The best way to deal with the problem in Massillon is to get the municipal ordinance (549.12) repealed.
Don't contact the Stark County Prosecutor's Office. They don't prosecute municipal ordinances, and all misdemeanors prosecuted in Massillon Municipal Court are under the jurisdiction of the Massillon City Prosecutor.
Do contact the Massillon City Prosecutor (Pericles G. Stergios). Send him an email at
prosecutor@massillonohio.com.
Do contact the Massillon President of Council (Tony M. Townsend). Send him an email at
councilpresident@massillonohio.com.
Don't just chat them up on the phone, orally reciting law without citations. That is grossly ineffective.
Do provide them with something in writing.
This should be enough to interest them in reading further. All you need to do is fill in the descriptions of the ordinance in question.
See what reaction that gets. If it does not get a positive reaction (or if it gets no response at all), stay in touch with your member who lives in the City of Massillon. You may need that person at a city council meeting. If it comes to that, I can probably show up at a meeting.