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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 dwelling, building, structure or place, or which activity, by occasioning noxious exhalations or noisome or offensive smells, becomes injurious to the health, comfort or property of individuals or of the public. 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. 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 such watercourse from its natural course or state to the injury or prejudice of others.
(ORC 3767.13)
(a) As used in this section, "debris" includes junk cars; used or unused building materials, including, but not limited to, lumber, bricks, concrete blocks and steel beams; mounds of dirt; and piles of scrap metal.
(b) Any person having on his or her premises any debris within 1,000 feet of the nearest edge of the right of way of a State, City or County highway shall situate the debris so that the view thereof from the road is obscured by natural objects or a fence.
(c) The fence shall be a barrier at least six feet in height constructed of nontransparent material and maintained so as to obscure the debris from the ordinary view of persons passing upon the State, City or County highway.
(d) Any fence constructed under the provisions of this section shall be neatly constructed and shall be kept in good order and repair and no advertisement shall be permitted thereon.
(Ord. 133-1971. Passed 6-7-71.)
(a) It shall be the duty of the owner of each and every parcel of real estate in the City abutting upon any sidewalk to keep such sidewalk abutting his or her premises free and clear of snow and ice, and to remove therefrom all snow and ice accumulated thereon within a reasonable time, which will ordinarily not exceed twelve hours after the abatement of any storm during which such snow and ice may have accumulated.
(Ord. 178-1959. Passed 9-14-59.)
(b) Every owner, occupant or person having charge of any tenement, building, lot or land fronting upon any avenue, street, alley or other public highway of the City, shall keep the entire width of such sidewalk, from curb to lot line, free and clear of all earth, sand, brick, stone, rubbish, dead trees and dead branches of trees, or other material which from any cause whatever shall have accumulated or may accumulate upon such sidewalk above the established grade of the same, and shall also cut and remove from the sidewalk between the lot and curb line all weeds, grass and vegetable growths that are more than four inches in height.
(c) Should any property owner fail to clean the sidewalk of objectionable snow or ice in conformity with this section, the Service Director or Commissioner of Building and Housing, or their designee, shall have it done at the expense of the owner. The cost of the cleaning shall constitute a lien on the property and shall be paid by the owner to the Finance Director. If it is not paid within ten days from the time it was reported to the owner, the Service Director or Commissioner of Building and Housing shall certify the cost, together with a penalty of 5% thereon, to the County Auditor, who shall collect the same in the same manner as other taxes are collected.
(Ord. 5084. Passed 2-15-26; Ord. 2-2006. Passed 1-3-06.)
It shall be the duty of the owner to make any building, structure, dwelling or premises reasonably vermin proof and to exterminate as required by the rules and regulations of the Board of Health or orders of the Board or Commissioner of Health. Such rules, regulations or orders may provide for the control and elimination of infestation by eliminating harboring places, removing or making inaccessible materials that may serve as food, and pest control by poisoning, spraying, trapping, fumigation by a licensed fumigator or any other recognized effective pest-elimination procedure.
Whenever any dwelling, building, structure, excavation, business pursuit, matter, condition or thing, in or about a building or any premises, or the plumbing, sewerage, drainage, lighting or ventilation thereof, is found by the Commissioner of Health to be dangerous or detrimental to life or health, the Commissioner of Health may order that the matter, condition or thing be removed, abated, suspended, altered or otherwise improved, as his or her order shall specify.
If any order of the Commissioner of Health, issued under the authority of the provisions of this chapter, is not complied with within ten days after the service thereof, or within such shorter time as he or she may designate as being necessary under the circumstances, then such order may be executed by the Commissioner of Health, through his or her officers, agents, employees or contractors. The expense incurred incident to such order shall be paid by the owner of such property, or the Commissioner of Health may order the premises vacated, provided, however, that when, in the opinion of the Commissioner of Health, such matter, condition or thing is in a state of nuisance which constitutes an immediate menace to health, he or she shall proceed forthwith to cause such nuisance to be abated, but in such case the owner shall not be liable for the expenses of such abatement unless a notice, as hereinbefore provided, has been issued.
(Ord. 8075. Passed 7-16-45.)
(a) No owner shall shut off any utilities furnished, supplied, paid for or under the control of the owner, for any occupied dwelling unit, except where such interruption of utility service is necessary while in the actual process of making repairs or during temporary emergencies for which repairs are being arranged.
(b) It shall be the duty of the owner to provide a safe water supply for each occupied dwelling or dwelling unit.
(c) It shall be the duty of every person who has contracted or undertaken, or is obligated to heat or to furnish heat for any building or portion thereof occupied as a home or place of residence of one or more persons, or as a business establishment when one or more persons are employed, to heat, or to furnish heat for every occupied room in such building or portion thereof, so that a minimum temperature of sixty-eight degrees Fahrenheit may be maintained therein at all such times when so occupied. Whenever a building is heated by means of a heating unit under the control of the owner or his or her agent, such owner or agent, in the absence of a written or verbal contract to the contrary, shall be deemed to have contracted, undertaken or obligated himself or herself to furnish heat in accordance with this section, provided, however, that between the hours commencing at 10:00 p.m. and ending at 6:00 a.m. in a building occupied as a dwelling or place of residence, a minimum temperature shall be maintained of at least fifty degrees Fahrenheit, and provided, further, that nothing herein with respect to heating shall apply to buildings or portions thereof used and occupied by trades, businesses or occupations where high or low temperatures are essential and unavoidable.
(Ord. 8075. Passed 7-16-45.)
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