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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
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
537.01 NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE.
537.02 VEHICULAR HOMICIDE AND MANSLAUGHTER.
537.021 VEHICULAR ASSAULT IN A CONSTRUCTION ZONE.
537.03 ASSAULT.
537.04 NEGLIGENT ASSAULT.
537.05 AGGRAVATED MENACING.
537.051 MENACING BY STALKING.
537.06 MENACING.
537.07 ENDANGERING CHILDREN.
537.08 UNLAWFUL RESTRAINT.
537.09 COERCION.
537.10 TELECOMMUNICATION HARASSMENT.
537.11 THREATENING OR HARASSING TELEPHONE CALLS.
537.12 MISUSE OF 9-1-1 SYSTEM.
537.13 ADULTERATING OF OR FURNISHING ADULTERATED FOOD OR CONFECTION.
537.14 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.
537.15 ANNOYING BUILDING OCCUPANTS.
537.16 MOLESTING OR INSULTING PERSONS.
537.17 TEMPORARY PROTECTION ORDER.
537.18 ILLEGAL DISTRIBUTION OF CIGARETTES, OTHER TOBACCO PRODUCTS, OR ALTERNATE NICOTINE PRODUCTS; TRANSACTION SCANS.
537.19 RESERVED.
537.20 CONTRIBUTING TO UNRULINESS OR DELINQUENCY OF A CHILD.
537.21 HAZING PROHIBITED.
537.22 ILLEGAL USE OF A TRACKING DEVICE OR APPLICATION.
537.99 PENALTY.
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
537.99 PENALTY.
CHAPTER 537 Offenses Against Persons
537.21 HAZING PROHIBITED.
   (a)   As used in this section:
      (1)   “Hazing” means doing any act or coercing another, including the victim, to do any act of initiation into any student or other organization or any act to continue or reinstate membership in or affiliation with any student or other organization that causes or creates a substantial risk of causing mental or physical harm to any person, including coercing another to consume alcohol or a drug of abuse, as defined in Ohio R.C. 3719.011.
      (2)   “Organization” includes a national or international organization with which a fraternity or sorority is affiliated.
   (b)   (1)   No person shall recklessly participate in the hazing of another.
      (2)   No administrator, employee, faculty member, teacher, consultant, alumnus, or volunteer of any organization, including any primary, secondary, or post-secondary school or any other educational institution, public or private, shall recklessly permit the hazing of any person associated with the organization.
   (c)   (1)   No person shall recklessly participate in the hazing of another when the hazing includes coerced consumption of alcohol or drugs of abuse resulting in serious physical harm to the other person.
      (2)   No administrator, employee, faculty member, teacher, consultant, alumnus, or volunteer of any organization, including any primary, secondary, or post-secondary school or other educational institution, public or private, shall recklessly permit the hazing of any person associated with the organization when the hazing includes coerced consumption of alcohol or drugs of abuse resulting in serious physical harm to that person.
   (d)   Whoever violates subsections (b) or (c) of this section is guilty of hazing. A violation of subsections (b)(1) or (b)(2) of this section is a misdemeanor of the second degree. A violation of subsections (c)(1) or (c)(2) of this section is a felony to be prosecuted under appropriate state law.
(ORC 2903.31)
   (e)   Reckless failure to immediately report knowledge of hazing.
      (1)   No administrator, employee, faculty member, teacher, consultant, alumnus, or volunteer of any organization, including any primary, secondary, or post-secondary school or any other public or private educational institution, who is acting in an official and professional capacity shall recklessly fail to immediately report the knowledge of hazing to a law enforcement agency in the county in which the victim of hazing resides or in which the hazing is occurring or has occurred.
      (2)   A violation of subsection (e)(1) of this section is a misdemeanor of the fourth degree, except that the violation is a misdemeanor of the first degree if the hazing causes serious physical harm.
         (ORC 2903.311(B), (C))
537.22 ILLEGAL USE OF A TRACKING DEVICE OR APPLICATION.
   (a)    As used in this section:
      (1)   “Business entity” means any form of corporation, partnership, association, cooperative, joint venture, business trust, or sole proprietorship that conducts business in this state.
      (2)   “Business of private investigation” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 4749.01.
      (3)   “Disabled adult” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2913.01.
      (4)   “Elderly person” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2913.01.
      (5)   “Electronic monitoring” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2929.01.
      (6)   “Electronic monitoring device” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2929.01.
      (7)   “Law enforcement agency” means any organization or unit comprised of law enforcement officers, and also includes any federal or military law enforcement agency.
      (8)   “Ohio Protection Order” means a protection order filed or issued or a consent agreement approved pursuant to Ohio R.C. 2919.26 or 3113.31, a protection order filed or issued pursuant to Ohio R.C. 2151.34, 2903.213, or 2903.214, or a no contact order issued as any of the following:
         A.   As part of a person’s sentence under a community control sanction imposed under Ohio R.C. 2929.16, 2929.17, 2929.26, or 2929.27;
         B.   As a term or condition of a person’s release under Ohio R.C. 2929.20;
         C.   As a post-release control sanction imposed as a condition of a person’s post-release control under Ohio R.C. 2967.28;
         D.   As a term of supervision for a person transferred to transitional control under Ohio R.C. 2967.26;
         E.   As a term or condition of the intervention plan of a person granted intervention in lieu of conviction under Ohio R.C. 2951.041.
      (9)   “Person” means an individual, but does not include a business entity.
      (10)   “Private investigator” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 4749.01.
      (11)   “Protection order issued by a court of another state” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2919.27.
      (12)   “Tracking application” means any software program that permits a person to remotely determine or track the position or movement of another person or another person’s property.
      (13)   “Tracking device” means an electronic or mechanical device that permits a person to remotely determine or track the position or movement of another person or another person’s property, including an electronic monitoring device.
   
   (b)   Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d) of this section, no person shall knowingly do either of the following:
      (1)    Install a tracking device or tracking application on another person’s property without the other person’s consent or cause a tracking device or tracking application to track the position or movement of another person or another person’s property without the other person’s consent;
      (2)    If the person installed a tracking device or tracking application on another’s property with the other person’s consent and the other person subsequently revokes that consent, fail to remove or ensure the removal of the device or application after the other person revokes the consent.
   (c)   (1)    For purposes of this section, if a person has given consent for another to install a tracking device or tracking application on the consenting person’s property, it is presumed that the consenting person has revoked that consent if any of the following applies:
         A.   The consenting person and the person to whom consent was given are lawfully married and one of them files a complaint for divorce or a petition for dissolution of marriage from the other. Not later than seventy-two hours after being served with a complaint for divorce or a petition for dissolution of marriage, the person to whom consent was given shall lawfully uninstall or discontinue use of the tracking device or tracking application. If the person to whom consent was given cannot lawfully uninstall or discontinue use of the tracking device or tracking application, the person to whom consent was given shall notify the court in which the complaint for divorce or the petition for dissolution of marriage was filed in writing.
         B.   The consenting person or the person to whom consent was given files an Ohio protection order against the other person or an Ohio protection order is issued against the other person, and the person to be protected under the order is the consenting person. Not later than seventy-two hours after being served with the Ohio protection order, the person to whom consent was given shall lawfully uninstall or discontinue use of the tracking device or tracking application. If the person to whom consent was given cannot lawfully uninstall or discontinue use of the tracking device or tracking application, the person to whom consent was given shall notify the court that issued the Ohio protection order in writing that the person to whom consent was given has installed or is using a tracking device or tracking application on the previously consenting person’s person or the person’s property and cannot uninstall or discontinue its use without violating the Ohio protection order.
      (2)    Revocation of consent under this subsection is effective upon the service of the petition or motion or an Ohio protection order.
   
   (d)   This section does not apply to any of the following:
      (1)    A law enforcement officer, or any law enforcement agency, that installs a tracking device or tracking application on another person’s property or causes a tracking device or tracking application to track the position or movement of another person or another person’s property as part of a criminal investigation, or a probation officer, parole officer, or employee of the department of rehabilitation and correction, a halfway house, or a community-based correctional facility when engaged in the lawful performance of the officer’s or employee’s official duties;
      (2)    A parent or legal guardian of a minor child who installs or uses a tracking device or tracking application to track the minor child if any of the following applies:
         A.   The parents or legal guardians of the child are lawfully married to each other and are not separated or otherwise living apart, and either of those parents or legal guardians consents to the installation of the tracking device or tracking application;
         B.   The parent or legal guardian of the child is the sole surviving parent or legal guardian of the child;
         C.   The parent or legal guardian of the child has sole custody of the child;
         D.   The parents or legal guardians of the child are divorced, separated, or otherwise living apart and neither parent has sole custody of the child, and both consent to the installation of the tracking device or tracking application;
         E.   The parents or legal guardians of the child are divorced, separated, or otherwise living apart, neither parent has sole custody of the child, and either only one parent consents to the installation of the tracking device or tracking application or one parent revokes consent, if the consenting parent only uses the tracking device or tracking application during that parent’s parenting or custodial time and disables or removes the tracking device or application during the nonconsenting parent’s parenting or custodial time.
      (3)    A caregiver of an elderly person or disabled adult, if the elderly person’s or disabled adult’s treating physician certifies that the installation of a tracking device or tracking application onto the elderly person’s or disabled adult’s property is necessary to ensure the safety of the elderly person or disabled adult;
      (4)    A person acting in good faith on behalf of a business entity for a legitimate business purpose, provided that this division does not apply to a private investigator engaged in the business of private investigation on behalf of another person;
      (5)    A.   A private investigator or other person licensed under Ohio R.C. 4749.03, who is acting in the normal course of the investigator’s business of private investigation on behalf of another person and who has the consent of the owner of the property upon which the tracking device or tracking application is installed, for the purpose of obtaining information with reference to any of the following:
            1.    Criminal offenses committed, threatened, or suspected against the United States, a territory of the United States, a state, or any person or legal entity;
            2.    Locating an individual known to be a fugitive from justice;
            3.    Locating lost or stolen property or other assets that have been awarded by the court;
            4.    Investigating claims related to workers’ compensation.
         B.   This subsection does not apply if the person on whose behalf the private investigator is working is the subject of an Ohio protection order or a protection order issued by a court of another state or if the private investigator knows or reasonably should know that the person on whose behalf the private investigator is working seeks the investigator’s services to aid in the commission of a crime.
      (6)    An owner or lessee of a motor vehicle who installs, or directs the installation of, a tracking device or tracking application on the vehicle during the period of ownership or lease, if any of the following applies:
         A.   The tracking device or tracking application is removed before the vehicle’s title is transferred or the vehicle’s lease expires;
         B.   The new owner of the vehicle, in the case of a sale, or the lessor of the vehicle, in the case of an expired lease, consents in writing to the non-removal of the tracking device or tracking application;
         C.   The owner of the vehicle at the time of the installation of the tracking device or tracking application was the original manufacturer of the vehicle.
      (7)    A person who installs a tracking device or application on property in which the person has an ownership or contractual interest, unless the person is the subject of a protective order and the property is likely to be used by the person who obtained the protective order;
      (8)    A person or business entity that installs a tracking device or tracking application on any fixed wing aircraft or rotorcraft operated or managed by the person or business entity pursuant to 14 C.F.R. part 91 or part 135 to track the position or movement of the fixed wing aircraft or rotorcraft;
      (9)    A surety bail bond agent, or any employee or contractor of a surety bail bond agent, that installs a tracking device or tracking application on another person’s property or causes a tracking device or tracking application to track the position or movement of another person or another person’s property as part of the surety bail bond agent’s, employee’s, or contractor’s official responsibilities or duties.
      
   (e)   For purposes of subsection (d)(1) of this section, a probation officer, parole officer, or employee of the department of rehabilitation and correction, a halfway house, or a community-based correctional facility is engaged in the lawful performance of the officer’s or employee’s duties if both of the following apply:
      (1)    The court or the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction imposes electronic monitoring on a person.
      (2)    The officer or employee installs or uses an electronic monitoring device on that person in accordance with the court’s or department’s imposition of electronic monitoring of that person.
   (f)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of illegal use of a tracking device or application.
      (1)    Except as otherwise provided in subsection (f)(2) of this section, illegal use of a tracking device or application is a misdemeanor of the first degree.
      (2)    Illegal use of a tracking device or application is a felony to be prosecuted under state law if any of the following applies:
         A.   The offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a violation of this section, Ohio R.C. 2903.216, or Ohio R.C. 2903.211 or any substantially equivalent municipal ordinance.
         B.   At the time of the commission of the offense, the offender was the subject of a protection order issued under Ohio R.C. 2903.213 or 2903.214, regardless of whether the person to be protected under the order is the victim of the offense or another person.
         C.   Prior to committing the offense, the offender had been determined to represent a substantial risk of physical harm to others as manifested by evidence of then-recent homicidal or other violent behavior, evidence of then-recent threats that placed another in reasonable fear of violent behavior and serious physical harm, or other evidence of then-present dangerousness.
         D.   The offender has a history of violence toward the victim or a history of other violent acts towards the victim.
            (ORC 2903.216)
537.99 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
• ORDER
• Order” means a protection order filed or issued or a consent agreement approved pursuant to Ohio R
• order filed or issued pursuant to Ohio R
• order issued as any of the following:
• order issued by a court of another state” has the same meaning as in Ohio R
• order against the other person or an Ohio protection order is issued against the other person, and the person to be protected under the order is the consenting person
• order, the person to whom consent was given shall lawfully uninstall or discontinue use of the tracking device or tracking application
• order in writing that the person to whom consent was given has installed or is using a tracking device or tracking application on the previously consenting person’s person or the pers
• order
• effective upon the service of the petition or motion or an Ohio protection order
• order or a protection order issued by a court of another state or if the private investigator knows or reasonably should know that the person on whose behalf the private investigator
• order and the property is likely to be used by the person who obtained the protective order;
• ordance with the court’s or department’s imposition of electronic monitoring of that person
• ordinance. B
• order issued under Ohio R
• order is the victim of the offense or another person
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