(a) Official Seal. The following is hereby adopted and made the official seal of the City:
(b) Use of Seal. The seal may be used on official documents of the City, but the failure to affix the seal to documents of the City shall in no way affect their validity. The design of the City seal is the property of the City and shall not be reproduced or used for, or in conjunction with, merchandise for sale, advertisements, political campaigning, nor for any other purpose not associated with official City business.
(c) Penalty. Whoever violates division (b) of this section is guilty of an unclassified misdemeanor and the offender shall be sentenced pursuant to ORC 2929.21 to 2929.28, except that the offender shall not be sentenced to a jail term nor sentenced to a community residential sanction pursuant to ORC 2929.26. Notwithstanding ORC 2929.28(A)(2)(a), the offender may be fined up to one thousand dollars ($1,000) and, notwithstanding ORC 2929.27(A)(3), the offender may be ordered pursuant to division (C) of that section to serve a term of community service of up to five hundred (500) hours. The failure of an offender to complete a term of community service imposed by the court may be punished as indirect criminal contempt under ORC 2705.02(A) and may be filed in the underlying case.
(Ord. 2021-23. Adopted 12/29/21)