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.)