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CHARTER OF THE CITY OF TOLEDO, OHIO
PART ONE - ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
PART THREE - TRAFFIC CODE
PART FIVE - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
CHAPTER 501 General Provisions and Penalty
CHAPTER 505 Animals and Fowl
CHAPTER 507 Anti-Noise Law
CHAPTER 509 Disorderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
CHAPTER 511 Alarm Systems
CHAPTER 513 Drug Abuse Control
CHAPTER 515 Family Offenses
CHAPTER 517 Gambling
CHAPTER 521 Health, Safety and Sanitation
CHAPTER 525 Law Enforcement and Public Office
CHAPTER 529 Liquor Control
CHAPTER 533 Obscenity and Sex Offenses
CHAPTER 537 Offenses Against Persons
CHAPTER 541 Property Offenses
CHAPTER 543 Securities
CHAPTER 545 Theft and Fraud
CHAPTER 549 Weapons and Explosives
CHAPTER 553 Railroads
CHAPTER 554 Employment, Real Estate Discrimination
CHAPTER 555 Hate Crime
CHAPTER 556 Closed Captioning
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 537
Offenses Against Persons
537.01   Negligent homicide.
537.02   Vehicular homicide.
537.03   Assault.
537.04   Negligent assault.
537.05   Aggravated menacing.
537.06   Menacing.
537.07   Endangering children.
537.08   Unlawful restraint.
537.09   Coercion.
537.10   Telephone harassment.
537.11   Threatening or harassing telephone calls.
537.12   Party lines to be yielded in emergencies.
537.13   Adulterating of or furnishing adulterated food or confection.
537.14   Unauthorized taking of pictures prohibited.
537.15   Child stealing.
537.16   Assault upon a teacher, disrupting school activity.
537.17   Unlawful to permit children to play at games of chance, etc.
537.18   Abuse of corpse.
537.19   Domestic violence.
537.20   Temporary protection order.
537.21   Hazing.
537.22   Criminal enticement.
537.23   Illegal distribution of cigarettes or other tobacco products.
537.24   Cigarette purchase, possession and/or smoking by minors prohibited.
537.25   Menacing by stalking.
537.26   Motion for issuance of anti-stalking protection order.
537.27   Violating protection order or consent agreement.
537.28   Restrictions on sale of flavored vapor products and flavored electronic smoking devices.
537.99   Penalty.
   CROSS REFERENCES
   See sectional histories for similar State law.
   Physical harm to persons defined - see GEN. OFF. 501.01(c), (e)
   Fighting; provoking violent response - see GEN. OFF. 509.03
   Family offenses - see GEN. OFF. Ch. 515
537.01. Negligent homicide.
   (a)   No person shall negligently cause the death of another by means of a deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance as defined in Section 549.01.
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of negligent homicide, a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(ORC 2903.05)
537.02. Vehicular homicide.
   (a)   No person, while operating or participating in the operation of a motor vehicle, motorcycle, snowmobile, locomotive, watercraft or aircraft, shall negligently cause the death of another.
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of vehicular homicide, a misdemeanor of the first degree, if the offender has not previously been convicted of an offense under this section or Ohio R.C. 2903.06 or 2903.07.
(ORC 2903.07)
537.03. Assault.
   (a)   No person shall knowingly cause or attempt to cause physical harm to another.
   (b)   No person shall recklessly cause serious physical harm to another.
   (c)   Where a person charged under either subsection (a) or (b) hereof used a tear gas type device or other similar device as defined in Section 541.04, it shall be an affirmative defense to the charge of assault, where the actor was not in the commission of a felony or a misdemeanor and the device was used for defensive purposes while engaged in lawful activity; and the user had reasonable cause to fear a criminal attack upon himself or herself or his or her family, such as would justify a prudent person in using such device.
   (d)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of assault, a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(Ord. 233-81. Passed 4-21-81)
537.04. Negligent assault.
   (a)   No person shall negligently, by means of a deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance as defined in Section 549.01 cause physical harm to another.
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of negligent assault, a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(ORC 2903.14)
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