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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.)
(a) No child between the ages of six and seventeen, inclusive, other than a child that has been suspended or expelled from school, shall be at any place within the City except in attendance at school between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., or such regular hours of operation of the school in which the child is registered, during any school day, unless the child has written proof from school authorities excusing him or her from attending school at that particular time, or unless the child is accompanied by a parent or legal guardian, or a responsible adult selected by the parent or legal guardian to supervise the child.
(b) Each parent or legal guardian of a child between the ages of six and seventeen, inclusive, shall have a duty to prohibit the child from behaving contrary to subsection (a) hereof. No person shall negligently fail to fulfill the duty imposed by this section.
(c) It shall be an affirmative defense to subsections (a) and (b) hereof that the child, at the time he or she was found at a place other than in school, was not required by law to be in attendance at school.
(d) It shall be an affirmative defense to subsection (b) hereof that the parent or legal guardian initiated the jurisdiction of the Juvenile Court against the child prior to the time that the child was found violating subsection (a) hereof.
(e) A police officer or school attendance officer may transport any child found violating subsection (a) hereof to the child’s residence and may release the child into the care of a parent or legal guardian, to the school the child usually attends, or to any location designated by the school authorities as a receiving center for such children, the choice of destination to be made at the discretion of the police officer or school attendance officer based on proximity of the destination and other relevant factors, and subject to the need to response to emergency or priority calls.
(f) Any child who violates subsection (a) hereof is an unruly child and is subject to the jurisdiction of the Juvenile Court.
(g) Any person who violates subsection (b) hereof is guilty of negligently failing to supervise a child of compulsory school age, a minor misdemeanor. In addition to any other method of enforcement provided for in these Codified Ordinances or by statute, this offense may be enforced by the issuance of a citation in compliance with Rule 4.1 of the Ohio Rules of Criminal Procedure.
(Ord. 45-96. Passed 4-1-96.)
(a) If a child is suspended or expelled from school, then each parent or legal guardian of the child shall have the following duties for the duration of the suspension or expulsion:
(1) The duty to personally supervise the child, or to arrange for a responsible adult to supervise the child, at the times that the child would have been required to be in attendance at school had he or she not been suspended or expelled; and
(2) The duty to prohibit the child from being at any public place at the times that the child would have been required to be in attendance at school had he or she not been suspended or expelled, except in the following circumstances:
A. When the child is accompanied by the parent or legal guardian, or a responsible adult selected by the parent or legal guardian to supervise the child; or
B. When the child is employed pursuant to an age and schooling certificate issued by the school authorities, during the times that the child is actually on the job or traveling to or from the job site; or
C. When the child is on an emergency errand for the parent or legal guardian or responsible adult selected by the parent or legal guardian to supervise the child; or
D. When the child has been directed by the parent or legal guardian to engage in a specific activity or to carry out express instructions, during the times that the child is actually engaged in fulfilling those directions or instructions. No person shall negligently fail to fulfill the duties imposed by this section.
(b) No child that has been suspended or expelled from school shall fail to comply with supervision provided or arranged by a parent or legal guardian pursuant to subsection (a)(1) hereof.
(c) No child that has been suspended or expelled from school shall be in any public place at the times that he or she would have been required to be in attendance at school had he or she not been suspended or expelled, except in the circumstances described in subsections (a)(2)A., B., C. or D.
(d) As used in this section, “public places” includes any street, sidewalk, park, cemetery, school yard, body of water or watercourse, public conveyance, or any other public place for the sale of merchandise, public accommodation or amusement.
(e) A police officer or school attendance officer may transport any child found violating subsection (c) hereof to the child’s residence and may release the child into the care of a parent or legal guardian, to the school the child usually attends, or to any location designated by the school authorities as a receiving center for such children, the choice of destinations to be made at the discretion of the police officer or school attendance officer based on the proximity of the destination and other relevant factors, and subject to the need to respond to emergency or priority calls.
(f) Any child that violates subsections (b) or (c) hereof is an unruly child and is subject to the jurisdiction of the Juvenile Court.
(g) Any person that negligently fails to fulfill the duty imposed by subsection (a) hereof is guilty of negligently failing to supervise a suspended or expelled child, a minor misdemeanor. In addition to any other means of enforcement provided for in these Codified Ordinances or by statute, this offense may be enforced by the issuance of a citation in accordance with Rule 4.1 of the Ohio Rules of Criminal Procedure.
(Ord. 45-96. Passed 4-1-96.)
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person or business within the City to sell or otherwise furnish to a person under the age of eighteen years, any spray paint or wide-tipped marker that is capable of defacing property.
(b) Any person or business within the City that sells or offers for sale such spray paint or wide-tipped markers shall post, and keep posted in a conspicuous area near such spray paint or wide-tipped markers a notice that states as follows:
WARNING: THE SALE OF SPRAY PAINT OR WIDE-TIPPED MARKERS TO MINORS IS PROHIBITED.
It is unlawful in the City of Lorain to sell spray paint or wide-tipped markers to minors, and unlawful for minors to purchase or possess such material unless engaged in a lawful activity under the supervision of a parent, guardian, teacher, or employer.
(c) It shall be unlawful for any person under the age of eighteen years to purchase, possess or have under his/her control, spray paint or a wide-tipped marker that is capable of defacing property. This section shall not apply to persons under the age of eighteen years engaged in a lawful activity under the supervision and control of the minor’s parent, guardian, teacher or employer.
(d) A violation of subsection (a) hereof shall be a misdemeanor of the fourth degree, and a person convicted of such a violation shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00). A violation of subsection (b) hereof shall be a minor misdemeanor, and a person convicted of such a violation shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00). Any minor who is in violation of subsection (c) hereof shall be deemed to be an unruly child and subject to the jurisdiction of the Juvenile Court.
(e) For the purposes of this section the following terms shall have the definitions as hereinafter specified:
(1) “Spray paint” means paint, lacquer or shellac, contained in an aerosol propellant can.
(2) “Wide-tipped marker” means any indelible pen, marker, or other similar implement with an application tip exceeding four millimeters in width.
(Ord. 44-96. Passed 4-1-96.)
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