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PART ONE - ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
PART THREE - TRAFFIC CODE
PART FIVE - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
PART SEVEN - BUSINESS REGULATION CODE
PART NINE - STREETS, UTILITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART ELEVEN - PLANNING AND ZONING CODE
PART TWELVE - DEVELOPMENT CODE
PART THIRTEEN - BUILDING CODE
PART FIFTEEN - FIRE PREVENTION CODE
PART SEVENTEEN - HEALTH CODE
PART NINETEEN - TAXATION CODE
PART TWENTY-ONE - PERSONNEL RELATIONS AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYMENT
CHAPTER 521
Health, Safety and Sanitation
521.01   Removal of snow and ice from walks.
521.02   Sidewalk obstructions.
521.03   Barricades and warning lights; abandoned excavations.
521.04   Inoperable vehicle. (Repealed)
521.05   Playing ball in streets. (Repealed)
521.06   Smoking in buses and other public conveyances.
521.07   Refuse dumping at City dumps.
521.08   Release of balloons.
521.09   Vehicles left on private or public property or public street; removal of stored vehicles; notice of nuisance and disposition; unlawful removal of stored vehicle; penalty.
521.10   Abandoned junk motor vehicle defined; declaration of public nuisance; abandoned junk motor vehicle on public or private property; time-periods; notice and order of removal; forfeiture and disposition procedure.
521.11   Willful abandonment of junk motor vehicle prohibited.
521.12    Face coverings required.
521.99   Penalty.
   CROSS REFERENCES
   See Sectional histories for similar State law
   Flagpole installation in sidewalk - see Ohio R.C. 723.012
   Excavation liability - see Ohio R.C. 723.49 et seq.
   Removal of noxious weeds or litter - see Ohio R.C. 731.51 et seq.
   Nuisances - see Ohio R.C. Ch. 3767
   Impounding junk vehicles - see TRAF. 303.08
   Tampering with safety devices - see GEN. OFF. 541.04
521.01. Removal of snow and ice from walks.
   (a)   The occupants of each single residential, commercial or industrial property and the owner of any multiple residential, commercial or industrial property or of any unoccupied or unimproved property, abutting upon public walks shall clear the walk of snow, ice, dirt, or any other debris within twenty-four hours after such deposit.
(1952 Code § 7-4-29)
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
521.02. Sidewalk obstructions.
   (a)   No person shall place or set out for exhibition any goods, wares or merchandise on the right of way or walk in front of any place of business, store or building; and no goods, wares or merchandise shall be allowed to remain on the right of way or walk between the curb line and the abutting line, except while receiving or delivering such goods, wares or merchandise and then all such goods, wares or merchandise shall be confined to the walk directly contiguous to such a place of business, store or building at which or from which they are being delivered or received and such goods, wares or merchandise may remain on such right of way or walk only during the actual delivery or receipt thereof, but such delivery or receipt shall not obstruct or interfere with the convenient use of the right of way or walk by pedestrians.
(1952 Code § 7-4-30)
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
521.03. Barricades and warning lights; abandoned excavations.
   (a)   No person shall abandon or knowingly permit to remain on public or private property, any excavation, well, cesspool or structure which is in the process of construction, reconstruction, repair or alteration unless the same is adequately protected by suitable barricades and guarded by warning devices or lights at night so that the condition will not reasonably prove dangerous to life or limb.
   (b)   No person shall destroy, remove, damage or extinguish any barricade or warning light that is placed for the protection of the public so as to prevent injury to life or limb.
   (c)   Any owner or agent in control of a premises upon which a basement, cellar, well or cistern has been abandoned due to demolition, failure to build or any other reason shall cause the same to be filled to the ground surface with rock, gravel, earth or other suitable material.
   (d)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
521.04. Inoperable vehicle.
   (EDITOR'S NOTE: Former Section 521.04 was repealed by Ordinance 457-95, passed July 11, 1995.)
521.05. Playing ball in streets.
   (EDITOR'S NOTE: Former Section 521.05 was repealed by Ordinance 233-23, passed May 2, 2023.)
521.06. Smoking in buses and other public conveyances.
   (a)   No person shall smoke on any motor-propelled vehicle used in the business of transportation of passengers as common carriers for compensation, operated in the City, excepting taxicabs and limousines.
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(1952 Code § 17-6-140; Ord. 122-74)
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