(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) No person, being the owner, agent of the owner, occupant or person in charge of any dwelling, apartment house, room, factory, store, shop, stable, barn, poultry yard or other building or premises, shall cause or permit the same or any area appurtenant thereto to become foul, nauseous or offensive or to remain in an unclean or unsanitary condition by reason of the accumulation thereon of dirt, filth, rubbish, garbage or similar matter, or by reason of defective or inadequate drainage, toilet facilities, plumbing or ventilation as is likely to cause illness among the occupants thereof or cause injury to the health, comfort or property of individuals or the public. No person shall neglect or fail to abate or remove such condition within the time specified in a written order given by the Lima-Allen County Health Commissioner or a person acting in such capacity.
(Ord. 144-53. Passed 9-14-53.)
(f) No person shall throw, cast or deposit, or cause to be thrown, cast or deposited, into any stream, river, ditch, lake, pond or reservoir located within the corporate limits or those bodies of water outside the corporate limits which are owned by the City, any garbage, rubbish, brush, trees, grass clippings, leaves, building materials, ashes, earth, animal substance or any other offensive substance.
(Ord. 84-70. Passed 5-4-70.)
(g) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(R.C. § 3767.99(C))