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Codified Ordinances of Sebring, OH
CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF SEBRING, OHIO
CERTIFICATION
ROSTER OF OFFICIALS
ADOPTING ORDINANCE NO. 1232-80
EDITOR'S NOTE
COMPARATIVE SECTION TABLE
TABLES OF SPECIAL ORDINANCES
CHARTER
PART ONE - ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
PART THREE - TRAFFIC CODE
PART FIVE - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
CHAPTER 501 General Provisions and Penalty
CHAPTER 503 Advertising, Billposting and Handbills
CHAPTER 505 Animals and Fowl
CHAPTER 509 Disorderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
CHAPTER 513 Drug Abuse Control
CHAPTER 517 Gambling
CHAPTER 521 Health, Safety and Sanitation
CHAPTER 525 Law Enforcement and Public Office
CHAPTER 529 Liquor Control
CHAPTER 531 Minors' Curfew
CHAPTER 533 Obscenity and Sex Offenses
CHAPTER 537 Offenses Against Persons
CHAPTER 539 Noise Regulations
CHAPTER 541 Property Offenses
CHAPTER 545 Theft and Fraud
CHAPTER 549 Weapons and Explosives
CHAPTER 553 Trees, Weeds and Grass
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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525.11 SOLICITING OR RECEIVING IMPROPER COMPENSATION.
   (a)   No public servant shall knowingly solicit or accept and no person shall knowingly promise or give to a public servant either of the following:
      (1)   Any compensation, other than is allowed by Ohio R.C. 102.03(G), (H), and (I) or other provisions of law, to perform the public servant’s official duties, to perform any other act or service in the public servant's public capacity, for the general performance of the duties of the public servant's public office or public employment, or as a supplement to the public servant's public compensation;
      (2)   Additional or greater fees or costs than are allowed by law to perform the public servant’s official duties.
   (b)   No public servant for the public servant’s own personal or business use and no person for the person’s own personal or business use or for the personal or business use of a public servant or party official, shall solicit or accept anything of value in consideration of either of the following:
      (1)   Appointing or securing, maintaining or renewing the appointment of any person to any public office, employment or agency;
      (2)   Preferring, or maintaining the status of, any public employee with respect to compensation, duties, placement, location, promotion or other material aspects of employment.
   (c)   No person for the benefit of a political party, campaign committee, legislative campaign fund, political action committee or political contributing entity shall coerce any contribution in consideration of either of the following:
      (1)   Appointing or securing, maintaining or renewing the appointment of any person to any public office, employment or agency;
      (2)   Preferring, or maintaining the status of, any public employee with respect to compensation, duties, placement, location, promotion or other material aspects of employment.
   (d)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of soliciting improper compensation, a misdemeanor of the first degree.
   (e)   A public servant who is convicted of a violation of this section is disqualified from holding any public office, employment or position of trust in this Municipality for a period of seven years from the date of conviction.
   (f)   Subsections (a), (b) and (c) hereof do not prohibit a person from making voluntary contributions to a political party, campaign committee, legislative campaign fund, political action committee or political contributing entity or prohibit a political party, campaign committee, legislative campaign fund, political action committee or political contributing entity from accepting voluntary contributions. (ORC 2921.43)
525.12 DERELICTION OF DUTY.
   (a)   No law enforcement officer shall negligently do any of the following:
      (1)   Fail to serve a lawful warrant without delay;
      (2)   Fail to prevent or halt the commission of an offense or to apprehend an offender, when it is in the law enforcement officer’s power to do so alone or with available assistance.
   (b)   No law enforcement, ministerial or judicial officer shall negligently fail to perform a lawful duty in a criminal case or proceeding.
   (c)   No officer, having charge of a detention facility, shall negligently do any of the following:
      (1)   Allow the detention facility to become littered or unsanitary;
      (2)   Fail to provide persons confined in the detention facility with adequate food, clothing, bedding, shelter and medical attention;
      (3)   Fail to control an unruly prisoner, or to prevent intimidation of or physical harm to a prisoner by another;
      (4)   Allow a prisoner to escape;
      (5)   Fail to observe any lawful and reasonable regulation for the management of the detention facility.
   (d)   No public official of the Municipality shall recklessly create a deficiency, incur a liability or expend a greater sum than is appropriated by the legislative authority of the Municipality for the use in any one year of the department, agency or institution with which the public official is connected.
   (e)   No public servant shall recklessly fail to perform a duty expressly imposed by law with respect to the public servant’s office, or recklessly do any act expressly forbidden by law with respect to the public servant’s office.
   (f)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of dereliction of duty, a misdemeanor of the second degree.
   (g)   As used in this section, “public servant” includes an officer or employee of a contractor as defined in Ohio R.C. 9.08.
525.13 INTERFERING WITH CIVIL RIGHTS.
   (a)    No public servant, under color of the public servant’s office, employment, or authority, shall knowingly deprive, or conspire or attempt to deprive any person of a constitutional or statutory right.
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of interfering with civil rights, a misdemeanor of the first degree. (ORC 2921.45)
525.14 UNAUTHORIZED DISPLAY OF LAW ENFORCEMENT EMBLEMS ON MOTOR VEHICLES.
   (a)   No person who is not entitled to do so shall knowingly display on a motor vehicle the emblem of a law enforcement agency or an organization of law enforcement officers.
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of the unlawful display of the emblem of a law enforcement agency or an organization of law enforcement officers, a minor misdemeanor. (ORC 2913.441)
525.15 CONVEYANCE OF DRUGS OR LIQUOR ONTO GROUNDS OF DETENTION, MENTAL HEALTH OR MENTAL RETARDATION FACILITY.
   (a)   No person shall knowingly convey or attempt to convey, onto the grounds of a detention facility or of an institution that is under the control of the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation pursuant to Ohio R.C. 5123.11, any of the following items:
      (1)   Any drug of abuse, as defined in Ohio R.C. 3719.011;
      (2)   Any intoxicating liquor, as defined in Ohio R.C. 4301.01.
   (b)   Subsection (a) hereof does not apply to any person who conveys or attempts to convey an item onto the grounds of a detention facility or of an institution under the control of the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation pursuant to a written authorization of the person in charge of the detention facility or the institution and in accordance with the written rules of the detention facility or the institution.
   (c)   No person shall knowingly deliver, or attempt to deliver, to any person who is confined in a detention facility or to any patient in an institution under the control of the Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation pursuant to Ohio R.C. 5123.11, any item listed in subsection (a) hereof.
   (d)   It is an affirmative defense to a charge under subsection (c) hereof that the actor was not otherwise prohibited by law from delivering the item to the confined person or the patient and that any of the following apply:
      (1)   The actor was permitted by the written rules of the detention facility or the institution to deliver the item to the confined person or the patient.
      (2)   The actor was given written authorization by the person in charge of the detention facility or the institution to deliver the item to the confined person or the patient.
   (e)   Whoever violates subsection (a) hereof or commits a violation of subsection (c) hereof involving an item listed in subsection (a) hereof is guilty of illegal conveyance of prohibited items onto the grounds of a detention facility or mental health or mental retardation facility, a misdemeanor of the second degree.
(ORC 2921.26)
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