Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3767 - Nuisances

• Section 3767.01 - Nuisances - Disorderly Houses Definitions.
  As used in all sections of the Revised Code relating to nuisances: (A) "Place" includes any building, erection, or place or any separate part...
• Section 3767.02 - Nuisance.
  (A) Any person, who uses, occupies, establishes, or conducts a nuisance, or aids or abets in the use, occupancy, establishment, or conduct of a...
• Section 3767.03 - Abatement Of Nuisance - Bond.
  Whenever a nuisance exists, the attorney general; the village solicitor, city director of law, or other similar chief legal officer of the municipal corporation...
• Section 3767.04 - Procedure In Injunction Action.
  (A) The civil action provided for in section 3767.03 of the Revised Code shall be commenced in the court of common pleas of the...
• Section 3767.05 - Priority Of Action - Evidence - Permanent Injunction - Abatement Orders.
  (A) The civil action provided for in section 3767.03 of the Revised Code shall be set down for trial at the earliest possible time...
• Section 3767.06 - Order Of Abatement To Direct Removal Of Personal Property And Contents - Attorney General Nuisance Abatement Fund.
  (A) If the existence of a nuisance is admitted or established in the civil action provided for in section 3767.03 of the Revised Code...
• Section 3767.07 - Court Shall Punish Offender For Violation Of Injunction Or Order.
  In case of the violation of any injunction or closing order, granted under sections 3767.01 to 3767.11, inclusive, of the Revised Code, or of...
• Section 3767.08 - Tax When Permanent Injunction Issues - Payment.
  Whenever a permanent injunction issues against any person for maintaining a nuisance, there shall be imposed upon said nuisance and against the person maintaining...
• Section 3767.09 - Tax Shall Be Imposed Against Owner Of Property.
  When a nuisance is found to exist in any proceeding under sections 3767.01 to 3767.11, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and the owner or...
• Section 3767.10 - Lease Void If Building Used For Lewd Purposes.
  If a tenant or occupant of a building or tenement, under a lawful title, uses such place for the purposes of lewdness, assignation, or...
• Section 3767.11 - Procedure When Nuisance Established In Criminal Proceeding.
  (A) If a nuisance is established in a criminal action, the prosecuting attorney, village solicitor, city director of law, or other similar chief legal...
• Section 3767.12 - Habitual Resort For Thieves, Burglars, Robbers Or Persons Involved In Felonious Conduct.
  (A) As used in this section, "felonious conduct" means an offense that is a felony or a delinquent act that would be a felony...
• Section 3767.13 - Prohibited Acts.
  (A) No person shall erect, continue, use, or maintain a building, structure, or place for the exercise of a trade, employment, or business, or...
• Section 3767.14 - Prohibition Against Throwing Refuse, Oil, Or Filth Into Lakes, Streams, Or Drains.
  No person shall intentionally throw, deposit, or permit to be thrown or deposited, coal dirt, coal slack, coal screenings, or coal refuse from coal...
• Section 3767.15 - Fine And Costs Are A Lien.
  The fine and costs imposed in division (D)[A] of section 3767.99 of the Revised Code shall be a lien on such oil well, oil...
• Section 3767.16 - Prohibition Against Deposit Of Dead Animals And Offal Upon Land Or Water.
  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...
• Section 3767.17 - Prohibition Against Obstructing Township Or County Ditch.
  No person shall willfully obstruct a ditch, drain, or watercourse constructed by order of a board of county commissioners or by a board of...
• Section 3767.18 - Prohibition Against Defiling Spring Or Well.
  No person shall maliciously put a dead animal, carcass, or part thereof, or other putrid, nauseous, or offensive substance into, or befoul, a well,...
• Section 3767.19 - Prohibition Against Nuisances When Near State Institutions.
  No person shall carry on the business of slaughtering, tallow chandlery, or the manufacturing of glue, soap, starch, or other article, the manufacture of...
• Section 3767.20 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-14-1980
• Section 3767.201 - Destroying Or Removing Barriers Along Limited Access Highways.
  No person, firm or corporation shall cut, injure, remove, or destroy any fence or other barrier designed and erected to prevent traffic from entering...
• Section 3767.21 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-14-1980
• Section 3767.22 - Exceptions.
  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...
• Section 3767.23 - Corporations May Be Prosecuted For Nuisance - Abatement.
  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...
• Section 3767.24 - Contempt Proceedings.
  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...
• Section 3767.25 - Venue.
  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...
• Section 3767.26 - Judgment For Fine And Costs.
  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...
• Section 3767.27 - Inspector Of Nuisances.
  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...
• Section 3767.28 - Inspector Of Nuisances - Powers And Duties.
  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...
• Section 3767.29 - Prohibition Against Abandoned Refrigerators.
  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...
• Section 3767.30 - Picketing Or Protest During Funeral Or Burial Service Prohibited.
  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...
• Section 3767.31 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-14-1980
• Section 3767.32 - Littering.
  (A) No person, regardless of intent, shall deposit litter or cause litter to be deposited on any public property, on private property not owned...
• Section 3767.33 - Authorization For Disposal Of Materials In Or Upon Banks Of Ditch, Stream, River, Or Other Watercourse.
  No zoning commission, municipal corporation, or other governmental authority, except the director of environmental protection acting pursuant to the powers granted to him in...
• Section 3767.34 - Rest Room Facilities Free Of Charge.
  (A) No person shall make available any rest room facility intended for multiple occupancy and which requires payment of money or any other thing...
• Section 3767.41 - Buildings Found To Be Public Nuisance.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Building" means, except as otherwise provided in this division, any building or structure that is used or...
• Section 3767.50 - Action To Foreclose Lien On Blighted Parcel.
  (A) For purposes of this section: (1) "Blighted parcel" has the same meaning as in section 1.08 of the Revised Code. (2) "Owner" means...
• Section 3767.99 - Penalty.
  (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...

Last modified: October 10, 2016