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(a) A brazier, salamander, space heater, room heater, furnace, water heater or other burner or heater using wood, coal, coke, fuel oil, kerosene, gasoline, natural gas, liquid petroleum gas or similar fuel, and tending to give off carbon monoxide or other harmful gases:
(1) When used in living quarters, or in any enclosed building or space in which persons are usually present, shall be used with a flue or vent so designed, installed and maintained as to vent the products of combustion outdoors; except in storage, factory or industrial buildings which are provided with sufficient ventilation to avoid the danger of carbon monoxide poisoning;
(2) When used as a portable or temporary burner or heater at a construction site, or in a warehouse, shed or structure in which persons are temporarily present, shall be vented as provided in subsection (a) hereof, or used with sufficient ventilation to avoid the danger of carbon monoxide poisoning.
(b) This section does not apply to domestic ranges, laundry stoves, gas logs installed in a fireplace with an adequate flue, or hot plates, unless the same are used as space or room heaters.
(c) No person shall negligently use, or, being the owner, person in charge, or occupant of premises, negligently permit the use of a burner or heater in violation of the standards for venting and ventilation provided in this section.
(d) Subsection (a) hereof does not apply to any kerosene-fired space or room heater that is equipped with an automatic extinguishing tip-over device, or to any natural gas-fired or liquid petroleum gas-fired space or room heater that is equipped with an oxygen depletion safety shutoff system, and that has its fuel piped from a source outside of the building in which it is located, that are approved by an authoritative source recognized by the State Fire Marshal in the State Fire Code adopted by him under Ohio R.C. 3737.82.
(e) The State Fire Marshal may make rules to ensure the safe use of unvented kerosene, natural gas or liquid petroleum gas heaters exempted from subsection (a) hereof when used in assembly buildings, business buildings, high hazard buildings, institutional buildings, mercantile buildings and type R-1 and R-2 residential buildings, as these groups of buildings are defined in rules adopted by the Board of Building Standards under Ohio R.C. 3781.10. No person shall negligently use, or, being the owner, person in charge or occupant of premises, negligently permit the use of a heater in violation of any rules adopted under this subsection.
(f) The State Fire Marshal may make rules prescribing standards for written instructions containing ventilation requirements and warning of any potential fire hazards that may occur in using a kerosene, natural gas, or liquid petroleum gas heater. No person shall sell or offer for sale any kerosene, natural gas or liquid petroleum gas heater unless the manufacturer provides with the heater written instructions that comply with any rules adopted under this subsection.
(g) No product labeled as a fuel additive for kerosene heaters and having a flash point below one hundred degrees fahrenheit or thirty-seven and eight-tenths degrees centigrade shall be sold, offered for sale or used in any kerosene space heater.
(h) No device that prohibits any safety feature on a kerosene, natural gas or liquid petroleum gas space heater from operating shall be sold, offered for sale or used in connection with any kerosene, natural gas or liquid petroleum gas space heater.
(i) No person shall sell or offer for sale any kerosene-fired, natural gas or liquid petroleum gas-fired heater that is not exempt from subsection (a) hereof unless it is marked conspicuously by the manufacturer on the container with the phrase "Not Approved For Home Use."
(j) No person shall use a cabinet-type, liquid petroleum gas-fired heater having a fuel source within the heater, inside any building, except as permitted by the State Fire Marshal in the State Fire Code adopted by him under Ohio R.C. 3737.82.
(ORC 3701.82)
(k) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(ORC 3701.99(C))
(a) No person shall abandon or knowingly permit to remain on public or private property, any excavation, well, cesspool or structure which is in the process of construction, reconstruction, repair or alteration unless the same is adequately protected by suitable barricades and guarded by warning devices or lights at night so that the condition will not reasonably prove dangerous to life or limb.
(b) No person shall destroy, remove, damage or extinguish any barricade or warning light that is placed for the protection of the public so as to prevent injury to life or limb.
(c) Any owner or agent in control of a premises upon which a basement, cellar, well or cistern has been abandoned due to demolition, failure to build or any other reason shall cause the same to be filled to the ground surface with rock, gravel, earth or other suitable material.
(d) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(a) No person shall place or knowingly drop upon any part of a sidewalk, playground or other public place any tacks, bottles, wire, glass, nails or other articles which may damage property of another or injure any person or animal traveling along or upon such sidewalk or playground.
(b) No person shall walk on, or allow any animal upon, or injure or deface in any way, any soft or newly laid sidewalk pavement.
(c) No person shall place, deposit or maintain any merchandise, goods, material or equipment upon any sidewalk so as to obstruct pedestrian traffic thereon except for such reasonable time as may be actually necessary for the delivery or pickup of such articles. In no case shall the obstruction remain on such sidewalk for more than one hour.
(d) No person shall unload upon, or transport any heavy merchandise, goods, material or equipment over or across any sidewalk or curb without first placing some sufficient protection over the pavement to protect against damage or injury. The affected area shall be rendered safe and free from danger.
(e) No person shall allow any cellar or trap door, coal chute or elevator or lift opening in any sidewalk to remain open without providing suitable safeguards to protect and warn pedestrian traffic of the dangerous condition.
(f) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(a) No person shall fail to comply with the following requirements within the lawful time after service or publication of the notice or resolution is made as required by law:
To fill or drain any lot or land or remove all putrid substances therefrom, or remove all obstructions from culverts, covered drains or natural watercourses as provided in Ohio R.C. 715.47.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(a) No person owning, controlling, using or occupying any lot, land or premises abutting on any sidewalk in the City shall allow snow, ice or dirt to accumulate and remain to the annoyance of the public on that part of any sidewalk on which his lot, land or premises abuts, after 8:00 a.m.
(Ord. 8176-75. Passed 2-24-75.)
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(a) No owner, lessee or occupant of any lot, in any district zoned residential, shall construct or maintain or permit to be constructed or maintained any barbed wire or other dangerously constructed fence.
(b) No owner or lessee or occupant of any lot in any district zoned commercial or manufacturing shall construct or maintain or permit to be constructed or maintained on or adjacent to any lot line fronting on any public street, avenue, alley, lane, park, square, common or other public ground any barbed wire or other dangerously constructed fence unless:
(1) Such barbed wire consists of single strands only located on the top of a fence, other than a barbed wire fence;
(2) The lowest strand of any barbed wire shall not be less than seventy-two inches from the ground at any point in such fencing.
(c) No owner, lessee or occupant of any lot in any district zoned commercial or manufacturing shall construct or maintain or permit to be constructed or maintained on or adjacent to any side or rear lot line, or within fifty feet of any such line, any barbed wire or other dangerously constructed fence unless:
(1) Written consent of the adjoining property owner or owners is first obtained;
(2) Such barbed wire consists of single strands only located on the top of a fence, other than a barbed wire fence;
(3) The lowest strand of any barbed wire shall not be less than seventy-two inches from the ground at any point in such fencing.
(d) No owner, lessee or occupant of any lot in any district zoned commercial or manufacturing shall construct or maintain or permit to be constructed or maintained on or adjacent to any lot line any barbed wire fence of the concertina type of barbed wire, or similar type of barbed wire, or to entwine such concertina or similar type of wire in any fencing, unless such type of wire is fronted to the lot line by fencing not less than six feet in height.
(e) No person or corporation shall construct or cause to be constructed any electrified wire fencing within the City.
(f) Each thirty-day period that a violation of this section continues constitutes a separate violation.
(Ord. 9882/88. Passed 1-27-88.)
(a) No person shall, without lawful authority, place or dispose of in any manner upon any public property or upon the premises of another, any bulky waste, construction debris, hazardous waste, garbage, refuse, rubbish, junk, trash, litter, paper, stable matter, any part or parts of motor vehicles or any substance or material as defined in Chapter 1365
which is or may become noxious, unsightly, offensive, injurious or dangerous to the public health, comfort or safety.
(b) No person shall cause or allow bulky waste, construction debris, hazardous waste, garbage, refuse, rubbish, junk, trash, litter, paper, stable matter, any part or parts of motor vehicles or any other noxious, unsightly or offensive materials or substances to be collected or obstruct, impede, divert, corrupt or render unwholesome or impure any natural watercourse.
(Ord. 9743/87. Passed 1-14-87.)
(c) Whoever violates this section shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or imprisoned not more than six months, or both, but no person shall be imprisoned for his or her first offense of this section and the prosecution shall always be as and for the first offense unless the affidavit upon which the prosecution is instituted contains an allegation that the offense is a second or repeated offense.
(Ord. 10724/94. Passed 10-26-94.)
(a) No person shall erect, continue, use or maintain a dwelling, building, structure or place for a residence or for the exercise of a trade, employment or business, or for the keeping or feeding of 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.
(ORC 3767.13)
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(a) No person shall allow to be discharged from the premises of such person the water from any fountain or pipe from any building upon the surface of any part of any sidewalk, street or other public ground within the City, when, in the opinion of the City Engineer, a public nuisance is caused by so doing. The City Engineer may notify any person not to allow water to be discharged upon any sidewalk, street or other public ground in violation of this section.
(Ord. 8176-75. Passed 2-24-75.)
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
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