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(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 such 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 such highway, except such substances that may be placed upon the roadway by proper authority for the repair or construction thereof.
(ORC 4511.74(A), (B))
(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.
(ORC 4511.74(C))
(a) No person shall place any recreational equipment in such a manner that will cause a game to be played within the rights-of-way of the City, including, but not limited to, movable basketball courts.
(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit the setting aside of streets or other public ways, or sections thereof, for limited periods of time, for recreational purposes, under proper supervision permitted by officials of the Municipality having charge thereof.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor for a first offense within one year and a misdemeanor of the fourth degree for a second or subsequent offense within one year. Each day during or upon which a violation occurs or continues shall be deemed a separate offense.
(Ord. 141-00. Passed 5-4-00.)
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 such 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.
(a) No person, unless otherwise directed by a police officer, shall:
(1) As a pedestrian, occupy any space within the limits of the right-of-way of a freeway, except: in a rest area; on a facility that is separated from the roadway and shoulders of the freeway and is designed and appropriately marked for pedestrian use; in the performance of public works or official duties; as a result of an emergency caused by an accident or breakdown of a motor vehicle; or to obtain assistance.
(2) Occupy any space within the limits of the right-of-way of a freeway, with: an animal-drawn vehicle; a ridden or led animal; herded animals; a pushcart; a bicycle, except on a facility that is separated from the roadway and shoulders of the freeway and is designed and appropriately marked for bicycle use; an electric bicycle; a bicycle with motor attached; a motor- driven cycle with a motor which produces not to exceed five brake horsepower; an agricultural tractor; farm machinery; except in the performance of public works or official duties.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in this division, whoever violates 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 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 this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(c) If the offender commits the offense while distracted and the distracting activity is a contributing factor to the commission of the offense, the offender is subject to the additional fine established under § 408.02(b).
(R.C. § 4511.051)
(a) Permit Required. No person, group of persons or organization shall conduct or participate in any parade, procession or assemblage upon any street or highway, or block off any street or highway area, without first obtaining a permit from the Mayor.
(b) Permit Application; Fee. Applications for such permits shall be made on such forms as may be prescribed and shall contain such information as is reasonably necessary to a fair determination of whether a permit should be issued. Applications shall be filed not less than five days before the time intended for such parade, procession or assemblage. A fee of twenty dollars ($20.00) shall accompany the application.
(c) Refusal or Cancellation of Permits. The permit may be refused or canceled if:
(1) The time, place, size or conduct of the parade including the assembly areas and route of march would unreasonably interfere with the public convenience and safe use of the streets and highways.
(2) The parade would require the diversion of so great a number of police officers to properly police the line of movement, assembly area and areas contiguous thereto so as to deny normal police protection to the Municipality.
(3) The parade route of march or assembly areas would unreasonably interfere with the movement of police vehicles, fire-fighting equipment or ambulance service to other areas of the Municipality.
(4) The parade would unreasonably interfere with another parade for which a permit has been issued.
(5) The information contained in the application is found to be false, misleading or incomplete in any material detail.
(6) An emergency such as a fire or storm would prevent the proper conduct of the parade.
(d) Permit Conditions. The permit or any order accompanying it may limit or prescribe reasonable conditions, including the hours, the places of assembly and of dispersal, the route of march or travel and the streets, highways or portions thereof which may be used or occupied.
(e) Authority of Mayor; Bond.
(1) No permit shall be issued authorizing the conduct of a parade or motorcade which the Mayor finds is proposed to be held for the sole purpose of advertising any product, goods, wares, merchandise or event, and is designed to be held purely for private profit.
(2) The Mayor shall act upon the application for a parade permit within thirty days after the filing thereof. If the Mayor disapproves the application, he or she shall mail to the applicant, within ten days after the date upon which the application was filed, a notice of his or her action, stating the reasons for his or her denial of the permit.
(3) Any person aggrieved shall have the right to appeal the denial of a parade permit to Council. The appeal shall be taken within five days after notice of such denial. Council shall act upon the appeal within five days after its receipt.
(4) The Mayor may, at his or her discretion, require the applicant for a parade permit to furnish to the City a bond in an amount not to exceed two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000), secured by a surety company licensed to do business in the State and payable to the City or to any person in the City who or which may suffer any injury or damage from any vehicle, float, device or person participating in the parade.
(f) Responsibility of Permittees.
(1) A permittee under this section shall comply with all permit directions and conditions and with all applicable laws and ordinances.
(2) The parade chairperson or other person heading or leading such activity shall carry the parade permit upon his or her person during the conduct of the parade.
(g) Interference. No person shall unreasonably hamper, obstruct, impede or interfere with any parade or parade assembly or with any person, vehicle or animal participating or used in a parade.
(h) Driving Through Parades. No driver of a vehicle shall drive between the vehicles or persons comprising a parade when such vehicles or persons are in motion and are conspicuously designated as a parade.
(i) Parking on Parade Routes. The Mayor may, when reasonably necessary, prohibit or restrict the parking of vehicles along a highway or part thereof constituting a part of the route of a parade. The Mayor shall post signs to such effect, and no person shall park or leave unattended any vehicle in violation thereof. No person shall be liable for parking on a street that is unposted in violation of this section.
(j) Nonliability of City. The applicant for a parade permit and any other person on whose behalf an application therefor is made, by filing such application, do represent, stipulate, contract and agree that they will jointly and severally indemnify and hold the City harmless against liability for any and all claims for damage to property or for injury to, or the death of, any person arising out of or resulting from the issuance of the permit or the conduct of the parade or its participants.
(k) Injunctive Relief. Nothing in this section providing for the regulation or licensing of parades, nor the penalties set forth for violation of any of the provisions of this section, shall waive the right or otherwise preclude the City or any of its residents from seeking or obtaining injunctive relief in a court of general jurisdiction for the purpose of prohibiting or regulating any proposed or permitted parade.
(Ord. 147-94. Passed 6-16-94.)
(a) Except as provided in this section and in Ohio R.C. 5515.04, no person shall place any sign, poster or advertisement, or affix any such sign, poster or advertisement to any tree or utility pole, within the right-of-way of any public highway inside the City corporation limits.
(b) No person, organization, corporation or group shall place within the limits of the right-of-way of any public highway any object as determined by the Ohio Department of Transportation to obscure sight distance.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(Ord. 156-92. Passed 6-18-92.)
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