(a) No person shall recklessly cause inconvenience, annoyance or alarm to another by doing any of the following:
(1) Engaging in fighting, in threatening harm to persons or property, or in violent or turbulent behavior;
(2) Making unreasonable noise or offensively coarse utterance, gesture or display, or communicating unwarranted and grossly abusive language to any person, which by its very utterance or usage inflicts injury or tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace;
(3) Insulting, taunting or challenging another, under circumstances in which that conduct is likely to provoke a violent response;
(4) Hindering or preventing the movement of persons on a public street, road, highway or right of way, or to, from, within or upon public or private property, so as to interfere with the rights of others, and by any act that serves no lawful and reasonable purpose of the offender;
(5) Creating a condition that is physically offensive to persons or that presents a risk of physical harm to persons or property, by any act that serves no lawful and reasonable purpose of the offender.
(b) The following acts, among others, are declared to be unreasonable noises in violation of this section, but the enumeration shall not be deemed to be exclusive, namely:
(1) The sounding of any horn or signal device on any automobile, motorcycle, bus or other vehicle while stationary, except as a danger signal when an approaching is apparently out of control or, if in motion, only as a danger signal after or as brakes are being applied and deceleration of the vehicle is intended. The creation by means of any such signal device of an unreasonably loud or harsh sound or the sounding of any such device for any unnecessary and unreasonable period of time.
(2) To use any automobile, motorcycle or vehicle so out of repair or so loaded as to create loud and unnecessary noise.
(3) To blow any steam whistle or locomotive horn except to give notice of the time or to begin or stop work or when required by law, or otherwise reasonably required as a warning of danger.
(4) To create, demolish, alter or repair any building other than between 6:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m., except in case of urgent necessity in the interest of public safety, and then only with a permit from the Mayor.
(5) The creation of loud and excessive noise in connection with loading or unloading any vehicle or the opening and/or destruction of bales, boxes, crates and containers.
(6) Use of mechanical loud speakers or amplifiers on trucks or vehicles or outside of a building or through an open door, window or other aperture or device unless a permit is granted for such use by the Mayor and then only in accordance with the provisions of such permit.
(7) To operate any radio, phonograph, television set or any mechanical instrument in such a manner or with such volume as to annoy or disturb the quiet, comfort or repose of persons in any dwelling, hotel or other type of residence, or any hospital, rest home or institution for the care of the sick or aged, particularly between 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
(8) The use of any drum, pan, pail, bell or trumpet, loudspeaker or other instrument or device for the purpose of attracting attention or intended to attract attention to any performance, show or sale or display of merchandise, except upon written permit first being obtained from the Mayor.
(9) The discharge into the open air of the exhaust of any steam or diesel engine, stationary internal combustion engine, motor vehicle or motor boat engine, except through a muffler or other device which will effectively prevent loud or explosive noises therefrom. Starting truck engines in a residential neighborhood and warming and running them for a period of time resulting in loud and continuous noise.
(10) The creation or any excessive noise adjacent to any church, school, institution of learning or hospital which unreasonably interferes with the workings of such institutions or persons using, attending or confined therein, provided conspicuous signs are displayed in such streets adjacent thereto indicating the presence of a church, school, hospital or institution.
The foregoing provisions do not apply to farm operations.
(c) 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.
(d) Violation of any statute or ordinance of 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 (c) hereof.
(e) 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 (c) hereof.
(ORC 2917.11)
(f) Whoever violates this section is guilty of disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(Ord. 170-1996. Passed 9-9-96.)
(Ord. 170-1996. Passed 9-9-96.)