Section
412.01 Placing injurious material or obstruction in street
412.02 Zones of quiet
412.03 Play streets
412.04 Toy vehicles on roadway
412.05 Freeway use prohibited by pedestrians, bicycles and animals
412.06 Use of personal recreation equipment on public rights-of-way
412.07 Parades; permit required
412.08 Temporary and special uses of public ways and City property
412.99 Penalty
Cross-reference:
Loads dropping or leaking; tracking mud; removal required, see § 440.06
Parking in alleys or narrow streets; exceptions, see § 452.12
Selling, washing or repairing vehicle upon roadway, see § 452.09
Sidewalk obstructions; damage or injury, see § 660.08
Statutory reference:
Power to regulate processions or assemblages, see R.C. § 4511.07
(a) (1) No person shall place or knowingly drop upon any part of a highway, lane, road, street or alley any tacks, bottles, wire, glass, nails or other articles which may damage or injure any person, vehicle or animal traveling along or upon the highway, except such substances that may be placed upon the roadway by proper authority for the repair or construction thereof.
(2) Any person who drops or permits to be dropped or thrown upon any highway any destructive or injurious material shall immediately remove the same.
(3) Any person authorized to remove a wrecked or damaged vehicle from a highway shall remove any glass or other injurious substance dropped upon the highway from the vehicle.
(4) No person shall place any obstruction in or upon a highway without proper authority.
(b) No person, with intent to cause physical harm to a person or a vehicle, shall place or knowingly drop upon any part of a highway, lane, road, street or alley any tacks, bottles, wire, glass, nails or other articles which may damage or injure any person, vehicle or animal traveling along or upon the highway, except substances that may be placed upon the roadway by proper authority for the repair or construction thereof.
(c) (1) Except as otherwise provided in this division, whoever violates division (a) of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. If, within one year of the offense, the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to one predicate motor vehicle or traffic offense, whoever violates division (a) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. If, within one year of the offense, the offender previously has been convicted of two or more predicate motor vehicle or traffic offenses, whoever violates division (a) is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(2) Whoever violates division (b) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(R.C. § 4511.74)
Whenever authorized signs are erected indicating that any street or part thereof is a play street, no person shall drive a vehicle upon any such street or portion thereof except drivers of vehicles having business or whose residences are within the closed area and then the drivers shall exercise the greatest care in driving upon any such street or portion thereof.
(1956 Code Sec. 725.03)
No person riding upon any coaster, roller skates, sled, toy vehicle or other similar device shall go upon any roadway except while crossing a street on a crosswalk, and when so crossing the person shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to pedestrians. This section shall not apply to any street set aside as a play street.
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