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(a) No owner, occupant or person in charge of any lot or parcel of ground shall cause or permit water to accumulate thereon and become stagnant, permit culverts, drains or natural watercourses thereon to become obstructed or cause or permit any putrid or unsanitary substance to accumulate thereon.
(Ord 1341. Passed 10-15-56.)
(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. The penalty shall be as provided in Section 698.02.
(a) No person, regardless of intent, shall deposit litter or cause litter to be deposited on any public property, on private property not owned by him or her, or in or on waters of the State, unless one of the following applies:
(1) The person is directed to do so by a public official as part of a litter collection drive.
(2) Except as provided in division (b) of this section, the person deposits the litter in a litter receptacle in a manner that prevents its being carried away by the elements.
(3) The person is issued a permit or license covering the litter pursuant to Ohio R.C. Chapter 3734 or 6111.
(b) No person, without privilege to do so, shall knowingly deposit litter, or cause it to be deposited, in a litter receptacle located on any public property or on any private property not owned by him or her, unless one of the following applies:
(1) The litter was generated or located on the property on which the litter receptacle is located.
(2) The person is directed to do so by a public official as part of a litter collection drive.
(3) The person is directed to do so by a person whom he or she reasonably believes to have the privilege to use the litter receptacle.
(4) The litter consists of any of the following:
A. The contents of a litter bag or container of a type and size customarily carried and used in a motor vehicle.
B. The contents of an ash tray of a type customarily installed or carried and used in a motor vehicle.
C. Beverage containers and food sacks, wrappings, and containers of a type and in an amount that reasonably may be expected to be generated during routine commuting or business or recreational travel by a motor vehicle.
D. Beverage containers, food sacks, wrappings, containers, and other materials of a type and in an amount that reasonably may be expected to be generated during a routine day by a person and deposited in a litter receptacle by a casual passerby.
(c) (1) As used in division (b)(1) of this section, “public property” includes any private property open to the public for the conduct of business, the provision of a service, or upon the payment of a fee but does not include any private property to which the public otherwise does not have a right of access.
(2) As used in division (b)(4) of this section, “casual passerby” means a person who does not have depositing litter in a litter receptacle as his or her primary reason for traveling to or by the property on which the litter receptacle is located.
(d) For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(1) "Auxiliary container." A bag, can, cup, food or beverage service item, container, keg, bottle, or other packaging to which all of the following apply:
A. It is designed to be either single use or reusable.
B. It is made of cloth, paper, plastic, foamed or expanded plastic, cardboard, corrugated material, aluminum, metal, glass, postconsumer recycled material, or similar materials or substances, including coated, laminated, or multilayered substrates.
C. It is designed for consuming, transporting, or protecting merchandise, food, or beverages from or at a food service operation, retail food establishment, grocery, or any other type of retail, manufacturing, or distribution establishment.
(2) “Deposit” means to throw, drop, discard, or place.
(3) “Litter” means garbage, trash, waste, rubbish, ashes, cans, bottles, wire, paper, cartons, boxes, automobile parts, furniture, glass, auxiliary containers, or anything else of an unsightly or unsanitary nature.
(4) “Litter receptacle” means a dumpster, trash can, trash bin, garbage can, or similar container in which litter is deposited for removal.
(e) This section may be enforced by any sheriff, deputy sheriff, police officer of a municipal corporation, police constable or officer of a township, or township or joint police district, wildlife officer designated under R.C. § 1531.13, natural resources officer appointed under R.C. § 1501.24, forest-fire investigator appointed under R.C. § 1503.09, conservancy district police officer, inspector of nuisances of a county, or any other law enforcement officer within the law enforcement officer’s jurisdiction.
(R.C. § 3767.32)
(f) Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. The sentencing court may, in addition to or in lieu of the penalty provided in this division, require a person who violates this section to remove litter from any public or private property or in or on waters of the State.
(ORC 3767.99(C))
(a) No person shall throw any filth, dirt, dead animal or carcass into, or in any other manner pollute, the water used in the waterworks of the City or any stream from which water is used by or in the waterworks, within the City or within twenty miles beyond the City limits.
(Adopting Ordinance)
(b) No person shall put any filth, shavings, dirt or substance into any plug, pipe, hydrant or reservoir or walk upon the turf around the reservoir or parks or grass plats planted around the pumping station, except those persons duly authorized to do so.
(Ord. 88. Passed 3-3-90.)
(c) 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. The penalty shall be as provided in Section 698.02.
(a) (1) No property owner, tenant or person having control of property within the City shall create or allow, directly or indirectly, dangerous conditions to exist on his premises.
(2) “Dangerous conditions,” as used in this section, means any open, unguarded or unprotected excavation or building which, when abandoned, left open or otherwise unprotected, will likely prove dangerous to life or limb; or any abandoned, open, uncovered or otherwise unprotected well, cesspool, cistern or catch basin.
(Ord. 1341. Passed 10-15-56.)
(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. The penalty shall be as provided in Section 698.02.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Section 660.17 was repealed by Ordinance 19-92, passed September 14, 1992. See Chapter 1443 of the Building and Housing Code.)
(a) The removal of red lanterns, barricades or other devices, placed on the streets and on public or private construction projects in the City as a warning or protection for the public, by persons unauthorized to remove the same, or the willful, careless or negligent destruction of the lanterns or barricades is hereby prohibited.
(Ord. 1341. Passed 10-15-56.)
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor and shall be subject to the penalty provided in Section 698.02.
(a) The owner of every lot or parcel of land in the City upon which a tree, plant, grass or shrubbery stands or grows shall conform to the provisions of this division.
(1) The owner shall trim or cause to be trimmed the tree, plant or shrubbery so that a clear height of eight feet between the lowest branches of the same and the street or sidewalk is maintained.
(2) The owner shall trim or remove, as the case may require, every dead, decayed or broken tree, plant or shrubbery or part thereof, so that the same shall not fall to the street or sidewalk.
(3) The owner shall cut down and remove any tree, plant or shrubbery or any part thereof, as may be necessary to provide a clear and unobstructed view of traffic from all directions at any street intersection, or to abate any nuisance necessary to protect life, limb or property, of drivers of any vehicles or pedestrians.
(4) The owner shall not cause grass, leaves, trees, plants or shrubbery to fall into the street or onto the sidewalk.
(b) The owner, occupant or person having the charge or management of any lot or parcel of land situated within the City, whether the same is improved or unimproved, vacant or occupied, within five days written notice to do so, served upon him in conformity with Ohio R.C. 731.51, shall cut or destroy or cause to be cut or destroyed any noxious or poisonous weeds, vines or grass growing upon any such lot or parcel of land, and prevent the same from blooming, going to seed or exceeding a height of eight inches.
(c) Whenever any tree, plant or shrubbery, or part thereof, or weeds and grass are growing in any street, public place or upon private property contiguous to a street, sidewalk or public place, and are trimmed or removed by the Municipality then, after the work is done, the Municipality shall give five days notice, by regular mail, to the owner of the lot or parcel of land, at his last known address, to pay the cost of the trimming or removal of such vegetation, which notice shall be accompanied by a statement of the amount of cost incurred. In the event the same is not paid within thirty days after the mailing of the notice, then the amount shall be certified to the County Auditor for collection in the same manner as other taxes and assessments are collected. Such remedy shall be in addition to the penalty provided in division (d) of this section.
(Ord. 1341. Passed 10-15-56; Ord. 22-01. Passed 10-8-01; Ord. 24-04. Passed 11-22-04.)
(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. The penalty shall be as provided in Section 698.02.
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