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(a) The use of a brazier, salamander, space heater, room heater, furnace, water heater, or other burner or heater using wood, coal, coke, fuel oil, kerosene, gasoline, natural gas, liquid petroleum gas or similar fuel, and tending to give off carbon monoxide or other harmful gases must comply with the following provisions;
(1) When used in living quarters, or in any enclosed building or space in which persons are usually present, shall be used with a flue or vent so designed, installed, and maintained as to vent the products of combustion outdoors; except in storage, factory, or industrial buildings which are provided with sufficient ventilation to avoid the danger of carbon monoxide poisoning.
(2) When used as a portable or temporary burner or heater at a construction site, or in a warehouse, shed, or structure in which persons are temporarily present, shall be vented as provided in division (a)(1) or used with sufficient ventilation to avoid the danger of carbon monoxide poisoning.
(b) This section does not apply to domestic ranges, laundry stoves, gas logs installed in a fireplace with an adequate flue, or hot plates, unless the same are used as space or room heaters.
(c) No person shall negligently use, or, being the owner, person in charge, or occupant of premises, negligently permit the use of a burner or heater in violation of the standards for venting and ventilation provided in this section.
(d) Division (a) above does not apply to any kerosene-fired space or room heater that is equipped with an automatic extinguishing tip-over device, or to any natural gas-fired or liquid petroleum gas-fired space or room heater that is equipped with an oxygen depletion safety shut-off system, and that has its fuel piped from a source outside the building in which it is located, that are approved by an authoritative source recognized by the State Fire Marshal in the State Fire Code adopted by him or her under Ohio R.C. 3737.82.
(e) The State Fire Marshal may make rules to ensure the safe use of unvented kerosene, natural gas, or liquid petroleum gas heaters exempted from division (a) above when used in assembly buildings, business buildings, high hazard buildings, institutional buildings, mercantile buildings, and type R-1 and R-2 residential buildings, as these groups of buildings are defined in rules adopted by the Board of Building Standards under Ohio R.C. 3781.10. No person shall negligently use, or, being the owner, person in charge or occupant of premises, negligently permit the use of a heater in violation of any rules adopted under this division.
(f) The State Fire Marshal may make rules prescribing standards for written instructions containing ventilation requirements and warning of any potential fire hazards that may occur in using a kerosene, natural gas, or liquid petroleum gas heater. No person shall sell or offer for sale any kerosene, natural gas, or liquid petroleum gas heater unless the manufacturer provides with the heater written instructions that comply with any rules adopted under this division.
(g) No product labeled as a fuel additive for kerosene heaters and having a flash point below 100°F or 37.8°C shall be sold, offered for sale, or used in any kerosene space heater.
(h) No device that prohibits any safety feature on a kerosene, natural gas, or liquid petroleum gas space heater from operating shall be sold, offered for sale, or used in connection with any kerosene, natural gas, or liquid petroleum gas space heater.
(i) No person shall sell or offer for sale any kerosene-fired, natural gas, or liquid petroleum gas-fired heater that is not exempt from division (a) above, unless it is marked conspicuously by the manufacturer on the container with the phrase “Not Approved For Home Use.”
(j) No person shall use a cabinet-type, liquid petroleum gas-fired heater having a fuel source within the heater, inside any building, except as permitted by the State Fire Marshal in the State Fire Code adopted by him or her under Ohio R.C. 3737.82.
(k) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(Ord. 9-87. Passed 1-19-87; Ord. 146-13. Passed 7-1-13.)
(a) No person, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that he or she is suffering from a dangerous, contagious disease, shall knowingly fail to take reasonable measures to prevent exposing himself or herself to other persons, except when seeking medical aid.
(b) No person, having charge or care of a person whom he or she knows or has reasonable cause to believe is suffering from a dangerous, contagious disease, shall recklessly fail to take reasonable measures to protect others from exposure to the contagion, and to inform health authorities of the existence of the contagion.
(c) No person, having charge of a public conveyance or place of public accommodation, amusement, resort, or trade, and knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that persons using such conveyance or place have been or are being exposed to a dangerous, contagious disease, shall negligently fail to take reasonable measures to protect the public from exposure to the contagion, and to inform health authorities of the existence of the contagion.
(d) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree.
(Ord. 278-73. Passed 12-17-73; Ord. 146-13. Passed 7-1-13.)
(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 to prejudice of others.
(b) No person shall pile, store, accumulate or permit to accumulate upon any real estate in the City which has been zoned or districted for single-family, two-family, apartment house, retail business or commercial uses, any junk, rubbish, garbage, manure or other material or substance detrimental to the public safety, health or general welfare, or of such a nature as to interfere with the value of real estate within the immediate vicinity, or the enjoyment thereof by the owners thereof, by reason of any noxious odors emanating therefrom, or which is of such a character or nature as to create or spread disease or cause an unsanitary or unhealthy condition, or which by its nature is likely to create conditions for the breeding, harborage and infestation of rats, mice, vermin or other disease-carrying pests and animals or insects. However, nothing herein contained shall prohibit the ordinary accumulation of garbage and other waste resulting from the natural operation of a household or business. Nothing herein contained shall apply to any property within the City which has been continuously and primarily used for agricultural or similar purposes.
(c) Whoever violates any provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
(Ord. 199-01. Passed 2-4-02; Ord. 146-13. Passed 7-1-13.)
(a) No owner or occupant of lots or lands abutting any sidewalk, curb or gutter shall fail to keep the sidewalks, curbs and gutters in repair and free from snow, ice or any nuisance, and to remove from such sidewalks, curbs or gutters all snow and ice accumulated thereon within a reasonable time, which will ordinarily not exceed 12 hours after any storm during which the snow and ice has accumulated.
(Ord. 278-73. Passed 12-17-73.)
(b) No owner or occupant of lots or lands abutting any sidewalk, curb or gutter shall fail to keep the sidewalks, curbs and gutters free from snow, ice or any nuisance, and to remove from such sidewalks, curbs or gutters all snow and ice accumulated thereon within a reasonable time, which will ordinarily not exceed 12 hours after any storm during which the snow and ice has accumulated.
(c) Upon the violation of subsection (a) hereof, Council shall, by resolution, order the repair of such sidewalk, the removal of such obstruction or the abatement of such nuisance. If the owner or person having charge of such land fails to comply with such resolution, after due notice of same, Council shall cause the sidewalks to be repaired or cleared. All expenses and labor costs incurred shall, when approved by Council, be paid out of City funds not otherwise appropriated. Council shall make a written return to the County Auditor of their action, with a statement of the charges for their services, the amount paid for labor, the fees of the officers serving such notices and a proper description of the premises. Such amounts, when allowed, shall be entered upon the tax duplicate and be a lien upon such lands from and after the date of the entry and be collected as other taxes and returned to the City to be deposited in the General Fund. This remedy shall be in addition to the penalty provided in subsection (c) hereof.
(Ord. 196-57. Passed 7-29-57.)
(d) In addition to the powers and duties of the Sidewalk/ Zoning Inspector set forth in Section 903.11, such employee is hereby empowered to issue a warning notice with respect to any condition, excluding snow and ice accumulation, he or she finds to be in violation of this section. Upon the failure of any person to comply with such notice within a reasonable time, but not less than fifteen days, the Sidewalk/ Zoning Inspector may cause a criminal complaint to be issued thereafter.
(e) In addition to any other powers and duties of any City building inspector, such employee is hereby empowered to issue a warning notice with respect to snow and ice accumulation which such inspector finds to be in violation of this section. Upon the failure of any person to comply with such notice within twenty-four hours, the inspector may cause a criminal complaint to be issued thereafter.
(f) Whoever violates subsection (b) is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. In addition to any other method of enforcement, a violation of subsection (b) may be enforced by the issuance of a citation in compliance with Rule 4.1 of the Ohio Rules of Criminal Procedure. Whoever violates subsection (b) as a fourth and subsequent offense is guilty of a first degree misdemeanor. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
(g) Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section, for which no penalty is otherwise provided, is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
(Ord. 267-91. Passed 11-6-91; Ord. 64-92. Passed 4-20-92; Ord. 146-13. Passed 7-1-13.)
(a) No person shall abandon, discard, or knowingly permit to remain on premises under the person’s control, in a place accessible to children, any abandoned or discarded icebox, refrigerator, or other airtight or semi-airtight container which has a capacity of one and one-half cubic feet or more and an opening of 50 square inches or more and which has a door or lid equipped with a hinge, latch, or other fastening device capable of securing such door or lid, without rendering the equipment harmless to human life by removing such hinges, latches or other hardware which may cause a person to be confined therein. This section shall not apply to an icebox, refrigerator or other airtight or semi-airtight container located in that part of a building occupied by a dealer, warehouse or repairer.
(Ord. 278-73. Passed 12-17-73.)
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(Ord. 9-87. Passed 1-19-87; Ord. 146-13. Passed 7-1-13.)
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