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(a) No person shall do any of the following:
(1) Initiate or circulate a report or warning of an alleged or impending fire, explosion, crime or other catastrophe, knowing that the report or warning is false and likely to cause public inconvenience or alarm;
(2) Knowingly cause a false alarm of fire or other emergency to be transmitted to or within any organization, public or private, for dealing with emergencies involving a risk of physical harm to persons or property;
(3) Report to any law enforcement agency an alleged offense or other incident within its concern, knowing that such offense did not occur.
(4) Initiate or circulate a report or warning of an alleged or impending fire, explosion, crime, or other catastrophe, knowing that the report or warning is false and likely to impede the operation of a critical infrastructure facility.
(b) This section does not apply to any person conducting an authorized fire or emergency drill.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of making false alarms, a misdemeanor of the first degree. If a violation of this section results in economic harm of one thousand dollars ($1,000) or more, or if a violation of this section pertains to a purported, threatened, or actual use of a weapon of mass destruction, making false alarms is a felony and shall be prosecuted under appropriate State law.
(d) Any act that is a violation of this section and any other section of the Codified Ordinances may be prosecuted under this section, the other section, or both sections.
(e) As used in this section:
(1) “Critical infrastructure facility” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2911.21.
(2) “Economic harm”and “weapon of mass destruction” have the same meaning as in Section 509.06. (ORC 2917.32)
(a) No person, while voluntarily intoxicated shall do either of the following:
(1) In a public place or in the presence of two or more persons, engage in conduct likely to be offensive or to cause inconvenience, annoyance or alarm to persons of ordinary sensibilities, which conduct the offender, if he were not intoxicated, should know is likely to have such effect on others;
(2) Engage in conduct or create a condition which presents a risk of physical harm to himself or another, or to the property of another.
(b) Violation of any statute or ordinance or which an element is operating a motor vehicle, locomotive, watercraft, aircraft or other vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or any drug of abuse, is not a violation of subsection (a) hereof.
(c) When to an ordinary observer a person appears to be intoxicated, it is probable cause to believe such person is voluntarily intoxicated for purposes of subsection (a) hereof.
(d) Whoever violates this section is guilty of disorderly conduct by intoxication, a minor misdemeanor. If the offender persists in disorderly conduct after reasonable warning or request to desist, disorderly conduct is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. (ORC 2917.11)
(a) No person shall make or cause to be made by the use of any horn, bell, radio, television, loud speaker, or by the operation of any instrument or device, any unreasonably loud, disturbing, and unnecessary noises of such a character, intensity and duration as to disturb the peace and quiet of the citizens of the City or to be detrimental to the life and health of any individual, and no person shall willfully conduct himself in a noisy, boisterous or other disorderly manner by either words or acts which disturb the good order and quiet of the City.
(b) No person shall disturb the good order and quiet of the Municipality by clamors or noises in the night season, by intoxication, drunkenness, fighting, quarreling, wrangling, committing assault, assault and battery, using obscene or profane language in the streets and other public places to the annoyance of the citizens, or otherwise violating the public peace by indecent and disorderly conduct, or by lewd and lascivious behavior, or by threatening or inflicting violence or abuse to the person or property of others.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(a) No person shall engage or participate in the playing of golf or striking of golf balls anywhere in the vicinity or on and in the City parks, playgrounds and other public pleasure grounds under the supervision of the Board of Park Commissioners.
(Ord. 4405. Passed 5-4-36.)
(b) No person shall engage or participate in the playing of golf or striking of golf balls anywhere in the vicinity of or in any public cemetery under the supervision of the Director of Public Service and Safety. (Ord. 167-67. Passed 10-16-67.)
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(a) All public parks and public beaches in the City shall be closed to the general public between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. of the succeeding day and no person shall be in, remain upon or loiter about any public park or public beach during such hours. The Director of Public Service and Public Safety may establish, on a case by case basis, an earlier closing time of any public park if it is determined that excessive loitering or disturbing of the peace is persistent in that park.
(Ord. 154-05. Passed 9-6-03.)
(b) The Municipal Pier shall be closed to the general public except for licensed fisherman between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. of the succeeding day and no person other than licensed fisherman shall be on, remain upon or be about said Municipal Pier during such hours.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(Ord. 96-83. Passed 6-6-83.)
(a) No minor, seventeen years of age or under, shall be or remain upon any public street, sidewalk, alley or public grounds, or be loitering about depots, public buildings or other public places in the City between the hours of 11:00 p.m. of the evening of any week day and before the hour of 6:00 a.m. on the morning of the succeeding day, from Sunday to Thursday, inclusive, and between the hours of 12:30 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. on Saturday or Sunday, unless accompanied by a person of mature years, who must be the parent, guardian or person having legal custody and control of such child, or some adult person duly authorized by the parent or guardian to have control of such child.
(b) The parent, guardian or person having the legal custody and control of any child violating any of the provisions hereof, shall be deemed guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(Ord. 266-74. Passed 10-21-74.)
(c) The parent, guardian or person having the legal custody and control of any child who shall be found in violation of this section, upon a second violation, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. (Ord. 59-95. Passed 6-5-95.)
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