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(a) No person shall abandon or knowingly permit to remain on public or private property, any excavation, well, cesspool or structure which is in the process of construction, reconstruction, repair or alteration unless the same is adequately protected by suitable barricades and guarded by warning devices or lights at night so that the condition will not reasonably prove dangerous to life or limb.
(b) No person shall destroy, remove, damage or extinguish any barricade or warning light that is placed for the protection of the public so as to prevent injury to life or limb.
(c) Any owner or agent in control of a premises upon which a basement, cellar, well or cistern has been abandoned due to demolition, failure to build or any other reason shall cause the same to be filled to the ground surface with rock, gravel, earth or other suitable material.
(d) 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.
(a) No person shall place or knowingly drop upon any part of a sidewalk or playground any tacks, bottles, wire, glass, nails or other articles which may damage property of another or injure any person or animal traveling along or upon such sidewalk or playground.
(b) No person shall walk on, or allow any animal upon, or injure or deface in any way, any soft or newly laid sidewalk pavement.
(c) No person shall place, deposit or maintain any merchandise, goods, material or equipment upon any sidewalk so as to obstruct pedestrian traffic thereon except for such reasonable time as may be actually necessary for the delivery or pickup of such articles. In no case shall the obstruction remain on such sidewalk for more than one hour. Provided, that tables and chairs to be used by patrons of a food service establishment may be placed upon the sidewalk abutting such establishment with the written permission of the Planning Commission and subject to such limitations or conditions as the Planning Commission may impose upon the owner or operator of such establishment, in which case such tables and chairs shall not be deemed obstructions to pedestrian traffic.
(d) No person shall unload upon, or transport any heavy merchandise, goods, material or equipment over or across any sidewalk or curb without first placing some sufficient protection over the pavement to protect against damage or injury.
(e) No person shall allow any cellar or trap door, coal chute or elevator or lift opening in any sidewalk to remain open without providing suitable safeguards to protect and warn pedestrian traffic of the dangerous conditions.
(f) 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.
(Ord. 03-O-2046, passed 7-25-2003)
(a) No person shall fail to comply with the following requirements within the lawful time after service or publication of the notice or resolution is made as required by law: to fill or drain any lot or land or remove all putrid substances therefrom, or remove all obstructions from culverts, covered drains or natural watercourses as provided in Ohio R.C. 715.47.
(b) Whoever violates 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.
(a) No person shall erect or maintain any fence charged with electrical current.
(b) No person shall erect or maintain a barbed wire fence which abuts or is adjacent to any public street or sidewalk. This division (b) does not prevent the placement and use of not more than two strands of barbed wire on top of a fence other than a barbed wire fence, provided such strands are not less than 48 inches from the ground.
(c) Barbed wire partition fences may be erected and maintained as provided in Ohio R.C. 971.03.
(d) 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.
(a) As used in this section, “place of public assembly” means:
(1) Enclosed theaters, except the lobby; opera houses; auditoriums; classrooms; elevators; rooms in which persons are confined as a matter of health care, including but not limited to a hospital room and a room in a residential care facility serving as the residence of a person living in such residential care facility.
(2) All buildings and other enclosed structures owned by the state, its agencies, or political subdivisions, including but not limited to hospitals and state institutions for persons with mental illnesses and persons with intellectual disabilities; university and college buildings, except rooms within those buildings used primarily as the residences of students or other persons affiliated with the university or college; office buildings; libraries; museums; and vehicles used in public transportation. That portion of a building or other enclosed structure that is owned by the state, a state agency or a political subdivision, and that is used primarily as a food service establishment, is not a place of public assembly.
(3) Each portion of a building or enclosed structure that is not included in division (a)(1) or (a)(2) of this section is a place of public assembly if it has a seating capacity of 50 or more persons and is available to the public. Restaurants, food service establishments, dining rooms, cafes, cafeterias, or other rooms used primarily for the service of food, as well as bowling alleys and places licensed by the Ohio Division of Liquor Control to sell intoxicating beverages for consumption on the premises, are not places of public assembly.
(b) For the purpose of separating persons who smoke from persons who do not smoke for the comfort and health of persons not smoking, in every place of public assembly there shall be an area where smoking is not permitted, which shall be designated a no smoking area, provided that not more than one-half of the rooms in any health care facility in which persons are confined as a matter of health care may be designated as smoking areas in their entirety. The designation shall be made before the place of public assembly is made available to the public. In places included in division (a)(1) of this section, the local fire authority having jurisdiction shall designate the no smoking area. In places included in division (a)(2) of this section that are owned by the state or its agencies, the Ohio Director of Administrative Services shall designate the area, and if the place is owned by a political subdivision, its legislative authority shall designate an officer who shall designate the area. In places included in division (a)(3) of this section, the person having control of the operations of the place of public assembly shall designate the no smoking area. In places included in division (a)(2) of this section which are also included in division (a)(1) of this section, the officer who has authority to designate the area in places in division (a)(2) of this section shall designate the no smoking area. A no smoking area may include the entire place of public assembly. Designations shall be made by the placement of signs that are clearly visible and that state “no smoking.” No person shall remove signs from areas designated as no smoking areas.
(c) This section does not affect or modify the prohibition contained in Ohio R.C. 3313.751(B).
(d) No person shall smoke in any area designated as a no smoking area in accordance with division (b) of this section.
(e) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(ORC 3791.031)
(a) For the purpose of this section, “smoking material” means any cigarette, cigar, pipe, weed, plant or other smoking equipment in any form, and “public place” means that portion of any enclosed or indoor area owned or leased by the municipality.
(b) (1) Possession of lighted smoking material in all public places owned or leased by the municipality is prohibited.
(2) Possession of lighted smoking material in all vehicles owned or leased by the municipality is prohibited.
(3) The Director of Public Safety shall erect or post signs that state “No Smoking” at all entranceways to all public places and at any other locations throughout the public places as is necessary.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor and shall be subject to the penalty provided in § 698.02.
(Ord. 97-O-1628, passed 10-21-1997)
(a) No person shall allow, suffer or permit water from any spouting, conduit, hydrant, drain or pipe to flow or empty upon the sidewalk abutting on real estate owned or occupied by him or her.
(b) The person owning or occupying real estate abutting on any sidewalk over or upon which water would flow from any accumulation upon such real estate shall construct underground watertight drains or conduits for the discharge of such water, such underground drain or conduit to be constructed so that the water from such real estate will be conveyed underneath the abutting sidewalk into the gutters and ditches in front of such real estate.
(Ord. passed 3-17-1904)
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor and shall be subject to the penalty provided in § 698.02.
(1974 Code, § 521.10(c))
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