(a) No person shall erect, continue, use or maintain a dwelling, building, structure or place for a residence or for the exercise of a trade, employment or business, or for the keeping or feeding of an animal which, by occasioning noxious exhalations or noisome or offensive smells, becomes injurious to the health, comfort or property of individuals or of the public. No person shall cause or allow offal, filth or noisome substances to be collected or remain in any place to the damage or prejudice of others or of the public. No person shall unlawfully obstruct or impede the passage of a navigable river, harbor or collection of water, or corrupt or render unwholesome or impure, a watercourse, stream or water, or unlawfully divert such watercourse from its natural course or state to the injury or prejudice of others.
(ORC 3767.13; Adopting Ordinance)
(ORC 3767.13; Adopting Ordinance)
(b) No person shall deposit, store, maintain, collect or permit the deposit, storage, maintenance or collection of any junk on his own premises or any premises under his control or deposit, store, maintain or collect such junk in any back lot, public ground, vacant lot, park, alley, street, areaway or any other place within the City, except as expressly provided by law.
For purposes of this subsection "junk" means any worn out, cast off or discarded article or material which is ready for destruction or which has been collected or stored for salvage or conversion to some other use. Any article or material which, unaltered or unchanged and without further reconditioning, can be used for its original purpose as readily as when new shall not be considered junk.
(c) Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues. Punishment shall be as provided in Section 698.02.
(Ord. 24-74. Passed 3-25-74.)