(a) CHRONIC NUISANCE PROPERTY.
(1) Property on which three or more nuisance activities and/or two felony drug activities have occurred during any six-month period; or
(2) Property on which any person associated with the property has engaged in three or more nuisance activities within any six-month period.
(b) NUISANCE ACTIVITIES. Any of the following activities, behaviors, or criminal conduct:
(1) Any falsification violation under Section 525.02, obstruction of official business violation under Section 525.07, obstructing justice violation under Section 525.08, resisting arrest violation under Section 525.09, compliance with lawful order of Police Officer, fleeing violation under Section 303.01, misuse of 9-1-1 System violation under Section 537.12, refusal to disclose personal information violation under Section 525.18 of the Codified Ordinances;
(6) Any offense against another person under Chapter 537 of the Codified Ordinances, excluding a domestic violence offense under Section 537.14 of the Codified Ordinances and excluding Chapter 537 offenses where the person in charge or person associated with the property is a victim of the offense and not the perpetrator;
(7) Any violation under Section 537.16 of the Codified Ordinances, illegal distribution of cigarettes, other tobacco products or alternate nicotine products;
(9) Any disorderly conduct, disturbance of the peace, or other violation under Chapter 509 of the Codified Ordinances;
(12) Any weapons, explosives, firearm or handgun violation under Chapter 549 of the Codified Ordinances;
(13) Any property maintenance violation which results in either a conviction or abatement of the violation by the City, including, but not limited to Chapter 1345, Environmental Requirements, Chapter 1347, Light Ventilation and Space, Chapter 1349, Plumbing Facilities and Fixtures, Chapter 1351, Mechanical and Electrical Requirements, Chapter 1353 Fire Safety, Chapter 1355, Responsibilities of Persons and Chapter 1357, Nuisances.
(14) Any activity or violation indicated to be a public nuisance anywhere in the Codified Ordinances; or
(15) Any activity or violation listed above under the corresponding sections of the Ohio Revised Code.
(c) PERMIT. To suffer, allow, consent to, acquiesce by failure to prevent, or expressly assent or agree to the doing of an act.
(d) PERSON. Any natural person, agent, association, firm, partnership, or corporation capable of owning, occupying, or using property.
(e) PERSON IN CHARGE. Any person, in actual or constructive possession of a property, including but not limited to an owner or occupant of a property under his or her dominion, ownership or control.
(f) PERSON ASSOCIATED WITH. Any person who, on the occasion of a nuisance activity, has entered, patronized, visited, or attempted to enter, patronize, or visit a property or person present on a property, including without limitation any officer, director, customer, agent, employee, or any independent contractor of a property, person in charge or owner thereof.
(g) PROPERTY or PREMISES. These terms may be used inter changeably in this chapter. Any public or private building, lot, parcel, dwelling, rental unit, real estate or land or portion thereof including property used as a residential or commercial property. Property consisting of more than one unit shall be limited to the unit or portion of the property on which any nuisance activity occurs.
(h) FELONY DRUG ACTIVITY. Any violation charged under Ohio Revised Code Chapters 2925 or 3917, the penalty for which includes the possibility of incarceration in a Federal penitentiary. This includes, but is not limited to, possession of a controlled substance, permitting drug abuse, trafficking drugs, corrupting another with drugs, illegal manufacture of drugs, and illegal assembly of chemicals.
(Ord. 16-19. Passed 7-1-19.)