No owner, occupant, or person in charge of any premises situated as to permit connection with any sanitary sewer shall maintain or permit to be maintained on or in connection with such premises any privy vault, cesspool, septic tank, or other repository for human excreta.
Penalty, see § 93.99
Statutory reference:Power to regulate privies, see R.C. § 715.40Power to regulate refuse disposal, see R.C. § 715.43It shall be unlawful for any person being the owner, lessor, occupant, or person in charge of any premises upon which a privy vault, cesspool, or septic tank is located to permit such vault, pool, or tank, or any building, fixture, or device appurtenant thereto, to become foul, noisome, filthy, or offensive to neighboring property owners.
Penalty, see § 93.99
Whenever any part of the waste in any privy vault or cesspool extends to a point less than three feet below the surface of the ground adjacent thereto, or whenever use of any such vault or cesspool is abandoned or where such use or maintenance is prohibited by ordinance or health order, the owner, lessor, occupant or person in charge of such premises shall cause the vault or cesspool to be emptied of its contents, thoroughly cleaned, and disinfected, and if abandoned, to be filled with clean earth or mineral matter to the level of the adjacent ground.
Penalty, see § 93.99
(A) No person shall put the carcass of a dead animal or the offal from a slaughter house, 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, 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 24 hours after knowledge of the existence thereof, or after notice thereof in writing from the designated municipal official.
(R.C. § 3767.16)
(B) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(R.C. § 3767.99(D))
(A) 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 waterworks, of which use is or may be made for domestic purposes.
(R.C. § 3767.18)
(B) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(R.C. § 3767.99(D))
It shall be unlawful for any person to dump, cause to be dumped or permit to be dumped on any publicly or privately owned land or water in the municipality any paper, brush, rubbish, tin cans, vegetation, garbage, or refuse of any kind, without first having obtained a written license from the Mayor or other designated municipal officer to do so. The Mayor or other designated municipal officer shall issue a license permitting dumping of designated materials when it appears that filling of the land is necessary and that the material deposited will be immediately covered with earth or will not be objectionable to the citizens of the neighborhood, or injurious to health, safety and general welfare of the citizens.
Penalty, see § 93.99
(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 1.5 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 such door or lid, without rendering the 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.
(R.C. § 3767.29) (Rev. 2012)
(B) Whoever violates this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(R.C. § 3767.99(B))
(A) No person, regardless of intent, shall deposit litter or cause litter to be deposited on any public property, on private property not owned by the person, or in or on waters of the state, unless one of the following applies:
(1) The person is directed to do so by a public official as part of a litter collection drive.
(2) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the person deposits the litter in a litter receptacle in a manner that prevents its being carried away by the elements.
(3) The person is issued a permit or license covering the litter pursuant to R.C. Chapter 3734 or 6111.
(B) No person, without privilege to do so, shall knowingly deposit litter, or cause it to be deposited, in a litter receptacle located on any public property or on any private property not owned by the person, unless one of the following applies:
(1) The litter was generated or located on the property on which the litter receptacle is located.
(2) The person is directed to do so by a public official as part of a litter collection drive.
(3) The person is directed to do so by a person whom the person reasonably believes to have the privilege to use the litter receptacle.
(4) The litter consists of any of the following:
(a) The contents of a litter bag or container of a type and size customarily carried and used in a motor vehicle.
(b) The contents of an ash tray of a type customarily installed or carried and used in a motor vehicle.
(c) Beverage containers and food sacks, wrappings, and containers of a type and in an amount that reasonably may be expected to be generated during routine commuting or business or recreational travel by a motor vehicle.
(d) Beverage containers, food sacks, wrappings, containers, and other materials of a type and in an amount that reasonably may be expected to be generated during a routine day by a person and deposited in a litter receptacle by a casual passerby.
(C) (1) As used in division (B)(1) of this section, PUBLIC PROPERTY includes any private property open to the public for the conduct of business, the provision of a service, or upon the payment of a fee but does not include any private property to which the public otherwise does not have a right of access.
(2) As used in division (B)(4) of this section, CASUAL PASSERBY means a person who does not have depositing litter in a litter receptacle as the person’s primary reason for traveling to or by the property on which the litter receptacle is located.
(D) As used in this section:
AUXILIARY CONTAINER. Means a bag, can, cup, food or beverage service item, container, keg, bottle, or other packaging to which all of the following apply:
(a) It is designed to be either single use or reusable.
(b) It is made of cloth, paper, plastic, foamed or expanded plastic, cardboard, corrugated material, aluminum, metal, glass, postconsumer recycled material, or similar materials or substances, including coated, laminated, or multilayered substrates.
(c) It is designed for consuming, transporting, or protecting merchandise, food, or beverages from or at a food service operation, retail food establishment, grocery, or any other type of retail, manufacturing, or distribution establishment.
DEPOSIT. Means to throw, drop, discard, or place.
LITTER. Includes garbage, trash, waste, rubbish, ashes, cans, bottles, wire, paper, cartons, boxes, automobile parts, furniture, glass, auxiliary containers, or anything else of an unsightly or unsanitary nature.
LITTER RECEPTACLE. Means a dumpster, trash can, trash bin, garbage can, or similar container in which litter is deposited for removal.
(E) This section may be enforced by any sheriff, deputy sheriff, police officer of a municipal corporation, police constable or officer of a township, or township or joint police district, wildlife officer designated under R.C. § 1531.13, natural resources officer appointed under R.C. § 1501.24, forest-fire investigator appointed under R.C. § 1503.09, conservancy district police officer, inspector of nuisances of a county, or any other law enforcement officer within the law enforcement officer’s jurisdiction.
(R.C. § 3767.32) (Rev. 2022)
(F) Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be 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 this section to remove litter from any public or private property or in or on waters of the state.
(R.C. § 3767.99(C))
(A) The municipality may fill or drain any lot or land within its limits on which water at any time becomes stagnant, remove all putrid substances from any lot, and remove all obstructions from culverts, covered drains, or private property, laid in any natural watercourse, creek, brook, or branch, which obstruct the water naturally flowing therein, causing it to flow back or become stagnant, in a way prejudicial to the health, comfort, or convenience of any of the citizens of the neighborhood. If such culverts or drains are of insufficient capacity, the municipality may make them of such capacity as reasonable to accommodate the flow of such water at all times.
(B) The Legislative Authority may, by resolution, direct the owner to fill or drain such lot, remove such putrid substance or other obstructions, and if necessary, enlarge such culverts or covered drains to meet the requirements thereof.
(C) After service of a copy of such resolution, or after a publication thereof in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality or as provided in R.C. § 7.16, for two consecutive weeks, the owner, or the owner’s agent or attorney, shall comply with the directions of the resolution within the time therein specified.
(D) In case of the failure or refusal of such owner to comply with the resolution, the work required thereby may be done at the expense of the municipality, and the amount of money so expended shall be recovered from the owner before any court of competent jurisdiction. This expense from the time of the adoption of the resolution shall be a lien on such lot, which may be enforced by suit in the Court of Common Pleas, and like proceedings may be had as directed in relation to the improvement of streets.
(E) The officers connected with the Health Department of the municipality shall see that this section is strictly and promptly enforced.
(R.C. § 715.47) (Rev. 2012)