537.04 CRIMINAL DAMAGING OR ENDANGERING.

   (a)    No person shall cause, or create a substantial risk of physical harm to any property of another without his consent:

      (1)    Knowingly, by any means;

      (2)    Recklessly, by means of fire, explosion, flood, poison gas, poison, radioactive material, caustic or corrosive material or other inherently dangerous agency or substance.

   (b)   If the offense occurred is committed by a person who is eighteen years of age or older, and on school premises, then the court shall impose a mandatory term of imprisonment of at least ten days, which shall not be suspended, shall be a period of consecutive imprisonment, and during which mandatory minimum term of imprisonment the defendant shall not be eligible for probation, house arrest or work release.

   (c)    Whoever violates this section is guilty of criminal damaging or endangering, a misdemeanor of the second degree. If violation of this section creates a risk of physical harm to any person, criminal damaging or endangering is a misdemeanor of the first degree.

(ORC 2909.06; Ord. 95-92. Passed 12-1-92.)