Police Give Former Ohio Mayor Warning For Public Urination At University

When you gotta go, you gotta go. With all the security on some college campuses these days it is often difficult, as a non-student non-staff person to gain entry into a building without an ID card to swipe at the doorway to get in and find a bathroom.

One has to wonder what he was doing there in the first place.

In Ohio, public urination or public defecation are loosely defined, in that if you are caught urinating or defecating in public you will most likely be charged with a disorderly conduct violation….you may face severe, life-changing consequences if you were close to a school, playground, or child care center at the time of the alleged offense.

The following are circumstances which may constitute public urination / defecation:

On any sort of publicly owned property such as a sidewalk, street, park, alley or yard;
On a wall, floor, doorway, hall, staircase, or any other kind of physical property that is not intended for use as a restroom in a building that is publicly owned or open to for public use;
Any place on private property that is not intended for use a restroom.