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(a) No property owner, tenant or person having control of property shall, directly or indirectly, create or allow a dangerous condition to exist on his or her premises. As used in this section, "dangerous condition" means any open, unguarded or unprotected excavation or building which, when abandoned or left open or otherwise unprotected, will likely prove dangerous to life or limb, or an abandoned, open, uncovered or otherwise unprotected well, cesspool, cistern or catch basin.
(b) No contractor or other person shall leave unprotected, unguarded or without proper lighting any hole, excavation, pile of dirt, trucks, equipment or other material in any street.
(c) The removal of, by an unauthorized person, or the willful, careless or negligent destruction of, a red or amber lantern, barricade or other object placed on streets and construction projects, whether public or private, as a warning or protection for the public, is prohibited.
(Ord. 178-1959. Passed 9-14-59.)
(d) 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) No person shall store, pile, deposit or place, or cause or permit to be stored, piled, deposited or placed, upon any sidewalk, any rubbish, wood, coal, boxes, barrels, merchandise, stone, brick, lumber, shipping cases, stands, signs, dirt or other obstructions of any kind.
(Ord. 7006. Passed 5-3-37.)
(b) No person shall dump or cause to be dumped upon a pavement or sidewalk, any heavy material in such a manner so that the force of the striking of such material upon the sidewalk or pavement will cause injury thereto by reason of the impact so caused, and no person shall release or cause to be released from a truck or other vehicle any load of material so as to cause any injury or damage to the sidewalk or pavement whereupon it is released.
(Ord. 3743. Passed 3-17-24.)
(c) In the transportation of any goods, materials or equipment across any sidewalk, efficient temporary planking shall be used to protect the sidewalk from breakage and such temporary planking shall be removed at the close of each working day and the surface of the sidewalk immediately cleaned and left in a passable condition.
(Ord. 178-1959. Passed 9-14-59.)
(d) No person shall be allowed to occupy with goods, wares or merchandise, sold or manufactured by such person, or cause to be offered for sale, any goods, wares or merchandise, upon any part of any sidewalk space in the City. "Sidewalk space" means that space generally and commonly used and designated as sidewalks for pedestrians. This division does not apply when the new buildings or structures come within the purview of Section 757.16 of the Business Regulation and Taxation Code.
(Ord. 132-1969. Passed 6-16-69.)
(e) 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) No person shall erect or maintain any fence charged with electrical current.
(b) No person shall erect or maintain a barbed wire fence which abuts or is adjacent to any public street or sidewalk. This division (b) does not prevent the placement and use of not more than two strands of barbed wire on top of a fence other than a barbed wire fence, provided such strands are not less than forty-eight inches from the ground.
(c) Barbed wire partition fences may be erected and maintained as provided in Ohio R.C. 971.03.
(d) Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first 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.
(a) The owner of any high-rise apartment building or elevator apartment house or elevator- equipped condominium building in the City shall provide the Police Department and the Fire Department of the City with an override key for the elevators in the high-rise apartment or elevator apartment house or elevator-equipped condominium building which will enable either the Police Department or the Fire Department to gain immediate access to the elevators, which shall be functioning at all times, and during times of emergency within the high-rise apartment building or elevator apartment house or elevator-equipped condominium building.
(Ord. 63-1971. Passed 3-15-71; Ord. 51-2012. Passed 5-7-12.)
(b) Whoever violates or fails to comply with this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree and shall be subject to the penalty provided in Section 599.02.
(a) Every building containing four or more dwelling units shall be provided with self-locking doors at every entranceway providing access to each dwelling unit from any hallway or other common area, and self-locking and self-closing doors at every entranceway providing access to each building from the exterior thereof, except as provided in division (b) of this section.
(b) Except in wood frame detached buildings, every building containing four or more dwelling units shall be provided with either self-closing and self-locking main entranceway doors to the exterior thereof, which shall be opened only by a key from the outside and by an electrical control system operable from each dwelling unit, or a doorman at the main entranceway door to the exterior thereof.
(c) All locks, self-locking and self-closing doors and electrical control systems, such as buzzers, bells or intercom systems, shall be maintained in good and operable condition at all times.
(Ord. 100-1971. Passed 5-3-71.)
(d) Every building containing four or more dwelling units constructed after the effective date of this division (Ordinance 284-1974, passed November 4, 1974), and every building containing four or more dwelling units within six months after such effective date, shall be provided with dead-bolt locks with external key mechanisms on each apartment suite entrance door located within the dwelling unit, which shall be maintained in good and operable condition at all times.
(Ord. 284-1974. Passed 11-4-74.)
(e) Whoever violates or fails to comply with 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.
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Section 559.09 was repealed by Ordinance No. 60-2014, passed May 19, 2014. For provisions regarding curtailment of water use during a declared water emergency, see Section 921.25.)