for similar State law Power to regulate processions or

      assemblages - see Ohio R. C. 4511.07(C)

   Loads dropping or leaking; tracking mud; removal required - see TRAF. 440.06

     Selling or repairing vehicle upon roadway - see TRAF. 452.08

   Sidewalk obstructions; damage or injury - see GEN. OFF. 660.10

412.01 PLACING INJURIOUS MATERIAL OR OBSTRUCTION IN STREET.

   (a)    No person shall place or knowingly drop upon any part of a street, highway or alley any tacks, bottles, wire, glass, nails or other articles which may damage or injure any person, vehicle or animal traveling along or upon such street, except such substances that may be placed upon the roadway by proper authority for the repair or construction thereof.

   Any person who drops or permits to be dropped or thrown upon any street any noxious, destructive or injurious material shall immediately remove the same.

   Any person authorized to remove a wrecked or damaged vehicle from a street shall remove any glass or other injurious substance dropped upon the street from such vehicle.

   No person shall throw any obstruction in or upon a street without proper authority.

   (b)    No person, with intent to cause physical harm to a person or a vehicle, shall place or knowingly drop upon any part of a highway, lane, road, street or alley any tacks, bottles, wire, glass, nails or other articles which may damage or injure any person, vehicle or animal traveling along or upon such highway, except such substances that may be placed upon the roadway by proper authority for the repair or construction thereof. (ORC 4511.74)

412.02 ZONES OF QUIET.

   Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating a zone of quiet.  No person operating a vehicle within any such zone shall sound the horn or other warning device of such vehicle except in an emergency.