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Middleburg Heights, OH Code of Ordinances
CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS, OHIO
CHARTER OF THE CITY OF MIDDLEBURG HEIGHTS
PART ONE - ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
PART FOUR - TRAFFIC CODE
PART SIX - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
CHAPTER 606 General Provisions; Administration and Enforcement
CHAPTER 612 Alcoholic Beverages
CHAPTER 618 Animals
CHAPTER 620 Drug Abuse Control
CHAPTER 624 Gambling
CHAPTER 626 Hazardous Spills, Releases or Discharges
CHAPTER 630 Minors
CHAPTER 632 Noise Control
CHAPTER 636 Offenses Relating to Persons
CHAPTER 642 Offenses Relating to Property
CHAPTER 648 Peace Disturbances
CHAPTER 654 Railroads
CHAPTER 660 Safety, Sanitation and Health
CHAPTER 666 Sex Related Offenses
CHAPTER 668 Trees, Weeds and Grass
CHAPTER 672 Weapons and Explosives
CHAPTER 698 Penalties and Sentencing
PART SEVEN - BUSINESS REGULATION CODE
PART NINE - STREETS AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART ELEVEN - PLANNING AND ZONING CODE
PART THIRTEEN - BUILDING CODE
PART FIFTEEN - FIRE PREVENTION CODE
Middleburg Heights, OH Zoning Code
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660.17 USE OF DDT PROHIBITED.
   (a) No person shall use the chemical compound known as DDT as a spray or in any manner by which it is released within the City. (Ord. 1970-51. Passed 4-28-70.)
    (b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
660.18 GASES AND FUMES AN ABATABLE NUISANCE.
   The emission of poisonous, obnoxious, pungent or ill-smelling gases or fumes from any stack of any industrial, manufacturing or commercial establishment or operation in the City is hereby declared to be a nuisance and may be summarily abated by the Mayor or by anyone whom he or she may authorize for such purpose.
(Ord. 1971-126. Passed 12-14-71.)
660.19 DISPOSITION OF WRECKED OR DISCARDED VEHICLES,
   (a) Nopersonincharge orcontrolofanypropertywithin the City, whether as owner, tenant, occupant, lessee or otherwise, shall allow any partially dismantled, wrecked, junked, discarded or unlicensed vehicle to remain on such property longer than 15 days. The 15-day period shall be deemed to begin on the date that such person is notified in writing by the Chief of Police that the vehicle constitutes a violation of this section.
    (b) This section shall not apply to a vehicle in an enclosed building, to a vehicle on the premises of a business enterprise operated in a lawful place and manner when necessary to the operation of such business enterprise or to a vehicle in an appropriate storage place or depository, maintained or designated as such by the City.
   (c)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. (Ord. 1985-70. Passed 5-14-85.)
660.193 STORAGE OF JUNK VEHICLES.
   (a) As used in this section "junk motor vehicle" means any motor vehicle which is three years old or older; extensively damaged, such damage including, but not limited to, any of the following: missing wheels, tires, motor or transmission; apparently inoperable; and having a fair market value of four hundred dollars ($400.00) or less, that is left uncovered in the open on private property for more than 72 hours with the permission of the person having the right to the possession of the property, except if the person is operating a junk yard or scrap metal processing facility licensed cinder authority of Ohio R.C. 4737.05 to 4737.12, or regulated under the authority of the Municipality; or if the property on which the motor vehicle is left is not subject to licensure or regulation by any governmental authority, unless the person having the right to the possession of the property can establish that the motor vehicle is part of a bona fide commercial operation; or if the motor vehicle is a collector's vehicle, as defined in Ohio R.C. 4501.01(F).
    (b) No person shall be prevented from storing or keeping, or be restricted in the method of storing or keeping, any collector's vehicle on private property with the permission of the person having the right to possession of the property, except that a person having such permission may be required to conceal, by means of fully enclosed buildings, any unlicensed collector's vehicle stored in the open.
   (c) The Chief of Police, the Director of Building and Zoning or the Fire Chief may send notice, by personal delivery or by certified mail with return receipt requested, to the owner or other person having the right to possession of the property on which a junk motor vehicle is left, stating that within ten days of receipt of the notice the owner or such other person shall comply with this section.
   (d) No person shall willfully leave a junk motor vehicle uncovered in the open for more than ten days after receipt of a notice as provided in this section. The fact that a junk vehicle is so left is prima facie evidence of willful failure to comply with the notice, and each subsequent period of ten days that a junk motor vehicle continues to be so left constitutes a separate offense.
   (e) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor for a first offense and a misdemeanor of the fourth degree for subsequent offenses. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
660.20 LITTERING.
   (a) No person shall throw or deposit or permit to be deposited or scattered upon any sidewalk, tree lawn, alley, street, bridge, public grounds or passageway or upon the private property of another, any waste or other material of any kind.
    (b) No occupant shall throw or deposit or permit to be deposited, thrown or scattered upon the sidewalk, tree lawn, drainage ditch, gutter or pavement which abuts the premises he or she occupies any waste or other material of any kind.
   (c) Any occupant of a structure which abuts a street onto the improved portion of which waste or other material of any kind has been deposited shall promptly remove the waste or other material.
(Ord. 1971-126. Passed 12-14-71.)
   (d) Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
660.21 DANGEROUS, ABANDONED EXCAVATIONS, OIL OR GAS WELLS, OR BUILDINGS.
   (a) (1)   No property owner; tenant or person having control of property within the Municipality directly or indirectly shall create or allow dangerous conditions to exist on his or her premises.
      (2) "Dangerous conditions," as used in this section, means any open, unguarded or unprotected excavation or building which, when abandoned or left open or otherwise unprotected, will likely prove dangerous to life or limb, or an abandoned, open, uncovered or otherwise unprotected well, cesspool, cistern or catch basin, or an uncapped or unplugged gas or oil well.
(Ord. 1966-34. Passed 3-22-66.)
    (b) No person shall leave unprotected or unguarded or without proper lighting any hole, excavation, pile of dirt, trucks, equipment or other material in any of the streets.
   (c) The removal oflanterns, barricades or other means placed on the streets and on construction projects, public or private, as a warning or protection for the public by persons unauthorized to remove the same, or the willful, careless or negligent destruction of such lanterns or barricades is hereby prohibited.
(Ord. 1961-71. Passed 11-14-61.)
   (d) Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
660.22 ELECTRICALLY CHARGED OR BARBED WIRE FENCE.
   (a) No person shall construct, erect, maintain or use, for any purpose, any barbed wire fence or any fence charged with electrical current, within the corporate limits. (Ord. 1961-71. Passed 11-14-61.)
    (b) Whoever violates this section is guilty bf a minor misdemeanor.
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