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648.09 INCITING TO VIOLENCE.
   (a)   No person shall knowingly engage in conduct designed to urge or incite another to commit any offense of violence when either of the following apply:
      (1)   The conduct takes place under circumstances that create a clear and present danger that any offense of violence will be committed.
      (2)   The conduct proximately results in the commission of any offense of violence.
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of inciting to violence. If the offense of violence that the other person is being urged or incited to commit is a misdemeanor, inciting to violence is a misdemeanor of the first degree. If the offense of violence that the other person is being urged or incited to commit is a felony, inciting to violence is a felony to be prosecuted under appropriate State law.
(ORC 2917.01)
648.10 NOISE-PRODUCING INSTRUMENTS AND SOUND-AMPLIFYING DEVICES.
   (a)   No person shall generate or permit to be generated unreasonable noise or loud sound which is likely to cause inconvenience or annoyance to persons of ordinary sensibilities, by means of a radio, phonograph, television, tape or disc player, loudspeaker or any other sound- amplifying device, or by means of any horn, drum, piano or other musical or percussion instrument.
   (b)   It is prima-facie unlawful for a person to generate or permit to be generated sound by the devices or instruments described in division (a) of this section in the following circumstances:
      (1)   On private property between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. of the following day in a predominantly residential area, regardless of an existing nonconforming use of variance, where the sound is audible more than 80 feet from the property line of the property on which the source of the sound is located;
      (2)   On a street or highway or in the public right-of-way where the sound is audible 100 feet from the device generating the sound.
   (c)   No person, being the owner of a premises, a person in possession of a premises, or a person in control of a premises by reason of employment, agency or otherwise, whether such ownership, possession or control is exclusive or joint, shall permit a violation of this section.
   (d)   Warning or alarm devices licensed under Chapter 1062 of these Codified Ordinances are exempt from the prohibitions of this section.
   (e)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of generating unreasonable noise, a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(Ord. 13-2001. Passed 4-5-01.)
648.11 IMPEDING PUBLIC PASSAGE OF AN EMERGENCY SERVICE RESPONDER.
   (a)   No person, without privilege to do so, shall recklessly obstruct any highway, street, sidewalk, or any other public passage in such a manner as to render the highway, street, sidewalk, or passage impassable without unreasonable inconvenience or hazard if both of the following apply:
      (1)   The obstruction prevents an emergency vehicle from accessing a highway or street, prevents an emergency service responder from responding to an emergency, or prevents an emergency vehicle or an emergency service responder from having access to an exit from an emergency.
      (2)   Upon receipt of a request or order from an emergency service responder to remove or cease the obstruction, the person refuses to remove or cease the obstruction.
   (b)   Division (a) of this section does not limit or affect the application of R.C. § 2921.31 or any other section of the Ohio Revised Code. Any conduct that is a violation of division (a) of this section and that also is a violation of R.C. § 2921.31 or any other section of the Ohio Revised Code may be prosecuted under this section, the other section of the Ohio Revised Code, or both sections.
   (c)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of unlawfully impeding public passage of an emergency service responder, a misdemeanor of the first degree.
   (d)   As used in this section, “emergency service responder” has the same meaning as in R.C. § 2903.13.
(R.C. § 2917.14)