511.01 DEFINITIONS.
For the purpose of this Chapter, the following words are defined and shall have the meaning ascribed to them as hereafter set forth:
(a) "Unmanned Aerial" means an aircraft that is operated without the possibility of human intervention from within or on the aircraft.
(b) "Drone" means any unmanned aerial vehicle whenever the term is used in this Chapter.
(c) "Unmanned Aerial Vehicle" (hereinafter referred to as "UAV"), commonly known as a drone and also referred to an unpiloted aerial vehicle and a remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), means an unmanned aircraft and associated elements, including communication links, cameras and components that control the unmanned aircraft that are required for the pilot in command to operate safely and efficiently in the National Airspace System and can use a Geographic Positions System (GPS) guided autopilot mechanism.
(d) "Public Unmanned Aircraft" means a "Drone" used by any Governmental Agency or its representative.
(e) "Commercial Unmanned Aircraft" means any "Drone" used and flown for a profit.
(f) "Recreational Unmanned Aircraft" means any "Drone" flown for sport, recreation or as a hobby.
(g) "Surveillance" means the gathering, without permission and in a manner that is offensive to a reasonable person, of visual images, physical impressions, audio (sound) recordings, data or other information involving the private, personal, business or familiar activities of another person, business or entity, or that otherwise intrudes upon the privacy, solitude or seclusion of another person, business or entity, regardless of whether a physical trespass onto real property owned, leased or otherwise lawfully occupied by such other person, business or other entity, occurs in connection with such surveillance.
(Ord. 17-357. Passed 9-20-17.)
511.02 RESTRICTIONS.
(a) No Recreational Drone shall exceed a weight of fifteen pounds (15 lbs).
(b) No Drone shall be equipped with any apparatus such as, but not limited to firearms, missiles, chemicals or lasers.
(c) No Drone shall be operated over any open air assembly unit, school, school yard, hospital, place of worship, prison or police station, without the property owner's or event organizer's consent, and subject to any restrictions that the property owner may place on such operations.
(d) No person shall use a drone or other similar device to invade the privacy of another's home, office, enclosed space or the private space of another.
(e) No drone shall be used to carry contraband or illegal drugs.
(f) No Drone shall be operated within five hundred feet (500 ft) of any water intake facility or any electric generating facility, substation or control center, or within one hundred feet (100 ft.) of any electrical transmission facility, or within twenty-five feet (25 ft.) of any electric distribution facility or of any overhead wire, cable, conveyor of similar equipment for the transmission of sound or signal, or of heat, light or power, or data, upon or along any public way within the City of Youngstown, without the facility or equipment owner's consent, and subject to any restrictions that the facility or equipment owner may place upon such operation.
(g) No Drone shall be operated over any active emergency scene. An active emergency scene shall include an active crime scene, a property or location to which the Fire Department or Police Department is responding to an accident or fire, or other emergency situation, or a property or location to which E.M.S. is responding to an incident.
(h) No Recreational Drone shall be operated from dusk to dawn or beyond the line of site of the operator. (Ord. 17-357. Passed 9-20-17.)
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