Toledo, OH Fire Regulations: Outdoor Burning (2026)

02, "Open burning prohibited," does not spell out its own burning standards, instead it adopts and incorporates by reference "as if set out at length herein" the Ohio Administrative Code Chapter 3745-19 Open Burning Standards, making the state's open-burning restrictions directly enforceable as city law. The section sits in Chapter 1777, Environmental Standards, within Title Five (Pollution Control) of the code, and was enacted by Ordinance 525-07, passed August 7, 2007. 03, the noise section). Anyone who violates the standards, limits, reporting, or other requirements of those chapters, including the open-burning adoption clause, "shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree or shall be fined not more than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for each violation, or both," and each day of a continuing violation counts as a separate offense.

In assessing a civil penalty the code directs consideration of the economic benefit the violator gained by delaying compliance, the degree of environmental harm, the violator's recalcitrance, any good-faith remedial efforts, and how long the violation lasted. The City may also recover its actual investigation, remediation, and litigation costs, and may pursue any other legal or equitable abatement action; all penalties and fines collected are credited to the Division of Environmental Services, the division that administers Title Five.