Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.60 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.60
§ 6101.60. Enforcement of conservancy district liens
Status: in_force

September 21, 2000 House Bill 617 - 123rd General Assembly The auditor's conservancy assessment record is prima-facie evidence in all courts of all matters contained in it. The liens established and declared in section 6101.59 of the Revised Code may be enforced at the option of the board of directors of the conservancy district by an action on delinquent assessment bills, made and certified by the county auditor, which action shall be instituted in the court of common pleas, without regard to the amount of the claim, within six months after the thirty-first day of December of the year for which the assessments were levied. The action shall be brought in the corporate name of the district by its attorney against the land, property, or public corporation on which the assessment has not been paid. In the event of any default in the payment of the interest or principal of any bonds or notes issued pursuant to this chapter, and if the district or its proper officers fail to enforce the payment of any unpaid assessment, the holder of the bonds or notes may, for self and for the benefit of all others similarly situated, enforce the liens by action against the land, property, or public corporation on which the assessment has not been paid and against the district. The court shall have full power, jurisdiction, and authority to apply the assessment when collected in the payment of the interest or principal upon the bonds or notes as justice and equity require. The action shall be brought in the county in which the property or public corporation is located, except when the tract or property sued upon is in more than one county, in which case the action may be brought on the whole tract, parcel, or property, in any county in which any portion of it is located. The pleadings, process, proceedings, practice, and sales in cases arising under this chapter, except as provided in this chapter, shall be the same as in an action for the enforcement of the state's lien for delinquent general taxes upon real estate. All sales of lands made under this section shall be by the sheriff as provided by law. All sheriff's deeds executed and delivered pursuant to this chapter shall have the same probative force as other deeds executed by a sheriff. Abbreviations shall not defeat the action. The title acquired through any sale of lands or other property under such proceedings shall be subject to the lien of all subsequent annual installments of an assessment. In all actions for the collection of delinquent assessments, the judgment for the delinquent assessments and penalty and interest shall also include all costs of suit and a reasonable attorney's fee to be fixed by the court, recoverable the same as the delinquent tax and in the same action. The proceeds of sales made under and by virtue of this chapter shall be paid at once to the county treasurer and shall be properly credited and accounted for by the treasurer the same as other assessments. If any assessment made pursuant to this chapter is invalid, the board, by subsequent or amended acts or proceedings, shall promptly remedy all defects or irregularities as the case requires by making and providing for the collection of new assessments or otherwise.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6109.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6109 / § 6109.02
§ 6109.02. Public water system exemptions
Status: in_force

October 6, 2017 Senate Bill 2 - 132nd General Assembly Except for section 6109.05 of the Revised Code, Chapter 6109. of the Revised Code does not apply to a public water system which meets all the following conditions: (A) Consists only of distribution and storage facilities and does not have any collection and treatment facilities; (B) Obtains all of its water from, but is not owned or operated by, a public water system; (C) Does not sell water to any person, as determined by the director of environmental protection; (D) Is not a carrier which conveys passengers in interstate commerce.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.53 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.53
§ 6101.53. Conservancy maintenance assessment
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly To maintain, operate, and preserve the reservoirs, ditches, drains, dams, levies, canals, sewers, pumping stations, treatment and disposal works, or other properties or improvements acquired or made pursuant to this chapter, to strengthen, repair, and restore the same, when needed, and to defray the current expenses of the conservancy district, the board of directors of the district may, upon the substantial completion of the improvements and on or before the thirtieth day of September in each year thereafter, levy an assessment upon each tract or parcel of land and upon each public corporation within the district, subject to assessments under this chapter, to be known as a conservancy maintenance assessment. No assessment shall be made with respect to works and improvements acquired or constructed for the purpose of providing a water supply for domestic, industrial, and public use within the district, when the water supply can be metered or measured when furnished to persons or public corporations. If the district, for the benefit of one or more persons or political subdivisions, provides a water supply that recharges underground aquifers and thereby replenishes wells or provides a source of water for new wells, or increases the natural low flow of a stream used for water supply, or creates an impoundment, in such a way that the augmented use of water cannot be metered or measured for individual or public consumption, the board may make a maintenance assessment against benefited property and public corporations in the same manner provided in this section for maintenance of other properties or improvements. The maintenance assessment shall be apportioned upon the basis of the total appraisal of benefits accruing for original and subsequent construction, shall not exceed one per cent of the total appraisal of benefits in any one year unless the court by its order authorizes an assessment of a larger percentage, and shall be certified to the county auditor of each county in which lands of the district are located in the conservancy assessment record but in a separate column in like manner and at the same time as the annual installment of the assessment levied under section 6101.48 of the Revised Code is certified, under the heading maintenance assessment. The auditor shall certify the same to the county treasurer of the county at the same time that the auditor certifies the annual installment of the assessments levied under that section, and the sum of the levies for any tract or public corporation may be certified as a single item. The treasurer shall demand and collect the maintenance assessment and make return of it, and shall be liable for the same penalties for failure to do so as are provided for the annual installment of the assessment levied under section 6101.48 of the Revised Code. The amount of the maintenance assessment paid by any parcel of land or public corporation shall not be credited against the benefits assessed against the parcel of land or public corporation, but the maintenance assessment shall be in addition to any assessment that has been or can be levied under section 6101.48 of the Revised Code. To maintain, operate, and preserve the works and improvements of the district acquired or constructed for the purpose of providing a water supply, to strengthen, repair, and restore the same, and to defray the current expenses of the district for this purpose, the board may impose rates for the sale of water to public corporations and persons within the district. The rates to be charged for the water shall be fixed and adjusted by the board at intervals of not less than one year, so that the income thus produced will be adequate to provide a maintenance fund for the purpose of water supply. Contracts for supplying water to public corporations and persons shall be entered into before the service is rendered by the district. Contracts shall specify the maximum quantity of water to be furnished to the public corporation or person, and the quantity shall be fixed so as equitably to distribute the supply. Preference shall be given to water supply furnished to public corporations for domestic and public uses. Bills for water supplied to public corporations shall be rendered at regular intervals and shall be payable from the waterworks fund of the public corporation or, if it is not sufficient, from the general fund. For tax years 2020 to 2024, qualifying real property, as defined in section 727.031 of the Revised Code, is exempt from special assessments levied under this section, provided no delinquent special assessments and related interest and penalties are levied or assessed against any property owned by the owner and operator of the qualifying real property for that tax year. Last updated August 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.63 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.63
§ 6101.63. Additional rate for water
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly In addition to the uniform rates for water provided for by sections 6101.24 and 6101.53 of the Revised Code, the board of directors of a conservancy district, for the purpose of providing funds for bond retirement and interest, and thus accomplishing reduction in the amount to be collected through annual levy, may charge an additional rate for water furnished by the district to a public corporation or person within the district. The aggregate amount collected through such additional rate from any public corporation or person during each successive five year period shall not exceed ninety per cent of the total amount of annual levies which would be collectible from such public corporation or person during such period without such additional rate. Before such additional rate to a public corporation may be established, the governing body or other legislative authority thereof shall pass a resolution and shall certify a copy thereof to the board. Such resolution shall determine that an additional rate for water furnished to such public corporation by the district should be established for the purpose of accomplishing reduction of the amount payable by such public corporation through assessment or annual levy of such district, shall determine what percentage, as limited by this section, of the total amount of the annual levies upon such public corporation during a five year period or successive five year periods is to be paid through such additional rate, shall determine the number of years, which may be not less than five, for which such additional rate is to be effective, and shall request determination of such additional rate by the board. The board shall thereupon determine an additional rate in accordance with the basis and for the term of years set forth in said resolution. Upon determination of such additional rate to a public corporation or person by the board, the board shall report its determination to the court and thereafter all proceedings shall be had in the same manner as is provided by section 6101.24 of the Revised Code. Upon the final approval by the court of such additional rate, it shall be conclusive and binding. The officers of such public corporation having authority to establish rates for water furnished by such public corporation shall thereupon establish such rates as are necessary to produce sufficient revenue for the payment of such additional rate in addition to the other expenses and obligations of the water department of the public corporation. When such rates are so established, sections 735.29 and 743.04 of the Revised Code shall apply in the assessment and collection of such rates by the public corporation. Thereafter during the term for which the additional rate has been determined and approved by the court, such additional rate may be reduced upon determination of a reduced rate by the board and approval thereof by the court, after a hearing in the manner provided by section 6101.24 of the Revised Code. Bills for such additional charges to a public corporation shall be rendered and payment made from the funds of the water-works department of such public corporation in the same manner as is provided by section 6101.53 of the Revised Code. The use of funds of the water-works department of a municipal corporation for the purpose of payment of such additional charges shall be in addition to the uses permitted by sections 715.08 , 735.29 , 743.04 , and 743.05 of the Revised Code, and the governing body or other appropriating authority may appropriate funds of the water-works department for such purpose. Revenue received by the district through such additional rate shall be set apart in the bond fund and shall be appropriated by the board from time to time solely for the purpose of paying the principal and interest of bonds of the district. Each year in determining, ordering, and levying an annual levy upon a public corporation or person within the district, as provided by section 6101.55 of the Revised Code, the board shall credit such public corporation or person with such amount as has been actually paid to the district through such additional rate and not previously credited, and such credit shall apply as a reduction of the amount of such annual levy upon such public corporation or person.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6131.23 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6131 / § 6131.23
§ 6131.23. Semiannual installments for payment of assessments
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly (A) The assessments estimated in accordance with section 6131.14 of the Revised Code shall be payable in not less than two semiannual installments. At the time of the final hearing, in the order approving the levying of the assessments, the board of county commissioners shall determine how long a period of time, in semiannual installments, as taxes are paid, shall be given the owners of land benefited to pay the assessments that are made for an improvement and whether or not bonds or notes shall be issued and sold in anticipation of such payments. If bonds or notes are to be issued, the interest shall be added to the assessments. (B) If the estimated cost of the improvement does not exceed five hundred dollars, not more than two semiannual installments, as taxes are paid, shall be given to owners of lands benefited to pay the assessments that are made for the improvement. If the estimated cost of the improvement exceeds five hundred dollars, the board may determine the number of installments in which the assessments are to be paid. If any such assessment is twenty-five dollars or less, or whenever the unpaid balance of any such assessment is twenty-five dollars or less, the same shall be paid in full, and not in installments, at the time the first or next installment would otherwise become due. (C) When assessments are payable in installments and county general funds are used to pay for the improvement, the assessment shall not exceed thirty semiannual installments and shall be payable upon completion of the contract. (D) When assessments are made payable in installments and bonds or notes have been sold to pay for the improvement, interest shall be added to the installments of assessments at the same rate as is drawn by the bonds or notes issued to pay for the improvements. Any owner may pay the estimated assessments on the owner's land in cash within thirty days after the final hearing without paying any interest thereon. If the legislative authority of a political subdivision chooses to pay the assessments on all parcels within the subdivision, both public and private, in one installment, it shall pass a resolution so stating and shall send the resolution, or a copy thereof, to the board of county commissioners before making the payment. The legislative authority shall pay all subsequent maintenance assessments levied under section 6137.03 of the Revised Code if it chooses to pay the construction assessments on all parcels within the subdivision. (E) Bonds may be sold for any repayment period that the board of county commissioners may determine proper, not to exceed thirty semiannual installments.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.07
§ 6115.07. Notice of petition and hearing - jurisdiction
Status: in_force

October 23, 1972 Senate Bill 397 - 109th General Assembly Immediately after the filing of the petition provided for in section 6115.05 of the Revised Code, the clerk of the court with whom such petition is filed shall give notice by publication, in accordance with the suggested form in division (A) of section 6115.79 of the Revised Code, of the pendency of the petition and of the time and place of the hearing thereon. The clerk shall send notice by certified mail to the director of environmental protection. Such clerk shall cause such notices to be served personally upon the clerk of each political subdivision within the proposed district. The court of common pleas of the county in which the petition was filed shall thereafter for all purposes of sections 6115.01 to 6115.79 of the Revised Code, except as otherwise provided in such sections, maintain and have original and exclusive jurisdiction coextensive with the boundaries and limits of said district and of lands and other property proposed to be included in said district or affected by said district, without regard to the usual limits of its jurisdiction.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.81 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.81
§ 6101.81. Destruction, injury, removal of survey marks prohibited
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly No person shall willfully destroy, injure, or remove any bench marks, witness marks, stakes, or other reference marks placed by the surveyors or engineers of the conservancy district or by contractors in constructing the works of such district.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6109.072 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6109 / § 6109.072
§ 6109.072. Well siting application
Status: in_force

April 4, 2023 House Bill 364 - 134th General Assembly (A) No person shall install a public water system well without an approved well siting application issued by the director of environmental protection in accordance with this chapter and any rules adopted under it. (B) In addition to meeting the siting requirements established under section 6109.04 of the Revised Code and the rules adopted under it, a person that submits a well siting application for a public water system well shall include all of the following in the application: (1) For a new public water system or an existing public water system that proposes an increase in the withdrawal of waters of the state, an evaluation of alternatives for the provision of drinking water, including the potential for tie-in to a regional water system; (2) For a new public water system or an existing public water system that proposes an increase in the withdrawal of waters of the state, asset management program information in accordance with section 6109.24 of the Revised Code and the rules adopted under it; (3) For an existing public water system, a description of the asset management program impacts of installing the well, including impacts to any existing asset management program and the potential for tie-in to a regional water system; (4) For a public water system well that has the capacity to withdraw waters of the state in an amount requiring registration pursuant to section 1521.16 of the Revised Code, a general plan, subject to approval of the director, that includes both of the following: (a) The information required to be submitted under section 6109.07 of the Revised Code and the rules adopted under it; (b) Verification of registration pursuant to section 1521.16 of the Revised Code. (5) For a public water system well that has new or increased capacities for withdrawal or consumptive use that require a permit issued under either section 1521.29 or 1522.12 of the Revised Code, a permit approved by the chief of the division of water resources in the department of natural resources pursuant to section 1521.29 or 1522.12 of the Revised Code. (C) Divisions (B)(2) and (3) of this section do not apply to a transient noncommunity water system. (D) If the director approves a well siting application for an applicant that meets the requirements of division (B)(5) of this section, the applicant then shall submit to the director a copy of any certification, continuing monitoring, or other data or reports required by the chief of the division of water resources pursuant to a permit issued under either section 1521.29 or 1522.12 of the Revised Code and any revised ground water model required by the chief. (E) The director may require the well site applicant to include, in the application, additional information, including but not limited to hydrologic information, in a form prescribed by the director for any public water system that is not required to obtain a permit under either section 1521.23 or 1522.12 of the Revised Code. (F) The director may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as is necessary for the implementation of this section. Last updated February 8, 2023 at 2:04 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.01
§ 6115.01. Sanitary district definitions
Status: in_force

September 29, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly As used in sections 6115.01 to 6115.79 of the Revised Code: (A) "Publication" means once a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the counties wherein publication is to be made or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code. Publication need not be made on the same day of the week in each of the weeks; but not less than fourteen days, excluding the day of first publication, shall intervene between the first publication and the last publication. Publication shall be complete on the date of the last publication. (B) "Person" means person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation, other than county, township, municipal corporation, or other political subdivision. (C) "Public corporation" means counties, townships, municipal corporations, school districts, road districts, ditch districts, park districts, levee districts, and all other governmental agencies clothed with the power of levying general or special taxes. (D) "Court" means the court of common pleas in which the petition for the organization of a sanitary district was filed and granted. In the case of a district lying in more than one county, "court" means the court comprised of one judge of the court of common pleas from each county as provided in section 6115.04 of the Revised Code. (E) "Land" or "property," unless otherwise specified, means real property, as "real property" is used in and defined by the laws of this state, and embraces all railroads, tramroads, roads, electric railroads, street and interurban railroads, streets and street improvements, telephones, telegraph, and transmission lines, gas, sewerage, and water systems, pipelines and rights-of-way of public service corporations, and all other real property whether public or private. (F) "Board of directors" applies to the duties of one director appointed in accordance with section 6115.10 of the Revised Code in a district lying wholly within one county. (G) "Biting arthropods" include mosquitoes, ticks, biting flies, or other biting arthropods capable of transmitting disease to humans. (H) "Bond" or "bonds" means bonds, notes, certificates of indebtedness, certificates of participation, commercial paper, and other instruments in writing, including, unless the context does not admit, bonds or notes issued in anticipation of the issuance of other bonds, issued by a sanitary district to evidence its obligation to repay money borrowed, or to pay interest, by, or to pay at any future time other money obligations of, the sanitary district. (I) "Financing costs" has the same meaning as in division (K) of section 133.01 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6119.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6119 / § 6119.19
§ 6119.19. System of sanitary and/or storm water sewerage
Status: in_force

September 17, 1957 House Bill 518 - 102nd General Assembly In addition to the power conferred by sections 6119.01 to 6119.42 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, to construct sewers and levy assessments therefor, and in the absence or insufficiency of a plan provided for in section 6119.31 of the Revised Code, the board of trustees of a regional water and sewer district may provide a system of sanitary and/or storm water sewerage, herein referred to only as sewerage, for any part of the area included within the district. Such a plan shall be devised with regard to the present and prospective needs and interests of the area, and shall be confirmed by the board.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6111.044 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6111 / § 6111.044
§ 6111.044. Injection well drilling or operating permit
Status: in_force

January 1, 2016 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly Upon receipt of an application for an injection well drilling permit, an injection well operating permit, a renewal of an injection well operating permit, or a modification of an injection well drilling permit, operating permit, or renewal of an operating permit, the director of environmental protection shall determine whether the application is complete and demonstrates that the activities for which the permit, renewal permit, or modification is requested will comply with the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and regulations adopted under it; the "Safe Drinking Water Act," 88 Stat. 1661 (1974), 42 U.S.C.A. 300(f), as amended, and regulations adopted under it; and this chapter and the rules adopted under it. If the application demonstrates that the proposed activities will not comply or will pose an unreasonable risk of inducing seismic activity, inducing geologic fracturing, or contamination of an underground source of drinking water, the director shall deny the application. If the application does not make the required demonstrations, the director shall return it to the applicant with an indication of those matters about which a required demonstration was not made. If the director determines that the application makes the required demonstrations, the director shall transmit copies of the application and all of the accompanying maps, data, samples, and information to the chief of the division of oil and gas resources management, the chief of the division of geological survey, the chief of the division of water resources, and, if the well is or is to be located in a coal bearing township designated under section 1561.06 of the Revised Code, the chief of the division of mineral resources management in the department of natural resources. The chief of the division of geological survey shall comment upon the application if the chief determines that the proposed well or injection will present an unreasonable risk of loss or damage to valuable mineral resources. If the chief submits comments on the application, those comments shall be accompanied by an evaluation of the geological factors upon which the comments are based, including fractures, faults, earthquake potential, and the porosity and permeability of the injection zone and confining zone, and by the documentation supporting the evaluation. The director shall take into consideration the chief's comments, and the accompanying evaluation of geologic factors and supporting documentation, when considering the application. The director shall provide written notice to the chief of the director's decision on the application and, if the chief's comments are not included in the permit, renewal permit, or modification, of the director's rationale for not including them. The chief of the division of oil and gas resources management shall comment upon the application if the chief determines that the proposed well or injection will present an unreasonable risk that waste or contamination of recoverable oil or gas in the earth will occur. If the chief submits comments on the application, those comments shall be accompanied by an evaluation of the oil or gas reserves that, in the best professional judgment of the chief, are recoverable and will be adversely affected by the proposed well or injection, and by the documentation supporting the evaluation. The director shall take into consideration the chief's comments, and the accompanying evaluation and supporting documentation, when considering the application. The director shall provide written notice to the chief of the director's decision on the application and, if the chief's comments are not included in the permit, renewal permit, or modification, of the director's rationale for not including them. The chief of the division of water resources shall assist the director in determining whether all underground sources of drinking water in the area of review of the proposed well or injection have been identified and correctly delineated in the application. If the application fails to identify or correctly delineate an underground source of drinking water, the chief shall provide written notice of that fact to the director. The chief of the division of mineral resources management shall review the application as follows: If the application concerns the drilling or conversion of a well or the injection into a well that is not or is not to be located within five thousand feet of the excavation and workings of a mine, the chief of the division of mineral resources management shall note upon the application that it has been examined by the division of mineral resources management, retain a copy of the application and map, and immediately return a copy of the application to the director. If the application concerns the drilling or conversion of a well or the injection into a well that is or is to be located within five thousand feet, but more than five hundred feet from the surface excavations and workings of a mine, the chief of the division of mineral resources management immediately shall notify the owner or lessee of the mine that the application has been filed and send to the owner or lessee a copy of the map accompanying the application setting forth the location of the well. The chief of the division of mineral resources management shall note on the application that the notice has been sent to the owner or lessee of the mine, retain a copy of the application and map, and immediately return a copy of the application to the director with the chief's notation on it. If the application concerns the drilling or conversion of a well or the injection into a well that is or is to be located within five thousand feet of the underground excavations and workings of a mine or within five hundred feet of the surface excavations and workings of a mine, the chief of the division of mineral resources management immediately shall notify the owner or lessee of the mine that the application has been filed and send to the owner or lessee a copy of the map accompanying the application setting forth the location of the well. If the owner or lessee objects to the application, the owner or lessee shall notify the chief of the division of mineral resources management of the objection, giving the reasons, within six days after the receipt of the notice. If the chief of the division of mineral resources management receives no objections from the owner or lessee of the mine within ten days after the receipt of the notice by the owner or lessee, or if in the opinion of the chief of the division of mineral resources management the objections offered by the owner or lessee are not sufficiently well founded, the chief shall retain a copy of the application and map and return a copy of the application to the director with any applicable notes concerning it. If the chief of the division of mineral resources management receives an objection from the owner or lessee of the mine as to the application, within ten days after receipt of the notice by the owner or lessee, and if in the opinion of the chief the objection is well founded, the chief shall disapprove the application and immediately return it to the director together with the chief's reasons for the disapproval. The director promptly shall notify the applicant for the permit, renewal permit, or modification of the disapproval. The applicant may appeal the disapproval of the application by the chief of the division of mineral resources management to the reclamation commission created under section 1513.05 of the Revised Code, and the commission shall hear the appeal in accordance with section 1513.13 of the Revised Code. The appeal shall be filed within thirty days from the date the applicant receives notice of the disapproval. No comments concerning or disapproval of an application shall be delayed by the chief of the division of mineral resources management for more than fifteen days from the date of sending of notice to the mine owner or lessee as required by this section. The director shall not approve an application for an injection well drilling permit, an injection well operating permit, a renewal of an injection well operating permit, or a modification of an injection well drilling permit, operating permit, or renewal of an operating permit for a well that is or is to be located within three hundred feet of any opening of any mine used as a means of ingress, egress, or ventilation for persons employed in the mine, nor within one hundred feet of any building or flammable structure connected with the mine and actually used as a part of the operating equipment of the mine, unless the chief of the division of mineral resources management determines that life or property will not be endangered by drilling and operating the well in that location. Upon review by the chief of the division of oil and gas resources management, the chief of the division of geological survey, and the chief of the division of water resources, and if the chief of the division of mineral resources management has not disapproved the application, the director shall issue a permit, renewal permit, or modification with any terms and conditions that may be necessary to comply with the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and regulations adopted under it; the "Safe Drinking Water Act," 88 Stat. 1661 (1974), 42 U.S.C.A. 300(f) as amended, and regulations adopted under it; and this chapter and the rules adopted under it. The director shall not issue a permit, renewal permit, or modification to an applicant if the applicant or persons associated with the applicant have engaged in or are engaging in a substantial violation of this chapter that is endangering or may endanger human health or the environment or if, in the case of an applicant for an injection well drilling permit, the applicant, at the time of applying for the permit, did not hold an injection well operating permit or renewal of an injection well drilling permit and failed to demonstrate sufficient expertise and competency to operate the well in compliance with the applicable provisions of this chapter. If the director receives a disapproval from the chief of the division of mineral resources management regarding an application for an injection well drilling or operating permit, renewal permit, or modification, if required, the director shall issue an order denying the application. The director need not issue a proposed action under section 3745.07 of the Revised Code or hold an adjudication hearing under that section and Chapter 119. of the Revised Code before issuing or denying a permit, renewal permit, or modification of a permit or renewal permit. Before issuing or renewing a permit to drill or operate a class I injection well or a modification of it, the director shall propose the permit, renewal permit, or modification in draft form and shall hold a public hearing to receive public comment on the draft permit, renewal permit, or modification. At least fifteen days before the public hearing on a draft permit, renewal permit, or modification, the director shall publish notice of the date, time, and location of the public hearing in at least one newspaper of general circulation serving the area where the well is or is to be located. The proposing of such a draft permit, renewal permit, or modification does not constitute the issuance of a proposed action under section 3745.07 of the Revised Code, and the holding of the public hearing on such a draft permit, renewal permit, or modification does not constitute the holding of an adjudication hearing under that section and Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. Appeals of orders other than orders of the chief of the division of mineral resources management shall be taken under sections 3745.04 to 3745.08 of the Revised Code. The director may order that an injection well drilling permit or an injection well operating permit or renewal permit be suspended and that activities under it cease after determining that those activities are occurring in violation of law, rule, order, or term or condition of the permit. Upon service of a copy of the order upon the permit holder or the permit holder's authorized agent or assignee, the permit and activities under it shall be suspended immediately without prior hearing and shall remain suspended until the violation is corrected and the order of suspension is lifted. If a violation is the second within a one-year period, the director, after a hearing, may revoke the permit. The director may order that an injection well drilling permit or an injection well operating permit or renewal permit be suspended and that activities under it cease if the director has reasonable cause to believe that the permit would not have been issued if the information available at the time of suspension had been available at the time a determination was made by one of the agencies acting under authority of this section. Upon service of a copy of the order upon the permit holder or the permit holder's authorized agent or assignee, the permit and activities under it shall be suspended immediately without prior hearing, but a permit may not be suspended for that reason without prior hearing unless immediate suspension is necessary to prevent waste or contamination of oil or gas, comply with the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and regulations adopted under it; the "Safe Drinking Water Act," 88 Stat. 1661 (1974), 42 U.S.C.A. 300(f), as amended, and regulations adopted under it; and this chapter and the rules adopted under it, or prevent damage to valuable mineral resources, prevent contamination of an underground source of drinking water, or prevent danger to human life or health. If after a hearing the director determines that the permit would not have been issued if the information available at the time of the hearing had been available at the time a determination was made by one of the agencies acting under authority of this section, the director shall revoke the permit. When a permit has been revoked, the permit holder or other person responsible for it immediately shall plug the well in the manner required by the director. The director may issue orders to prevent or require cessation of violations of this section, section 6111.043 , 6111.045 , 6111.046 , or 6111.047 of the Revised Code, rules adopted under any of those sections, and terms or conditions of permits issued under any of them. The orders may require the elimination of conditions caused by the violation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6131.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6131 / § 6131.07
§ 6131.07. Notice and hearing on petition
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly (A) When a petition is filed under section 6131.04 of the Revised Code with the clerk of the board of county commissioners, the clerk shall give notice of the petition to the board of county commissioners and the county engineer. (B) The board of county commissioners shall do both of the following: (1) Establish a date and hour for a view of the proposed improvement, which shall be between thirty and one hundred twenty days after the date on which the petition was filed with the clerk; (2) Establish a date and hour between thirty and ninety days after the date set for the view, when it will hold its first hearing on the petition. (C) At least twenty-one days prior to the date set for the view, the clerk shall send a written notice to the owners named in the petition and of legal record on the date of its filing. The clerk shall include all of the following in the notice: (1) The date, time, and location for the view and the first hearing; (2) A description of the proposed improvement and its location as stated in the petition, a map indicating the location of the proposed improvement or information on where to access such map, and an explanation of how to access additional information or ask questions about the proposed improvement; (3) A statement that all costs of engineering, construction, and future maintenance will be assessed to the benefiting parcels of land; (4) A statement that an owner may file, not more than twenty-one days after the date of the view, an amendment to the petition that expands the length of the proposed improvement, provided that such amendment does not expand the area to be benefited by the proposed improvement; (5) A statement that an owner receiving the notice may comment on the proposed improvement in writing before or in person at the public hearings on the petition; (6) The address at which to file an amendment to the petition or submit written comments on the proposed amendment or the petition. (D) The clerk shall notify all owners that are adjacent to the proposed improvement by certified mail and shall notify all other owners by certified mail or first class mailings. The words "Legal Notice of Proposed Drainage Improvement" shall be printed in plain view on the face of the envelope. When the owner is not a natural person, the notice shall be mailed to its chief officer or managing agent at the usual place of business in the county. If such an owner is a foreign or domestic railroad company, regardless of whether the charter thereof prescribes the manner or place of service of process thereon, the notice shall be addressed to the property owner of record as listed by the county auditor on the general tax list. If such an owner other than a railroad company does not maintain a regular place of business in the county, then the notice shall be mailed to the nearest regular place of business of such an owner. (E) The clerk shall publish a legal notice in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the area affected by the proposed improvement, stating the name and number, if any, of the proposed improvement, the location and nature of the work proposed in the petition, and the date, time, and location of the view and first hearing. If the individual notices are sent by certified mail, the clerk shall publish the notice in one issue of such newspaper, and shall not publish the notice less than thirteen days prior to the date of the view. If the individual notices are sent by first-class mail in five-day return envelopes, the clerk shall publish the newspaper notice in two issues of the newspaper, and the notice shall include a list of the names of all addressees whose individual notices were undelivered. The clerk shall publish the first such publication not be less than thirteen days prior to the date of the view, and the second publication not be less than six days prior to the date of the view. The publication shall serve as public notice to all owners of the pendency of the improvement whether or not they were individually named and notified. Proof of notice by publication shall be verified by affidavit of the printer or other person knowing the fact, and the clerk of the board of county commissioners shall prepare a certificate showing the service of the notices by mail, both of which shall be filed with the clerk of the board of county commissioners on or before the day of the first hearing. Notices returned undelivered and receipts shall be kept on file by the clerk as part of the permanent record of the improvement.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6135.27 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6135 / § 6135.27
§ 6135.27. Matters not expressly covered
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly In all matters pertaining to the location and construction of an improvement, not expressly provided for in sections 6135.23 to 6135.26 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall be governed by laws providing for the location and construction of county ditches. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.58 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.58
§ 6101.58. County treasurer's bond
Status: in_force

September 21, 2000 House Bill 617 - 123rd General Assembly Before receiving the assessment record provided for by section 6101.55 of the Revised Code, the county treasurer of each county in which lands or other property of the conservancy district are located shall execute to the district and deliver to the board of directors of the district a bond with a surety company authorized to conduct a surety business in this state as surety, which bond shall be paid for by the district, in a sum prescribed by the board and approved by the court, conditioned that the treasurer shall pay over and account for all assessments collected by the treasurer according to law. The bond after approval by the board shall be deposited with the secretary of the district, who shall be custodian of the bond. The secretary shall produce the bond for inspection and use as evidence whenever and wherever lawfully requested to do so.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6111.025 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6111 / § 6111.025
§ 6111.025. Wetland mitigation banks
Status: in_force

September 5, 2012 Senate Bill 294 - 129th General Assembly (A) The department of natural resources, the division of wildlife in that department, or any other division in that department that is designated by the director of natural resources may establish and operate a wetland mitigation bank for purposes of sections 6111.02 to 6111.027 of the Revised Code. A mitigation bank so established may be used by any individual or entity, including any agency or department of the state, for mitigation purposes under those sections. Nothing in this division precludes any other private or public entity from developing a mitigation bank, provided that it is approved by the director of environmental protection under division (C) of this section. (B) The environmental protection agency, the department of natural resources, the division of wildlife in that department, or any other division in that department that is designated by the director of natural resources may establish and operate an in-lieu fee mitigation program for purposes of sections 6111.02 to 6111.027 of the Revised Code. An in-lieu fee mitigation program so established may be used by any individual or entity, including any agency or department of the state, for mitigation purposes under those sections. Nothing in this division precludes any other private or public entity from developing an in-lieu fee mitigation program, provided that it is approved by the director of environmental protection under division (C) of this section. (C) The director of environmental protection in consultation with the director of natural resources shall approve and publish a list of approved wetland mitigation banks and in-lieu fee mitigation programs that shall be used by applicants for state isolated wetland permits for mitigation purposes. In establishing the approved list, the director of environmental protection shall give preference to wetland mitigation banks that are comprised of areas involving the restoration of previously existing wetlands. Applicants for isolated wetland permits shall not use mitigation from a mitigation bank or an in-lieu fee mitigation program that has not been approved under this section. (D) The director of environmental protection annually shall issue a report to the members of the general assembly on the total number of acres of wetlands and lineal feet of stream that were subject to filling during the immediately preceding fiscal year. The report also shall include the total number of acres of wetlands that were restored, created, enhanced, or preserved through compensatory mitigation that same year as a result of state isolated wetland permits issued under sections 6111.02 to 6111.027 of the Revised Code and the state section 401 water quality certification program administered under section 6111.30 of the Revised Code. (E) Any wetland category determined through the use of the appropriate Ohio rapid assessment method and verified by the environmental protection agency for purposes of an isolated wetlands permit issued under sections 6111.02 to 6111.027 of the Revised Code is valid for a period of five years following verification.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6119.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6119 / § 6119.09
§ 6119.09. Use or service agreements
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166, House Bill 7 - 133rd General Assembly A regional water and sewer district may charge, alter, and collect rentals or other charges, including penalties for late payment, for the use or services of any water resource project or any benefit conferred thereby and contract in the manner provided by this section with one or more persons, one or more political subdivisions, or any combination thereof, desiring the use or services thereof, and fix the terms, conditions, rentals, or other charges, including penalties for late payment, for such use or services. Such rentals or other charges shall not be subject to supervision or regulation by any authority, commission, board, bureau, or agency of the state or any political subdivision, and such contract may provide for acquisition by such political subdivision of all or any part of such water resource project for such consideration payable over the period of the contract or otherwise as the district in its sole discretion determines to be appropriate, but subject to the provisions of any resolution authorizing the issuance of water resource revenue bonds or notes or water resource revenue refunding bonds of the district or any trust agreement securing the same. Any political subdivision, which has power to construct, operate, and maintain waste water facilities or water management facilities may enter into a contract or lease with the district whereby the use or services of any water resource project of the district will be made available to such political subdivision and pay for such use or services such rentals or other charges as may be agreed to by the district and such political subdivision. Any political subdivision, person, or combination thereof may cooperate with the district in the acquisition or construction of a water resource project and shall enter into such agreements with the district as are necessary, with a view to effective cooperative action and safeguarding of the respective interests of the parties thereto, which agreements shall provide for such contributions by the parties thereto in such proportion as may be agreed upon and such other terms as may be mutually satisfactory to the parties, including without limitation the authorization of the construction of the project by one of the parties acting as agent for all of the parties and the ownership and control of the project by the district or one or more of the other parties or any combination thereof to the extent determined necessary or appropriate. Any political subdivision may provide the funds for the payment of such contribution as is required under such agreements by the levy of taxes, assessments, or rentals and other charges for the use of the system of which the water resource project is a part or to which it is connected, if otherwise authorized by the laws governing such political subdivision in the construction of the type of water resource project provided for in the agreements, and may pay the proceeds from the collection of such taxes, assessments, rentals, or other charges to the district pursuant to such agreements; or the political subdivision may issue bonds or notes, if authorized by such laws, in anticipation of the collection of such taxes, assessments, rentals or other charges and may pay the proceeds of such bonds or notes to the district pursuant to such agreements. In addition, any political subdivision may provide the funds for the payment of such contribution by the appropriation of money or, if otherwise authorized by law, by the issuance of bonds or notes and may pay such appropriated money or the proceeds of such bonds or notes to the district pursuant to such agreements. The agreement by the political subdivision to provide such contribution, whether from appropriated money or from the proceeds of such taxes, assessments, rentals, or other charges, or such bonds or notes, or any combination thereof, is not subject to Chapter 133. of the Revised Code. The proceeds from the collection of such taxes or assessments, and any interest earned thereon, shall be paid into a special fund immediately upon the collection thereof by the political subdivision for the purpose of providing such contribution at the times required under such agreements. When the contribution of any political subdivision is to be made over a period of time from the proceeds of the collection of special assessments, the interest accrued and to accrue before the first installment of such assessments is collected, which is payable by such political subdivision on such contribution under the terms of such an agreement, shall be treated as part of the cost of the improvement for which such assessments are levied, and that portion of such assessments as is collected in installments shall bear interest at the same rate as such political subdivision is obligated to pay on such contribution under the terms and provisions of such agreement and for the same period of time as the contribution is to be made under such agreement. If the assessment or any installment thereof is not paid when due, it shall bear interest until the payment thereof at the same rate as such contribution and the county auditor shall annually place on the tax list and duplicate the interest applicable to such assessment and the penalty and any additional interest thereon as otherwise authorized by law. Any political subdivision, pursuant to a favorable vote of the electors in an election held before or after November 19, 1971, for the purpose of issuing bonds to provide funds to acquire, construct, or equip, or provide real estate and interests in real estate for, a waste water facility or a water management facility, whether or not the political subdivision, at the time of such election, had the authority to pay the proceeds from such bonds or notes issued in anticipation thereof to a regional water and sewer district as provided in this section, may issue such bonds or notes in anticipation of the issuance thereof and pay the proceeds thereof to the district in accordance with its agreement with the district; provided, that the legislative authority of the political subdivision determines that the water resource project to be acquired or constructed by the district in cooperation with such political subdivision will serve the same public purpose and meet substantially the same public need as the facility otherwise proposed to be acquired or constructed by the political subdivision with the proceeds of such bonds or notes.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6156.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6156 / § 6156.02
§ 6156.02. Purchase, rent, or lease of dredging equipment
Status: in_force

August 26, 1963 House Bill 55 - 105th General Assembly The board of county commissioners of each county of the state may purchase, rent, or lease such dredging equipment as it deems necessary to be used in land reclamation projects as directed by the board of reclamation authorized in section 6156.01 of the Revised Code. If the board of county commissioners determines that such equipment is necessary, it shall, in the event of purchase, advertise its needs for at least twenty days and then let the purchase contract to the lowest bidder, provided that the board of county commissioners may reject all bids.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.25 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.25
§ 6115.25. Removal of physical obstructions in, over, or upon public streets, lanes, alleys, or highways
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly All public corporations or persons having buildings, structures, works, conduits, mains, pipes, tracks, or other physical obstructions in, over, or upon the public streets, lanes, alleys, or highways, which interfere with or impede the progress of construction, maintenance, or repair of the works of a sanitary district shall upon reasonable notice from the board of directors of the sanitary district promptly shift, adjust, accommodate, or remove such obstructions so as to fully meet the exigencies occasioning such action. Upon failure of any public corporation or person to make such changes the board may do so. Unless otherwise mutually agreed to, the cost and expense of such changes shall be met by the district.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6119.26 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6119 / § 6119.26
§ 6119.26. Resolution for proceeding for improvement
Status: in_force

January 1, 1962 House Bill 262 - 104th General Assembly After the publication of the notice required by section 6119.25 of the Revised Code, the board of trustees of the regional water and sewer district shall determine whether it will proceed with the proposed improvement or not. If the board decides to proceed with the improvement a resolution for that purpose shall be passed. Such resolution shall contain a statement naming the districts or parts thereof proposed to be constructed, the character of the material to be used, a reference to the plans and specifications, the mode of payment thereof, and shall provide for assessing the cost of the improvement upon the lots and lands in each district as other assessments are levied.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6133.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6133 / § 6133.09
§ 6133.09. Compensation or damage claims
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly (A) The hearing on the reports and schedules of the county engineers provided for by section 6133.08 of the Revised Code and all other proceedings relative to a proposed joint county improvement shall be had the same as in single county drainage improvements. (B) Claims for compensation for land taken or for damages to land may be appealed by an affected owner, or by the prosecuting attorney, to the court of common pleas of the county in which the land for which the owner claims compensation or damages is located. (1) All claims for compensation or damages which are allowed shall be paid out of the treasury of the county in which such land is located. (2) The county auditor of the lead county shall certify the amounts of compensation or damages so found by the joint board of county commissioners to the auditors of the other counties, respectively, for payment. (C) If an appeal is taken on the question of compensation or damages, the auditor of the lead county shall transmit to the clerk of the court of common pleas of the county in which the land of the appellant is located the original papers relating to the claim for compensation or damages and a certified transcript of the findings on the improvement and on the claim, which shall be docketed by the clerk and shall proceed the same as an appeal on a claim for compensation or damages in a single county improvement proceeding.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6133.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6133 / § 6133.01
§ 6133.01. Joint county drainage improvements definitions
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly As used in this chapter: (A) "Owner," "person," "public corporation," "land," "benefit," and "improvement" have the same meanings as in section 6131.01 of the Revised Code. (B) "Lead county" means the county in which the majority of the initial length of a joint county drainage improvement would be located, as specified in an original petition filed under section 6133.02 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6131.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6131 / § 6131.09
§ 6131.09. Preliminary report by county engineer
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly (A) Upon receiving the notice required under division (A) of section 6131.07 of the Revised Code, the county engineer shall prepare a preliminary report on the proposed improvement, which shall include all of the following: (1) A preliminary estimate of the cost of the proposed improvement; (2) Comments on the feasibility of the project; (3) A statement of the engineer's opinion as to whether benefits from the project are likely to exceed the estimated cost; (4) A list of factors apparent to the engineer, both favorable and unfavorable to the proposed improvement. (B) In addition to reporting on the improvement as petitioned, the engineer may submit alternate proposals to accomplish the intent of the petition. (C) The county commissioners may require the county engineer to file any additional preliminary reports that in the opinion of the board will serve as a guide to the board and the petitioners in deciding whether to proceed with the proposed improvement. (D) The costs incurred by the engineer in making preliminary reports may be paid from the bond of the petitioners if the petition is dismissed at the first hearing, and any amount in excess of the bond shall be paid from county funds. If the engineer's costs are not paid from the petitioners' bond, they shall be paid from county funds.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.99
§ 6115.99. Penalty
Status: in_force

June 13, 1975 House Bill 1 - 111th General Assembly (A) Whoever violates division (B) of section 6115.17 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than fifty dollars. (B) Whoever violates section 6115.24 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars. (C) Whoever violates division (B) of section 6115.77 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 6155.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6155 / § 6155.12
§ 6155.12. Collection of assessments
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The assessments provided for in section 6155.11 of the Revised Code shall be collected as other assessments against real estate and paid into the treasury of the county wherein the petitioners reside and the milldam is situated. They shall be paid out by the county treasurer on the warrant of the county auditor, who shall issue his warrants in accordance with the records and orders of the board of county commissioners.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.39 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.39
§ 6101.39. Alteration or addition to plan
Status: in_force

September 21, 2000 House Bill 617 - 123rd General Assembly The board of directors of a conservancy district may, at any time after the conservancy appraisal record is filed, when necessary to fulfill the objects for which the district was created, alter or add to the official plan by amendment. Such alterations or additions may be alterations in or additions to improvements previously provided for in the official plan or may consist of new works or improvements for the accomplishment of the purposes for which the district was created that were not previously provided for in the official plan. When such alterations or additions are formally approved by the board and by the court and are filed with the secretary of the conservancy district, they shall become part of the official plan for all purposes of this chapter. If such alterations or additions in the judgment of the court neither materially modify the general character of the work, nor materially increase resulting damage for which the board is not able to make amicable settlement, no action other than a resolution of the board is necessary for the approval of such alterations or additions. Any alteration or addition to the official plan relating to the provision of water supply or the collection and disposal of sewage and liquid wastes requires the approval of the environmental protection agency. If the proposed alterations or additions materially modify the general character of the work, or materially modify the resulting damages or materially reduce the benefits for which the board is not able to make amicable settlement, or materially increase the benefits in such a manner as to require a new appraisal, the court shall direct the board of appraisers of the conservancy district, which may be the original board, or a new board appointed by the court on petition of the board of directors or otherwise, to appraise the property to be taken, benefited, or damaged by the proposed alterations or additions. Upon the completion of the report by the board of appraisers, notice shall be given and a hearing had on its report in the same manner as in the case of the original report of the board of appraisers, and the same right of appeal to a jury exists. When the only question at issue is additional damages or reduction of benefits to property due to modifications or additions to the plans, the board of directors may, if it finds it practicable, make settlements with the owners of the property damaged instead of having appraisals made by the board of appraisers. In case such settlements are made, notice and hearing need not be had. After bonds have been sold, in order that their security may not be impaired, no reduction shall be made in the amount of benefits appraised against property in the district, but in lieu of such reductions in benefits, if any are made, the amount shall be paid to the party in cash. This section applies to all changes in appraisals under this chapter.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6119.41 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6119 / § 6119.41
§ 6119.41. Power to contract
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The board of trustees of a regional water and sewer district may enter into contracts or other arrangements with the United States government or any department thereof, with persons, firms, or corporations, with public corporations and the state government of this state or other states, with drainage, conservation, conservancy, sewer, park, or other improvement districts in this or other states for co-operation or assistance in planning, constructing, maintaining, using, and operating the works of the district, or in minimizing or preventing damage to its properties, works, and improvements, or for making surveys, investigations, or reports thereon.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6111.035 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6111 / § 6111.035
§ 6111.035. Coal mining and reclamation operations general permits
Status: in_force

September 5, 2012 Senate Bill 294 - 129th General Assembly (A) The director of environmental protection, consistent with the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the regulations adopted thereunder, without application therefor, may issue, modify, revoke, or terminate a general permit under this chapter for both of the following: (1) Discharge of stormwater; the discharge of liquids, sediments, solids, or water-borne mining related waste, such as, but not limited to, acids, metallic cations, or their salts, from coal mining and reclamation operations; or treatment works whose discharge would have de minimis impact on the waters of the state receiving the discharge; (2) Installation or modification of disposal systems or any parts thereof, including disposal systems for stormwater or for coal mining and reclamation operations. A general permit shall apply to a class or category of discharges or disposal systems or to persons conducting similar activities, within any area of the state, including the entire state. A general permit shall not be issued unless the director determines that the discharges authorized by the permit will have only minimal cumulative adverse effects on the environment when the discharges are considered collectively and individually and if, in the opinion of the director, the discharges, installations, or modifications authorized by the permit are more appropriately authorized by a general permit than by an individual permit. A general permit shall be issued subject to applicable mandatory provisions and may be issued subject to any applicable permissive provision of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and the regulations adopted thereunder. The director, at the director's discretion, may require any person authorized to discharge or to install or modify a disposal system under a general permit to apply for and obtain an individual permit for the discharge, installation, or modification. When a particular discharge, installation, or modification is subject to an individual permit, a general permit shall not apply to that discharge, installation, or modification until the individual permit is revoked, terminated, or modified to exclude the discharge, installation, or modification. In the case of a general permit issued by the director under this section for coal mining and reclamation operations, a person seeking coverage under such a general permit shall submit a notice of intent to be covered by the general permit and to be subject to the terms and conditions of the general permit. The notice of intent shall be submitted in accordance with the forms and deadlines specified for the applicable general permit for which coverage is sought. If the director has not granted or denied coverage under the general permit within forty-five days after receipt of the notice of intent, the person seeking coverage shall submit written notice to the director restating the person's request for coverage under the general permit. The director shall grant or deny coverage under the general permit not later than sixty days after receipt of the notice of intent. If, not later than fifteen days after receipt of the person's written notice restating the person's request for coverage, but not earlier than sixty days after receipt of the original notice of intent for coverage under the general permit, the director fails to act on the notice of intent, the discharge that is the subject of the notice of intent is deemed to be permitted and covered by the general permit related to coal mining and reclamation operations. Nothing in this section alters or limits the authority of the director to enforce the terms and conditions of the general permit or limits the director's authority to issue or deny other required permits. As used in this division, "coal mining and reclamation operations" has the same meaning as in section 1513.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Notwithstanding any requirement under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code concerning the manner in which notice of a permit action is provided, the director shall not be required to provide certified mail notice to persons subject to the issuance, modification, revocation, or termination of a general permit under division (A) of this section. Notwithstanding section 3745.07 of the Revised Code concerning the location of newspapers in which notices of permit actions are published, the director shall cause notice of the issuance, modification, revocation, or termination of a general permit to be published in the newspapers of general circulation determined by the director to provide reasonable notice to persons affected by the permit action in the geographic area covered by the general permit within the time periods prescribed by section 3745.07 of the Revised Code. Any notice under this section or section 3745.07 of the Revised Code concerning the issuance, modification, revocation, or termination of a general permit shall include a summary of the permit action and instructions on how to obtain a copy of the full text of the permit action. The director may take other appropriate measures, such as press releases and notice to trade journals, associations, and other persons known to the director to desire notification, in order to provide notice of the director's actions concerning the issuance, modification, revocation, or termination of a general permit; however, the failure to provide such notice shall not invalidate any general permit. (C) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Revised Code, a person subject to the proposed issuance, modification, revocation, or termination of a general permit under division (A) of this section may request an adjudication hearing pursuant to section 119.07 of the Revised Code concerning the proposed action within thirty days after publication of the notice of the proposed action in newspapers of general circulation pursuant to division (B) of this section. This division shall not be interpreted to affect the authority of the director to take actions on general permits in forms other than proposed general permits. (D) The director may exercise all incidental powers required to carry out this section, including, without limitation, the adoption, amendment, and rescission of rules to implement a general permit program for classes or categories of dischargers or disposal systems. (E) On and after the date on which the United States environmental protection agency approves the NPDES program submitted by the director of agriculture under section 903.08 of the Revised Code, this section does not apply to storm water from an animal feeding facility, as defined in section 903.01 of the Revised Code, or to manure, as defined in that section. (F) As used in this section, "Federal Water Pollution Control Act" means the "Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972," 86 Stat. 886, 33 U.S.C.A. 1251, as amended by the "Clean Water Act of 1977," 91 Stat. 1566, 33 U.S.C.A. 1251, the "Act of October 21, 1980," 94 Stat. 2360, 33 U.S.C.A. 1254, the "Municipal Wastewater Treatment Construction Grant Amendments of 1981," 95 Stat. 1623, 33 U.S.C.A. 1281, and the "Water Quality Act of 1987," 101 Stat. 7, 33 U.S.C.A. 1251.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6121.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6121 / § 6121.07
§ 6121.07. Bond issuance need not comply with state requirements
Status: in_force

March 7, 1968 House Bill 998 - 107th General Assembly The issuance of water development revenue bonds and notes or water development revenue refunding bonds under Chapter 6121. of the Revised Code need not comply with any other law applicable to the issuance of bonds or notes.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6119.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6119 / § 6119.02
§ 6119.02. Procedure for organization
Status: in_force

September 28, 2012 House Bill 509 - 129th General Assembly (A) Proceedings for the organization of a regional water and sewer district shall be initiated only by a petition filed in the office of the clerk of the court of common pleas of one of the counties all or part of which lies within the proposed district. The petition shall be signed by one or more municipal corporations, one or more counties, or one or more townships, or by any combination of them, after having been authorized by the legislative authority of the political subdivision. The legislative authority of any municipal corporation, the board of county commissioners of any county, and the board of trustees of any township may act in behalf of any part of their respective political subdivisions. The petition shall specify all of the following: (1) The proposed name of the district; (2) The place in which its principal office is to be located; (3) The necessity for the proposed district and that it will be conducive to the public health, safety, convenience, or welfare; (4) A general description of the purpose of the proposed district; (5) A general description of the territory to be included in the district, which need not be given by metes and bounds or by legal subdivisions, but is sufficient if an accurate description is given of the territory to be organized as a district. The territory need not be contiguous, provided that it is so situated that the public health, safety, convenience, or welfare will be promoted by the organization as a single district of the territory described. (6) The manner of selection, the number, the term, and the compensation of the members of the governing body of the district, which shall be called a board of trustees. The petition may set forth procedures for subsequent changes in the composition of and other provisions relating to the board of trustees. The original or properly amended petition may prohibit elected officials from serving on the board and may permit one or more elected officials from any appointing authority to serve on the board. However, elected officials from the same political subdivision shall not comprise a majority of the members of the board. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a board appointed prior to the effective date of this amendment may continue as prescribed in the petition and rules and regulations of the district that were in effect prior to the effective date of this amendment, and, if not prohibited in the petition or rules and regulations, the board may include elected officials. As used in this division, "elected official" means an official elected to an office of municipal, township, or county government, or a person appointed to fill a vacancy in such an office. (7) The plan for financing the cost of the operations of the district until it is in receipt of revenue from its operations or proceeds from the sale of bonds; (8) A prayer for the organization of the district by the name proposed, either before or after a preliminary hearing as provided in section 6119.04 of the Revised Code. (B) Prior to filing a petition under division (A) of this section, a municipal corporation, county, or township shall hold a public meeting for the purpose of receiving comments on the proposed establishment of a regional water and sewer district. If a combination of municipal corporations, counties, or townships signed the petition, the signers jointly shall hold the public meeting. At the meeting, a representative of the signer or signers of the petition shall present a preliminary study of the reasons for the proposed establishment of the district. The signer or signers of the petition shall provide notice of the public meeting by publication once per week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in each of the counties that will comprise the proposed district in whole or in part or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code. (C) Upon the filing of the petition, the judge of the court of common pleas of the county in which the petition is filed or, in the case of a county having more than one such judge, a judge of that court assigned by its presiding judge shall determine if the petition complies with the requirements of this section as to form and content. No petition shall be declared void by the judge on account of alleged defects. The court in subsequent proceedings at any time may permit the petition to be amended in form and substance to conform to the facts by correcting any errors in the description of the territory or in any other particular.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6119.30 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6119 / § 6119.30
§ 6119.30. Anticipation bonds and notes
Status: in_force

November 19, 1971 Senate Bill 166 - 109th General Assembly The issuance of bonds and notes in anticipation of the collection of special assessments shall be accomplished as provided in Chapter 6119. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6119.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6119 / § 6119.12
§ 6119.12. Water resource revenue bonds and notes
Status: in_force

November 19, 1971 Senate Bill 166 - 109th General Assembly A regional water and sewer district may, from time to time, issue water resource revenue bonds and notes of the district in such principal amount as, in the opinion of the board of trustees of the district, are necessary for the purpose of paying any part of the cost of one or more water resource projects or parts thereof. The district may, from time to time, issue renewal notes, issue bonds to pay such notes and, whenever it considers refunding expedient, refund any bonds by the issuance of water resource revenue refunding bonds of the district, whether the bonds to be refunded have or have not matured, and issue bonds partly to refund bonds then outstanding and partly for any other authorized purpose. The refunding bonds shall be sold and the proceeds applied, to the extent necessary, to the purchase, redemption, or payment of the bonds to be refunded. Except as may otherwise be expressly provided by the district, every issue of its water resource revenue bonds or notes shall be obligations of the district payable out of the revenues of the district, which are pledged for such payment, without preference or priority of the first bonds issued, subject only to any agreements with the holders of particular bonds or notes pledging any particular revenues; provided that, if special assessments levied by the district pursuant to Chapter 6119. of the Revised Code are pledged to secure the payment of any issue of such bonds or notes, the board may covenant with the holders of such bonds or notes to limit the total principal amount of the financing anticipated to be paid from such assessments to any principal amount less than one hundred per cent of such assessments. Such pledge shall be valid and binding from the time the pledge is made, the revenues so pledged and thereafter received by the district shall immediately be subject to the lien of such pledge without any physical delivery thereof or further act, and the lien of any such pledge is valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract, or otherwise against the district, irrespective of whether such parties have notice thereof, except as provided in section 319.61 of the Revised Code with respect to special assessments. Neither the resolution nor any trust agreement by which a pledge is created need be filed or recorded except in the records of the district and except as provided in section 319.61 of the Revised Code with respect to special assessments. Whether or not the district bonds or notes are of such form and character as to be negotiable instruments, the bonds or notes shall have all the qualities and incidents of negotiable instruments, subject only to the provisions of the bonds or notes for registration. The water resource revenue bonds and notes shall be authorized by resolution of the board of trustees of the district, shall bear such date or dates, and shall mature at such time or times, in the case of any such note or any renewals thereof not exceeding five years from the date of issue of such original note, and in the case of any such bonds not exceeding forty years from the date of issue, as such resolution or resolutions may provide. The water resource revenue bonds and notes shall bear interest at such rate or rates, be in such denominations, be in such form, either coupon or registered, carry such registration privileges, be payable in such medium of payment, at such place or places, and be subject to such terms of redemption as the board may authorize. The water resource revenue bonds and notes of the district may be sold by the district, at public or private sale, at or not less than such price or prices as the board determines. The bonds and notes shall be executed by two officers of the district as provided in the resolution authorizing the same, either or both of whom may use a facsimile signature, the official seal of the district or a facsimile thereof may be affixed thereto or printed thereon as provided in such resolution, and attested, manually or by facsimile signature, by the secretary of the district, and any coupons attached thereto shall bear the signature or facsimile signature of one officer of the district as provided in the authorizing resolution. In case any officer whose signature, or a facsimile of whose signature, appears on any bonds, notes, or coupons ceases to be such officer before delivery of bonds or notes, such signature or facsimile is nevertheless sufficient for all purposes the same as if he had remained in office until such delivery, and, in case the seal of the district has been changed after a facsimile has been imprinted on such bonds or notes, such facsimile seal will continue to be sufficient for all purposes. Any resolution or resolutions authorizing any water resource revenue bonds or notes or any issue thereof may contain provisions, subject to such agreements with bondholders or noteholders as may then exist, which provisions shall be a part of the contract with the holders thereof, as to: pledging all or any part of the revenues of the district to secure the payment of the water resource revenue bonds or notes or of any issue thereof; the use and disposition of revenues of the district; a covenant to fix, alter, and collect rentals and other charges so that pledged revenues will be sufficient to pay costs of operation, maintenance, and repairs, pay principal of and interest on bonds or notes secured by the pledge of such revenues, and provide such reserves as may be required by the applicable resolution or trust agreement; the setting aside of reserve funds, sinking funds, replacement and improvement funds, or other special funds and the regulation and disposition thereof; the crediting of the proceeds of the sale of bonds or notes to and among the funds referred to or provided for in the resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds or notes; the use, lease, sale, or other disposition of any water resource project or any other assets of the district; limitations on the purpose to which the proceeds of sale of bonds or notes may be applied and pledging such proceeds to secure the payment of the bonds or notes or of any issue thereof; as to notes issued in anticipation of the issuance of water resource revenue bonds, the agreement of the district to do all things necessary for the authorization, issuance, and sale of such bonds in such amounts as may be necessary for the timely retirement of such notes; limitations on the issuance of additional bonds or notes; the terms upon which additional bonds or notes may be issued and secured; the refunding of outstanding bonds or notes; the procedure, if any, by which the terms of any contract with bondholders or noteholders may be amended or abrogated, the amount of bonds or notes the holders of which must consent thereto, and the manner in which such consent may be given; limitations on the amount of moneys to be expended by the authority for operating, administrative, or other expenses of the district; securing any bonds or notes by a trust agreement in accordance with section 6119.14 of the Revised Code; and any other matters, of like or different character, which in any way affect the security or protection of the bonds or notes. Neither the members of the board of trustees of the district nor any person executing the bonds or notes shall be liable personally on the bonds or notes or be subject to any personal liability or accountability by reason of the issuance thereof. Last updated October 21, 2022 at 4:23 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.24 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.24
§ 6115.24. Regulations for sanitary district organized wholly for reduction of populations of biting arthropods
Status: in_force

October 9, 1981 House Bill 156 - 114th General Assembly In the case of a sanitary district established wholly or partly for reducing populations of biting arthropods, the board of directors of the sanitary district may make and enforce regulations pertaining to the prevention and elimination of stagnant water or other breeding places for biting arthropods in the district. The regulations may, among other things, prohibit the owner, tenant, agent, or other person having charge of any land in the district from constructing or maintaining thereon any pond or pool, either natural or artificial, or any other receptacle of water, portable or otherwise, under conditions which may cause any such land, or anything situated thereon, to become a breeding place for biting arthropods. No owner, tenant, agent, or other person having charge of any land, in the district, after five days' written notice of a regulation and any violation thereof, shall fail to comply with the regulation. Each day's violation of the regulation, after notice thereof, is a separate offense. The board, or any of its agents or employees, shall give the written notice of the regulation and its violation to such owner, tenant, agent, or other person, either by personally delivering a copy of the notice to such owner, tenant, agent, or other person, or by posting a copy of the notice for not less than five days in a conspicuous place on the land whereon the violation of the regulation exists. The notice shall set forth a copy of the regulation and also a description of the land whereon the violation exists. If the owner, tenant, agent, or other person having charge of any land in the district, after the notice provided for in this section has been given, fails to comply with the regulation, the board, in addition to or without regard to enforcing the penalty provided for in division (B) of section 6115.99 of the Revised Code, may, through its agents and employees, enter upon the land whereon the violation of the regulation exists and abate the conditions existing thereon which constitute the violation. A written statement describing the land and setting forth the total amount of all expense incurred by the board in abating such conditions shall then be filed with the county auditor, and that amount shall be entered upon the tax duplicate by the auditor and be a lien upon the land from and after the date of the entry, and shall be collected by the county treasurer as other assessments. The amount, when so collected, shall be paid by the county treasurer to the treasurer of the sanitary district.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6117.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6117 / § 6117.07
§ 6117.07. Determination to proceed with construction
Status: in_force

September 29, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly After the expiration of the period of five days provided for in section 6117.06 of the Revised Code for the filing of written objections, the board of county commissioners shall determine whether or not it will proceed with the construction of the improvement mentioned in such section. Notice of the time and place of each meeting of the board of county commissioners, at which the resolution to proceed with the construction of such improvement will be considered, shall be given in writing to all persons who filed written objections as provided in section 6117.06 of the Revised Code. Such notice shall contain the following language in addition to the time and place of the meeting of the board: "any person, firm, or corporation desiring to appeal from the final order or judgment of the board upon any of the questions mentioned in section 6117.09 of the Revised Code shall, on or before the date of the passage of the improvement resolution, give notice in writing of an intention to appeal, specifying therein the matters to be appealed from." If it decides to proceed therewith, the board shall ratify or amend the plans for the improvement and the character and termini thereof, the boundaries of the assessment district, and the tentative assessment, and may cause such revision of plans, boundaries, or assessments as the board considers necessary to be made by the county sanitary engineer. If the boundaries of the assessment district are amended so as to include any property not included within the boundaries as established by the resolution of necessity provided for in section 6117.06 of the Revised Code, the owners of all such property shall be notified by mail if their addresses are known, and notice shall be published once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation within the county or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code that such amendments have been adopted and that a hearing will be given by the board at a time and place stated in such notice, at which all persons interested will be heard by the board. The date of such hearing shall be not less than twenty-four days after the first publication of such notice, and the hearing shall be conducted and records kept in the same manner as the first hearing. Five days shall be allowed for the filing of written objections as provided in such section for the first hearing. After the expiration of such fiveday period, the board shall ratify the plans for the improvement and the character and termini thereof, the boundaries of the assessment district, and the tentative assessment, or shall further amend the same. If the boundaries of the assessment district are amended so as to include any property not included in the assessment district as originally established or previously amended, further notice and hearing shall be given to the owners of such property in the same manner as for the first amendment of such boundaries, and the same procedure shall be repeated until all property owners affected have been given an opportunity to be heard. If the owners of all property added to an assessment district by amendment of the original boundaries thereof waive objection to such amendment in writing, no further notice or hearing shall be given. After the board has ratified the plans for the improvement and the character and termini thereof, the boundaries of the assessment district, and the tentative assessment, either as originally presented or as amended, and if it decides to proceed therewith, the board shall adopt a resolution to be known as the improvement resolution. Said improvement resolution shall declare the determination of such board to proceed with the construction of the improvement provided for in the resolution of necessity, in accordance with the plans and specifications provided for such improvement as ratified or amended, and whether bonds or certificates of indebtedness shall be issued in anticipation of the collection of special assessments, as provided in section 6117.08 to 6117.45 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, or that money in the county treasury unappropriated for any other purpose shall be appropriated to pay for said improvement.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6105.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6105 / § 6105.19
§ 6105.19. Contents of petition to dissolve district
Status: in_force

September 24, 1963 Senate Bill 202 - 105th General Assembly A petition filed under section 6105.18 of the Revised Code shall contain: (A) The name of the watershed district it is proposed to dissolve; (B) A statement that the signers of the petition request that the question of the dissolution of the district be presented to the electors within the territorial boundaries of the district at the next general election.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.29 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.29
§ 6115.29. Board of appraisers of sanitary district
Status: in_force

October 9, 1981 House Bill 156 - 114th General Assembly At the time of making its order organizing a sanitary district or at any suitable time thereafter, the court shall appoint three appraisers to constitute the board of appraisers of the sanitary district, who shall in every case where appraisers are appointed under sections 6115.01 to 6115.79 of the Revised Code, be recommended by the board of directors of the sanitary district. The board of appraisers shall appraise the lands or other property within and without the district to be acquired for rights of way, reservoirs, and other works of the district, and shall appraise all benefits and damages accruing to all lands within or without the district by reason of the execution of the official plan. The appraisers shall be freeholders residing within the state, who may or may not own lands within the district. No two of the appraisers shall be residents of the same county, except that in the case of a district organized wholly for the reduction of populations of biting arthropods, all the appraisers may be residents of the same county. Each of the appraisers shall, before taking up his duties, take and subscribe to an oath that he will faithfully and impartially discharge his duties as an appraiser, and that he will make a true report of the work done by him. The appraisers shall at their first meeting elect one of their own number chairman, and the secretary of the sanitary district or his deputy shall be ex officio secretary of the board of appraisers during its continuance in office. A majority of the board of appraisers constitutes a quorum, and a concurrence of the majority in any matter within the board's duties shall be sufficient for its determination. The appraisers shall continue to hold their offices until excused by the court, and the court shall fill all vacancies in the board of appraisers, or may appoint a new board of appraisers for subsequent appraisals, as occasion requires. A new board of appraisers, if appointed, shall fill all the requirements of the board of appraisers and perform its duties.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6105.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6105 / § 6105.09
§ 6105.09. Organization of board - meetings
Status: in_force

September 24, 1963 Senate Bill 202 - 105th General Assembly Within sixty days after the appointment of the full membership of a board of directors of a watershed district, the board shall meet and organize by selecting from among its members a chairman and a vice-chairman, who shall hold their respective offices until the next annual meeting of the board as provided in its bylaws. At each annual meeting thereafter the board shall elect from its membership a chairman and a vice-chairman who shall serve for a term of one year. The board shall appoint and fix the compensation of a secretary-treasurer, who shall not be a member of the board and who shall serve at the pleasure of the board. The board shall hold at least one regular meeting in each quarter of each calendar year and shall keep a record of its proceedings which shall be open to the public for inspection. Special meetings of the board may be called by the chairman and shall be called by him upon receipt of a written request therefor signed by two or more members of the board. Written notice of the time and place of each meeting of the board shall be sent to each member of the board by the secretary of the board. A majority of the full membership of the board shall constitute a quorum and no official business of the board may be conducted unless a quorum is present. The board may employ, fix the compensation, and prescribe the duties of a chief engineer, and such other engineers, consultants, attorneys, employees, and assistants and may make such expenditures as it may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of sections 6105.01 to 6105.21 , inclusive, of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6119.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6119 / § 6119.22
§ 6119.22. Notice of and examination of plan
Status: in_force

September 29, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly When a plan of sewerage devised in accordance with section 6119.19 of the Revised Code has been prepared, the board of trustees of the regional water and sewer district shall give at least ten days' notice in one newspaper of general circulation in such area or give notice as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code, stating that such plans have been prepared and are filed in the office of the secretary of the board for examination and inspection by the parties interested. Any objection to such plan shall then be made to the board and it may amend or correct such plan, and shall thereupon file it as amended, or if no amendments are made, it shall file the original plan in the office of the secretary.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.15
§ 6115.15. Plans for sewage or other liquid waste or treatment or disposal works submitted to board
Status: in_force

October 9, 1981 House Bill 156 - 114th General Assembly If a sanitary district is established for purposes other than the provision of a water supply for domestic, municipal, and public use, or for the reduction of populations of biting arthropods, after the establishment of the district and the organization of the board of directors of the district no public corporation or person shall install within the district any outlet for discharge of sewage or other liquid waste or any treatment or disposal works until the plans therefor have been submitted to and have received the approval of the board.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6103.17 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6103 / § 6103.17
§ 6103.17. Finding and order for corrective action to remedy unsafe water supply conditions
Status: in_force

March 12, 2001 House Bill 549 - 123rd General Assembly Whenever the legislative authority or board of health, or the officers performing the duties of a legislative authority or board of health, of a municipal corporation, the board of health of a general health district, or a board of township trustees makes complaint, in writing, to the environmental protection agency that unsafe water supply conditions exist in any county, the agency's director forthwith shall inquire into and investigate the conditions complained of. If, upon investigation of the complaint, the director finds that it is necessary for the public health and welfare that water supply facilities be acquired or constructed, maintained, and operated to serve any territory outside municipal corporations in any county, the director shall notify the board of county commissioners of the county of that finding and order that corrective action be taken. The board shall obey the order and proceed as provided in this chapter and section 6117.01 of the Revised Code to establish a county sewer district, if required, to provide the necessary funds, to acquire or construct the facilities, and to maintain and operate the facilities, as required by the order and in a manner that is satisfactory to the director. Any part or all of the cost of the facilities or of the maintenance and operation of the facilities may be assessed upon the benefited properties as provided in this chapter.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6111.043 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6111 / § 6111.043
§ 6111.043. Regulation of the injection of sewage, industrial waste, hazardous waste, and other wastes into wells
Status: in_force

May 28, 1992 House Bill 147 - 119th General Assembly (A) As used in this section and sections 6111.044 to 6111.047 of the Revised Code, "area of review" means the area of review of an injection well as determined under regulations adopted under the "Safe Drinking Water Act," 88 Stat. 1661 (1974), 42 U.S.C.A. 300(f), as amended, or under rules adopted under this section. (B) This section and sections 6111.044 to 6111.049 of the Revised Code establish a program for regulation of the injection of sewage, industrial waste, hazardous waste, and other wastes into wells in order to control pollution of the waters of the state, to prevent contamination of underground sources of drinking water, and to satisfy all requirements of the "Safe Drinking Water Act," 88 Stat. 1661 (1974), 42 U.S.C.A. 300(f), as amended, regarding injection wells as defined in regulations adopted under that act. This section and sections 6111.044 to 6111.049 of the Revised Code do not apply to the drilling, conversion, and operation of wells that are subject to Chapter 1509. of the Revised Code. The director of environmental protection, in consultation with the director of natural resources, shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code governing the injection of sewage, industrial waste, hazardous waste, and other wastes into wells. The rules shall include provisions regarding all of the following: (1) Applications for and issuance and renewal of injection well drilling and injection well operating permits. The term of an injection well operating permit shall be five years, except that in the case of the injection well drilling permit or renewal of an injection well operating permit, as appropriate, that is first issued on or after the effective date of this amendment for a class I injection well that is in operation on that date, the term of the permit shall be not less than four nor more than six years as determined by the director. (2) Terms and conditions of such permits; (3) Entry to conduct inspections to ascertain compliance with this section, sections 6111.044 , 6111.045 , and 6111.047 of the Revised Code, and rules adopted and orders and terms and conditions of permits issued thereunder; (4) Contingencies involving the mechanical integrity of class I injection wells, including requirements for the automatic shutdown of an injection well if pressures or the temperature or specific gravity of the sewage, industrial waste, hazardous waste, or other wastes differs from prescribed allowances; (5) A requirement that a seismic reflection data survey be conducted at each injection site where a class I injection well is located or proposed to be located in order to determine the presence or absence of such geologic faults or fractures as may be identified by seismic reflection survey data within or near the area around the well where formation pressures may be increased due to the operation of the well. If, prior to the effective date of division (B)(5) of this section, a seismic reflection data survey was conducted at an injection site in accordance with a work plan approved by the director or a seismic reflection data survey was conducted at an injection site and the results were approved in writing by the director, the rules adopted under that division shall not require that a new survey be conducted. If there is a change in the area of review of an injection well that is located at an injection site for which a seismic reflection data survey has been conducted, or if a new injection well is proposed to be located at such an injection site, the rules shall require that the owner or operator of the injection site reevaluate the data obtained from the survey. The rules shall require that if, after a reevaluation of the existing survey data, the director determines that the existing data are inadequate to determine the presence or absence of geologic faults or fractures within the altered area of review or to determine the presence or absence of geologic faults or fractures within the area of pressure buildup of the new well, the director may require the owner or operator to submit such additional seismic reflection data as the director considers necessary or appropriate. All seismic reflection data surveys shall be conducted in accordance with the standards established in rules adopted by the director. (6) A requirement that when the director has reason to believe that the operation of a class I injection well may cause seismic disturbances, a passive seismicity monitoring program be maintained at or near the injection site. The rules adopted under division (B)(6) of this section may require that a microseismicity monitoring program be maintained at an injection site when determined to be necessary or appropriate by the director. All seismicity monitoring programs shall be conducted in accordance with standards established in rules adopted by the director. (7) Definitions of the various classes of injection wells; (8) A determination of the areas of review of injection wells; (9) Other provisions in furtherance of the goals of this section and the "Safe Drinking Water Act," 88 Stat. 1661 (1974), 42 U.S.C.A. 300(f), as amended. The rules adopted under this section shall be consistent with that act and the regulations adopted under it, except that the director may adopt rules under this section that are more stringent than that act and the regulations adopted under it when he determines that they are inadequate to protect human health or the environment. (C) Unless otherwise authorized by rule of the director, no person shall drill a new well or convert an existing well for the purpose of injecting sewage, industrial waste, hazardous waste, or other wastes, without having obtained an injection well drilling permit issued by the director of environmental protection. The original permit or a true copy thereof shall be displayed in a conspicuous and easily accessible place at the well site. An application for an injection well drilling permit shall be filed with the director upon such form as the director prescribes and shall contain such information as the director requires by rule, including all of the following information: (1) The name and address of the owner and, if a corporation, the name and address of the statutory agent; (2) In the case of an applicant for a permit to drill a class I injection well who, at the time of submitting the application, does not hold an injection well operating permit or renewal of such a permit issued under section 6111.044 of the Revised Code, a statement of all relevant expertise of the owner or, if the well is to be operated by a person other than the owner, of the operator, in the operation of class I injection wells and a listing of all class I injection wells that the owner or operator has operated and is operating; the date that each such well was first placed in service or, if the well was first placed in service before the applicant acquired the well, the date that the applicant acquired the well; and the date of issuance, identification number, and expiration date of the permits issued for each such well by the United States or the state in which the injection well is located and, for each such permit, the name and address of the federal or state agency that issued the permit; (3) The signature of the owner or his authorized agent. When an authorized agent signs an application, it shall be accompanied by a certified copy of his appointment as such agent. (4) The proposed well location identified by latitude and longitude, and the location of the tract on which the well is to be drilled identified by latitudes and longitudes, section or lot number, city, village, or township, as applicable, and county; (5) Designation of the well by name and number; (6) The name of the geological formation and the approximate depth interval to be tested or used and the proposed total depth of the well; (7) The type of drilling, completion, and injection equipment proposed to be used; (8) The plan for disposal of water and other waste substances resulting from or obtained or produced in connection with the drilling, conversion, or testing of the well; (9) The chemical composition and physical properties of the substance proposed to be injected. (D) Based upon conditions observed by the director or his authorized representative during drilling or completion of a class I injection well, the director may request the holder of an injection well drilling permit issued under section 6111.044 of the Revised Code to submit to the director such information and test results in addition to those submitted with the application as the director considers necessary to more adequately define hydrogeologic conditions at the site of the well and to protect the lowermost underground source of drinking water near the injection well. The director shall include in each injection well drilling permit issued under section 6111.044 of the Revised Code the condition that, upon receiving such a request from the director, the permit holder promptly submit the additional information or test results to the director. (E) Unless otherwise authorized by rule of the director, no person shall use a well for the injection of sewage, industrial waste, hazardous waste, or other wastes without first obtaining an injection well operating permit issued by the director. An application for an injection well operating permit or a renewal of such a permit shall be filed on such form as the director prescribes and shall contain the information prescribed in the applicable provisions of divisions (C)(1) to (9) of this section. In addition, an application for an injection well operating permit or renewal of such a permit for a class I injection well shall contain such information as the director requires by rule, including all of the following: (1) The results of such seismic reflection data surveys, seismic monitoring, and geophysical testing surveys in and surrounding the injection area as are required pursuant to rules adopted under divisions (B)(5) and (6) of this section; (2) A plan for ensuring the annual review and testing of the integrity of the well casing and associated well features and, if the application is for a renewal, the results of all such testing since the issuance of the current permit or renewal permit. If this information has been submitted to the director previously as required by rule or applicable technical guidance, it may be included in the application by reference. (3) A plan for monitoring the lowermost underground source of drinking water near the injection well. When determined to be necessary by the director, the application also shall include a plan for monitoring conditions of other formations within the area of review of the well, including formation pressures, formation transmissivity, or the vertical or horizontal migration of the injected fluids. If the application is for the renewal of an injection well operating permit, it shall be accompanied by all of the results from the monitoring of the lowermost underground source of drinking water near the well, and from other formation monitoring activities, conducted during the term of the current permit or renewal that had not been submitted to the director previously in accordance with rules adopted under this section, the terms and conditions of the current permit or renewal, or applicable technical guidance. (4) A plan for conducting a seismicity monitoring program at the injection site when such a monitoring program is required pursuant to rules adopted under division (B)(6) of this section; (5) The results of downhole monitoring; geophysical logs; core samples, to the extent that they are available; results of laboratory tests of core samples, to the extent that they are available; results of laboratory tests of formation fluids from the injection zone; and such other data or samples as the director may require to be submitted. If any such information, test results, or samples have been submitted to the director previously upon the request of the director or as required by rule, the terms and conditions of the injection well drilling permit or injection well operating permit or renewal of that operating permit for the well, or applicable technical guidance, the information, test results, or results of the analysis or evaluation of the samples may be included in the application by reference. (6) A determination accompanied by supporting documentation describing all areas around the well where formation pressures are predicted by the applicant to be increased due to the operation of the well and an evaluation of whether any resulting potential exists for contamination of any underground source of drinking water or migration of substances injected into the well outside of the anticipated injection zone. The determination shall be made through the use of an hydraulic model acceptable to the director. (7) An evaluation of all artificial penetrations through the base of any underground source of drinking water within the area of review of the well and a determination of whether the wells are completed or plugged in accordance with the applicable rules adopted under this section or section 1509.15 of the Revised Code; (8) Such additional information as the director determines to be necessary to carry out his responsibilities under this section and section 6111.044 of the Revised Code. (F) Unless otherwise authorized by rule of the director, each application for an injection well drilling or operating permit or renewal of an injection well operating permit shall be accompanied by a map, on a scale not smaller than four hundred feet to the inch, prepared by an Ohio registered surveyor, showing the location of the well and containing such other data as may be prescribed by the director. If the well is or is to be located within the excavations and workings of an active mine, the map also shall include the location of the mine, the name of the mine, and the name of the person operating the mine. If the well is or is to be located within the excavations of an abandoned mine, the map also shall include the location of the mine and, to the extent that the information is available, the name of the mine and approximate dates when mining activities occurred at the mine. (G) Each application for an injection well drilling permit, an injection well operating permit, a renewal of an injection well operating permit, or a modification of an injection well drilling or operating permit or renewal permit shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable fee prescribed by the director by rule as necessary to defray the cost of processing the application. Last updated October 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 6131.41 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6131 / § 6131.41
§ 6131.41. Contracts for drainage improvement
Status: in_force

April 9, 1981 House Bill 268 - 113th General Assembly The acceptance of the bids in accordance with section 6131.40 of the Revised Code shall be approved by the board of county commissioners. Upon the acceptance of any bid for the whole or any part of an improvement, the bidder shall within ten days enter into a contract in writing to perform the work or furnish the material bid for as prepared by the county engineer. The board by an order entered on its journal shall record the time within which the work shall be completed and material furnished, but if an improvement requires both labor and material and contracts therefor are given to different persons, the time of furnishing the material and completing the labor shall correspond with the time provided for its use in the progress of the work. An upper contractor shall not be required to complete his contract until an outlet is furnished by the work done by a lower contractor.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6119.071 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6119 / § 6119.071
§ 6119.071. Grounds for removal of member of board of trustees
Status: in_force

December 21, 1998 Senate Bill 201 - 122nd General Assembly A member of the board of trustees of a regional water and sewer district who has been appointed to the board may be removed by the appointing authority for misfeasance, nonfeasance, or malfeasance in office. Prior to removing a member, the appointing authority shall notify the member of the facts supporting the proposed removal and shall provide the member an opportunity to appear before the appointing authority or at a public hearing held by the appointing authority and show cause why the member should not be removed from office. A member of a board of trustees who has been removed pursuant to this section may appeal the removal not later than thirty days after the removal to the court of common pleas constituted as provided in section 6119.03 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6161.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6161 / § 6161.03
§ 6161.03. Cooperation of state officers
Status: in_force

October 9, 1963 House Bill 415 - 105th General Assembly There is hereby granted to the great lakes commission and the commissioners thereof all the powers provided for in the great lakes basin compact set forth in section 6161.01 of the Revised Code and all the powers necessary or incidental to the carrying out of said compact in every particular. All officers of this state shall do all things falling within their respective jurisdictions necessary to or incidental to the carrying out of said compact in every particular; it being hereby declared to be the policy of this state to perform and carry out the said compact and to accomplish the purposes thereof. All officers, bureaus, departments, and persons of and in the state government or administration of this state shall at reasonable times and upon request of said commission furnish the said commission with information and data possessed by any of them and aid said commission by loan of personnel or other means lying within their legal powers respectively. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 6131.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6131 / § 6131.21
§ 6131.21. Factors to be considered by commissioners at final hearing
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly (A) At the final hearing on a proposed improvement, after hearing all the evidence offered in the proceedings and after receiving and considering all the schedules, plans, and reports filed by the county engineer, the board of county commissioners shall review its former order to proceed with project survey and design for the proposed improvement and shall either affirm its former order and proceed to confirm the assessments and order the letting of the contract or shall set aside its former order and dismiss the petition. (B) In determining whether or not the improvement should be granted, the board shall consider the following factors: (1) The cost of location and construction; (2) The compensation for land or other property necessary to be taken; (3) The effect on land along or in the vicinity of the route of the improvement; (4) The effect on land below the lower terminus of the improvement that may be caused by constructing the improvement; (5) The sufficiency or insufficiency of the outlet; (6) The benefits to the public welfare; (7) The benefits to land, public corporations, and the state needing the improvement; (8) Any other proper matter that will assist the board in finding for or against the improvement. (C) The board shall set aside the former order and dismiss the petition if the board finds any of the following: (1) That the cost of the improvement will be equal to or greater than the benefits that will be derived from the improvement if constructed; (2) That the improvement is not necessary; (3) That the improvement will not be conducive to the public welfare. (D) If the board dismisses the petition for a proposed improvement at the final hearing, all costs for the proceedings, including the costs incurred by the engineer in making surveys, plans, reports, and schedules, may be distributed to the benefiting landowners in the same ratio as determined by the engineer in the final estimated assessments presented at the final hearing. If the costs are not distributed to the benefiting landowners, the costs must be paid from county funds. (E) The petitioner, or any owner in favor of the improvement, may appeal from the order of dismissal, as provided in section 6131.25 of the Revised Code. (F) An order issued by the board under this section is effective on the day of the hearing at which the board issued it.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6111.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6111 / § 6111.09
§ 6111.09. Civil penalties for water pollution control violations
Status: in_force

September 1, 2008 Senate Bill 214 - 127th General Assembly (A) Any person who violates section 6111.07 of the Revised Code shall pay a civil penalty of not more than ten thousand dollars per day of violation. Any person who purposely violates section 6111.10 or 6111.11 of the Revised Code shall pay a civil penalty of fifty dollars for a first violation and a civil penalty of not more than five hundred dollars for each subsequent violation occurring within twelve months of the first violation. The attorney general, upon written request by the director of environmental protection, shall commence an action under this section against any person who violates section 6111.07 of the Revised Code. The director shall notify in writing any person who is allegedly selling or offering for sale a product in violation of section 6111.10 or 6111.11 of the Revised Code of the alleged specific violation and shall request the person to remove the product from the person's sales area. If at least ten days after providing that notification the director determines that the person has failed to remove the product from the person's sales area, the director in writing shall request the attorney general to, and the attorney general shall, commence an action under this section against the person. Any action under this section is a civil action, governed by the Rules of Civil Procedure and other rules of practice and procedure applicable to civil actions. (B) One-half of the moneys collected as civil penalties under division (A) of this section shall be credited to the environmental education fund created in section 3745.22 of the Revised Code. The remainder of the moneys so collected shall be credited to the water pollution control administration fund, which is hereby created in the state treasury. The water pollution control administration fund shall be administered by the director. Moneys in the water pollution control administration fund shall be used to supplement other moneys available for the administration and enforcement of this chapter and the rules adopted and terms and conditions of orders and permits issued under it, including, without limitation, the issuance of permits under it, and shall not be used to satisfy any state matching fund requirements for the receipt of any federal grant funds. The director may expend not more than seven hundred fifty thousand dollars of the moneys credited to the water pollution control administration fund under this division in any fiscal year for the purposes specified in this division. The director may request authority from the controlling board to expend any moneys credited to that fund in any fiscal year in excess of that amount.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.11
§ 6115.11. Oath, bond of director
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Each director of a sanitary district, before entering upon his official duties, shall take and subscribe to an oath before an officer authorized to administer oaths that he will honestly, faithfully, and impartially perform the duties of his office, and that he will not be interested directly or indirectly in any contract let for the purpose of carrying out sections 6115.01 to 6115.79 , inclusive, of the Revised Code. Said oath shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the court of common pleas of the county from which the director was appointed. Each director shall give a good and sufficient bond for the faithful and honest performance of his duties.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6131.27 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6131 / § 6131.27
§ 6131.27. Transcript of order for drainage improvement
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly If an appeal is filed pursuant to section 6131.25 of the Revised Code, the clerk of the board of county commissioners shall promptly prepare a transcript of the orders made by the board of county commissioners, and shall file such transcript with the clerk of the court of common pleas, together with the permanent files of records of the proceedings maintained by the board of county commissioners and county engineer as required under section 6131.061 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6111.312 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6111 / § 6111.312
§ 6111.312. Limitations on additional requirements
Status: in_force

July 21, 2022 House Bill 175 - 134th General Assembly (A) Notwithstanding section 6111.31 of the Revised Code, regarding any proposed impact to an ephemeral feature that is a water of the state, the director shall not impose or require any mitigation standard, criteria, scientific method, process, or other procedure or policy that is not specified in sections 6111.313 to 6111.316 of the Revised Code. (B) Notwithstanding section 6111.31 of the Revised Code, the director shall not impose any requirements beyond those specified in sections 6111.31 to 6111.316 of the Revised Code with respect to any activity impacting an ephemeral feature that is a water of the state in the issuance of a section 401 water quality certification. Last updated May 11, 2022 at 4:15 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.01
§ 6101.01. Conservancy district definitions
Status: in_force

September 21, 2000 House Bill 617 - 123rd General Assembly As used in this chapter: (A) "Publication" or "published" means once in a newspaper of general circulation in the county or counties where the publication is to be made. When a publication is required to be made by a conservancy district or its board of directors, a copy of the publication, certified by the secretary of the conservancy district to have been published in accordance with this division, shall be admitted in any court of this state as prima-facie evidence that the publication has been made. (B) "Person" has the same meaning as in section 1.59 of the Revised Code. "Person" does not include a county, township, municipal corporation, or other political subdivision of the state. (C) "Public corporation" or "political subdivision" means counties, townships, municipal corporations, school districts, road districts, ditch districts, park districts, levee districts, and all other governmental entities vested with the power to levy assessments or taxes. (D) "Court" means the court of common pleas in which the petition for the organization of a conservancy district is filed and granted, as presided over by the judges provided for in section 6101.07 of the Revised Code. (E) "Land" or "property," unless otherwise specified, means real property as that term is used in and defined by the laws of this state, and includes all railroads, tramroads, roads, electric railroads, street and interurban railroads, streets and street improvements, telephone, telegraph, and transmission lines, gas, sewerage, and water systems, pipe lines and rights of way of public service corporations, and all other public or private real property. (F) "Underground water" means any water under the surface of the land or under the bed of any stream, lake, reservoir, or other body of surface water. (G) "Aquifer" means any underground water-bearing bed or stratum of earth, gravel, sand, or porous stone having boundaries that may be ascertained or reasonably inferred, in which water stands, flows, or percolates.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6135.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6135 / § 6135.03
§ 6135.03. Organizational meeting
Status: in_force

August 23, 1957 House Bill 220 - 102nd General Assembly After receiving notice by the clerk of the board of county commissioners of the time and place of the meeting as provided in section 6135.02 of the Revised Code, the boards of county commissioners shall proceed at such time and place to form themselves into a joint board for the purpose before them by electing one of their number as president and another as clerk. The president and clerk shall not both be selected from the board representing the same state, and a majority of each proper board must be present to constitute a quorum.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.221 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.221
§ 6115.221. Appropriation of property for sewer construction to address public health nuisance
Status: in_force

May 6, 2005 House Bill 411 - 125th General Assembly (A) For the purposes of this section, either of the following constitutes a public exigency: (1) A finding by the director of environmental protection that a public health nuisance caused by an occasion of unavoidable urgency and suddenness due to unsanitary conditions compels the immediate construction of sewers for the protection of the public health and welfare; (2) The issuance of an order by the board of health of a health district to mitigate or abate a public health nuisance that is caused by an occasion of unavoidable urgency and suddenness due to unsanitary conditions and compels the immediate construction of sewers for the protection of the public health and welfare. (B) If the board of directors of a sanitary district is unable to purchase property for the purpose of the construction of sewers to mitigate or abate the public health nuisance that is the subject of a finding of the director or an order of the board of health, the board of directors may adopt a resolution finding that it is necessary for the protection of the public health and welfare to appropriate property that the board of directors considers needed for that purpose. The resolution shall contain a definite, accurate, and detailed description of the property and the name and place of residence, if known or with reasonable diligence ascertainable, of the owners of the property to be appropriated. The board of directors shall fix in its resolution what it considers to be the value of the property to be appropriated, which shall be the board's determination of the compensation for the property and shall be supported by an independent appraisal, together with any damages to the residue. The board shall deposit the compensation so determined, together with an amount for the damages to the residue, with the probate court or the court of common pleas of the county in which the property, or a part of it, is situated. Except as otherwise provided in this division, the power to appropriate property for the purposes of this division shall be exercised in the manner provided in sections 163.01 to 163.22 of the Revised Code for an appropriation in time of public exigency. The board's resolution and a written copy of the independent appraisal shall accompany the petition filed under section 163.05 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.31 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.31
§ 6115.31. Appraisals of compensation and damages beyond the boundaries of district
Status: in_force

July 8, 1993 Senate Bill 105 - 120th General Assembly If the board of appraisers of a sanitary district finds that lands or other property not embraced within the boundaries of the district will be affected by the proposed improvement, or should be included in the district, it shall appraise the benefits and damages to such land or other property, and shall file notice in the court of the appraisal which it has made upon the lands or other property beyond the boundaries of the district, and to the land or other property which in its opinion should be included in the district. The board shall also report to the court any lands or other property which in its opinion should be eliminated from the district.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.45 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.45
§ 6115.45. Sanitary district funds
Status: in_force

July 8, 1993 Senate Bill 105 - 120th General Assembly The moneys of every sanitary district shall consist of three separate funds: (A) The "preliminary fund" consisting of the proceeds of the ad valorem tax authorized by section 6115.46 of the Revised Code, and such advancements as are made from the general county funds as provided in section 6115.46 of the Revised Code; (B) The "bond fund" consisting of the proceeds of levies made against the special assessments of benefits equalized and confirmed under this chapter, and, as to sanitary districts organized for the purpose of providing a water supply, the proceeds of the sale of water pursuant to section 6115.19 of the Revised Code and the proceeds of bonds issued under this chapter; (C) The "maintenance fund" consisting of a special assessment to be levied annually for the purpose of upkeep, administration, and current expenses as provided in section 6115.53 of the Revised Code, except that the maintenance fund for improved water supply for domestic, municipal, and public use shall be derived from the sale of water as provided in such section. The cost of preparing the official plan, the appraisal, except as paid out of the preliminary fund, the entire cost of construction and superintendence, including all charges incidental thereto, the financing costs as defined in section 133.01 of the Revised Code, and the cost of administration during the period of construction shall be paid out of the bond fund. No vouchers shall be drawn against the preliminary fund, except for advances from the general county funds, or against the maintenance fund provided for purposes other than improved water supply for domestic, municipal, and public use, until a tax-levying resolution has been properly passed by the board of directors of the sanitary district, and duly entered upon its records. In case the purposes of the district include both improved sanitation and improved water supply, the funds for these purposes shall be kept separate.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6117.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6117 / § 6117.13
§ 6117.13. Transmission of original papers in proceedings and certified transcript of record
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Within ten days after the filing of an appeal bond provided for in section 6117.10 or 6117.11 of the Revised Code, or the making of the entry provided for in section 6117.12 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall transmit to the probate court the original papers in the proceedings, and a certified transcript of the record of said board of all proceedings in connection therewith. Upon receipt thereof, the probate judge shall forthwith docket the cause, and the appellants shall be designated as the plaintiffs, and the board shall be designated as the defendant.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6111.037 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6111 / § 6111.037
§ 6111.037. Nonpoint source pollution management fund
Status: in_force

September 29, 2013 House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly (A) For purposes of state nonpoint source pollution management and pursuant to section 319 of the "Federal Water Pollution Control Act," the director of environmental protection may enter into agreements to receive grant moneys for nonpoint source pollution management for deposit into the state treasury to the credit of the water quality protection fund created in section 6111.0381 of the Revised Code. The director may enter into agreements to make grants of moneys credited to the fund under this section, including, without limitation, passthrough grants to other state departments or agencies. (B) The director shall periodically prepare and, by rules adopted under division (O) of section 6111.036 of the Revised Code, establish a priority system for identifying activities eligible for assistance under this section. The priority system shall ensure that financial assistance available under this section is first provided to: (1) Control particularly difficult or serious nonpoint source pollution problems, including, without limitation, problems resulting from mining activities; (2) Implement innovative methods or practices for controlling nonpoint sources of pollution, including, without limitation, regulatory programs that the director determines are appropriate; (3) Control interstate nonpoint source pollution problems; (4) Implement ground and surface water quality protection activities that the director determines are part of a comprehensive nonpoint source pollution control program, which activities include research, planning, water quality assessments, demonstration programs, enforcement, technical assistance, education, and training to protect water quality from nonpoint sources of pollution.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6119.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6119 / § 6119.08
§ 6119.08. Rules and regulations of the district
Status: in_force

October 23, 1972 Senate Bill 397 - 109th General Assembly In order to accomplish the purposes of a regional water and sewer district, to protect its projects, to secure the best results from the construction, operation, and maintenance thereof, and to prevent damage by the misuse of any such projects or by the pollution or misuse of the waters of the state within the district or without the district and served or affected by a project or projects of the district, the board of trustees may make and enforce such rules and regulations as are necessary and advisable: (A) To protect and preserve the projects of such district, prescribe the manner of their use by any person or political subdivision and preserve order within and adjacent thereto; (B) To prescribe the manner in which ditches, sewers, pipelines, or other works shall be adjusted to or connected with the projects of the district and the manner in which waste is disposed of within the district; (C) To prescribe the permissible uses of the water supply and the manner of its distribution and to prevent the pollution or unnecessary waste of such water supply; (D) To prohibit or regulate the discharge into the waste water facilities of the district of any liquid or solid waste detrimental to its works and improvements. Such rules and regulations shall not be inconsistent with the laws of the state or the rules and regulations or requirements of the environmental protection agency. The board may enforce by mandamus, injunction, or other legal remedy rules and regulations made by it pursuant to this section, and may remove any harmful or improper construction or obstruction or may close any opening or connection made improperly or in violation of such rules and regulations. The board may bring such suit in mandamus in the court of appeals in the first instance, if it deems it advisable. Any person or political subdivision which willfully fails to comply with such rules and regulations shall be liable for damage caused by such failure and for the cost of restoring or replacing any construction damaged or destroyed.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6103.40 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6103 / § 6103.40
§ 6103.40. Amendments to chapter are subject to 4 of HB 549 of the 123rd General Assembly
Status: in_force

March 12, 2001 House Bill 549 - 123rd General Assembly It is the intent of the general assembly that the amendments made to this chapter by Sub. H.B. 549 of the 123rd general assembly are subject to Section 4 of that act. This section does not affect the application of Section 3 of that act to Sections 1 and 2 of that act.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6137.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6137 / § 6137.11
§ 6137.11. Permanent base for maintenance assessments
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly (A) The original schedule of benefit assessments upon owners for the construction of any improvement shall be maintained by the county auditor as the permanent assessment base for maintenance. The county auditor shall levy the maintenance assessments in such percentage of the permanent assessment base as is authorized by the board of county commissioners. (B) Before certifying the percentage of the permanent assessment base to be levied in any one year for the maintenance fund, the board of county commissioners shall consider any recommendation by the county engineer and any application by an owner for increase or reduction of the permanent assessment base as it applies to an owner. (C)(1) After six annual maintenance fund assessments have been made upon the owners benefiting from an improvement, the board of county commissioners shall review the permanent assessment base and may increase or decrease the respective benefit apportionments in accordance with changes in benefits that have occurred during the intervening six years. (2) Any increase or reduction of the permanent assessment base with respect to an owner shall be made for the purpose of correcting an inequity that has arisen due to increase or decrease in the proportionate share of benefits accruing to the owner as the result of the construction and maintenance of the improvement. (3) If the board of county commissioners proposes changes to the permanent assessment base of an owner, the board shall conduct a hearing on those changes. The board shall conduct the hearing not less than twenty nor more than thirty days from the date the proposed changes are to be adopted. (4) The clerk of the board shall send to each owner in the area benefited by the improvement a notice by first-class mail in a five-day return envelope with the words "Legal Notice" printed in plain view on the face of the envelope. The clerk shall include in the notice a statement of the amount of the present permanent assessment base, the proposed new permanent assessment base amount with respect to each owner so changed, and the date of a hearing on the change. (D) At the expiration of six years from the date of the first review of the permanent assessment base, and at six-year intervals thereafter, the board of county commissioners may again review the permanent assessment base and shall set a hearing on any proposed changes in accordance with the procedures established in division (C) of this section. (E) The board of county commissioners at any time may add to the schedule of benefited owners any other owner who, in the judgment of the board, is benefited by the operation and maintenance of the improvement as the result of new conditions that have arisen since the improvement was constructed. The clerk of the board shall provide such an owner notice in writing of the owner's permanent assessment base and the date of a hearing in accordance with the procedures established in division (C) of this section for any owner whose permanent assessment base has been changed by the board. Notice to such an owner shall be sent by the same type of mail as the board uses for owners whose permanent assessment base has been changed. (F) A hearing on the changes in, or additions to, the permanent assessment base may be adjourned from time to time by the board of county commissioners and, upon conclusion of the hearing, the revised permanent assessment base shall be certified to the county auditor and shall become the permanent assessment base, except as changed from time to time with respect to individual owners. (G) If the board of county commissioners finds that any owner was not assessed for the construction of an improvement, but now is receiving substantial benefit therefrom, or was assessed for construction, but now is receiving substantially greater benefits therefrom, the board, after providing a thirty day notice pursuant to section 6131.07 of the Revised Code, may hold a hearing and determine an equitable amount as an equalization assessment to be paid by the owner. The equalization assessment shall be divided into the same number of payments as the assessments for the construction of the improvement, and the payment shall be added to the next succeeding maintenance assessments of the owner until the entire amount of the equalization assessment has been paid. (H) Any owner affected by an increase in the permanent assessment base as it applies to the owner, or who has been added to the schedule of benefited owners, or who has been determined to be subject to an equalization assessment, all as provided in this section, may appeal to the court of common pleas from a final order made by the board of county commissioners, in the manner provided by sections 6131.25 to 6131.36 of the Revised Code, the question of whether any such assessment is levied according to benefits. (I) In the case of drainage maintenance districts for which the board of county commissioners has authorized a single maintenance fund, a review of the permanent assessment base shall be made not later than six years after the creation of the drainage maintenance district, and at six-year intervals thereafter, by the same procedure as provided by this section for review of the permanent assessment base with respect to a single improvement, and it shall not be necessary to review the entire permanent assessment base for any improvement included in the maintenance district until the board reviews the permanent assessment base for the entire district.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6103.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6103 / § 6103.13
§ 6103.13. Cost assessment
Status: in_force

March 12, 2001 House Bill 549 - 123rd General Assembly The cost of the acquisition or construction of water supply facilities to be paid by assessments shall be assessed, as an assessment district assessment, upon all the property within the county sewer district found to be benefited in accordance with the special benefits conferred, less any part of the cost that is paid by the county at large from other available funds. State land so benefited shall bear its portion of the assessed cost.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6135.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6135 / § 6135.01
§ 6135.01. Procedure where more than one county or state affected by improvement
Status: in_force

August 23, 1957 House Bill 220 - 102nd General Assembly Where the board of county commissioners has been notified that a petition for the improvement of a ditch or drain has been regularly filed with the clerk of the board of county commissioners thereof, then said board shall proceed as in single county ditches, if lands affected by said improvement lie wholly in one county, and shall proceed as in joint county ditches if two or more counties are affected, and shall order the county engineers, or disinterested engineers, of such counties, in addition to the preliminary survey as provided for in other cases, to consult with the proper officials of the counties of an adjoining state through which the route of the improvement would pass.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.11
§ 6101.11. Organization, records of conservancy district
Status: in_force

September 21, 2000 House Bill 617 - 123rd General Assembly Each member of the board of directors of a conservancy district, before entering upon the member's official duties, shall take and subscribe to an oath before a suitable officer that the member will honestly, faithfully, and impartially perform the duties of office and that the member will not be interested directly or indirectly in any contract let by the district. This oath shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the court in the original case. Upon the members' taking of the oath, the board shall choose one of its number as president of the board and may elect another as vice-president. The board shall elect some suitable person secretary of the conservancy district, who shall not be a member of the board. The board shall keep a record of all of its proceedings, minutes of all of its meetings, certificates, contracts, bonds given by employees, and all corporate acts. The record shall be open to the inspection of all owners of property in the district as well as to all other interested parties. The board shall adopt bylaws governing the administration of the affairs of the district. A majority of the board constitutes a quorum, and a concurrence of the majority in any matter within the board's duties is sufficient for its determination. All actions of the board shall be by motion or resolution.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6111.56 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6111 / § 6111.56
§ 6111.56. Determining source or sources of water impairment
Status: in_force

October 21, 2003 House Bill 43 - 125th General Assembly (A) If the source or sources of a pollutant causing an impairment of a water of the state are unknown, the water of the state may be identified and listed under section 303(d) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. However, the director of environmental protection shall continue to monitor the water of the state to determine the source or sources of the impairment before a total maximum daily load is established for the water of the state pursuant to that section. (B) The director shall not include a water of the state on a list established under section 303(d) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act or establish a total maximum daily load for a water of the state if the failure of the water of the state to comply with an applicable water quality standard results solely from the existence of a naturally occurring condition or conditions. (C) The director shall establish narrative water quality standards where numerical criteria cannot be established or to supplement numerical criteria.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6119.051 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6119 / § 6119.051
§ 6119.051. Petition for modification of district
Status: in_force

November 19, 1971 Senate Bill 166 - 109th General Assembly At any time after the creation of a water and sewer district, the district, after action by its board of trustees, may file a petition in the court of common pleas requesting the order of such court permitting the district to: (A) Increase or add to its purposes heretofore approved by the court so long only as its purposes are those described in section 6119.01 of the Revised Code, or (B) Abandon or surrender any purpose heretofore approved by the court, or (C) Amend any provision of the petition filed pursuant to section 6119.02 of the Revised Code. Upon the filing of petition pursuant to this section the court shall set a date for hearing and the clerk of the court shall give notice thereof by publication once each week for four consecutive weeks in a newspaper having a general circulation in each of the counties, in whole or in part, within the district. Any person or any political subdivision residing or lying within an area affected by the operation of the district, on or before the date set for hearing, may file an objection to the granting of the petition. Upon hearing, if it appears that the request of the petition is conducive to the public health, safety, convenience or welfare and will not if granted adversely affect the continued operation of the district, the court shall grant the prayer of the petition. Otherwise, it shall dismiss the petition.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6131.33 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6131 / § 6131.33
§ 6131.33. Jury verdict form
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly If there is more than one appellant in a trial by jury authorized under section 6131.32 of the Revised Code with separate claims on the question of compensation or damages or if there are issues as to different properties, the court may submit all the several claims and issues to the same jury, with appropriate verdicts as to each claim. The court also may direct separate trials for the separate claims and issues. The court shall instruct the jury that it shall not consider or deduct the value of any benefits that such land will receive from the construction of such improvement.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6155.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6155 / § 6155.09
§ 6155.09. Apportionment of costs of proceedings
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The board of county commissioners shall apportion to each of the petitioners under section 6155.01 of the Revised Code and all other landowners benefited by the removal of the milldam, in an equitable manner, according to the benefits to be derived therefrom, the costs of the proceedings, as in county ditch cases, the amount asked by the owner of the milldam and agreed upon, and the amount of cost necessary to its removal, as reported by the county engineer.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6131.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6131 / § 6131.01
§ 6131.01. Single county drainage improvement definitions
Status: in_force

March 24, 2021 House Bill 340 - 133rd General Assembly As used in sections 6131.01 to 6131.64 of the Revised Code: (A) "Owner" means any owner of any right, title, estate, or interest in or to any real property and includes persons, partnerships, associations, private corporations, public corporations, boards of township trustees, boards of education of school districts, the mayor or legislative authority of a municipal corporation, the director of any department, office, or institution of the state, and the trustees of any state, county, or municipal public institution. "Owner" also includes any public corporation and the director of any department, office, or institution of the state affected by an improvement but not owning any right, title, estate, or interest in or to any real property. (B) "Land" includes any estate or interest, of any nature or kind, in or to real property, or any easement in or to real property, or any right to the use of real property, and all structures or fixtures attached to real property, including but not restricted to all railroads, roads, electric railroads, street railroads, streets and street improvements, telephone, telegraph, and transmission lines, underground cables, gas, sewage, and water systems, pipe lines and rights of way of public service corporations, and all other real property whether public or private. (C) "Improvement" includes: (1) The location, construction, reconstruction, reconditioning, widening, deepening, straightening, altering, boxing, tiling, filling, walling, arching, or any change in the course, location, or terminus of any ditch, drain, watercourse, or floodway; (2) The deepening, widening, or straightening or any other change in the course, location, or terminus of a river, creek, or run; (3) A levee or any wall, embankment, jetty, dike, dam, sluice, revetment, reservoir, holding basin, control gate, breakwater, or other structure for the protection of lands from the overflow from any stream, lake, or pond, or for the protection of any outlet, or for the storage or control of water; (4) The removal of obstructions such as silt bars, log jams, debris, and drift from any ditch, drain, watercourse, floodway, river, creek, or run; (5) The vacating of a ditch or drain. (D) "Person" means natural person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation, other than public corporations. (E) "Public corporation" or "political subdivision" means counties, townships, municipal corporations, school districts, park districts, turnpikes, toll bridges, conservancy districts, and all other governmental agencies clothed with the power of levying general or special taxes. (F)(1) "Benefit" or "benefits," except as ordered in section 6131.31 of the Revised Code, means advantages to land and owners, to public corporations as entities, and to the state resulting from drainage, conservation, control and management of water, and environmental, wildlife, and recreational improvements. Factors relevant to whether such advantages result include: (a) The watershed or entire land area drained or affected by the improvement; (b) The total volume of water draining into or through the improvement and the amount of water contributed by each land owner; (c) The use to be made of the improvement by any owner, public corporation, or the state. (2) "Benefit" or "benefits" includes, but is not limited to, any or all of the following factors: (a) Elimination or reduction of damage from flooding; (b) Removal of water conditions that jeopardize public health, safety, or welfare; (c) Increased value of land resulting from an improvement; (d) The use of water for irrigation, storage, regulation of stream flow, soil conservation, water supply, or any other incidental purpose; (e) Providing an outlet for the accelerated runoff from artificial drainage if a stream, watercourse, channel, or ditch that is under improvement is called upon to discharge functions for which it was not designed. Uplands that have been removed from their natural state by deforestation, cultivation, artificial drainage, urban development, or other human methods shall be considered to be benefited by an improvement that is required to dispose of the accelerated flow of water from the uplands. (G) "Environmentally significant areas" mean natural land or water areas that in some degree retain or have reestablished their natural character or have other features of scientific or educational interest such as rare or endangered plant and animal populations or geologic, scenic, or other natural features and, because of their values and functions, contribute to the community's general welfare. (H) "Days" means calendar days.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6109.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6109 / § 6109.07
§ 6109.07. Construction, installation or change of public water system
Status: in_force

November 26, 1997 House Bill 321 - 122nd General Assembly (A) No person shall begin construction or installation of a public water system, or make a substantial change in a public water system, until plans therefor have been approved by the director of environmental protection under division (A)(1) or (2) of this section. (1) Upon receipt of a proper application, the director shall consider the need for compliance with requirements of the Safe Drinking Water Act, and generally accepted standards for the construction and equipping of water systems, and shall issue an order approving or disapproving the plans. In granting an approval, the director may stipulate conditions designed to ensure that the system will be able to meet the requirements of this chapter and rules adopted under it. (2) The director may enter into an agreement with a political subdivision or investor-owned public utility that owns or operates a public water system and that intends to extend the distribution facilities of its system, to increase the number of service connections to its system, or to add distribution system pump stations or storage tanks in the distribution system, which agreement authorizes a qualified officer or employee of the political subdivision or investor-owned public utility, as determined by the director, to review plans for the extension of the distribution facilities, the increase in the number of service connections, or the addition of distribution system pump stations or storage tanks in the distribution system for compliance with this chapter and the rules adopted under it and to certify to the director whether the plans comply with this chapter and the rules adopted under it. If, pursuant to such an agreement, the official or employee of the political subdivision or investor-owned public utility designated in the agreement certifies to the director that the plans comply with this chapter and the rules adopted under it and if the plans and certification are accompanied by an administrative service fee calculated in accordance with division (N)(2) of section 3745.11 of the Revised Code, the director shall approve the plans without further review by issuance of an order as a final action. As used in division (A)(2) of this section, "investor-owned public utility" means a person, other than an individual, that is a water-works company, as defined in section 4905.03 of the Revised Code, and that is not owned or operated by a municipal corporation or operated not-for-profit. (B) No person shall construct or install a public water system, or make any substantial change in a public water system, that is not in accordance with plans approved by the director. (C) No person shall operate a public water system, and no person who is an owner of a public water system shall permit its operation, if the person knows or has reason to know that the system was constructed or installed, or that a substantial change was made in the system, in violation of division (A) or (B) of this section unless the person has obtained written authorization from the director to operate the system pursuant to division (D) of this section. (D) The director may issue a notice by certified mail to the operator or owner of a public water system that was constructed, installed, or changed in violation of this section, informing the operator or owner of the violation. The director may issue an order authorizing the operator or owner to operate for ninety days, and the director may extend by order the authorization for periods as may be necessary to allow the owner or operator to submit plans, obtain their approval, and make such changes in the system as may be necessary to bring the system into compliance with the approved plans.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6119.24 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6119 / § 6119.24
§ 6119.24. Designate portions of work required for immediate use
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly After the plan of sewerage devised in accordance with section 6119.19 of the Revised Code has been adopted and approved, the board of trustees of the regional water and sewer district shall designate such portions of the work as are required for immediate use. The designation shall be by districts or areas and shall show what districts, areas, or parts thereof are to be improved. The board may order its officers to make an estimate of the cost and expense of constructing the work or such portions thereof as have been designated and report them to the board.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6113.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6113 / § 6113.02
§ 6113.02. Ohio commission members
Status: in_force

August 21, 1973 Senate Bill 131 - 110th General Assembly In pursuance of article IV of the compact set forth in section 6113.01 of the Revised Code, there shall be three members of the Ohio river valley water sanitation commission from this state. The governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint two of such commissioners, each of whom shall be a resident and citizen of the state. The two commissioners so appointed shall not be of the same political party. Terms of office of the appointed commissioners shall be for six years, commencing on the thirtieth day of June and ending on the twenty-ninth day of June, except that the term succeeding the term which ended on June 29, 1972 shall commence on June 30, 1972 and end on June 29, 1976. Each commissioner shall hold office from the date of his appointment until the end of the term for which he was appointed. Vacancies occurring in the office of any such commissioner from any reason or cause shall be filled by appointment by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate. Any commissioner appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was appointed shall hold office for the remainder of such term. Any commissioner shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration date of his term until his successor takes office, or until a period of sixty days has elapsed, whichever occurs first. The third commissioner from the state shall be the director of environmental protection ex officio, and the term of such commissioner shall terminate at the time he ceases to hold the office of director, and his successor as a commissioner shall be his successor as said director. With the exception of the issuance of any order under article IX of the compact, said ex officio commissioner may delegate, from time to time, to his designated representative the power to be present and participate, including voting, as his representative or substitute at any meeting of or hearing by or other proceeding of the commission. The term of each of the initial three members shall begin at the date of the appointment of the two appointive commissioners, provided said compact shall then have gone into effect in accordance with article XI of the compact; otherwise such terms shall begin upon the date upon which said compact becomes effective in accordance with said article XI. Any commissioner may be removed from office by the governor upon charges and after a hearing, but opportunity to be heard shall be given.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6112.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6112 / § 6112.05
§ 6112.05. Acquisition of sewerage and disposal systems by county
Status: in_force

September 19, 1961 Senate Bill 500 - 104th General Assembly A board of county commissioners may acquire, by purchase, sewerage systems and disposal systems serving sewer districts within its county, constructed by any person under the authority granted by sections 6112.02 and 6112.03 of the Revised Code. If the board and owners thereof are unable to agree upon its purchase and sale, or the amount of compensation therefor, the board may appropriate the sewerage system and disposal system. To carry out the appropriation of the sewerage system and disposal system, the board shall proceed in the same manner as is provided by law for the appropriation of private property by a municipal corporation at the time such appropriation is made. The board shall perform all duties required to be performed by the mayor or legislative authority of a municipal corporation by such laws, and the passage of equivalent resolutions by such board shall fulfill the requirements of such laws as to resolutions and ordinances to be passed by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6115.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6115 / § 6115.03
§ 6115.03. Jurisdiction, evidence, forms establishing sanitary district
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly (A) In any orders of court the words "The court now here finds that it hath jurisdiction of the parties to and of the subject matter of this proceeding" are equivalent to a finding that each jurisdictional fact necessary to confer plenary jurisdiction upon the court, beginning with the proper signing and filing of the initial petition to the date of the order, meets every legal requirement imposed by sections 6115.01 to 6115.79 , inclusive, of the Revised Code. (B) No other evidence of the legal hypothecation of the special tax to the payment of the bonds is required than the passage of a bonding resolution by the board of directors of a sanitary district and the issuance of bonds in accordance therewith. (C) In the preparation of any assessment or appraisal roll the usual abbreviations employed by engineers, surveyors, and abstractors may be used. (D) Where properly to describe any parcel of land, it would be necessary to use a long description, the board of appraisers of a sanitary district, after locating the land generally, may refer to the book and page of the public record of any instrument in which the land is described, which reference shall suffice to identify for all the purposes of such sections the land described in the public record so referred to. (E) It is not necessary in any notice required by such sections to be published to specify the names of the owners of the lands or of the persons interested therein; but any such notice may be addressed "To All Persons Interested" with like effect as though such notice named by name every owner of any lands within the territory specified in the notice and every person interested therein, and every lienor, actual or inchoate. (F) Every district declared upon hearing to be a sanitary district shall thereupon become a political subdivision and a public corporation of the state, invested with all the powers and privileges conferred upon such districts by such sections.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6119.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6119 / § 6119.21
§ 6119.21. Plan to show main sewers and all branch sewers
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The plan devised in accordance with section 6119.19 of the Revised Code shall be so prepared as to show the size, location, inclination, and depth below the surface of all main sewers and all branch sewers connected therewith.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6119.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6119 / § 6119.13
§ 6119.13. Exemption from bond laws
Status: in_force

November 19, 1971 Senate Bill 166 - 109th General Assembly The issuance of water resource revenue bonds and notes or water resource revenue refunding bonds under Chapter 6119. of the Revised Code need not comply with any other law applicable to the issuance of bonds or notes.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6111.44 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6111 / § 6111.44
§ 6111.44. Plans for installation or changes to sewerage systems to be submitted to director of environmental protection
Status: in_force

January 1, 2016 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly (A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, in section 6111.14 of the Revised Code, or in rules adopted under division (G) of section 6111.03 of the Revised Code, no municipal corporation, county, public institution, corporation, or officer or employee thereof or other person shall provide or install sewerage or treatment works for sewage, sludge, or sludge materials disposal or treatment or make a change in any sewerage or treatment works until the plans therefor have been submitted to and approved by the director of environmental protection. Sections 6111.44 to 6111.46 of the Revised Code apply to sewerage and treatment works of a municipal corporation or part thereof, an unincorporated community, a county sewer district, or other land outside of a municipal corporation or any publicly or privately owned building or group of buildings or place, used for the assemblage, entertainment, recreation, education, correction, hospitalization, housing, or employment of persons. In granting an approval, the director may stipulate modifications, conditions, and rules that the public health and prevention of pollution may require. Any action taken by the director shall be a matter of public record and shall be entered in the director's journal. Each period of thirty days that a violation of this section continues, after a conviction for the violation, constitutes a separate offense. (B) Sections 6111.45 and 6111.46 of the Revised Code and division (A) of this section do not apply to any of the following: (1) Sewerage or treatment works for sewage installed or to be installed for the use of a private residence or dwelling; (2) Sewerage systems, treatment works, or disposal systems for storm water from an animal feeding facility or manure, as "animal feeding facility" and "manure" are defined in section 903.01 of the Revised Code; (3) Residual farm products and manure treatment or disposal works and related management and conservation practices that are subject to rules adopted under division (E)(1) of section 939.02 of the Revised Code. As used in division (B)(3) of this section, "residual farm products" and "manure" have the same meanings as in section 939.01 of the Revised Code. (4) Sewerage or treatment works for the on-lot disposal or treatment of sewage from a small flow on-site sewage treatment system, as defined in section 3718.01 of the Revised Code, if the board of health of a city or general health district has notified the director of health and the director of environmental protection under section 3718.021 of the Revised Code that the board has chosen to regulate the system, provided that the board remains in compliance with the rules adopted under division (A)(13) of section 3718.02 of the Revised Code. The exclusions established in divisions (B)(2) and (3) of this section do not apply to the construction or installation of disposal systems, as defined in section 6111.01 of the Revised Code, that are located at an animal feeding facility and that store, treat, or discharge wastewaters that do not include storm water or manure or that discharge to a publicly owned treatment works.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6109.25 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6109 / § 6109.25
§ 6109.25. Appointment of receiver; petition
Status: in_force

October 6, 2017 Senate Bill 2 - 132nd General Assembly (A)(1) Upon petition by the director of environmental protection, a court of common pleas may appoint a receiver to take possession of and operate a public water system that serves fewer than five hundred service connections only when conditions existing at the public water system present a threat to public health or welfare. However, division (A)(1) of this section does not apply to a system owned and operated by a public entity or a system regulated by the public utilities commission. (2) The director shall include all of the following in a p etition: (a) A description of the specific conditions existing at the public water system which present a threat to public health or welfare; (b) A statement of the absence of other adequate remedies at law; (c) The population served by the public water system; (d) A statement that declares both of the following: (i) The facts concerning the conditions at the public water system have been brought to the attention of the owner and operator or that efforts to contact the owner or operator have been unsuccessful; (ii) The conditions have not been remedied within a reasonable period of time or that the conditions, though remedied periodically, habitually exist at the public water system as a pattern or practice. (e) The name and address of the owner of the public water system. (B)(1) The director shall send notice of the filing to all of the following: (a) The appropriate local board of health; (b) Customers of the public water system; (c) Any party with a known ownership interest in the public water system; (d) Any other appropriate persons identified by the director. (2) The court shall conduct a hearing on the petition within five court days of the day it is filed, except that the court may appoint a receiver prior to that time if the court determines that the circumstances necessitate such action. If the court appoints a receiver prior to conducting a hearing on the petition, the court shall provide notice of the appointment to any party with a known ownership interest in the system. Following a hearing on the petition, and upon a determination that the appointment of a receiver is warranted, the court shall appoint a receiver and notify the director, any party with a known ownership interest in the system, and any other appropriate persons of the appointment. (C) All of the following apply to the court's appointment of a receiver under this section: (1) The court shall not appoint a person who is not a resident of this state. (2) In selecting a receiver, the court shall give priority consideration to any qualified persons nominated by the director. However, the court is not required to select a qualified person nominated by the director. (3) The court shall not appoint a person with a financial or ownership interest in the public water system. (D) Prior to acting as a receiver, the receiver must be sworn to perform the duties of receiver faithfully, and, with surety approved by the court. The receiver shall execute a bond in an amount required by the court, to the effect that the receiver will faithfully discharge the duties of receiver and obey the orders of the court. (E) In establishing a receivership, the court shall set forth the powers and duties of the receiver. The court may authorize the receiver to take actions necessary to safely and efficiently operate the public water system within the requirements of state and federal law. However, the court shall require the receiver to obtain court approval prior to making any single expenditure of more than fifteen thousand dollars. In addition, if the receiver proposes to enter into a contract that is necessary to carry out the receiver's powers and duties and that is valued at fifteen thousand dollars or more, the receiver shall present to the court at least two cost quotations from different vendors before entering into the contract. The court shall closely review the conduct of the receiver it has appointed and shall require monthly detailed reports. (F) Under control of the appointing court, a receiver may bring and defend actions in the receiver's own name as receiver and take and keep possession of property. The court shall authorize the receiver to do the following: (1) Collect payment for all goods and services provided to persons served by the public water system during the period of the receivership at the same rate as was charged by the owner at the time the petition for receivership was filed, unless a different rate is set by the court; (2) Honor all leases, mortgages, and secured transactions governing all buildings, goods, and fixtures of which the receiver has taken possession and continues to use, subject to the following conditions: (a) In the case of a rental agreement, only to the extent of payments that are for the use of the property during the period of the receivership; (b) In the case of a purchase agreement only to the extent of payments that come due during the period of the receivership. (3) Make monthly reports on the status of the public water system to the director and the owner of the public water system; (4) Compromise demands or claims; (5) Take actions necessary for the operation of the public water system in compliance with this chapter and the rules adopted under it. (6) Perform any other action regarding the public water system as the court authorizes. (G) Neither the receiver nor the director is liable for debts incurred by the owner or operator of a public water system for which a receiver has been appointed. ( H) The court shall terminate a receivership established pursuant to this section following notification of the appropriate parties and a hearing, if the court determines either of the following: (1) The public water system has been closed and is no longer operating. (2) Circumstances no longer exist at the public water system that present a threat to public health or welfare, and there is no deficiency in the public water system that is likely to create a future risk of harm. Notwithstanding division (H)(2) of this section, the court shall not terminate a receivership for a public water system that has previously operated under another receivership, under the same owner, unless the responsibility for the operation of the public water system is transferred to an owner or operator approved by the court and the director. (I) The director shall provide technical assistance to any receiver appointed under this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6123.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6123 / § 6123.04
§ 6123.04. Powers of Ohio water development authority
Status: in_force

September 29, 2005 House Bill 66 - 126th General Assembly For the purposes of this chapter, the Ohio water development authority may: (A) Adopt bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business under this chapter; (B) Sue and plead in its own name; be sued and impleaded in its own name with respect to its contracts or torts of its members, employees, or agents acting within the scope of their employment, or to enforce its obligations and covenants made under sections 6123.06 , 6123.08 , and 6123.13 of the Revised Code. Any such actions against the authority shall be brought in the court of common pleas of the county in which the principal office of the authority is located, or in the court of common pleas of the county in which the cause of action arose, provided such county is located within this state, and all summonses, exceptions, and notices of every kind shall be served on the authority by leaving a copy thereof at the principal office with the person in charge thereof or with the secretary-treasurer of the authority. (C) Make loans and grants to governmental agencies for the acquisition or construction of development projects by any such governmental agency and adopt rules and procedures for making such loans and grants; (D) Acquire, construct, reconstruct, enlarge, improve, furnish, equip, maintain, repair, operate, lease or rent to, or contract for operation by, a person or governmental agency, development projects, and establish rules for the use of such projects; (E) Make available the use or services of any development project to one or more persons, one or more governmental agencies, or any combination thereof; (F) Issue development revenue bonds and notes and development revenue refunding bonds of the state, payable solely from revenues as provided in section 6123.06 of the Revised Code, unless the bonds be refunded by refunding bonds, for the purpose of paying any part of the cost of one or more development projects or parts thereof; (G) Acquire by gift or purchase, hold, and dispose of real and personal property in the exercise of the powers of the authority and the performance of its duties under this chapter; (H) Acquire, in the name of the state, by purchase or otherwise, on such terms and in such manner as the authority determines proper, public or private lands, or parts thereof or rights therein, rights-of-way, property, rights, easements, and interests as it finds necessary for carrying out this chapter; and compensation shall be paid for public or private lands so taken; (I) Make and enter into all contracts and agreements and execute all instruments necessary or incidental to the performance of its duties and the execution of its powers under this chapter: (1) When the cost under any such contract or agreement, other than compensation for personal services, involves an expenditure of more than twenty-five thousand dollars, the authority shall make a written contract with the lowest responsive and responsible bidder, in accordance with section 9.312 of the Revised Code, after advertisement for not less than two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in Franklin county, and in such other publications as the authority determines, such notice shall state the general character of the work and materials to be furnished, the place where plans and specifications therefor may be examined, and the time and place of receiving bids. Provided, that a contract or lease for the operation of a development project constructed and owned by the authority or an agreement for cooperation in the acquisition or construction of a development project pursuant to section 6123.13 of the Revised Code or any contract for the construction of a development project that is to be leased by the authority to, and operated by, persons who are not governmental agencies and the cost of such project is to be amortized exclusively from rentals or other charges paid to the authority by persons who are not governmental agencies or by governmental agencies that receive the use or services of such project, including governmental agencies that are parties to an agreement for cooperation in the acquisition or construction of such development project pursuant to section 6123.13 of the Revised Code, is not subject to the foregoing requirements and the authority may enter into such contract or lease or such agreement pursuant to negotiation and upon such terms and conditions and for such period as it finds to be reasonable and proper in the circumstances and in the best interests of proper operation or of efficient acquisition or construction of such project. (2) Each bid for a contract for the construction, demolition, alteration, repair, or reconstruction of an improvement shall contain the full name of every person interested in it and who meets the requirements of section 153.54 of the Revised Code. (3) Each bid for a contract, except as provided in division (I)(2) of this section, shall contain the full name of every person or company interested in it and shall be accompanied by a sufficient bond or certified check on a solvent bank that if the bid is accepted a contract will be entered into and the performance thereof secured. (4) The authority may reject any and all bids. (5) A bond with good and sufficient surety, approved by the authority, shall be required of every contractor awarded a contract except as provided in division (I)(2) of this section, in an amount equal to at least fifty per cent of the contract price, conditioned upon the faithful performance of the contract. (J) Employ managers, superintendents, and other employees and retain or contract with consulting engineers, financial consultants, accounting experts, architects, attorneys, and such other consultants and independent contractors as are necessary in its judgment to carry out this chapter, and fix the compensation thereof. All expenses thereof shall be payable solely from the proceeds of development revenue bonds or notes issued under this chapter, from revenues, or from funds appropriated for such purpose by the general assembly. (K) Receive and accept from any federal agency, subject to the approval of the governor, grants for or in aid of the construction of any development project or for research and development with respect to solid waste facilities or energy resource development facilities, and receive and accept aid or contributions from any source of money, property, labor, or other things of value, to be held, used, and applied only for the purposes for which such grants and contributions are made; (L) Engage in research and development with respect to solid waste facilities or energy resource development facilities; (M) Purchase fire and extended coverage and liability insurance for any development project and for the principal office and sub-offices of the authority, insurance protecting the authority and its officers and employees against liability for damage to property or injury to or death of persons arising from its operations, and any other insurance the authority may agree to provide under any resolution authorizing its development revenue bonds or in any trust agreement securing the same; (N) Charge, alter, and collect rentals and other charges for the use or services of any development project as provided in section 6123.13 of the Revised Code; (O) Provide coverage for its employees under Chapters 145., 4123., and 4141. of the Revised Code; (P) Do all acts necessary or proper to carry out the powers expressly granted in this chapter. Any instrument by which real property is acquired pursuant to this section shall identify the agency of the state that has the use and benefit of the real property as specified in section 5301.012 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6119.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6119 / § 6119.07
§ 6119.07. Board of trustees vested with power to run district
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly All the capacity of a regional water and sewer district shall be vested in and its authority shall be exercised by a board of trustees which shall manage and conduct the affairs of the district. The board shall by its rules and resolutions provide the procedure for its actions, the manner of selection of its president and secretary and other officers of the district, their titles, terms of office, compensation, duties, number, and qualifications, and any other lawful subject necessary to the operation of the district and the exercise of the powers granted.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6101.061 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6101 / § 6101.061
§ 6101.061. Notice of petition
Status: in_force

October 23, 1972 Senate Bill 397 - 109th General Assembly Upon determining that a sufficient petition has been filed, the judge making such determination shall cause written notice thereof to be given to the director of the department of natural resources, the director of environmental protection, and to the board of directors of any conservancy district having jurisdiction over all or part of the territory affected by the proceeding or within the same major watershed area as defined by the department of natural resources and the director of environmental protection. The director of natural resources, the director of environmental protection, and the directors of such conservancy districts may appear at any hearing considering the establishment, dissolution or merger of any conservancy district or subdistrict thereof, and be heard concerning the need for a conservancy district, the area that should be included, desirable improvements, and any other matters which in their opinion should be brought to the attention of the court.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6123.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6123 / § 6123.08
§ 6123.08. Revenue bonds or notes or development revenue refunding bonds secured by a trust agreement
Status: in_force

September 28, 1979 House Bill 144 - 113th General Assembly In the discretion of the Ohio water development authority, any development revenue bonds or notes or development revenue refunding bonds issued under Chapter 6123. of the Revised Code may be secured by a trust agreement between the authority and a corporate trustee, which trustee may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within or without the state. Any such trust agreement may pledge or assign revenues of the authority to be received, but shall not convey or mortgage any development project or any part thereof. Any such trust agreement or any resolution providing for the issuance of such bonds or notes may contain such provisions for protecting and enforcing the rights and remedies of the bondholders or noteholders as are reasonable and proper and not in violation of law, including covenants setting forth the duties of the authority in relation to the acquisition of property, the construction, improvement, maintenance, repair, operation, and insurance of the development project or projects in connection with which such bonds or notes are authorized, the rentals or other charges to be imposed for the use or services of any development project, the custody, safeguarding, and application of all moneys, and provisions for the employment of consulting engineers in connection with the construction or operation of such development project or projects. Any bank or trust company incorporated under the laws of this state that may act as depository of the proceeds of bonds or notes or of revenues may furnish such indemnifying bonds or may pledge such securities as are required by the authority. Any such trust agreement may set forth the rights and remedies of the bondholders and noteholders and of the trustee, and may restrict the individual right of action by bondholders and noteholders as is customary in trust agreements or trust indentures securing similar bonds. Such trust agreement may contain such other provisions as the authority deems reasonable and proper for the security of the bondholders or noteholders. All expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of any such trust agreement may be treated as a part of the cost of the operation of the development project or projects. Any such trust agreement or resolution authorizing the issuance of development revenue bonds may provide the method whereby the general administrative overhead expenses of the authority shall be allocated among the several projects acquired or constructed by it as a factor of the operation expense of each such project.
Ohio Rev. Code § 6105.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 61 / Chapter 6105 / § 6105.06
§ 6105.06. Organizational meeting to establish district
Status: in_force

June 13, 1975 House Bill 1 - 111th General Assembly Within sixty days after a map and description of a watershed district have been filed under division (G) of section 6111.42 of the Revised Code, the president of the board of county commissioners of that county or part of a county with a population within the territorial boundaries of the district, according to the last federal decennial census, greater than that of any other county or part of a county within such district, shall call a meeting of the president or duly authorized representative of the board of county commissioners of each watershed county for the purpose of appointing a board of directors for the district and the adoption of an expenditure budget for the district for the current calendar year. Such meeting shall be called by sending a written notice thereof to each president or duly authorized representative, at least ten days before the date of the meeting, stating the time and place where the meeting will be held. The president of the board of county commissioners required to call the meeting under this section shall act as chairman of the meeting.