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(a) No person shall loiter or prowl in any public or private place at a time, in a manner or under circumstances which warrant alarm for the safety of persons or security of property in the surrounding area. Without limitation, the following circumstances may be considered in determining whether such alarm is warranted:
(1) The flight of a person upon the appearance of a police officer;
(2) Attempted concealment by a person upon the appearance of a police officer; and
(3) The systematic checking by a person of doors, windows or other means of access to buildings, houses or vehicles.
(b) Unless flight by the actor or other circumstances make it impracticable, a police officer shall, prior to any arrest for an offense under this section, afford the actor an opportunity to dispel any alarm which would otherwise be warranted, by requesting him to identify himself and explain his presence and conduct. No person shall be convicted of an offense under this section if the police officer did not comply with the preceding sentence, or if it appears at trial that the explanation given by the actor was true, and if believed by the police officer at the time, would have dispelled the alarm.
(c) For the purposes of this section:
(1) “Loitering” includes the following activities: lingering, hanging around, delaying, sauntering and moving slowly about, where such conduct is not due to physical defects or conditions.
(2) “Private place” means a place privately owned but open to the public generally, such as a shopping center, a retail store, a transportation terminal, a movie theater, an office building, a restaurant, and all distinctly private places such as homes or private residences and apartment houses.
(3) “Public place” means a public street and alleyway, a public restroom, a public sidewalk, a public park, a public building and a municipal airport.
(4) “Surrounding area” means that area easily and immediately accessible to the person under observation.
(d) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor and shall be subject to the penalty provided in Section 698.02.
(a) No person shall generate or permit to be generated unreasonable noise or loud sound which is likely to cause inconvenience or annoyance to persons of ordinary sensibilities, by means of a radio, phonograph, television, tape player, compact disc player, loudspeaker or any other sound-amplifying device, or by a horn, drum, piano or other musical or percussion instrument. It is prima-facie unlawful for a person to generate or permit to be generated sound by the above-described devices or instruments in the following circumstances:
(1) On private property between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. of the following day where the sound is audible more than 60 feet from the source of the sound;
(2) In two-family and multifamily dwellings between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. of the following day where the sound is audible beyond the confines of the unit from where the source of the sound is generated; or
(3) On a street or highway or in the public right of way where the sound is audible 60 feet from the device generating the sound. Persons in possession of a current permit or engaged in activities of a school are exempt from the provisions of this division.
(b) No person, who is the owner of a premises, or a person in possession of a premises, or a person in control of a premises by reason of employment, agency or otherwise, whether such ownership, possession or control is exclusive or joint, shall permit a violation of this section.
(c) Warning and alarm devices which have the purpose of signaling unsafe or dangerous situations, or calling for police, are exempt from the prohibitions of this section, when used for such purposes.
(d) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a using unreasonable sound- amplifying devices, a minor misdemeanor, except that if the offender persists in such violation after reasonable warning or request to desist, he or she is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. The penalty shall be as provided in Section 698.02.
(Ord. 15-94. Passed 9-12-94.)
(a) No person shall knowingly engage in conduct designed to urge or incite another to commit any offense of violence when either of the following apply:
(1) The conduct takes place under circumstances that create a clear and present danger that any offense of violence will be committed.
(2) The conduct proximately results in the commission of any offense of violence.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of inciting to violence. If the offense of violence that the other person is being urged or incited to commit is a misdemeanor, inciting to violence is a misdemeanor of the first degree. If the offense of violence that the other person is being urged or incited to commit is a felony, inciting to violence is a felony to be prosecuted under appropriate State law.
(ORC 2917.01)
(a) No person, without privilege to do so, shall recklessly obstruct any highway, street, sidewalk, or any other public passage in such a manner as to render the highway, street, sidewalk, or passage impassable without unreasonable inconvenience or hazard if both of the following apply:
(1) The obstruction prevents an emergency vehicle from accessing a highway or street, prevents an emergency service responder from responding to an emergency, or prevents an emergency vehicle or an emergency service responder from having access to an exit from an emergency.
(2) Upon receipt of a request or order from an emergency service responder to remove or cease the obstruction, the person refuses to remove or cease the obstruction.
(b) Division (a) of this section does not limit or affect the application of R.C. § 2921.31 or any other section of the Ohio Revised Code. Any conduct that is a violation of division (a) of this section and that also is a violation of R.C. § 2921.31 or any other section of the Ohio Revised Code may be prosecuted under this section, the other section of the Ohio Revised Code, or both sections.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of unlawfully impeding public passage of an emergency service responder, a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(d)
As used in this section, “emergency service responder” has the same meaning as in R.C. § 2903.13.
(R.C. § 2917.14)