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Woodlawn, OH Code of Ordinances
VILLAGE OF WOODLAWN, OHIO CODE OF ORDINANCES
OFFICIALS
ADOPTING ORDINANCE
CHARTER FOR VILLAGE OF WOODLAWN, OHIO
PART TWO: ADMINISTRATION CODE
PART FOUR: TRAFFIC CODE
PART SIX: GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
PART EIGHT: BUSINESS REGULATION AND TAXATION CODE
PART TEN: UTILITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART TWELVE: PLANNING AND ZONING CODE
PART FOURTEEN: BUILDING AND HOUSING CODE
PART SIXTEEN: FIRE PREVENTION CODE
TABLE OF SPECIAL ORDINANCES
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§ 660.02 SPREADING CONTAGION.
   (a)   No person, knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the person has a dangerous, contagious disease, shall knowingly fail to take reasonable measures to prevent exposing self to other persons, except when seeking medical aid.
   (b)   No person, having charge or care of a person whom the person having charge or care knows or has reasonable cause to believe has a dangerous, contagious disease, shall recklessly fail to take reasonable measures to protect others from exposure to the contagion, and to inform health authorities of the existence of the contagion.
   (c)   No person, having charge of a public conveyance or place of public accommodation, amusement, resort, or trade, and knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that persons using such conveyance or place have been or are being exposed to a dangerous, contagious disease, shall negligently fail to take reasonable measures to protect the public from exposure to the contagion, and to inform health authorities of the existence of the contagion.
(ORC 3701.81)
   (d)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree.
(ORC 3701.99(C))
§ 660.03 LITTERING AND WASTE DISPOSAL.
   (a)   As used in this section WASTE means all trash, rubbish, garbage, wastepaper, nails, pieces of glass, boards, fruit parings, ashes, cans, bottles, glass, oil, plastics, automobiles without license plates valid in the State, or anything else of an unsightly or unsanitary nature and all other refuse or discarded matter. However, the word does not mean or include recognized by-products of any business or industry having commercial value and regularly handled in the ordinary course of business, unless such by-products are a nuisance or menace to public health.
   (b)   No person shall, without lawful authority, place or dispose of in any manner, upon any public property or upon the premises of another, any waste.
   (c)   No person shall store, throw or sweep any waste into any street, avenue, alley, park or public ground, or place any waste on any sidewalk, street crossing or driveway, or upon the floor, stairway or hallway of any public building, theater, railroad depot or platform, or along, on or near any public or private property in the Village.
   (d)   No person operating a motor vehicle shall knowingly or unknowingly permit any passenger in such motor vehicle to throw any waste into any street, avenue, alley, park or public ground.
   (e)   All loose wastepaper, rags and other waste material of such kind as to be subject to be blown about by the wind or otherwise scattered, must be hauled in such a manner as not to litter the streets. Such materials shall not be loaded or unloaded along the public streets or sidewalks, except in suitable containers, cans, boxes, bags or pails.
   (f)   No person shall dump or store any combustible waste on any public or private property. No person shall dump dirt or other noncombustible material of any kind on public or private property without proper written authority therefor from the Village.
   (g)   No person having the care of any premises or property in the Village shall be permit gas, oil, liquid dye, chemicals, paints, brine or any other injurious matter to drain or otherwise come in contact with any adjoining premises.
   (h)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
§ 660.04 NOXIOUS ODORS; FILTHY ACCUMULATIONS; POLLUTING AND DIVERTING WATERCOURSES.
   (a)   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)   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)   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.
   (d)   Persons who are engaged in agriculture- related activities, as “agriculture” is defined in Ohio R.C. 519.01, and who are conducting those activities outside the Municipality, in accordance with generally accepted agricultural practices, and in such a manner so as not to have a substantial, adverse effect on the public health, safety, or welfare, are exempt from divisions (a) and (b) above and from any ordinances, resolutions, rules, or other enactments of the Municipality that prohibit excessive noise.
(ORC 3767.13)
   (e)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.
(ORC 3767.99(C))
§ 660.05 DUTY TO KEEP SIDEWALKS IN REPAIR AND CLEAN.
   (a)   No owner or occupant of lots or lands abutting any sidewalk, curb or gutter shall fail to keep the sidewalks, curbs and gutters in repair and free from snow, ice or any nuisance, and to remove from such sidewalks, curbs or gutters all snow and ice accumulated thereon within a reasonable time, which will ordinarily not exceed 12 hours after any storm during which the snow and ice has accumulated.
(ORC 723.011)
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
§ 660.06 ABANDONED REFRIGERATORS AND AIRTIGHT CONTAINERS.
   (a)   No person shall abandon, discard or knowingly permit to remain on premises under the person’s control, in a place accessible to children, any abandoned or discarded icebox, refrigerator or other airtight or semi-airtight container which has a capacity of 1-1/2 cubic feet or more and an opening of 50 square inches or more and which has a door or lid equipped with a hinge, latch or other fastening device capable of securing the door or lid, without rendering the equipment harmless to human life by removing the hinges, latches or other hardware which may cause a person to be confined therein. This section shall not apply to an icebox, refrigerator or other airtight or semi-airtight container located in that part of a building occupied by a dealer, warehouse or repairer. (ORC 3767.29)
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(ORC 3767.99(B))
§ 660.07 STORAGE OF JUNK VEHICLES.
   (a)   (1)   For purposes of this section, JUNK MOTOR VEHICLE means any motor vehicle which is three years old or older; extensively damaged, such damage including but not limited to any of the following: missing wheels, tires, motor, or transmission; apparently inoperable; and having a fair market value of one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500.00) or less, that is left uncovered in the open on private property for more than 72 hours with the permission of the person having the right to possession of the property, except if the person is operating a junk yard or scrap metal processing facility licensed under the authority of Ohio R.C. 4737.05 through 4737.12, or otherwise regulated under authority of a political subdivision; or if the property on which the motor vehicle is left is not subject to licensure or regulation by any governmental authority, unless the person having the right to the possession of the property can establish that the motor vehicle is part of a bona fide commercial operation; or if the motor vehicle is a collector’s vehicle.
      (2)   The Municipality shall not prevent a person from storing or keeping, or restrict him or her in the method of storing or keeping, any collector’s vehicle on private property with the permission of the person having the right to the possession of the property, except that the Municipality may require a person having such permission to conceal, by means of buildings, fences, vegetation, terrain, or other suitable obstruction, any unlicensed collector’s vehicle stored in the open.
      (3)   The chief of a law enforcement agency in the municipal corporation, a state highway patrol trooper, the Legislative Authority, or the zoning authority may send notice, by certified mail with return receipt requested, to the person having the right to the possession of the property on which a junk motor vehicle is left, that within ten days of receipt of the notice, the junk motor vehicle either shall be covered by being housed in a garage or other suitable structure, or shall be removed from the property.
      (4)   No person shall willfully leave a junk motor vehicle uncovered in the open for more than ten days after receipt of a notice as provided in this section. The fact that a junk motor vehicle is so left is prima facie evidence of willful failure to comply with the notice, and each subsequent period of 30 days that a junk motor vehicle continues to be so left constitutes a separate offense.
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(ORC 4513.65)
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