(a) Purpose. The purpose of this section is to protect the health, safety and welfare of the citizens if the City of Uhrichsville, Ohio by identifying as "disorderly houses" those residences that harbor occupants who disturb the peace and tranquility of their neighborhoods.
(b) Definitions.
(1) Building. Any building, dwelling unit, rooming house, rooming unit, tent, trailer, recreational vehicle, camping site or other structure or place occupied either temporarily or permanently by human beings.
(2) Disorderly activities. Situations created within or in the immediate vicinity of a building by a building's owner, occupants, or tenants, or the invitees of an owner, tenant or occupant, which would have a tendency to disturb unreasonably the community, the neighborhood or an ordinary individual occupying property in or near the disorderly activity, including but not limited to loud music, boisterous parties, excessively loud or unnecessary noises emanating from within or near the building which are audible outside the building, fights within the building or in its vicinity involving occupants of the building or their invitees, occupants of the building or their invitees being intoxicated outdoors in the vicinity of the building, and the outdoor intoxication leading directly to fights, loud music, boisterous parties or excessively loud or unnecessary noises, and other similar activities in the building or in the vicinity of the building.
(3) Disorderly Event. An activity to which the Police Department responds on the basis of a complaint and determines to be disorderly.
(4) Disorderly House. Any building at which the Police Department has substantiated three (3) disorderly events within the period of sixty (60) days.
(c) Documentation of Complaints. The Police Department shall document all responses to complaints of disorderly activities and classify each complaint as either substantiated or unsubstantiated.
(d) Notice of Disorderly House. Whenever the Police Department responds to a disorderly event, and determines the complaint of disorderly activities to be substantiated, the owner and occupant shall be notified of such decision. At such time, the Police Department shall provide the occupant with a copy of this section.
(e) Penalty. Upon the happening of three (3) substantiated disorderly events within a sixty (60) day period, the occupant shall be assessed a fine of one hundred dollars ($100.00). Each subsequent offense within the sixty (60) day period shall result in the occupants being assessed a fine of one hundred dollars ($100.00).
(Ord. 5-12. Passed 5-10-12.)