(a) (1) 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.
(2) 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.
(3) 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 such watercourse from its natural course or state to the injury or prejudice of others.
(4) 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 (1) and (2) above and from any ordinances, resolutions, rules, or other enactments of the municipality that prohibit excessive noise.
(R.C. § 3767.13)
(b) No person shall permit unsightly matter, in the form of refuse, rubbish, rubble, debris, clutter, rummage, waste, scrap or parts, to remain on any lot or land within the limits of the village, except those items permitted by existing regulations in commercial areas.
(c) Upon the filing of a written complaint with the village alleging a violation of any of the provisions of division (a) or (b) hereof, or upon the initiation of the Police Department, the Police Department shall notify the offender and give him or her notice to cease such prohibited activity within ten days from the date of said notice. If such activity is continued after such ten-day period, the Police Department may then initiate appropriate proceedings setting forth a violation of this section.
(d) (1) Whoever violates division (a) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(R.C. § 3767.99(C))
(2) Whoever violates division (b) of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor and shall be subject to the penalty provided in § 698.02. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
(`80 Code, § 660.04) (Ord. 1889, passed 10-15-90)