(a) No person shall erect, continue to use or maintain a building, structure or place for the exercise of a trade, employment or business or for keeping or feeding an animal which, by occasioning noxious exhalations or noisome or offensive smells, becomes injurious to the health, comfort or property of individuals or of the public.
(b) 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.
(c) 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 of water or unlawfully divert the watercourse from its natural course or state to the injury or prejudice of others.
(d) Persons who are engaged in agriculture-related activities, as “agriculture” is defined in Ohio R.C. 519.01, and who are conducting those activities outside the municipality, in accordance with generally accepted agricultural practices, and in such a manner so as not to have a substantial, adverse effect on the public health, safety or welfare, are exempt from divisions (a) and (b) above and from any ordinances, resolutions, rules, or other enactments of the municipality that prohibit excessive noise.
(ORC 3767.13)
(e) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(ORC 3767.99(C))