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Elyria, OH Code of Ordinances
CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF ELYRIA, OHIO
DIRECTORY OF OFFICIALS (2024)
PRELIMINARY UNIT
CHARTER OF THE CITY OF ELYRIA, OHIO
PART ONE - ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
PART THREE - TRAFFIC CODE
PART FIVE - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
CHAPTER 501 General Provisions and Penalty
CHAPTER 505 Animals and Fowl
CHAPTER 509 Disorderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
CHAPTER 513 Drug Abuse Control
CHAPTER 517 Gambling
CHAPTER 521 Health, Safety and Sanitation
CHAPTER 525 Law Enforcement and Public Office
CHAPTER 529 Liquor Control
CHAPTER 533 Obscenity and Sex Offenses
CHAPTER 537 Offenses Against Persons
CHAPTER 541 Property Offenses
CHAPTER 545 Theft and Fraud
CHAPTER 549 Weapons and Explosives
CHAPTER 553 Trees, Weeds and Grasses
PART SEVEN - BUSINESS REGULATION CODE
PART NINE - STREETS AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART ELEVEN - PLANNING AND ZONING CODE
PART THIRTEEN - BUILDING CODE
PART FIFTEEN - FIRE PREVENTION CODE
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533.12 PANDERING OBSCENITY. (REPEALED)
   (EDITOR'S NOTE: Section 533.12 was repealed as part of the 1998 updating and revision of these Codified Ordinances because a violation of substantially equivalent State law (Ohio R.C. 2907.32) was made a felony by the Ohio General Assembly by Am. Sub. S.B. No. 2, effective July 1, 1996.)
533.13 DECEPTION TO OBTAIN MATTER HARMFUL TO JUVENILES.
   (a)   No person, for the purpose of enabling a juvenile to obtain any material or gain admission to any performance which is harmful to juveniles, shall do either of the following:
      (1)   Falsely represent that he or she is the parent, guardian, or spouse of the juvenile.
      (2)   Furnish the juvenile with any identification or document purporting to show that the juvenile is 18 years of age or over or married.
   (b)   No juvenile, for the purpose of obtaining any material or gaining admission to any performance which is harmful to juveniles, shall do either of the following:
      (1)   Falsely represent that he or she is 18 years of age or over or married.
      (2)   Exhibit any identification or document purporting to show that he or she is 18 years of age or over or married.
   (c)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of deception to obtain matter harmful to juveniles, a misdemeanor of the second degree. A juvenile who violates division (b) of this section shall be adjudged an unruly child, with the disposition of the case as may be appropriate under Ohio R.C. Chapter 2151.
(ORC 2907.33)
533.14 UNLAWFUL EXHIBITION OF HARMFUL PERFORMANCES AT OUTDOOR THEATERS.
   (a)   No person, having custody, control or supervision of any outdoor or drive-in motion picture theater or arena, with knowledge of the character of the performance involved, shall knowingly present, or participate in presenting, the exhibition of a performance which is harmful to juveniles upon any outdoor or drive-in motion picture theater or arena screen, when such screen is visible and the performance is visibly displayed, from a distance of less than 2,000 feet, from a public street, sidewalk, park, alley, residence, playground, school or other such place to which juveniles, as part of the general public or otherwise, have unrestrained and reasonably anticipated access and presence, except between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. of the following day, inclusive.
(Ord. 81-273. Passed 12-7-81.)
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
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