(a) Noxious Odors. No person shall erect, continue to use, or maintain a building, structure, or place for the exercise of a trade, employment, or business or for keeping or feeding an animal which, by occasioning noxious exhalations or noisome or offensive smells, becomes injurious to the health, comfort, or property of individuals or of the public.
(b) Filthy Accumulations. No person shall cause or allow offal, filth, or noisome substances to be collected or remain in any place to the damage or prejudice of others or of the public.
(c) Obstructing, Impeding or Diverting Watercourses. No person shall unlawfully obstruct or impede the passage of a navigable river, harbor, or collection of water, or corrupt or render unwholesome or impure a watercourse, stream of water, or unlawfully divert such watercourse from its natural course or state to the injury or prejudice of others.
(ORC 3767.13) (Adopting Ordinance)
(d) Obstructing Ditches, Drains and Sewers; Unlawful Connections.
(1) No person shall wrongfully obstruct any ditch, drain or storm sewer along, upon or across any public street or highway, or wrongfully divert any water or drainage from adjacent lands to or upon any public street or highway, or, without such legal authority or permission as may be required by law, make any connection to any storm or sanitary sewer in or upon any such street or highway.
(ORC 5589.06)
(2) Each property owner of any property in the Village of Walton Hills, and each adult occupying any home in the Village of Walton Hills with the express or implied consent of the property owner, shall be jointly and/or severally responsible for the complete maintenance of all drainage ditches, drainage pipes, grading, seeding, reseeding and grass mowing of the roadside drainage areas on said property, including all drainage areas and instrumentalities that are located in the road right-of-way. This responsibility shall include, but shall not be limited to, keeping all drain pipes clear of obstructions and in good working order.
(3) No property owner or occupant shall redirect any surface water, or pipe any surface or drainage water, or make any permanent or temporary improvement or grade change to any drainage ditch, natural drainage course or drainage pipe without first obtaining a building permit and Building Department and Village Engineer’s approval. All grading modifications, ditch enclosures, realignments, pipe replacements or removals are subject to review by the Village Engineer.
(Ord. 2005-17. Passed 6-21-05.)
(e) Pollution of Waters.
(1) No person shall intentionally throw, deposit, or permit to be thrown or deposited, any sewage, waste, refuse or filthy drainage into any lake, pond, stream, ditch, drain or watercourse, or on or in any place from which it may run or wash therein.
(ORC 3767.14)
(2) No person shall put the carcass of a dead animal or the offal from a slaughter house, butcher's establishment, packing house or fish house, or spoiled meat, spoiled fish, or other putrid substance or the contents of a privy vault, upon or into a lake, river, bay, creek, pond, canal, road, street, alley, lot, meadow, public ground, market place, or common. No owner or occupant of such place shall knowingly permit such thing to remain therein to the annoyance of any citizen or neglect to remove or abate the nuisance occasioned thereby within 24 hours after knowledge of the existence thereof, or after notice thereof in writing from the designated municipal official.
(ORC3767.16)
(3) No person shall maliciously put a dead animal, carcass, or part thereof, or other putrid, nauseous, or offensive substance into, or befoul, a well, spring, brook, or branch of running water, or a reservoir of a waterworks, of which use is or may be made for domestic purposes.
(ORC 3767.18) (Ord. 1952-7. Passed 1-15-52.)
(f) Penalty. Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.