(a) No person shall evade the payment of the known fares of a public transportation system.
(b) No person shall alter any transfer, pass, ticket, or token of a public transportation system with the purpose of evading the payment of fares or of defrauding the system.
(c) No person shall do any of the following while in any facility or on any vehicle of a public transportation system:
(1) Play sound equipment without the proper use of a private earphone;
(2) Smoke, eat, or drink in any area where the activity is clearly marked as being prohibited; and
(3) Expectorate upon a person, facility or vehicle.
(d) No person shall fail to comply with a lawful order of a public transportation system police officer, and no person shall resist, obstruct, or abuse a public transportation system police officer in the performance of the officer's duties.
(e) No person, without privilege to do so, and while on a public transportation system vehicle, shall negligently fail or refuse to leave such vehicle upon being notified to do so by the operator, driver, or an authorized agent of the public transportation system.
(f) No person shall throw a rock, stone, bottle, missile, projectile, snowball or other hard substance at, within or from a public transportation system vehicle.
(g) Whoever violates division (f) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree. If violation of division (f) of this section creates a risk of physical harm to any person, such violation is a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(h) Whoever violates division (c) of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on the first offense and a misdemeanor of the fourth degree on the second and any subsequent offense.
(i) Whoever violates division (a), (b), (d), or (e) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(Ord. No. 167-13. Passed 4-15-13, eff. 4-19-13)
Statutory reference:
Similar State law, see RC 2917.41
Similar State law, see RC 2917.41