Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.71 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.71
§ 4928.71. Study regarding customer choice; report
Status: in_force

September 10, 2012 Senate Bill 315 - 129th General Assembly The public utilities commission shall study whether increased energy efficiency, demand response, generation, and transmission provide increased opportunities for customer choice. The commission shall include in the study an evaluation of emerging technologies. The commission shall commence the study not later than eighteen months after the effective date of this section. At the conclusion of the study, the commission shall prepare a report of its findings and make the report available on its web site.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4999.20 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4999 / § 4999.20
§ 4999.20. Seniority roster date of railroad employee
Status: in_force

June 15, 1972 House Bill 464 - 109th General Assembly No railroad employee who has a seniority roster date on the effective date of the repeal of sections 4999.07 and 4999.08 of the Revised Code shall be removed from his employment or have his seniority rights or vacation or other fringe benefits reduced by reason of such repeal. Any carrier which violates this section shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five thousand dollars. The public utilities commission shall enforce this section and prosecute any violations thereof. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 4901.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4901 / § 4901.22
§ 4901.22. Power of commissioners to administer oaths
Status: in_force

September 13, 2010 Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly Each of the public utilities commissioners, for the purposes mentioned in Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., 4923., and 4927. of the Revised Code, may administer oaths, certify to official acts, issue subpoenas, and compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, waybills, books, accounts, documents, and testimony.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4907.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4907 / § 4907.05
§ 4907.05. Power to confer with commissioners of other states
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The public utilities commission may confer on any matters relating to railroads by correspondence, by attending conventions, or otherwise, with the railroad commissioners of other states and with the interstate commerce commission.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4927.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4927 / § 4927.09
§ 4927.09. Access to 9-1-1 service
Status: in_force

September 13, 2010 Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly Every telephone company providing telephone exchange service shall maintain access to 9-1-1 service on a residential customer's line for a minimum of fourteen consecutive days immediately following any disconnection for nonpayment of a customer's telephone exchange service.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4906.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4906 / § 4906.09
§ 4906.09. Record of hearing
Status: in_force

November 15, 1981 House Bill 694 - 114th General Assembly A record shall be made of the hearing and of all testimony taken. Rules of evidence, as specified by the power siting board, shall apply to the proceeding. The board may provide for the consolidation of the representation of parties having similar interests.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4969.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4969 / § 4969.06
§ 4969.06. Parties may provide for a conditional sale in a lease
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Any written contract for the renting, leasing, or hiring of railroad equipment, rolling stock, or other personal property to be used in or about the operation of a railroad, may stipulate or provide for a conditional sale of the property at the termination of such renting, leasing, or hiring, and may stipulate or provide that the rental reserved as paid, or when paid in full, shall be applied and treated as purchase money. Such contract may stipulate or provide that the title to such property shall remain in the lessor or vendor until the purchase money has been fully paid, notwithstanding delivery to and possession by the other party, subject to the requirement as to recording or filing contained in section 4969.05 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.61 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.61
§ 4928.61. Energy efficiency revolving loan fund
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) There is hereby established in the state treasury the advanced energy fund, into which shall be deposited all advanced energy revenues remitted to the director of development under division (B) of this section, for the exclusive purposes of funding the advanced energy program created under section 4928.62 of the Revised Code and paying the program's administrative costs. Interest on the fund shall be credited to the fund. (B) Advanced energy revenues shall include all of the following: (1) Revenues from payments, repayments, and collections under the advanced energy program and from program income; (2) Revenues remitted to the director after collection by a municipal electric utility or electric cooperative in this state upon the utility's or cooperative's decision to participate in the advanced energy fund; (3) Revenues from renewable energy compliance payments as provided under division (C)(2) of section 4928.64 of the Revised Code; (4) Revenue from forfeitures under division (C) of section 4928.66 of the Revised Code; (5) Funds transferred pursuant to division (B) of Section 512.10 of S.B. 315 of the 129th general assembly; (6) Interest earnings on the advanced energy fund. Last updated August 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4981.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4981 / § 4981.16
§ 4981.16. Determinations in connection with issuance of bonds
Status: in_force

October 20, 1994 House Bill 250 - 120th General Assembly The Ohio rail development commission may make the following determinations in connection with any issuance of its bonds: (A) The number, location, and other characteristics of projects, including to the extent reasonably possible, assurance that the projects to be financed by bonds will create or preserve jobs and employment opportunities or improve the economic welfare of the people of the state; (B) Eligibility requirements, including requirements for credit worthiness, for projects for which loans are made from proceeds of the bonds. In determining eligibility requirements the issuer shall take into consideration all of the following factors: (1) The length of time any borrower has been engaged in rail service; (2) The net income or net worth of any borrower; (3) The availability or feasibility of alternative financing methods for any borrower; (C) The type and amount of collateral, security, or credit enhancement to be provided to assure repayment of loans or of bonds; (D) The amounts and types of insurance coverage required on projects and loans; (E) Any other matters relating to the exercise of the powers or duties of the issuer under sections 4981.11 to 4981.26 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4907.62 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4907 / § 4907.62
§ 4907.62. Punitive damages
Status: in_force

June 11, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly If a railroad does, causes, or permits anything prohibited by Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., and 4909. of the Revised Code to be done, or omits doing anything required to be done by such chapters, such railroad is liable to the person, firm, or corporation injured thereby in treble the amount of damages sustained in consequence of such violation or omission. A recovery provided by this section shall not affect a recovery by the state of the penalty prescribed for such violation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4939.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4939 / § 4939.03
§ 4939.03. Prohibited conduct concerning public ways
Status: in_force

August 1, 2018 House Bill 478 - 132nd General Assembly (A) No person shall occupy or use a public way except in accordance with law. (B) In occupying or using a public way, no person shall unreasonably compromise the public health, safety, and welfare. (C)(1) No person shall occupy or use a public way without first obtaining, under this section or section 1332.24 or 4939.031 of the Revised Code, any requisite consent of the municipal corporation owning or controlling the public way. (2) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) (6) of this section and sections 4939.031 and 4939.036 of the Revised Code, a municipal corporation, not later than sixty days after the date of filing by a person of a completed request for consent, shall grant or deny its consent. (3) A municipal corporation shall not unreasonably withhold or deny consent. (4) If a request by a person for consent is denied, the municipal corporation shall provide to the person in writing its reasons for denying the request and such information as the person may reasonably request to obtain consent. If a request for consent is denied for an activity described in section 4939.031 of the Revised Code, the reasons required under this division shall be supported by substantial, competent evidence and the denial of consent shall not unreasonably discriminate against the entity requesting the consent. (5) Except in the case of a public utility subject to the jurisdiction and recognized on the rolls of the public utilities commission or of a cable operator possessing a valid franchise awarded pursuant to the "Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984," 98 Stat. 2779, 47 U.S.C.A. 541, a municipal corporation, for good cause shown, may withhold, deny, or delay its consent to any person based upon the person's failure to possess the financial, technical, and managerial resources necessary to protect the public health, safety, and welfare. (6) Initial consent for occupancy or use of a public way shall be conclusively presumed for all lines, poles, pipes, conduits, ducts, equipment, or other appurtenances, structures, or facilities of a public utility or cable operator that, on July 2, 2002, lawfully so occupy or use a public way. However, such presumed consent does not relieve the public utility or cable operator of compliance with any law related to the ongoing occupancy or use of a public way.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4903.17 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4903 / § 4903.17
§ 4903.17. Order in case of stay
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The supreme court, in case it stays or suspends the order or decision of the public utilities commission in any matter affecting rates, joint rates, fares, tolls, rentals, charges, or classifications, may also by order direct the public utility or railroad affected to pay into the hands of a trustee to be appointed by the court, to be held until the final determination of the proceeding, under such conditions as the court prescribes, all sums of money collected in excess of the sums payable if the order or decision of the commission had not been stayed or suspended.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4951.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4951 / § 4951.06
§ 4951.06. Written consent of property owners required
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly No grant referred to in section 4951.02 of the Revised Code shall be made until there is produced to the legislative authority of a municipal corporation or the board of county commissioners the written consent of the owners of more than one half of the front footage of the lots and lands abutting on the street or public way along which it is proposed to construct such street railway or extension, and evidence that ordinances of the legislative authority relating to such grant have in all respects been complied with, whether the railway proposed is an extension of an old or the granting of a new route.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.2313 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.2313
§ 4928.2313. Sale, assignment, or transfer of phase-in-recovery property
Status: in_force

March 22, 2012 House Bill 364 - 129th General Assembly (A) Any sale, assignment, or transfer of phase-in-recovery property under a final financing order shall be an absolute transfer and true sale of, and not a pledge of or secured transaction relating to, the seller's right, title, and interest in, to, and under the property, if the documents governing the transaction expressly state that the transaction is a sale or other absolute transfer. A transfer of an interest in that property may be created only when all of the following have occurred: (1) The financing order has become final and taken effect. (2) The documents evidencing the transfer of the property have been executed and delivered to the assignee. (3) Value has been received for the property. (B) The characterization of the sale, assignment, or transfer as an absolute transfer and true sale and the corresponding characterization of the property interest of the purchaser shall be effective and perfected against all third parties and shall not be affected or impaired by, among other things, the occurrence of any of the following: (1) Commingling of phase-in-recovery revenues with other amounts; (2) The retention by the seller of either of the following: (a) A partial or residual interest, including an equity interest, in the phase-in-recovery property, whether direct or indirect, or whether subordinate or otherwise; (b) The right to recover costs associated with taxes, franchise fees, or license fees imposed on the collection of phase-in-recovery revenues. (3) Any recourse that the purchaser or any assignee may have against the seller; (4) Any indemnification rights, obligations, or repurchase rights made or provided by the seller; (5) The obligation of the seller to collect phase-in-recovery revenues on behalf of an assignee; (6) The treatment of the sale, assignment, or transfer for tax, financial reporting, or other purposes; (7) Any application of the adjustment mechanism under the final financing order.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4957.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4957 / § 4957.05
§ 4957.05. Apportionment of cost
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The cost of the construction of the improvement in a crossing, including the cost of land or property purchased or appropriated, and the payment of damages to abutting property shall be apportioned as follows: (A) The railroad company, or companies if several railroads cross a public way at or near the same point, shall pay, unless otherwise agreed upon, fifteen per cent; (B) The municipal corporation or county shall pay eighty-five per cent.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4927.102 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4927 / § 4927.102
§ 4927.102. Regulatory restrictions
Status: in_force

September 23, 2022 House Bill 430 - 134th General Assembly Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the public utilities commission shall not, in connection with any proceeding pursuant to section 4927.07 or 4927.10 of the Revised Code, impose on any provider of telecommunications service, wireless service, or internet protocol-enabled services any notice requirement, withdrawal or abandonment restrictions, buildout requirements, or any other regulatory requirement or restriction that is not generally applicable to the service or the provider in other contexts. Last updated October 20, 2022 at 9:52 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4905.74 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4905 / § 4905.74
§ 4905.74. Persistent practice or pattern of violative conduct
Status: in_force

May 17, 2000 House Bill 177 - 123rd General Assembly No public utility shall knowingly engage in a persistent practice or pattern of conduct of violating division (B) of section 4905.72 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.6615 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.6615
§ 4928.6615. Notice of intent to opt in
Status: in_force

September 12, 2014 Senate Bill 310 - 130th General Assembly Any customer electing to opt in under section 4928.6614 of the Revised Code shall do so by providing a written notice of intent to opt in to the electric distribution utility from which it receives service and submitting a complete copy of the opt-in notice to the secretary of the public utilities commission. The notice shall include all of the following: (A) A statement indicating that the customer has elected to opt in; (B) The effective date of the election to opt in; (C) The account number for each customer account to which the opt in shall apply; (D) The physical location of the customer's load center.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4933.90 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4933 / § 4933.90
§ 4933.90. Review of public utilities commission actions
Status: in_force

July 12, 1978 House Bill 577 - 112th General Assembly Action of the public utilities commission pursuant to sections 4933.81 to 4933.90 of the Revised Code is subject to review in accordance with Chapter 4903. of the Revised Code but during any appeal therefrom, the continuance of existing electric service is lawful.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4957.27 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4957 / § 4957.27
§ 4957.27. Crossings above or below grade
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 Senate Bill 361 - 100th General Assembly Except as provided in sections 4957.30 to 4957.32 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, all crossings constructed after May 3, 1904, whether of highways by railroads, or of railroads by highways, shall be above or below the grade thereof.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4951.31 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4951 / § 4951.31
§ 4951.31. Fare cannot be increased
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly When a lease or purchase is made as provided in sections 4951.29 and 4951.30 of the Revised Code, there shall be no increase of the existing rates of fare by reason of such lease or purchase, nor shall any fare be charged upon any of the separate routes so leased or purchased in excess of the fare charged over such separate routes prior to the lease or purchase of them. When a lease or purchase is made, the fare charged for one continuous route or ride in the same general direction over all such leased or purchased lines within any municipal corporation shall not exceed the maximum fare charged over any one of such lines prior to such lease or purchase.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4907.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4907 / § 4907.04
§ 4907.04. Exception
Status: in_force

June 11, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., and 4909. of the Revised Code do not apply to street and electric railways engaged solely in the transportation of passengers within the limits of cities, or to other private railroads not doing business as common carriers.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4951.39 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4951 / § 4951.39
§ 4951.39. Conditions of grant
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly A grant to construct an elevated or an underground railroad shall only be made upon such conditions as are agreed upon by the legislative authority of the city, and the company operating such elevated or underground railroad. Every such grant shall provide for the rate of fare within the limits of such city.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4951.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4951 / § 4951.22
§ 4951.22. Consolidation of electric railway companies
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly When the railways of any street railway company, organized under the laws of this state, are constructed or in process of construction, and are or will be operated by electricity, and connect, or will or can be made to connect with the railways of another street railway company formed by the consolidation of companies organized under the laws of this state, or by the consolidation of a company organized under the laws of this state and a company organized under the laws of an adjoining state, whose railways are constructed or in process of construction, and are or will be operated by electricity, so that cars may pass over such railways continuously without break or interruption, such street railway company and such consolidated street railway company may consolidate themselves into a single company in the same manner and with like effect as is provided by law for the consolidation of railroad companies. Companies owning and operating competing railways shall not consolidate under this section, but this limitation does not apply to companies whose railways are nearby or wholly situated in a municipal corporation of this state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4999.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4999 / § 4999.10
§ 4999.10. Constructing bridges over tracks
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly No person, railroad company, private corporation, county, municipal corporation, or township shall violate any law relating to the height of bridges, viaducts, overhead roadways, footbridges, wires, or other structures constructed over the tracks of a railroad. Whoever violates this section shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars. Each day such structure or wire is permitted to so remain constitutes a separate offense.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4981.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4981 / § 4981.07
§ 4981.07. Restoration, repair, relocation, or upgrading rail property
Status: in_force

October 20, 1994 House Bill 250 - 120th General Assembly (A) The Ohio rail development commission may restore, repair, relocate, or upgrade any rail property purchased, leased, or maintained by the commission. The commission may restore, repair, relocate, or upgrade any rail property owned by another person as long as such action is necessary for the efficient operation of rail services provided by the commission. The commission may obtain modernization loans from the federal government to restore or repair rail property acquired by the commission for the purpose of implementing rail service. (B) The commission may operate any rail property acquired by it over track owned or leased by the commission, or over track owned by another person pursuant to an agreement with that person as long as such action is necessary for the efficient operation of rail service provided by the commission pursuant to this chapter. (C) The commission may enter into agreements with the department of transportation, boards of county commissioners, boards of township trustees, legislative authorities of municipal corporations, with other governmental agencies or organizations, and with private corporations or organizations in order to facilitate implementation of rail service.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4939.0329 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4939 / § 4939.0329
§ 4939.0329. Construction, modification, or maintenance of oversized pole or wireless support structure under public way
Status: in_force

August 1, 2018 House Bill 478 - 132nd General Assembly A person may construct, modify, or maintain a utility pole or wireless support structure along, across, and under a public way in excess of the size limits, to the extent permitted by the municipal corporation's applicable regulations.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4909.041 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4909 / § 4909.041
§ 4909.041. Definitions
Status: in_force

August 14, 2025 House Bill 15 - 136th General Assembly As used in sections 4909.041 , 4909.042 , and 4909.05 of the Revised Code: (A) A "lease purchase agreement" is an agreement pursuant to which a public utility leasing property is required to make rental payments for the term of the agreement and either the utility is granted the right to purchase the property upon the completion of the term of the agreement and upon the payment of an additional fixed sum of money or title to the property vests in the utility upon the making of the final rental payment. (B) A "leaseback" is the sale or transfer of property by a public utility to another person contemporaneously followed by the leasing of the property to the public utility on a long-term basis. Last updated June 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4929.041 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4929 / § 4929.041
§ 4929.041. Regulatory exemption of investment in storage or gathering facilities
Status: in_force

September 10, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "regulatory exemption" means an exemption from all provisions of Chapter 4905. of the Revised Code with the exception of sections 4905.10 , 4905.35 , and 4905.90 to 4905.96 of the Revised Code, Chapters 4909., 4933., and 4935. of the Revised Code, with the exception of section 4935.03 of the Revised Code, and from any rule or order issued under the exempted provisions of those chapters. (B) The public utilities commission, upon an application filed under section 4909.18 of the Revised Code by a natural gas company in substantial compliance with the policy specified in section 4929.02 of the Revised Code, shall grant a regulatory exemption, by order, for either or both of the following: (1) Any investments in storage or gathering facilities placed into service on or after January 1, 2010, and also any service of the natural gas company related to those facilities; (2) Any investments in gathering facilities placed into service before January 1, 2010, and also any service of the natural gas company related to those facilities. (C)(1) A natural gas company requesting a regulatory exemption under division (B)(2) of this section shall identify in the application both of the following: (a) The valuation of the investments to be exempted, as determined under division (A)(1) of section 4909.15 of the Revised Code, in the rate case proceeding that established the company's rates in effect at the time of the filing of the application requesting the regulatory exemption; (b) The valuation of all nonexempt investments placed into service after the date certain used in the rate case proceeding described in division (C)(1)(a) of this section, excluding investments for which deferral or recovery is authorized under section 4909.18 , 4929.05 , or 4929.111 of the Revised Code. (2) The commission shall compare the valuations identified in divisions (C)(1)(a) and (b) of this section. (a) If the valuation identified in division (C)(1)(a) of this section exceeds the valuation identified in division (C)(1)(b) of this section, the commission shall, in addition to the adjustments needed to implement the regulatory exemption, reduce the gross annual revenues to which the utility is entitled under division (B) of section 4909.15 of the Revised Code by applying the rate of return, as determined under division (A)(2) of section 4909.15 of the Revised Code in the rate case proceeding in which the regulatory exemption is being sought, to the difference in the two valuations. (b) If the valuation identified in division (C)(1)(a) of this section does not exceed the valuation identified in division (C)(1)(b) of this section, the commission shall make no adjustments beyond those needed to implement the regulatory exemption. (3) If the company, after a regulatory exemption has been granted under division (B)(2) of this section, subsequently places into service investments that perform the function that had been provided by the exempt investments prior to the granting of the regulatory exemption, the company shall not be authorized to recover revenues related to the investments placed into service greater than those consistent with the value of the exempt assets as would be determined under division (A)(1) of section 4909.15 of the Revised Code in the company's next rate case. (D)(1) Subject to division (E) of this section, a natural gas company subject to a regulatory exemption shall, to the maximum extent practicable, keep separate the company's operations, resources, and employees, and the associated books and records, involved in the provision or marketing of a company-provided service related to an investment exempted under the regulatory exemption from the operations, resources, and employees, and the associated books and records, involved in the provision or marketing of any company-provided service not exempted under the regulatory exemption or any other section of the Revised Code. (2) An order granting regulatory exemption shall prescribe a functional separation plan for compliance with division (D)(1) of this section. (E)(1) No natural gas company subject to a regulatory exemption may use the company's storage or gathering facilities associated with the regulatory exemption to provide a commodity sales service that is unregulated or subject to an exemption order issued under section 4929.04 of the Revised Code. (2) Upon application to the commission by a natural gas company and upon a finding of good cause shown, the commission may, by order, waive the prohibition described in division (E)(1) of this section. The natural gas company shall bear the burden of proof that the waiver is just and reasonable, which shall constitute good cause. (F) The commission shall have continuous jurisdiction to enforce any terms that it imposes in a regulatory exemption. Whenever the commission is of the opinion, after hearing had upon complaint or upon its own initiative or complaint, served as provided in section 4905.26 of the Revised Code, that a regulatory exemption has adversely affected the quality, adequacy, or sufficiency of service provided by the company subject to the regulatory exemption, the commission may alter, amend, or suspend the regulatory exemption.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4933.82 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4933 / § 4933.82
§ 4933.82. Boundaries of certified territory of electric suppliers
Status: in_force

July 12, 1978 House Bill 577 - 112th General Assembly (A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the boundaries of the certified territory of each electric supplier shall be considered set as a line or lines substantially equidistant between its existing distribution lines and the nearest existing distribution lines of any other electric supplier in every direction, so that there is thereby certified to each electric supplier such land area as is located nearer to one of its existing distribution lines than to the nearest existing distribution line of any other electric supplier. (B) On or before one year after the effective date of this section or, when requested in writing by an electric supplier and for good cause shown, such further time as the commission may fix by order, each electric supplier shall file with the public utilities commission a map or maps showing all of its existing distribution lines and the proposed boundaries of its certified territory. The commission shall prepare, or cause to be prepared, within six months after such filing a map of uniform scale to show, accurately and clearly, the boundaries of the certified territory of each electric supplier as proposed by such electric supplier, or as established under division (A) of this section, and shall issue a map of the certified territory of each electric supplier. Such map shall show the service areas of municipally owned electric systems as of the date the map is drawn. The service area of each municipally owned electric system shall include all of the incorporated area of said system and that territory within a line substantially equidistant between its existing distribution lines and the nearest existing distribution line of any electric supplier in every direction. Certification of territory pursuant to sections 4933.81 to 4933.90 of the Revised Code shall not in any manner prohibit or restrict the rights of municipalities under Article XVIII or any other article of the Ohio Constitution and the existence of a municipally owned electric system service area shall not in any respect restrict or limit the boundaries of the certified territory established for electric suppliers. (C) Each electric supplier and any municipal corporation may examine the maps of electric suppliers filed with the commission pursuant to this section. Any electric supplier whose own certified territory is affected or any municipal corporation whose service area is affected by any such filing and that takes exception thereto, on the basis of an alleged error, may informally request the commission to arrange a conference of the affected parties to resolve the alleged error. The supplier making the request shall serve a copy of the request by certified mail on the electric supplier whose map is alleged to contain the error. The commission shall arrange a conference as promptly as practicable after receipt of the request and shall give notice thereof to all electric suppliers and municipal corporations affected by the alleged error. If an alleged error is not corrected to the satisfaction of any affected electric supplier or municipal corporation, such supplier or municipal corporation may formally petition the commission for a hearing and such hearing shall be granted by the commission as promptly as practicable. (D) Upon completion by the commission of maps showing the boundaries of the certified territory of each electric supplier as established under division (A) of this section, each electric supplier shall have the right to examine all such maps, and any electric supplier whose own certified territory is affected thereby, on the basis of an alleged error, may informally request that the commission confer with it to resolve the issue of the alleged incorrect location of boundary. The procedure shall be as specified above for resolution of alleged errors in the maps supplied by any electric supplier, including the right of the supplier making the informal request to ultimately formally petition the commission for a hearing. (E) In reaching its decision on any dispute formally or informally brought to the attention of the commission, under division (C) or (D) of this section, the commission shall follow the standards set forth in division (A) of this section and division (C) of section 4933.83 of the Revised Code. (F) All portions of the state shall be included within certified territory established pursuant to this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4973.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4973 / § 4973.09
§ 4973.09. Slight contributory negligence no bar to recovery
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly In all actions against a railroad company, operating a railroad in whole or part within this state, for personal injury to an employee or where such injuries have resulted in his death, the fact that he was guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery when such negligence was slight and that of the employer greater in comparison. But the damages must be diminished by the jury in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to such employee. All questions of negligence and contributory negligence are for the jury.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4905.51 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4905 / § 4905.51
§ 4905.51. Use of equipment over street by other public utility
Status: in_force

September 13, 2010 Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly Every public utility having any equipment on, over, or under any street or highway shall, subject to section 4951.04 of the Revised Code, for a reasonable compensation, permit the use of such equipment by any other public utility whenever the public utilities commission determines, as provided in section 4905.51 of the Revised Code, that public convenience, welfare, and necessity require such use or joint use, and that such use or joint use will not result in irreparable injury to the owner or other users of such equipment or any substantial detriment to the service to be rendered by such owners or other users. In case of failure to agree upon such use or joint use, or upon the conditions or compensation for such use or joint use, any public utility may apply to the commission, and if after investigation the commission ascertains that the public convenience, welfare, and necessity require such use or joint use and that it would not result in irreparable injury to the owner or other users of such property or equipment or in any substantial detriment to the service to be rendered by such owner or other users, the commission shall direct that such use or joint use be permitted and prescribe reasonable conditions and compensation for such joint use. Such use or joint use so ordered shall be permitted and such conditions and compensation so prescribed shall be the lawful conditions and compensation to be observed, followed, and paid, subject to recourse to the courts by any interested party as provided in Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., 4923., and 4927. of the Revised Code. The commission may revoke or revise any such order.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4951.29 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4951 / § 4951.29
§ 4951.29. Railway company may acquire property of other companies
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly A company organized for street railway purposes may lease or purchase any street railway, or railroad operated as such and by electric power, or inclined-plane railway, together with all the property, franchises, rights, and privileges respecting the use and operation of such railway, situated or existing in whole or part in this state, constructed and held by any other company, the latter being hereby invested with corresponding power to let or sell on such conditions as are agreed upon between the companies.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4957.17 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4957 / § 4957.17
§ 4957.17. Writ of mandamus
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly If a municipal corporation or railroad company refuses or neglects to comply with the orders or findings made by the court as provided in section 4957.16 of the Revised Code, the court may enforce its orders or findings by either mandamus or mandatory injunction, or as for contempt of court, as the necessity of the case requires, upon the application of either party to such proceedings.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4906.201 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4906 / § 4906.201
§ 4906.201. Setback requirements
Status: in_force

September 15, 2014 House Bill 483 - 130th General Assembly (A) An electric generating plant that consists of wind turbines and associated facilities with a single interconnection to the electrical grid that is designed for, or capable of, operation at an aggregate capacity of fifty megawatts or more is subject to the minimum setback requirements established in rules adopted by the power siting board under division (B)(2) of section 4906.20 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) For any existing certificates and amendments thereto, and existing certification applications that have been found by the chairperson to be in compliance with division (A) of section 4906.06 of the Revised Code before the effective date of the amendment of this section by H.B. 59 of the 130th general assembly, September 29, 2013, the distance shall be seven hundred fifty feet instead of one thousand one hundred twenty-five feet. (2) Any amendment made to an existing certificate after the effective date of the amendment of this section by H.B. 483 of the 130th general assembly, shall be subject to the setback provision of this section as amended by that act. The amendments to this section by that act shall not be construed to limit or abridge any rights or remedies in equity or under the common law.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4921.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4921 / § 4921.03
§ 4921.03. Certificate required
Status: in_force

June 11, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly (A) No for-hire motor carrier may operate in intrastate commerce unless the carrier has a current and valid certificate of public convenience and necessity. (B) The public utilities commission shall issue a certificate of public convenience and necessity to any person who does all of the following: (1) Files with the commission, in accordance with rules adopted under section 4921.05 of the Revised Code, a complete and accurate application that shall include a certification that (a) the person understands and is in compliance with the applicable service, operation, and safety laws of this state and (b) the person meets the requirements of section 4921.09 of the Revised Code; (2) Agrees to maintain accurate and current business and insurance information with the commission, in accordance with the commission's rules; (3) Has paid all applicable registration fees in accordance with rules adopted under section 4921.11 of the Revised Code, all applicable taxes under section 4921.19 of the Revised Code, and any forfeitures imposed under section 4923.99 of the Revised Code. (C) The commission shall have no power to fix, alter, or establish rates for the transportation of persons or property, nor shall the commission have the power to require or accept the filing of tariffs establishing such rates, except that the commission may accept the filing of tariffs establishing rates for the transportation of household goods. (D) A for-hire motor carrier may, at any time after a certificate of public convenience and necessity is granted or refused, file a new application or supplement a former application. (E) The commission may deny issuance of a certificate of public convenience and necessity for failure to comply with this section or rules adopted under section 4921.05 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4929.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4929 / § 4929.22
§ 4929.22. Minimum service requirements
Status: in_force

June 26, 2001 House Bill 9 - 124th General Assembly For the protection of consumers in this state, the public utilities commission shall adopt rules under section 4929.10 of the Revised Code specifying the necessary minimum service requirements of a retail natural gas supplier or governmental aggregator subject to certification under section 4929.20 of the Revised Code regarding the marketing, solicitation, sale, or provision, directly or through its billing and collection agent, of any competitive retail natural gas service for which it is subject to certification. Rules adopted under this section shall include additional consumer protections concerning all of the following: (A) Contract disclosure. The rules shall include requirements that a retail natural gas supplier or governmental aggregator subject to certification under section 4929.20 of the Revised Code do both of the following: (1) Provide consumers with adequate, accurate, and understandable pricing and terms and conditions of service, including any switching fees, and with a document containing the terms and conditions of pricing and service before the consumer enters into the contract for service; (2) Disclose the conditions under which a customer may rescind a contract without penalty. (B) Service qualification and termination. The rules shall include a requirement that, before a consumer is eligible for service from a retail natural gas supplier or governmental aggregator subject to certification under section 4929.20 of the Revised Code, the consumer shall discharge, or enter into a plan to discharge, all existing arrearages owed to or being billed by the natural gas company from which the consumer presently is receiving service. The rules also shall provide for disclosure of the terms identifying how customers may switch or terminate service, including any required notice and any penalties. (C) Minimum content of customer bills. The rules shall include all of the following requirements, which shall be standardized: (1) Price disclosure and disclosures of total billing units for the billing period and historical annual usage; (2) To the maximum extent practicable, separate listing of each service component to enable a customer to recalculate its bill for accuracy; (3) Identification of the supplier of each service; (4) Statement of where and how payment may be made and provision of a toll-free or local customer assistance and complaint number for the retail natural gas supplier or governmental aggregator, as well as a consumer assistance telephone number or numbers for state agencies, such as the commission, the office of the consumers' counsel, and the attorney general's office, with the available hours noted; (5) Other than for the first billing after the effective date of initial rules adopted pursuant to division (A) of section 4929.20 of the Revised Code, highlighting and clear explanation on each customer bill, for two consecutive billing periods, of any changes in the rates, terms, and conditions of service. (D) Disconnection and service termination, including requirements with respect to master-metered buildings. The rules shall include policies and procedures that are consistent with sections 4933.12 and 4933.122 of the Revised Code and the commission's rules adopted under those sections, and that provide for all of the following: (1) Coordination between suppliers for the purpose of maintaining service; (2) The allocation of partial payments between suppliers when service components are jointly billed; (3) A prohibition against switching, or authorizing the switching of, a customer's supplier of competitive retail natural gas service without the prior consent of the customer in accordance with appropriate confirmation practices, which may include independent, third-party verification procedures; (4) A requirement of disclosure of the conditions under which a customer may rescind a decision to switch its supplier without penalty; (5) Specification of any required notice and any penalty for early termination of contract. (E) Minimum service quality, safety, and reliability. (F) Customer information. The rules shall include requirements that a natural gas company make generic customer load pattern information available to a retail natural gas supplier or governmental aggregator as defined in division (K)(1) or (2) of section 4929.01 of the Revised Code on a comparable and nondiscriminatory basis, and make customer information available to a retail natural gas supplier or governmental aggregator as defined in division (K)(1) or (2) of section 4929.01 of the Revised Code on a comparable and nondiscriminatory basis unless, as to customer information, the customer objects. The rules shall ensure that each natural gas company provide clear and frequent notice to its customers of the right to object and of applicable procedures. The rules shall establish the exact language that shall be used in all such notices. The rules also shall require that, upon the request of a governmental aggregator defined in division (K)(1) of section 4929.01 of the Revised Code, solely for purposes of the disclosure required by division (D) of section 4929.26 of the Revised Code, or for purposes of a governmental aggregator defined in division (K)(2) of section 4929.01 of the Revised Code, a natural gas company or retail natural gas supplier must provide the governmental aggregator, in a timely manner and at such cost as the commission shall provide for in the rules, with the billing names and addresses of the customers of the company or supplier whose retail natural gas loads are to be included in the governmental aggregation. (G) Ohio office. The rules shall require that a retail natural gas supplier maintain an office and an employee in this state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4907.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4907 / § 4907.07
§ 4907.07. Investigation into violations of the interstate commerce law
Status: in_force

July 25, 1969 House Bill 48 - 108th General Assembly The public utilities commission may, and on complaint shall, investigate any freight rates on interstate traffic on railroads in this state. If in its opinion they are excessive, discriminatory, levied in violation of the interstate commerce law, or in conflict with the rulings, orders, or regulations of the interstate commerce commission, it shall present the facts to the railroad with the request to make such changes as the public utilities commission advises. If such changes are not made within a reasonable time, the public utilities commission shall apply by petition to the interstate commerce commission for relief.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4907.39 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4907 / § 4907.39
§ 4907.39. Depots, switches, and sidetracks
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Each railroad shall provide and maintain adequate depots and depot buildings at its regular stations for the accomodation of passengers. Such depot buildings shall be kept clean, well-lighted, and warmed, for the comfort and accomodation of the traveling public. Each railroad shall provide and maintain adequate and suitable freight depots, buildings, switches, and sidetracks for receiving, handling, and delivering freight, transported or to be transported by such railroad.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4926.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4926 / § 4926.12
§ 4926.12. Time for granting or denying request
Status: in_force

May 17, 2021 House Bill 2 - 134th General Assembly After receiving a request for access, an electric cooperative shall grant or deny access within the time frame established by the federal communications commission, unless, pursuant to section 4926.57 of the Revised Code, a court of common pleas determines a different time frame for granting or denying access. Last updated June 9, 2021 at 2:14 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4951.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4951 / § 4951.02
§ 4951.02. Grant of right to construct
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The right to construct or extend a street railway within or beyond the limits of a municipal corporation may be granted only by its legislative authority by ordinance. The right to construct such street railway without the limits of a municipal corporation may be granted only by the board of county commissioners by an order entered on its journal. The legislative authority or the board may fix the conditions upon which such street railways may be constructed, operated, extended, and consolidated.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4913.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4913 / § 4913.01
§ 4913.01. Definitions
Status: in_force

March 23, 2015 Senate Bill 378 - 130th General Assembly As used in this chapter: (A) "Aggrieved person" means a person with duties and obligations under sections 153.64 , 3781.27 , and 3781.28 to 3781.32 of the Revised Code and divisions (A) and (B) of section 3781.26 of the Revised Code and who is directly involved with or impacted by the alleged compliance failure, as identified in the request for inquiry, of another person with duties and obligations under sections 153.64 , 3781.27 , and 3781.28 to 3781.32 of the Revised Code and divisions (A) and (B) of section 3781.26 of the Revised Code. (B) "Compliance failure" means a failure to comply with any provision of sections 153.64 , 3781.27 , and 3781.28 to 3781.32 of the Revised Code and divisions (A) and (B) of section 3781.26 of the Revised Code. (C) "Designer," "developer," "excavation," "excavator," "one-call notification system," "person," "protection service," "underground utility facility ", and "utility" have the same meanings as in section 3781.25 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4939.0316 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4939 / § 4939.0316
§ 4939.0316. Former R.C. 4939.0319, amended and renumbered by H.B. 478, 132nd General Assembly, effective 8/1/2018] Fees
Status: in_force

August 1, 2018 House Bill 478 - 132nd General Assembly Any fee charged by a municipal corporation under section 4939.031 of the Revised Code for granting or processing an application for consent shall not exceed a one-time fee of two hundred fifty dollars per small cell facility. Beginning on the effective date of this section, a municipal corporation may adjust this fee ten per cent every five years, rounded to the nearest five dollars. During each five-year period, the adjustment may be applied incrementally or as a single adjustment. Last updated January 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4907.42 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4907 / § 4907.42
§ 4907.42. Interchange of traffic
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Railroad companies as between themselves, and interurban railroads and electric railways as between themselves, shall afford reasonable and proper facilities for interchange of traffic between their respective lines, for forwarding and delivering passengers and property, and shall transfer and deliver, without unreasonable delay or discrimination, loaded or empty cars, freight, or passengers, destined to a point on its own or connecting lines. Precedence over other freight may be given to livestock and perishable freight.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4953.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4953 / § 4953.09
§ 4953.09. Power to borrow money and mortgage property
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Any union terminal company may borrow money for the purpose of carrying out the powers conferred by sections 4953.01 to 4953.12 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, without reference to the amount of stock of such company, and may also issue coupon, registered, or other bonds payable to bearer, bearing interest not exceeding the highest contract rate of interest allowable in this state at the time, payable semiannually. Such company may mortgage its franchises, property, and revenues of every kind owned at the time such money is borrowed or such bonds are issued or subsequently acquire, to secure the payment of such loan, bonds, and interest. The stock holders of such company may jointly and severally guarantee the payment of any notes or bonds the company lawfully issues, and the company may dispose of such notes or bonds at such rate of premium or discount as the board of directors deems best for the interests of the company. It is sufficient to record any mortgage securing such loan or bonds in the real estate records of the county where the depot, terminal, yards, or tracks of the company are constructed.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4901.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4901 / § 4901.03
§ 4901.03. Official seal
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The public utilities commission shall have a seal bearing the following inscription: "The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio." The seal shall be affixed to all writs and authentications of copies of records and to such other instruments as the commission directs. All courts shall take judicial notice of said seal.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4961.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4961 / § 4961.13
§ 4961.13. Right of entry
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly A railroad company, domestic or foreign, or municipal corporation which owns or operates a railroad may enter upon any land for the purpose of examining and surveying its railroad line, and may appropriate so much of such land as is necessary for its railroad including necessary sidetracks, depots, workshops, roundhouses, and water-stations, material for construction, except timber, a right of way over adjacent lands sufficient to enable it to construct and repair its road, and the right to conduct water by aqueducts and to make proper drains.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4967.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4967 / § 4967.15
§ 4967.15. Property of company acquired by purchase vested in consolidated company
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly When the whole of the capital stock referred to in section 4967.14 of the Revised Code is surrendered or transferred, and a certificate thereof filed in the office of the secretary of state, under the common seal of the consolidated railroad company to which such surrender or transfer was made, the estate, property, rights, privileges, and franchises of the company whose stock was so surrendered or transferred vests in and is held and enjoyed by such consolidated company as fully and entirely, without change or diminution, as they before were held and enjoyed and shall be managed and controlled by the board of directors of such consolidated company. The two companies thenceforth are consolidated and are one company, under the corporate name of such consolidated company, without any other formalities or proceedings.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4913.17 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4913 / § 4913.17
§ 4913.17. Finding of persistent noncompliance
Status: in_force

April 3, 2025 House Bill 315 - 135th General Assembly (A) Based upon the number and type of compliance failures committed by a person, the underground technical committee may find, as part of the committee's review under section 4913.15 of the Revised Code, that the person is a persistent noncomplier. (B) The committee shall report a finding made under division (A) of this section to the staff of the public utilities commission. (C) There shall be a majority vote of the full committee, except as provided by section 3781.361 of the Revised Code, with at least one of the commercial-excavator stakeholders voting with the majority, for the committee to make a finding under division (A) of this section. Last updated February 19, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4981.031 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4981 / § 4981.031
§ 4981.031. Applying for federal loans
Status: in_force

October 20, 1994 House Bill 250 - 120th General Assembly (A) The Ohio rail development commission or the department of transportation, on behalf of the commission, may apply for and receive from the United States government loans and grants in accordance with any federal law or program concerning rail transportation. (B) It is hereby found and determined that rail transportation is an essential and indispensable part of the commerce and industry of the state and is of vital importance to the creation and preservation of jobs and employment opportunities and to the improvement of the economic welfare of the people of the state, and that rail transportation creates, promotes, and is a part of the continuous exchange of goods and services in the state economy. It is further found and determined that the authority granted by Chapter 4981. of the Revised Code is consistent with and will effect the purposes of Section 13 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, that rail transportation is part of and is directly related to industry, commerce, distribution, and research under Section 13 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, and that it is in the public interest and a proper public purpose under Section 13 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, for the state to acquire, construct, enlarge, improve, or equip, and to sell, lease, or exchange, or otherwise dispose of property, structures, equipment, and facilities for rail transportation, all as provided in Chapter 4981. of the Revised Code, and that such activities will contribute to the creation or preservation of jobs or employment opportunities or the improvement of the economic welfare of the people of the state. Chapter 4981. of the Revised Code, being necessary for the welfare of the state and its people, shall be liberally construed to effect its purposes.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4963.44 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4963 / § 4963.44
§ 4963.44. Telegraph and telephone wires
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Every railroad company operating ten miles or more of railroad for the transportation of passengers and freight shall erect and maintain in complete working order, for use along the line of its railroad, a telegraph or telephone wire, with an office and proper means for communication by such wire at each of its principal stations. No such company operating a railroad without a telegraph or telephone wire along the line of such railroad, shall ask or receive any compensation for the transportation of passengers or freight on such railroad. The charter of a railroad company which fails to comply with the conditions of this section shall be declared forfeited and shall be annulled by a civil action brought for that purpose in the name of the state by the prosecuting attorney of any county in or through which its railroad is operated.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4981.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4981 / § 4981.06
§ 4981.06. Acquiring property, facilities, or equipment
Status: in_force

October 20, 1994 House Bill 250 - 120th General Assembly (A) The Ohio rail development commission may purchase or lease any portion of the rail property of a railroad corporation, and may purchase or lease any other property, facilities, or equipment considered necessary by the commission for the operation of rail services, and the maintenance of track and other rail property. For the purpose of acquiring such property the commission may obtain acquisition loans from the federal government. (B) Where it is necessary for the purpose of implementing rail service under this chapter, the commission, with the approval of the director of transportation, may appropriate real property. All such appropriations shall be made pursuant to sections 163.01 to 163.22 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4909.172 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4909 / § 4909.172
§ 4909.172. Application for approval to collect infrastructure improvement surcharge
Status: in_force

April 4, 2023 House Bill 364 - 134th General Assembly (A) A waterworks company, or a sewage disposal system company, that is a public utility may file an application with the public utilities commission for approval to collect an infrastructure improvement surcharge, determined in accordance with this section, from customers located in the company's affected service areas and subject to affected schedules filed by the company under section 4905.32 of the Revised Code. The application shall be in such form and contain such information as the commission prescribes. At the time of filing, the company shall serve a copy of the application upon the chief executive of each municipal corporation, the board of township trustees of each township, and the board of county commissioners of each county in which affected customers are located. A company for which an infrastructure improvement surcharge is authorized under this section may file an application for another such surcharge not sooner than twelve months after the filing date of its most recent infrastructure improvement surcharge application. (B) The commission shall provide an opportunity for the filing of comments on an application filed under division (A) of this section. After considering those comments, the commission may authorize an infrastructure improvement surcharge for the company that is just and reasonable and is sufficient, but does not exceed, the revenue requirement necessary to do both of the following: (1) Cover such infrastructure plant costs of the company as are described in division (C) of this section, incurred after March 1, 2003, and before the date of filing, and not already reflected in the affected schedules filed by the company under section 4905.32 of the Revised Code; (2) Provide a fair and reasonable rate of return on the filing date valuation of that particular infrastructure plant. Each infrastructure improvement surcharge chargeable to each affected customer class within any single tariff of the company shall not exceed three per cent, for a sewage disposal system company, and four and one-quarter per cent, for a waterworks company, of the rates and charges applicable to the class and for the tariff in effect on the date the application was filed and, as to the allowed percentage increase, shall be uniform for each such class. The commission shall not authorize a company to have more than three infrastructure improvement surcharges for any single company tariff in effect at any time. Additionally, the commission shall not authorize an infrastructure improvement surcharge under this section if it determines that the surcharge causes the company to earn an excessive rate of return on its valuation under section 4909.15 of the Revised Code. (C) For purposes of this section, a company's costs of infrastructure plant may include depreciation expenses. Such infrastructure plant may consist of the following capital improvements that the commission determines are prudent and used and useful in rendering public utility service and that are properly classified in the uniform system of accounts adopted by the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners as identified in rule 4901:1-15-32 of the Administrative Code: (1) In the case of a waterworks company, replacement of an existing plant included in accounts 323, 324, 325, 326, 327, 328, 332, 342, 343, 345, 346, 347, and 348, as well as main extensions that eliminate dead ends to resolve documented water supply problems presenting significant health or safety issues to then existing customers, and main cleaning or relining; (2) In the case of a sewage disposal system company, replacement of an existing plant included in accounts 352, 352.1, 352.2, 353, 354, 355, 356, 362, 363, 364, 365, 372, 373, 374, and 375, as well as main extensions that resolve documented sewage disposal problems presenting significant health or safety issues to then existing customers, and main cleaning, inflow and infiltration elimination, or relining; (3) Unreimbursed capital expenditures made by the waterworks company, or the sewage disposal system company, for waterworks, or sewage disposal, facility relocation required by a governmental entity due to a street or highway project; (4) Capital expenditures made by the waterworks company or sewage disposal system company to comply with any consent decree, final order, or final rule of the United States environmental protection agency or the Ohio environmental protection agency. (5) Minimum land or land rights acquired by the company as necessary for any service line, equipment, or facility described in divisions (C)(1) to (4) of this section. As used in divisions (C)(1) and (2) of this section, "replacement of an existing plant" includes replacements that result in an upgrade or improvement of the previously existing plant, provided that the replacement plant is prudent, qualifies for recovery under this section, and performs the same or similar function or purpose as it did prior to the replacement. (D)(1) If the commission fails to issue a final order within one hundred eighty days after the date the application is filed under this section, and at the waterworks or sewage disposal company's discretion, a surcharge not to exceed the proposed surcharge shall go into effect upon the filing of the revised affected rate schedules by the company, subject to refund of amounts collected that exceed those authorized by the final order of the commission. (2) All refunds shall include interest at the rate stated in section 1343.03 of the Revised Code and shall be accomplished in a manner as prescribed by the commission in its final order. The commission may require an undertaking to secure the refund under this division if it finds it is warranted by the financial condition of the waterworks or sewage disposal system company. (3) This division shall only apply to applications filed by a waterworks or sewage disposal system company that has annual operating revenues of two hundred fifty thousand dollars or more. (E) During the period that an authorized infrastructure improvement surcharge is in effect, the commission, by order and on its own motion or upon good cause shown, may reduce the amount of or terminate an infrastructure improvement surcharge if it determines that the surcharge causes the company to earn an excessive rate of return on its valuation under section 4909.15 of the Revised Code. (F) An order issued by the commission deciding an application by a waterworks company or a sewage disposal system company for an increase in rates and charges pursuant to an application filed by the company under section 4909.18 of the Revised Code shall provide for the termination, as of the earlier of the effective date of the increase or the date specified in division (F) of this section, of any infrastructure improvement surcharges of the company authorized under this section. (G) All surcharges authorized under this section shall terminate by operation of law not later than December 31, 2036. (H) The company shall provide notice of any infrastructure improvement surcharge authorized under this section to each affected customer with or on the customer's first bill containing the surcharge. (I) The commission may adopt such rules as it considers necessary to carry out this section. Last updated February 8, 2023 at 3:18 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4969.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4969 / § 4969.22
§ 4969.22. Certain rights of way forfeited
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Where a right of way, or part thereof, upon an unfinished railroad remains for ten years unused for railroad purposes, it shall be held forfeited and shall revert to the owner of the land, unless at least twenty miles of the railroad have been completed by the company during that period, or unless an average of one thousand dollars per mile has been expended for construction before the expiration of such period. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 4911.14 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4911 / § 4911.14
§ 4911.14. Jurisdiction
Status: in_force

September 1, 1976 Senate Bill 94 - 111th General Assembly The jurisdiction of the consumers' counsel extends to every case that he or another party brings before the public utilities commission involving the fixing of any rate, joint rate, fare, charge, toll, or rental charged for commodities or services by any public utility, the plant or property of which lies wholly within this state. Where the property of a public utility lies partly within this state, the jurisdiction of the consumers' counsel extends to that part of the plant or property which lies within this state, the persons or companies owning, leasing, or operating the public utility, and the records and accounts of the business thereof done within this state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.103 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.103
§ 4928.103. Rules for changing electric supplier using valid identification
Status: in_force

August 14, 2025 House Bill 15 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "customer account information" means a unique electric distribution utility number or other customer identification number used by the utility to identify a customer and the customer's account record. (B) The public utilities commission shall adopt rules to ensure that an electric distribution utility processes a customer's change in competitive retail electric supplier by using customer account information. A customer who consents to a change of supplier shall not be required to provide customer account information to the supplier if the customer provides a valid form of government-issued identification issued to the customer or a sufficient alternative form of identification that allows the supplier to establish the customer's identity accurately. (C) Notwithstanding any provision of section 121.95 of the Revised Code to the contrary, a regulatory restriction contained in a rule adopted under this section is not subject to sections 121.95 to 121.953 of the Revised Code. Last updated July 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4929.25 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4929 / § 4929.25
§ 4929.25. Determine total allowable amount of capacity and commodity costs, and costs incidental thereto
Status: in_force

June 26, 2001 House Bill 9 - 124th General Assembly (A) Upon the filing of an application by a natural gas company in such form and pursuant to such procedures as shall be prescribed by rule of the commission under section 4929.10 of the Revised Code for the purpose of this division, the commission shall determine the total allowable amount of capacity and commodity costs, and costs incidental thereto, of the company to be received as revenues under this division. Such amount shall be the just and reasonable costs of the company that the commission by order determines meet all of the following criteria: (1) The costs were prudently incurred. (2) The costs are legitimate, net, verifiable, and directly due to capacity and commodity obligations entered into by the natural gas company on behalf of consumers that take commodity sales service from other than the natural gas company. (3) The costs are otherwise unrecoverable. (4) The company would otherwise be entitled to an opportunity to recover those costs. The commission shall not authorize such revenue opportunity for a company under this division without first setting the matter for hearing, giving notice of the hearing date to the company, and publishing notice of the hearing one time in a newspaper of general circulation in each county affected by the application. At the hearing, the company shall have the burden of demonstrating allowable costs under this division. (B) Upon the issuance of an order under division (A) of this section determining any allowable capacity and commodity costs, and costs incidental thereto, of a natural gas company, the company shall file with the commission under section 4905.30 of the Revised Code revised schedules allowing the recovery of such costs as the commission authorized in the order, and containing such necessary and appropriate cost recovery mechanism or mechanisms as the commission prescribes in the order. The commission shall act promptly to approve such revised schedules as it determines comply with the order.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4909.31 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4909 / § 4909.31
§ 4909.31. Supplemental order as to railroads
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Whenever a joint rate or charge is ordered substituted by the public utilities commission, and the railroads party thereto fail to agree within twenty days after the service of such order upon the apportionment of such rate or charge, the commission may, after a hearing, issue a supplemental order declaring the apportionment of such joint rate or charge, which shall take effect of its own force as part of the original order.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4957.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4957 / § 4957.19
§ 4957.19. Payment of railroad company's proportion of cost
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may, by ordinance, prescribe the manner and time of payment by a railroad company of the proportion of the cost of a crossing improvement which the company is required to pay.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4957.33 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4957 / § 4957.33
§ 4957.33. Additional tracks and switches
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Sections 4957.27 to 4957.32 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, do not prevent a railroad company from laying additional tracks at previously existing crossings, or from constructing switches, sidings, and branch lines from its railroad to a mill, factory, other manufacturing establishment or industrial plant, elevator, wharf, or pier, or gravel, marl, or clay bed, or any mine, or from laying additional track to increase its yard facilities at terminal or other points across public highways at the grade thereof. Such signposts and signals shall be employed for the protection of such crossings as are prescribed for railroad crossings of public highways.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.233 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.233
§ 4928.233. Rehearing; when order becomes final
Status: in_force

March 22, 2012 House Bill 364 - 129th General Assembly (A) Any party to a proceeding under section 4928.232 of the Revised Code may apply to the public utilities commission for rehearing of an order within thirty days after the date of the issuance of the order. (B) Within sixty days after the issuance of an order after rehearing or a decision denying an application for rehearing, any party to the proceeding may file a notice of appeal with the supreme court. Any such notice of appeal shall be served as provided for in section 4903.13 of the Revised Code. Because delay in the determination of the appeal will delay the issuance of phase-in-recovery bonds, thereby diminishing savings to customers that might be achieved if the bonds were issued under a final financing order, the supreme court shall proceed to hear and determine the action as expeditiously as practicable and shall give the action precedence over other matters not accorded similar precedence by law. (C) Any review on appeal for a financing order issued under section 4928.232 of the Revised Code shall be governed by Chapter 4903. of the Revised Code. (D) If any phase-in costs are, or if any financing order is, subject to review by the commission or the supreme court, the electric distribution utility may not issue any phase-in-recovery bonds based on those costs or that financing order until all commission and appellate reviews, including any appellate review following a commission decision on remand, have been exhausted. (E) A financing order shall become final and take effect as follows: (1) On the expiration of the thirty-day period after the date the commission issues the financing order, if no application for rehearing is filed with the commission within that period; (2) On the expiration of the sixty-day period after the denial of the application for rehearing, if no notice of appeal is filed with the supreme court within that period; (3) On the expiration of the sixty-day period after the commission issues an order after rehearing that approves or modifies and approves the financing order, if no notice of appeal is filed with the supreme court within that period; (4) On the expiration of the ten-day period after the date that the supreme court judgment entry or order that affirms or modifies and affirms a financing order is filed with the clerk, including any such order issued by the court following a commission decision on remand, if no motion for reconsideration is filed within that period; (5) On the date the supreme court order denying a motion for reconsideration of a judgment entry or order that affirmed or modified and affirmed a financing order is filed with the clerk; (6) On the date the supreme court judgment entry or order issued after reconsideration of a judgment entry or order that affirmed or modified and affirmed a financing order is filed with the clerk; (7) On the applicable effective date under division (E)(1), (2), or (3) of this section regarding a financing order remanded to the commission.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4929.165 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4929 / § 4929.165
§ 4929.165. Annual reports
Status: in_force

March 28, 2024 House Bill 201 - 135th General Assembly (A) A natural gas company that has established an infrastructure development rider under section 4929.161 of the Revised Code shall file an annual report with the public utilities commission. The report shall do both of the following: (1) Detail the infrastructure development costs related to the applicable economic development project or projects; (2) Set forth the rider rate for the twelve months following the annual report. (B) The commission annually shall submit to the general assembly, in accordance with section 101.68 of the Revised Code, a report describing all of the following: (1) The number of applications filed pursuant to division (B)(1)(a) of section 4929.16 of the Revised Code and the number of applications filed pursuant to division (B)(1)(b) of section 4929.16 of the Revised Code; (2) The number of applications approved that were filed pursuant to division (B)(1)(a) of section 4929.16 of the Revised Code and the number of applications approved that were filed pursuant to division (B)(1)(b) of section 4929.16 of the Revised Code; (3) The monetary amount approved for recovery through each natural gas company infrastructure development rider and the total monetary amount approved for recovery through all infrastructure development riders for all natural gas companies; (4) The number of approved economic development projects on which all construction has been completed; (5) A list containing the construction status of all approved economic projects, including if construction has not commenced or, if construction has commenced, but not completed, a description of any structures on which construction has been completed. Last updated January 17, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4951.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4951 / § 4951.05
§ 4951.05. Extension to be constructed as new route
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly No extension of a street railway located wholly outside a city, or of one wherever located, which is built in pursuance of a right obtained from authority other than that of a municipal corporation, shall be made within the limits of such city, except as a new route.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.04
§ 4928.04. Additional competitive services
Status: in_force

October 5, 1999 Senate Bill 3 - 123rd General Assembly (A) The public utilities commission by order may declare that retail ancillary, metering, or billing and collection service supplied to consumers within the certified territory of an electric utility on or after the starting date of competitive retail electric service is a competitive retail electric service that the consumers may obtain from any supplier or suppliers subject to this chapter. The commission may issue such order, after investigation and public hearing, only if it first determines either of the following: (1) There will be effective competition with respect to the service. (2) The customers of the service have reasonably available alternatives. The commission shall initiate a proceeding on or before March 31, 2003, on the question of the desirability, feasibility, and timing of any such competition. (B) In carrying out division (A) of this section, the commission may prescribe different classifications, procedures, terms, or conditions for different electric utilities and for the retail electric services they provide that are declared competitive pursuant to that division, provided the classifications, procedures, terms, or conditions are reasonable and do not confer any undue economic, competitive, or market advantage or preference upon any electric utility.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4913.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4913 / § 4913.22
§ 4913.22. Payment of fine; compliance with penalty
Status: in_force

March 23, 2015 Senate Bill 378 - 130th General Assembly A person subject to a fine imposed under section 4913.171 , 4913.19 , or 4913.21 of the Revised Code or division (C)(2) of section 4913.16 of the Revised Code shall pay the fine not later than sixty days after the fine or penalty is imposed. A person subject to a penalty imposed under any of those sections or that division shall begin compliance with the penalty not later than thirty days after the penalty is imposed.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4969.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4969 / § 4969.10
§ 4969.10. Receiver must deposit money
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly When a railroad operated by a receiver is wholly within this state, all money which comes into his hands, whether from operating the railroad or otherwise, shall be kept and deposited in such place within this state as the court directs, until properly disbursed. If a part of the railroad lies in another state, the receiver shall deposit in this state at least such share of the funds in his hands as is proportioned to the value of the property of the railroad company within this state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4939.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4939 / § 4939.06
§ 4939.06. Appeal of levy of public way fee
Status: in_force

July 2, 2002 Senate Bill 255 - 124th General Assembly (A) If a public utility does not accept a public way fee levied against it pursuant to the enactment of an ordinance by a municipal corporation, the public utility may appeal the public way fee to the public utilities commission. The appeal shall be made by filing a complaint that the amount of a public way fee, any related classification of public way occupants or users, or the assignment or allocation of costs to the public way fee is unreasonable, unjust, unjustly discriminatory, or unlawful. The complaint shall be filed not later than thirty days after the date the public utility first becomes subject to the ordinance. The complaint is subject to the same procedures as a complaint filed pursuant to section 4905.26 of the Revised Code. The commission shall act to resolve the complaint by issuance of a final order within one hundred twenty days after the date of the complaint's filing. (B) Only upon a finding by the commission that reasonable grounds are stated for a complaint filed under division (A) of this section, the commission by order shall suspend the public way fee provisions of the municipal ordinance for the duration of the commission's consideration of the complaint. For the purpose of this division, if the commission so suspends an ordinance pursuant to a complaint filed not later than thirty days after the date that the ordinance first takes effect, the suspension shall apply to the public way fee for every occupancy or use of the public way to which the fee would otherwise apply. For any other complaint, the suspension shall apply only to the public utility filing the complaint. The municipal corporation may later collect, for the suspension period, any suspended public way fee only if the commission finds that the public way fee is not unreasonable, unjust, unjustly discriminatory, or unlawful. (C) If the commission finds that the public way fee or classification complained of is unreasonable, unjust, unjustly discriminatory, or unlawful, it shall determine by order the just and reasonable public way fee or classification.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4971.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4971 / § 4971.13
§ 4971.13. Mortgaged property may be sold without appraisement
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Railroads and other property mortgaged by a reorganized railroad company, if the court deems it expedient, may be sold without appraisement, at judicial sales under judgments upon such mortgage but the court shall fix a minimum sum below which no sale shall be made. To fix that amount, the court may refer the subject to a master with instructions to take testimony and report the sum.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.31 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.31
§ 4928.31. Transition plan
Status: in_force

July 31, 2008 Senate Bill 221 - 127th General Assembly (A) Not later than ninety days after the effective date of this section, an electric utility supplying retail electric service in this state on that date shall file with the public utilities commission a plan for the utility's provision of retail electric service in this state during the market development period. This transition plan shall be in such form as the commission shall prescribe by rule adopted under division (A) of section 4928.06 of the Revised Code and shall include all of the following: (1) A rate unbundling plan that specifies, consistent with divisions (A)(1) to (7) of section 4928.34 of the Revised Code and any rules adopted by the commission under division (A) of section 4928.06 of the Revised Code, the unbundles components for electric generation, transmission, and distribution service and such other unbundled service components as the commission requires, to be charged by the utility beginning on the starting date of competitive retail electric service and that includes information the commission requires to fix and determine those components; (2) A corporate separation plan consistent with section 4928.17 of the Revised Code and any rules adopted by the commission under division (A) of section 4928.06 of the Revised Code; (3) Such plan or plans as the commission requires to address operational support systems and any other technical implementation issues pertaining to competitive retail electric service consistent with any rules adopted by the commission under division (A) of section 4928.06 of the Revised Code; (4) An employee assistance plan for providing severance, retraining, early retirement, retention, outplacement, and other assistance for the utility's employees whose employment is affected by electric industry restructuring under this chapter; (5) A consumer education plan consistent with former section 4928.42 of the Revised Code and any rules adopted by the commission under division (A) of section 4928.06 of the Revised Code. A transition plan under this section may include tariff terms and conditions to address reasonable requirements for changing suppliers, length of commitment by a customer for service, and such other matters as are necessary to accommodate electric restructuring. Additionally, a transition plan under this section may include an application for the opportunity to receive transition revenues as authorized under sections 4928.31 to 4928.40 of the Revised Code, which application shall be consistent with those sections and any rules adopted by the commission under division (A) of section 4928.06 of the Revised Code. The transition plan also may include a plan for the independent operation of the utility's transmission facilities consistent with section 4928.12 of the Revised Code, division (A)(13) of section 4928.34 of the Revised Code, and any rules adopted by the commission under division (A) of section 4928.06 of the Revised Code. The commission may reject and require refiling, in whole or in part, of any substantially inadequate transition plan. (B) The electric utility shall provide public notice of its filing under division (A) of this section, in a form and manner that the commission shall prescribe by rule adopted under division (A) of section 4928.06 of the Revised Code. However, the adoption of rules regarding the public notice under this division, regarding the form of the transition plan under division (A) of this section, and regarding procedures for expedited discovery under division (A) of section 4928.32 of the Revised Code are not subject to division (D) of section 111.15 of the Revised Code. Last updated September 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4961.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4961 / § 4961.06
§ 4961.06. Mortgage on changed line of railroad
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly When the company referred to in section 4961.05 of the Revised Code has issued its mortgage bonds for the construction of its railroad, the record of the mortgage securing them, in each county through or into which the changed line of the railroad passes, is as effectual to create a lien upon the changed line of railroad and upon the property of the company as if the mortgage contained a complete description of the changed line and of such property.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4905.59 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4905 / § 4905.59
§ 4905.59. Action for forfeiture by prosecuting attorney
Status: in_force

September 13, 2010 Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly If the public utilities commission, the officer requested by it, or a village solicitor or city director of law, when the cause of action arises in a municipal corporation, fails to prosecute a civil action for forfeiture against a railroad or an officer, agent, or employee thereof as provided by law, the prosecuting attorney of the county in which a cause of action for forfeiture arises, upon the request of any taxpayer of the county, shall bring such action if the prosecuting attorney is furnished with evidence that in the prosecuting attorney's judgment will sustain it. If the action fails, the costs of the action shall be adjudged against the county. If a cause of action for forfeiture arises within a municipal corporation, and the commission, the officer requested by it, or the prosecuting attorney, fails to prosecute such action, the village solicitor or city director of law of the municipal corporation, when required by resolution of the legislative authority, shall institute the action and prosecute it to final judgment. If the action fails, the cost of the action shall be adjudged against the municipal corporation. The time for notice of appeal and giving a bond does not apply to cases within the meaning of this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4911.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4911 / § 4911.19
§ 4911.19. Response of utility to billing or service inquiry on behalf of residential customer
Status: in_force

April 10, 1985 House Bill 79 - 115th General Assembly Any utility to which the consumers' counsel makes an inquiry on behalf of a residential customer concerning that customer's billing, or the availability, unavailability, or quality of that customer's service shall respond to the consumers' counsel on the merits of that inquiry within a reasonable time. If a definitive response cannot be made within three weeks of the making of the inquiry, the utility initially shall send an acknowledgement of receipt of the inquiry to the consumers' counsel and indicate the position of the utility concerning the nature of any investigation of the facts that it considers necessary to an ultimate response, and then, when it becomes possible to make a definitive response, shall respond to the consumers' counsel on the merits of the inquiry. The failure of a utility to comply with this section is admissible evidence in a complaint proceeding under section 4905.26 of the Revised Code, upon the motion of the consumers' counsel, regardless of whether further evidence concerning the subject of the inquiry is offered.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4909.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4909 / § 4909.16
§ 4909.16. Power to amend, alter, or suspend schedule of rates
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly When the public utilities commission deems it necessary to prevent injury to the business or interests of the public or of any public utility of this state in case of any emergency to be judged by the commission, it may temporarily alter, amend, or, with the consent of the public utility concerned, suspend any existing rates, schedules, or order relating to or affecting any public utility or part of any public utility in this state. Rates so made by the commission shall apply to one or more of the public utilities in this state, or to any portion thereof, as is directed by the commission, and shall take effect at such time and remain in force for such length of time as the commission prescribes.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4939.0314 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4939 / § 4939.0314
§ 4939.0314. Powers of municipality regarding placement of small cell facilities or wireless support structures
Status: in_force

August 1, 2018 House Bill 478 - 132nd General Assembly With respect to the placement of any small cell facility or wireless support structure in a public way, a municipal corporation may do any of the following: (A) Reserve space for future public safety or transportation uses in the public way or on a wireless support structure or pole owned by a municipal corporation in a documented and approved plan in place at the time an application is filed. A reservation of space shall not preclude placement of a pole or collocation of a small cell facility. If replacement of the municipal corporation's pole or wireless support structure is necessary to accommodate the collocation of the small cell facility and the future use, the operator shall pay for the replacement of the pole or wireless support structure, and the replaced pole or wireless support structure must accommodate the future use. (B) Require reasonable and nondiscriminatory spacing requirements for the location of new wireless support structures set forth in an ordinance, local rule, or design guidelines. Such spacing requirements shall not prohibit, or have the effect of prohibiting, the provision of wireless service to any location. (C) Adopt reasonable written design guidelines with objective, technologically feasible criteria that reasonably match the aesthetics and character of the immediate area regarding all of the following: (1) The location of any ground-mounted small cell facilities; (2) The location of a small cell facility on a wireless support structure; (3) The appearance and concealment of small cell facilities, including those relating to materials used for arranging, screening, or landscaping; (4) The design and appearance of a wireless support structure including any height requirements adopted by a municipality in accordance with division (F) of this section. Any such guidelines shall be applied in a nondiscriminatory manner. Materials utilized to comply with the appearance and concealment criteria established in the guidelines shall not be considered part of the small cell facility for purposes of facility size restrictions in this chapter. (D) Propose an alternate location to the proposed location of a new wireless support structure that is within one hundred feet of the proposed location or within a distance that is equivalent to the width of the public way in or on which the new wireless support structure is proposed, whichever is greater, which the operator shall use if it has the right to use the alternate location on reasonable terms and conditions and the alternate location does not impose technical limits or additional costs. (E) Require that a collocation or a new wireless support structure for which a permit is granted shall be completed within one hundred eighty days after issuance of the permit, unless the municipal corporation and the operator agree to extend this period or a delay is caused by make-ready work for a municipally owned wireless support structure or decorative pole or by the lack of commercial power or backhaul availability at the site, provided that the operator has made a timely request within sixty days after the issuance of the permit for commercial power or backhaul services, and the additional time to complete installation does not exceed three hundred sixty days after issuance of the permit. Otherwise, the permit shall be void unless the municipal corporation grants an extension in writing to the operator. (F) Set restrictions for the height of a wireless support structure and the placement of a wireless facility as follows: (1) For a new wireless support structure, the overall height of the wireless support structure and any collocated antennas shall not be more than forty feet in height above ground level. (2) Notwithstanding division (F) of this section, and except that the cap shall not be below thirty-five feet in height above ground level, a municipal corporation may adopt design guidelines under division (C) of this section to cap the permissible height of small cell facilities in areas meeting the following criteria : (a) The area is within three hundred feet of the proposed site for a new wireless support structure in the same public way or a connecting public way, and there are no wireless support structures or utility poles taller than thirty feet in height above ground level; (b) The maximum allowable height for building construction in the underlying zoning district is thirty-five feet in height above ground level or less. (3) For an existing wireless support structure, the antenna and any associated shroud or concealment material are permitted to be collocated at the top of the existing wireless support structure and shall not increase the height of the existing wireless support structure by more than five feet. (G) Require an operator to comply with reasonable and nondiscriminatory requirements that prohibit public utilities or cable operators from installing structures and facilities in the public way because an area is either designated solely for undergrounding or structures and facilities are required to be placed elsewhere in the public way, if the following apply: (1) The municipal corporation has required all structures and facilities, including structures and facilities owned by a municipal electric company, but not including structures and facilities owned by a municipal corporation or a transit authority, to be placed underground or elsewhere in the public way or a utility easement by a date certain that is three months prior to the submission of the application; (2) Subject to the provisions of this chapter, the municipal corporation does not prohibit the replacement of wireless support structures or the collocation of small cell facilities on wireless support structures in the designated area; (3) The municipal corporation permits operators to seek a waiver of the undergrounding or alternative location requirements for the placement of a new wireless support structure to support small cell facilities if the operator is unable to achieve its service objective using a small cell facility under the following circumstances: (a) From a location in the public way where the prohibition does not apply; (b) In a utility easement the operator has the right to access ; or (c) In or on other suitable locations or structures made available by the municipal corporation at reasonable rates, fees, and terms. A municipal corporation shall process waivers in a reasonable and nondiscriminatory manner that does not have the effect of prohibiting the provision of wireless service. (H) Subject to section 4939.0313 of the Revised Code, and except for facilities excluded from evaluation for effects on historic properties under 47 C.F.R. 1.1307 (a)(4) of the federal communications commission's rules, a municipal corporation may require reasonable, technically feasible, and nondiscriminatory design or concealment measures in an historic district. Any such design or concealment measures may not have the effect of prohibiting any operator's technology, nor may any such measures be considered a part of the small cell facility for purposes of the size restrictions in the definition of small cell facility. (I) If multiple requests are received by the municipal corporation to install two or more poles that would violate applicable spacing requirements under division (B) of this section, or to collocate two or more small cell facilities on the same wireless support structure, notwithstanding division (I) of section 4939.0313 of the Revised Code, the municipal corporation may resolve conflicting requests through whatever reasonable and nondiscriminatory manner the municipal corporation deems appropriate. (J) Impose reasonable requirements for bonds, escrow deposits, letters of credit, or any other type of financial surety to ensure removal of abandoned or unused wireless facilities or damage to municipal property caused by an operator or its agent.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4909.40 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4909 / § 4909.40
§ 4909.40. Certain rates, fares, regulations, and prices excepted
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., 4923., and 4925. of the Revised Code do not apply to any rate, fare, or regulation prescribed by any municipal corporation granting a right, permission, authority, or franchise to use its streets, alleys, avenues, or public places for street railway purposes, or to any prices so fixed under sections 715.34 , 743.26 , and 743.28 of the Revised Code, except as provided in sections 4909.34 , 4909.35 , 4909.36 , 4909.38 , and 4909.39 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4933.87 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4933 / § 4933.87
§ 4933.87. Right of municipal corporations to generate, transmit, distribute, or sell electric energy
Status: in_force

July 12, 1978 House Bill 577 - 112th General Assembly Nothing contained in sections 4933.81 to 4933.90 of the Revised Code shall be construed to affect the right of municipal corporations to generate, transmit, distribute, or sell electric energy. The rights and powers of municipal corporations as they exist on or after the effective date of this section to acquire, construct, own, lease, or operate in any manner a public utility or to supply the service or product by means of a rate ordinance adopted under section 743.26 of the Revised Code or under Section 4, Article XVIII, Ohio Constitution in any portion of the state is not affected by sections 4933.81 to 4933.90 of the Revised Code. When an electric system owned by a municipal corporation is sold, the purchaser thereof shall be considered an electric supplier and the area served by the system shall become the certified territory of the purchaser. An electric supplier whose certified territory also includes any portion of such service area shall have the right and obligation to continue providing electric service within its previously established certified territory and the sale of a municipal corporation's electric system shall not in any respect restrict or limit such right and obligation. The purchaser shall, for the purposes of sections 4933.81 to 4933.90 of the Revised Code, be an electric supplier.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4907.48 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4907 / § 4907.48
§ 4907.48. Regulation of crossing signals
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly All gates, bells, or devices erected under the direction of the public utilities commission shall be built within the time, in the manner, and of materials approved by the commission. Such devices so authorized shall be located in the highway or street on one or both sides of the railroad tracks, as the commission deems the public safety requires. Such gates shall be so constructed that when closed they obstruct or prevent passage across such railroad from the side on which a gate is located. Such bell must be so constructed that it will ring before the approach of every train of cars or locomotive within three hundred feet or more of such crossing, and continue to ring until such train or locomotive has reached the crossing. A person shall be in charge of such gate who shall close it at the approach of each train or locomotive and keep it open at all other times. If an automatic bell or other mechanical device is required at such crossing, the railroad shall keep such bell or device in good working order. For every neglect of duty imposed by this section such railroad shall forfeit twenty-five dollars.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4911.20 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4911 / § 4911.20
§ 4911.20. Appointment of deputy consumers' counsel
Status: in_force

June 1, 1994 House Bill 344 - 120th General Assembly If the consumers' counsel governing board determines that the appointment of a deputy consumers' counsel is necessary to ensure the full and proper performance of the powers and duties of the consumers' counsel, the board may appoint a deputy consumers' counsel. The board may assign the deputy consumers' counsel any of the duties and powers of the consumers' counsel, and the deputy shall perform the assigned duties and powers. The deputy consumers' counsel shall report to the board on all matters assigned to him by the board, and shall serve at the pleasure of the board. The board may appoint an employee of the office of the consumers' counsel as deputy consumers' counsel. The board shall determine the salary of the deputy consumers' counsel. If a deputy consumers' counsel is appointed, the consumers' counsel shall not perform the duties and powers that are assigned by the governing board to the deputy. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 4907.471 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4907 / § 4907.471
§ 4907.471. Surveys determining probability of accident at crossing
Status: in_force

November 28, 1991 House Bill 248 - 119th General Assembly (A) The public utilities commission shall survey all public crossings of railroads at grade, whether on state, county, or township highways or on streets or ways within municipal corporations. The commission shall devise a formula according to sound highway engineering practice for determining the probability of accident at each such crossing and may include in the formula factors representing volume of vehicular traffic, volume of train traffic, history of previous accidents, train type and speed, limitations of view, intersection angle, number of tracks, highway alignment, and such other special factors and conditions as are in its opinion relevant. The commission shall submit the formula to the director of transportation, who shall review it to ensure that it is consistent with applicable federal requirements. The commission shall classify all such public crossings according to that formula and shall prepare a priority list for the protection of such crossings, giving highest priority to the crossings at which the commission finds the highest probability of accident, and lowest priority to the ones at which it finds the least probability of accident, provided that for the purposes of this section the commission shall place first on the list any crossing that meets all of the following criteria: (1) The crossing is at a section of railroad track that is being reactivated on or after May 1, 1990, and that has not been used for at least three years prior to the reactivation as determined by the commission; (2) The territory abutting the railroad's right-of-way for a distance of three hundred feet or more has been improved with residences during the period of time the track was not being used; (3) The commission has designated the crossing as dangerous and hazardous under division (A) of this section. The priority list shall be for the use of the commission in carrying out this section and sections 4907.47 , 4907.474 , and 4907.475 of the Revised Code and shall not be admissible in evidence in any action to recover damages for negligence arising out of the use of such grade crossings. The list shall be made available to the department of transportation for use in carrying out sections 4511.61 and 4955.33 of the Revised Code. The survey shall be continuous, and after the original list is prepared, the commission may change the respective priority ratings as it may from time to time determine. When new crossings at grade are opened, the commission shall survey them and place them on the priority list at such places as in its opinion the probability of accident at those crossings warrants. The commission may, pursuant to the priority ratings established as provided in this section, designate as dangerous and hazardous any railroad highway grade crossing it determines to be in need of additional protective devices. With respect to a high priority crossing so designated, the commission may negotiate with the railroad concerned, and with the state agency or political subdivision having jurisdiction over the crossing, an agreement providing for the installation at the crossing of appropriate luminous reflecting warning signs, luminous flashing signals, crossing gates illuminated at night, or other protective devices. The number, type, and location of the signs, signals, gates, or other protective devices, which shall conform with generally recognized national standards, shall be determined by agreement among the commission, the railroad concerned, and the state agency or political subdivision. The assignment of any part or all of the cost of the installation and subsequent maintenance of such signs, signals, gates, or other protective devices to the railroad and to the state or the political subdivisions shall be by the commission in any proportion it determines proper that is consistent with any applicable federal requirements, after giving due consideration to the factors listed in division (C) of this section. (B) In cases where the railroad does not agree that the installation of additional protective devices is necessary, or where no agreement can be reached with the railroad as to the number, type, or location of such devices or the proportion of cost to be assigned to the railroad, the commission shall hold a public hearing as to the necessity for installing additional protective devices at the crossing at issue. Written notice of the hearing shall be given to the railroad at least thirty days in advance of the hearing, and notice of the hearing shall be published once a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the crossing at issue is located. If, after the hearing, it is the opinion of the commission that the public safety requires additional protective devices to be erected and maintained at the crossing, the commission shall give the superintendent, manager, or other officer in charge of the railroad a written order of the protective devices required and the date by which any action shall be completed, and shall assign to the parties the cost of installing and maintaining the protective devices in any proportion it determines proper that is consistent with any applicable federal requirements, after giving due consideration to the factors listed in division (C) of this section. (C) In assigning the cost of additional protective devices, the commission shall consider factors of volume of vehicular traffic, volume of train traffic, train type and speed, limitations of view and the causes thereof, savings, if any, which will inure to the railroad as the result of the installation, benefits to the public resulting from the reduction of hazard at the crossing, the probable cost of the installation, the future cost to the railroad of maintaining the devices, and any other special factors and conditions that the commission considers relevant. The commission may accept a railroad's agreement to maintain the additional protective devices as being its share of the cost for the protection. If any part of the cost of installation is assigned by the commission to the state agency or political subdivision having jurisdiction over the crossing, that cost may be paid from any funds levied and made available for highway or street purposes, provided that funds from the grade crossing protection fund created by section 4907.472 of the Revised Code may be used to pay the public's share of the cost. After the commission has issued an appropriate order requiring that additional protective devices be installed by a specific date, which shall be a reasonable time from the date of the order, the railroad concerned shall erect or install the additional protective devices within the time prescribed by the order. If the additional protective devices are not erected or installed within that time, the commission may reduce or eliminate the amount of any funds in the grade crossing protection fund obligated to pay the public's share of the costs relating to the erection, installation, and maintenance of the additional protective devices and, consistent with any applicable federal requirements, may assign to the railroad concerned any amount, up to one hundred per cent, of the total amount of the costs of erecting, installing, and maintaining the additional protective devices.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4929.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4929 / § 4929.07
§ 4929.07. Proceedings after approval of exemption or alternate plan
Status: in_force

September 17, 1996 House Bill 476 - 121st General Assembly (A) Within thirty days after the date of issuance of an order approving an exemption or alternative rate plan under section 4929.04 or 4929.05 of the Revised Code or within twenty days after the issuance of a rehearing entry pursuant to section 4903.10 of the Revised Code, whichever is later, the natural gas company shall do either of the following: (1) File with the public utilities commission a notice of its intention to implement the exemption or alternative rate plan as directed by the commission in its order, and a copy of its revised rate schedules; (2) Withdraw its exemption application or alternative rate plan request if the commission modifies or does not approve as filed the exemption application or the alternative rate plan request. (B) If a natural gas company files a notice and revised schedules pursuant to division (A)(1) of this section, the commission, within thirty days after the date of the filing, shall do either of the following: (1) Approve the revised schedules if the commission finds that there is no material difference between the approved alternative rate plan and the filed schedules; (2) Disapprove the revised schedules if the commission finds that there is a material difference between the approved alternative rate plan and the filed revised schedules. If the commission disapproves the revised schedules, it shall provide a written order explaining its reasons for doing so, and it shall permit the company an additional thirty days to file revised rate schedules to implement the approved alternative rate plan or permit the company to withdraw the alternative rate plan pursuant to division (A)(2) of this section. (C) If a natural gas company withdraws its exemption application or alternative rate plan request pursuant to division (A)(2) of this section, the commission's order regarding the application, or the portion of the commission's order regarding the plan, is void, and, in the case of the withdrawal of an alternative rate plan, the rates and charges found under section 4929.05 of the Revised Code by the commission to be just and reasonable pursuant to section 4909.15 of the Revised Code shall be effective as of the date the company files final rate schedules containing those rates and charges. (D) If an order concerning an application filed with the commission for an exemption under section 4929.04 of the Revised Code has not been issued within one hundred eighty days after the date of the application's acceptance by the commission, the exemption may be placed into effect subject to the final order of the commission. If an order concerning an application filed with the commission for alternative rate regulation under section 4929.05 of the Revised Code has not been issued within two hundred seventy-five days after the date of the application's acceptance by the commission, the rates and charges and the alternative rate plan proposed in the application may be placed into effect by the natural gas company, subject to refund of amounts collected that exceed those authorized by the commission's final order. If a final order has not been issued within three hundred sixty-five days after the date of the application's filing, the natural gas company shall have no obligation to make a refund of amounts collected after the three hundred sixty-fifth day that exceed those authorized by the commission's final order. The commission may require an undertaking to secure the refund under this division if it finds it is warranted by the financial condition of the company. (E) In no event shall the commission reduce or require the reduction of any rate or charge for a service that is exempt or for which alternative rate regulation has been granted by the commission under section 4929.04 or 4929.05 of the Revised Code, provided that the natural gas company is in substantial compliance with the policy of this state specified in section 4929.02 of the Revised Code. If a reduction of any rate or charge is required by the terms of an alternative rate plan approved under section 4929.05 of the Revised Code, the commission shall require it.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4906.025 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4906 / § 4906.025
§ 4906.025. Ad hoc member confidentiality requirements
Status: in_force

October 11, 2021 Senate Bill 52 - 134th General Assembly No present or former voting ad hoc member of the power siting board shall disclose or use, without appropriate authorization, information acquired in the course of official duties that is confidential because of either of the following: (A) Statutory law; (B) Notice the ad hoc member received designating the information as confidential and both of the following apply: (1) The status of the proceedings, or the circumstances under which the information was received, warrants its confidentiality; (2) Preserving its confidentiality is necessary to the proper conduct of governmental activities. Last updated July 23, 2021 at 4:50 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4929.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4929 / § 4929.03
§ 4929.03. Applicability of other public utility commission provisions
Status: in_force

May 27, 2005 House Bill 175 - 125th General Assembly Except as otherwise provided in section 4929.04 of the Revised Code, only the commodity sales services, distribution services, and ancillary services of a natural gas company are subject to the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission. Chapter 4905. with the exception of section 4905.10 , Chapter 4909., Chapter 4935. with the exception of sections 4935.01 and 4935.03 , and sections 4933.08 , 4933.09 , 4933.11 , 4933.123 , 4933.17 , 4933.28 , and 4933.32 of the Revised Code do not apply to any other service or goods provided by a natural gas company. Nothing in this chapter prevents the commission from exercising its authority under Title XLIX of the Revised Code to protect customers of nonexempt, regulated services or goods from any adverse effects of the provision of unregulated services or goods. Nothing in this chapter affects the authority of the commission to enforce sections 4905.90 to 4905.96 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4981.131 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4981 / § 4981.131
§ 4981.131. Borrowing and bond power not exclusive
Status: in_force

October 20, 1994 House Bill 250 - 120th General Assembly (A) The power and authority provided by this chapter to qualifying subdivisions and local or regional transportation authorities to borrow for permitted loan purposes is in addition and supplemental to, not in derogation of, any other power or authority provided by law for the same or similar purposes, and this chapter provides to qualifying subdivisions or local or regional transportation authorities alternative, not exclusive, means of accomplishing those purposes. (B) Chapter 133. of the Revised Code shall not apply to issuance of bonds by the Ohio rail development commission or to the authorizing, obtaining, or incurring of any general obligation loan or special revenue loan or to its entering into any participation agreement or delivering any such other instrument to the commission in connection therewith, by any qualifying subdivision or local or regional transportation authority, except to the extent, if any, that provisions of Chapter 133. of the Revised Code are expressly made applicable thereto by this chapter or by the bond proceedings applicable to the bonds from the proceeds of which such loan was made. (C) For purposes of division (A) of section 5705.41 of the Revised Code, the authorization by a qualifying subdivision or local or regional transportation authority of a loan from the commission pursuant to section 4981.12 of the Revised Code shall be deemed to be the authorization of a bond issue, and the purpose for which such loan was obtained shall be deemed to be the purpose for which such bonds were issued. For purposes of division (D) of section 5705.41 of the Revised Code, the proceeds to be derived from a loan authorized by a qualifying subdivision or local or regional transportation authority to be obtained pursuant to section 4981.12 of the Revised Code shall be deemed to be proceeds to be derived from authorized bonds. (D) Sections 4981.01 to 4981.26 of the Revised Code shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes described in section 1.11 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4907.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4907 / § 4907.03
§ 4907.03. Regulation of service
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 Senate Bill 361 - 100th General Assembly Regulation of service applicable to railroads shall include: (A) The transportation of passengers and property between points within this state; (B) The receiving, switching, delivering, storing, and handling of such property; (C) All charges connected with divisions (A) and (B) of this section, including icing charges and mileage charges; (D) All railroad companies, sleeping car companies, equipment companies, express companies, car companies, freight and freight-line companies, and all associations of persons, whether incorporated or otherwise, which do business as common carriers, upon or over a line of railroad within this state; (E) A common carrier engaged in the transportation of passengers or property wholly by rail, partly by rail and partly by water, or wholly by water; (F) The regulation of all other duties, services, practices, and charges of the railroad company, incident to the shipping and receiving of freight, which are proper subjects of regulation. Such regulation shall not include or apply to the regulation of commerce with foreign nations, commerce among the several states, and commerce with the Indian tribes.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4939.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4939 / § 4939.01
§ 4939.01. Municipal public way definitions
Status: in_force

August 1, 2018 House Bill 478 - 132nd General Assembly As used in sections 4939.01 to 4939.09 of the Revised Code: (A) "Abandoned" means any small cell facilities or wireless support structures that are unused for a period of three hundred sixty-five days without the operator otherwise notifying the municipal corporation and receiving the municipal corporation's approval. (B) "Antenna" means communications equipment that transmits or receives radio frequency signals in the provision of wireless service. (C) "Cable operator," "cable service," and "franchise" have the same meanings as in the "Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984," 98 Stat. 2779, 47 U.S.C.A. 522. (D) "Collocation" or "collocate" means to install, mount, maintain, modify, operate, or replace wireless facilities on a wireless support structure. (E) "Decorative pole" means a pole, arch, or structure other than a street light pole placed in the public way specifically designed and placed for aesthetic purposes and on which no appurtenances or attachments have been placed except for any of the following: (1) Electric lighting; (2) Specially designed informational or directional signage; (3) Temporary holiday or special event attachments. (F) "Eligible facilities request" has the same meaning as in 47 U.S.C. 1455(a)(2). (G) "Historic district" means a building, property, or site, or group of buildings, properties, or sites that are either of the following: (1) Listed in the national register of historic places or formally determined eligible for listing by the keeper of the national register, the individual who has been delegated the authority by the federal agency to list properties and determine their eligibility for the national register, in accordance with section VI.D.1.a.i-v of the nationwide programmatic agreement codified at 47 C.F.R. part 1, Appendix C; (2) A registered historic district as defined in section 149.311 of the Revised Code. (H) "Micro wireless facility" means a small cell facility that is not more than twenty-four inches in length, fifteen inches in width, and twelve inches in height and that does not have an exterior antenna more than eleven inches in length suspended on cable strung between wireless support structures. (I) "Municipal electric utility" has the same meaning as in section 4928.01 of the Revised Code. (J) "Occupy or use" means, with respect to a public way, to place a tangible thing in a public way for any purpose, including, but not limited to, constructing, repairing, positioning, maintaining, or operating lines, poles, pipes, conduits, ducts, equipment, or other structures, appurtenances, or facilities necessary for the delivery of public utility services or any services provided by a cable operator. (K) "Operator" means a wireless service provider, cable operator, or a video service provider that operates a small cell facility and provides wireless service as defined in division (T) of this section. For the purpose of this chapter, "operator" includes a wireless service provider, cable operator, or a video service provider that provides information services as defined in the "Telecommunications Act of 1996," 110 Stat. 59, 47 U.S.C. 153(20), and services that are fixed in nature or use unlicensed spectrum. (L) "Person" means any natural person, corporation, or partnership and also includes any governmental entity. (M) "Public utility" means a wireless service provider as defined in division (A)(20) of section 4927.01 of the Revised Code or any company described in section 4905.03 of the Revised Code except in divisions (B) and (I) of that section, which company also is a public utility as defined in section 4905.02 of the Revised Code; and includes any electric supplier as defined in section 4933.81 of the Revised Code. (N) "Public way" means the surface of, and the space within, through, on, across, above, or below, any public street, public road, public highway, public freeway, public lane, public path, public alley, public court, public sidewalk, public boulevard, public parkway, public drive, public easement, and any other land dedicated or otherwise designated for a compatible public use, which, on or after July 2, 2002, is owned or controlled by a municipal corporation. "Public way" excludes a private easement. (O) "Public way fee" means a fee levied to recover the costs incurred by a municipal corporation and associated with the occupancy or use of a public way. (P) "Small cell facility" means a wireless facility that meets both of the following requirements: (1) Each antenna is located inside an enclosure of not more than six cubic feet in volume or, in the case of an antenna that has exposed elements, the antenna and all of its exposed elements could fit within an enclosure of not more than six cubic feet in volume. (2) All other wireless equipment associated with the facility is cumulatively not more than twenty-eight cubic feet in volume. The calculation of equipment volume shall not include electric meters, concealment elements, telecommunications demarcation boxes, grounding equipment, power transfer switches, cut-off switches, and vertical cable runs for the connection of power and other services. (Q) "Utility pole" means a structure that is designed for, or used for the purpose of, carrying lines, cables, or wires for electric or telecommunications service. "Utility pole" excludes street signs and decorative poles. (R) "Video service provider" has the same meaning as in section 1332.21 of the Revised Code. (S)(1) "Wireless facility" means equipment at a fixed location that enables wireless communications between user equipment and a communications network, including all of the following: (a) Equipment associated with wireless communications; (b) Radio transceivers, antennas, coaxial or fiber-optic cable, regular and backup power supplies, and comparable equipment, regardless of technological configuration. (2) The term includes small cell facilities. (3) The term does not include any of the following: (a) The structure or improvements on, under, or within which the equipment is collocated; (b) Coaxial or fiber-optic cable that is between wireless support structures or utility poles or that is otherwise not immediately adjacent to or directly associated with a particular antenna. (T) "Wireless service" means any services using licensed or unlicensed wireless spectrum, whether at a fixed location or mobile, provided to the public using wireless facilities. (U) "Wireless service provider" means a person who provides wireless service as defined in division (A)(19) of section 4927.01 of the Revised Code. (V) "Wireless support structure" means a pole, such as a monopole, either guyed or self-supporting, street light pole, traffic signal pole, a fifteen-foot or taller sign pole, or utility pole capable of supporting small cell facilities. As used in this chapter, "wireless support structure" excludes all of the following: (1) A utility pole or other facility owned or operated by a municipal electric utility; (2) A utility pole or other facility used to supply traction power to public transit systems, including railways, trams, streetcars, and trolleybuses. (W) "Wireline backhaul facility" is a facility used for the transport of communications service or any other electronic communications by coaxial, fiber-optic cable, or any other wire. (X) "Work permit" means a permit issued by a municipal corporation that must be obtained in order to perform any work in, on, above, within, over, below, under, or through any part of the public way, including, but not limited to, the act or process of digging, boring, tunneling, trenching, excavating, obstructing, or installing, as well as the act of opening and cutting into the surface of any paved or improved surface that is part of the public way.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4907.40 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4907 / § 4907.40
§ 4907.40. Control over private tracks
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The public utilities commission has the same control over private tracks, so far as such tracks are used by common carriers in connection with a railroad for the transportation of freight, as it has over the tracks of such railroad.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4981.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4981 / § 4981.09
§ 4981.09. Rail development fund
Status: in_force

September 29, 1999 House Bill 283 - 123rd General Assembly There is hereby created in the state treasury the rail development fund. The fund shall consist of such moneys as may be provided by law, including moneys received from the sale, transfer, or lease of any rail property pursuant to section 4981.08 of the Revised Code. Moneys in the fund shall be used for the purpose of acquiring, rehabilitating, or developing rail property or service, or for participation in the acquisition of rail property with the federal government, municipal corporations, townships, counties, or other governmental agencies. For the purpose of acquiring such rail property, the Ohio rail development commission may obtain acquisition loans from the federal government or from any other source. The fund shall also be used to promote, plan, design, construct, operate, and maintain passenger and freight rail transportation systems, and may be used to pay the administrative costs of the Ohio rail development commission associated with conducting any authorized rail program, and for any purpose authorized by sections 4981.03 and 5501.56 of the Revised Code. The fund shall not be used to provide loan guarantees.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4967.25 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4967 / § 4967.25
§ 4967.25. Company selling interest may purchase or condemn land along route
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly If, pursuant to the agreement or to the proceedings provided for in sections 4967.21 to 4967.24 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, either railroad company sells or conveys, or suffers to be sold or conveyed, its interest in the railroad or part thereof so owned in common, such company may acquire by purchase or condemnation such land as it needs to construct, maintain, and operate a railroad along and adjacent to such part of its chartered route as was so sold or conveyed, and it shall have and enjoy all rights and franchises in respect to such newly acquired railroad as were held and enjoyed in respect to the railroad sold or conveyed.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4937.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4937 / § 4937.02
§ 4937.02. Utility radiological safety board
Status: in_force

September 29, 1999 House Bill 283 - 123rd General Assembly (A) There is hereby created the utility radiological safety board composed of the chairperson of the public utilities commission, the director of environmental protection, the director of health, the director of agriculture, the executive director of the emergency management agency, and the director of commerce, or their designees each of whom shall be an employee of the member agency of the board member for whom the person is a designee. The purpose of the board is to develop a comprehensive policy for the state regarding nuclear power safety. The board's objectives shall be to promote safe, reliable, and economical power; establish a memorandum of understanding with the federal nuclear regulatory commission and the state, including agreements with individual state agencies to interact with the commission and the federal emergency management agency; and recommend policies and practices that promote safety, performance, emergency preparedness, and public health standards that are designed to meet the state's needs. (B) The governor shall appoint a chairperson of the board from among the members of the board. The board shall elect one of its members as vice-chairperson, who shall possess, during the absence or disability of the board chairperson, all the powers of the board chairperson. All examinations, studies, or other official proceedings of the board shall be conducted by the board or its designees. The board's authority under this chapter shall not be exercised by any officer, employee, or body other than the board itself, except by express action of the board. (C) The chairperson of the board shall cause to be kept a complete record of all proceedings of the board, and any books, maps, documents, and papers used or produced by the board, and shall perform such other duties as the governor may prescribe. (D) A majority of the board's members constitutes a quorum for the transaction of any business, performance of any duty, or exercise of any power of the board. No vacancy on the board shall impair the right of the remaining board members to exercise all powers of the board. The act of a majority of the board, when in session as a board, is an act of the board. (E) Members of the board and their designees shall not receive compensation from the board, but shall receive all ordinary and necessary expenses incurred in performance of board business, including actual travel expenses. All such expenses shall be paid by the agency of which the individual board member or designee is an officer or employee. (F) The attorney general is the board's legal advisor, but shall designate, subject to the board's approval, one or more of the attorney general's assistants to discharge the duties of board attorney. (G) The board may call to its assistance, temporarily, with the consent of the member agency, any employee of a member agency to conduct studies, examinations, and investigations for the board or prepare any report required or authorized by this chapter. The employee shall receive no compensation, but shall receive all ordinary and necessary expenses incurred in performance of such duties, including actual travel expenses. All such expenses shall be paid by the member agency. (H) The offices of the board shall be located in the offices of the emergency management agency.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4981.26 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4981 / § 4981.26
§ 4981.26. Waiver of other laws
Status: in_force

October 20, 1994 House Bill 250 - 120th General Assembly (A) A project of the Ohio rail development commission shall not be subject to the requirements relating to public buildings, structures, grounds, works, or improvements imposed by section 125.81 , 713.02 , or 713.25 of the Revised Code or any other similar requirements that may be lawfully waived by this section. (B) A project of the commission shall be constructed, reconstructed, enlarged, improved, furnished, or equipped and shall be leased, sold, or otherwise disposed of in the manner determined by the issuer in its sole discretion and any requirement of competitive bidding or other restriction, which may be lawfully waived by this section, imposed on the procedure for award of contracts for such purpose or the lease, sale, or other disposition of property of the issuer is not applicable to any action taken under sections 4981.11 to 4981.26 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4903.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4903 / § 4903.15
§ 4903.15. Orders effective immediately - notice
Status: in_force

October 25, 1961 House Bill 770 - 104th General Assembly Unless a different time is specified therein or by law, every order made by the public utilities commission shall become effective immediately upon entry thereof upon the journal of the public utilities commission. Every order shall be served by United States mail in the manner prescribed by the commission. No utility or railroad shall be found in violation of any order of the commission until notice of said order has been received by an officer of said utility or railroad, or an agent duly designated by said utility or railroad to accept service of said order.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4959.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4959 / § 4959.02
§ 4959.02. Fences
Status: in_force

March 9, 1999 Senate Bill 197 - 122nd General Assembly (A) A company or person having control or management of any railroad except a scenic railway shall construct and maintain in good repair, or otherwise provide for, on each side of the railroad, along the line of the lands of the company owning or operating it, a fence sufficient to turn stock. If, pursuant to section 4907.08 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission determines that the company or person having control or management of the railroad is in violation of this section, the commission may order the company or person to do any of the following: (1) Construct, replace, or repair the fence; (2) Provide the landowner with the required materials to construct, replace, or repair the fence; (3) Pay the cost of the materials required to construct, replace, or repair the fence. When the commission directs the company or person having control or management of the railroad to provide the landowner with the required materials under division (A)(2) of this section or to pay the cost of the required materials under division (A)(3) of this section, the landowner is responsible for the labor necessary to construct, replace, or repair the fence. Any fence constructed, replaced, or repaired under this section shall be the same as or comparable to existing fence on the property. (B) In determining what remedy to order under division (A) of this section, the commission shall consider all of the following: (1) The volume of train traffic; (2) Train types and speed; (3) The cost of fence repair or replacement; (4) The accessibility to the railroad right-of-way through the property; (5) Any other relevant factors. (C) The commission may order an action or remedy under division (A) of this section only if comparable fencing exists along or within the abutting landowner's property boundaries perpendicular or parallel to the railroad's property line. (D) If an owner of land abutting a scenic railway requests the company or person having control or management of the railway to construct and maintain in good repair such a fence along the abutting line of land of the railway, the company or person having control or management of the railway shall do so, and the cost of constructing and maintaining the fence shall be equally shared between the railway and owner of land. (E) As used in this section, "scenic railway" means a railroad operated not for profit and exclusively as a tourist or historical attraction.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4901.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4901 / § 4901.16
§ 4901.16. Penalty for divulging information
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Except in his report to the public utilities commission or when called on to testify in any court or proceeding of the public utilities commission, no employee or agent referred to in section 4905.13 of the Revised Code shall divulge any information acquired by him in respect to the transaction, property, or business of any public utility, while acting or claiming to act as such employee or agent. Whoever violates this section shall be disqualified from acting as agent, or acting in any other capacity under the appointment or employment of the commission.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4907.30 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4907 / § 4907.30
§ 4907.30. Free transportation prohibited - exceptions
Status: in_force

September 13, 2010 Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly No railroad company owning or operating a railroad wholly or partly within this state shall, directly or indirectly, issue or give a free ticket, free pass, or free transportation for passengers, except to: (A) Its employees and their families, its officers, agents, surgeons, physicians, and attorneys at law; (B) Ministers of religion, traveling secretaries of railroad young men's or young women's Christian associations, inmates of hospitals and charitable institutions, and persons exclusively engaged in charitable work; (C) Indigent, destitute, and homeless persons, and to such persons when transported by charitable societies or hospitals, and the necessary agents employed in such transportation; (D) Residents of the national homes or state homes for disabled volunteer soldiers, and residents of veterans' homes, including those about to enter and those returning home after discharge, and boards of managers of such homes; (E) Necessary caretakers of livestock, poultry, and fruit; (F) Employees on sleeping cars or express cars; (G) Line workers of telephone companies; (H) Railway mail service employees, post-office inspectors, custom inspectors, and immigration inspectors; (I) News carriers on trains, baggage agents, witnesses attending any legal investigation in which the railroad is interested, persons injured in wrecks, and physicians and nurses attending such persons. As used in this section, "employee" includes furloughed, pensioned, and superannuated employees, persons who have become disabled or infirm in the service of any such common carrier, the remains of a person killed in the employment of a carrier, and ex-employees traveling for the purpose of entering the service of any such common carrier, and "families" includes the families of such persons and also the surviving spouses and dependent children of employees who died while in the service of any common carrier.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4929.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4929 / § 4929.02
§ 4929.02. Policy of state as to natural gas services and goods
Status: in_force

June 11, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly (A) It is the policy of this state to, throughout this state: (1) Promote the availability to consumers of adequate, reliable, and reasonably priced natural gas services and goods; (2) Promote the availability of unbundled and comparable natural gas services and goods that provide wholesale and retail consumers with the supplier, price, terms, conditions, and quality options they elect to meet their respective needs; (3) Promote diversity of natural gas supplies and suppliers, by giving consumers effective choices over the selection of those supplies and suppliers; (4) Encourage innovation and market access for cost-effective supply- and demand-side natural gas services and goods; (5) Encourage cost-effective and efficient access to information regarding the operation of the distribution systems of natural gas companies in order to promote effective customer choice of natural gas services and goods; (6) Recognize the continuing emergence of competitive natural gas markets through the development and implementation of flexible regulatory treatment; (7) Promote an expeditious transition to the provision of natural gas services and goods in a manner that achieves effective competition and transactions between willing buyers and willing sellers to reduce or eliminate the need for regulation of natural gas services and goods under Chapters 4905. and 4909. of the Revised Code; (8) Promote effective competition in the provision of natural gas services and goods by avoiding subsidies flowing to or from regulated natural gas services and goods; (9) Ensure that the risks and rewards of a natural gas company's offering of nonjurisdictional and exempt services and goods do not affect the rates, prices, terms, or conditions of nonexempt, regulated services and goods of a natural gas company and do not affect the financial capability of a natural gas company to comply with the policy of this state specified in this section; (10) Facilitate the state's competitiveness in the global economy; (11) Facilitate additional choices for the supply of natural gas for residential consumers, including aggregation; (12) Promote an alignment of natural gas company interests with consumer interest in energy efficiency and energy conservation. (B) The public utilities commission and the office of the consumers' counsel shall follow the policy specified in this section in exercising their respective authorities relative to sections 4929.03 to 4929.30 of the Revised Code. (C) Nothing in Chapter 4929. of the Revised Code shall be construed to alter the public utilities commission's construction or application of division (E) of section 4905.03 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.112 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.112
§ 4928.112. Priority to hospitals in case of outage
Status: in_force

September 12, 2014 Senate Bill 310 - 130th General Assembly (A) In the event of an interruption of electric service during a period of emergency or disaster, an electric distribution utility's service restoration plan shall give priority to hospitals that are customers of the electric distribution utility. (B) If requested by a hospital that is its customer, an electric distribution utility shall confer at least biennially with that hospital regarding power quality issues and concerns related to the utility's facilities, including voltage sags, spikes, and harmonic disturbances, in an effort to minimize those events or their impact on the hospital. (C) The public utilities commission shall adopt rules to carry out this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4905.49 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4905 / § 4905.49
§ 4905.49. Acquisition of water-works or sewage disposal system; rate division
Status: in_force

April 5, 2019 House Bill 422 - 132nd General Assembly (A) As used in this section and section 4905.491 of the Revised Code, "rate division" means a separate tariff of a water-works or sewage disposal system company for one or more geographic customer areas. (B) A water-works or sewage disposal system company acquiring a municipal water-works or sewage disposal system company as described in section 4909.052 of the Revised Code shall recommend whether the geographic area of the customers of the company being acquired shall be integrated into an existing rate division of the acquiring company or given a new rate division. If the recommendation is for integration into an existing rate division, the acquiring company shall recommend how the area is to be integrated. (C) The recommendations made under division (B) of this section shall be mutually agreed upon by the two companies.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4981.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4981 / § 4981.12
§ 4981.12. Financing rail service
Status: in_force

October 20, 1994 House Bill 250 - 120th General Assembly (A) The general assembly hereby finds and declares that increasing requirements for rail service for the people of the state and escalating costs of providing such rail service have created inordinate demands upon the financial resources of the state, qualifying subdivisions, private corporations and organizations, and local and regional transportation authorities necessitating legislation to enable the people of the state to attain a more competitive position in capital markets to provide rail service. (B) The general assembly hereby finds and declares further that it is in the public interest and is the responsibility of the state to foster and promote by all lawful means the provision of adequate capital markets and facilities for borrowing money for the financing of rail service and the fulfillment of public purposes, and to make it possible for the commission, qualifying subdivisions, private corporations or organizations, and local or regional transportation authorities to obtain new or additional sources of capital funds at acceptable interest costs, including activities to encourage investor interest in the purchase of bonds, notes or other obligations of the commission, or issued by the commission to fund loans it may make to private corporations or organizations under sections 4981.01 to 4981.26 of the Revised Code, as sound and preferred securities for investments. (C) The general assembly hereby finds and declares further that it is in the public interest and is the responsibility of the state to encourage qualifying subdivisions, local or regional transportation authorities, and other persons to continue their independent undertakings of rail service and fulfillment of public purposes and the financing thereof and to improve or enhance the possibilities of qualifying subdivisions, local or regional transportation authorities, and other persons obtaining funds, to the extent possible, at reduced interest costs, for the orderly financing of rail service projects and fulfillment of public purposes. (D) The general assembly hereby finds and declares further that it is in the public interest, in order to implement and aid in the discharge of these responsibilities, that a state instrumentality, having been created as a public body corporate with full powers to borrow money and issue its bonds, notes, and other obligations to the end that funds obtained thereby may be used or made available to franchisees to provide capital facilities for rail service by the commission or for the purposes of making loans to qualifying subdivisions, local or regional transportation authorities, private corporations or organizations, and other persons for rail service projects, that such state instrumentality be granted all powers necessary or appropriate to accomplish and carry out these essential public purposes and responsibilities of the state in a manner to make it possible to sell bonds and borrow funds at as low an interest rate as the instrumentality finds and determines to be feasible. (E) The general assembly further finds and declares that in accomplishing these purposes, the commission, created and established by this chapter, will be acting in all respects for the benefit of the people of the state to serve the public purposes of improving and otherwise promoting their health, education, welfare, safety, and prosperity, and that the commission may act on behalf of the state and its people in serving the essential public purposes described in this section for the benefit of the general public of the state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4909.38 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4909 / § 4909.38
§ 4909.38. Complaint, appeal, or notification requirements
Status: in_force

September 28, 1979 House Bill 156 - 113th General Assembly A complaint or appeal to the public utilities commission under division (A) of section 4909.34 or section 4909.35 of the Revised Code, shall meet the requirements of and shall be governed in all respects by sections 4909.17 to 4909.19 and 4909.42 of the Revised Code. Upon notification by a public utility pursuant to division (B) of section 4909.34 of the Revised Code that it does not accept an ordinance or ordinances, its pending application shall be governed in all respects by sections 4909.17 to 4909.19 and 4909.42 of the Revised Code. Such complaint, appeal, or notification to the commission shall suspend, vacate, and set aside all provisions of the ordinance or ordinances complained of, appealed from, or not accepted.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4903.24 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4903 / § 4903.24
§ 4903.24. Costs and expenses of investigation
Status: in_force

June 26, 2003 House Bill 95 - 125th General Assembly If the public utilities commission finds after investigating that any rate, joint rate, fare, charge, toll, rental, schedule, or classification of service is unjust, unreasonable, insufficient, unjustly discriminatory, unjustly preferential, or in violation of law, or that any service is inadequate or cannot be obtained, the public utility found to be at fault shall pay the expenses incurred by the commission upon such investigation. All fees, expenses, and costs of, or in connection with, any hearing or investigation may be imposed by the commission upon any party to the record or may be divided among any parties to the record in such proportion as the commission determines. All fees, expenses, and costs authorized and collected under this section shall be deposited to the credit of the special assessment fund, which is hereby created in the state treasury. Money in the fund shall be used by the commission for the purpose of covering the costs of any investigations or hearings it orders regarding any public utility.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4955.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4955 / § 4955.09
§ 4955.09. Obstructing the laying of a track
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly No person or corporation shall willfully interfere with or obstruct any company engaged in laying the track of its railroad across any other railroad, if such company has fully complied with the law and obtained the right to so lay its track. No person or corporation shall obstruct the full operation of any railroad so constructed. A person or corporation which violates this section, for each day of such interference or obstruction, shall pay one thousand dollars, to be recovered by action in the name of the state. Half such recovery shall go to the company so interfered with, and half to the county in which the interference occurs. Such person or corporation is also liable for damages to the party injured.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4907.55 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4907 / § 4907.55
§ 4907.55. Crossing without stopping
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly When interlocking works or other fixtures are constructed and maintained in compliance with law by railroads and electric railways where railroads referred to in section 4907.54 of the Revised Code cross each other, engines, trains, or cars of an electric railway may be run over such crossing without stopping.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.237 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.237
§ 4928.237. Public utilities commission - prohibited acts
Status: in_force

March 22, 2012 House Bill 364 - 129th General Assembly (A) The public utilities commission, in exercising the commission's powers and carrying out the commission's duties regarding regulation and ratemaking, may not do any of the following: (1) Consider phase-in-recovery bonds issued under a final financing order to be the debt of the electric distribution utility subject to the final financing order; (2) Consider the phase-in-recovery charges imposed, charged, or collected under the final financing order to be revenue of the electric distribution utility; (3) Consider the phase-in costs or financing costs authorized under the final financing order to be the costs of the electric distribution utility. (B) The commission may not order or otherwise require, directly or indirectly, any electric distribution utility to use phase-in-recovery bonds to finance the recovery of phase-in costs. (C) The commission may not refuse to allow the recovery of phase-in costs solely because the electric distribution utility has elected or may elect to finance those costs through a financing mechanism other than the issuance of phase-in-recovery bonds. If the electric distribution utility elects not to finance those costs through the issuance of phase-in-recovery bonds as authorized in the final financing order, those costs shall be recovered as authorized by the commission prior to the application for the financing order.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4939.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4939 / § 4939.04
§ 4939.04. Management, regulation, and administration of public ways by municipal corporations
Status: in_force

July 2, 2002 Senate Bill 255 - 124th General Assembly (A)(1) A municipal corporation shall provide public utilities or cable operators with open, comparable, nondiscriminatory, and competitively neutral access to its public ways. (2) Nothing in division (A)(1) of this section prohibits a municipal corporation from establishing priorities for access to or occupancy or use of a public way by a public utility or cable operator when the public way cannot accommodate all public way occupants or users, which priorities as applied to public utilities or cable operators shall not be unduly discriminatory and shall be competitively neutral. (B) The management, regulation, and administration of a public way by a municipal corporation with regard to matters of local concern shall be presumed to be a valid exercise of the power of local self-government granted by Section 3 of Article XVIII of the Ohio Constitution.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4907.475 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4907 / § 4907.475
§ 4907.475. Closing rural crossings
Status: in_force

July 1, 1993 House Bill 152 - 120th General Assembly (A) If the public utilities commission finds that there is not a demonstrable need for the crossing to exist according to the factors listed in divisions (A)(1) to (9) of section 4907.474 of the Revised Code and that the crossing could be closed to vehicular traffic, or to pedestrian traffic, or to both, and the travel over the crossing diverted to other crossings, and if the crossing is on a road or highway other than a state highway and is outside the limits of a municipal corporation, the commission shall hold a public hearing on the issue of the possible closing of the crossing to vehicular traffic, or to pedestrian traffic, or both, and invite comments on the closing and the effects the closing would have on the traffic and pedestrian travel patterns within the county. The commission also shall hold such a hearing upon application of the county within which a crossing is located, or upon application of the railroad having jurisdiction over a crossing, if the county or railroad believes that there is not a demonstrable need for the crossing to exist and that the crossing should be closed to the public. Any such application filed by a county or railroad shall be on a form provided by the commission. Notice of the hearing shall be published once a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the crossing at issue is located. The hearing shall be held at a location within the boundaries of the county. If, after the hearing, it is the opinion of the commission that there is not a demonstrable need for the crossing to exist according to the factors listed in divisions (A)(1) to (9) of section 4907.474 of the Revised Code and that the crossing should be closed, the commission shall issue an order to the board of county commissioners of the county in which such crossing is located directing it to discontinue the crossing and to close it to vehicular traffic, or to pedestrian traffic, or to both, by resolution as provided by sections 5553.01 to 5553.07 of the Revised Code. The board, within thirty days after receipt of the order from the commission, shall discontinue the crossing and close it to vehicular traffic, or to pedestrian traffic, or both, as specified in the order of the commission. (B) The board or railroad may file an application with the commission for a rehearing of the commission's order issued under division (A) of this section. Any application for a rehearing of an order issued by the commission under this section shall be filed in accordance with and meet the requirements contained in section 4903.10 of the Revised Code, and any rehearing held by the commission shall be conducted in accordance with that section. The county or railroad may appeal the order of the commission, as affirmed or modified by the commission after the rehearing, to the supreme court. (C) The commission shall assess the costs, as determined by the commission, of the closure of a crossing under this section against the railroad having jurisdiction over the crossing. If a county or railroad applies for closure of a crossing under division (A) of this section, the commission may assess the costs of any investigation conducted under this section to make the determination required by division (A) of section 4907.474 of the Revised Code against the county or railroad that applies for the closure.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4906.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4906 / § 4906.11
§ 4906.11. Opinion stating reason for decision
Status: in_force

November 15, 1981 House Bill 694 - 114th General Assembly In rendering a decision on an application for a certificate, the power siting board shall issue an opinion stating its reasons for the action taken.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4963.41 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4963 / § 4963.41
§ 4963.41. Duty of the public utilities commission
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The public utilities commission shall enforce section 4963.40 of the Revised Code, and for that purpose shall have power to cause the removal of such telegraph, telephone, electric light, power, or other electric wires of any kind crossing or paralleling such other line and not in accordance with the rules, regulations, and specifications issued by it.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4927.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4927 / § 4927.02
§ 4927.02. State policy
Status: in_force

March 20, 2019 House Bill 402 - 132nd General Assembly (A) It is the policy of this state to: (1) Ensure the adequacy and reliability of basic local exchange service consistent with sections 4927.07 , 4927.10 , and 4927.11 of the Revised Code, and the adequacy and reliability of voice service throughout the state; (2) Provide incentives for competing providers of telecommunications service to provide advanced, high-quality telecommunications service to citizens throughout the state; (3) Rely primarily on market forces, where they exist, to maintain reasonable service levels for telecommunications services at reasonable rates; (4) Encourage innovation in the telecommunications industry and the deployment of advanced telecommunications services; (5) Create a regulatory climate that provides incentives to create and maintain high technology jobs for Ohioans; (6) Promote diversity and options in the supply of telecommunications services and equipment throughout the state; (7) Recognize the continuing emergence of a competitive telecommunications environment through flexible regulatory treatment of telecommunications services where appropriate; (8) Consider the regulatory treatment of competing and functionally equivalent services and, to the extent practicable, provide for equivalent regulation of all telephone companies and services; (9) Not unduly favor or advantage any provider and not unduly disadvantage providers of competing and functionally equivalent services; (10) Protect the affordability of telephone service for low-income subscribers through the continuation of federal lifeline assistance programs ; and (11) Allow and encourage competition and market forces to determine the availability, prices, terms, and other conditions of providing telecommunications services. (B) The public utilities commission shall consider the policy set forth in this section in carrying out this chapter.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.21
§ 4928.21. Do not aggregate list - registration - removal of current enrollee
Status: in_force

July 4, 2006 House Bill 85 - 126th General Assembly (A) A customer that desires to remove itself from the pool of customers eligible to participate in governmental aggregation under section 4928.20 of the Revised Code may register with the public utilities commission to appear on the "do not aggregate" list. (B) The commission, by rule, shall establish a "do not aggregate" list. The commission shall maintain the "do not aggregate" list and make it publicly available on the commission's web site. (C) If a customer is enrolled in a governmental aggregation program at the time the customer first appears on the "do not aggregate" list, the governmental aggregator shall remove the customer from the program at the next two-year opt out opportunity that is available to the customer under division (D) of section 4928.20 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4981.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4981 / § 4981.21
§ 4981.21. Special assessment installments
Status: in_force

October 20, 1994 House Bill 250 - 120th General Assembly When a special assessment is made on real property owned by the Ohio rail development commission and leased under authority of sections 4981.11 to 4981.26 of the Revised Code, the installments of the assessment shall be paid by the lessee of such real property so long as such property is leased and any installment thereof remaining unpaid at the termination of any such lease shall thereafter be paid by the issuer so long as such property is owned by it.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4903.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4903 / § 4903.10
§ 4903.10. Application for rehearing
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly After any order has been made by the public utilities commission, any party who has entered an appearance in person or by counsel in the proceeding may apply for a rehearing in respect to any matters determined in the proceeding. Such application shall be filed within thirty days after the entry of the order upon the journal of the commission. Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, in any uncontested proceeding or, by leave of the commission first had in any other proceeding, any affected person, firm, or corporation may make an application for a rehearing within thirty days after the entry of any final order upon the journal of the commission. Leave to file an application for rehearing shall not be granted to any person, firm, or corporation who did not enter an appearance in the proceeding unless the commission first finds: (A) The applicant's failure to enter an appearance prior to the entry upon the journal of the commission of the order complained of was due to just cause; and, (B) The interests of the applicant were not adequately considered in the proceeding. Every applicant for rehearing or for leave to file an application for rehearing shall give due notice of the filing of such application to all parties who have entered an appearance in the proceeding in the manner and form prescribed by the commission. Such application shall be in writing and shall set forth specifically the ground or grounds on which the applicant considers the order to be unreasonable or unlawful. No party shall in any court urge or rely on any ground for reversal, vacation, or modification not so set forth in the application. Where such application for rehearing has been filed before the effective date of the order as to which a rehearing is sought, the effective date of such order, unless otherwise ordered by the commission, shall be postponed or stayed pending disposition of the matter by the commission or by operation of law. In all other cases the making of such an application shall not excuse any person from complying with the order, or operate to stay or postpone the enforcement thereof, without a special order of the commission. Where such application for rehearing has been filed, the commission may grant and hold such rehearing on the matter specified in such application, if in its judgment sufficient reason therefor is made to appear. Notice of such rehearing shall be given by regular mail to all parties who have entered an appearance in the proceeding. If the commission does not grant or deny such application for rehearing within thirty days from the date of filing thereof, it is denied by operation of law. If the commission grants such rehearing, it shall specify in the notice of such granting the purpose for which it is granted. The commission shall also specify the scope of the additional evidence, if any, that will be taken, but it shall not upon such rehearing take any evidence that, with reasonable diligence, could have been offered upon the original hearing. If, after such rehearing, the commission is of the opinion that the original order or any part thereof is in any respect unjust or unwarranted, or should be changed, the commission may abrogate or modify the same; otherwise such order shall be affirmed. An order made after such rehearing, abrogating or modifying the original order, shall have the same effect as an original order, but shall not affect any right or the enforcement of any right arising from or by virtue of the original order prior to the receipt of notice by the affected party of the filing of the application for rehearing. If the commission does not affirm, abrogate, or modify the original order within ninety days from the date granting such rehearing, the order is affirmed by operation of law. No cause of action arising out of any order of the commission, other than in support of the order, shall accrue in any court to any person, firm, or corporation unless such person, firm, or corporation has made a proper application to the commission for a rehearing. Last updated August 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4971.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4971 / § 4971.16
§ 4971.16. Rights of creditors who do not sign agreement
Status: in_force

October 12, 2016 House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly As used in this section, "incompetent person" means a person who is so mentally impaired, as a result of a mental or physical illness or disability, as a result of an intellectual disability, or as a result of chronic substance abuse, that the person is incapable of taking proper care of the person's self or property or fails to provide for the person's family or other persons for whom the person is charged by law to provide. Persons in interest who fail to become parties to the agreement within the four-month period referred to in section 4971.14 of the Revised Code are entitled to the same rights, interest, estate, remedy, liens, and action, and none other, which parties in interest of like class and amount who signed the agreement obtained by and under it. If a person in interest fails for six years after the publication of the notice mentioned in such section to apply at the principal office of the company, either in person or by proxy, to become a party in interest in the agreement, such person, unless an infant or incompetent person, shall be barred of all interest, claim, right, or action under the agreement or otherwise. In case of such disability such rights shall be extended for two years after the termination of the disability.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4935.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4935 / § 4935.02
§ 4935.02. Collection, verification, and analysis of energy data, statistics, and information
Status: in_force

October 17, 1985 House Bill 381 - 116th General Assembly The public utilities commission shall develop and maintain an effective program for the collection, verification, and analysis of energy data, statistics, and information. The program shall be developed and implemented so as to be coordinated and consistent with other governmental data collection and record keeping programs. Internal validation procedures shall be established to ensure to the extent practicable the accuracy of information received. The commission shall utilize to the fullest extent possible any existing energy information already prepared for state or federal agencies. Every state, county, township, and municipal agency shall cooperate with the commission and shall submit any information on energy to it upon request.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4959.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4959 / § 4959.01
§ 4959.01. Waterways must be provided
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Except where the roadbed of a railroad extends through or by swampland, the company or person operating the railroad shall make and keep open ditches or drains along such roadbed of depth, width, and grade sufficient to conduct water accumulating at the sides of the roadbed from the building or operation of the railroad to some proper outlet.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4905.311 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4905 / § 4905.311
§ 4905.311. Behind the meter electric generation service regulation
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "electric distribution utility" has the same meaning as in section 4928.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary, an electric distribution utility may supply behind the meter electric generation service, provided that an application for any behind the meter electric generation facilities that the utility intends to use to supply such service was filed with the public utilities commission under section 4928.47 of the Revised Code, as that section existed prior to its repeal by H.B. 15 of the 136th General Assembly, no later than March 31, 2025. (C) No electric distribution utility shall recover any of the following costs through any rate, charge, or recovery from retail electric service customers that are not receiving behind the meter electric generation service from the utility: (1) Costs associated with supplying behind the meter electric generation service; (2) Costs associated with any behind the meter electric generation service facility; (3) Stranded costs associated with the closing of any behind the meter electric generation service facility or an end-use customer of the behind the meter electric generation service ceasing operations. (D) No electric distribution utility shall offer direct, associated inducements for contracting with the utility for any behind the meter electric generation service. (E) The public utilities commission shall periodically audit all electric distribution utilities that provide any behind the meter electric generation service to ensure compliance with this section. Last updated August 14, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4913.45 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4913 / § 4913.45
§ 4913.45. Rules to carry out chapter
Status: in_force

March 23, 2015 Senate Bill 378 - 130th General Assembly (A) The public utilities commission shall, in consultation with the underground technical committee, adopt rules under section 111.15 of the Revised Code to carry out this chapter. The rules shall include all of the following: (1) Guidelines for consistent application of fines and penalties under this chapter; (2) Tracking compliance of persons on whom fines or penalties have been imposed under this chapter; (3) The required contents of the underground utility damage prevention grant program established under section 4913.31 of the Revised Code; (4) The gathering, review, and acceptance of applications for a grant under section 4913.31 of the Revised Code; (5) The dispensation and tracking of money from the underground facilities protection fund; (6) The committee's duties, including rules that establish the committee's operation, meeting schedule, and voting procedures; (7) The contents of the annual report required under section 4913.43 of the Revised Code; (8) The process related to collecting the registration under section 4913.03 of the Revised Code. (B) The commission may adopt rules establishing the following: (1) Procedures for conducting inquiries under section 4913.09 of the Revised Code; (2) Any other duties for the underground technical committee pursuant to section 3781.36 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4955.321 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4955 / § 4955.321
§ 4955.321. Alternative audible warning system
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly The public utilities commission may evaluate alternative systems for providing an audible warning of an approaching locomotive. The commission may approve the use of an audible warning system as an alternative to the horn sounding required under division (B)(1) of section 4955.32 of the Revised Code only if it determines that the alternative audible warning system complies with applicable federal requirements for an audible warning of an approaching train and only if train-activated warning devices also are present at any public highway or grade crossing at which the alternative audible warning system is installed. The commission shall establish guidelines for the use and operation of any alternative audible warning system it approves.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4973.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4973 / § 4973.11
§ 4973.11. Hours of service of certain railroad employees
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly No company operating a railroad over thirty miles in length or an interurban railroad or street railway over four miles in length shall permit a conductor, engineer, fireman, brakeman, or trainman on a train, a telegraph operator, or a conductor or motorman on a street railway, who has worked as such for fifteen consecutive hours, again to go on duty or perform work until he has had at least eight hours' rest, except in cases of detention of trains or cars caused by accident, unavoidable or otherwise. Such companies shall so regulate the hours of employment of their employees that each employee shall have at least eight consecutive hours of rest in each period of twenty-four hours. A railroad company which knowingly violates this section shall forfeit not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars for the first offense, and for any subsequent offense, not less than one thousand nor more than fifteen hundred dollars, to be recovered by civil action in the name of the state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4905.42 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4905 / § 4905.42
§ 4905.42. Hearings on issuance of stocks, bonds, and notes
Status: in_force

September 13, 2010 Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly To determine whether it should issue the order referred to in section 4905.40 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission shall hold such hearings, make such inquiries or investigations, and examine such witnesses, books, papers, documents, and contracts as it deems proper. An order issued under this section shall fix the amount, character, and terms of any issue of stocks, bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness, and the purposes to which the issue or any proceeds of it shall be applied, shall recite that the money, property, consideration, or labor procured or to be procured or paid for by such issue was or is reasonably required for the purposes specified in the order, and shall recite the value of any property, consideration, or service, as found by the commission, for which in whole or in part such issue is proposed to be made. No public utility or railroad shall, without the consent of the commission, apply any such issue or its proceeds to any purpose not specified in the order. Such public utilities or railroads may issue notes for proper corporate purposes, payable at periods of not more than twelve months, without the consent of the commission, but no such notes shall, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, be refunded by any issue of stocks or bonds, or by any evidence of indebtedness, running for more than twelve months, without the consent of the commission. All stocks, bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness issued by any public utility or railroad without the permission of the commission are void. No interstate railroad or public utility shall be required to apply to the commission for authority to issue stocks, bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness for the acquisition of property, the construction, completion, extension, or improvement of its facilities, or the improvement or maintenance of its service outside this state, or for authority for the discharge or refunding of obligations issued or incurred for such purposes or the reimbursement of moneys actually expended for such purposes outside this state. No pipe-line company when engaged in the business of transporting oil through pipes or tubing, either wholly or partly within this state, shall be required to apply to the commission for authority to issue stocks, bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness for the purpose of acquiring or paying for stocks, bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness of any other corporation organized under the laws of this state, any other state, the District of Columbia, the United States, any territory of the United States, any foreign country, or otherwise. No company that is both a pipe-line company engaged as such in the business of transporting natural gas through pipes or tubing in interstate commerce, wholly or partly within this state, and a natural gas company engaged as such in this state solely in the business of supplying natural gas to gas companies or to natural gas companies shall be required to apply to the commission for authority to issue stocks, bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness. This section does not apply to a telephone company.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.17 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.17
§ 4928.17. Corporate separation plans
Status: in_force

August 14, 2025 House Bill 15 - 136th General Assembly (A) Except as otherwise provided in sections 4928.141 or 4928.142 or 4928.31 to 4928.40 of the Revised Code, no electric utility shall engage in this state, either directly or through an affiliate, in the businesses of supplying a noncompetitive retail electric service and supplying a product or service other than retail electric service, unless the utility implements and operates under a corporate separation plan that is approved by the public utilities commission under this section, is consistent with the policy specified in section 4928.02 of the Revised Code, and achieves all of the following: (1) The plan provides, at minimum, for the provision of the nonelectric product or service through a fully separated affiliate of the utility, and the plan includes separate accounting requirements, the code of conduct as ordered by the commission pursuant to a rule it shall adopt under division (A) of section 4928.06 of the Revised Code, and such other measures as are necessary to effectuate the policy specified in section 4928.02 of the Revised Code. (2) The plan satisfies the public interest in preventing the abuse of market power. (3) The plan is sufficient to ensure that the utility will not extend any undue preference or advantage to any affiliate, division, or part of its own business engaged in the business of supplying the nonelectric product or service, including, but not limited to, utility resources such as trucks, tools, office equipment, office space, supplies, customer and marketing information, advertising, billing and mailing systems, personnel, and training, without compensation based upon fully loaded embedded costs charged to the affiliate; and to ensure that any such affiliate, division, or part will not receive undue preference or advantage from any affiliate, division, or part of the business engaged in business of supplying the noncompetitive retail electric service. No such utility, affiliate, division, or part shall extend such undue preference. (B) The commission may approve, modify and approve, or disapprove a corporate separation plan filed with the commission under division (A) of this section. As part of the code of conduct required under division (A)(1) of this section, the commission shall adopt rules pursuant to division (A) of section 4928.06 of the Revised Code regarding corporate separation and procedures for plan filing and approval. The rules shall include limitations on affiliate practices solely for the purpose of maintaining a separation of the affiliate's business from the business of the utility to prevent abuse of market power by virtue of that relationship. The rules also shall include an opportunity for any person having a real and substantial interest in the corporate separation plan to file specific objections to the plan and propose specific responses to issues raised in the objections, which objections and responses the commission shall address in its final order. Prior to commission approval of the plan, the commission shall afford a hearing upon those aspects of the plan that the commission determines reasonably require a hearing. The commission may reject and require refiling of a substantially inadequate plan under this section. (C) The commission shall issue an order approving or modifying and approving a corporate separation plan under this section, to be effective on the date specified in the order, only upon findings that the plan reasonably complies with the requirements of division (A) of this section and will provide for ongoing compliance with the policy specified in section 4928.02 of the Revised Code. However, for good cause shown, the commission may issue an order approving or modifying and approving a corporate separation plan under this section that does not comply with division (A)(1) of this section but complies with such functional separation requirements as the commission authorizes to apply for an interim period prescribed in the order, upon a finding that such alternative plan will provide for ongoing compliance with the policy specified in section 4928.02 of the Revised Code. (D) Any party may seek an amendment to a corporate separation plan approved under this section, and the commission, pursuant to a request from any party or on its own initiative, may order as it considers necessary the filing of an amended corporate separation plan to reflect changed circumstances. Last updated May 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4905.401 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4905 / § 4905.401
§ 4905.401. Issuing notes or other evidences of indebtedness
Status: in_force

July 1, 1996 Senate Bill 2 - 121st General Assembly A public utility which is an electric light company may, when authorized by an order of the public utilities commission and not otherwise, issue notes, or other evidences of indebtedness payable at periods of not more than twelve months. This section shall not apply to: (A) The issue, renewal, or assumption of liability or notes, and other evidences of indebtedness maturing not more than twelve months after the date of such issue, renewal, or assumption of liability, and aggregating (together with all other then outstanding notes, and other evidences of indebtedness of a maturity of twelve months or less on which such electric light company is primarily or secondarily liable) not more than five per cent of the par value of the other stocks, bonds, notes, and other evidences of indebtedness of such electric light company then outstanding; (B) The issue, renewal, or assumption of liability on such notes, or other evidences of indebtedness which have been, or are the subject of an order of the securities and exchange commission under the "Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935," 49 Stat. 838, 15 U.S.C. 79, as amended. In the case of stocks, bonds, notes, and other evidences of indebtedness having no par value, the "par value" for the purpose of this section shall be the fair market value as of the date of issue. Sections 4905.40 to 4905.43 of the Revised Code, shall be applicable to notes, and other evidences of indebtedness issued under this section, except the provision of section 4905.42 of the Revised Code exempting from the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission the issuance of notes of public utilities payable at periods of not more than twelve months insofar as such provision is applicable to electric light companies.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4906.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4906 / § 4906.08
§ 4906.08. Parties - testimony
Status: in_force

April 7, 2004 House Bill 133 - 125th General Assembly (A) The parties to a certification proceeding shall include: (1) The applicant; (2) Each person entitled to receive service of a copy of the application under division (B) of section 4906.06 of the Revised Code, if the person has filed with the power siting board a notice of intervention as a party, within thirty days after the date the person was served with a copy of the application; (3) Any person residing in a municipal corporation or county entitled to receive service of a copy of the application under division (B) of section 4906.06 of the Revised Code and any other person, if the person has petitioned the board for leave to intervene as a party within thirty days after the date of publication of the notice required by division (C) of section 4906.06 of the Revised Code, and if that petition has been granted by the board for good cause shown. (B) The board, in extraordinary circumstances for good cause shown, may grant a petition, for leave to intervene as a party to participate in subsequent phases of the proceeding, that is filed by a person identified in division (A)(2) or (3) of this section that failed to file a timely notice of intervention or petition for leave to intervene, as the case may be. (C) The board shall accept written or oral testimony from any person at the public hearing, but the right to call and examine witnesses shall be reserved for parties. However, the board may adopt rules to exclude repetitive, immaterial, or irrelevant testimony.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4927.20 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4927 / § 4927.20
§ 4927.20. Compliance with commission's directives
Status: in_force

September 13, 2010 Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly To the extent subject to the public utilities commission's jurisdiction under this chapter, all of the following shall comply with every order, direction, and requirement of the commission made under authority of this chapter: (A) Every telephone company, including every wireless service provider; (B) Every telecommunications carrier; (C) Every provider of internet protocol-enabled services, including voice over internet protocol.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4905.33 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4905 / § 4905.33
§ 4905.33. Rebates, special rates, and free service prohibited
Status: in_force

January 1, 2001 Senate Bill 3 - 123rd General Assembly (A) No public utility shall directly or indirectly, or by any special rate, rebate, drawback, or other device or method, charge, demand, collect, or receive from any person, firm, or corporation a greater or lesser compensation for any services rendered, or to be rendered, except as provided in Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., and 4923. of the Revised Code, than it charges, demands, collects, or receives from any other person, firm, or corporation for doing a like and contemporaneous service under substantially the same circumstances and conditions. (B) No public utility shall furnish free service or service for less than actual cost for the purpose of destroying competition.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4933.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4933 / § 4933.99
§ 4933.99. Penalty
Status: in_force

July 1, 1996 Senate Bill 2 - 121st General Assembly (A) Whoever violates section 4933.16 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. (B) Whoever violates section 4933.20 , 4933.22 , 4933.24 , or 4933.25 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. (C) Whoever violates section 4933.21 or 4933.23 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. (D) Whoever violates division (E) of section 4933.28 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. Each day of a violation of that division constitutes a separate offense. Disclaimer Contact About