412.01 PLACING INJURIOUS MATERIAL OR OBSTRUCTION IN STREET.
   (a)      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.
   (b)   Any person who drops or permits to be dropped or thrown upon any highway any destructive or injurious material shall immediately remove the same.
   (c)   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.
   (d)   No person shall place any obstruction in or upon a highway without proper authority.
   (e)      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) (Adopting Ordinance)
   (f)   No person shall place any obstruction in or upon a street, or open any excavation in or upon a street, without a permit obtained from proper authorities. Such permit for the doing of such placing of any obstruction or opening of any excavation shall be approved as to the time of the doing by the Chief of Police.
   (g)   No physical change shall be made in or upon the streets or highways of the Municipality, whether in the nature of safety zones, safety islands, street markers, painting or otherwise, except upon a permit first obtained from Council.
(Ord. 1950-16. Passed 3-27-50.)
   (h)   Whoever violates division (b) of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(ORC 4511.99(J))