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 place 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, streetcar, trackless trolley, 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)

   (c)   Whoever violates subsection (a) hereof shall be subject to the penalty provided in Sections 408.01 and 408.02. Whoever violates subsection (b) hereof is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree and shall be subject to the penalty provided in Section 408.01.

(ORC 4511.99(D), (J))