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(a) No person shall do any of the following:
(1) Initiate or circulate a report or warning of an alleged or impending fire, explosion, crime or other catastrophe, knowing that the report or warning is false and likely to cause public inconvenience or alarm;
(2) Knowingly cause a false alarm of fire or other emergency to be transmitted to or within any organization, public or private, for dealing with emergencies involving a risk of physical harm to persons or property;
(3) Report to any law enforcement agency an alleged offense or other incident within its concern, knowing that such offense did not occur.
(4) Initiate or circulate a report or warning of an alleged or impending fire, explosion, crime, or other catastrophe, knowing that the report or warning is false and likely to impede the operation of a critical infrastructure facility.
(b) This section does not apply to any person conducting an authorized fire or emergency drill.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of making false alarms, a misdemeanor of the first degree. If a violation of this section results in economic harm of one thousand dollars ($1,000) or more, or if a violation of this section pertains to a purported, threatened, or actual use of a weapon of mass destruction, making false alarms is a felony and shall be prosecuted under appropriate State law.
(d) Any act that is a violation of this section and any other section of the Codified Ordinances may be prosecuted under this section, the other section, or both sections.
(e) As used in this section:
(1) “Critical infrastructure facility” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2911.21.
(ORC 2917.32)
(a) No person shall disturb the good order and quiet of the Municipality by clamors or noises in the night season, by intoxication, drunkenness, fighting, quarreling, wrangling, committing assault, assault and battery, using obscene or profane language in the streets and other public places to the annoyance of the citizens, or otherwise violating the public peace by indecent and disorderly conduct, or by lewd and lascivious behavior, or by threatening or inflicting violence or abuse to the person or property of others. (ORC 715.55)
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(Ord. 1962-20. Passed 7-23-62.)
(a) No person shall generate or permit to be generated unreasonable noise or loud sound which is likely to cause inconvenience or annoyance to persons of ordinary sensibilities by means of a radio, phonograph, disc player, television, video or audio tape player, public address system, bullhorn, loudspeaker, automobile sound system, or any other device designed and/or utilized for the purpose of producing and/or amplifying sound, or by any horn, siren, drum or other musical or percussion instrument.
It is and shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of this section for any person to generate or to permit the generation of sound by any of the devices or instruments described above, under any of the following circumstances:
(1) On private property between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. of the following day in a predominantly residential area, or from property within a residential district established pursuant to the City Zoning Code, regardless of existing nonconforming use or variance, when the sound is audible more than eighty feet from the source of such sound, or the property line on which the sound is generated, whichever is the greater distance;
(2) On private property between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. of the following day in a commercial area established pursuant to the City Zoning Code, regardless of existing nonconforming use or variance, when the sound is audible more than eighty feet from the source of such sound, or the property line on which the sound is generated, whichever is the greater distance;
(3) On a street, highway or alley, within the public right of way , or in the parks or on other public property of the City where the sound is audible more than 100 feet from the device generating such sound, with the exception of the sound generated by or emanating from a parade licensed and permitted pursuant to City ordinances, an appropriate concert, public performance or gathering in the parks or on other public property of the City, or a lawful assembly or demonstration on a street, highway or alley, within the public right of way, or in the parks or on other public property of the City.
(b) No person, being the owner, or person in possession or control of a premises, or person in possession or control of a premises by reason of employment, agency or other relationship or status, whether such ownership, possession or control is exclusive, joint or several, shall permit a violation of this section.
(c) Warning and alarm devices which are designed and utilized to signal unsafe or dangerous situations, to call for or to summon police or emergency personnel, or which are utilized by appropriate law enforcement or emergency vehicles and their occupants in the performance of their duties and responsibilities are exempted from the prohibitions of this section.
(d) Whoever violates this section is guilty of generating unreasonable noise, the first offense of which shall be a minor misdemeanor. Each and every subsequent violation of this section shall be a misdemeanor of the fourth degree, and any violation of this section which persists after a law enforcement officer has made a reasonable request or warning to desist shall be a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(e) As to any violation of this section involving sound equipment in or upon a motor vehicle, such sound equipment is hereby deemed and declared to be a public nuisance and contraband subject to seizure and forfeiture pursuant to Ohio R.C. 2933.41 through 2933.43.
(Ord. 2017-24. Passed 6-27-17.)
(a) No person, without privilege to do so, shall recklessly obstruct any highway, street, sidewalk, or any other public passage in such a manner as to render the highway, street, sidewalk, or passage impassable without unreasonable inconvenience or hazard if both of the following apply:
(1) The obstruction prevents an emergency vehicle from accessing a highway or street, prevents an emergency service responder from responding to an emergency, or prevents an emergency vehicle or an emergency service responder from having access to an exit from an emergency.
(2) Upon receipt of a request or order from an emergency service responder to remove or cease the obstruction, the person refuses to remove or cease the obstruction.
(b) Subsection (a) of this section does not limit or affect the application of Ohio R.C. 2921.31 or any other section of the Ohio Revised Code. Any conduct that is a violation of subsection (a) of this section and that also is a violation of Ohio R.C. 2921.31 or any other section of the Ohio Revised Code may be prosecuted under this section, the other section of the Ohio Revised Code or both sections.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of unlawfully impeding public passage of an emergency service responder, a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(d) As used in this section, “emergency service responder” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2903.13. (ORC 2917.14)