Gas and electric leaf blowers are legal across Licking County - Ohio has no statewide ban. Newark only restricts outdoor power tools, including blowers and mowers, between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. in residential areas.
Newark's noise ordinance (Chapter 634.04) lumps leaf blowers in with saws, drills, mowers, and other outdoor power equipment: they can't run in residential areas between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. if the sound crosses a property line. Outside those overnight hours there's no restriction, and Ohio has enacted no gas-blower phase-out like some coastal states. Snow-removal equipment is specifically exempt. Heath, Pataskala, and Granville set comparable overnight limits under their own codes. Unincorporated townships have no leaf-blower rule at all - only the state disorderly-conduct law would apply to truly excessive, sustained noise.
Running a leaf blower during Newark's restricted overnight hours is a minor misdemeanor on a first offense and a fourth-degree misdemeanor for repeat violations.
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