(A) Definition. For the purposes of this section, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
JUNK. Old or scrap copper, brass, trash, waste, batteries, paper, rubbish, iron, steel, and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous materials, and any old items containing the same. JUNK also includes garbage, litter, car parts, tires, building materials, appliances, stoves, refrigerators, furniture, hot water heaters, inoperable machinery or equipment, inoperable golf carts, inoperable motor vehicles, mattresses, toilets, barrels, boxes, cans, cast-off or discarded articles, materials which are ready for destruction, or which have been collected for salvage or conversion to some other use, and any similar items.
JUNK YARD. Premises that are maintained or operated for the purpose of storing, keeping, buying, or selling junk.
(B) (1) R.C. § 715.44 grants to municipal corporations the power to abate any nuisance and to prosecute any person who creates, continues, contributes to, or suffers the nuisance to exist.
(2) The keeping or maintaining of junk on private property is declared a nuisance.
(3) A junk yard is declared a nuisance.
(4) No person shall permit any lot, yard or land within the Village of Nashville to become or continue to be a junk yard.
(5) No property owner shall permit any junk to be kept or maintained on any lot, yard, or land within the Village of Nashville.
(6) No person shall keep any junk on any lot, yard, or land within the Village of Nashville.
(7) Junk yards licensed under R.C. §§ 4737.05 et seq. are excepted from this section.
(C) Any person who violates any of the terms or provisions of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor upon a first offense and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to a mandatory fine of up to $150; on a second offense and all subsequent offenses within one year after the first offense such person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree and shall be subject to imprisonment for a term not to exceed 30 days and or mandatory nonsuspendable fine of $250. Each day's violation shall be punishable as a separate offense.
Editor’s Note: This section supersedes any conflicting provisions in Chapter 93 of the Ohio Basic Code.