(a) To secure the peace and safety of the inhabitants.
(1) It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to disturb the good order or quiet of the village by clamor or noise or by drunkenness, fighting or using obscene or profane language in the streets, public places or other places to the annoyance of the citizens thereafter engages in exciting any quarrel among other persons or otherwise violates the public peace and safety by indecent or disorderly conduct or by loud or lascivious behavior.
(2) It shall be unlawful for any person or persons of the village to allow his or her house, shop store, saloon or other places to be used, frequented or resorted to by rioters noisy or disorderly persons, or by gamblers, vagrants or prostitutes, or permit any boisterous, noisy or disorderly conduct therein or thereabout, to the disturbance or annoyance of the neighborhood or the public or to make or assist or countenance or abet the making of any riot, row, noise, disorder or disturbance at, in, or about any house, shop, store, saloon or other place whatsoever within the village.
(3) It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to unlawfully assault or threaten another in a menacing manner, or shall unlawfully strike or wound another, or provoke another to commit a breach of the peace.
(4) Any person violating any provision of division (a) shall upon conviction thereof be fined not more than $100 nor less than $10.
(b) Certain nuisances.
(1) Generally.
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.
B. 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.
C. 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.
D. No person shall keep or maintain on his or her premises an abandoned service station in such condition as to constitute a danger to the public health, welfare, safety, or morals. ABANDONED SERVICE STATION is defined in R.C. § 3791.11 (A)(2) which is incorporated by reference herein.
(2) Correction of violation; notice.
A. Whoever violates any of the provisions of division (b)(1) hereof shall be required to correct such violation within five days of notice to do so served upon him or her by the Mayor or his or her authorized representative.
B. Such notice shall be by registered mail to the offender’s last known address and, in the event such address is unknown, by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the village for a period of not less than three days.
C. Upon failure to correct such violation pursuant to the terms of such notice and order, the Mayor shall cause the same to be corrected by the village.
D. The costs of such correction shall be certified by the Mayor to the county auditor who shall assess such costs upon the offender to be collected in like manner as other taxes are collected.
E. The remedy provided for herein is in addition to the penalty provided in division (b)(3) hereof.
(3) Penalty. Whoever violates this section shall be fined no more than $100. Each day the violation continues constitutes a second offense.
(Ord. 2-11-72, passed 11-6-1972; Am. Ord. 1500.28, passed 7-18-1983)