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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; and
(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 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 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 (e).
(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 (f).
(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 R.C. § 3737.82.
(R.C. § 3701.82)
(k) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(R.C. § 3701.99(B))
(a) No person, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the person has a dangerous, contagious disease, shall knowingly fail to take reasonable measures to prevent exposing self to other persons, except when seeking medical aid.
(b) No person, having charge or care of a person whom the person having charge or care knows or has reasonable cause to believe has 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 the 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.
(R.C. § 3701.81)
(d) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree.
(R.C. § 3701.99(C))
(a) (1) No person shall throw, drop, pour, deposit or, having done so, permit to remain, in or on any public street or highway or public ground, any nail, tack, glass, crockery, scrap iron, tin, wire, bottle, thorn, clipping or any other article or thing likely to injure the feet of any person or animal or the tire of any vehicle.
(2) No person shall throw or cause to be deposited, or permit to be thrown or deposited, dirt, debris or offal in or upon any street, lane, alley, tree lawn or any other public ground or the premises of another. This provision shall not apply to fill dirt, top soil or similar dirt which is deposited in connection with the construction, grading or seeding of any premises.
(3) The provisions of this division (a) shall apply to debris or mud deposited from tires of vehicles as well as leaking loads.
(b) No person shall dump, throw or cast any material upon the property of any other person without permission. No person shall dump any refuse, rubbish, manure or garbage of any property in the city unless a permit is obtained from the Mayor to do so, in which permit the conditions controlling such dumping are set forth, except for reasonable fertilization purposes in connection with the immediate planting or landscaping or crops. If planting is delayed, a permit shall be obtained from the Mayor even for fertilization purposes.
(c) No person shall dump or deposit any leaves, grass clippings, brush or wood debris in such a way that it obstructs a waterway or sewer system within any public street or sidewalk except on the tree lawn between the sidewalk and the curb.
(d) Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(1964 Code, § 521.14)
(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.
(R.C. § 3767.13)
(d) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(R.C. § 3767.99(C))
(a) Every owner, occupant and person in control of any lot or land within the city along the front or side of which any sidewalk is located, or upon which is located any sidewalk forming a continuation of a sidewalk upon a public street or highway and available for use by the public as such a continuation, shall make a reasonable effort to keep such sidewalk and continuation thereof free and unobstructed from snow, ice, slush, dirt, mud, tree limbs and other objects. Every such owner, occupant and person in control shall keep such sidewalk in good repair and free of nuisance. A continuation of a sidewalk within the meaning of this section shall not include any sidewalk or portion thereof located upon private property and used only for single-family, two-family or multi-family residences.
(b) Where the elevation or topography of any lot or parcel of land abutting upon a sidewalk is such in relation to the sidewalk that earth, stone, sand or gravel slide, fall or are carried upon such sidewalk by force of gravity or by action of water, the owner or person in charge or control of such lot or parcel of land shall, within 72 hours after the deposit of such matter upon the sidewalk, remove or cause the same to be removed. If, by reason of the elevation or topography of such lot or parcel of land, a recurrence of an obstruction or nuisance upon the sidewalk is probable or reasonably to be anticipated, the owner or person in charge or control of such lot or parcel of land shall construct upon his or her land such a suitable retaining wall or other device as will effectually prevent such recurrence. No person shall obstruct or permit a nuisance to exist upon any public sidewalk.
(1964 Code, § 521.06) (Ord. 2012-118, passed 5-7-2012)
(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 the door or lid, without rendering the equipment harmless to human life by removing the 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.
(R.C. § 3767.29)
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(R.C. § 3767.99(B))
(a) No person shall deposit or leave garbage, waste, putrid substances, junk, waste materials from oil and gas drilling operations, including brine, or other waste material on any public street or any other public property or in any pond or watercourse, nor shall any person who is the owner, occupant or person in possession of any property within the city, deposit, permit to remain, or permit any other person to deposit, on private property, any of such material. For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(1) WASTE MATERIAL. Any material which has been discarded or abandoned or any material no longer in use, and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, includes junk, waste boxes, cartons, plastic or wood scraps or shavings, waste paper and paper products and other combustible materials or substances no longer in use or discarded or abandoned, metal or ceramic scraps or pieces of all types, glass and other noncombustible materials or substances no longer in use or discarded or abandoned, and machinery, appliances or equipment, or parts thereof, no longer in use or discarded or abandoned.
(2) JUNK. Includes old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper and rubber. It also includes inoperable, partially dismantled or wrecked vehicles of any kind, whether motor vehicles, automobiles, motorcycles, emergency vehicles, public safety vehicles, school buses, bicycles, commercial tractors, agricultural tractors, house trailers, trucks, buses, trailers, semitrailers, railroad trains, railroad cars, watercraft or any other form of device for the transportation of persons or property, and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, with respect to any automobile or other transportation device of any kind, the operation of which requires issuance of a license by the federal government or any agency thereof or by the state or any agency or political subdivision thereof, any such automobile or other transportation device shall be deemed to be junk unless a current valid license has been issued for the operation of such automobile or other transportation device, which license, if required by law, is displayed upon such automobile or other transportation device. The word also includes other automobiles or other transportation devices. The word also includes other old scrap and ferrous or nonferrous materials which are not held for sale or for remelting purposes by an establishment having facilities for processing such materials.
(b) The provisions of this section shall be enforced by the Director of Service and the Director of Public Safety or by either of them.
(c) Whoever violates any of the 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.
(1964 Code, § 521.15)
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