CHAPTER 312
Obstruction and Special Uses of Public Ways

312.01   Placing injurious material or obstruction in street.

312.02   Zones of quiet.

312.03   Play streets.

312.04   Toy vehicles on roadway.

312.05   Freeway use prohibited by pedestrians, bicycles and
   animals.

312.06   Parades and assemblages.

312.99   Penalty.

CROSS REFERENCES

   See section histories for similar State law

   Power to regulate processions or assemblages - see

      Ohio R.C. 4511.07

   Loads dropping or leaking; tracking mud; removal
      required - see TRAF. 340.06

   Selling, washing or repairing vehicle upon roadway -
      see TRAF. 352.08

   Parking in alleys or narrow streets; exceptions - see
      TRAF. 352.11

   Sidewalk obstructions; damage or injury - see
      GEN. OFF. 560.10

312.01 PLACING INJURIOUS MATERIAL OR OBSTRUCTION IN STREET.

   (a)   No person shall place or knowingly drop upon any part of a street, highway 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 street, 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 street any noxious, destructive or injurious material shall immediately remove the same.

   (c)   Any person authorized to remove a wrecked or damaged vehicle from a street shall remove any glass or other injurious substance dropped upon the street from such vehicle.

   (d)   No person shall place any tree, plant, shrub, rock, fence or other object, structure or obstruction in, upon or within the boundaries of any street without proper authority or approval.

(Ord. 2136. Passed 11-12-84.)

   (e)   (1)   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(A), (B))

      (2)   Whoever violates division (e)(2) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

         (ORC 4511.74(C))

312.02 ZONES OF QUIET.

   Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating a zone of quiet, no person operating a vehicle within any such zone shall sound the horn or other warning device of such vehicle except in an emergency.

312.03 PLAY STREETS.

   Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating that 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.