Elyria, OH Public Conduct: Public Marijuana Use (2026)

Elyria Codified Ordinances § 513.19, adopted by the Elyria City Council in Lorain County, Ohio, sets both the permission and the limits for adult use cannabis. Subsection (a) lets an adult use consumer use adult use cannabis, possess it, transfer it without remuneration to another adult consumer, transport it, and purchase it from an adult use dispensary, all subject to the possession limits in subsection (b).

Those limits are printed in division (b)(1): two and one-half ounces of adult use cannabis in any form except adult use extract, and fifteen grams in the form of adult use extract. The same two amounts apply to transfers without remuneration under (b)(2) and to transport under (b)(3). Under (h)(1), possession above those limits is handled under R.C. § 2925.11 or a substantially equivalent municipal ordinance.

The public-use rule sits in the penalty subsection. Division (h)(2) provides that an adult use consumer who uses adult use cannabis in public areas is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. The same division reaches a consumer who violates division (d)(2) as a passenger.

Division (d)(2) prohibits smoking, vaporizing, or using any other combustible adult use cannabis product while in a vehicle, motor vehicle, streetcar, trackless trolley, bike, watercraft, or aircraft. Division (d)(1) separately bars operating any of those while using or under the influence, and routes that conduct to R.C. § 4511.19 or a substantially equivalent municipal ordinance.

The section also keeps the protection for lawful activity: under subsection (c), an adult use consumer is not subject to arrest, criminal prosecution, or civil penalty for activities authorized under R.C. Chapter 3780. The Elyria Police Department enforces the offense. Subsections (e) through (g) add separate rules for people under 21 and for parents or guardians.