CHAPTER 311
Obstruction and Special Uses of Public Ways
311.01   Placing injurious material, obstruction or snow in street.
311.02   Zones of quiet.
311.03   Play streets.
311.04   Toy vehicles, skateboards, etc., on streets.
311.05   Freeway use prohibited by pedestrians, bicycles and animals.
311.06   Parades and assemblages.
311.07   Games on streets.
   CROSS REFERENCES
   See section histories for similar State law
   Power to regulate processions or assemblages - see Ohio R.C. 4511.07
   Dropping, shifting tracking mud; removal required - see TRAF. 339.06
   Selling or repairing vehicle upon roadway - see TRAF. 351.08
   Parking in alleys or narrow streets; exceptions - see TRAF. 351.11
   Sidewalk obstructions; damage or injury - see GEN. OFF. 559.05
311.01 PLACING INJURIOUS MATERIAL, OBSTRUCTION OR SNOW IN STREET.
   (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 the highway, except such substances that may be placed upon the roadway by proper authority for the repair or construction thereof.
   (b)   Any person who drops or permits to be dropped or thrown upon any highway any destructive or injurious material shall immediately remove the same.
   (c)   Any person authorized to remove a wrecked or damaged vehicle from a highway shall remove any glass or other injurious substance dropped upon the highway from such vehicle.
   (d)   No person shall place any obstruction in or upon a highway without proper authority.
   (e)   No person, with intent to cause physical harm to a person or a 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.
(ORC 4511.74)
   (f)   No person, acting on his or her own behalf or on behalf of another, shall shovel, plow or in any manner move snow onto any street.
   (g)   Whoever violates division (e) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(ORC 4511.99(J))
311.02 ZONES OF QUIET.
   Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating a zone of quiet, no person operating a motor vehicle within any such zone shall sound the horn or other warning device of such vehicle except in an emergency.
Penalty - see Sections 307.01 and 307.02
311.03 PLAY STREETS.
   Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating any street or part thereof is a play street, no person shall drive a vehicle upon any such street or portion thereof, except drivers of vehicles having business or whose residences are within such closed area, and then such drivers shall exercise the greatest care in driving upon any such street or portion thereof.
Penalty - see Sections 307.01 and 307.02
311.04 TOY VEHICLES, SKATEBOARDS, ETC., ON STREETS.
   No person on roller skates or a skateboard, or riding in or by means of any sled, toy vehicle or similar device, shall go upon any roadway except while crossing a street on a crosswalk and except on streets set aside as play streets.
(Ord. 181-1988. Passed 8-2-88.)
Penalty - see Sections 307.01 and 307.02
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