(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. 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. 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 or water, or unlawfully divert such watercourse from its natural course or state to the injury or prejudice of others.
(ORC 3767.13; Ord. 1973-145. Passed 12-20-73.)
(b) No person shall deposit or permit to be deposited any garbage, refuse matter, animal carcass, offal, stones, wood, earth, plaster, dirt, filth, ashes or paper which may become offensive, noxious or dangerous to the public health, on his own premises or on any premises under his control, or deposit such garbage, paper, refuse matter, animal carcasses, offal, stones, wood, earth, plaster, dirt, filth or ashes in any back lot, public ground, vacant lot, park, alley, street or areaway, or in any other place within the City, except as is otherwise provided by law.
(Ord. 1973-73. Passed 6-21-73.)
(c) No person shall, without lawful authority, place or dispose of in any manner, upon any public property or upon the premises of another, any glass or plastic bottle, glass, nail, tack, wire, can or any other substance likely to injure any person or animal, or damage any vehicle upon any highway, nor any garbage, refuse matter, animal carcass, offal, stones, wood, leaves, grass clippings, lawn debris, earth, plaster, dirt, filth, ashes or paper, or any substance or material which is or may become noxious, offensive, injurious or dangerous to the public health, comfort or safety.
When a violation of the provisions of this section has been observed by any person, and the matter dumped or disposed of on a highway, right of way, property adjacent to a highway or right of way or private property has been ejected from a motor vehicle, the owner or operator of such motor vehicle shall be presumed to be the person ejecting such trash, garbage, refuse or other unsightly matter; provided however, that such presumption shall be rebuttable by competent evidence.
(Ord. 2022-124. Passed 1-5-23.)
(d) No lumber or rubbish shall be piled or allowed to accumulate in or about a building if, in the judgment of the Director of Inspections, it is dangerous or it may become so.
(Ord. 2070. Passed 8-7-41.)
(e) Whoever violates subsection (a) hereof shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00).
(ORC 3767.99(C); Ord. 1973-145. Passed 12-20-73.)
(f) Whoever violates any of the provisions of subsections (b) through (d) hereof is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.