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(a) No person shall knowingly engage in conduct designed to urge or incite another to commit any offense of violence when either of the following apply:
(1) The conduct takes place under circumstances that create a clear and present danger that any offense of violence will be committed.
(2) The conduct proximately results in the commission of any offense of violence.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of inciting to violence. If the offense of violence that the other person is being urged or incited to commit is a misdemeanor, inciting to violence is a misdemeanor of the first degree. If the offense of violence that the other person is being urged or incited to commit is a felony, inciting to violence is a felony to be prosecuted under appropriate state law.
(ORC 2917.01)
(a) No person shall loiter or prowl in any public or private place at a time, in a manner or under circumstances which warrant alarm for the safety of persons or security of property in the surrounding area.
(b) Without limitation, the following circumstances may be considered in determining whether such alarm is warranted:
(1) The flight of a person upon the appearance of a police officer;
(2) Attempted concealment by a person upon the appearance of a police officer;
(3) The systematic checking by a person of doors, windows or other means of access to buildings, houses or vehicles.
(c) Unless flight by the actor or other circumstances make it impracticable, a police officer shall, prior to any arrest for an offense under this section, afford the actor an opportunity to dispel any alarm which would otherwise be warranted, by requesting him or her to identify himself or herself and explain his or her presence and conduct. No person shall be convicted of an offense under this section if the police officer did not comply with the preceding sentence, or if it appears at trial that the explanation given by the actor was true, and if believed by the police officer at the time, would have dispelled the alarm.
(d) For the purposes of this section, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them:
(1) “Loitering” includes the following activities: lingering, hanging around, delaying, sauntering and moving slowly about, where such conduct is not due to physical defects or conditions.
(2) “Private place” means places privately owned but open to the public generally, such as shopping centers, retail stores, transportation terminals, movie theaters, office buildings, restaurants, and all distinctly private places such as homes or private residences and apartment houses.
(3) “Public place” means public streets and alleyways, public restrooms, public sidewalks, public parks, public buildings and municipal airports.
(4) “Surrounding area” means that area easily and immediately accessible to the person under observation.
(e) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor and shall be subject to the penalty provided in § 698.02.
(1974 Code, § 509.08)
(a) No child under the age of sixteen years shall congregate, loaf, loiter or be upon any of the public streets, alleys or highways of the municipality after the hour of 10:00 p.m. on Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays, or after 11:00 p.m. on Fridays or Saturdays of any weekend, to 6:00 a.m. of the following day. No child who has attained his or her sixteenth birthday but has not passed his or her eighteenth birthday shall be upon any of the public streets, alleys or highways of the municipality after the hour of 11:00 p.m. on Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays or Thursdays or after 12:00 p.m. on Fridays or Saturdays to 6:00 a.m. of the following day. The provisions of this section shall not apply when the child is accompanied by his or her parents or parent, guardian or person in loco parentis or some other person over 21 years of age who has been given permission by the parent or parents, guardian or person in loco parentis to accompany the child, nor shall they apply under the conditions stipulated in divisions (b) and (c) hereof. This section does not apply to a minor who is:
(1) Accompanied by a parent, guardian, or custodian;
(2) Accompanied by an adult specified by a parent, guardian, or custodian;
(3) Carrying out an errand or other lawful activity as directed by a parent, guardian, or custodian; or
(4) Occupying the sidewalk of the place where the minor resides, or the sidewalk of a place where the minor has permission from his or her parent or guardian to be, or the sidewalk of a next-door neighbor not communicating an objection to a police officer.
(5) Participating in, going to, or returning from:
(a) Lawful employment; or
(b) A lawful athletic, educational, entertainment, religious, or social event.
(c) Interstate travel.
(b) Any school, church, lodge or other organization which desires to keep or hold any entertainment for children under the age of 18 years, which entertainment shall require children to be out at a later hour than that called for in division (a) hereof shall make application to the Chief of Police for permission to have such children stay out to this later hour. Such application shall state the time the entertainment will end and the children who attend such function shall be required to be off the public streets, alleys or highways one-half hour after such function is ended.
(c) Any child who has passed the age of 16 years and who has a working certificate and whose work may require him or her to be out at hours later than those specified in this section may make application to the Chief of Police for written permission to do so. The Chief of Police may grant permission, but such child shall not be out later than one-half hour beyond the time that the work of such child terminates.
(d) (1) Any child found in violation of this section shall be taken to the Municipal Building, and the parents, guardians or persons in loco parentis shall be notified to come to the Municipal Building and take personal charge of such child. Such child shall be released only to such parents, guardians or persons in loco parentis or to the county juvenile authorities.
(2) Any child found in violation of this section who has been once before held by the authorities for violation of this section shall be held for the juvenile authorities for proper disposition.
(3) Any parent who knowingly permits such child to violate any of the provisions of this section shall, upon the first offense, be warned; upon the second or subsequent offense is guilty of a minor misdemeanor and shall be subject to the penalty provided in § 698.02.
(1974 Code, § 509.09)
(a) No person, without privilege to do so, shall recklessly obstruct any highway, street, sidewalk, or any other public passage in such a manner as to render the highway, street, sidewalk, or passage impassable without unreasonable inconvenience or hazard if both of the following apply:
(1) The obstruction prevents an emergency vehicle from accessing a highway or street, prevents an emergency service responder from responding to an emergency, or prevents an emergency vehicle or an emergency service responder from having access to an exit from an emergency.
(2) Upon receipt of a request or order from an emergency service responder to remove or cease the obstruction, the person refuses to remove or cease the obstruction.
(b) Division (a) of this section does not limit or affect the application of R.C. § 2921.31 or any other section of the Ohio Revised Code. Any conduct that is a violation of division (a) of this section and that also is a violation of R.C. § 2921.31 or any other section of the Ohio Revised Code may be prosecuted under this section, the other section of the Ohio Revised Code, or both sections.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of unlawfully impeding public passage of an emergency service responder, a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(d) As used in this section, "emergency service responder" has the same meaning as in R.C. § 2903.13.
(R.C. § 2917.14)