559.01 Venting of heaters and burners.
559.02 Abandoned refrigerators and airtight containers.
559.03 Abandoned vehicles.
559.04 Dangerous, abandoned excavations or buildings; barricades and warning lights.
559.05 Sidewalk obstructions, damage or injury; sales or displays.
559.06 Fences.
559.07 Emergency use of elevators in high-rise apartment.
559.08 Locked doors in apartment buildings.
559.09 Restrictions on water use. (Repealed)
CROSS REFERENCES
See section histories for similar State law
Excavation liability - see Ohio R.C. 723.49 et seq.
Nuisances - see Ohio R.C. Ch. 3767
Placing injurious material or obstruction in street - see TRAF. 331.01
Safety and equipment for motor vehicles - see TRAF. Ch. 337
Loads dropping or leaking; tracking mud; removal required - see TRAF. 339.06
Willfully leaving vehicles on private or public property - see TRAF. 351.05
Animal nuisances - see GEN. OFF. 505.10 et seq.
Placing harmful substance or objects in food or confection - see GEN. OFF. 537.16
Riot - see GEN. OFF. 545.01 et seq.
Inducing panic - see GEN. OFF. 545.07
Weapons and explosives - see GEN. OFF. Ch. 571
(a) The use of a brazier, salamander, space heater, room heater, furnace, water heater, or other burner or heater using wood, coal, coke, fuel oil, kerosene, gasoline, natural gas, liquid petroleum gas or similar fuel, and tending to give off carbon monoxide or other harmful gases must comply with the following provisions;
(1) When used in living quarters, or in any enclosed building or space in which persons are usually present, shall be used with a flue or vent so designed, installed, and maintained as to vent the products of combustion outdoors; except in storage, factory, or industrial buildings which are provided with sufficient ventilation to avoid the danger of carbon monoxide poisoning.
(2) When used as a portable or temporary burner or heater at a construction site, or in a warehouse, shed, or structure in which persons are temporarily present, shall be vented as provided in division (a)(1) or used with sufficient ventilation to avoid the danger of carbon monoxide poisoning.
(b) This section does not apply to domestic ranges, laundry stoves, gas logs installed in a fireplace with an adequate flue, or hot plates, unless the same are used as space or room heaters.
(c) No person shall negligently use, or, being the owner, person in charge, or occupant of premises, negligently permit the use of a burner or heater in violation of the standards for venting and ventilation provided in this section.
(d) Division (a) above does not apply to any kerosene-fired space or room heater that is equipped with an automatic extinguishing tip-over device, or to any natural gas-fired or liquid petroleum gas-fired space or room heater that is equipped with an oxygen depletion safety shut-off system, and that has its fuel piped from a source outside the building in which it is located, that are approved by an authoritative source recognized by the State Fire Marshal in the State Fire Code adopted by him or her under Ohio R.C. 3737.82.
(e) The State Fire Marshal may make rules to ensure the safe use of unvented kerosene, natural gas, or liquid petroleum gas heaters exempted from division (a) above when used in assembly buildings, business buildings, high hazard buildings, institutional buildings, mercantile buildings, and type R-1 and R-2 residential buildings, as these groups of buildings are defined in rules adopted by the Board of Building Standards under Ohio R.C. 3781.10. No person shall negligently use, or, being the owner, person in charge or occupant of premises, negligently permit the use of a heater in violation of any rules adopted under this division.
(f) The State Fire Marshal may make rules prescribing standards for written instructions containing ventilation requirements and warning of any potential fire hazards that may occur in using a kerosene, natural gas, or liquid petroleum gas heater. No person shall sell or offer for sale any kerosene, natural gas, or liquid petroleum gas heater unless the manufacturer provides with the heater written instructions that comply with any rules adopted under this division.
(g) No product labeled as a fuel additive for kerosene heaters and having a flash point below 100°F or 37.8°C shall be sold, offered for sale, or used in any kerosene space heater.
(h) No device that prohibits any safety feature on a kerosene, natural gas, or liquid petroleum gas space heater from operating shall be sold, offered for sale, or used in connection with any kerosene, natural gas, or liquid petroleum gas space heater.
(i) No person shall sell or offer for sale any kerosene-fired, natural gas, or liquid petroleum gas-fired heater that is not exempt from division (a) above, unless it is marked conspicuously by the manufacturer on the container with the phrase "Not Approved For Home Use."
(j) No person shall use a cabinet-type, liquid petroleum gas-fired heater having a fuel source within the heater, inside any building, except as permitted by the State Fire Marshal in the State Fire Code adopted by him or her under Ohio R.C. 3737.82.
(ORC 3701.82)
(k) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(ORC 3701.99(B))
(a) No person shall abandon, discard, or knowingly permit to remain on premises under his or her control, in a place accessible to children, any abandoned or discarded icebox, refrigerator, or other airtight or semi-airtight container which has a capacity of 1½ cubic feet or more and an opening of 50 square inches or more and which has a door or lid equipped with a hinge, latch, or other fastening device capable of securing such door or lid, without rendering the equipment harmless to human life by removing such hinges, latches or other hardware which may cause a person to be confined therein. This section shall not apply to an icebox, refrigerator or other airtight or semi-airtight container located in that part of a building occupied by a dealer, warehouse official or repair technician.
(ORC 3767.29)
(b) All sellers of refrigerators, iceboxes or containers, which have an airtight door or lock which may not be released for opening from the inside, shall attach to such refrigerators, iceboxes or containers a statement which shall substantially set forth that it is unlawful to leave outside of any building or dwelling, in a place accessible to children, any abandoned, unattended or discarded icebox, refrigerator or other container, as described in division (a) of this section, without first removing the locks or doors from the icebox, refrigerator or container.
(Ord. 10237. Passed 1-18-54.)
(c) Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree and shall be subject to the penalty provided in Section 599.02.
(a) As used in this section:
(1) "Person" means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
(2) "Vehicle" means a machine propelled by power, other than human power, designed to travel along the ground by use of wheels, treads, runners or slides, and designed to transport persons or property or pull machinery, and includes, without limitation, an automobile, truck, trailer, motorcycle, tractor, buggy and wagon.
(3) "Street" and "highway" mean the entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained, where any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel.
(4) "Property" means any real property within the City which is not a street or highway.
(5) “Watercraft” means a vessel of any kind and description, including seaplanes, designed to be used as a means of transportation on water, whether powered by sail, mechanical or muscular effort.
(b) No person shall abandon any vehicle or watercraft within the City and no person shall leave any vehicle or watercraft in any place within the City for such time and under such circumstances as to cause such vehicle or watercraft reasonably to appear to have been abandoned.
(Ord. 188-1964. Passed 11-16-64.)
(c) No person in charge or control of any property within the City, whether as owner, tenant, occupant, lessee or otherwise, shall allow any partially dismantled, non-operating, wrecked, junked or discarded vehicle or watercraft to remain on any property within the City for a longer time than five days. No person shall allow any vehicle without license plates, or with plates that have been expired for more than thirty days, on any property within the City. No person shall allow any watercraft without current registration, if required, to be stored on any property within the City.
(d) Division (c) of this section shall not apply to a vehicle or watercraft in an enclosed building; a vehicle or watercraft on the premises of a business enterprise operated in a lawful place and manner, when necessary to the operation of such business enterprise, and provided that such business enterprise is being operated in a place and manner which complies with the Zoning Code and general ordinances of the City; or a vehicle or watercraft in an appropriate storage place or depository maintained in a lawful place and manner by the City.
(Ord. 137-1988. Passed 6-6-88.)
(e) The Chief of Police or any member of the Police Department designated by him or her, or the Commissioner of Zoning, is hereby authorized to remove or have removed any vehicle left in any place within the City which reasonably appears to be in violation of this section, or lost, stolen or unclaimed. Such vehicle shall be impounded until lawfully claimed or disposed of in accordance with the provisions of Ohio R.C. 737.32.
(Ord. 142-1966. Passed 8-8-66.)
(f) Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. 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 599.02.
(Ord. 91-2006. Passed 5-15-06.)
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