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Ohio Rev Code § 3767.12 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3767 | Nuisances|Section 3767.12 | Habitual Resort for Thieves, Burglars, Robbers or Persons Involved in Felonious Conduct.

Effective: March 23, 2000|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 107 - 123rd General Assembly|(A) As used in this section, "felonious conduct" means an offense that is a felony or a delinquent act that would be a felony if committed by an adult.(B) A house or building used or occupied as a habitual resort for thieves, burglars, or robbers, or for persons who are conspiring or planning to commit, who are fleeing after having committed or after attempting to commit, or who are in hiding after having committed or after attempting to commit, felonious conduct is a public nuisance, and the court may order the public nuisance abated.No person shall keep a house that is a habitual resort for thieves, burglars, or robbers, or for persons who are conspiring or planning to commit, who are fleeing after having committed or after attempting to commit, or who are in hiding after having committed or after attempting to commit, felonious conduct. No person shall let a house to be so kept, or knowingly permit a house that the person has let to be so kept.
Ohio Rev Code § 3767.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3767 | Nuisances|Section 3767.13 | Prohibited Acts.

Effective: June 29, 1982|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 78 - 114th General Assembly|(A) No person shall erect, continue, use, or maintain a building, structure, or place for the exercise of a trade, employment, or business, or for the keeping or feeding of 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, or 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 section 519.01 of the Revised Code, and who are conducting those activities outside a municipal corporation, 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) of this section, from any similar ordinances, resolutions, rules, or other enactments of a state agency or political subdivision, and from any ordinances, resolutions, rules, or other enactments of a state agency or political subdivision that prohibit excessive noise.
Ohio Rev Code § 3767.14 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3767 | Nuisances|Section 3767.14 | Prohibition Against Throwing Refuse, Oil, or Filth Into Lakes, Streams, or Drains.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No person shall intentionally throw, deposit, or permit to be thrown or deposited, coal dirt, coal slack, coal screenings, or coal refuse from coal mines, refuse or filth from a coal oil refinery or gasworks, or whey or filthy drainage from a cheese factory, into a river, lake, pond, or stream, or a place from which it may wash therein. No person shall cause or permit petroleum, crude oil, refined oil, or a compound, mixture, residuum of oil or filth from an oil well, oil tank, oil vat, or place of deposit of crude or refined oil, to run into or be poured, emptied, or thrown into a river, ditch, drain, or watercourse, or into a place from which it may run or wash therein. Prosecution for a violation of this section must be brought in the county in which such coal mine, coal oil refinery, gasworks, cheese factory, oil well, oil tank, oil vat, or place of deposit of crude or refined oil is situated.
Ohio Rev Code § 3767.15 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3767 | Nuisances|Section 3767.15 | Fine and Costs Are a Lien.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The fine and costs imposed in division (D) of section 3767.99 of the Revised Code shall be a lien on such oil well, oil tank, oil refinery, oil vat, or place of deposit and the contents thereof until paid, and such oil well, oil tank, oil refinery, oil vat, or place of deposit and the contents thereof, may be sold for the payment of such fine and costs upon execution issued for that purpose.
Ohio Rev Code § 3767.16 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3767 | Nuisances|Section 3767.16 | Prohibition Against Deposit of Dead Animals and Offal Upon Land or Water.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No person shall put the carcass of a dead animal or the offal from a slaughterhouse, butcher's establishment, packing house, or fish house, or spoiled meat, spoiled fish, or other putrid substance or the contents of a privy vault, upon or into a lake, river, bay, creek, pond, canal, road, street, alley, lot, field, meadow, public ground, market place, or common. No owner or occupant of such place shall knowingly permit such thing to remain therein to the annoyance of any citizen or neglect to remove or abate the nuisance occasioned thereby within twenty-four hours after knowledge of the existence thereof, or after notice thereof in writing from a township trustee or township highway superintendent, constable, or health commissioner of a city or general health district in which such nuisance exists or from a county commissioner of such county.
Ohio Rev Code § 3767.17 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3767 | Nuisances|Section 3767.17 | Prohibition Against Obstructing Township or County Ditch.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No person shall willfully obstruct a ditch, drain, or watercourse constructed by order of a board of county commissioners or by a board of township trustees, or divert the water therefrom.
Ohio Rev Code § 3767.18 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3767 | Nuisances|Section 3767.18 | Prohibition Against Defiling Spring or Well.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No person shall maliciously put a dead animal, carcass, or part thereof, or other putrid, nauseous, or offensive substance into, or befoul, a well, spring, brook, or branch of running water, or a reservoir of a water works, of which use is or may be made for domestic purposes.
Ohio Rev Code § 3767.19 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3767 | Nuisances|Section 3767.19 | Prohibition Against Nuisances When Near State Institutions.

Effective: October 6, 1994|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 571 - 120th General Assembly|No person shall carry on the business of slaughtering, tallow chandlery, or the manufacturing of glue, soap, starch, or other article, the manufacture of which is productive of unwholesome or noxious odors in a building or place within one mile of a benevolent or correctional institution supported wholly or in part by the state. No person shall erect or operate, within one hundred twenty rods of such benevolent institution, a rolling mill, blast furnace, nail factory, copper-smelting works, petroleum oil refinery, or other works which may generate unwholesome or noxious odors or make loud noises, or which may annoy or endanger the health or prevent the recovery of the inmates of such institution. Each week such business is conducted, or works operated, constitutes a separate offense.All property, real or personal, which is used with the knowledge of the owner thereof in violation of this section, shall be liable, without exemption, for the fines and costs assessed for such violation.
Ohio Rev Code § 3767.201 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3767 | Nuisances|Section 3767.201 | Destroying or Removing Barriers Along Limited Access Highways.

Effective: September 28, 1973|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly|No person, firm or corporation shall cut, injure, remove, or destroy any fence or other barrier designed and erected to prevent traffic from entering or leaving a limited access highway without the permission of the director of transportation, except in a case of emergency where life or property is in danger. No person, firm, or corporation shall cause a vehicle of any character to enter or leave a limited access highway at any point other than intersections designated by the director for such purpose, except in a case of emergency where life or property is in danger.
Ohio Rev Code § 3767.22 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3767 | Nuisances|Section 3767.22 | Exceptions.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Section 3767.16 of the Revised Code does not prohibit the deposit of the contents of privy vaults and catch basins into trenches or pits not less than three feet deep excavated in a lot, field, or meadow, with the consent of the owner, outside of the limits of a municipal corporation and not less than thirty rods distant from a dwelling, well or spring of water, lake, bay, pond, canal, run, creek, brook or stream of water, public road or highway, provided that such contents so deposited are forthwith covered with at least twelve inches of dry earth; nor prohibit the deposit of such contents in furrows, as specified for such trenches or pits, to be forthwith covered with dry earth by plowing or otherwise, and with the consent of the owner or occupant of the land in which such furrows are plowed.The board of health of a city or a general health district may allow the contents of privy vaults and catch basins to be deposited within corporate limits into such trenches, pits, or furrows.
Ohio Rev Code § 3767.23 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3767 | Nuisances|Section 3767.23 | Corporations May Be Prosecuted for Nuisance - Abatement.

Effective: August 11, 1955|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 11 - 101st General Assembly|Corporations may be prosecuted by indictment for violation of sections 3767.13 to 3767.29, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and in every case of conviction under such sections, the court shall adjudge that the nuisance described in the indictment be abated or removed within a time fixed, and, if it is of a recurring character, the defendant shall keep such nuisance abated.
Ohio Rev Code § 3767.24 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3767 | Nuisances|Section 3767.24 | Contempt Proceedings.

Effective: August 11, 1955|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 11 - 101st General Assembly|If the defendant, convicted of a violation of sections 3767.13 to 3767.29, inclusive, of the Revised Code, fails, neglects, or refuses to abate the nuisance described in the indictment, as ordered by the court, or, if the nuisance is of a recurring character, and such defendant fails, neglects, or refuses to keep it abated, proceedings in contempt of court may be instituted against him and all others assisting in or conniving at the violation of such order, and the court may direct the sheriff to execute the order of abatement at the cost and expense of the defendant.
Ohio Rev Code § 3767.25 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3767 | Nuisances|Section 3767.25 | Venue.

Effective: August 11, 1955|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 11 - 101st General Assembly|An offense charged under sections 3767.13 to 3767.29, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be held to be committed in any county whose inhabitants are, or have been, aggrieved thereby. The continuance of such nuisance for five days after the prosecution thereof is begun is an additional offense.
Ohio Rev Code § 3767.26 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3767 | Nuisances|Section 3767.26 | Judgment for Fine and Costs.

Effective: August 11, 1955|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 11 - 101st General Assembly|A judgment for fine and costs rendered against a person or corporation for the violation of sections 3767.13 to 3767.29, inclusive, of the Revised Code, when the defendant has no property or has not a sufficient amount within the county upon which to levy to satisfy such judgment and costs, may be enforced and collected in the manner in which judgments are collected in civil cases.
Ohio Rev Code § 3767.27 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3767 | Nuisances|Section 3767.27 | Inspector of Nuisances.

Effective: August 11, 1955|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 11 - 101st General Assembly|The board of county commissioners, whenever there is a violation of sections 3767.13 to 3767.29, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may employ and reasonably compensate one inspector of nuisances who shall be vested with police powers and authorized to examine all cases of violation of such sections.
Ohio Rev Code § 3767.28 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3767 | Nuisances|Section 3767.28 | Inspector of Nuisances - Powers and Duties.

Effective: August 11, 1955|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 11 - 101st General Assembly|For the purpose of examining cases of violations of sections 3767.13 to 3767.29, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and for obtaining evidence thereof, an inspector of nuisances may enter upon any premises in any county, and shall make a complaint, and institute prosecution, against any one violating such sections. The inspector shall not be required to give security for costs. The prosecuting attorney shall be the legal advisor of such inspector and the attorney in all such prosecutions.
Ohio Rev Code § 3767.29 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3767 | Nuisances|Section 3767.29 | Prohibition Against Abandoned Refrigerators.

Effective: June 29, 2011|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 9 - 129th General Assembly|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 one and one-half cubic feet or more and an opening of fifty square inches or more and which has a door or lid equipped with hinge, latch, or other fastening device capable of securing such door or lid, without rendering said equipment harmless to human life by removing such 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.
Ohio Rev Code § 3767.30 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3767 | Nuisances|Section 3767.30 | Picketing or Protest During Funeral or Burial Service Prohibited.

Effective: September 4, 2006|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 484 - 126th General Assembly|Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish the person's sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of the right, but no person shall picket or engage in other protest activities, nor shall any association or corporation cause picketing or other protest activities to occur, within three hundred feet of any residence, cemetery, funeral home, church, synagogue, or other establishment during or within one hour before or one hour after the conducting of an actual funeral or burial service at that place. No person shall picket or engage in other protest activities, nor shall any association or corporation cause picketing or other protest activities to occur, within three hundred feet of any funeral procession.As used in this section, "other protest activities" means any action that is disruptive or undertaken to disrupt or disturb a funeral or burial service or a funeral procession.
Ohio Rev Code § 3767.33 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3767 | Nuisances|Section 3767.33 | Authorization for Disposal of Materials in or Upon Banks of Ditch, Stream, River, or Other Watercourse.

Effective: October 23, 1972|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 397 - 109th General Assembly|No zoning commission, municipal corporation, or other governmental authority, except the director of environmental protection acting pursuant to the powers granted to him in sections 6111.01 to 6111.08 of the Revised Code, may authorize the placing or disposal of materials in or upon the banks of a ditch, stream, river, or other watercourse after January 1, 1968, where such placing or disposal would be prohibited under the provisions of section 3767.32 of the Revised Code. Such placing or disposal may be enjoined by the common pleas court in the county in which the placing or disposal occurs, upon application by the prosecuting attorney of the county, the director of environmental protection, the director of health, or the attorney general.
Ohio Rev Code § 3767.34 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3767 | Nuisances|Section 3767.34 | Rest Room Facilities Free of Charge.

Effective: August 18, 1976|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 71 - 111th General Assembly|(A) No person shall make available any rest room facility intended for multiple occupancy and which requires payment of money or any other thing of value for entry into the rest room facility, or for use of a toilet within, unless said person also makes available for use by the same sex, at the same location, an equal number of the same kind of rest room facilities, toilets, urinals, and washbowls free of charge.(B) Rest room facilities having no more than one toilet and a washbowl, or having no more than one toilet, one urinal, and one washbowl, shall be exempt from the provisions of division (A) of this section if a key is made available immediately, or other means of access made available immediately, for any customer who requests use of the rest room facility or the toilet, urinal, or washbowl within.(C) As used in divisions (A) and (B) of this section, "rest room facility" means any room or area containing one or more toilets, washbowls, or urinals; "multiple occupancy" means a rest room facility containing more than one toilet and one washbowl, or containing more than one toilet, one urinal, and one washbowl used for the purpose of eliminating human biological waste materials and commonly referred to as "lavatory," "toilet," "urinal," or "water closet."
Ohio Rev Code § 3767.99 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3767 | Nuisances|Section 3767.99 | Penalty.

Effective: July 14, 1980|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 361 - 113th General Assembly|(A) Whoever is guilty of contempt under sections 3767.01 to 3767.11 or violates section 3767.14 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.(B) Whoever violates section 3767.12 or 3767.29, or, being an association, violates section 3767.30 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.(C) Whoever violates section 3767.13, 3767.19, or 3767.32 or, being a natural person, violates section 3767.30 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. The sentencing court may, in addition to or in lieu of the penalty provided in this division, require a person who violates section 3767.32 of the Revised Code to remove litter from any public or private property, or in or on waters of the state.(D) Whoever violates section 3767.16, 3767.17, 3767.18, 3767.201, or 3767.34 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
Ohio Rev Code § 3769.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3769 | Horse Racing|Section 3769.01 | Horse-Racing Permit Required.

Effective: October 30, 1975|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 287 - 111th General Assembly|No person, association, corporation, or trust shall hold, conduct, assist, or aid and abet in holding or conducting any meetings, at which horse racing is permitted for any stake, purse, or award unless such person, association, corporation, or trust secures a permit to conduct a horse-racing meeting and complies with sections 3769.01 to 3769.14 of the Revised Code.Such sections shall apply only to the racing of horses and do not prevent the use of any grounds, enclosure, or race track, whether or not owned or controlled by a permit holder, for any county or state fair, agricultural or livestock exhibition, horse show, or any horse racing where the pari-mutuel system of wagering upon the result of such horse racing is not permitted or allowed. This section does not permit the pari-mutuel method of wagering upon any race track unless a permit is secured as provided in sections 3769.04 to 3769.06 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 3769.021 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3769 | Horse Racing|Section 3769.021 | Commission Secretary - Salary - Duties.

Effective: June 29, 2004|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 189 - 125th General Assembly|The state racing commission shall appoint a secretary, who shall serve during the pleasure of the commission. The secretary shall devote full time to the duties of the office and shall not hold any other office or employment. To be eligible for appointment as secretary, a person shall meet the qualifications required of a commissioner under section 3769.02 of the Revised Code, except that the secretary shall be a qualified elector and resident of the state and does not need to additionally satisfy the qualification of a commissioner to be a resident of this state for not less than five years immediately preceding appointment. The secretary is subject to the restrictions applying to a commissioner under that section.The secretary shall be paid a salary fixed pursuant to section 124.14 of the Revised Code and shall be allowed actual and necessary traveling expenses when on commission business. The salary and expenses shall be paid out of the state racing commission operating fund created by section 3769.03 of the Revised Code.The secretary shall attend all meetings of the commission. The secretary shall keep a complete record of its proceedings and preserve, at its general office, all books, maps, documents, and papers entrusted to its care.The secretary shall be the executive officer of the commission and be responsible for keeping all commission records and the carrying out of the rules and orders of the commission. The secretary shall perform any other duties the commission prescribes.
Ohio Rev Code § 3769.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3769 | Horse Racing|Section 3769.05 | Deposit to Be Made - Refund.

Effective: July 13, 1981|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 330 - 114th General Assembly|At the time of making application for a permit to conduct a horse-racing meeting, the applicant shall deposit with the state racing commission a cash bond, certified check, or bank draft, payable to the order of the commission, in an amount equal to one hundred dollars for each day petitioned for in said application. At the close of the last day of the horse-racing meeting, for which a permit is issued, as provided for in section 3769.06 of the Revised Code, the commission shall refund to such permit holder the sum of one hundred dollars for each racing day the permit holder paid to the state tax commissioner the tax due for said day, as provided for and at the rate stipulated in section 3769.08 of the Revised Code. In harness horse-racing meetings, if any full day's racing is declared off by the judges because of inclement weather or a muddy track, the commission shall refund to the permit holders the sum of one hundred dollars of their deposit for each such day.