§ 139.04 MAINTAINING A NUISANCE.
   (A)   No person shall erect, continue to use or maintain a building, structure, or place for the exercise of a trade, employment, or business, or for keeping or feeding an animal which, by occasioning noxious exhalations or noisome or offensive smells, becomes injurious to the health, comfort, or property of individuals or of the public. No person shall cause or allow offal, filth, or noisome substances to be collected or remain in any place to the damage or prejudice of others, or of the public. No person shall unlawfully obstruct or impede the passage of a navigable river, harbor, or collection of water, or corrupt or render unwholesome or impure, a watercourse, stream, or water, or unlawfully divert such watercourse from its natural course or state to the injury or prejudice of others.
   (B)   Whoever violates this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(R.C. §§ 3767.13, 3767.99)