(a) No person shall erect, continue, use or maintain a dwelling, building, structure or place for a residence or for the exercise of a trade, employment or business, or for the keeping or feeding of 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. 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. 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 or water, or unlawfully divert such watercourse from its natural course or state to the injury or prejudice of others.
(ORC § 3767.13)
(b) No person in control of any premises, whether as owner, tenant, lessee, occupant or otherwise, shall allow any junk or rubbish to accumulate and remain on such premises.
(c) The provisions of division (b) do not apply to the deposit, storage, maintenance or collection of junk, junk cars or rubbish in an enclosed building, as permitted by ordinance of the municipality, or in any area of the municipality in which outside storage of the same is permitted by ordinance.
(d) Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues. Punishment shall be as provided in § 698.02.
(Ord. 88-11, passed 4-18-1988; Am. Ord. 90-36, passed 8-6-1990)