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(a) As used in this section:
(1) “Shopping center” means any combination of retail stores and services contained within one or more buildings which are located on one or more parcels of land united to form a general shopping center site and upon which site there are located public areas for the nonexclusive use of members of the general public and occupants, visitors and customers of such retail stores and services.
(2) “Public portions of a shopping center” means the ingress and egress to the parking of automotive or other vehicles, driveways, sidewalks, malls, arcades, service areas and entranceways into stores and buildings.
(b) No person or persons on the public portions of a shopping center shall race the motor of any motor vehicle, needlessly bring to a sudden start or stop any motor vehicle, blow any horn of any motor vehicle unnecessarily, or engage in any race with another vehicle so as to create a nuisance or a disturbance to annoy or endanger any person or persons or other vehicle or vehicles lawfully on the public portions of the shopping center.
(c) No person, on the public portions of any shopping center, shall:
(1) Alone or with others, assemble or congregate for the purpose of lingering or loitering in any manner which will obstruct, impede or interfere with the free passage of other pedestrians using such shopping center.
(2) In the presence or hearing of another person, curse or abuse such person or use any violently abusive language to such person concerning him or her or any of his male or female relatives under circumstances reasonably calculated to provoke a breach of the peace.
(3) Use loud or vociferous language or obscene, vulgar or indecent language, swear, curse, yell or shriek in a manner calculated to disturb another person or persons.
(4) Harass by any means, bother or injure any other person or persons by making loud or indecent suggestions either by oral expression or by a physical act.
(Ord. 404-66. Passed 12-5-66.)
(d) Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor and shall be subject to the penalty provided in Section 698.02.
(a) No person shall knowingly engage in conduct designed to urge or incite another to commit any offense of violence when either of the following apply:
(1) The conduct takes place under circumstances that create a clear and present danger that any offense of violence will be committed.
(2) The conduct proximately results in the commission of any offense of violence.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of inciting to violence. If the offense of violence that the other person is being urged or incited to commit is a misdemeanor, inciting to violence is a misdemeanor of the first degree. If the offense of violence that the other person is being urged or incited to commit is a felony, inciting to violence is a felony to be prosecuted under appropriate State law.
(ORC 2917.01; Ord. 66-97. Passed 3-18-97.)
(a) No person shall assault or strike a teacher, instructor, professor, person in charge of a class of students or any employee of any school, college or university while in the performance of their duties.
(b) No person shall threaten or menace a teacher, instructor, professor, person in charge of a class of students or any employee of any school, college or university while in the performance of their duties.
(c) No person shall disrupt, disturb or interfere with the teaching of any class of students, and no person shall disrupt, disturb or interfere with any activity conducted in a school, college or university building, or upon the campus or grounds thereof, or in any public place.
(d) No person shall assault, strike, or lay hands upon a student or other person in a school, college or university building, or upon the grounds or campus thereof, or upon the way to or from any school, college or university, or on the way to or from any school, college or university sponsored activity.
(e) No person shall threaten, menace, follow or pursue a student or other person in a school, college or university building, or upon the grounds or campus thereof, or upon the way to or from any school, college or university, or on the way to or from any school, college or university sponsored activity.
(f) This section in no way interferes with, diminishes or abolishes the duty and right of a teacher, instructor, professor, person in charge of a class of students or member of a school administration from exercising the authority to discipline students in order to maintain the proper decorum required in an educational atmosphere.
(g) Whoever violates subsections (a) or (d) is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree and shall be subject to the penalty provided in Section 698.02 and whoever violates subsections (b), (c), or (e) is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree and shall be subject to the penalty provided in Section 698.02.
(Ord. 295-00. Passed 11-8-00.)
(a) No person, without privilege to do so, shall recklessly obstruct any highway, street, sidewalk, or any other public passage in such a manner as to render the highway, street, sidewalk, or passage impassable without unreasonable inconvenience or hazard if both of the following apply:
(1) The obstruction prevents an emergency vehicle from accessing a highway or street, prevents an emergency service responder from responding to an emergency, or prevents an emergency vehicle or an emergency service responder from having access to an exit from an emergency.
(2) Upon receipt of a request or order from an emergency service responder to remove or cease the obstruction, the person refuses to remove or cease the obstruction.
(b) Division (a) of this section does not limit or affect the application of R.C. § 2921.31 or any other section of the Ohio Revised Code. Any conduct that is a violation of division (a) of this section and that also is a violation of R.C. § 2921.31 or any other section of the Ohio Revised Code may be prosecuted under this section, the other section of the Ohio Revised Code, or both sections.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of unlawfully impeding public passage of an emergency service responder, a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(d) As used in this section, “emergency service responder” has the same meaning as in R.C. § 2903.13.
(R.C. § 2917.14)