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509.09 LOITERING.
   (a)   “Loitering” means remaining idle in essentially one location and included the colloquial expression “hanging around”.
   (b)   No person shall loiter in a public place and do any of the following:
      (1)   Breach the peace, or create a disturbance or unreasonable annoyance to the comfort and repose of any person.
      (2)   Obstruct the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles.
      (3)   Obstruct, molest or physically interfere with any person.
      (4)   Engage in conduct which creates an unreasonable risk of physical harm, including making remarks of fighting words to another person.
      (5)   Solicit others for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct.
   (c)   Order and Refusal to Leave.
      (1)   Whenever any police officer has reasonable grounds to believe that any person loitering in any public place is causing any of the conditions enumerated in subsection (b) hereof, the police officer may order that person to leave that place in order to preserve the public peace and safety.
      (2)   Any person who refuses to leave a public place after being ordered to do so by a police officer under subsection (d) hereof, is guilty of a minos misdemeanor.
      (3)   Any subsequent violations of this section will be a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
   (d)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(Ord. 20-97. Passed 8-28-97.)
509.10 DISORDERLY HOUSE.
   (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.)
509.11 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)   Subsection (a) of this section does not limit or affect the application of Ohio R.C. 2921.31 or any other section of the Ohio Revised Code. Any conduct that is a violation of subsection (a) of this section and that also is a violation of Ohio 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 Ohio R.C. 2903.13. (ORC 2917.14)
509.99 PENALTY.
   (EDITOR'S NOTE: See Section 501.99 for penalties applicable to any misdemeanor classification.)