§ 97.02 DUMPING.
   (A)   No person shall dump any waste or other refuse in an amount in excess of five pounds upon any public or private property or waters. DUMPING includes, but is not limited to, discarding, dropping, placing, throwing, depositing or dispensing. WASTE includes, but is not limited to, garbage, trash, dead animals, junk, tires, used automobile parts, used building materials, used oil, used chemicals and any other similar substances, human-made or otherwise, serving no function use for which the same was intended at the location where it is dumped or which may become noxious, offensive, injurious or dangerous to the public health, comfort or safety.
   (B)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(Prior Code, § 660.03) (Ord. 91-17, passed 6-11-1991)
§ 97.03 NOXIOUS ODORS; FILTHY ACCUMULATIONS; POLLUTING AND DIVERTING WATERCOURSES.
   (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.
   (B)   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.
   (C)   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 of water or unlawfully divert the watercourse from its natural course or state to the injury or prejudice of others.
   (D)   Persons who are engaged in agriculture-related activities, as AGRICULTURE is defined in R.C. § 519.01, and who are conducting those activities outside the municipality, in accordance with generally accepted agricultural practices, and in such a manner so as not to have a substantial, adverse effect on the public health, safety or welfare, are exempt from divisions (A) and (B) above and from any ordinances, resolutions, rules, or other enactments of the municipality that prohibit excessive noise.
(R.C. § 3767.13)
   (E)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(R.C. § 3767.99(C))
(Prior Code, § 660.04)