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PART ONE - ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
PART THREE - TRAFFIC CODE
PART FIVE - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
CHAPTER 501 General Provisions and Penalty
CHAPTER 503 Advertising and Billposting
CHAPTER 505 Animals and Fowl
CHAPTER 509 Disorderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
CHAPTER 511 Mass Gatherings Prohibited During Health Emergency (Repealed)
CHAPTER 513 Drug Abuse Control
CHAPTER 517 Gambling
CHAPTER 521 Health, Safety and Sanitation
CHAPTER 523 Clandestine Drug Labs
CHAPTER 525 Law Enforcement and Public Office
CHAPTER 527 Illegal Distribution of Cigarettes, Other Tobacco Products,
CHAPTER 529 Liquor Control
CHAPTER 533 Obscenity and Sex Offenses
CHAPTER 537 Offenses Against Persons
CHAPTER 541 Property Offenses
CHAPTER 543 Registration of Felons
CHAPTER 545 Theft and Fraud
CHAPTER 549 Weapons and Explosives
CHAPTER 551 Weeds and Grass
CHAPTER 553 Railroads
CHAPTER 555 Fair Employment Practices
CHAPTER 557 Fair Housing Practice
CHAPTER 559 Emergency Alarms
CHAPTER 561 Criminal Activity Nuisances
PART SEVEN - BUSINESS REGULATION CODE.
PART NINE - STREETS, UTILITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART ELEVEN - PLANNING AND ZONING CODE
PART THIRTEEN - BUILDING CODE
PART FOURTEEN - PROPERTY MAINTENANCE AND HOUSING CODE
PART FIFTEEN - FIRE PREVENTION CODE
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521.13 NUISANCES DEFINED.
   Unsheltered storage for the period of seventy two hours or more, except in licensed junk yards, of unlicensed, unused, stripped, junked and/or other motor vehicles not in good and/or safe operating condition and of any other vehicles, machinery, implements and/or equipment and personal property of any kind which is no longer safely usable for the purposes for which it was manufactured, including but not limited to rugs, rags or other material located on such premises, which materials are not being used for general household or housekeeping purposes, that is broken furniture or upholstered furniture not designed or sold for outdoor use, mattresses or other household furnishings, nonusable appliance, automobile parts, plastic materials, paints, miscellaneous coverings and/or other materials which, hereinafter are collectively described as "personally" within the corporate limits of this City, is hereby declared to be a nuisance.
(Ord. 1988-1. Passed l-6-88.)
 
521.14 PROCEEDINGS FOR ABATEMENT OF NUISANCES. (REPEALED)
   (EDITOR’S NOTE: Former Section 521.14 was repealed by Ordinance 2004-120, passed September 15, 2004. See Chapter 119 for relevant provisions.)
521.15 SNOW AND ICE REMOVAL.
   (a)    The owner, occupant or other person having the care of any building, premises or
unimproved lot of land abutting any street where there is a graded sidewalk or a sidewalk graded and paved shall, within the first twenty four hours after daylight after any snow ceases to fall, cause the same to be removed from the paved or traveled part of such sidewalk. The provisions of this section shall also apply to the falling of snow or ice from any building or from any other source onto a sidewalk.
   (b)    Snow or ice shall not be moved into the gutter when the gutter has been previously cleaned, and in no event shall snow or ice from any area other than the pedestrian walk be moved in the gutter.
   (c)    Whenever a sidewalk or any part thereof along any building, premises or unimproved lot of land is encumbered with ice, the owner, occupant or other person having the care of such premises or lot, shall cause such sidewalk to be made safe and convenient by removing the ice therefrom, or by covering the same with sand or other suitable substance.
   (d)    In the event the owner, occupant or person having the care of any building, premises or unimproved lot within the City, fails to comply with the provisions of subsection (a) hereof the Director of Service is authorized to cause such sidewalk to be made safe by removal of snow or ice therefrom, or by covering the same with sand or other suitable substance as the Director may determine at his/her discretion.
   (e)    After completion of the work, as authorized in subsection (d) hereof, the Director of Service shall give five days notice by certified mail to the owner of such land, at his/her last known address, to pay the cost of the removal of such snow or ice, or of the covering of the same with sand or other suitable substance. This notice shall be accompanied by a statement of the amount of cost incurred, and that in the event the cost of this work is not paid within five days after the mailing of such notice, then this amount shall be certified to the County Auditor for collection the same as other taxes and assessments are collected.
(Ord. 1976-20. Passed 2-18-76.)
521.16 SNOW AND ICE REMOVAL AFFECTING PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAYS.
   (a)    No owner or occupant or other person having the responsibility of removal, or the person who actually removes the snow from any building, premises or improved or unimproved lot abutting any street, shall remove snow and ice from the premises of said property so as to cause an obstruction in the travel or parking lane of any abutting street, or to cause a view obstruction on the abutting roadway, or at ingress or egress points to the roadway, or to cause obstruction to pedestrian travel on the sidewalks. Said actions are hereby declared to be a public nuisance and civil offense.
(Ord. 2009-115. Passed 10-21-09).
521.17 DEAD TREES AND BRANCHES.
   (a)   No owner or occupant of any premises shall permit a dead tree or any dead portion of a tree to stand so near to a public sidewalk or roadway as to endanger users thereof, should all or part of it fall. No such owner or occupant shall permit a dead branch to overhand a public sidewalk or roadway. (Ord. 2002-78. Passed 8-14-02.)
521.18 SWEEPING LEAVES AND GRASS INTO GUTTERS PROHIBITED.
   No person shall sweep into or deposit in any gutter, street or other public place within the City the accumulation of leaves or grass clippings from any building or lot or from the public sidewalks. Said actions are hereby declared to be a public nuisance and civil offense.
(Ord. 2018-123. Passed 11-14-18.)
521.19 SPREADING CONTAGION.
   (a)   No person, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the person has a dangerous, contagious disease, shall knowingly fail to take reasonable measures to prevent exposing self to other persons, except when seeking medical aid.
   (b)   No person, having charge or care of a person whom the person having charge or care knows or has reasonable cause to believe has a dangerous, contagious disease, shall recklessly fail to take reasonable measures to protect others from exposure to the contagion, and to inform health authorities of the existence of the contagion.
   (c)   No person, having charge of a public conveyance or place of public accommodation, amusement, resort or trade, and knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that persons using such conveyance or place have been or are being exposed to a dangerous, contagious disease, shall negligently fail to take reasonable measures to protect the public from exposure to the contagion, and to inform health authorities of the existence of the contagion.
(ORC 3701.81)
   (d)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree.
(ORC 3701.99(C))
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