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PART ONE - ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
PART THREE - TRAFFIC CODE
PART FIVE - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
CHAPTER 501 General Provisions and Penalty
CHAPTER 505 Animals and Fowl
CHAPTER 507 Anti-Litter Regulations
CHAPTER 509 Disorderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
CHAPTER 513 Drug Abuse Control
CHAPTER 515 Family Offenses
CHAPTER 517 Gambling
CHAPTER 518 Mechanical Amusement Devices
CHAPTER 521 Health, Safety and Sanitation
CHAPTER 525 Law Enforcement and Public Office
CHAPTER 529 Liquor Control
CHAPTER 531 Noise Control
CHAPTER 533 Obscenity and Sex Offenses
CHAPTER 537 Offenses Against Persons
CHAPTER 539 Parental Responsibility
CHAPTER 541 Property Offenses
CHAPTER 545 Theft and Fraud
CHAPTER 549 Weapons and Explosives
CHAPTER 553 Railroads
CHAPTER 557 Equal Housing
PART SEVEN - BUSINESS REGULATION CODE
PART NINE - STREETS, UTILITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART ELEVEN - PLANNING AND ZONING CODE
PART THIRTEEN - BUILDING CODE
PART FIFTEEN - FIRE PREVENTION CODE
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545.20 FORGERY OF IDENTIFICATION CARDS.
   (a)   No person shall knowingly do either of the following:
      (1)   Forge an identification card;
      (2)   Sell or otherwise distribute a card that purports to be an identification card, knowing it to have been forged.
      (3)   As used in this section, "identification card" means a card that includes personal information or characteristics of an individual, a purpose of which is to establish the identity of the bearer described on the card, whether the words "identity," "identification," "identification card" or other similar words appear on the card.
   (b)   Whoever violates subsection (a) hereof is guilty of forging identification cards or selling or distributing forged identification cards. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, forging or selling or distributing forged identification cards is a misdemeanor of the first degree. If the offender previously has been convicted of a violation of this section or Ohio R.C. 2913.31 (B), forging identification cards or selling or distributing forged identification cards is a misdemeanor of the first degree and, in addition, the court shall impose upon the offender a fine of not less than two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00).
(ORC 2913.31)
545.21 LIBRARY; FRAUDULENT PRIVILEGES; DETENTION OF PROPERTY; NOTICE.
   (a)   No person shall give a fictitious or incorrect name or address at any public library in order to obtain possession or use of any book, pamphlet, magazine, newspaper, clipping or picture which is the property of such library, or practice any deceit of any character whatsoever to conceal or mislead in respect to identity or address or place of employment.
   Whoever violates this subsection is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
   (b)   Whoever willfully or negligently detains or fails to return to a public library any book, magazine, pamphlet, manuscript, picture, clipping or other property belonging to such public library, within thirty days from the date of the posting by registered mail of a notice addressed to such person at the last address furnished the public library and which notice may be given at any time after the date on which such person should have returned the loaned property, in accordance with the rules of such public library, shall be presumed to have converted the same to his own use, and is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. However, no penalty shall be imposed in any case where restitution in value shall have been made prior to the expiration of the thirty day period, nor in any case where the return of such book, magazine, pamphlet, manuscript, picture, clipping or other property has been rendered impossible by causes beyond the control of the borrower.
(Ord. 3-1974. Passed 1-14-74.)
545.22 TRAVEL SALES REGULATED.
   (a)   No person, association of persons, firm, copartnership or corporation, except the duly authorized agents of a railroad, steamboat, bus line or any other public conveyance for the transportation of passengers maintaining agencies in the City shall sell, barter, offer for sale or barter, advertise for sale or barter or in any other manner aid in the sale or barter of the whole or any part of any ticket or tickets, passes or other evidence of the holder’s title to travel on any railroad, steamboat, bus line or any other public conveyance, within the limits of the City.
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree, and each prohibited transaction shall be deemed a separate offense.
(Ord. 3-1974. Passed 1-14-74.)
545.23 KEY TO FIRE OR POLICE ALARM.
   (a)   No person or persons, except the Mayor, members of the Division of Police or the Fire Chief shall make or cause to be made any key or keys of any fire engine house, truck house or fire alarm, telegraph or police alarm box. No person, without the consent of the proper authority shall use or cause to be used any such key or keys, or any device, for the purpose of opening any engine house, truck house or fire alarm telegraph box, or police alarm box.
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(Ord. 3-1974. Passed 1-14-74.)
545.24 UNAUTHORIZED TAKING OF PICTURES PROHIBITED.
   (a)   No person shall take unrequested pictures of pedestrians or other persons upon any of the streets or public places of the City, or, by card or otherwise, solicit on the streets or public places of the City the sale of pictures so taken.
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(Ord. 3-1974. Passed 1-14-74.)
545.25 FORTUNE TELLING, PALMISTRY, ETC., PROHIBITED.
   (a)   No person shall obtain money or property from another by fraudulent devices and practices in the name of palmistry, card reading, astrology, seership or like crafty science, fortune telling of any kind, or spiritualism or mediumship.
   (b)   No person shall advertise by display, sign, circular, hand bill or any newspaper, periodical, magazine or other publication, or by any other means, to tell fortunes or reveal the future; to find or restore lost or stolen property; locate oil wells, gold or silver or other ore or metal or natural product; restore lost love, friendship or affection, reunite or procure lovers, husbands, wives, lost relatives or friends or to give advice in business affairs or advice of any kind or nature to others for or without pay, by means of occult or psychic powers, faculties or forces, psychology, psychometry, seership, prophecy, astrology, palmistry, necromancy, or like crafty science cards, talismans, charms, potions, magnetism or magnetized articles or substances, oriental mysteries or magic of any kind or nature, or by means of clairvoyance, spiritualism or mediumship.
   (c)   No person shall represent himself to be a fortune teller or palmister.
   (d)   Whoever violates subsection (a) or (c) hereof is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. Whoever violates subsection (b) hereof is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(Ord. 3-1974. Passed 1-14-74.)
545.26 SALE OF MULTIPLE DWELLING UNITS.
   (a)   For the purpose of this section certain words and terms are herewith defined as follows:
      (1)   “Owner” means any person, copartnership or corporation having a legal or equitable title or any interest in a multiple dwelling.
      (2)   “Dwelling” means any building which is wholly or partly used or intended to be used for living or sleeping by human occupants.
      (3)   “Multiple dwelling” means any dwelling containing more than two dwelling units.
      (4)   “Sale” means the transfer from one owner to another owner of a legal or equitable title or any interest in a multiple dwelling unit.
   (b)   In any sale of a multiple dwelling or dwellings it shall be conclusively presumed in any action in law or equity instituted by the purchaser against an owner, that the owner at the time of such sale represented and warranted to the purchaser that such property was being used in compliance with the then existing zoning laws of the City and that there were no pending health orders against the property issued by the Board of Health or Division of Building and Zoning Inspection. This presumption shall not apply when the owner by written instrument represents to the purchaser that the present use of the property is in violation of the then existing zoning laws of the City and that there are health orders issued against the property by the Board of Health.
   (c)   Any owner who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(Ord. 3-1974. Passed 1-14-74.)
545.27 IDENTITY FRAUD.
   (EDITOR’S NOTE: Former Section 545.27 has been deleted from the Codified Ordinances. Ohio R.C. 2913.49, from which Section 545.27 was derived, has been reclassified from a misdemeanor to a felony offense.)
545.99 PENALTY.
   (EDITOR'S NOTE: See Section 501.99 for penalties applicable to any misdemeanor classification.)