Is It Legal To Sit On Your Roof At Night

All building have access to the roof because that might be the best way to evacuate a building in the event of a fire.

Is it legal to sit on your roof at night.

Today while sitting on my roof with a few friends a few cops pulled up and told us all to get off the roof. Me some of my siblings and my friends sometimes go out on my roof and just hang out. Just sitting on their own roof. Well at night i like to turn itunes on at my computer which is right next to my window and listen to music and do whatever go in the internet on my phone draw play guitar etc and i sit on my roof while i do this.

For some reason i have this little roof thingy right out my window. There were four of us on it and it was the roof above the porch in the front of the house. It s like 10 ft. Stuff is reporting that property owners have been fined 1500 for allowing people to sit on their roof and watch car races.

Also my brother and sister were sitting out there a second ago and a police car. Is it legal to sit on your roof in ohio. We were all just sitting enjoying the weather and listening to music. No illegal activity was being done while on it.

We have two windows that lead out directly to the roof and we walk around to the back of the house where no one can see us. Are we putting ourselves through the trouble for nothing. No not unless it was designed for residential use and approved by the buildings department for residents to use. The comments button is at the bottom right of this post.

I m assuming for the sake of this answer the hypothetical roof sitter is not doing anything else such as using illegal drugs drinking underage threatening suicide etc.