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(a) Parks under the jurisdiction of the Division of Parks and Recreation will be open from thirty minutes before sunrise to fifteen minutes from sunset each day.
(b) Parks shall be closed for use by the general public during the period from fifteen minutes after sunset to thirty minutes before sunrise each day; provided, however, that the following persons may use such parks during the closed period:
(1) Persons having written permission from the Department of Parks, Recreation and Forestry for a special or particular use of specified park facilities during certain hours, which use shall be limited to the specified facilities and ingress and egress thereto.
(2) Persons attending activities which are lighted and which are under the supervision of an employee of the Department of Parks, Recreation and Forestry or an authorized designee thereof.
(3) Persons using park routes as vehicular routes for through traffic, which persons shall remain on the traveled portion of through routes.
(4) Any areas officially designated by the rules and regulations of Director of Parks, Recreation and Forestry as being exempt from the provisions of this section.
(c) No person shall enter or be present in any City park at any time when the park is closed, except as provided herein. Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(1952 Code § 17-5-131; Ord. 91-77)
(a) No person shall deface or disfigure any sidewalk, or any part of any sidewalk, by painting thereon any names, words, advertisements or any device whatever, or by pasting or placing any printed bills or posters thereon.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(1952 Code § 7-5-1)
(a) No person shall without privilege to do so remove, destroy, break, injure, mutilate, deface, damage or otherwise tamper with any structure, monument, statue, vase, fountain, wall, fence, railing, vehicle, equipment, plant material or other property in, upon or about any park, parkway or recreational facility owned and controlled by the City.
(b) No person, without privilege to do so, shall knowingly deface, destroy, injure or otherwise damage or tamper with public property.
(c) As used in this section, "recreational facility" includes playground, ballfield, tennis court, skating rink, recreation center and swimming pool.
Whoever violates this section is guilty of criminal damage to parks and recreational facilities, a misdemeanor of the second degree. If a violation of this section creates a risk of physical harm to any person, criminal damage to parks and recreational facilities is a misdemeanor of the first degree. In either case, whoever violates this section shall be fined not less than two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) and sentenced to not less than thirty days imprisonment. Imprisonment and fine under this section shall be mandatory and shall not be suspended. The court may, however, require the offender, in lieu of ten days imprisonment, to perform supervised community service work pursuant to Ohio R.C. 2951.02(H).
(d) In addition to the penalty provided in subsection (c) hereof, whenever an unmarried child under the age of eighteen violates this section, the Mayor shall refer the matter to the Director of Law for civil action against the parents who have custody and control of the child, pursuant to Ohio R.C. 2307.70 and/or Ohio R.C 3109.09.
(Ord. 370-91. Passed 5-7-91.)
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Former section 541.14 was repealed by Ordinance 216-15, passed April 28, 2015. See TMC section 545.21 for current provisions.)
(a) No person shall enter or remain on the land or premises of another with purpose to commit on that land or premises a misdemeanor, the elements of which involve causing physical harm to another person or causing another person to believe that the offender will cause physical harm to him.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of aggravated trespass, a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(ORC 2911.211[A]; Ord. 793-92. Passed 11-17-92.)
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