(a) Any building, vehicle, boat, aircraft, or place used for the purpose of lewdness, soliciting for prostitution or prostitution or gambling, or used by, or kept for the use of prostitutes or other disorderly persons or used for the unlawful manufacturing, transporting, sale, keeping for sale, bartering, or furnishing of any controlled substance, counterfeit controlled substance, drug paraphernalia or harmful intoxicant, or any vinous, malt, brewed, fermented, spirituous, or intoxicating liquors or any mixed liquors or beverages, or any part of which is intoxicating, or which is used in, or obtained in, the commission of a theft offense, house stripping, vandalism, or a violation of Revised Code § 4737.04 or a nuisance as defined in § 1726.01 is declared a nuisance for purposes of §§ 533.20 and 533.21, and the furniture, fixtures, and contents of the building, the vehicle, boat, aircraft, or place and all intoxicating liquors therein are also declared a nuisance, and all controlled substances and nuisances shall be enjoined and abated as provided in § 533.21 and as provided in the court rules. Any person or his or her servant, agent or employee who owns, leases, conducts or maintains any building, vehicle or place used for any of the purposes or acts set forth in this section is guilty of a nuisance.
(Ord. 273-22. Passed 5-24-22.)
(b) Owner of vehicle defined; parties defendant. An owner of a vehicle within the meaning of this is deemed to be the person in whose name the vehicle is titled, and any chattel mortgagee, lessee or assignee therefore or other lien holder and the plaintiff shall join such mortgagee, assignee or lien holder as a party defendant.
(Ord. 453-14. Passed 10-21-14.)