Ohio Rev. Code § 5589.01
Obstructing public grounds, highway, street, or alley.
No person shall obstruct or encumber by fences, buildings, structures, or otherwise, a public ground, highway, street, or alley of a municipal corporation.
Chapter 5589 | Offenses Relating To Highways
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Ohio Rev. Code § 5589.02
Altering or injuring marker or monument.
No person shall alter, deface, injure, or destroy any marker or monument placed along, upon, or near a public highway, by the proper authorities, to mark the boundaries thereof, or for any other purpose.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5589.03
Refusal or neglect of officials to perform duty.
No county engineer, township trustee, or township highway superintendent shall willfully neglect, fail, or refuse to perform the duties of his office. Conviction for such neglect, failure, or refusal shall operate as a removal from office.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5589.05
Interfering with drawbridge on Muskingum improvement.
No person, except a commissioner, engineer, superintendent, lock tender, bridge tender, or collector and without express direction or permission from one of them, shall open or interfere with a drawbridge on the Muskingum improvement.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5589.06
Obstructing ditch, drain, or watercourse - duty of superintendent.
No person shall wrongfully obstruct any ditch, drain, or watercourse along, upon, or across a public highway, or divert any water from adjacent lands to or upon a public highway. Whenever the township highway superintendent learns of any obstruction of any ditch, drain, or watercourse along, upon, or across a public hi…
Ohio Rev. Code § 5589.07
Failure to make levy or furnish estimates.
No person charged with the duty of making any levy or furnishing any estimates or budgets requesting any levy or allowance for the construction, improvement, maintenance, or repair of any public highway, bridge, or culvert shall fail to make such levy or allowance, or furnish such estimate, budget, or request.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5589.08
Operating traction engines upon improved highways.
No person shall drive over the improved highways of the state, or any political subdivision thereof, a traction engine or tractor with tires or wheels equipped with ice picks, spuds, spikes, chains, or other projections of any kind extending beyond the cleats, or no person shall tow or in any way pull another vehicle o…
Ohio Rev. Code § 5589.081
Studded tires - prohibited acts.
(A) For purposes of this section, "studded tire" means any tire designed for use on a vehicle and equipped with metal studs or studs of wear-resisting material that project beyond the tread of the traction surface of the tire; and "motor vehicle," "street or highway," "public safety vehicle," and "school bus" have the…
Ohio Rev. Code § 5589.09
Failure, neglect or refusal to drag road.
No person, charged with the duty of causing any unimproved or gravel road or part thereof to be dragged, shall willfully fail, neglect, or refuse to cause the same to be done, in such manner and within the time fixed by the sections of the Revised Code applicable thereto, or by the proper authority.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5589.10
Digging, excavating, piling earth, or building fence on highway.
No person shall dig up, remove, excavate, or place any earth or mud upon any portion of any public highway or build a fence upon the same without authority to do so. Each day that such person continues to dig up, remove, or excavate any portion of the public highway constitutes a separate offense.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5589.11
Failure or neglect to cut weeds, briers, or bushes.
No person, charged with the duty of cutting, destroying, or removing any weeds, briers, or bushes upon or along a public highway shall willfully fail, neglect, or refuse to cut, destroy, or remove such weeds, briers, or bushes as required in sections 5579.04 and 5579.08 of the Revised Code or on the order of the proper…
Ohio Rev. Code § 5589.12
Possession of tools belonging to state or county.
No person shall, without being authorized, have in his control or possession any equipment, tools, implements, or other property belonging to the state, county, or township.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5589.13
Fines credited to maintenance and repair fund.
All fines collected for violations of sections 5589.02 to 5589.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be paid into the county treasury and placed to the credit of the fund for the maintenance and repair of the highways within such county.
Ohio Rev. Code § 5589.14
Prosecution of offenses.
The prosecuting attorney shall prosecute all offenders under sections 5589.02 to 5589.13, inclusive, of the Revised Code, upon application of any official or individual filing any affidavit before any magistrate of the county charging an offense under such sections. This section shall not prevent the prosecuting attorn…
Ohio Rev. Code § 5589.20
Findings as to improper obstruction of railroad grade crossings by trains.
The general assembly finds that the improper obstruction of railroad grade crossings by trains is a direct threat to the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of this state inasmuch as improper obstructions create uniquely different local safety problems by preventing the timely movement of ambulances, the vehicl…
Ohio Rev. Code § 5589.21
Obstruction of roads by railroads.
(A) No railroad company shall obstruct, or permit or cause to be obstructed a public street, road, or highway, by permitting a railroad car, locomotive, or other obstruction to remain upon or across it for longer than five minutes, to the hindrance or inconvenience of travelers or a person passing along or upon such st…
Ohio Rev. Code § 5589.211
Abandoned locomotive obstructing street or road.
No railroad company shall obstruct, or permit or cause to be obstructed, a public street, road, or highway, by permitting any part of a train whose crew has abandoned the locomotive to remain across it for longer than five minutes to the hindrance or inconvenience of travelers or a person passing along or upon the stre…
Ohio Rev. Code § 5589.22
Damages.
A corporation or person shall be liable for all damages arising to a person from an obstruction or injury to a road or highway as provided by section 5589.21 of the Revised Code, which damage shall be recovered by an action at the suit of the board of township trustees of the township in which the offense is committed,…
Ohio Rev. Code § 5589.23
Company liable for fines against employees.
A railroad company or other corporation, the servant, agent, or employee of which, in any manner, obstructs a public road or highway, shall pay all penalties which may be assessed against such servant, agent, or employee for obstructing it. The penalties may be enforced by execution issued against such corporation on t…
Ohio Rev. Code § 5589.24
Fines paid to railroad grade crossing improvement funds.
(A) All fines collected for a violation of division (A) of section 5589.21 or 5589.211 of the Revised Code shall be paid as follows:(1) To the railroad grade crossing improvement fund of the county if the violation occurred in an unincorporated area of the county;(2) To the railroad grade crossing improvement fund of t…
Ohio Rev. Code § 5589.31
Construction of walk or ditch across highway.
No person, firm, or corporation shall construct a walk or dig a ditch across a public highway outside any municipal corporation without the consent of the director of transportation in the case of an intercounty or a state highway, county engineer in the case of a county road, or board of township trustees in the case…
Ohio Rev. Code § 5589.32
Erection of advertising signs resembling those required of railroad companies.
No person, firm, or corporation shall erect, display, or maintain an advertising or other sign on, along, or near any public highway, in any county of this state, which resembles the highway crossing signs which steam and interurban railroads have erected, in compliance with section 4955.33 of the Revised Code, at the…
Ohio Rev. Code § 5589.33
Advertising within the right-of-way of public highway.
Except as provided in this section and in section 5515.04 of the Revised Code, no person shall place within the limits of the right-of-way or affix any sign, poster, or advertisement to any tree or utility pole within the right-of-way of any public highway outside of municipal corporations. No person, organization, cor…
Ohio Rev. Code § 5589.99
Penalty.
(A) Whoever violates section 5589.01 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.(B) Whoever violates section 5589.02, 5589.03, 5589.05, 5589.06, 5589.08, 5589.081, 5589.09, 5589.11, 5589.12, 5589.32, or 5589.33 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.(C) Whoever violates section 558…