(a) No person shall erect, continue, use or maintain a dwelling, building, structure or place for a residence or for the exercise of a trade, employment or business, or for the keeping or feeding of an animal, which dwelling, building, structure or place, or which activity, by occasioning noxious exhalations or noisome or offensive smells, becomes injurious to the health, comfort or property of individuals or of the public. No person shall cause or allow offal, filth or noisome substances to be collected or remain in any place to the damage or prejudice of others or of the public. No person shall unlawfully obstruct or impede the passage of a navigable river, harbor or collection of water, or corrupt or render unwholesome or impure, a watercourse, stream or water, or unlawfully divert such watercourse from its natural course or state to the injury or prejudice of others.
(ORC 3767.13; Adopting Ordinance)
(b) No person shall cause or permit refuse or filth from a gas works or gas well, including salt brine or petroleum, crude oil, refined oil, or a compound, mixture or residuum of oil or filth from an oil well, oil tank, oil vat or place of deposit of crude or refined oil, to run into or be poured, emptied or thrown into a watercourse, stream, lake, ditch or drain, or into a place from which it may run or wash therein.
(Ord. 90-255. Passed 11-20-90.)
(c) Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree and shall be subject to the penalty provided in Section 698.02.
(ORC 3767.99(C))