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CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF LIMA, OHIO
CHARTER OF THE CITY OF LIMA, OHIO
PART TWO - ADMINISTRATION CODE
PART FOUR - TRAFFIC CODE
PART SIX - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
PART EIGHT - BUSINESS REGULATION AND TAXATION CODE
PART TEN - STREETS, UTILITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART TWELVE - PLANNING AND ZONING CODE
PART FOURTEEN - BUILDING AND HOUSING CODE
PART SIXTEEN - FIRE PREVENTION CODE
PART EIGHTEEN - PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE
PART TWENTY - NUISANCE ABATEMENT
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§ 660.07 BARRICADES AND WARNING LIGHTS.
   (a)   No person shall abandon or knowingly permit to remain on public or private property, any excavation, well, cesspool or structure which is in the process of construction, reconstruction, repair or alteration unless the same is adequately protected by suitable barricades and guarded by warning devices or lights at night so that the condition will not reasonably prove dangerous to life or limb.
   (b)   No person shall destroy, remove, damage or extinguish any barricade or warning light that is placed for the protection of the public so as to prevent injury to life or limb.
   (c)   Any owner or agent in control of a premises upon which a basement, cellar, well or cistern has been abandoned due to demolition, failure to build or any other reason shall cause the same to be filled to the ground surface with rock, gravel, earth or other suitable material.
   (d)   Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
§ 660.08 SIDEWALK OBSTRUCTIONS; DAMAGE OR INJURY.
   (a)   No person shall place or knowingly drop upon any part of a sidewalk or playground any tacks, bottles, wire, glass, nails or other articles which may damage property of another or injure any person or animal traveling along or upon such sidewalk or playground.
   (b)   No person shall walk on, or allow any animal upon, or injure or deface in any way, any soft or newly laid sidewalk pavement.
(Ord. 272-73. Passed 12-17-73.)
   (c)   No person shall place, deposit or maintain any merchandise, goods, material or equipment upon any sidewalk so as to obstruct pedestrian traffic thereon except for such reasonable time as may be actually necessary for the delivery or pickup of such articles. In no case shall the obstruction remain on such sidewalk for more than one hour. However, this division shall not apply to persons who have obtained permission from the Building Commissioner to store building material during the repair or construction of buildings or other structures.
(Adopting Ordinance)
   (d)   No person shall unload upon, or transport any heavy merchandise, goods, material or equipment over or across any sidewalk or curb without first placing some sufficient protection over the pavement to protect against damage or injury.
   (e)   No person shall allow any cellar or trap door, coal chute or elevator or lift opening in any sidewalk to remain open without providing suitable safeguards to protect and warn pedestrian traffic of the dangerous conditions.
(Ord. 272-73. Passed 12-17-73.)
   (f)   No person shall construct or place any permanent structure upon any sidewalk in the City, without proper permission from the City.
   (g)   Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
§ 660.09 NOTICE TO FILL LOTS, REMOVE PUTRID SUBSTANCES.
   (a)   (1)   No person shall fail to comply with the following requirements within the lawful time after service or publication of the notice or resolution is made as required by law:
      (2)   To fill or drain any lot or land or remove all putrid substances therefrom, or remove all obstructions from culverts, covered drains or natural watercourses as provided in R.C. § 715.47.
(Ord. 272-73. Passed 12-17-73.)
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
§ 660.10 SMOKING IN PLACES OF PUBLIC ASSEMBLY.
   (a)   As used in this section, “place of public assembly” means:
      (1)   Enclosed theaters, except the lobby; opera houses; auditoriums; classrooms; elevators; rooms in which persons are confined as a matter of health care, including but not limited to a hospital room and a room in a residential care facility serving as the residence of a person living in the residential care facility.
      (2)   All buildings and other enclosed structures owned by the state, its agencies, or political subdivisions, including but not limited to hospitals and state institutions for the mentally ill and persons with intellectual disabilities; university and college buildings, except rooms within those buildings used primarily as the residences of students or other persons affiliated with the university or college; office buildings; libraries; museums; and vehicles used in public transportation. That portion of a building or other enclosed structure that is owned by the state, a state agency or a political subdivision, and that is used primarily as a food service establishment, is not a place of public assembly.
      (3)   Each portion of a building or enclosed structure that is not included in division (a)(1) or (a)(2) of this section is a place of public assembly if it has a seating capacity of 50 or more persons and is available to the public. Restaurants, food service establishments, dining rooms, cafes, cafeterias or other rooms used primarily for the service of food, as well as bowling alleys and places licensed by the Ohio Division of Liquor Control to sell intoxicating beverages for consumption on the premises, are not places of public assembly.
   (b)   For the purpose of separating persons who smoke from persons who do not smoke for the comfort and health of persons not smoking, in every place of public assembly there shall be an area where smoking is not permitted, which shall be designated a no smoking area, provided that not more than one-half of the rooms in any health care facility in which persons are confined as a matter of health care may be designated as smoking areas in their entirety. The designation shall be made before the place of public assembly is made available to the public. In places included in division (a)(1) of this section, the local fire authority having jurisdiction shall designate the no smoking area. In places included in division (a)(2) of this section that are owned by the state or its agencies, the Ohio Director of Administrative Services shall designate the area, and if the place is owned by a political subdivision, its legislative authority shall designate an officer who shall designate the area. In places included in division (a)(3) of this section, the person having control of the operations of the place of public assembly shall designate the no smoking area. In places included in division (a)(2) of this section which are also included in division (a)(1) of this section, the officer who has authority to designate the area in places in division (a)(2) of this section shall designate the no smoking area. A no smoking area may include the entire place of public assembly. Designations shall be made by the placement of signs that are clearly visible and that state “no smoking.” No person shall remove signs from areas designated as no smoking areas.
   (c)   This section does not affect or modify the prohibition contained in R.C. § 3313.751(B).
   (d)   No person shall smoke in any area designated as a no smoking area in accordance with division (b) of this section.
   (e)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(R.C. § 3791.031)
§ 660.11 NOTICE TO REMOVE FILTHY ACCUMULATIONS; NONCOMPLIANCE; REMEDIES OF CITY. (REPEALED)
   (EDITOR'S NOTE: Section 660.11 was repealed by Ordinance 37-94, passed April 11, 1994, which adopted a new Property Maintenance Code for the City. See Part Eighteen of these Codified Ordinances.)
§ 660.12 BURIAL OF DEAD WITHIN CORPORATE LIMITS.
   (a)   No person shall inter any dead person within the City, except in or upon premises for which a special permit has been issued pursuant to Section 1256.01.
(Ord. 83-80. Passed 5-12-80.)
   (b)   Council may order the exhumation of any body illegally interred within the corporate limits and have the same removed and reinterred outside the corporate limits. The cost of such exhumation, removal and reinterment shall be charged to the party offending and collected by civil action instituted in the name of the City. Such remedy shall be in addition to the penalty provided in division (c) of this section.
(1956 Code Sec. 921.02)
   (c)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
§ 660.13 SPITTING IN PUBLIC PLACES.
   (a)   No person shall spit or expectorate upon any public sidewalk, in any public, County, City, educational, state or government building, in any public market or market house, or in any railroad station, depot or bus terminal, except in receptacles provided for such purpose.
(1956 Code Sec. 1111.01)
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
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