CHAPTER 509 Disorderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance

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CHAPTER 509 Disorderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance — Chapter Overview
509.07 MAKING FALSE ALARMS.
509.05 MISCONDUCT AT AN EMERGENCY.
509.03 DISORDERLY CONDUCT; INTOXICATION.
509.09 PERMITTING PUBLIC NUISANCE.
509.10 IMPEDING PUBLIC PASSAGE OF AN EMERGENCY SERVICE RESPONDER.
509.01 RIOT.
509.011 INCITING TO VIOLENCE.
509.02 FAILURE TO DISPERSE.
509.04 DISTURBING A LAWFUL MEETING.
509.06 INDUCING PANIC.
509.08 MINORS’ CURFEW.
509.99 PENALTY.

CHAPTER 509 Disorderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance — Chapter Overview

CHAPTER 509 Disorderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance

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Ordinances of Sheffield Lake, OH
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD LAKE, OHIO
ORDINANCE NO. 116-84
ORDINANCES OF SHEFFIELD LAKE
orderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
ORDERLY CONDUCT; INTOXICATION
orderly conduct; intoxication
ordoning off riot areas, prohibiting sales of firearms and explosives - see Ohio R
orderly conduct in violation of Section 509
orderly conduct;
orderly process of administration or instruction at an educational institution, or to interfere with or disrupt lawful activities carried on at such institution
order the participants and such other persons to disperse
order
order described in subsection (a) hereof, creates the likelihood of physical harm to persons or is committed at the scene of a fire, accident, disaster, riot, or emergency of any kind
ordinary sensibilities, which conduct the offender, if the offender were not intoxicated, should know is likely to have that effect on others;
ordinance of which an element is operating a motor vehicle, locomotive, watercraft, aircraft or other vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or any drug of abuse, is not a violation of
ordinary observer to be intoxicated, it is probable cause to believe that person is voluntarily intoxicated for purposes of subsection (b) hereof
orderly conduct
orderly conduct is a minor misdemeanor
orderly conduct is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree if any of the following applies:
orderly conduct after reasonable warning or request to desist
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509.07 MAKING FALSE ALARMS.

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Ordinances of Sheffield Lake, OH
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD LAKE, OHIO
ORDINANCE NO. 116-84
ORDINANCES OF SHEFFIELD LAKE
orderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
ORDERLY CONDUCT; INTOXICATION
Ordinances may be prosecuted under this section, the other section, or both sections
ordance with Juvenile Court law and procedure
Ord. 48-87
Ord. 105-92
orderly conduct, disturbance of the peace
Ord. 36-20
order from an emergency service responder to remove or cease the obstruction, the person refuses to remove or cease the obstruction
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509.05 MISCONDUCT AT AN EMERGENCY.

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Identifier	509.05
Citation	§ 509.05
Ordinances detected	S, 116-84, INARY, OF, ER, 48-87, 105-92
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CERTIFICATION
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ADOPTING ORDINANCE NO. 116-84
COMPARATIVE SECTION TABLE
TABLES OF SPECIAL ORDINANCES OF SHEFFIELD LAKE
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PART ONE - ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
PART THREE - TRAFFIC CODE
PART FIVE - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
CHAPTER 501 General Provisions and Penalty
CHAPTER 505 Animals and Fowl
CHAPTER 509 Disorderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
509.01 RIOT.
509.011 INCITING TO VIOLENCE.
509.02 FAILURE TO DISPERSE.
509.03 DISORDERLY CONDUCT; INTOXICATION.
509.04 DISTURBING A LAWFUL MEETING.
509.05 MISCONDUCT AT AN EMERGENCY.
509.06 INDUCING PANIC.
509.07 MAKING FALSE ALARMS.
509.08 MINORS’ CURFEW.
509.09 PERMITTING PUBLIC NUISANCE.
509.10 IMPEDING PUBLIC PASSAGE OF AN EMERGENCY SERVICE RESPONDER.
509.99 PENALTY.
CHAPTER 513 Drug Abuse Control
CHAPTER 517 Gambling
CHAPTER 521 Health, Safety and Sanitation
CHAPTER 525 Law Enforcement and Public Office
CHAPTER 529 Liquor Control
CHAPTER 531 Noise Control
CHAPTER 533 Obscenity and Sex Offenses
CHAPTER 537 Offenses Against Persons
CHAPTER 541 Property Offenses
CHAPTER 545 Theft and Fraud
CHAPTER 549 Weapons and Explosives
CHAPTER 553 Railroads
CHAPTER 557 Watercraft
CHAPTER 561 Weeds and Grass
PART SEVEN - BUSINESS REGULATION CODE
PART NINE - STREETS, UTILITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART ELEVEN - PLANNING AND ZONING CODE
PART THIRTEEN - BUILDING CODE
PART FIFTEEN - FIRE PREVENTION CODE
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509.05 MISCONDUCT AT AN EMERGENCY.
CHAPTER 509 Disorderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
509.03 DISORDERLY CONDUCT; INTOXICATION.
   (a)   No person shall recklessly cause inconvenience, annoyance or alarm to another by doing any of the following:
      (1)   Engaging in fighting, in threatening harm to persons or property, or in violent or turbulent behavior;
      (2)   Making unreasonable noise or offensively coarse utterance, gesture or display, or communicating unwarranted and grossly abusive language to any person, which by its very utterance or usage inflicts injury or tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace;
      (3)   Insulting, taunting or challenging another, under circumstances in which that conduct is likely to provoke a violent response;
      (4)   Hindering or preventing the movement of persons on a public street, road, highway or right of way, or to, from, within or upon public or private property, so as to interfere with the rights of others, and by any act that serves no lawful and reasonable purpose of the offender;
      (5)   Creating a condition that is physically offensive to persons or that presents a risk of physical harm to persons or property, by any act that serves no lawful and reasonable purpose of the offender.
   (b)   No person, while voluntarily intoxicated shall do either of the following:
      (1)   In a public place or in the presence of two or more persons, engage in conduct likely to be offensive or to cause inconvenience, annoyance or alarm to persons of ordinary sensibilities, which conduct the offender, if the offender were not intoxicated, should know is likely to have that effect on others;
      (2)   Engage in conduct or create a condition that presents a risk of physical harm to the offender or another, or to the property of another.
   (c)   Violation of any statute or ordinance of which an element is operating a motor vehicle, locomotive, watercraft, aircraft or other vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or any drug of abuse, is not a violation of subsection (b) hereof.
   (d)   If a person appears to an ordinary observer to be intoxicated, it is probable cause to believe that person is voluntarily intoxicated for purposes of subsection (b) hereof.
   (e)   (1)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of disorderly conduct.
      (2)   Except as otherwise provided in subsections (e)(3) and (e)(4), disorderly conduct is a minor misdemeanor.
      (3)   Disorderly conduct is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree if any of the following applies:
         A.   The offender persists in disorderly conduct after reasonable warning or request to desist.
         B.   The offense is committed in the vicinity of a school or in a school safety zone.
         C.   The offense is committed in the presence of any law enforcement officer, firefighter, rescuer, medical person, emergency medical services person, or other authorized person who is engaged in the person’s duties at the scene of a fire, accident, disaster, riot or emergency of any kind.
         D.   The offense is committed in the presence of any emergency facility person who is engaged in the person’s duties in an emergency facility.
      (4)   If an offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to three or more violations of subsection (b) of this section, a violation of subsection (b) of this section is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
   (f)   As used in this section:
      (1)   “Emergency medical services person” is the singular of “emergency medical services personnel” as defined in Ohio R.C. 2133.21.
      (2)   “Emergency facility person” is the singular of “emergency facility personnel” as defined in Ohio R.C. 2909.04.
      (3)   “Emergency facility” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2909.04.
      (4)   “Committed in the vicinity of a school” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2925.01. (ORC 2917.11)
509.04 DISTURBING A LAWFUL MEETING.
   (a)   No person, with purpose to prevent or disrupt a lawful meeting, procession or gathering, shall do either of the following:
      (1)   Do any act which obstructs or interferes with the due conduct of such meeting, procession or gathering;
      (2)   Make any utterance, gesture or display which outrages the sensibilities of the group.
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of disturbing a lawful meeting. Except as otherwise provided in this section, disturbing a lawful meeting is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. Disturbing a lawful meeting is a misdemeanor of the first degree if either of the following applies:
      (1)   The violation is committed with the intent to disturb or disquiet any assemblage of people met for religious worship at a tax-exempt place of worship, regardless of whether the conduct is within the place at which the assemblage is held or is on the property on which that place is located and disturbs the order and solemnity of the assemblage.
      (2)   The violation is committed with the intent to prevent, disrupt, or interfere with a virtual meeting or gathering of people for religious worship, through use of a computer, computer system, telecommunications device, or other electronic device or system, or in any other manner.
   (c)   As used in this section:
      (1)   “Computer” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2913.01.
      (2)   “Computer system” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2913.01.
      (3)   “Telecommunications device” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2913.01.
      (4)   “Virtual meeting or gathering” means a meeting or gathering by interactive video conference or teleconference, or by a combination thereof.
         (ORC 2917.12)
509.05 MISCONDUCT AT AN EMERGENCY.
   (a)   No person shall knowingly do any of the following:
      (1)   Hamper the lawful operations of any law enforcement officer, firefighter, rescuer, medical person, emergency medical services person, or other authorized person, engaged in the person’s duties at the scene of a fire, accident, disaster, riot, or emergency of any kind;
      (2)   Fail to obey the lawful order of any law enforcement officer engaged in the law enforcement officer’s duties at the scene of or in connection with a fire, accident, disaster, riot, or emergency of any kind.
   (b)   Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit access or deny information to any news media representative in the lawful exercise of the news media representative’s duties.
   (c)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of misconduct at an emergency. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, misconduct at an emergency is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. If a violation of this section creates a risk of physical harm to persons or property, misconduct at an emergency is a misdemeanor of the first degree.
   (d)   As used in this section:
      (1)   “Emergency medical services person” is the singular of “emergency medical services personnel” as defined in Ohio R.C. 2133.21.
      (2)   “Emergency facility person” is the singular of “emergency facility personnel” as defined in Ohio R.C. 2909.04.
      (3)   “Emergency facility” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2909.04.
509.06 INDUCING PANIC.
   (a)    No person shall cause the evacuation of any public place, or otherwise cause serious public inconvenience or alarm, by doing any of the following:
      (1)   Initiating or circulating a report or warning of an alleged or impending fire, explosion, crime or other catastrophe, knowing that such report or warning is false;
      (2)   Threatening to commit any offense of violence;
      (3)   Committing any offense, with reckless disregard of the likelihood that its commission will cause serious public inconvenience or alarm.
   (b)    Division (a) hereof does not apply to any person conducting an authorized fire or emergency drill.
   (c)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of inducing panic, a misdemeanor of the first degree. If inducing panic results in physical harm to any person, economic harm of one thousand dollars ($1,000) or more, if the public place involved in a violation of this section is a school or an institution of higher education, or if the violation pertains to a purported, threatened or actual use of a weapon of mass destruction, inducing panic is a felony and shall be prosecuted under appropriate State law.
   (d)   Any act that is a violation of this section and any other section of the Codified Ordinances may be prosecuted under this section, the other section, or both sections.
   (e)   As used in this section:
      (1)   “Biological agent” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2917.33.
      (2)   “Economic harm” means any of the following:
         A.   All direct, incidental, and consequential pecuniary harm suffered by a victim as a result of criminal conduct. “Economic harm” as described in this division includes, but is not limited to, all of the following:
            1.   All wages, salaries, or other compensation lost as a result of the criminal conduct;
            2.   The cost of all wages, salaries, or other compensation paid to employees for time those employees are prevented from working as a result of the criminal conduct;
            3.   The overhead costs incurred for the time that a business is shut down as a result of the criminal conduct;
            4.   The loss of value to tangible or intangible property that was damaged as a result of the criminal conduct.
         B.   All costs incurred by the Municipality as a result of, or in making any response to, the criminal conduct that constituted the violation of this section or Section 509.07, including, but not limited to, all costs so incurred by any law enforcement officers, firefighters, rescue personnel, or emergency medical services personnel of the state or the political subdivision.
      (3)   “Emergency medical services personnel” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2133.21.
      (4)   “Institution of higher education” means any of the following:
         A.   A state university or college as defined in Ohio R.C. 3345.12(A)(1), community college, state community college, university branch, or technical college;
         B.   A private, nonprofit college, university or other post-secondary institution located in this State that possesses a certificate of authorization issued by the Chancellor of Higher Education pursuant to Ohio R.C. Chapter 1713.
         C.   A post-secondary institution with a certificate of registration issued by the State Board of Career Colleges and Schools under Ohio R.C. Chapter 3332. (ORC 2917.31)
      (5)   “School” means any school operated by a board of education or any school for which the Director of Education and Workforce prescribes minimum standards under Ohio R.C. 3301.07, whether or not any instruction, extracurricular activities, or training provided by the school is being conducted at the time a violation of this section is committed.
      (6)   “Weapon of mass destruction” means any of the following:
         A.   Any weapon that is designed or intended to cause death or serious physical harm through the release, dissemination, or impact of toxic or poisonous chemicals, or their precursors;
         B.   Any weapon involving a disease organism or biological agent;
         C.   Any weapon that is designed to release radiation or radioactivity at a level dangerous to human life;
         D.   Any of the following, except to the extent that the item or device in question is expressly excepted from the definition of “destructive device” pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(4) and regulations issued under that section:
            1.   Any explosive, incendiary, or poison gas bomb, grenade, rocket having a propellant charge of more than four ounces, missile having an explosive or incendiary charge of more than one-quarter ounce, mine, or similar device;
            2.   Any combination of parts either designed or intended for use in converting any item or device into any item or device described in division (e)(3)D.1. of this section and from which an item or device described in that division may be readily assembled.
509.07 MAKING FALSE ALARMS.
   (a)   No person shall do any of the following:
      (1)   Initiate or circulate a report or warning of an alleged or impending fire, explosion, crime or other catastrophe, knowing that the report or warning is false and likely to cause public inconvenience or alarm;
      (2)   Knowingly cause a false alarm of fire or other emergency to be transmitted to or within any organization, public or private, for dealing with emergencies involving a risk of physical harm to persons or property;
      (3)   Report to any law enforcement agency an alleged offense or other incident within its concern, knowing that such offense did not occur.
      (4)    Initiate or circulate a report or warning of an alleged or impending fire, explosion, crime, or other catastrophe, knowing that the report or warning is false and likely to impede the operation of a critical infrastructure facility.
   (b)   This section does not apply to any person conducting an authorized fire or emergency drill.
   (c)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of making false alarms, a misdemeanor of the first degree. If a violation of this section results in economic harm of one thousand dollars ($1,000) or more, or if a violation of this section pertains to a purported, threatened, or actual use of a weapon of mass destruction, making false alarms is a felony and shall be prosecuted under appropriate State law.
   (d)   Any act that is a violation of this section and any other section of the Codified Ordinances may be prosecuted under this section, the other section, or both sections.
   (e)    As used in this section:
      (1)   “Critical infrastructure facility” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2911.21.
      (2)   “Economic harm”and “weapon of mass destruction” have the same meaning as in Section 509.06. (ORC 2917.32)
509.08 MINORS’ CURFEW.
   (a)   No person having the control and custody of or being the parent or guardian of a minor under the age of sixteen years shall permit such minor to be, nor shall such minor be, outside the confines of his homesite and congregate, wander, loiter or play upon the streets or other public places of the Municipality, upon unsupervised or unenclosed lands or upon places of amusement and entertainment, during each and every day of the week, inclusive, between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. of the following day.
   (b)   No person having the control and custody of or being the parent or guardian of a minor between the ages of sixteen and eighteen (i.e. age sixteen or seventeen) shall permit such minor to, nor shall such minor be, outside the confines of his homesite and congregate, wander, loiter or play upon the streets or other public places of the Municipality, upon unsupervised or unenclosed lands or upon places of amusement or entertainment, on Monday to Thursday inclusive, between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. of the following day, and on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, between the hours of 12:00 midnight and 5:00 a.m. of the following day.
   (c)   Any school, church, lodge or other organization sponsoring functions wherein minors in attendance will be out at a later hour than provided for in this section shall obtain the Mayor’s approval to have the minors remain to the time when the entertainment will end. All minors attending such function shall be required to be within the confines of their respective homesites one-half hour after such function is ended.
   (d)   No minor shall be outside the confines of his homesite and congregate, wander, loiter or play upon the streets or other public places of the Municipality, upon unsupervised or unenclosed lands or upon places of amusement or entertainment in contravention of and/or in violation of the time periods defined and established pursuant to subsection (a) and (b).
   (e)   Any minor violating subsection (a) or (b) hereof shall be dealt with in accordance with Juvenile Court law and procedure. (Ord. 48-87. Passed 6-23-87.)
   (f)   Whoever violates any provision of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. If a person has been previously convicted of a violation of this section, each subsequent violation shall constitute a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(Ord. 105-92. Passed 11-24-92.)

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ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD LAKE, OHIO
ORDINANCE NO. 116-84
ORDINANCES OF SHEFFIELD LAKE
orderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
ORDERLY CONDUCT; INTOXICATION
ordinary sensibilities, which conduct the offender, if the offender were not intoxicated, should know is likely to have that effect on others;
ordinance of which an element is operating a motor vehicle, locomotive, watercraft, aircraft or other vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or any drug of abuse, is not a violation of
ordinary observer to be intoxicated, it is probable cause to believe that person is voluntarily intoxicated for purposes of subsection (b) hereof
orderly conduct
orderly conduct is a minor misdemeanor
orderly conduct is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree if any of the following applies:
orderly conduct after reasonable warning or request to desist
order and solemnity of the assemblage
order of any law enforcement officer engaged in the law enforcement officer’s duties at the scene of or in connection with a fire, accident, disaster, riot, or emergency of any kind
Ordinances may be prosecuted under this section, the other section, or both sections
ordance with Juvenile Court law and procedure
Ord. 48-87
Ord. 105-92
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509.03 DISORDERLY CONDUCT; INTOXICATION.

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CERTIFICATION
ROSTER OF OFFICIALS
ADOPTING ORDINANCE NO. 116-84
COMPARATIVE SECTION TABLE
TABLES OF SPECIAL ORDINANCES OF SHEFFIELD LAKE
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PART ONE - ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
PART THREE - TRAFFIC CODE
PART FIVE - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
CHAPTER 501 General Provisions and Penalty
CHAPTER 505 Animals and Fowl
CHAPTER 509 Disorderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
509.01 RIOT.
509.011 INCITING TO VIOLENCE.
509.02 FAILURE TO DISPERSE.
509.03 DISORDERLY CONDUCT; INTOXICATION.
509.04 DISTURBING A LAWFUL MEETING.
509.05 MISCONDUCT AT AN EMERGENCY.
509.06 INDUCING PANIC.
509.07 MAKING FALSE ALARMS.
509.08 MINORS’ CURFEW.
509.09 PERMITTING PUBLIC NUISANCE.
509.10 IMPEDING PUBLIC PASSAGE OF AN EMERGENCY SERVICE RESPONDER.
509.99 PENALTY.
CHAPTER 513 Drug Abuse Control
CHAPTER 517 Gambling
CHAPTER 521 Health, Safety and Sanitation
CHAPTER 525 Law Enforcement and Public Office
CHAPTER 529 Liquor Control
CHAPTER 531 Noise Control
CHAPTER 533 Obscenity and Sex Offenses
CHAPTER 537 Offenses Against Persons
CHAPTER 541 Property Offenses
CHAPTER 545 Theft and Fraud
CHAPTER 549 Weapons and Explosives
CHAPTER 553 Railroads
CHAPTER 557 Watercraft
CHAPTER 561 Weeds and Grass
PART SEVEN - BUSINESS REGULATION CODE
PART NINE - STREETS, UTILITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART ELEVEN - PLANNING AND ZONING CODE
PART THIRTEEN - BUILDING CODE
PART FIFTEEN - FIRE PREVENTION CODE
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Codified Ordinances of Sheffield Lake, OH
509.03 DISORDERLY CONDUCT; INTOXICATION.
CHAPTER 509 Disorderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
CHAPTER 509
Disorderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
509.01   Riot.
509.011   Inciting to violence.
509.02   Failure to disperse.
509.03   Disorderly conduct; intoxication.
509.04   Disturbing a lawful meeting.
509.05   Misconduct at an emergency.
509.06   Inducing panic.
509.07   Making false alarms.
509.08   Minors’ curfew.
509.09      Permitting public nuisance.
509.10      Impeding public passage of an emergency service responder.
509.99   Penalty.

CROSS REFERENCES
See sectional histories for similar State law
Use of force to suppress riot - see Ohio R.C. 2917.05
Cordoning off riot areas, prohibiting sales of firearms and explosives - see Ohio R.C. 3761.16
Emergency suspension of permits and sales by Director of
Liquor Control - see Ohio R.C 4301.251
Criminal trespass - see GEN. OFF. 541.05

509.01 RIOT.
   (a)   No person shall participate with four or more others in a course of disorderly conduct in violation of Section 509.03:
      (1)   With purpose to commit or facilitate the commission of a misdemeanor, other than disorderly conduct;
      (2)   With purpose to intimidate a public official or employee into taking or refraining from official action, or with purpose to hinder, impede or obstruct a function of government;
      (3)   With purpose to hinder, impede or obstruct the orderly process of administration or instruction at an educational institution, or to interfere with or disrupt lawful activities carried on at such institution.
   (b)   No person shall participate with four or more others with purpose to do an act with unlawful force or violence, even though such act might otherwise be lawful.
   (c)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of riot, a misdemeanor of the first degree. (ORC 2917.03)
509.011 INCITING TO VIOLENCE.
   (a)   No person shall knowingly engage in conduct designed to urge or incite another to commit any offense of violence, when either of the following apply:
      (1)   The conduct takes place under circumstances that create a clear and present danger that any offense of violence will be committed;
      (2)   The conduct proximately results in the commission of any offense of violence.
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of inciting to violence. If the offense of violence that the other person is being urged or incited to commit is a misdemeanor, inciting to violence is a misdemeanor of the first degree. (ORC 2917.01)
509.02 FAILURE TO DISPERSE.
   (a)    Where five or more persons are participating in a course of disorderly conduct in violation of Section 509.03, and there are other persons in the vicinity whose presence creates the likelihood of physical harm to persons or property or of serious public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, a law enforcement officer or other public official may order the participants and such other persons to disperse. No person shall knowingly fail to obey such order.
   (b)   Nothing in this section requires persons to disperse who are peaceably assembled for a lawful purpose.
   (c)   (1)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of failure to disperse.
      (2)   Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c)(3) hereof, failure to disperse is a minor misdemeanor.
      (3)   Failure to disperse is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree if the failure to obey the order described in subsection (a) hereof, creates the likelihood of physical harm to persons or is committed at the scene of a fire, accident, disaster, riot, or emergency of any kind. (ORC 2917.04)
509.03 DISORDERLY CONDUCT; INTOXICATION.
   (a)   No person shall recklessly cause inconvenience, annoyance or alarm to another by doing any of the following:
      (1)   Engaging in fighting, in threatening harm to persons or property, or in violent or turbulent behavior;
      (2)   Making unreasonable noise or offensively coarse utterance, gesture or display, or communicating unwarranted and grossly abusive language to any person, which by its very utterance or usage inflicts injury or tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace;
      (3)   Insulting, taunting or challenging another, under circumstances in which that conduct is likely to provoke a violent response;
      (4)   Hindering or preventing the movement of persons on a public street, road, highway or right of way, or to, from, within or upon public or private property, so as to interfere with the rights of others, and by any act that serves no lawful and reasonable purpose of the offender;
      (5)   Creating a condition that is physically offensive to persons or that presents a risk of physical harm to persons or property, by any act that serves no lawful and reasonable purpose of the offender.
   (b)   No person, while voluntarily intoxicated shall do either of the following:
      (1)   In a public place or in the presence of two or more persons, engage in conduct likely to be offensive or to cause inconvenience, annoyance or alarm to persons of ordinary sensibilities, which conduct the offender, if the offender were not intoxicated, should know is likely to have that effect on others;
      (2)   Engage in conduct or create a condition that presents a risk of physical harm to the offender or another, or to the property of another.
   (c)   Violation of any statute or ordinance of which an element is operating a motor vehicle, locomotive, watercraft, aircraft or other vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or any drug of abuse, is not a violation of subsection (b) hereof.
   (d)   If a person appears to an ordinary observer to be intoxicated, it is probable cause to believe that person is voluntarily intoxicated for purposes of subsection (b) hereof.
   (e)   (1)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of disorderly conduct.
      (2)   Except as otherwise provided in subsections (e)(3) and (e)(4), disorderly conduct is a minor misdemeanor.
      (3)   Disorderly conduct is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree if any of the following applies:
         A.   The offender persists in disorderly conduct after reasonable warning or request to desist.
         B.   The offense is committed in the vicinity of a school or in a school safety zone.
         C.   The offense is committed in the presence of any law enforcement officer, firefighter, rescuer, medical person, emergency medical services person, or other authorized person who is engaged in the person’s duties at the scene of a fire, accident, disaster, riot or emergency of any kind.
         D.   The offense is committed in the presence of any emergency facility person who is engaged in the person’s duties in an emergency facility.
      (4)   If an offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to three or more violations of subsection (b) of this section, a violation of subsection (b) of this section is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
   (f)   As used in this section:
      (1)   “Emergency medical services person” is the singular of “emergency medical services personnel” as defined in Ohio R.C. 2133.21.
      (2)   “Emergency facility person” is the singular of “emergency facility personnel” as defined in Ohio R.C. 2909.04.
      (3)   “Emergency facility” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2909.04.
      (4)   “Committed in the vicinity of a school” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2925.01. (ORC 2917.11)
509.04 DISTURBING A LAWFUL MEETING.
   (a)   No person, with purpose to prevent or disrupt a lawful meeting, procession or gathering, shall do either of the following:
      (1)   Do any act which obstructs or interferes with the due conduct of such meeting, procession or gathering;
      (2)   Make any utterance, gesture or display which outrages the sensibilities of the group.
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of disturbing a lawful meeting. Except as otherwise provided in this section, disturbing a lawful meeting is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. Disturbing a lawful meeting is a misdemeanor of the first degree if either of the following applies:
      (1)   The violation is committed with the intent to disturb or disquiet any assemblage of people met for religious worship at a tax-exempt place of worship, regardless of whether the conduct is within the place at which the assemblage is held or is on the property on which that place is located and disturbs the order and solemnity of the assemblage.
      (2)   The violation is committed with the intent to prevent, disrupt, or interfere with a virtual meeting or gathering of people for religious worship, through use of a computer, computer system, telecommunications device, or other electronic device or system, or in any other manner.
   (c)   As used in this section:
      (1)   “Computer” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2913.01.
      (2)   “Computer system” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2913.01.
      (3)   “Telecommunications device” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2913.01.
      (4)   “Virtual meeting or gathering” means a meeting or gathering by interactive video conference or teleconference, or by a combination thereof.
         (ORC 2917.12)
509.05 MISCONDUCT AT AN EMERGENCY.
   (a)   No person shall knowingly do any of the following:
      (1)   Hamper the lawful operations of any law enforcement officer, firefighter, rescuer, medical person, emergency medical services person, or other authorized person, engaged in the person’s duties at the scene of a fire, accident, disaster, riot, or emergency of any kind;
      (2)   Fail to obey the lawful order of any law enforcement officer engaged in the law enforcement officer’s duties at the scene of or in connection with a fire, accident, disaster, riot, or emergency of any kind.
   (b)   Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit access or deny information to any news media representative in the lawful exercise of the news media representative’s duties.
   (c)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of misconduct at an emergency. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, misconduct at an emergency is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. If a violation of this section creates a risk of physical harm to persons or property, misconduct at an emergency is a misdemeanor of the first degree.
   (d)   As used in this section:
      (1)   “Emergency medical services person” is the singular of “emergency medical services personnel” as defined in Ohio R.C. 2133.21.
      (2)   “Emergency facility person” is the singular of “emergency facility personnel” as defined in Ohio R.C. 2909.04.
      (3)   “Emergency facility” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2909.04.
509.06 INDUCING PANIC.
   (a)    No person shall cause the evacuation of any public place, or otherwise cause serious public inconvenience or alarm, by doing any of the following:
      (1)   Initiating or circulating a report or warning of an alleged or impending fire, explosion, crime or other catastrophe, knowing that such report or warning is false;
      (2)   Threatening to commit any offense of violence;
      (3)   Committing any offense, with reckless disregard of the likelihood that its commission will cause serious public inconvenience or alarm.
   (b)    Division (a) hereof does not apply to any person conducting an authorized fire or emergency drill.
   (c)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of inducing panic, a misdemeanor of the first degree. If inducing panic results in physical harm to any person, economic harm of one thousand dollars ($1,000) or more, if the public place involved in a violation of this section is a school or an institution of higher education, or if the violation pertains to a purported, threatened or actual use of a weapon of mass destruction, inducing panic is a felony and shall be prosecuted under appropriate State law.
   (d)   Any act that is a violation of this section and any other section of the Codified Ordinances may be prosecuted under this section, the other section, or both sections.
   (e)   As used in this section:
      (1)   “Biological agent” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2917.33.
      (2)   “Economic harm” means any of the following:
         A.   All direct, incidental, and consequential pecuniary harm suffered by a victim as a result of criminal conduct. “Economic harm” as described in this division includes, but is not limited to, all of the following:
            1.   All wages, salaries, or other compensation lost as a result of the criminal conduct;
            2.   The cost of all wages, salaries, or other compensation paid to employees for time those employees are prevented from working as a result of the criminal conduct;
            3.   The overhead costs incurred for the time that a business is shut down as a result of the criminal conduct;
            4.   The loss of value to tangible or intangible property that was damaged as a result of the criminal conduct.
         B.   All costs incurred by the Municipality as a result of, or in making any response to, the criminal conduct that constituted the violation of this section or Section 509.07, including, but not limited to, all costs so incurred by any law enforcement officers, firefighters, rescue personnel, or emergency medical services personnel of the state or the political subdivision.
      (3)   “Emergency medical services personnel” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2133.21.
      (4)   “Institution of higher education” means any of the following:
         A.   A state university or college as defined in Ohio R.C. 3345.12(A)(1), community college, state community college, university branch, or technical college;
         B.   A private, nonprofit college, university or other post-secondary institution located in this State that possesses a certificate of authorization issued by the Chancellor of Higher Education pursuant to Ohio R.C. Chapter 1713.
         C.   A post-secondary institution with a certificate of registration issued by the State Board of Career Colleges and Schools under Ohio R.C. Chapter 3332. (ORC 2917.31)
      (5)   “School” means any school operated by a board of education or any school for which the Director of Education and Workforce prescribes minimum standards under Ohio R.C. 3301.07, whether or not any instruction, extracurricular activities, or training provided by the school is being conducted at the time a violation of this section is committed.
      (6)   “Weapon of mass destruction” means any of the following:
         A.   Any weapon that is designed or intended to cause death or serious physical harm through the release, dissemination, or impact of toxic or poisonous chemicals, or their precursors;
         B.   Any weapon involving a disease organism or biological agent;
         C.   Any weapon that is designed to release radiation or radioactivity at a level dangerous to human life;
         D.   Any of the following, except to the extent that the item or device in question is expressly excepted from the definition of “destructive device” pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(4) and regulations issued under that section:
            1.   Any explosive, incendiary, or poison gas bomb, grenade, rocket having a propellant charge of more than four ounces, missile having an explosive or incendiary charge of more than one-quarter ounce, mine, or similar device;
            2.   Any combination of parts either designed or intended for use in converting any item or device into any item or device described in division (e)(3)D.1. of this section and from which an item or device described in that division may be readily assembled.
509.07 MAKING FALSE ALARMS.
   (a)   No person shall do any of the following:
      (1)   Initiate or circulate a report or warning of an alleged or impending fire, explosion, crime or other catastrophe, knowing that the report or warning is false and likely to cause public inconvenience or alarm;
      (2)   Knowingly cause a false alarm of fire or other emergency to be transmitted to or within any organization, public or private, for dealing with emergencies involving a risk of physical harm to persons or property;
      (3)   Report to any law enforcement agency an alleged offense or other incident within its concern, knowing that such offense did not occur.
      (4)    Initiate or circulate a report or warning of an alleged or impending fire, explosion, crime, or other catastrophe, knowing that the report or warning is false and likely to impede the operation of a critical infrastructure facility.
   (b)   This section does not apply to any person conducting an authorized fire or emergency drill.
   (c)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of making false alarms, a misdemeanor of the first degree. If a violation of this section results in economic harm of one thousand dollars ($1,000) or more, or if a violation of this section pertains to a purported, threatened, or actual use of a weapon of mass destruction, making false alarms is a felony and shall be prosecuted under appropriate State law.
   (d)   Any act that is a violation of this section and any other section of the Codified Ordinances may be prosecuted under this section, the other section, or both sections.
   (e)    As used in this section:
      (1)   “Critical infrastructure facility” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2911.21.
      (2)   “Economic harm”and “weapon of mass destruction” have the same meaning as in Section 509.06. (ORC 2917.32)

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ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD LAKE, OHIO
ORDINANCE NO. 116-84
ORDINANCES OF SHEFFIELD LAKE
orderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
ORDERLY CONDUCT; INTOXICATION
orderly conduct; intoxication
ordoning off riot areas, prohibiting sales of firearms and explosives - see Ohio R
orderly conduct in violation of Section 509
orderly conduct;
orderly process of administration or instruction at an educational institution, or to interfere with or disrupt lawful activities carried on at such institution
order the participants and such other persons to disperse
order
order described in subsection (a) hereof, creates the likelihood of physical harm to persons or is committed at the scene of a fire, accident, disaster, riot, or emergency of any kind
ordinary sensibilities, which conduct the offender, if the offender were not intoxicated, should know is likely to have that effect on others;
ordinance of which an element is operating a motor vehicle, locomotive, watercraft, aircraft or other vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or any drug of abuse, is not a violation of
ordinary observer to be intoxicated, it is probable cause to believe that person is voluntarily intoxicated for purposes of subsection (b) hereof
orderly conduct
orderly conduct is a minor misdemeanor
orderly conduct is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree if any of the following applies:
orderly conduct after reasonable warning or request to desist
order and solemnity of the assemblage
order of any law enforcement officer engaged in the law enforcement officer’s duties at the scene of or in connection with a fire, accident, disaster, riot, or emergency of any kind
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509.09 PERMITTING PUBLIC NUISANCE.

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ORDINANCE NO. 116-84
ORDINANCES OF SHEFFIELD LAKE
orderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
ORDERLY CONDUCT; INTOXICATION
Ordinances may be prosecuted under this section, the other section, or both sections
ordance with Juvenile Court law and procedure
Ord. 48-87
Ord. 105-92
orderly conduct, disturbance of the peace
Ord. 36-20
order from an emergency service responder to remove or cease the obstruction, the person refuses to remove or cease the obstruction
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509.10 IMPEDING PUBLIC PASSAGE OF AN EMERGENCY SERVICE RESPONDER.

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ORDINANCE NO. 116-84
ORDINANCES OF SHEFFIELD LAKE
orderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
ORDERLY CONDUCT; INTOXICATION
ordance with Juvenile Court law and procedure
Ord. 48-87
Ord. 105-92
orderly conduct, disturbance of the peace
Ord. 36-20
order from an emergency service responder to remove or cease the obstruction, the person refuses to remove or cease the obstruction
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509.01 RIOT.

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ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD LAKE, OHIO
ORDINANCE NO. 116-84
ORDINANCES OF SHEFFIELD LAKE
orderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
ORDERLY CONDUCT; INTOXICATION
orderly conduct; intoxication
ordoning off riot areas, prohibiting sales of firearms and explosives - see Ohio R
orderly conduct in violation of Section 509
orderly conduct;
orderly process of administration or instruction at an educational institution, or to interfere with or disrupt lawful activities carried on at such institution
order the participants and such other persons to disperse
order
order described in subsection (a) hereof, creates the likelihood of physical harm to persons or is committed at the scene of a fire, accident, disaster, riot, or emergency of any kind
ordinary sensibilities, which conduct the offender, if the offender were not intoxicated, should know is likely to have that effect on others;
ordinance of which an element is operating a motor vehicle, locomotive, watercraft, aircraft or other vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or any drug of abuse, is not a violation of
ordinary observer to be intoxicated, it is probable cause to believe that person is voluntarily intoxicated for purposes of subsection (b) hereof
orderly conduct
orderly conduct is a minor misdemeanor
orderly conduct is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree if any of the following applies:
orderly conduct after reasonable warning or request to desist
order and solemnity of the assemblage
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509.011 INCITING TO VIOLENCE.

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ORDINANCE NO. 116-84
ORDINANCES OF SHEFFIELD LAKE
orderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
ORDERLY CONDUCT; INTOXICATION
orderly conduct; intoxication
ordoning off riot areas, prohibiting sales of firearms and explosives - see Ohio R
orderly conduct in violation of Section 509
orderly conduct;
orderly process of administration or instruction at an educational institution, or to interfere with or disrupt lawful activities carried on at such institution
order the participants and such other persons to disperse
order
order described in subsection (a) hereof, creates the likelihood of physical harm to persons or is committed at the scene of a fire, accident, disaster, riot, or emergency of any kind
ordinary sensibilities, which conduct the offender, if the offender were not intoxicated, should know is likely to have that effect on others;
ordinance of which an element is operating a motor vehicle, locomotive, watercraft, aircraft or other vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or any drug of abuse, is not a violation of
ordinary observer to be intoxicated, it is probable cause to believe that person is voluntarily intoxicated for purposes of subsection (b) hereof
orderly conduct
orderly conduct is a minor misdemeanor
orderly conduct is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree if any of the following applies:
orderly conduct after reasonable warning or request to desist
order and solemnity of the assemblage
order of any law enforcement officer engaged in the law enforcement officer’s duties at the scene of or in connection with a fire, accident, disaster, riot, or emergency of any kind
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509.02 FAILURE TO DISPERSE.

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Sheffield Lake Overview
Codified Ordinances of Sheffield Lake, OH
CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD LAKE, OHIO
CERTIFICATION
ROSTER OF OFFICIALS
ADOPTING ORDINANCE NO. 116-84
COMPARATIVE SECTION TABLE
TABLES OF SPECIAL ORDINANCES OF SHEFFIELD LAKE
CHARTER
PART ONE - ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
PART THREE - TRAFFIC CODE
PART FIVE - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
CHAPTER 501 General Provisions and Penalty
CHAPTER 505 Animals and Fowl
CHAPTER 509 Disorderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
509.01 RIOT.
509.011 INCITING TO VIOLENCE.
509.02 FAILURE TO DISPERSE.
509.03 DISORDERLY CONDUCT; INTOXICATION.
509.04 DISTURBING A LAWFUL MEETING.
509.05 MISCONDUCT AT AN EMERGENCY.
509.06 INDUCING PANIC.
509.07 MAKING FALSE ALARMS.
509.08 MINORS’ CURFEW.
509.09 PERMITTING PUBLIC NUISANCE.
509.10 IMPEDING PUBLIC PASSAGE OF AN EMERGENCY SERVICE RESPONDER.
509.99 PENALTY.
CHAPTER 513 Drug Abuse Control
CHAPTER 517 Gambling
CHAPTER 521 Health, Safety and Sanitation
CHAPTER 525 Law Enforcement and Public Office
CHAPTER 529 Liquor Control
CHAPTER 531 Noise Control
CHAPTER 533 Obscenity and Sex Offenses
CHAPTER 537 Offenses Against Persons
CHAPTER 541 Property Offenses
CHAPTER 545 Theft and Fraud
CHAPTER 549 Weapons and Explosives
CHAPTER 553 Railroads
CHAPTER 557 Watercraft
CHAPTER 561 Weeds and Grass
PART SEVEN - BUSINESS REGULATION CODE
PART NINE - STREETS, UTILITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART ELEVEN - PLANNING AND ZONING CODE
PART THIRTEEN - BUILDING CODE
PART FIFTEEN - FIRE PREVENTION CODE
OH
Sheffield Lake
Codified Ordinances of Sheffield Lake, OH
509.02 FAILURE TO DISPERSE.
CHAPTER 509 Disorderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
CHAPTER 509
Disorderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
509.01   Riot.
509.011   Inciting to violence.
509.02   Failure to disperse.
509.03   Disorderly conduct; intoxication.
509.04   Disturbing a lawful meeting.
509.05   Misconduct at an emergency.
509.06   Inducing panic.
509.07   Making false alarms.
509.08   Minors’ curfew.
509.09      Permitting public nuisance.
509.10      Impeding public passage of an emergency service responder.
509.99   Penalty.

CROSS REFERENCES
See sectional histories for similar State law
Use of force to suppress riot - see Ohio R.C. 2917.05
Cordoning off riot areas, prohibiting sales of firearms and explosives - see Ohio R.C. 3761.16
Emergency suspension of permits and sales by Director of
Liquor Control - see Ohio R.C 4301.251
Criminal trespass - see GEN. OFF. 541.05

509.01 RIOT.
   (a)   No person shall participate with four or more others in a course of disorderly conduct in violation of Section 509.03:
      (1)   With purpose to commit or facilitate the commission of a misdemeanor, other than disorderly conduct;
      (2)   With purpose to intimidate a public official or employee into taking or refraining from official action, or with purpose to hinder, impede or obstruct a function of government;
      (3)   With purpose to hinder, impede or obstruct the orderly process of administration or instruction at an educational institution, or to interfere with or disrupt lawful activities carried on at such institution.
   (b)   No person shall participate with four or more others with purpose to do an act with unlawful force or violence, even though such act might otherwise be lawful.
   (c)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of riot, a misdemeanor of the first degree. (ORC 2917.03)
509.011 INCITING TO VIOLENCE.
   (a)   No person shall knowingly engage in conduct designed to urge or incite another to commit any offense of violence, when either of the following apply:
      (1)   The conduct takes place under circumstances that create a clear and present danger that any offense of violence will be committed;
      (2)   The conduct proximately results in the commission of any offense of violence.
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of inciting to violence. If the offense of violence that the other person is being urged or incited to commit is a misdemeanor, inciting to violence is a misdemeanor of the first degree. (ORC 2917.01)
509.02 FAILURE TO DISPERSE.
   (a)    Where five or more persons are participating in a course of disorderly conduct in violation of Section 509.03, and there are other persons in the vicinity whose presence creates the likelihood of physical harm to persons or property or of serious public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, a law enforcement officer or other public official may order the participants and such other persons to disperse. No person shall knowingly fail to obey such order.
   (b)   Nothing in this section requires persons to disperse who are peaceably assembled for a lawful purpose.
   (c)   (1)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of failure to disperse.
      (2)   Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c)(3) hereof, failure to disperse is a minor misdemeanor.
      (3)   Failure to disperse is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree if the failure to obey the order described in subsection (a) hereof, creates the likelihood of physical harm to persons or is committed at the scene of a fire, accident, disaster, riot, or emergency of any kind. (ORC 2917.04)
509.03 DISORDERLY CONDUCT; INTOXICATION.
   (a)   No person shall recklessly cause inconvenience, annoyance or alarm to another by doing any of the following:
      (1)   Engaging in fighting, in threatening harm to persons or property, or in violent or turbulent behavior;
      (2)   Making unreasonable noise or offensively coarse utterance, gesture or display, or communicating unwarranted and grossly abusive language to any person, which by its very utterance or usage inflicts injury or tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace;
      (3)   Insulting, taunting or challenging another, under circumstances in which that conduct is likely to provoke a violent response;
      (4)   Hindering or preventing the movement of persons on a public street, road, highway or right of way, or to, from, within or upon public or private property, so as to interfere with the rights of others, and by any act that serves no lawful and reasonable purpose of the offender;
      (5)   Creating a condition that is physically offensive to persons or that presents a risk of physical harm to persons or property, by any act that serves no lawful and reasonable purpose of the offender.
   (b)   No person, while voluntarily intoxicated shall do either of the following:
      (1)   In a public place or in the presence of two or more persons, engage in conduct likely to be offensive or to cause inconvenience, annoyance or alarm to persons of ordinary sensibilities, which conduct the offender, if the offender were not intoxicated, should know is likely to have that effect on others;
      (2)   Engage in conduct or create a condition that presents a risk of physical harm to the offender or another, or to the property of another.
   (c)   Violation of any statute or ordinance of which an element is operating a motor vehicle, locomotive, watercraft, aircraft or other vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or any drug of abuse, is not a violation of subsection (b) hereof.
   (d)   If a person appears to an ordinary observer to be intoxicated, it is probable cause to believe that person is voluntarily intoxicated for purposes of subsection (b) hereof.
   (e)   (1)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of disorderly conduct.
      (2)   Except as otherwise provided in subsections (e)(3) and (e)(4), disorderly conduct is a minor misdemeanor.
      (3)   Disorderly conduct is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree if any of the following applies:
         A.   The offender persists in disorderly conduct after reasonable warning or request to desist.
         B.   The offense is committed in the vicinity of a school or in a school safety zone.
         C.   The offense is committed in the presence of any law enforcement officer, firefighter, rescuer, medical person, emergency medical services person, or other authorized person who is engaged in the person’s duties at the scene of a fire, accident, disaster, riot or emergency of any kind.
         D.   The offense is committed in the presence of any emergency facility person who is engaged in the person’s duties in an emergency facility.
      (4)   If an offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to three or more violations of subsection (b) of this section, a violation of subsection (b) of this section is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
   (f)   As used in this section:
      (1)   “Emergency medical services person” is the singular of “emergency medical services personnel” as defined in Ohio R.C. 2133.21.
      (2)   “Emergency facility person” is the singular of “emergency facility personnel” as defined in Ohio R.C. 2909.04.
      (3)   “Emergency facility” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2909.04.
      (4)   “Committed in the vicinity of a school” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2925.01. (ORC 2917.11)
509.04 DISTURBING A LAWFUL MEETING.
   (a)   No person, with purpose to prevent or disrupt a lawful meeting, procession or gathering, shall do either of the following:
      (1)   Do any act which obstructs or interferes with the due conduct of such meeting, procession or gathering;
      (2)   Make any utterance, gesture or display which outrages the sensibilities of the group.
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of disturbing a lawful meeting. Except as otherwise provided in this section, disturbing a lawful meeting is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. Disturbing a lawful meeting is a misdemeanor of the first degree if either of the following applies:
      (1)   The violation is committed with the intent to disturb or disquiet any assemblage of people met for religious worship at a tax-exempt place of worship, regardless of whether the conduct is within the place at which the assemblage is held or is on the property on which that place is located and disturbs the order and solemnity of the assemblage.
      (2)   The violation is committed with the intent to prevent, disrupt, or interfere with a virtual meeting or gathering of people for religious worship, through use of a computer, computer system, telecommunications device, or other electronic device or system, or in any other manner.
   (c)   As used in this section:
      (1)   “Computer” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2913.01.
      (2)   “Computer system” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2913.01.
      (3)   “Telecommunications device” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2913.01.
      (4)   “Virtual meeting or gathering” means a meeting or gathering by interactive video conference or teleconference, or by a combination thereof.
         (ORC 2917.12)
509.05 MISCONDUCT AT AN EMERGENCY.
   (a)   No person shall knowingly do any of the following:
      (1)   Hamper the lawful operations of any law enforcement officer, firefighter, rescuer, medical person, emergency medical services person, or other authorized person, engaged in the person’s duties at the scene of a fire, accident, disaster, riot, or emergency of any kind;
      (2)   Fail to obey the lawful order of any law enforcement officer engaged in the law enforcement officer’s duties at the scene of or in connection with a fire, accident, disaster, riot, or emergency of any kind.
   (b)   Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit access or deny information to any news media representative in the lawful exercise of the news media representative’s duties.
   (c)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of misconduct at an emergency. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, misconduct at an emergency is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. If a violation of this section creates a risk of physical harm to persons or property, misconduct at an emergency is a misdemeanor of the first degree.
   (d)   As used in this section:
      (1)   “Emergency medical services person” is the singular of “emergency medical services personnel” as defined in Ohio R.C. 2133.21.
      (2)   “Emergency facility person” is the singular of “emergency facility personnel” as defined in Ohio R.C. 2909.04.
      (3)   “Emergency facility” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2909.04.
509.06 INDUCING PANIC.
   (a)    No person shall cause the evacuation of any public place, or otherwise cause serious public inconvenience or alarm, by doing any of the following:
      (1)   Initiating or circulating a report or warning of an alleged or impending fire, explosion, crime or other catastrophe, knowing that such report or warning is false;
      (2)   Threatening to commit any offense of violence;
      (3)   Committing any offense, with reckless disregard of the likelihood that its commission will cause serious public inconvenience or alarm.
   (b)    Division (a) hereof does not apply to any person conducting an authorized fire or emergency drill.
   (c)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of inducing panic, a misdemeanor of the first degree. If inducing panic results in physical harm to any person, economic harm of one thousand dollars ($1,000) or more, if the public place involved in a violation of this section is a school or an institution of higher education, or if the violation pertains to a purported, threatened or actual use of a weapon of mass destruction, inducing panic is a felony and shall be prosecuted under appropriate State law.
   (d)   Any act that is a violation of this section and any other section of the Codified Ordinances may be prosecuted under this section, the other section, or both sections.
   (e)   As used in this section:
      (1)   “Biological agent” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2917.33.
      (2)   “Economic harm” means any of the following:
         A.   All direct, incidental, and consequential pecuniary harm suffered by a victim as a result of criminal conduct. “Economic harm” as described in this division includes, but is not limited to, all of the following:
            1.   All wages, salaries, or other compensation lost as a result of the criminal conduct;
            2.   The cost of all wages, salaries, or other compensation paid to employees for time those employees are prevented from working as a result of the criminal conduct;
            3.   The overhead costs incurred for the time that a business is shut down as a result of the criminal conduct;
            4.   The loss of value to tangible or intangible property that was damaged as a result of the criminal conduct.
         B.   All costs incurred by the Municipality as a result of, or in making any response to, the criminal conduct that constituted the violation of this section or Section 509.07, including, but not limited to, all costs so incurred by any law enforcement officers, firefighters, rescue personnel, or emergency medical services personnel of the state or the political subdivision.
      (3)   “Emergency medical services personnel” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2133.21.
      (4)   “Institution of higher education” means any of the following:
         A.   A state university or college as defined in Ohio R.C. 3345.12(A)(1), community college, state community college, university branch, or technical college;
         B.   A private, nonprofit college, university or other post-secondary institution located in this State that possesses a certificate of authorization issued by the Chancellor of Higher Education pursuant to Ohio R.C. Chapter 1713.
         C.   A post-secondary institution with a certificate of registration issued by the State Board of Career Colleges and Schools under Ohio R.C. Chapter 3332. (ORC 2917.31)
      (5)   “School” means any school operated by a board of education or any school for which the Director of Education and Workforce prescribes minimum standards under Ohio R.C. 3301.07, whether or not any instruction, extracurricular activities, or training provided by the school is being conducted at the time a violation of this section is committed.
      (6)   “Weapon of mass destruction” means any of the following:
         A.   Any weapon that is designed or intended to cause death or serious physical harm through the release, dissemination, or impact of toxic or poisonous chemicals, or their precursors;
         B.   Any weapon involving a disease organism or biological agent;
         C.   Any weapon that is designed to release radiation or radioactivity at a level dangerous to human life;
         D.   Any of the following, except to the extent that the item or device in question is expressly excepted from the definition of “destructive device” pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(4) and regulations issued under that section:
            1.   Any explosive, incendiary, or poison gas bomb, grenade, rocket having a propellant charge of more than four ounces, missile having an explosive or incendiary charge of more than one-quarter ounce, mine, or similar device;
            2.   Any combination of parts either designed or intended for use in converting any item or device into any item or device described in division (e)(3)D.1. of this section and from which an item or device described in that division may be readily assembled.

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Ordinances of Sheffield Lake, OH
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD LAKE, OHIO
ORDINANCE NO. 116-84
ORDINANCES OF SHEFFIELD LAKE
orderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
ORDERLY CONDUCT; INTOXICATION
orderly conduct; intoxication
ordoning off riot areas, prohibiting sales of firearms and explosives - see Ohio R
orderly conduct in violation of Section 509
orderly conduct;
orderly process of administration or instruction at an educational institution, or to interfere with or disrupt lawful activities carried on at such institution
order the participants and such other persons to disperse
order
order described in subsection (a) hereof, creates the likelihood of physical harm to persons or is committed at the scene of a fire, accident, disaster, riot, or emergency of any kind
ordinary sensibilities, which conduct the offender, if the offender were not intoxicated, should know is likely to have that effect on others;
ordinance of which an element is operating a motor vehicle, locomotive, watercraft, aircraft or other vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or any drug of abuse, is not a violation of
ordinary observer to be intoxicated, it is probable cause to believe that person is voluntarily intoxicated for purposes of subsection (b) hereof
orderly conduct
orderly conduct is a minor misdemeanor
orderly conduct is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree if any of the following applies:
orderly conduct after reasonable warning or request to desist
order and solemnity of the assemblage
order of any law enforcement officer engaged in the law enforcement officer’s duties at the scene of or in connection with a fire, accident, disaster, riot, or emergency of any kind
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509.04 DISTURBING A LAWFUL MEETING.

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Identifier	509.04
Citation	§ 509.04
Ordinances detected	S, 116-84, ER, INARY, OF, 48-87, 105-92
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Sheffield Lake Overview
Codified Ordinances of Sheffield Lake, OH
CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD LAKE, OHIO
CERTIFICATION
ROSTER OF OFFICIALS
ADOPTING ORDINANCE NO. 116-84
COMPARATIVE SECTION TABLE
TABLES OF SPECIAL ORDINANCES OF SHEFFIELD LAKE
CHARTER
PART ONE - ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
PART THREE - TRAFFIC CODE
PART FIVE - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
CHAPTER 501 General Provisions and Penalty
CHAPTER 505 Animals and Fowl
CHAPTER 509 Disorderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
509.01 RIOT.
509.011 INCITING TO VIOLENCE.
509.02 FAILURE TO DISPERSE.
509.03 DISORDERLY CONDUCT; INTOXICATION.
509.04 DISTURBING A LAWFUL MEETING.
509.05 MISCONDUCT AT AN EMERGENCY.
509.06 INDUCING PANIC.
509.07 MAKING FALSE ALARMS.
509.08 MINORS’ CURFEW.
509.09 PERMITTING PUBLIC NUISANCE.
509.10 IMPEDING PUBLIC PASSAGE OF AN EMERGENCY SERVICE RESPONDER.
509.99 PENALTY.
CHAPTER 513 Drug Abuse Control
CHAPTER 517 Gambling
CHAPTER 521 Health, Safety and Sanitation
CHAPTER 525 Law Enforcement and Public Office
CHAPTER 529 Liquor Control
CHAPTER 531 Noise Control
CHAPTER 533 Obscenity and Sex Offenses
CHAPTER 537 Offenses Against Persons
CHAPTER 541 Property Offenses
CHAPTER 545 Theft and Fraud
CHAPTER 549 Weapons and Explosives
CHAPTER 553 Railroads
CHAPTER 557 Watercraft
CHAPTER 561 Weeds and Grass
PART SEVEN - BUSINESS REGULATION CODE
PART NINE - STREETS, UTILITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART ELEVEN - PLANNING AND ZONING CODE
PART THIRTEEN - BUILDING CODE
PART FIFTEEN - FIRE PREVENTION CODE
OH
Sheffield Lake
Codified Ordinances of Sheffield Lake, OH
509.04 DISTURBING A LAWFUL MEETING.
CHAPTER 509 Disorderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
509.02 FAILURE TO DISPERSE.
   (a)    Where five or more persons are participating in a course of disorderly conduct in violation of Section 509.03, and there are other persons in the vicinity whose presence creates the likelihood of physical harm to persons or property or of serious public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, a law enforcement officer or other public official may order the participants and such other persons to disperse. No person shall knowingly fail to obey such order.
   (b)   Nothing in this section requires persons to disperse who are peaceably assembled for a lawful purpose.
   (c)   (1)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of failure to disperse.
      (2)   Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c)(3) hereof, failure to disperse is a minor misdemeanor.
      (3)   Failure to disperse is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree if the failure to obey the order described in subsection (a) hereof, creates the likelihood of physical harm to persons or is committed at the scene of a fire, accident, disaster, riot, or emergency of any kind. (ORC 2917.04)
509.03 DISORDERLY CONDUCT; INTOXICATION.
   (a)   No person shall recklessly cause inconvenience, annoyance or alarm to another by doing any of the following:
      (1)   Engaging in fighting, in threatening harm to persons or property, or in violent or turbulent behavior;
      (2)   Making unreasonable noise or offensively coarse utterance, gesture or display, or communicating unwarranted and grossly abusive language to any person, which by its very utterance or usage inflicts injury or tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace;
      (3)   Insulting, taunting or challenging another, under circumstances in which that conduct is likely to provoke a violent response;
      (4)   Hindering or preventing the movement of persons on a public street, road, highway or right of way, or to, from, within or upon public or private property, so as to interfere with the rights of others, and by any act that serves no lawful and reasonable purpose of the offender;
      (5)   Creating a condition that is physically offensive to persons or that presents a risk of physical harm to persons or property, by any act that serves no lawful and reasonable purpose of the offender.
   (b)   No person, while voluntarily intoxicated shall do either of the following:
      (1)   In a public place or in the presence of two or more persons, engage in conduct likely to be offensive or to cause inconvenience, annoyance or alarm to persons of ordinary sensibilities, which conduct the offender, if the offender were not intoxicated, should know is likely to have that effect on others;
      (2)   Engage in conduct or create a condition that presents a risk of physical harm to the offender or another, or to the property of another.
   (c)   Violation of any statute or ordinance of which an element is operating a motor vehicle, locomotive, watercraft, aircraft or other vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or any drug of abuse, is not a violation of subsection (b) hereof.
   (d)   If a person appears to an ordinary observer to be intoxicated, it is probable cause to believe that person is voluntarily intoxicated for purposes of subsection (b) hereof.
   (e)   (1)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of disorderly conduct.
      (2)   Except as otherwise provided in subsections (e)(3) and (e)(4), disorderly conduct is a minor misdemeanor.
      (3)   Disorderly conduct is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree if any of the following applies:
         A.   The offender persists in disorderly conduct after reasonable warning or request to desist.
         B.   The offense is committed in the vicinity of a school or in a school safety zone.
         C.   The offense is committed in the presence of any law enforcement officer, firefighter, rescuer, medical person, emergency medical services person, or other authorized person who is engaged in the person’s duties at the scene of a fire, accident, disaster, riot or emergency of any kind.
         D.   The offense is committed in the presence of any emergency facility person who is engaged in the person’s duties in an emergency facility.
      (4)   If an offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to three or more violations of subsection (b) of this section, a violation of subsection (b) of this section is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
   (f)   As used in this section:
      (1)   “Emergency medical services person” is the singular of “emergency medical services personnel” as defined in Ohio R.C. 2133.21.
      (2)   “Emergency facility person” is the singular of “emergency facility personnel” as defined in Ohio R.C. 2909.04.
      (3)   “Emergency facility” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2909.04.
      (4)   “Committed in the vicinity of a school” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2925.01. (ORC 2917.11)
509.04 DISTURBING A LAWFUL MEETING.
   (a)   No person, with purpose to prevent or disrupt a lawful meeting, procession or gathering, shall do either of the following:
      (1)   Do any act which obstructs or interferes with the due conduct of such meeting, procession or gathering;
      (2)   Make any utterance, gesture or display which outrages the sensibilities of the group.
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of disturbing a lawful meeting. Except as otherwise provided in this section, disturbing a lawful meeting is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. Disturbing a lawful meeting is a misdemeanor of the first degree if either of the following applies:
      (1)   The violation is committed with the intent to disturb or disquiet any assemblage of people met for religious worship at a tax-exempt place of worship, regardless of whether the conduct is within the place at which the assemblage is held or is on the property on which that place is located and disturbs the order and solemnity of the assemblage.
      (2)   The violation is committed with the intent to prevent, disrupt, or interfere with a virtual meeting or gathering of people for religious worship, through use of a computer, computer system, telecommunications device, or other electronic device or system, or in any other manner.
   (c)   As used in this section:
      (1)   “Computer” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2913.01.
      (2)   “Computer system” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2913.01.
      (3)   “Telecommunications device” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2913.01.
      (4)   “Virtual meeting or gathering” means a meeting or gathering by interactive video conference or teleconference, or by a combination thereof.
         (ORC 2917.12)
509.05 MISCONDUCT AT AN EMERGENCY.
   (a)   No person shall knowingly do any of the following:
      (1)   Hamper the lawful operations of any law enforcement officer, firefighter, rescuer, medical person, emergency medical services person, or other authorized person, engaged in the person’s duties at the scene of a fire, accident, disaster, riot, or emergency of any kind;
      (2)   Fail to obey the lawful order of any law enforcement officer engaged in the law enforcement officer’s duties at the scene of or in connection with a fire, accident, disaster, riot, or emergency of any kind.
   (b)   Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit access or deny information to any news media representative in the lawful exercise of the news media representative’s duties.
   (c)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of misconduct at an emergency. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, misconduct at an emergency is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. If a violation of this section creates a risk of physical harm to persons or property, misconduct at an emergency is a misdemeanor of the first degree.
   (d)   As used in this section:
      (1)   “Emergency medical services person” is the singular of “emergency medical services personnel” as defined in Ohio R.C. 2133.21.
      (2)   “Emergency facility person” is the singular of “emergency facility personnel” as defined in Ohio R.C. 2909.04.
      (3)   “Emergency facility” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2909.04.
509.06 INDUCING PANIC.
   (a)    No person shall cause the evacuation of any public place, or otherwise cause serious public inconvenience or alarm, by doing any of the following:
      (1)   Initiating or circulating a report or warning of an alleged or impending fire, explosion, crime or other catastrophe, knowing that such report or warning is false;
      (2)   Threatening to commit any offense of violence;
      (3)   Committing any offense, with reckless disregard of the likelihood that its commission will cause serious public inconvenience or alarm.
   (b)    Division (a) hereof does not apply to any person conducting an authorized fire or emergency drill.
   (c)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of inducing panic, a misdemeanor of the first degree. If inducing panic results in physical harm to any person, economic harm of one thousand dollars ($1,000) or more, if the public place involved in a violation of this section is a school or an institution of higher education, or if the violation pertains to a purported, threatened or actual use of a weapon of mass destruction, inducing panic is a felony and shall be prosecuted under appropriate State law.
   (d)   Any act that is a violation of this section and any other section of the Codified Ordinances may be prosecuted under this section, the other section, or both sections.
   (e)   As used in this section:
      (1)   “Biological agent” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2917.33.
      (2)   “Economic harm” means any of the following:
         A.   All direct, incidental, and consequential pecuniary harm suffered by a victim as a result of criminal conduct. “Economic harm” as described in this division includes, but is not limited to, all of the following:
            1.   All wages, salaries, or other compensation lost as a result of the criminal conduct;
            2.   The cost of all wages, salaries, or other compensation paid to employees for time those employees are prevented from working as a result of the criminal conduct;
            3.   The overhead costs incurred for the time that a business is shut down as a result of the criminal conduct;
            4.   The loss of value to tangible or intangible property that was damaged as a result of the criminal conduct.
         B.   All costs incurred by the Municipality as a result of, or in making any response to, the criminal conduct that constituted the violation of this section or Section 509.07, including, but not limited to, all costs so incurred by any law enforcement officers, firefighters, rescue personnel, or emergency medical services personnel of the state or the political subdivision.
      (3)   “Emergency medical services personnel” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2133.21.
      (4)   “Institution of higher education” means any of the following:
         A.   A state university or college as defined in Ohio R.C. 3345.12(A)(1), community college, state community college, university branch, or technical college;
         B.   A private, nonprofit college, university or other post-secondary institution located in this State that possesses a certificate of authorization issued by the Chancellor of Higher Education pursuant to Ohio R.C. Chapter 1713.
         C.   A post-secondary institution with a certificate of registration issued by the State Board of Career Colleges and Schools under Ohio R.C. Chapter 3332. (ORC 2917.31)
      (5)   “School” means any school operated by a board of education or any school for which the Director of Education and Workforce prescribes minimum standards under Ohio R.C. 3301.07, whether or not any instruction, extracurricular activities, or training provided by the school is being conducted at the time a violation of this section is committed.
      (6)   “Weapon of mass destruction” means any of the following:
         A.   Any weapon that is designed or intended to cause death or serious physical harm through the release, dissemination, or impact of toxic or poisonous chemicals, or their precursors;
         B.   Any weapon involving a disease organism or biological agent;
         C.   Any weapon that is designed to release radiation or radioactivity at a level dangerous to human life;
         D.   Any of the following, except to the extent that the item or device in question is expressly excepted from the definition of “destructive device” pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(4) and regulations issued under that section:
            1.   Any explosive, incendiary, or poison gas bomb, grenade, rocket having a propellant charge of more than four ounces, missile having an explosive or incendiary charge of more than one-quarter ounce, mine, or similar device;
            2.   Any combination of parts either designed or intended for use in converting any item or device into any item or device described in division (e)(3)D.1. of this section and from which an item or device described in that division may be readily assembled.
509.07 MAKING FALSE ALARMS.
   (a)   No person shall do any of the following:
      (1)   Initiate or circulate a report or warning of an alleged or impending fire, explosion, crime or other catastrophe, knowing that the report or warning is false and likely to cause public inconvenience or alarm;
      (2)   Knowingly cause a false alarm of fire or other emergency to be transmitted to or within any organization, public or private, for dealing with emergencies involving a risk of physical harm to persons or property;
      (3)   Report to any law enforcement agency an alleged offense or other incident within its concern, knowing that such offense did not occur.
      (4)    Initiate or circulate a report or warning of an alleged or impending fire, explosion, crime, or other catastrophe, knowing that the report or warning is false and likely to impede the operation of a critical infrastructure facility.
   (b)   This section does not apply to any person conducting an authorized fire or emergency drill.
   (c)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of making false alarms, a misdemeanor of the first degree. If a violation of this section results in economic harm of one thousand dollars ($1,000) or more, or if a violation of this section pertains to a purported, threatened, or actual use of a weapon of mass destruction, making false alarms is a felony and shall be prosecuted under appropriate State law.
   (d)   Any act that is a violation of this section and any other section of the Codified Ordinances may be prosecuted under this section, the other section, or both sections.
   (e)    As used in this section:
      (1)   “Critical infrastructure facility” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2911.21.
      (2)   “Economic harm”and “weapon of mass destruction” have the same meaning as in Section 509.06. (ORC 2917.32)
509.08 MINORS’ CURFEW.
   (a)   No person having the control and custody of or being the parent or guardian of a minor under the age of sixteen years shall permit such minor to be, nor shall such minor be, outside the confines of his homesite and congregate, wander, loiter or play upon the streets or other public places of the Municipality, upon unsupervised or unenclosed lands or upon places of amusement and entertainment, during each and every day of the week, inclusive, between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. of the following day.
   (b)   No person having the control and custody of or being the parent or guardian of a minor between the ages of sixteen and eighteen (i.e. age sixteen or seventeen) shall permit such minor to, nor shall such minor be, outside the confines of his homesite and congregate, wander, loiter or play upon the streets or other public places of the Municipality, upon unsupervised or unenclosed lands or upon places of amusement or entertainment, on Monday to Thursday inclusive, between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. of the following day, and on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, between the hours of 12:00 midnight and 5:00 a.m. of the following day.
   (c)   Any school, church, lodge or other organization sponsoring functions wherein minors in attendance will be out at a later hour than provided for in this section shall obtain the Mayor’s approval to have the minors remain to the time when the entertainment will end. All minors attending such function shall be required to be within the confines of their respective homesites one-half hour after such function is ended.
   (d)   No minor shall be outside the confines of his homesite and congregate, wander, loiter or play upon the streets or other public places of the Municipality, upon unsupervised or unenclosed lands or upon places of amusement or entertainment in contravention of and/or in violation of the time periods defined and established pursuant to subsection (a) and (b).
   (e)   Any minor violating subsection (a) or (b) hereof shall be dealt with in accordance with Juvenile Court law and procedure. (Ord. 48-87. Passed 6-23-87.)
   (f)   Whoever violates any provision of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. If a person has been previously convicted of a violation of this section, each subsequent violation shall constitute a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(Ord. 105-92. Passed 11-24-92.)

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Ordinances of Sheffield Lake, OH
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD LAKE, OHIO
ORDINANCE NO. 116-84
ORDINANCES OF SHEFFIELD LAKE
orderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
ORDERLY CONDUCT; INTOXICATION
orderly conduct in violation of Section 509
order the participants and such other persons to disperse
order
order described in subsection (a) hereof, creates the likelihood of physical harm to persons or is committed at the scene of a fire, accident, disaster, riot, or emergency of any kind
ordinary sensibilities, which conduct the offender, if the offender were not intoxicated, should know is likely to have that effect on others;
ordinance of which an element is operating a motor vehicle, locomotive, watercraft, aircraft or other vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or any drug of abuse, is not a violation of
ordinary observer to be intoxicated, it is probable cause to believe that person is voluntarily intoxicated for purposes of subsection (b) hereof
orderly conduct
orderly conduct is a minor misdemeanor
orderly conduct is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree if any of the following applies:
orderly conduct after reasonable warning or request to desist
order and solemnity of the assemblage
order of any law enforcement officer engaged in the law enforcement officer’s duties at the scene of or in connection with a fire, accident, disaster, riot, or emergency of any kind
Ordinances may be prosecuted under this section, the other section, or both sections
ordance with Juvenile Court law and procedure
Ord. 48-87
Ord. 105-92
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Ordinances should be consulted prior to any action being taken
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509.06 INDUCING PANIC.

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Identifier	509.06
Citation	§ 509.06
Ordinances detected	S, 116-84, INARY, OF, ER, 48-87, 105-92, 36-20
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Sheffield Lake Overview
Codified Ordinances of Sheffield Lake, OH
CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD LAKE, OHIO
CERTIFICATION
ROSTER OF OFFICIALS
ADOPTING ORDINANCE NO. 116-84
COMPARATIVE SECTION TABLE
TABLES OF SPECIAL ORDINANCES OF SHEFFIELD LAKE
CHARTER
PART ONE - ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
PART THREE - TRAFFIC CODE
PART FIVE - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
CHAPTER 501 General Provisions and Penalty
CHAPTER 505 Animals and Fowl
CHAPTER 509 Disorderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
509.01 RIOT.
509.011 INCITING TO VIOLENCE.
509.02 FAILURE TO DISPERSE.
509.03 DISORDERLY CONDUCT; INTOXICATION.
509.04 DISTURBING A LAWFUL MEETING.
509.05 MISCONDUCT AT AN EMERGENCY.
509.06 INDUCING PANIC.
509.07 MAKING FALSE ALARMS.
509.08 MINORS’ CURFEW.
509.09 PERMITTING PUBLIC NUISANCE.
509.10 IMPEDING PUBLIC PASSAGE OF AN EMERGENCY SERVICE RESPONDER.
509.99 PENALTY.
CHAPTER 513 Drug Abuse Control
CHAPTER 517 Gambling
CHAPTER 521 Health, Safety and Sanitation
CHAPTER 525 Law Enforcement and Public Office
CHAPTER 529 Liquor Control
CHAPTER 531 Noise Control
CHAPTER 533 Obscenity and Sex Offenses
CHAPTER 537 Offenses Against Persons
CHAPTER 541 Property Offenses
CHAPTER 545 Theft and Fraud
CHAPTER 549 Weapons and Explosives
CHAPTER 553 Railroads
CHAPTER 557 Watercraft
CHAPTER 561 Weeds and Grass
PART SEVEN - BUSINESS REGULATION CODE
PART NINE - STREETS, UTILITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART ELEVEN - PLANNING AND ZONING CODE
PART THIRTEEN - BUILDING CODE
PART FIFTEEN - FIRE PREVENTION CODE
OH
Sheffield Lake
Codified Ordinances of Sheffield Lake, OH
509.06 INDUCING PANIC.
CHAPTER 509 Disorderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
509.03 DISORDERLY CONDUCT; INTOXICATION.
   (a)   No person shall recklessly cause inconvenience, annoyance or alarm to another by doing any of the following:
      (1)   Engaging in fighting, in threatening harm to persons or property, or in violent or turbulent behavior;
      (2)   Making unreasonable noise or offensively coarse utterance, gesture or display, or communicating unwarranted and grossly abusive language to any person, which by its very utterance or usage inflicts injury or tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace;
      (3)   Insulting, taunting or challenging another, under circumstances in which that conduct is likely to provoke a violent response;
      (4)   Hindering or preventing the movement of persons on a public street, road, highway or right of way, or to, from, within or upon public or private property, so as to interfere with the rights of others, and by any act that serves no lawful and reasonable purpose of the offender;
      (5)   Creating a condition that is physically offensive to persons or that presents a risk of physical harm to persons or property, by any act that serves no lawful and reasonable purpose of the offender.
   (b)   No person, while voluntarily intoxicated shall do either of the following:
      (1)   In a public place or in the presence of two or more persons, engage in conduct likely to be offensive or to cause inconvenience, annoyance or alarm to persons of ordinary sensibilities, which conduct the offender, if the offender were not intoxicated, should know is likely to have that effect on others;
      (2)   Engage in conduct or create a condition that presents a risk of physical harm to the offender or another, or to the property of another.
   (c)   Violation of any statute or ordinance of which an element is operating a motor vehicle, locomotive, watercraft, aircraft or other vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or any drug of abuse, is not a violation of subsection (b) hereof.
   (d)   If a person appears to an ordinary observer to be intoxicated, it is probable cause to believe that person is voluntarily intoxicated for purposes of subsection (b) hereof.
   (e)   (1)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of disorderly conduct.
      (2)   Except as otherwise provided in subsections (e)(3) and (e)(4), disorderly conduct is a minor misdemeanor.
      (3)   Disorderly conduct is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree if any of the following applies:
         A.   The offender persists in disorderly conduct after reasonable warning or request to desist.
         B.   The offense is committed in the vicinity of a school or in a school safety zone.
         C.   The offense is committed in the presence of any law enforcement officer, firefighter, rescuer, medical person, emergency medical services person, or other authorized person who is engaged in the person’s duties at the scene of a fire, accident, disaster, riot or emergency of any kind.
         D.   The offense is committed in the presence of any emergency facility person who is engaged in the person’s duties in an emergency facility.
      (4)   If an offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to three or more violations of subsection (b) of this section, a violation of subsection (b) of this section is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
   (f)   As used in this section:
      (1)   “Emergency medical services person” is the singular of “emergency medical services personnel” as defined in Ohio R.C. 2133.21.
      (2)   “Emergency facility person” is the singular of “emergency facility personnel” as defined in Ohio R.C. 2909.04.
      (3)   “Emergency facility” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2909.04.
      (4)   “Committed in the vicinity of a school” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2925.01. (ORC 2917.11)
509.04 DISTURBING A LAWFUL MEETING.
   (a)   No person, with purpose to prevent or disrupt a lawful meeting, procession or gathering, shall do either of the following:
      (1)   Do any act which obstructs or interferes with the due conduct of such meeting, procession or gathering;
      (2)   Make any utterance, gesture or display which outrages the sensibilities of the group.
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of disturbing a lawful meeting. Except as otherwise provided in this section, disturbing a lawful meeting is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. Disturbing a lawful meeting is a misdemeanor of the first degree if either of the following applies:
      (1)   The violation is committed with the intent to disturb or disquiet any assemblage of people met for religious worship at a tax-exempt place of worship, regardless of whether the conduct is within the place at which the assemblage is held or is on the property on which that place is located and disturbs the order and solemnity of the assemblage.
      (2)   The violation is committed with the intent to prevent, disrupt, or interfere with a virtual meeting or gathering of people for religious worship, through use of a computer, computer system, telecommunications device, or other electronic device or system, or in any other manner.
   (c)   As used in this section:
      (1)   “Computer” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2913.01.
      (2)   “Computer system” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2913.01.
      (3)   “Telecommunications device” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2913.01.
      (4)   “Virtual meeting or gathering” means a meeting or gathering by interactive video conference or teleconference, or by a combination thereof.
         (ORC 2917.12)
509.05 MISCONDUCT AT AN EMERGENCY.
   (a)   No person shall knowingly do any of the following:
      (1)   Hamper the lawful operations of any law enforcement officer, firefighter, rescuer, medical person, emergency medical services person, or other authorized person, engaged in the person’s duties at the scene of a fire, accident, disaster, riot, or emergency of any kind;
      (2)   Fail to obey the lawful order of any law enforcement officer engaged in the law enforcement officer’s duties at the scene of or in connection with a fire, accident, disaster, riot, or emergency of any kind.
   (b)   Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit access or deny information to any news media representative in the lawful exercise of the news media representative’s duties.
   (c)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of misconduct at an emergency. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, misconduct at an emergency is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. If a violation of this section creates a risk of physical harm to persons or property, misconduct at an emergency is a misdemeanor of the first degree.
   (d)   As used in this section:
      (1)   “Emergency medical services person” is the singular of “emergency medical services personnel” as defined in Ohio R.C. 2133.21.
      (2)   “Emergency facility person” is the singular of “emergency facility personnel” as defined in Ohio R.C. 2909.04.
      (3)   “Emergency facility” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2909.04.
509.06 INDUCING PANIC.
   (a)    No person shall cause the evacuation of any public place, or otherwise cause serious public inconvenience or alarm, by doing any of the following:
      (1)   Initiating or circulating a report or warning of an alleged or impending fire, explosion, crime or other catastrophe, knowing that such report or warning is false;
      (2)   Threatening to commit any offense of violence;
      (3)   Committing any offense, with reckless disregard of the likelihood that its commission will cause serious public inconvenience or alarm.
   (b)    Division (a) hereof does not apply to any person conducting an authorized fire or emergency drill.
   (c)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of inducing panic, a misdemeanor of the first degree. If inducing panic results in physical harm to any person, economic harm of one thousand dollars ($1,000) or more, if the public place involved in a violation of this section is a school or an institution of higher education, or if the violation pertains to a purported, threatened or actual use of a weapon of mass destruction, inducing panic is a felony and shall be prosecuted under appropriate State law.
   (d)   Any act that is a violation of this section and any other section of the Codified Ordinances may be prosecuted under this section, the other section, or both sections.
   (e)   As used in this section:
      (1)   “Biological agent” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2917.33.
      (2)   “Economic harm” means any of the following:
         A.   All direct, incidental, and consequential pecuniary harm suffered by a victim as a result of criminal conduct. “Economic harm” as described in this division includes, but is not limited to, all of the following:
            1.   All wages, salaries, or other compensation lost as a result of the criminal conduct;
            2.   The cost of all wages, salaries, or other compensation paid to employees for time those employees are prevented from working as a result of the criminal conduct;
            3.   The overhead costs incurred for the time that a business is shut down as a result of the criminal conduct;
            4.   The loss of value to tangible or intangible property that was damaged as a result of the criminal conduct.
         B.   All costs incurred by the Municipality as a result of, or in making any response to, the criminal conduct that constituted the violation of this section or Section 509.07, including, but not limited to, all costs so incurred by any law enforcement officers, firefighters, rescue personnel, or emergency medical services personnel of the state or the political subdivision.
      (3)   “Emergency medical services personnel” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2133.21.
      (4)   “Institution of higher education” means any of the following:
         A.   A state university or college as defined in Ohio R.C. 3345.12(A)(1), community college, state community college, university branch, or technical college;
         B.   A private, nonprofit college, university or other post-secondary institution located in this State that possesses a certificate of authorization issued by the Chancellor of Higher Education pursuant to Ohio R.C. Chapter 1713.
         C.   A post-secondary institution with a certificate of registration issued by the State Board of Career Colleges and Schools under Ohio R.C. Chapter 3332. (ORC 2917.31)
      (5)   “School” means any school operated by a board of education or any school for which the Director of Education and Workforce prescribes minimum standards under Ohio R.C. 3301.07, whether or not any instruction, extracurricular activities, or training provided by the school is being conducted at the time a violation of this section is committed.
      (6)   “Weapon of mass destruction” means any of the following:
         A.   Any weapon that is designed or intended to cause death or serious physical harm through the release, dissemination, or impact of toxic or poisonous chemicals, or their precursors;
         B.   Any weapon involving a disease organism or biological agent;
         C.   Any weapon that is designed to release radiation or radioactivity at a level dangerous to human life;
         D.   Any of the following, except to the extent that the item or device in question is expressly excepted from the definition of “destructive device” pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(4) and regulations issued under that section:
            1.   Any explosive, incendiary, or poison gas bomb, grenade, rocket having a propellant charge of more than four ounces, missile having an explosive or incendiary charge of more than one-quarter ounce, mine, or similar device;
            2.   Any combination of parts either designed or intended for use in converting any item or device into any item or device described in division (e)(3)D.1. of this section and from which an item or device described in that division may be readily assembled.
509.07 MAKING FALSE ALARMS.
   (a)   No person shall do any of the following:
      (1)   Initiate or circulate a report or warning of an alleged or impending fire, explosion, crime or other catastrophe, knowing that the report or warning is false and likely to cause public inconvenience or alarm;
      (2)   Knowingly cause a false alarm of fire or other emergency to be transmitted to or within any organization, public or private, for dealing with emergencies involving a risk of physical harm to persons or property;
      (3)   Report to any law enforcement agency an alleged offense or other incident within its concern, knowing that such offense did not occur.
      (4)    Initiate or circulate a report or warning of an alleged or impending fire, explosion, crime, or other catastrophe, knowing that the report or warning is false and likely to impede the operation of a critical infrastructure facility.
   (b)   This section does not apply to any person conducting an authorized fire or emergency drill.
   (c)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of making false alarms, a misdemeanor of the first degree. If a violation of this section results in economic harm of one thousand dollars ($1,000) or more, or if a violation of this section pertains to a purported, threatened, or actual use of a weapon of mass destruction, making false alarms is a felony and shall be prosecuted under appropriate State law.
   (d)   Any act that is a violation of this section and any other section of the Codified Ordinances may be prosecuted under this section, the other section, or both sections.
   (e)    As used in this section:
      (1)   “Critical infrastructure facility” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2911.21.
      (2)   “Economic harm”and “weapon of mass destruction” have the same meaning as in Section 509.06. (ORC 2917.32)
509.08 MINORS’ CURFEW.
   (a)   No person having the control and custody of or being the parent or guardian of a minor under the age of sixteen years shall permit such minor to be, nor shall such minor be, outside the confines of his homesite and congregate, wander, loiter or play upon the streets or other public places of the Municipality, upon unsupervised or unenclosed lands or upon places of amusement and entertainment, during each and every day of the week, inclusive, between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. of the following day.
   (b)   No person having the control and custody of or being the parent or guardian of a minor between the ages of sixteen and eighteen (i.e. age sixteen or seventeen) shall permit such minor to, nor shall such minor be, outside the confines of his homesite and congregate, wander, loiter or play upon the streets or other public places of the Municipality, upon unsupervised or unenclosed lands or upon places of amusement or entertainment, on Monday to Thursday inclusive, between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. of the following day, and on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, between the hours of 12:00 midnight and 5:00 a.m. of the following day.
   (c)   Any school, church, lodge or other organization sponsoring functions wherein minors in attendance will be out at a later hour than provided for in this section shall obtain the Mayor’s approval to have the minors remain to the time when the entertainment will end. All minors attending such function shall be required to be within the confines of their respective homesites one-half hour after such function is ended.
   (d)   No minor shall be outside the confines of his homesite and congregate, wander, loiter or play upon the streets or other public places of the Municipality, upon unsupervised or unenclosed lands or upon places of amusement or entertainment in contravention of and/or in violation of the time periods defined and established pursuant to subsection (a) and (b).
   (e)   Any minor violating subsection (a) or (b) hereof shall be dealt with in accordance with Juvenile Court law and procedure. (Ord. 48-87. Passed 6-23-87.)
   (f)   Whoever violates any provision of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. If a person has been previously convicted of a violation of this section, each subsequent violation shall constitute a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(Ord. 105-92. Passed 11-24-92.)
509.09 PERMITTING PUBLIC NUISANCE.
   (a)   No owner, owner’s agent, owner’s lessee, occupant, invitee, or person or entity in charge of residential or commercial property (including individual apartment or condo units) shall permit any public nuisance activity to occur at said residential or commercial property.
   (b)   The following activities are hereby declared to be public nuisance activities:
      (1)   Any animal violations (dogs running at large, bitting, excrement, dangerous or vicious animals, cruelty, killing or injuring of animals).
      (2)   Any disorderly conduct, disturbance of the peace.
      (3)   Any drug abuse violation.
      (4)   Any noise violation.
      (5)   Any gambling violation.
      (6)   Any health, safety, or sanitation violation.
      (7)   Any littering or deposition of waste violation.
      (8)   Any obstruction of official business violation.
      (9)   Any alcohol violations.
      (10)   Any sex offenses (including public indecency, procuring, soliciting or prostitution).
      (11)   Any offenses against persons (assault, domestic violence).
      (12)   Any offenses against property (criminal damaging, endangering or mischief).
      (13)   Any theft violation (petty theft, unauthorized use of property).
      (14)   Any weapons, explosives, firearm or handgun violation.
      (15)   Any firework violations.
   (16)   Three or more motor vehicles parking violations for the same or substantially similar offense within one year including junk motor vehicles.
      (17)   Any offense that is a felony under the Ohio Revised Code.
   (c)   For purposes of subsection (a), the occurrences of a nuisance activity means either a citation has been issued, or arrest has been made, or a City Department, including but not limited to, Police, Fire, Animal Control, Service or Building has documented three (3) or more occurrences of nuisance activity in lieu of arrest or citation within a one year period.
   (d)   Whoever violates or fails to comply with the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree and shall be fined not more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) and/or incarcerated for a term of not more than thirty days.
(Ord. 36-20. Passed 9-8-20.)
509.10 IMPEDING PUBLIC PASSAGE OF AN EMERGENCY SERVICE RESPONDER.
   (a)   No person, without privilege to do so, shall recklessly obstruct any highway, street, sidewalk, or any other public passage in such a manner as to render the highway, street, sidewalk, or passage impassable without unreasonable inconvenience or hazard if both of the following apply:
      (1)   The obstruction prevents an emergency vehicle from accessing a highway or street, prevents an emergency service responder from responding to an emergency, or prevents an emergency vehicle or an emergency service responder from having access to an exit from an emergency.
      (2)   Upon receipt of a request or order from an emergency service responder to remove or cease the obstruction, the person refuses to remove or cease the obstruction.
   (b)   Subsection (a) of this section does not limit or affect the application of Ohio R.C. 2921.31 or any other section of the Ohio Revised Code. Any conduct that is a violation of subsection (a) of this section and that also is a violation of Ohio R.C. 2921.31 or any other section of the Ohio Revised Code may be prosecuted under this section, the other section of the Ohio Revised Code or both sections.
   (c)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of unlawfully impeding public passage of an emergency service responder, a misdemeanor of the first degree.
   (d)   As used in this section, “emergency service responder” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2903.13. (ORC 2917.14)
509.99 PENALTY.
   (EDITOR'S NOTE: See Section 501.99 for penalties applicable to any misdemeanor classification.)

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Ordinances of Sheffield Lake, OH
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD LAKE, OHIO
ORDINANCE NO. 116-84
ORDINANCES OF SHEFFIELD LAKE
orderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
ORDERLY CONDUCT; INTOXICATION
ordinary sensibilities, which conduct the offender, if the offender were not intoxicated, should know is likely to have that effect on others;
ordinance of which an element is operating a motor vehicle, locomotive, watercraft, aircraft or other vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or any drug of abuse, is not a violation of
ordinary observer to be intoxicated, it is probable cause to believe that person is voluntarily intoxicated for purposes of subsection (b) hereof
orderly conduct
orderly conduct is a minor misdemeanor
orderly conduct is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree if any of the following applies:
orderly conduct after reasonable warning or request to desist
order and solemnity of the assemblage
order of any law enforcement officer engaged in the law enforcement officer’s duties at the scene of or in connection with a fire, accident, disaster, riot, or emergency of any kind
Ordinances may be prosecuted under this section, the other section, or both sections
ordance with Juvenile Court law and procedure
Ord. 48-87
Ord. 105-92
orderly conduct, disturbance of the peace
Ord. 36-20
order from an emergency service responder to remove or cease the obstruction, the person refuses to remove or cease the obstruction
Ordinances and/or any other documents that appear on this site may not reflect the most current legislation adopted by the Municipality
Ordinances should be consulted prior to any action being taken
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509.08 MINORS’ CURFEW.

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Ordinances of Sheffield Lake, OH
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD LAKE, OHIO
ORDINANCE NO. 116-84
ORDINANCES OF SHEFFIELD LAKE
orderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
ORDERLY CONDUCT; INTOXICATION
Ordinances may be prosecuted under this section, the other section, or both sections
ordance with Juvenile Court law and procedure
Ord. 48-87
Ord. 105-92
orderly conduct, disturbance of the peace
Ord. 36-20
order from an emergency service responder to remove or cease the obstruction, the person refuses to remove or cease the obstruction
Ordinances and/or any other documents that appear on this site may not reflect the most current legislation adopted by the Municipality
Ordinances should be consulted prior to any action being taken
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509.99 PENALTY.

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Identifier	509.99
Citation	§ 509.99
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Ordinances of Sheffield Lake, OH
ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD LAKE, OHIO
ORDINANCE NO. 116-84
ORDINANCES OF SHEFFIELD LAKE
orderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
ORDERLY CONDUCT; INTOXICATION
Ordinances may be prosecuted under this section, the other section, or both sections
ordance with Juvenile Court law and procedure
Ord. 48-87
Ord. 105-92
orderly conduct, disturbance of the peace
Ord. 36-20
order from an emergency service responder to remove or cease the obstruction, the person refuses to remove or cease the obstruction
Ordinances and/or any other documents that appear on this site may not reflect the most current legislation adopted by the Municipality
Ordinances should be consulted prior to any action being taken
Ordinances or other documents posted on this site, please contact the Municipality directly or contact American Legal Publishing toll-free at 800-445-5588

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