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(a) Unless specifically authorized by the Mayor or his designee, no person shall knowingly do any of the following:
(1) Damage, cut, carve, top, transplant or remove any public tree or shrub;
(2) Attach any rope or wire (other than one used to support a young or broken tree), nails, posters or other contrivance to any public tree or shrub;
(3) Allow any gaseous liquid or solid substance which is harmful to such public trees or shrubs to come in contract with them;
(4) Set fire or permit fire to burn any public tree or shrub when such fire or heat will injure any portion of such public tree or shrub;
(5) Excavate any ditches, tunnels, trenches, driveway, sidewalk or alley within a radius of ten feet of any public tree or shrub;
(6) Deposit, place, store or maintain upon any street or public property of the City any stone, brick, sand, concrete, or other materials which may impede the free passage of water, air or fertilizer to the roots of any tree or shrub growing therein.
(b) As used in this section:
(1) “Person” means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
(2) “Property line” means the line between the outer edge of a street or highway and the abutting real estate.
(3) “Public property” shall include all other grounds owned by the City of Galion, including parks.
(4) “Public tree or shrub” means a tree or shrub growing on a treelawn or any public places.
(5) “Shrub” means a low growing woody plant with one or several perennial main stems producing branches, shoots, or multiple stems from or near the base of the plant and incapable of being pruned to provide at least six feet of clear branchless trunk within five years of planting.
(6) “Street” or “highway” are synonymous and mean the entire width of every public way, easement or right-of-way, between the property lines, when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for the purpose of vehicular and/or pedestrian traffic, and includes alleys.
(7) “Tree” means a tall growing woody plant with one or more perennial main stems or trunk which develops branches from the aerial section of the stem rather than the base; capable of being pruned to provide at least six feet of clear branchless trunk below the crown within five years of planting.
(8) “Treelawn” means that part of a street or highway, lying between the property line and that portion of the street or highway usually used for vehicular traffic. This definition includes curb strips, but also any other unpaved street right-of-way, whether or not a sidewalk is present, and regardless of a sidewalk’s location.
(9) “Top” or “Topping” means a severe cutting back of limbs to stubs larger than three inches in a diameter within the tree’s crown to such a degree as to remove the normal canopy and disfigure the tree. Trees severely damaged by storms or other causes or certain trees under utility wires or other obstructions where other pruning practices are impractical may be exempted from this chapter at the determination of the Mayor or his designee.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(Ord. 95-6135. Passed 4-25-95.)
(a) No person, without privilege to do so, shall purposely deface, damage, pollute or otherwise physically mistreat any of the following:
(1) The flag of the United States or of this State;
(2) Any public monument;
(3) Any historical or commemorative marker, or any structure, Indian mound or earthwork, cemetery, thing or site of great historical or archeological interest;
(4) A work of art or museum piece;
(5) Any other object of reverence or sacred devotion.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of desecration, a misdemeanor of the second degree.
(c) As used in this section, “cemetery” means any place of burial and includes burial sites that contain American Indian burial objects placed with or containing American Indian human remains. (ORC 2927.11)
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of ethnic intimidation. Ethnic intimidation is an offense of the next higher degree than the offense the commission of which is a necessary element of ethnic intimidation.
(ORC 2927.12)
(a) No person shall paint, print, paste, stencil or otherwise mark, place upon or affix to any buildings, including houses, fence, wall, door knobs or doors, vehicle, post, pole, tree, billboard, sidewalk or street, or other similar structure, whether public or private, without the consent of the owner, lessee or agent in charge, a word, letter, character, figure, sentence or device, or a handbill, notice, advertisement, sign or poster.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(a) No person shall enter or remain on the lands within any City owned park, including all reservoirs and all land adjacent to such reservoirs, during the hours such parks and reservoirs are closed from 11:00 p.m. until 5:00 a.m. daily.
(b) No person shall park, permit to be parked, or leave parked, any vehicle on the lands or streets within any City owned park, including all reservoirs and all land adjacent to such reservoirs, during the hours such parks and reservoirs are closed from 11:00 p.m. until 5:00 a.m. daily.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(Ord. 91-5884. Passed 4-9-91.)
(a) Possession of a glass bottle in any public park owned by the City, is prohibited, except that thermos bottles or thermos jugs, which if broken or damaged will contain all glass particles within the outer shell of such bottles or jugs are permitted.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(Ord. 81-5133. Passed 11-3-81.)
(a) No person, without privilege to do so, shall cause damage, injury or destruction to any water or sewage lines or other utility service equipment of the Municipality.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
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