(a) No person shall place or knowingly drop upon any part of a highway, lane, road, street, or alley any tacks, bottles, wire, glass, nails, or other articles which may damage or injure any person, vehicle, or animal traveling along or upon such street, except such substances that may be placed upon the roadway by property authority for the repair or construction thereof.
(b) Any person who drops or permits to be dropped or thrown upon any street any noxious, destructive or injurious material shall immediately remove the same.
(c) Any person authorized to remove a wrecked or damaged vehicle from a street shall remove any glass or other injurious substance dropped upon the street from such vehicle.
(d) No person shall place any obstruction in or upon a street without proper authority.
(e) No person, contractor or private snow removal firm shall deposit, or cause to be deposited, any snow and/or ice onto the pavement or sidewalk of any public street, except the tree lawn on the same premises from which the snow is removed.
(f) No fire hydrant shall be covered with snow.
(g) No snow removed from sidewalks or drive approaches on the dedicated right-of-way shall be deposited so as to obstruct the view from the street intersection or commercial drive approach.
(h) Snow removed from private property shall be deposited in such a manner that it does not obstruct the view at drive approaches.
(i) No person, with intent to cause physical harm to a person or vehicle, shall place or knowingly drop upon any part of a highway, lane, road, street, or alley any tacks, bottles, wire, glass, nails, or other articles which may damage or injure any person, vehicle or animal traveling along or upon such highway, except such substances that may be placed upon the roadway by proper authority for the repair or construction thereof. No person shall place any obstruction in or upon a street without proper authority.
(j) Except as otherwise provided in this section, whoever violates divisions (a) through (h) of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. If, within one year of the offense, the offender has previously been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a violation of divisions (a) through (h) of this section, a violation of divisions (a) through (h) of this section shall be a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. If, within one year of the offense, the offender has previously been convicted of or pleaded guilty to two or more violations of divisions (a) through (h) of this section, a violation of divisions (a) through (h) of this section shall be a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(k) Whoever violates division (i) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(Ord. 2009-31. Passed 11-3-09.)
Statutory reference:
For similar state law provisions, see Ohio R.C. 4511.74