(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 the watercourse from its natural course or state to the injury or prejudice of others.
(d) Persons who are engaged in agriculture-related activities, as “agriculture” is defined in Ohio R.C. 519.01, and who are conducting those activities outside a municipal corporation, in accordance with generally accepted agricultural practices, and in such a manner so as not to have a substantial, adverse effect on the public health, safety or welfare are exempt from subsections (a) and (b) hereof, from any similar ordinances, resolutions, rules or other enactments of a state agency or political subdivision, and from any ordinances, resolutions, rules or other enactments of a state agency or political subdivision that prohibit excessive noise.
(1993 Code 94.03)