Ohio Revised Code Chapter 5589 - Offenses Relating To Highways

• Section 5589.01 - Obstructing Public Grounds, Highway, Street, Or Alley.
  No person shall obstruct or encumber by fences, buildings, structures, or otherwise, a public ground, highway, street, or alley of a municipal corporation. Effective...
• Section 5589.02 - Altering Or Injuring Marker Or Monument.
  No person shall alter, deface, injure, or destroy any marker or monument placed along, upon, or near a public highway, by the proper authorities,...
• Section 5589.03 - Refusal Or Neglect Of Officials To Perform Duty.
  No county engineer, township trustee, or township highway superintendent shall willfully neglect, fail, or refuse to perform the duties of his office. Conviction for...
• Section 5589.04 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1996
• Section 5589.05 - Interfering With Drawbridge On Muskingum Improvement.
  No person, except a commissioner, engineer, superintendent, lock tender, bridge tender, or collector and without express direction or permission from one of them, shall...
• Section 5589.06 - Obstructing Ditch, Drain, Or Watercourse - Duty Of Superintendent.
  No person shall wrongfully obstruct any ditch, drain, or watercourse along, upon or across a public highway, or divert any water from adjacent lands...
• Section 5589.07 - Failure To Make Levy Or Furnish Estimates.
  No person charged with the duty of making any levy or furnishing any estimates or budgets requesting any levy or allowance for the construction,...
• Section 5589.08 - Operating Traction Engines Upon Improved Highways.
  No person shall drive over the improved highways of the state, or any political subdivision thereof, a traction engine or tractor with tires or...
• Section 5589.081 - Studded Tires - Prohibited Acts.
  (A) For purposes of this section, "studded tire" means any tire designed for use on a vehicle and equipped with metal studs or studs...
• Section 5589.09 - Failure, Neglect Or Refusal To Drag Road.
  No person, charged with the duty of causing any unimproved or gravel road or part thereof to be dragged, shall willfully fail, neglect, or...
• Section 5589.10 - Digging, Excavating, Piling Earth, Or Building Fence On Highway.
  No person shall dig up, remove, excavate, or place any earth or mud upon any portion of any public highway or build a fence...
• Section 5589.11 - Failure Or Neglect To Cut Weeds, Briers, Or Bushes.
  No person, charged with the duty of cutting, destroying, or removing any weeds, briers, or bushes upon or along a public highway shall willfully...
• Section 5589.12 - Possession Of Tools Belonging To State Or County.
  No person shall, without being authorized, have in his control or possession any equipment, tools, implements, or other property belonging to the state, county,...
• Section 5589.13 - Fines Credited To Maintenance And Repair Fund.
  All fines collected for violations of sections 5589.02 to 5589.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be paid into the county treasury and placed...
• Section 5589.14 - Prosecution Of Offenses.
  The prosecuting attorney shall prosecute all offenders under sections 5589.02 to 5589.13, inclusive, of the Revised Code, upon application of any official or individual...
• Section 5589.20 - Findings As To Improper Obstruction Of Railroad Grade Crossings By Trains.
  The general assembly finds that the improper obstruction of railroad grade crossings by trains is a direct threat to the health, safety, and welfare...
• Section 5589.21 - Obstruction Of Roads By Railroads.
  (A) No railroad company shall obstruct, or permit or cause to be obstructed a public street, road, or highway, by permitting a railroad car,...
• Section 5589.211 - Abandoned Locomotive Obstructing Street Or Road.
  No railroad company shall obstruct, or permit or cause to be obstructed, a public street, road, or highway, by permitting any part of a...
• Section 5589.22 - Damages.
  A corporation or person shall be liable for all damages arising to a person from an obstruction or injury to a road or highway...
• Section 5589.23 - Company Liable For Fines Against Employees.
  A railroad company or other corporation, the servant, agent, or employee of which, in any manner, obstructs a public road or highway, shall pay...
• Section 5589.24 - Fines Paid To Railroad Grade Crossing Improvement Funds.
  (A) All fines collected for a violation of division (A) of section 5589.21 or 5589.211 of the Revised Code shall be paid as follows:...
• Section 5589.31 - Construction Of Walk Or Ditch Across Highway.
  No person, firm, or corporation shall construct a walk or dig a ditch across a public highway outside any municipal corporation without the consent...
• Section 5589.32 - Erection Of Advertising Signs Resembling Those Required Of Railroad Companies.
  No person, firm, or corporation shall erect, display, or maintain an advertising or other sign on, along, or near any public highway, in any...
• Section 5589.33 - Advertising Within The Right-of-way Of Public Highway.
  Except as provided in this section and in section 5515.04 of the Revised Code, no person shall place within the limits of the right-of-way...
• Section 5589.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates section 5589.01 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. (B) Whoever violates section 5589.02, 5589.03,...

Last modified: October 10, 2016