Ohio Rev. Code § 4901.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4901 / § 4901.02
§ 4901.02. Public utilities commission of Ohio
Status: in_force

September 13, 2010 Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly (A) There is hereby created the public utilities commission of Ohio, by which name the commission may sue and be sued. The commission shall consist of five public utilities commissioners appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. The governor shall designate one of such commissioners to be the chairperson of the commission. The chairperson of the commission shall serve as chairperson at the governor's pleasure. The commissioners shall be selected from the lists of qualified persons submitted to the governor by the public utilities commission nominating council pursuant to section 4901.021 of the Revised Code. Not more than three of said commissioners shall belong to or be affiliated with the same political party. The commission shall possess the powers and duties specified in, as well as all powers necessary and proper to carry out the purposes of Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., 4923., and 4927. of the Revised Code. (B) A majority of the public utilities commissioners constitutes a quorum. (C) The terms of office of public utilities commissioners shall be for five years, commencing on the eleventh day of April and ending on the tenth day of April, except that terms of the first commissioners shall be for one, two, three, four, and five years, respectively, as designated by the governor at the time of appointment. Each commissioner shall hold office from the date of appointment until the end of the term for which the commissioner was appointed. Any commissioner appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which the commissioner was appointed shall hold office for the remainder of such term. Any commissioner shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration date of the term for which the commissioner was appointed until the commissioner's successor takes office, or until a period of sixty days has elapsed, whichever occurs first. Each vacancy shall be filled by appointment within sixty days after the vacancy occurs. (D) Public utilities commissioners shall have at least three years of experience in one or more of the following fields: economics, law, finance, accounting, engineering, physical or natural sciences, natural resources, or environmental studies. At least one commissioner shall be an attorney admitted to the practice of law in any state or the District of Columbia. (E) The chairperson of the commission shall be the head of the commission and its chief executive officer. The appointment or removal of employees of the commission or any division thereof, and all contracts for special service, are subject to the approval of the chairperson. The chairperson shall designate one of the commissioners to act as deputy chairperson, who shall possess during the absence or disability of the chairperson, all of the powers of the chairperson. Last updated February 21, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4927.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4927 / § 4927.06
§ 4927.06. Unfair or deceptive trade practices
Status: in_force

September 13, 2010 Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly (A) No telephone company shall commit any unfair or deceptive act or practice in connection with the offering or provision of any telecommunications service in this state. A failure to comply with any of the following requirements shall constitute an unfair or deceptive act or practice by a telephone company: (1) Any communication by the company, including, but not limited to, a solicitation, offer, or contract term or condition, shall be truthful, clear, conspicuous, and accurate in disclosing any material terms and conditions of service and any material exclusions or limitations. The public utilities commission may prescribe, by rule, a commission review process to determine when disclosing such information is not practicable, and therefore nondisclosure does not result in an unfair or deceptive act or practice. (2) Any written service solicitation, marketing material, offer, contract, or agreement, as well as any written response from the company to a service-related inquiry or complaint that the company receives from a customer or others, shall disclose the company's name and contact information. The commission may prescribe, by rule, a commission review process to determine when disclosing such information is not practicable, and therefore nondisclosure does not result in an unfair or deceptive act or practice. (3) The company shall inform its customers, as applicable and in any reasonable manner, of their rights and responsibilities concerning inside wire, the repair and maintenance of customer-owned equipment, and the use of a network interface device, and of any charges that the company imposes for a diagnostic visit, consistent with rules adopted by the public utilities commission. (4) The company shall not commit any act, practice, or omission that the commission determines, by rulemaking under section 4927.03 of the Revised Code or adjudication under section 4927.21 of the Revised Code, constitutes an unfair or deceptive act or practice in connection with the offering or provision of telecommunications service in this state. (B) The commission shall provide notice to all telephone companies specifying any act, practice, or omission that it prescribes pursuant to division (A)(4) of this section. No telephone company is liable for any act, practice, or omission absent that notice and adequate time for implementation. (C) This section does not apply to wireless service. A consumer purchase of wireless service or a related product shall constitute a consumer transaction for purposes of sections 1345.01 to 1345.13 of the Revised Code, notwithstanding any provision of those sections to the contrary.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4909.042 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4909 / § 4909.042
§ 4909.042. Report of valuation of property for forecasted test period
Status: in_force

March 20, 2026 Senate Bill 103 - 136th General Assembly (A) With respect to an electric light, natural gas, water-works, or sewage disposal system company that chooses to file a forecasted test period under section 4909.18 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission shall prescribe the form and details of the valuation report of the property of the company. Such report shall include all the kinds and classes of property, with the value of each, owned, held, or projected to be owned or held during the test period, by the company for the service and convenience of the public. (B) Such report shall contain the following facts in detail: (1) The original cost of each parcel of land owned in fee and projected to be owned in fee and in use during the test period, determined by the commission; and also a statement of the conditions of acquisition, whether by direct purchase, by donation, by exercise of the power of eminent domain, or otherwise; (2) The actual acquisition cost, not including periodic rental fees, of rights-of-way, trailways, or other land rights projected to be held during the test period, by virtue of easements, leases, or other forms of grants of rights as to usage; (3) The original cost of all other kinds and classes of property projected to be used and useful during the test period, in the rendition of service to the public. Such original costs of property, other than land owned in fee, shall be the cost, as determined to be reasonable by the commission, to the person that first dedicated or dedicates the property to the public use and shall be set forth in property accounts and subaccounts as prescribed by the commission; (4) The cost of property constituting all or part of a project projected to be leased to or used by the company during the test period, under Chapter 165., 3706., 6121., or 6123. of the Revised Code and not included under division (B)(3) of this section exclusive of any interest directly or indirectly paid by the company with respect thereto whether or not capitalized; (5) In the discretion of the commission, the cost to a company, in an amount determined to be reasonable by the commission, of property constituting all or part of a project projected to be leased to the company during the test period, under a lease purchase agreement or a leaseback and not included under division (B)(3) of this section exclusive of any interest directly or indirectly paid by the company with respect thereto whether or not capitalized; (6) The proper and adequate reserve for depreciation, as determined to be reasonable by the commission; (7) Any sums of money or property that the company is projected to receive during the test period, as total or partial defrayal of the cost of its property; (8) The valuation of the property of the company, which shall be the sum of the amounts contained in the report pursuant to divisions (B)(1) to (5) of this section, less the sum of the amounts contained in the report pursuant to divisions (B)(6) and (7) of this section; (9) The cost of the replacement of water service lines incurred by a water-works company under section 4909.173 of the Revised Code and the water service line replacement reimbursement amounts provided to customers under section 4909.174 of the Revised Code. (C) The report shall show separately the property projected to be used and useful to or held by the company during the test period, and such other items as the commission considers proper. The commission may require an additional report showing the extent to which the property is projected to be used and useful during the test period. Such reports shall be filed in the office of the commission for the information of the governor and the general assembly. (D) Any financial information required to be submitted by an electric light, natural gas, water-works, or sewage disposal system company under this section shall be provided from the company's full books. The commission shall ensure appropriate protections against the disclosure of the company's trade secrets or proprietary information. Last updated March 13, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4909.36 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4909 / § 4909.36
§ 4909.36. Hearing upon accepted rates - procedure
Status: in_force

September 28, 1979 House Bill 156 - 113th General Assembly If any public utility has accepted any rate, price, charge, toll, or rental fixed by ordinance of a municipal corporation or ordinances of a group of municipal corporations, it shall become operative, unless a complaint signed by not less than ten per cent of the qualified electors of such municipal corporation or not less than ten per cent of the qualified electors of each municipal corporation in such group has been filed with the public utilities commission within sixty days after such acceptance. Upon such filing, the commission shall forthwith give notice of the filing and pendency of such complaint to the mayor of such municipal corporation or the mayors of the group of municipal corporations, and fix a time and place for the hearing of such complaint. The commission shall, at such time and place, hear such complaint, and may adjourn the hearing from day to day. The filing of a complaint by a public utility, as provided in section 4909.34 of the Revised Code, shall be held to be the consent of such public utility to continue to furnish its product or service, and devote its property engaged in so furnishing its product or service to such public use during the term so fixed by ordinance or by Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., and 4923. of the Revised Code. Parties to the complaint shall be entitled to be heard, represented by counsel, and to have process to force the attendance of witnesses.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4973.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4973 / § 4973.15
§ 4973.15. Company may replevy scrap
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly By its proper officer or agent, or by the receiver of such company, a railroad company may claim to be the general owner of and replevy any of the metals or articles mentioned in section 4973.14 of the Revised Code, and metals with which they may have been confused, found in the possession of a person, firm, or company, when there is good reason to believe that such metals or articles were unlawfully taken from such company or its receiver. Instead of the usual averment as to ownership in the affidavit for a writ of replevin, it is sufficient for the officer, agent, or receiver of such company to aver that he believes such metals or articles were unlawfully taken from such company or some other company. The person, firm, or company claiming the right or title to such metals or articles in such action, prima facie shall prove a right or title to them, lawfully derived. In the absence of such proof, the company or receiver claiming such metals or articles shall be held to be the general owner of them, but any other company or receiver, upon showing that part of such metals or articles unlawfully were taken from it or him, shall be entitled to such part upon payment of a proper share of the cost and expenses of replevying it.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4973.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4973 / § 4973.08
§ 4973.08. Presumptive evidence
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Every railroad company operating a railroad in whole or part within this state is liable for all damages sustained by any of its employees by reason of personal injury or death of such employee: (A) When such injury or death is caused by a defect in any locomotive, engine, car, handcar, rail, track, machinery, or appliance required by such company to be used by its employees in and about the business of their employment, if such defect could have been discovered by reasonable and proper care, tests, or inspection. Proof of such defect shall be presumptive evidence of knowledge of it on the part of such company. An employee of such railroad company who is injured or killed as a result of such a defect shall not be deemed to have assumed the risk occasioned thereby, although continuing in the employment of the company after knowledge of the defect, nor shall continuance in employment after such knowledge by an employee be deemed an act of contributory negligence. (B) While such employee is engaged in operating, running, riding upon, or switching passenger, freight, or other trains, engines, or cars, and in the performance of his duties, and when such injury was caused by the carelessness or negligence of any other employee, officer, or agent of such company, in the discharge of or for failure to discharge his duties as such.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4933.123 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4933 / § 4933.123
§ 4933.123. Annual report of service disconnections for nonpayment
Status: in_force

December 23, 1986 House Bill 428 - 116th General Assembly (A) For the purpose of this section: (1) "Energy company" shall have the meaning assigned in division (A)(4) of section 5117.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Service disconnection for nonpayment" means the intentional discontinuation of gas or electric services to a residential customer by an energy company due to the failure of the customer to pay for such services. (3) "Service reconnections" means the reconnection of gas or electric services by an energy company to a residential customer whose service was discontinued by such company for nonpayment. (B) Annually, on or before the thirtieth day of June, each energy company shall file a written report on service disconnections for nonpayment with the public utilities commission and the consumers' counsel. The report shall include the following information for the twelve-month period ending on the preceding thirty-first day of May, by month: (1) Total number of service disconnections for nonpayment and the total dollar amount of unpaid bills represented by such disconnections; (2) Total number of final notices of actual disconnection issued for service disconnections for nonpayment and the total dollar amount of unpaid bills represented by such notices; (3) Total number of residential customer accounts in arrears by more than sixty days and the total dollar amount of such arrearages; (4) Total number of security deposits received from residential customers and the total dollar amount of such deposits; (5) Total number of service reconnections; (6) Total number of residential customers. Last updated August 3, 2023 at 2:42 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4907.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4907 / § 4907.02
§ 4907.02. Railroad defined
Status: in_force

June 11, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly As used in Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., and 4959. of the Revised Code, "railroad" includes any corporation, company, individual, or association of individuals, or its lessees, trustees, or receivers appointed by a court, which owns, operates, manages, or controls a railroad or part of a railroad as a common carrier in this state, or which owns, operates, manages, or controls any cars or other equipment used on such a railroad, or which owns, operates, manages, or controls any bridges, terminals, union depots, sidetracks, docks, wharves, or storage elevators used in connection with such a railroad, whether owned by such railroad or otherwise, and means and includes express companies, water transportation companies, freight-line companies, sleeping car companies, and interurban railroad companies, and all persons and associations of persons, whether incorporated or not, operating such agencies for public use in the conveyance of persons or property within this state. All duties required of, and penalties imposed upon, a railroad or an officer or agent thereof insofar as they are applicable, are required and imposed upon express companies, water transportation companies, and interurban railroad companies, and upon their officers and agents. The public utilities commission has the power of supervision and control of express companies, water transportation companies, and interurban railroad companies to the same extent as railroads.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4907.47 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4907 / § 4907.47
§ 4907.47. Installing crossing signals
Status: in_force

October 29, 1989 House Bill 111 - 118th General Assembly (A) If, after public hearing as to the necessity for installing protective devices at a public railroad highway grade crossing, written notice of which is published once a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the crossing is located and is given the railroad and public authority involved at least thirty days in advance of such hearing, it is the opinion of the public utilities commission that the public safety requires a gate, automatic alarm bell, or other mechanical device to be erected and maintained at any place where a public road or street is crossed at the same level by a railroad, and the crossing has been declared by the commission to be so dangerous and hazardous as to require additional protective devices, or the public safety requires that a flagman be stationed and maintained at such crossing, the commission shall give the superintendent, manager, or other officer in charge of such railroad a written order of what is required, and shall assign the cost of installing any such device between the railroad and the public in any proportion it determines proper that is consistent with any applicable federal requirements, after giving due consideration to the factors listed in division (B) of this section. (B) In assigning the cost of any such device the commission shall consider factors of volume of vehicular traffic, volume of train traffic, train type and speed, limitations of view and the causes thereof, savings, if any, which will inure to the railroad as the result of the installation, benefits to the public resulting from the reduction of hazard at the crossing, the probable cost of the installation, the future cost to the railroad of maintaining any such device, and any other special factors and conditions that the commission considers relevant. The commission may accept a railroad's agreement to maintain the installation as being its share of the cost for the protection. If any part of the cost is assigned to the public, it shall be apportioned to the state agency or political subdivision having jurisdiction over such crossing, and may be paid from any funds levied and made available for highway or street purposes; provided, that funds from the grade crossing protection fund created by section 4907.472 of the Revised Code may be used to pay the public's share of the cost. After the commission has issued an appropriate order requiring that additional protective devices be installed by a specific date, which shall be a reasonable time from the date of the order, the railroad concerned shall erect or install the additional protective devices or station the flagman within the time prescribed by the order. If the additional protective devices are not erected or installed within that time, the commission may reduce or eliminate the amount of any funds in the grade crossing protection fund obligated to pay the public's share of the costs relating to the erection, installation, and maintenance of the additional protective devices and, consistent with any applicable federal requirements, may assign to the railroad concerned any amount, up to one hundred per cent, of the total amount of the costs of erecting, installing, and maintaining the additional protective devices. Any person owning or operating a railroad and neglecting or refusing to erect or maintain such gate, automatic alarm bell, or other mechanical device, or to maintain such flagman, when required by the commission pursuant to this section or section 4907.471 of the Revised Code, and after the commission has issued an appropriate order finding that the public funds will be made available with respect to any protective device it has ordered installed, shall forfeit to the state, for every such neglect or refusal, one thousand dollars, and in addition, shall forfeit one thousand dollars for each day such neglect or refusal continues.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4907.57 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4907 / § 4907.57
§ 4907.57. Damage claims
Status: in_force

June 11, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly All claims, charges, or demands against a railroad for loss of or damage to property occurring while in the custody of such railroad and unreasonable delay in transportation and delivery, for overcharges upon a shipment, or for any other service in violation of Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., and 4909. of the Revised Code, if not paid within sixty days from the date of the filing thereof with such railroad, may be submitted to the public utilities commission by a formal complaint. Such complaint shall be made upon blank forms which the commission shall provide upon demand of the claimant. Such complaint shall be verified as petitions in civil actions and may be accompanied by the sworn statements of any witnesses who have knowledge of any fact material to the inquiry. Upon the filing of such complaint the commission shall forthwith cite the railroad to answer the complaint, and the citation shall be accompanied with a brief statement of the claim. The answer of the railroad shall be filed within three weeks from the service of the citation and shall be verified as answers in civil cases, and may be accompanied with the affidavits of any witnesses having knowledge of facts material to the inquiry. The burden of proof shall be upon the railroad to show that loss or damage to property was not due to its negligence. The railroad to which property is delivered for shipment shall prima facie be liable for loss or damage occurring to such property in transit notwithstanding such property may be delivered to other railroads before reaching its destination. The claim referred to in this section for loss of or damage to property may be made to any carrier over whose lines the lost or damaged property was consigned, and such claimant may at the claimant's option join all of such railroads as parties defendant in the complaint before said commission. The railroad shall furnish the claimant with a copy of its answer and affidavits, and within two weeks from the filing of such answers the claimant may file a reply, with affidavits in support thereof, verified as replies in civil cases. At the expiration of said period of two weeks the commission shall proceed summarily to examine the complaint, answer, reply, and affidavits, and shall determine the existence and validity of the claim presented. If the commission finds in favor of the claimant it shall certify its findings to the clerk of the court of common pleas of the county in which the claimant resides or where the railroad or any of its offices is maintained.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4955.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4955 / § 4955.16
§ 4955.16. Mode of crossing ordered by court
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly When outside the limits of a municipal corporation it becomes necessary for the track of a railroad, street or electric railway, or interurban railroad company to cross the tracks of another railroad, street or electric railway, or interurban railroad company, or it is necessary within the corporate limits of a municipal corporation for the tracks of a railroad, street or electric railway, or interurban railroad company to cross the tracks of another railroad, street or electric railway, or interurban railroad company, other than within the limits of a public street or highway, unless the manner of such crossing is agreed to between such companies, the court of common pleas of the county in which such crossing is located, or a judge of such court in vacation, on application of either party, must ascertain and define by its decree the mode of such crossing which will inflict the least practical injury upon the rights of the company owning or operating the tracks intended to be crossed.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4907.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4907 / § 4907.22
§ 4907.22. Prohibition against directing violation
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly No railroad shall, by itself or by a general officer thereof, by direction, instruction, or request, cause an officer, agent, or employee of such railroad to violate section 4907.21 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.73 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.73
§ 4928.73. Mercantile customer self-power system
Status: in_force

August 14, 2025 House Bill 15 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Mercantile customer member" means a mercantile customer connected to a mercantile customer self-power system. (2) "Mercantile customer self-power system" means one or more electric generation facilities, electric storage facilities, or both, along with any associated facilities, that meet all of the following: (a) Produce electricity primarily for the consumption of a mercantile customer member or a group of mercantile customer members; (b) Connect directly to the mercantile customer member's side of the electric meter; (c) Deliver electricity to the mercantile customer member's side of the electric meter without the use of an electric distribution utility's or electric cooperative's distribution system or transmission system; (d) Is located on either of the following: (i) A property owned or controlled by a mercantile customer member or the entity that owns or operates the mercantile customer self-power system; (ii) Land adjacent to a mercantile customer member if the facilities connect directly with the customer. (B) The mercantile customer self-power system may be owned or operated by a mercantile customer member, group of mercantile customer members, or an entity that is not a mercantile customer member. (C) A mercantile customer self-power system may provide electric generation service to one or more mercantile customers. (D) The public utilities commission shall adopt rules to implement this section that are applicable to electric distribution utilities. (E) Nothing in this section prohibits an electric distribution utility or an electric cooperative from charging a mercantile customer for distribution or transmission service used by a mercantile customer. Last updated June 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.36 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.36
§ 4928.36. Complaint concerning transition plan
Status: in_force

October 5, 1999 Senate Bill 3 - 123rd General Assembly The public utilities commission has jurisdiction under section 4905.26 of the Revised Code, upon complaint by any person or upon complaint or initiative of the commission on or after the starting date of competitive retail electric service, to determine whether an electric utility has failed to implement, in conformance with an order under section 4928.33 of the Revised Code or in ongoing compliance with applicable provisions of the policy specified in section 4928.02 of the Revised Code, a transition plan approved under section 4928.33 of the Revised Code. If, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing as provided in section 4905.26 of the Revised Code, the commission determines that the utility has failed to so comply, the commission, in addition to any other remedies provided by law, may use the remedies specified in divisions (C)(1) to (3) and (D)(1) and (2) of section 4928.18 of the Revised Code to enforce compliance.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4981.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4981 / § 4981.03
§ 4981.03. Duties of rail development commission
Status: in_force

June 27, 2005 Senate Bill 124 - 126th General Assembly (A) The Ohio rail development commission shall do all of the following: (1) Develop, promote, and support safe, adequate, and efficient rail service throughout the state; (2) Maintain adequate programs of investigation, research, promotion, planning, and development for rail service, which programs shall include the consideration of recommendations by public or private planning organizations; (3) Provide for the participation of private corporations or organizations and the public in the development, construction, operation, and maintenance of rail service, and as franchisees of rail service. (B) In regard to rail service, the Ohio rail development commission is the successor of the Ohio high speed rail authority and the division of rail transportation of the department of transportation. The commission shall succeed to all federal allotments, entitlements, subsidies, and grants now existing, whether such allotments, entitlements, subsidies, and grants are encumbered or unencumbered, in the same manner and with the same authority as the Ohio high speed rail authority and the division of rail transportation exercised prior to October 20, 1994. (C) Every authority, commission, department, or other agency of this state shall provide the commission with data, plans, research, and any other information that the commission requests to assist it in performing its duties pursuant to this chapter. (D) The commission may request and contract with any railroad to provide it with data and information necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. All railroads operating within this state shall provide the requested data and information to the commission. The commission shall not disclose any confidential data or information supplied to it. (E) The commission shall cooperate with the director of development by exercising the commission's duty to promote and develop rail service in this state in conjunction with the director's exercise of his duty to promote the economic development of this state. (F) The commission, when developing rail service throughout the state, may give priority to projects undertaken within the geographic boundaries of qualifying subdivisions.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4957.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4957 / § 4957.04
§ 4957.04. Acquiring necessary property - sale to railroad company
Status: in_force

January 1, 1966 Senate Bill 94 - 106th General Assembly The land or property required to make the alteration in the street or highway necessitated by a proposed crossing improvement, shall be purchased or appropriated by the municipal corporation or county in the manner provided for in sections 163.01 to 163.22 , inclusive, of the Revised Code. The land or property required to make the alteration in the railroad necessitated by the proposed improvement shall be purchased or appropriated by the railroad company in the manner provided for in sections 163.01 to 163.22 , inclusive, of the Revised Code. The municipal corporation or county may also acquire the land or property, or a part thereof, required to make the alteration in the railroad and subsequently sell the same or a part thereof at private sale to the railroad for such purposes, and execute and deliver a deed for it.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4951.37 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4951 / § 4951.37
§ 4951.37. Grant of rights and privileges valid
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Any ordinance of any city purporting to grant any rights or privileges contained in sections 4951.35 to 4951.38 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, to any company, which grant has been accepted and on account of it money has been expended in good faith, is as valid and effective as if the power in said city to so grant such rights and privileges had been expressly granted to the city.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4903.23 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4903 / § 4903.23
§ 4903.23. Fees for copying and certifying documents - status as evidence
Status: in_force

September 13, 2010 Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly The public utilities commission or power siting board may charge and collect a fee, which shall not exceed cost, for furnishing any copy of any paper, record, testimony, or writing made, taken, or filed under Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4906., 4907., 4909., 4921., 4923., and 4927. of the Revised Code, except such transcript and other papers as are required to be filed in any court proceedings authorized in those chapters, whether under seal and certified to or otherwise; and may charge and collect a fee for certifying a document, which shall not exceed that charged by the secretary of state under division (K) of section 111.16 of the Revised Code. All such fees, itemized, shall be paid into the state treasury on the first day of each month. Upon application of any person and payment of the proper fee, the commission or board shall furnish certified copies under the seal of the commission or board of any order made by it, which order is prima-facie evidence in any court of the facts stated in such copies. The copies of schedules, classifications, and tariffs of rates, tolls, prices, rentals, regulations, practices, services, fares, and charges, and copies of all contracts, agreements, and arrangements between public utilities and railroads, or either, filed with the commission, and the statistics, tables, and figures contained in the annual or other reports of such companies made to the commission as required by the chapters, shall be preserved as public records in the custody of the commission and shall be received as prima-facie evidence of what they purport to be, for the purpose of investigations and prosecutions by the commission and in all judicial proceedings. Copies of and extracts from any of such schedules, classifications, tariffs, contracts, agreements, arrangements, or reports, made public records, certified by the commission under its seal, shall be received in evidence with like effect as the originals.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4927.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4927 / § 4927.21
§ 4927.21. Complaints against telephone company
Status: in_force

September 13, 2010 Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly (A) Any person may file with the public utilities commission, or the commission may initiate, a complaint against a telephone company other than a wireless service provider, alleging that any rate, practice, or service of the company is unjust, unreasonable, unjustly discriminatory, or in violation of or noncompliance with any provision of sections 4927.01 to 4927.20 of the Revised Code or a rule or order adopted or issued under those sections. Any dispute between telephone companies, between telephone companies and wireless service providers, or between wireless service providers that is within the commission's jurisdiction under sections 4927.01 to 4927.20 of the Revised Code may be brought by a filing pursuant to this division. (B) If it appears that reasonable grounds for complaint are stated by a complaint filed under division (A) of this section, the commission shall fix a time for hearing and shall notify complainants and the telephone company or wireless service provider thereof. The parties to the complaint shall be entitled to be heard, represented by counsel, and to have a process for the attendance of witnesses. (C) If the commission after hearing in a proceeding under division (B) of this section makes a finding against the party complained of, the commission may do either or both of the following: (1) Determine, but only to the extent authorized under sections 4927.01 to 4927.20 of the Revised Code, the rate, practice, or service thereafter to be adopted and observed, including any appropriate remedy for a complaint; (2) Assess a forfeiture of not more than ten thousand dollars for each violation or failure. Each day's continuance of the violation or failure is a separate offense, and all occurrences of a violation or failure on each such day shall be deemed one violation. All forfeitures authorized under this section are cumulative, and a suit for and recovery of one does not bar the recovery of any other. Collected forfeitures shall be deposited into the state treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund. Actions to recover such forfeitures shall be prosecuted in the name of the state and shall be brought in the court of common pleas of any county in which the party complained of is located. The attorney general shall commence such actions and prosecute them when the commission directs. (D) The commission also may suspend, rescind, or conditionally rescind the certification of a telephone company under section 4927.05 of the Revised Code under either of the following circumstances: (1) The commission determines, after notice and opportunity for hearing, that the telephone company has failed to comply with any provision of section 4905.10 or 4905.14 of the Revised Code. (2) The commission determines in a proceeding under division (B) of this section that the telephone company has willfully or repeatedly failed to comply with any other applicable state or federal law. (E) The commission has no authority to order credits to any customer of a telephone company, except in response to a complaint determined in accordance with this section. (F) Upon request of the commission, the attorney general may commence and prosecute such action or proceeding in mandamus, by injunction, or by other appropriate civil remedy in the name of the state, as is directed by the commission, alleging any violation or noncompliance specified in division (A) of this section, and praying for such proper relief as the court may prescribe.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4961.32 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4961 / § 4961.32
§ 4961.32. Procedure for aid, lease, and purchase
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly No aid shall be furnished, nor any purchase or lease perfected, as provided by sections 4961.29 to 4961.31 , inclusive, of the Revised Code until a meeting of the stockholders of each of the railroad companies has been called for that purpose by the directors of such company, by written or printed notices addressed to each of the persons in whose names the capital stock of such company stands on its books, if their post-office address is known to the company, at least thirty days before the time of holding such meeting, and by a like notice published at least thirty days before the time of holding such meeting, in some newspaper in the municipal corporation where such company has its principal office or place of business. If all the stockholders are present at such meeting in person or by proxy, such notice may be waived in writing. At the meeting of stockholders, the proposed aid, lease, purchase, or sale shall be considered and a vote by ballot taken for its adoption or rejection. Each share of stock shall entitle the holder thereof to one vote, except as may be otherwise provided in the articles of incorporation, consolidation, or merger under which such company was formed. The ballots may be cast in person or by proxy. If the holders of outstanding shares of stock of such company representing at least two thirds, or such greater proportion as said articles of incorporation, consolidation, or merger require, of the voting power of all the stock of such company represented at such meeting, entitled to vote and voted on the question are for the adoption of such aid, lease, purchase, or sale, the officers and directors of such company shall then be authorized and empowered to carry such aid, lease, purchase, or sale into effect, and to cause to be executed and delivered, all agreements, deeds, or leases appropriate for said purpose. In any case in which a plan of reorganization of a company has been confirmed in reorganization proceedings, pursuant to the act of congress of July 1, 1898, entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States," as amended, the trustee of such company, with the approval of the court having jurisdiction in the premises, may assent for and on behalf of all the stockholders of such company to any such purchase and no meeting of its stockholders pursuant to this section shall be required. Any purchase by such a company or its trustee may provide for the complete cancellation of all of the stock of the vendor if such stock is owned by the vendee or its trustee and such cancellation is consistent with such plan of reorganization.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4959.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4959 / § 4959.10
§ 4959.10. Forfeitures for not constructing and repairing fences
Status: in_force

March 9, 1999 Senate Bill 197 - 122nd General Assembly A company or person having the control and management of a railroad, who fails to comply with any provision of this chapter, shall forfeit and pay, for each day the company or person so fails, a sum not exceeding fifty dollars per day, to be recovered in a civil action in the name of the state for the use of the county in which suit is brought.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4961.28 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4961 / § 4961.28
§ 4961.28. Conditional subscriptions
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly A railroad company which has begun and partly built its railroad, but is unable to finish and operate it for want of means, may take subscriptions conditioned that the proceeds shall not be used or applied upon the debts of the company. All money or material collected upon such subscriptions, and all material or implements purchased with such money for the construction of the track, houses, depots, and rolling stock of the company, shall be exempt from execution, or other process or proceedings for the payment of the debts of the company so long as such money, material, or implements are used or designed for the construction of such track, houses, depots, and rolling stock.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4969.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4969 / § 4969.05
§ 4969.05. Certain contracts of sale void unless recorded
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly No contract for the sale of railroad equipment, rolling stock, or other personal property to be used in or about the operation of a railroad, by the terms of which the purchase money, in whole or part, is to be paid in the future, and in which it is stipulated or conditioned that the title to the property sold shall not vest in the vendee, but shall remain in the vendor until the purchase money has been fully paid, is valid against creditors or innocent purchasers for value, unless such contract is recorded, or a copy thereof is filed in the office of the secretary of state. When the contract is so recorded, or a copy thereof so filed, the title to the property sold, or contracted to be sold, shall not vest in the vendee, but remain in the vendor until the purchase money has been fully paid. Such stipulation or condition is and shall remain valid, notwithstanding the delivery of the property to and its possession by the vendee. The secretary of state, upon being paid the proper fees shall record any such contract, and shall file in his office a copy of any such contract, when it is delivered to him for that purpose. For every copy so filed he shall receive one dollar.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.65 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.65
§ 4928.65. Adoption of rules governing disclosure of costs to customers of the renewable energy resource, energy efficiency savings, and peak demand reduction requirements
Status: in_force

September 12, 2014 Senate Bill 310 - 130th General Assembly (A) Not later than January 1, 2015, the public utilities commission shall adopt rules governing the disclosure of the costs to customers of the renewable energy resource, energy efficiency savings, and peak demand reduction requirements of sections 4928.64 and 4928.66 of the Revised Code. The rules shall include both of the following requirements: (1) That every electric distribution utility list, on all customer bills sent by the utility, including utility consolidated bills that include both electric distribution utility and electric services company charges, the individual customer cost of the utility's compliance with all of the following for the applicable billing period: (a) The renewable energy resource requirements under section 4928.64 of the Revised Code, subject to division (B) of this section; (b) The energy efficiency savings requirements under section 4928.66 of the Revised Code; (c) The peak demand reduction requirements under section 4928.66 of the Revised Code. (2) That every electric services company list, on all customer bills sent by the company, the individual customer cost, subject to division (B) of this section, of the company's compliance with the renewable energy resource requirements under section 4928.64 of the Revised Code for the applicable billing period. (B)(1) For purposes of division (A)(1)(a) of this section, the cost of compliance with the renewable energy resource requirements shall be calculated by multiplying the individual customer's monthly usage by the combined weighted average of renewable-energy-credit costs, including solar-renewable-energy-credit costs, paid by all electric distribution utilities, as listed in the commission's most recently available alternative energy portfolio standard report. (2) For purposes of division (A)(2) of this section, the cost of compliance with the renewable energy resource requirements shall be calculated by multiplying the individual customer's monthly usage by the combined weighted average of renewable-energy-credit costs, including solar-renewable-energy-credit costs, paid by all electric services companies, as listed in the commission's most recently available alternative energy portfolio standard report. (C) The costs required to be listed under division (A)(1) of this section shall be listed on each customer's monthly bill as three distinct line items. The cost required to be listed under division (A)(2) of this section shall be listed on each customer's monthly bill as a distinct line item.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4903.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4903 / § 4903.11
§ 4903.11. Proceeding deemed commenced
Status: in_force

September 29, 1997 House Bill 215 - 122nd General Assembly No proceeding to reverse, vacate, or modify a final order of the public utilities commission is commenced unless the notice of appeal is filed within sixty days after the date of denial of the application for rehearing by operation of law or of the entry upon the journal of the commission of the order denying an application for rehearing or, if a rehearing is had, of the order made after such rehearing. An order denying an application for rehearing or an order made after a rehearing shall be served forthwith by regular mail upon all parties who have entered an appearance in the proceeding.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4905.90 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4905 / § 4905.90
§ 4905.90. Natural gas pipeline safety standards definitions
Status: in_force

September 10, 2012 Senate Bill 315, House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly As used in sections 4905.90 to 4905.96 of the Revised Code: (A) "Contiguous property" includes, but is not limited to, a manufactured home park as defined in section 4781.01 of the Revised Code; a public or publicly subsidized housing project; an apartment complex; a condominium complex; a college or university; an office complex; a shopping center; a hotel; an industrial park; and a race track. (B) "Gas" means natural gas, flammable gas, or gas which is toxic or corrosive. (C) "Gathering line" and the "gathering of gas" have the same meaning as in the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act and the rules adopted by the United States department of transportation pursuant to the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act, including 49 C.F.R. part 192, as amended. (D) "Gas gathering pipeline" means a gathering line that is not regulated under the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act and the rules adopted by the United States department of transportation pursuant to the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act, including 49 C.F.R. part 192, as amended. "Gas gathering pipeline" includes a pipeline used to collect and transport raw natural gas or transmission quality gas to the inlet of a gas processing plant, the inlet of a distribution system, or to a transmission line. (E) "Gas processing plant" means a plant that processes raw natural gas into merchantable products, including transmission quality gas or natural gas liquids and also may include a plant that treats raw natural gas to remove impurities such as carbon dioxide, helium, nitrogen or water. (F) "Intrastate pipe-line transportation" has the same meaning as in 82 Stat. 720 (1968), 49 U.S.C.A. App. 1671, as amended, but excludes the gathering of gas exempted by the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act. (G) "MAOP" means the maximum pressure at which a gas gathering pipeline, a processing plant gas stub pipeline, or any segment of such a pipeline may be operated under sections 4905.90 to 4905.96 of the Revised Code. (H) "Master-meter system" means a pipe-line system that distributes gas within a contiguous property for which the system operator purchases gas for resale to consumers, including tenants. Such pipe-line system supplies consumers who purchase the gas directly through a meter, or by paying rent, or by other means. The term includes a master-meter system as defined in 49 C.F.R. 191.3, as amended. The term excludes a pipeline within a manufactured home, mobile home, or a building. (I) "Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act" means the "Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968," 82 Stat. 720, 49 U.S.C.A. App. 1671 et seq., as amended. (J) "Operator" means any of the following: (1) A gas company or natural gas company as defined in section 4905.03 of the Revised Code, except that division (E) of that section does not authorize the public utilities commission to relieve any producer of gas, as a gas company or natural gas company, of compliance with sections 4905.90 to 4905.96 of the Revised Code or the pipe-line safety code created under section 4905.91 of the Revised Code; (2) A pipe-line company, as defined in section 4905.03 of the Revised Code, when engaged in the business of transporting gas by pipeline; (3) A public utility that is excepted from the definition of "public utility" under division (A)(2) or (3) of section 4905.02 of the Revised Code, when engaged in supplying or transporting gas by pipeline within this state; (4) Any person that owns, operates, manages, controls, or leases any of the following: (a) Intrastate pipe-line transportation facilities within this state; (b) Gas gathering lines within this state which are not exempted by the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act; (c) A master-meter system within this state. "Operator" does not include an ultimate consumer who owns a service line, as defined in 49 C.F.R. 192.3, as amended, on the real property of that ultimate consumer. (K) "Operator of a master-meter system" means a person described under division (J)(4)(c) of this section. An operator of a master-meter system is not a public utility under section 4905.02 or a gas or natural gas company under section 4905.03 of the Revised Code. (L) "Person" means: (1) In addition to those defined in division (C) of section 1.59 of the Revised Code, a joint venture or a municipal corporation; (2) Any trustee, receiver, assignee, or personal representative of persons defined in division (L)(1) of this section. (M) "Processing plant gas stub pipeline" means a gas pipeline that transports transmission quality gas from the tailgate of a gas processing plant to the inlet of an interstate or intrastate transmission line and that is considered an extension of the gas processing plant, is not for public use, and is not regulated under the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act and the rules adopted by the United States department of transportation pursuant to the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act, including 49 C.F.R. part 92, as amended. (N) "Safety audit" means the public utilities commission's audit of the premises, pipe-line facilities, and the records, maps, and other relevant documents of a master-meter system to determine the operator's compliance with sections 4905.90 to 4905.96 of the Revised Code and the pipe-line safety code. (O) "Safety inspection" means any inspection, survey, or testing of a master-meter system which is authorized or required by sections 4905.90 to 4905.96 of the Revised Code and the pipe-line safety code. The term includes, but is not limited to, leak surveys, inspection of regulators and critical valves, and monitoring of cathodic protection systems, where applicable. (P) "Safety-related condition" means any safety-related condition defined in 49 C.F.R. 191.23, as amended. (Q) "Total Mcfs of gas it supplied or delivered" means the sum of the following volumes of gas that an operator supplied or delivered, measured in units per one thousand cubic feet: (1) Residential sales; (2) Commercial and industrial sales; (3) Other sales to public authorities; (4) Interdepartmental sales; (5) Sales for resale; (6) Transportation of gas. (R) "Transmission quality gas" means gas consisting predominantly of methane that meets all downstream specifications for transportation in an intrastate or interstate transmission pipeline and that is suitable for use by public consumers. (S) "Raw natural gas" has the same meaning as in section 4906.01 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4951.47 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4951 / § 4951.47
§ 4951.47. Injury to domestic animal prima-facie evidence
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly If any domestic animal receives any injury or is killed upon the right of way of an electric or street railway or interurban railroad, either by coming in contact with a moving car, or by reason of the electricity contained in or passing through a third rail of such railroad or railway, such injury or death is prima-facie evidence that the person or company operating said railroad or railway has failed to comply with the requirements of sections 4951.45 to 4951.47 , inclusive, of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4929.163 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4929 / § 4929.163
§ 4929.163. Application for economic development project
Status: in_force

March 28, 2024 House Bill 201 - 135th General Assembly (A) A natural gas company may file an application with the public utilities commission for approval of an economic development project for which the company will incur infrastructure development costs. (B) The company shall file the application for project approval prior to beginning the project. (C) The application for project approval, to the extent applicable, shall contain a description of each of the following: (1) The economic development project; (2) The infrastructure development costs to be expended on the project; (3) How the project meets the criteria set forth in rules adopted under division (D) of this section; (4) The support for the project by an economic development entity or chamber of commerce. For purposes of this application requirement, "economic development entity" includes any of the following: (a) JobsOhio or any JobsOhio network or regional partner; (b) Department of development; (c) Port authority created under Chapter 4582. of the Revised Code; (d) Special improvement district created under Chapter 1710. of the Revised Code; (e) Community urban redevelopment corporation qualified to operate under Chapter 1728. of the Revised Code; (f) Community improvement corporation organized under Chapter 1724. of the Revised Code; (g) New community authority organized under Chapter 349. of the Revised Code; (h) Joint economic development district created under section 715.70 or 715.71 of the Revised Code; (i) Development corporation organized under Chapter 1726. of the Revised Code; (j) Municipal utility district designated under section 715.84 of the Revised Code. (D)(1) The commission shall adopt rules setting forth the criteria for project approval under this section. (2) The commission may approve a project under this section that involves infrastructure development costs described in division (B)(1)(a) of section 4929.16 of the Revised Code if the infrastructure development costs, excluding the return set forth in division (B)(2)(c) of section 4929.16 of the Revised Code, are projected to generate a return on the company's investment that is less than the most recently authorized return on equity. (E) The commission shall adopt rules to provide for an accelerated review of an application filed under division (A) of this section. The rules shall provide for the automatic approval of the application not later than thirty days after the date of the application filing unless the commission suspends the application for good cause shown. If the application is suspended, the commission shall approve, deny, modify, or hold a hearing on the application not later than forty-five days after the date that the suspension begins. Last updated January 16, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4955.57 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4955 / § 4955.57
§ 4955.57. Wayside detector system exemption
Status: in_force

June 30, 2025 House Bill 54 - 136th General Assembly Any railroad track owned or leased by a class II carrier or class III carrier that has a speed limit of ten miles per hour or less is exempt from the requirements stated in sections 4955.50 to 4955.52 of the Revised Code. Last updated May 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 4965.50 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4965 / § 4965.50
§ 4965.50. Rates of passenger fare
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly A company operating a railroad in whole or in part in this state may demand and receive for the transportation of passengers on its railroad, a fare not exceeding three cents per mile, for a distance of more than five miles, but the fare shall always be made that multiple of five nearest reached by multiplying the rate by the distance.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4951.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4951 / § 4951.21
§ 4951.21. Exceptions
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Section 4951.20 of the Revised Code as to competing lines does not apply to companies whose lines are nearby or wholly situated in a municipal corporation of this state, or to the railway of any street railway company organized in this state which is made or is in process of construction to the boundary line of the state, or to a point within or without the state. Such company may consolidate its capital stock with that of any company in an adjoining state, the lines of whose railways have been made or are in process of construction to the same points, in the manner and with the effect provided by law for the consolidation of railroad companies.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4911.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4911 / § 4911.11
§ 4911.11. Data and information to be furnished
Status: in_force

September 1, 1976 Senate Bill 94 - 111th General Assembly The consumers' counsel may, whenever called upon by any officer, board, or commission of this state or of any political subdivision of this state, furnish any data or information to the officer, board, or commission. All officers, boards, or commissions of this state or of any political subdivision of this state, may furnish to the counsel, upon his request, any data or information which he requests in the discharge of the powers and duties vested in him under Chapters 4909. and 4911. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4957.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4957 / § 4957.13
§ 4957.13. Court to determine manner of improvement
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly If at the expiration of three months from the passage of the ordinance referred to in section 4957.12 of the Revised Code, the railroad company has refused or failed to co-operate in the preparation of plans and specifications, or if the engineer of the municipal corporation, or engineer designated in such ordinance by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, and the company fail to agree upon the plans and specifications for such improvement, then either the company or municipal corporation may submit the matter of determining the method by which the improvement shall be made to the court of common pleas having jurisdiction in the county in which the municipal corporation is situated.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4926.18 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4926 / § 4926.18
§ 4926.18. Denial requirements
Status: in_force

May 17, 2021 House Bill 2 - 134th General Assembly If an electric cooperative denies an access request submitted under section 4926.15 of the Revised Code, the cooperative must confirm the denial in writing. The denial shall be specific and shall include all relevant evidence and information supporting the denial and an explanation of how that evidence and information relates to the factors described in section 4926.15 of the Revised Code on which the denial is based. Last updated June 9, 2021 at 2:08 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4957.26 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4957 / § 4957.26
§ 4957.26. Repairs
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly A street railway company shall keep in repair at its own expense all tracks affected by the improvement referred to by section 4957.25 of the Revised Code and all construction work of whatever character necessary to support such tracks.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4961.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4961 / § 4961.12
§ 4961.12. Construction of branch road
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly A railroad company may construct branches from the main line of railroad to municipal corporations or places within the limits of a county through or into which its railroad passes or to a connection with any railroad within this state, or to any coal or other mine, stone-quarry, plastic-clay, pottery-clay, and fire clay pits or banks, marl beds, sand or gravel pits or banks, asphalt deposits, slag banks, or ore or shale banks, if, at a meeting of the stockholders called for that purpose, the holders of a majority of the capital stock of the company, by a vote in person or by proxy, so determine. Upon such determination, the president and board of directors shall make and acknowledge a certificate setting forth the facts and file it with the secretary of state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4963.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4963 / § 4963.21
§ 4963.21. Construction of caboose cars - exception
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly No common carrier operating a railroad, in whole or in part, within this state, or manager or superintendent of such common carrier, shall require or permit the use within this state upon such railroad, of any caboose car or other car used for like purpose which is not at least twenty-four feet in length, exclusive of platforms, and equipped with two four-wheeled trucks, with suitable closets, and with either a cupola or with bay windows, and provided with a door in each end and an outside platform across each end of such car. Each platform shall be not less than twenty-four inches in width and shall be equipped with proper guardrails and with grab-irons and steps for the safety of persons getting on and off said car. Said steps shall be equipped with a suitable rod, board, or other guard at each end and at the back, properly designed to prevent slipping from such step. In case of unusual and unforeseen demands of traffic on the railroad, caboose cars not built in accordance with this section may be used temporarily only where the railroad company desiring to use the same applies to and obtains from the public utilities commission authority to use the same temporarily.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4907.14 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4907 / § 4907.14
§ 4907.14. List of officers and directors
Status: in_force

September 13, 2010 Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly Within thirty days after the election of the directors of a railroad doing business in this state, the secretary of the railroad shall forward to the public utilities commission a list of the officers and directors thereof, giving the place of residence and post-office address of each. If a change occurs in the organization of the officers or board of directors of a railroad, the secretary shall notify the commission of such change and the residence and post-office address of each of the officers and directors.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4911.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4911 / § 4911.02
§ 4911.02. Consumers' counsel - powers and duties
Status: in_force

September 29, 2011 House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly (A) The consumers' counsel shall be appointed by the consumers' counsel governing board, and shall hold office at the pleasure of the board. (B)(1) The counsel may sue or be sued and has the powers and duties granted the counsel under this chapter, and all necessary powers to carry out the purposes of this chapter. (2) Without limitation because of enumeration, the counsel: (a) Shall have all the rights and powers of any party in interest appearing before the public utilities commission regarding examination and cross-examination of witnesses, presentation of evidence, and other matters; (b) May take appropriate action with respect to residential consumer complaints concerning quality of service, service charges, and the operation of the public utilities commission; (c) May institute, intervene in, or otherwise participate in proceedings in both state and federal courts and administrative agencies on behalf of the residential consumers concerning review of decisions rendered by, or failure to act by, the public utilities commission; (d) May conduct long range studies concerning various topics relevant to the rates charged to residential consumers. (C) The counsel shall follow the policies of the state as set forth in Chapter 4929. of the Revised Code that involve supporting retail natural gas competition.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4935.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4935 / § 4935.10
§ 4935.10. Study to review the condition of reactive power
Status: in_force

June 17, 2010 Senate Bill 232 - 128th General Assembly The public utilities commission shall conduct a study to review the condition of reactive power in the state. The commission shall issue a report of its findings to the general assembly not later than one year after the effective date of this section. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 4951.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4951 / § 4951.07
§ 4951.07. Written consent not required
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly When a grant is made by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation, either for a new route or as an extension of an existing route, in case the number of tracks is not increased beyond the number for which consent originally was obtained, on and along any part of a street or public way upon which a street railway has been operated within one year preceding under a grant or renewal of a grant which has expired or within two years will expire or when such a grant is made by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation or the board of county commissioners of a county on and along any part of a street or public way upon the order or finding of any court of competent jurisdiction, or a judge of such court, in a hearing upon or growing out of a grade crossing elimination proceeding, in which hearing such court or judge has determined that the reasonable and practical solution of the manner of eliminating a grade crossing requires that such a street railway or interurban railroad be relocated or rerouted for a certain distance fixed by the court, it shall not be necessary to produce to the legislative authority or board any written consents from the owners of the lots and land abutting on such part of a street or public way. This section does not permit a person owning property abutting on a street along, in, or over which a street railway is about to be constructed to withdraw his consent after an ordinance granting the right to construct and operate it has been read the second time, if at least thirty days elapsed since the first reading of such ordinance, in the legislative authority of the municipal corporation or other body authorized to make the grant.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.662 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.662
§ 4928.662. Measurement and determination of compliance with demand reduction requirements
Status: in_force

September 12, 2014 Senate Bill 310 - 130th General Assembly For the purpose of measuring and determining compliance with the energy efficiency and peak demand reduction requirements under section 4928.66 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission shall count and recognize compliance as follows: (A) Energy efficiency savings and peak demand reduction achieved through actions taken by customers or through electric distribution utility programs that comply with federal standards for either or both energy efficiency and peak demand reduction requirements, including resources associated with such savings or reduction that are recognized as capacity resources by the regional transmission organization operating in Ohio in compliance with section 4928.12 of the Revised Code, shall count toward compliance with the energy efficiency and peak demand reduction requirements. (B) Energy efficiency savings and peak demand reduction achieved on and after the effective date of S.B. 310 of the 130th general assembly shall be measured on the higher of an as found or deemed basis, except that, solely at the option of the electric distribution utility, such savings and reduction achieved since 2006 may also be measured using this method. For new construction, the energy efficiency savings and peak demand reduction shall be counted based on 2008 federal standards, provided that when new construction replaces an existing facility, the difference in energy consumed, energy intensity, and peak demand between the new and replaced facility shall be counted toward meeting the energy efficiency and peak demand reduction requirements. (C) The commission shall count both the energy efficiency savings and peak demand reduction on an annualized basis. (D) The commission shall count both the energy efficiency savings and peak demand reduction on a gross savings basis. (E) The commission shall count energy efficiency savings and peak demand reductions associated with transmission and distribution infrastructure improvements that reduce line losses. No energy efficiency or peak demand reduction achieved under division (E) of this section shall qualify for shared savings. (F) Energy efficiency savings and peak demand reduction amounts approved by the commission shall continue to be counted toward achieving the energy efficiency and peak demand reduction requirements as long as the requirements remain in effect. (G) Any energy efficiency savings or peak demand reduction amount achieved in excess of the requirements may, at the discretion of the electric distribution utility, be banked and applied toward achieving the energy efficiency or peak demand reduction requirements in future years.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.641 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.641
§ 4928.641. Costs being recovered through bypassable charge
Status: in_force

October 22, 2019 House Bill 6 - 133rd General Assembly (A) If an electric distribution utility has executed a contract before April 1, 2014, to procure renewable energy resources and there are ongoing costs associated with that contract that are being recovered from customers through a bypassable charge as of September 12, 2014, that cost recovery shall, regardless of the amendments to section 4928.64 of the Revised Code by H.B. 6 of the 133rd general assembly, continue on a bypassable basis through December 31, 2032. (B) Division (A) of this section applies only to costs associated with the original term of a contract described in that division and entered into before April 1, 2014. This section does not permit recovery of costs associated with an extension of such a contract. This section does not permit recovery of costs associated with an amendment of such a contract if that amendment was made on or after April 1, 2014.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.20 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.20
§ 4928.20. Local aggregation of retail electric loads - limitations
Status: in_force

August 14, 2025 House Bill 15 - 136th General Assembly (A) The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may adopt an ordinance, or the board of township trustees of a township or the board of county commissioners of a county may adopt a resolution, under which it may aggregate in accordance with this section the retail electrical loads located, respectively, within the municipal corporation, township, or unincorporated area of the county and, for that purpose, may enter into service agreements to facilitate for those loads the sale and purchase of electricity. The legislative authority or board also may exercise such authority jointly with any other such legislative authority or board. For customers that are not mercantile customers, an ordinance or resolution under this division shall specify whether the aggregation will occur only with the prior, affirmative consent of each person owning, occupying, controlling, or using an electric load center proposed to be aggregated or will occur automatically for all such persons pursuant to the opt-out requirements of division (D) of this section. The aggregation of mercantile customers shall occur only with the prior, affirmative consent of each such person owning, occupying, controlling, or using an electric load center proposed to be aggregated. Nothing in this division, however, authorizes the aggregation of the retail electric loads of an electric load center, as defined in section 4933.81 of the Revised Code, that is located in the certified territory of a nonprofit electric supplier under sections 4933.81 to 4933.90 of the Revised Code or an electric load center served by transmission or distribution facilities of a municipal electric utility. (B) If an ordinance or resolution adopted under division (A) of this section specifies that aggregation of customers that are not mercantile customers will occur automatically as described in that division, the ordinance or resolution shall direct the board of elections to submit the question of the authority to aggregate to the electors of the respective municipal corporation, township, or unincorporated area of a county at a special election on the day of the next primary or general election in the municipal corporation, township, or county. The legislative authority or board shall certify a copy of the ordinance or resolution to the board of elections not less than ninety days before the day of the special election. No ordinance or resolution adopted under division (A) of this section that provides for an election under this division shall take effect unless approved by a majority of the electors voting upon the ordinance or resolution at the election held pursuant to this division. (C) Upon the applicable requisite authority under divisions (A) and (B) of this section, the legislative authority or board shall develop a plan of operation and governance for the aggregation program so authorized. Before adopting a plan under this division, the legislative authority or board shall hold at least two public hearings on the plan. Before the first hearing, the legislative authority or board shall publish notice of the hearings once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the jurisdiction or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code. The notice shall summarize the plan and state the date, time, and location of each hearing. (D) No legislative authority or board, pursuant to an ordinance or resolution under divisions (A) and (B) of this section that provides for automatic aggregation of customers that are not mercantile customers as described in division (A) of this section, shall aggregate the electrical load of any electric load center located within its jurisdiction unless it in advance clearly discloses to the person owning, occupying, controlling, or using the load center that the person will be enrolled automatically in the aggregation program and will remain so enrolled unless the person affirmatively elects by a stated procedure not to be so enrolled. The disclosure shall state prominently the rates, charges, and other terms and conditions of enrollment. The stated procedure shall allow any person enrolled in the aggregation program the opportunity to opt out of the program every three years, without paying a switching fee. Any such person that opts out before the commencement of the aggregation program pursuant to the stated procedure shall default to the standard service offer provided under section 4928.14 or division (D) of section 4928.35 of the Revised Code until the person chooses an alternative supplier. (E)(1) With respect to a governmental aggregation for a municipal corporation that is authorized pursuant to divisions (A) to (D) of this section, resolutions may be proposed by initiative or referendum petitions in accordance with sections 731.28 to 731.41 of the Revised Code. (2) With respect to a governmental aggregation for a township or the unincorporated area of a county, which aggregation is authorized pursuant to divisions (A) to (D) of this section, resolutions may be proposed by initiative or referendum petitions in accordance with sections 731.28 to 731.40 of the Revised Code, except that: (a) The petitions shall be filed, respectively, with the township fiscal officer or the board of county commissioners, who shall perform those duties imposed under those sections upon the city auditor or village clerk. (b) The petitions shall contain the signatures of not less than ten per cent of the total number of electors in, respectively, the township or the unincorporated area of the county who voted for the office of governor at the preceding general election for that office in that area. (F) A governmental aggregator under division (A) of this section is not a public utility engaging in the wholesale purchase and resale of electricity, and provision of the aggregated service is not a wholesale utility transaction. A governmental aggregator shall be subject to supervision and regulation by the public utilities commission only to the extent of any competitive retail electric service it provides and commission authority under this chapter. (G) This section does not apply in the case of a municipal corporation that supplies such aggregated service to electric load centers to which its municipal electric utility also supplies a noncompetitive retail electric service through transmission or distribution facilities the utility singly or jointly owns or operates. (H) A governmental aggregator shall not include in its aggregation the accounts of any of the following: (1) A customer that has opted out of the aggregation; (2) A customer in contract with a certified electric services company; (3) A customer that has a special contract with an electric distribution utility; (4) A customer that is not located within the governmental aggregator's governmental boundaries; (5) Subject to division (C) of section 4928.21 of the Revised Code, a customer who appears on the "do not aggregate" list maintained under that section. (I) Customers that are part of a governmental aggregation under this section shall be responsible only for such portion of a surcharge under section 4928.144 of the Revised Code that is proportionate to the benefits, as determined by the commission, that electric load centers within the jurisdiction of the governmental aggregation as a group receive. The proportionate surcharge so established shall apply to each customer of the governmental aggregation while the customer is part of that aggregation. If a customer ceases being such a customer, the otherwise applicable surcharge shall apply. Nothing in this section shall result in less than full recovery by an electric distribution utility of any surcharge authorized under section 4928.144 of the Revised Code. Nothing in this section shall result in less than the full and timely imposition, charging, collection, and adjustment by an electric distribution utility, its assignee, or any collection agent, of the phase-in-recovery charges authorized pursuant to a final financing order issued pursuant to sections 4928.23 to 4928.2318 of the Revised Code. (J) The commission shall adopt rules and issue orders in proceedings under sections 4928.141 and 4928.142 of the Revised Code to encourage and promote large-scale governmental aggregation in this state. For that purpose, the commission shall conduct an immediate review of any rules it has adopted for the purpose of this section that are in effect on the effective date of the amendment of this section by S.B. 221 of the 127th general assembly, July 31, 2008. The commission shall review each application filed under section 4928.142 of the Revised Code by an electric distribution utility to ensure that the application and the resulting market rate offer shall not contain any rate, price, term, condition, or provision that would have an adverse effect on large-scale governmental aggregation in this state. Last updated May 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4963.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4963 / § 4963.05
§ 4963.05. Heating for cars
Status: in_force

October 19, 1961 House Bill 931 - 104th General Assembly When necessary to heat its cars for carrying passengers, mail, baggage, or express matter, each railroad company shall do so by electricity, hot water, or steam heat so constructed and protected as will most effectually guard passengers against danger from fire, in accidents by collision, or when cars are overturned or thrown from the track. No such company shall permit any other corporation or person to use cars carrying passengers, mail, baggage, or express matter over its road unless their heating apparatus conforms to the requirements of this section. A railroad company which fails to comply with this section is liable to a forfeiture of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, to be recovered in the name of the state, for the benefit of its common schools. Such action shall be prosecuted in any county through which the railroad passes by the prosecuting attorney of such county, at his own instance or the instance of the public utilities commission, as provided by law in other cases for the recovery of penalties and forfeitures against railroad companies, after due notice given by the commission to the president or managing officer of such delinquent company, and the company's further neglect for thirty days to comply with this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4955.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4955 / § 4955.02
§ 4955.02. Appropriation of property for surface track or elevated crossing
Status: in_force

January 1, 1966 Senate Bill 94 - 106th General Assembly If the parties are unable to agree as provided in section 4955.01 of the Revised Code, and it is necessary in the judgment of the board of directors of the railroad company, to use or occupy such road, street, alley, way, or ground, or a part thereof, for surface tracks or for crossing with an elevated structure when no piers, supports, or obstructions are to be placed in such road, street, alley, way, or ground, the company may appropriate so much of it as is necessary for the purposes of its railroad in the manner and upon the terms provided for in sections 163.01 to 163.22 , inclusive, of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4951.40 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4951 / § 4951.40
§ 4951.40. Appropriation of property for elevated or underground railroad
Status: in_force

January 1, 1966 Senate Bill 94 - 106th General Assembly After a grant referred to in section 4951.34 of the Revised Code has been made the company operating the elevated or underground railroad may appropriate private property necessary for the use and enjoyment of the grant, including terminals and way stations, for the purpose of constructing and operating its railroad in the manner and upon the terms provided for in sections 163.01 to 163.22 , inclusive, of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4906.021 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4906 / § 4906.021
§ 4906.021. Ad hoc member requirement, qualifications
Status: in_force

October 11, 2021 Senate Bill 52 - 134th General Assembly (A) For the purposes of this section and section 4906.022 of the Revised Code: (1) "Immediate family member" means a person's: (a) Spouse; (b) Brother or sister of the whole, or of the half, blood, or by marriage; (c) Children, including adopted children; and (d) Parents. (2) "Material amendment" and "utility facility" have the same meanings as in section 303.57 of the Revised Code. (B) Whenever an application is made to the power siting board for a certificate or a material amendment to an existing certificate for a utility facility, the board shall include two voting ad hoc members to represent the interests of the residents of the area in which the utility facility is to be located. (C)(1) The ad hoc members shall be: (a) The chairperson of the board of township trustees of the township in which the utility facility is to be located or the chairperson's designee; (b) The president of the board of county commissioners of the county in which the utility facility is to be located or the president's designee. (2) If a utility facility is to be located in multiple townships, a single ad hoc member to represent the townships shall be chosen by a majority vote of all of the boards of township trustees of the townships in which the utility facility is to be located. (3) If a utility facility is to be located in multiple counties, a single ad hoc member to represent the counties shall be chosen by a majority vote of all of the boards of county commissioners of the counties in which the utility facility is to be located. (D)(1) No person shall serve as such an ad hoc member if the person: (a) Is party to a lease agreement with, or has granted an easement to, the developer of a utility facility; (b) Holds any other beneficial interest in a utility facility; (c) Has an immediate family member who is party to a lease agreement with, or has granted an easement to, the developer of the utility facility; (d) Has an immediate family member who holds any beneficial interest in a utility facility; (e) Has an immediate family member who has intervened in the power siting board proceeding for which the ad hoc member is included. (2) If, because of the application of division (D) of this section, an individual is unable to serve as such an ad hoc member, a new ad hoc member shall be appointed in accordance with division (C) of this section. (E) A designee under division (C)(1) of this section shall be one of the following from the same political subdivision as the designator: (a) Another elected official; (b) A resident. Last updated July 23, 2021 at 4:54 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4929.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4929 / § 4929.11
§ 4929.11. Automatic adjustment mechanism or device for rates
Status: in_force

September 9, 2011 House Bill 95 - 129th General Assembly (A) Upon an application filed under this section, the public utilities commission may allow any automatic adjustment mechanism or device in a natural gas company's rate schedules that allows a natural gas company's rates or charges for a regulated service or goods to fluctuate automatically in accordance with changes in a specified cost or costs. (B) Upon an application filed under section 4909.18 or 4929.05 of the Revised Code, the commission may allow any automatic adjustment mechanism or device as described in division (A) of this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4969.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4969 / § 4969.04
§ 4969.04. Title vests in grantee
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The title to the property transferred, with the right to use, occupy, and enjoy it for all purposes proper in the construction, maintenance, and operation of a railroad thereon, shall pass to and vest in the grantee company, by the execution of the deed referred to by section 4969.01 of the Revised Code, to the same extent as the granting company might or could use, occupy, and enjoy it.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4939.032 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4939 / § 4939.032
§ 4939.032. Applications for requests for consent
Status: in_force

August 1, 2018 House Bill 478 - 132nd General Assembly Applications for requests for consent pursuant to section 4939.03 or 4939.031 of the Revised Code shall include the name of the person who owns or will own the small cell facility or wireless support structure for which consent is requested. A permit or other record of consent issued by a municipal corporation that authorizes the use of the public way pursuant to section 4939.03 or 4939.031 of the Revised Code shall include the name of the person who owns or will own the facility or structure.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4929.222 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4929 / § 4929.222
§ 4929.222. Rules for changing natural gas supplier using valid identification
Status: in_force

August 14, 2025 House Bill 15 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "customer account information" means a unique natural gas company number or other customer identification number used by the company to identify a customer and the customer's account record. (B) The public utilities commission shall adopt rules to ensure that a natural gas company processes a customer's change in competitive retail natural gas supplier by using customer account information. A customer who consents to a change of supplier shall not be required to provide customer account information to the supplier if the customer provides a valid form of government-issued identification issued to the customer or a sufficient alternative form of identification that allows the supplier to establish the customer's identity accurately. (C) Notwithstanding any provision of section 121.95 of the Revised Code to the contrary, a regulatory restriction contained in a rule adopted under this section is not subject to sections 121.95 to 121.953 of the Revised Code. Last updated July 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4999.17 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4999 / § 4999.17
§ 4999.17. Discipline or discharge of employee without hearing
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly No railroad company, or its superintendent, or manager, employing any special agent, detective, or person commonly known as "spotter" for the purpose of investigating, obtaining, and reporting to the employer, its agent, superintendent, or manager, information concerning its employees, shall discipline or discharge any employee in its service, where such act of discipline or the discharge is based upon a report by such special agent, detective, or spotter, which report involves a question of integrity, honesty, or a breach of rules of the employer, unless such employer, its agent, superintendent, or manager, before disciplining or discharging such employee, grants such employee a fair opportunity to be heard in defense or explanation of the complaint against him, at which hearing said employer shall state specific charges on which said act or discharge is based and at which the accused employee has the right to furnish testimony in his defense. Whoever violates this section shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than three hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. Such imprisonment, when imposed, shall be imposed upon the officers or agents of such company committing such offense.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4953.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4953 / § 4953.10
§ 4953.10. Liability of company
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The company controlling and operating the property of a union terminal company is liable to the public and to persons who contract with such union terminal company, upon all contracts made by it, for all damages caused by it, and for all damages, costs, and expenses which arise from the fault or neglect of its officers and employees.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4953.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4953 / § 4953.07
§ 4953.07. Bylaws, rules, and regulations
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The board of directors of a union terminal company may pass bylaws, rules, and regulations for its government, not inconsistent with the charters of the railroad companies and for the regulation of the depot and depot grounds and the business thereof. It shall appoint such officers and agents as are necessary. It shall adopt, and post conspicuously in the passenger depot, rules and regulations to control the conduct of all runners, solicitors, hackmen, and drivers of vehicles within the depot and depot grounds.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4971.14 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4971 / § 4971.14
§ 4971.14. Creditors may agree on capitalization - notice
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly When judicial proceedings are pending in a court for the sale of a railroad, and such railroad is in the hands of a receiver appointed by such court, two thirds in interest of each class of mortgagees or holders of the bonds issued under a mortgage, two thirds in interest of all other classes of creditors of the railroad company, and the owners of two thirds of the shares of the stock of such company may agree in writing upon a plan for the adjustment of such indebtedness, by capitalization or otherwise. When such agreement is made and filed in the office of the secretary of state, the secretary of state shall cause public notice of such agreement to be given in a newspaper of general circulation published in each of the cities of Columbus, Cincinnati, and Cleveland, and also in a newspaper of general circulation published in each of the counties through or in which the railroad is located. Publication shall be made immediately after the agreement is filed and continued for six consecutive weeks. The cost of such publication shall be paid by the company. A duplicate of such agreement shall be kept at the principal office of the company. All persons in interest, not parties to such agreement, may, for four months after the date of the first publication, appear, either in person or by proxy, and become a party to such agreement, by signing it, and thereby secure its benefits.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4981.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4981 / § 4981.02
§ 4981.02. Ohio rail development commission
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) There is hereby created the Ohio rail development commission, as an independent agency of the state within the department of transportation, consisting of the following members: (1) Two members of the Ohio senate, one of whom shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the president of the senate and one of whom shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the minority leader of the senate; (2) Two members of the Ohio house of representatives, one of whom shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the speaker of the house of representatives and one of whom shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the minority leader of the house of representatives; (3) Two members representing the general public, one of whom shall be appointed by the president of the senate and one of whom shall be appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives; (4) The director of transportation, or the director's designee, who shall be an ex officio member; (5) The director of development, or the director's designee, who shall be an ex officio member; (6) The following members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate: (a) One member, who shall serve as chairperson of the commission until October 21, 2025, or an earlier date if the member resigns or otherwise leaves office; (b) Two members, who shall represent the interests of a freight rail company. One such member shall represent a class I railroad and one such member shall represent a class II or class III railroad, as defined by the surface transportation board under 49 C.F.R. 1201 ; (c) One member, who shall have expertise in infrastructure financing; (d) One member, who shall represent the interests of organized labor; (e) One member, who shall represent the interests of manufacturers; (f) One member who shall represent the general public, subject to division (B) of this section. (B) Beginning on October 21, 2025, or at an earlier date if there is a vacancy in the position of chairperson, the director of transportation or the director's designee shall serve as the chairperson of the commission. Upon the director or director's designee assuming the position of chairperson, the governor shall appoint an additional member to the commission to represent the general public. (C) All members shall be reimbursed for actual expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. The members of the commission from the Ohio senate and the Ohio house of representatives shall serve as nonvoting members. No more than four members of the seven appointed to the commission by the governor shall be from the same political party. Each member of the commission shall be a resident of this state, except for the two members appointed under division (A)(6)(b) of this section who may be nonresidents with a substantial connection to freight rail operations in Ohio. (D) Within sixty days after October 20, 1994, the governor shall make initial appointments to the commission. Of the initial appointments made to the commission, three shall be for a term ending three years after October 20, 1994, and three shall be for a term ending six years after that date. Terms for all other appointments made to the commission shall be for six years. Vacancies shall be filled in the manner provided for original appointments. Any member appointed to fill a vacancy shall have the same qualifications as the member's predecessor. Each term shall end on the same day of the same month of the year as did the term which it succeeds. Each appointed member shall hold office from the date of the member's appointment until the end of the term for which the member was appointed. Any member appointed to fill a vacancy before the expiration of the term for which the member's predecessor was appointed shall hold office for the remainder of that term. Any appointed member shall continue in office subsequent to the expiration date of the member's term until the member's successor takes office, or for a period of sixty days, whichever occurs first. All members shall be eligible for reappointment. (E) The commission may employ an executive director, who shall have appropriate experience as determined by the commission, and a secretary-treasurer and other employees that the commission considers appropriate. The commission may fix the compensation of the employees. (F) Six members of the commission shall constitute a quorum, and the affirmative vote of six members shall be necessary for any action taken by the commission. No vacancy in the membership of the commission shall impair the rights of a quorum to exercise all the rights and perform all the duties of the commission. (G) All members of the commission are subject to Chapter 102. of the Revised Code. (H) The department of transportation may use all appropriate sources of revenue to assist the commission in developing and implementing rail service. (I) Expenditures by the department of transportation, the Ohio rail development commission, or any other state agency for capital improvements for the development of passenger rail shall be subject to the approval of the controlling board with an affirmative vote of not fewer than five members, including the affirmative vote of a majority of the controlling board members appointed by the president of the senate and a majority of the controlling board members appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives. All public funds acquired by the commission shall be used for developing, implementing, and regulating rail service and not for operating rail service unless the general assembly specifically approves the expenditure of funds for operating rail service. Last updated August 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.64 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.64
§ 4928.64. Electric distribution utility to provide electricity from qualifying renewable energy resources
Status: in_force

August 14, 2025 House Bill 15 - 136th General Assembly (A)(1) As used in this section, "qualifying renewable energy resource" means a renewable energy resource, as defined in section 4928.01 of the Revised Code that: (a) Has a placed-in-service date on or after January 1, 1998; (b) Is any run-of-the-river hydroelectric facility that has an in-service date on or after January 1, 1980; (c) Is a small hydroelectric facility; (d) Is created on or after January 1, 1998, by the modification or retrofit of any facility placed in service prior to January 1, 1998; or (e) Is a mercantile customer-sited renewable energy resource, whether new or existing, that the mercantile customer commits for integration into the electric distribution utility's demand-response, energy efficiency, or peak demand reduction programs as provided under division (A)(2)(c) of section 4928.66 of the Revised Code, including, but not limited to, any of the following: (i) A resource that has the effect of improving the relationship between real and reactive power; (ii) A resource that makes efficient use of waste heat or other thermal capabilities owned or controlled by a mercantile customer; (iii) Storage technology that allows a mercantile customer more flexibility to modify its demand or load and usage characteristics; (iv) Electric generation equipment owned or controlled by a mercantile customer that uses a renewable energy resource. (2) For the purpose of this section and as it considers appropriate, the public utilities commission may classify any new technology as such a qualifying renewable energy resource. (B)(1) By the end of 2026, an electric distribution utility shall have provided from qualifying renewable energy resources, including, at its discretion, qualifying renewable energy resources obtained pursuant to an electricity supply contract, a portion of the electricity supply required for its standard service offer under sections 4928.141 and 4928.142 of the Revised Code, and an electric services company shall have provided a portion of its electricity supply for retail consumers in this state from qualifying renewable energy resources, including, at its discretion, qualifying renewable energy resources obtained pursuant to an electricity supply contract. That portion shall equal eight and one-half per cent of the total number of kilowatt hours of electricity sold by the subject utility or company to any and all retail electric consumers whose electric load centers are served by that utility and are located within the utility's certified territory or, in the case of an electric services company, are served by the company and are located within this state. However, nothing in this section precludes a utility or company from providing a greater percentage. (2) The portion required under division (B)(1) of this section shall be generated from renewable energy resources in accordance with the following benchmarks: By end of year Renewable energy resources Solar energy resources 2009 0.25% 0.004% 2010 0.50% 0.010% 2011 1% 0.030% 2012 1.5% 0.060% 2013 2% 0.090% 2014 2.5% 0.12% 2015 2.5% 0.12% 2016 2.5% 0.12% 2017 3.5% 0.15% 2018 4.5% 0.18% 2019 5.5% 0.22% 2020 5.5% 0% 2021 6% 0% 2022 6.5% 0% 2023 7% 0% 2024 7.5% 0% 2025 8% 0% 2026 8.5% 0% (3) The qualifying renewable energy resources implemented by the utility or company shall be met either: (a) Through facilities located in this state; or (b) With resources that can be shown to be deliverable into this state. (C)(1) The commission annually shall review an electric distribution utility's or electric services company's compliance with the most recent applicable benchmark under division (B)(2) of this section and, in the course of that review, shall identify any undercompliance or noncompliance of the utility or company that it determines is weather-related, related to equipment or resource shortages for qualifying renewable energy resources as applicable, or is otherwise outside the utility's or company's control. (2) Subject to the cost cap provisions of division (C)(3) of this section, if the commission determines, after notice and opportunity for hearing, and based upon its findings in that review regarding avoidable undercompliance or noncompliance, but subject to division (C)(4) of this section, that the utility or company has failed to comply with any such benchmark, the commission shall impose a renewable energy compliance payment on the utility or company. (a) The compliance payment pertaining to the solar energy resource benchmarks under division (B)(2) of this section shall be an amount per megawatt hour of undercompliance or noncompliance in the period under review, as follows: (i) Three hundred dollars for 2014, 2015, and 2016; (ii) Two hundred fifty dollars for 2017 and 2018; (iii) Two hundred dollars for 2019. (b) The compliance payment pertaining to the renewable energy resource benchmarks under division (B)(2) of this section shall equal the number of additional renewable energy credits that the electric distribution utility or electric services company would have needed to comply with the applicable benchmark in the period under review times an amount that shall begin at forty-five dollars and shall be adjusted annually by the commission to reflect any change in the consumer price index, but shall not be less than forty-five dollars. As used in this division, "consumer price index" means the consumer price index prepared by the United States bureau of labor statistics (U.S. city average for urban wage earners and clerical workers: all items, 1982-1984=100), or, if that index is no longer published, a generally available comparable index. (c) The compliance payment shall not be passed through by the electric distribution utility or electric services company to consumers. The compliance payment shall be remitted to the commission, for deposit to the credit of the advanced energy fund created under section 4928.61 of the Revised Code. Payment of the compliance payment shall be subject to such collection and enforcement procedures as apply to the collection of a forfeiture under sections 4905.55 to 4905.60 and 4905.64 of the Revised Code. (3) An electric distribution utility or an electric services company need not comply with a benchmark under division (B)(2) of this section to the extent that its reasonably expected cost of that compliance exceeds its reasonably expected cost of otherwise producing or acquiring the requisite electricity by three per cent or more. The cost of compliance shall be calculated as though any exemption from taxes and assessments had not been granted under section 5727.75 of the Revised Code. (4)(a) An electric distribution utility or electric services company may request the commission to make a force majeure determination pursuant to this division regarding all or part of the utility's or company's compliance with any minimum benchmark under division (B)(2) of this section during the period of review occurring pursuant to division (C)(2) of this section. The commission may require the electric distribution utility or electric services company to make solicitations for renewable energy resource credits as part of its default service before the utility's or company's request of force majeure under this division can be made. (b) Within ninety days after the filing of a request by an electric distribution utility or electric services company under division (C)(4)(a) of this section, the commission shall determine if qualifying renewable energy resources are reasonably available in the marketplace in sufficient quantities for the utility or company to comply with the subject minimum benchmark during the review period. In making this determination, the commission shall consider whether the electric distribution utility or electric services company has made a good faith effort to acquire sufficient qualifying renewable energy or, as applicable, solar energy resources to so comply, including, but not limited to, by banking or seeking renewable energy resource credits or by seeking the resources through long-term contracts. Additionally, the commission shall consider the availability of qualifying renewable energy or solar energy resources in this state and other jurisdictions in the PJM interconnection regional transmission organization, L.L.C., or its successor and the midcontinent independent system operator or its successor. (c) If, pursuant to division (C)(4)(b) of this section, the commission determines that qualifying renewable energy or solar energy resources are not reasonably available to permit the electric distribution utility or electric services company to comply, during the period of review, with the subject minimum benchmark prescribed under division (B)(2) of this section, the commission shall modify that compliance obligation of the utility or company as it determines appropriate to accommodate the finding. Commission modification shall not automatically reduce the obligation for the electric distribution utility's or electric services company's compliance in subsequent years. If it modifies the electric distribution utility or electric services company obligation under division (C)(4)(c) of this section, the commission may require the utility or company, if sufficient renewable energy resource credits exist in the marketplace, to acquire additional renewable energy resource credits in subsequent years equivalent to the utility's or company's modified obligation under division (C)(4)(c) of this section. (5) The commission shall establish a process to provide for at least an annual review of the renewable energy resource market in this state and in the service territories of the regional transmission organizations that manage transmission systems located in this state. The commission shall use the results of this study to identify any needed changes to the amount of the renewable energy compliance payment specified under divisions (C)(2)(a) and (b) of this section. Specifically, the commission may increase the amount to ensure that payment of compliance payments is not used to achieve compliance with this section in lieu of actually acquiring or realizing energy derived from qualifying renewable energy resources. However, if the commission finds that the amount of the compliance payment should be otherwise changed, the commission shall present this finding to the general assembly for legislative enactment. (D) The commission annually shall submit to the general assembly in accordance with section 101.68 of the Revised Code a report describing all of the following: (1) The compliance of electric distribution utilities and electric services companies with division (B) of this section; (2) The average annual cost of renewable energy credits purchased by utilities and companies for the year covered in the report; (3) Any strategy for utility and company compliance or for encouraging the use of qualifying renewable energy resources in supplying this state's electricity needs in a manner that considers available technology, costs, job creation, and economic impacts. The commission shall begin providing the information described in division (D)(2) of this section in each report submitted after September 10, 2012. The commission shall allow and consider public comments on the report prior to its submission to the general assembly. Nothing in the report shall be binding on any person, including any utility or company for the purpose of its compliance with any benchmark under division (B) of this section, or the enforcement of that provision under division (C) of this section. (E) All costs incurred by an electric distribution utility in complying with the requirements of this section shall be bypassable by any consumer that has exercised choice of supplier under section 4928.03 of the Revised Code. Last updated May 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4906.023 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4906 / § 4906.023
§ 4906.023. Limitation on ad hoc member of intervening township or county
Status: in_force

October 11, 2021 Senate Bill 52 - 134th General Assembly If a board of township trustees or board of county commissioners seeks to adopt a resolution to intervene in a power siting board case for which it is entitled to have a voting ad hoc member under section 4906.02 of the Revised Code, the member shall not vote on the resolution to intervene, unless the member designates another individual to serve as the ad hoc member. A designee under this section shall meet the requirements of division (E) of section 4906.021 of the Revised Code. Last updated July 23, 2021 at 4:46 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4933.89 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4933 / § 4933.89
§ 4933.89. Public utilities territorial administration fund
Status: in_force

July 12, 1978 House Bill 577 - 112th General Assembly There is hereby created in the state treasury a fund to be known as the public utilities territorial administration fund. The funds collected under section 4933.88 of the Revised Code as assessments shall be credited to the public utilities territorial administration fund.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.234 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.234
§ 4928.234. Phase-in-recovery property
Status: in_force

March 22, 2012 House Bill 364 - 129th General Assembly (A) The phase-in-recovery property created in a final financing order may be transferred, sold, conveyed, or assigned to any person or entity not affiliated with the electric distribution utility subject to the final financing order or to any affiliate of the electric distribution utility created for the limited purpose of acquiring, owning, or administering that property, issuing phase-in-recovery bonds under the final financing order, or a combination of these purposes. (B) All or any portion of the phase-in-recovery property may be pledged to secure the payment of phase-in-recovery bonds, amounts payable to financing parties and bondholders, amounts payable under any ancillary agreement, and other financing costs. (C) The phase-in-recovery property shall constitute an existing, present property right, notwithstanding any requirement that the imposition, charging, and collection of phase-in-recovery charges depend on the electric distribution utility continuing to deliver retail electric distribution service or continuing to perform its servicing functions relating to the collection of phase-in-recovery charges or on the level of future energy consumption. That property shall exist regardless of whether the phase-in-recovery charges have been billed, have accrued, or have been collected, and notwithstanding any requirement that the value or amount of the property is dependent on the future provision of service to customers by the electric distribution utility. (D) All such phase-in-recovery property shall continue to exist until the phase-in-recovery bonds issued under the final financing order are paid in full and all financing costs relating to the bonds have been paid in full.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4927.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4927 / § 4927.15
§ 4927.15. Rates, terms and conditions for 9-1-1 and other services
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly (A)(1) The rates, terms, and conditions for 9-1-1 service provided in this state by a telephone company or a telecommunications carrier and each of the following provided in this state by a telephone company shall be approved and tariffed in the manner prescribed by rule adopted by the public utilities commission and shall be subject to the applicable laws, including rules or regulations adopted and orders issued by the commission or the federal communications commission: (a) N-1-1 services, other than 9-1-1 service; (b) Pay telephone access lines; (c) Toll presubscription; (d) Telecommunications relay service. (2) The rates, terms, and conditions for both of the following provided in this state by a telephone company or an incumbent local exchange carrier shall be approved and tariffed in the manner prescribed by rule adopted by the public utilities commission and shall be subject to the applicable laws, including rules or regulations adopted and orders issued by the commission or the federal communications commission: (a) Carrier access; (b) Pole attachments and conduit occupancy under section 4905.71 of the Revised Code. (B) The public utilities commission may order changes in a telephone company's rates for carrier access in this state subject to this division. In the event that the public utilities commission reduces a telephone company's rates for carrier access that are in effect on September 13, 2010, that reduction shall be on a revenue-neutral basis under terms and conditions established by the public utilities commission, and any resulting rate changes necessary to comply with division (B) or (C) of this section shall be in addition to any upward rate alteration made under section 4927.12 of the Revised Code. (C) The public utilities commission has authority to address carrier access policy and to create and administer mechanisms for carrier access reform, including, but not limited to, high cost support.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4901.23 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4901 / § 4901.23
§ 4901.23. Right of commissioners and employees to pass on vehicles of common carrier
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The public utilities commissioners and the attorney, secretary, other officers, and employees of the public utilities commission may, when in the performance of their official duties, pass free of charge on all railroads, cars, vessels, and other vehicles of every common carrier, subject to control or regulation by the commission, between points within this state, and such persons shall not be denied the right to travel upon any railroad, car, vessel, or other vehicle of such common carrier, whether such railroad, car, vessel, or other vehicle is used for the transportation of passengers or freight, and regardless of its class.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4931.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4931 / § 4931.99
§ 4931.99. Penalties
Status: in_force

December 20, 2012 House Bill 360 - 129th General Assembly (A) Whoever violates division (B) of section 4931.06 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor in the first degree. (B) Whoever violates section 4931.10 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor for a first offense and a misdemeanor of the first degree on each subsequent offense. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 4935.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4935 / § 4935.04
§ 4935.04. Energy information and reports
Status: in_force

August 14, 2025 House Bill 15 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this chapter: (1) "Major utility facility" means: (a) An electric transmission line and associated facilities of a design capacity of one hundred twenty-five kilovolts or more; (b) A gas or natural gas transmission line and associated facilities designed for, or capable of, transporting gas or natural gas at pressures in excess of one hundred twenty-five pounds per square inch. "Major utility facility" does not include electric, gas, or natural gas distributing lines and gas or natural gas gathering lines and associated facilities as defined by the public utilities commission; facilities owned or operated by industrial firms, persons, or institutions that produce or transmit gas or natural gas, or electricity primarily for their own use or as a byproduct of their operations; gas or natural gas transmission lines and associated facilities over which an agency of the United States has certificate jurisdiction; facilities owned or operated by a person furnishing gas or natural gas directly to fifteen thousand or fewer customers within this state. (2) "Person" has the meaning set forth in section 4906.01 of the Revised Code. (3) "Advanced transmission technologies" has the same meaning as in section 4906.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Each person owning or operating a gas or natural gas transmission line and associated facilities within this state over which an agency of the United States has certificate jurisdiction shall furnish to the commission a copy of the energy information filed by the person with that agency of the United States. (C) Each person owning or operating a major utility facility within this state, or furnishing gas, natural gas, or electricity directly to more than fifteen thousand customers within this state shall furnish a report to the commission for its review. The report shall be furnished annually, except that for a gas or natural gas company the report shall be furnished every three years. The report shall be termed the long-term forecast report and shall contain: (1) A year-by-year, ten-year forecast of annual energy demand, peak load, reserves, and a general description of the resource planning projections to meet demand; (2) A range of projected loads during the period; (3) A description of major utility facilities planned to be added or taken out of service in the next ten years, including, to the extent the information is available, prospective sites for transmission line locations; (4) For gas and natural gas, a projection of anticipated supply, supply prices, and sources of supply over the forecast period; (5) A description of proposed changes in the transmission system planned for the next five years; (6) A month-by-month forecast of both energy demand and peak load for electric utilities, and gas sendout for gas and natural gas utilities, for the next two years. The report shall describe the major utility facilities that, in the judgment of such person, will be required to supply system demands during the forecast period. The report from a gas or natural gas utility shall cover the ten- and five-year periods next succeeding the date of the report, and the report from an electric utility shall cover the twenty-, ten-, and five-year periods next succeeding the date of the report. Each report shall be made available to the public and furnished upon request to municipal corporations and governmental agencies charged with the duty of protecting the environment or of planning land use. The report shall be in such form and shall contain such information as may be prescribed by the commission. Each person not owning or operating a major utility facility within this state and serving fifteen thousand or fewer gas or natural gas, or electric customers within this state shall furnish such information as the commission requires. (7) For electric transmission, a person shall include an evaluation and report of the potential use of, or investment in, one or more advanced transmission technologies to enable the electric utility to safely, reliably, efficiently, and cost-effectively meet electric system demand through its major utility facilities. The report shall identify which advanced transmission technologies were considered as a part of the review of the major utility facilities for the next five years. A person shall also include a cost evaluation comparing costs of traditional transmission investments and costs of advanced transmission technologies for the projects considered on the major utility facilities applied individually, together, or in sequence. The report shall also include an advanced transmission technology congestion mitigation study to cost-effectively maximize the delivery of energy resources in the near term that: (a) Identifies locations on the entity's transmission system where congestion has occurred for a total of fifty hours per year or more during the last three years or is likely to occur during the next five years, including due to planned transmission outages or other factors; (b) Estimates the frequency of congestion at each location and the increased cost to ratepayers resulting from the substitution of higher-priced electricity; (c) Evaluates the technical feasibility and estimates the cost of installing one or more advanced transmission technologies to address each instance of grid congestion identified in division (C)(7)(a) of this section and projects the grid-enhancing technology's efficacy in reducing congestion; (d) Analyzes the cost-effectiveness of installing grid-enhancing technologies to address each instance of congestion identified in division (C)(7)(a) of this section by using the information developed in division (C)(7)(c) of this section to calculate the payback period of each installation, using a methodology developed by the commission; (e) Proposes an implementation plan, including a schedule and cost estimate, to install grid-enhancing technologies at each congestion point at which the payback period is less than or equal to a value determined by the commission, in order to maximize transmission system capacity, and explains the entity's current line rating methodology. (D) The commission shall: (1) Review and comment on the reports filed under division (C) of this section, and make the information contained in the reports readily available to the public and other interested government agencies; (2) Compile and publish each year the general locations of proposed and existing transmission line routes within its jurisdiction as identified in the reports filed under division (C) of this section, identifying the general location of such sites and routes and the approximate year when construction is expected to commence, and to make such information readily available to the public, to each newspaper of daily or weekly circulation within the area affected by the proposed site and route, and to interested federal, state, and local agencies; (3) Hold a public hearing upon the showing of good cause to the commission by an interested party. If a hearing is held, the commission shall fix a time for the hearing, which shall be not later than ninety days after the report is filed, and publish notice of the date, time of day, and location of the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in each county in which the person furnishing the report has or intends to locate a major utility facility and will provide service during the period covered by the report. The notice shall be published not less than fifteen nor more than thirty days before the hearing and shall state the matters to be considered. (4) Require such information from persons subject to its jurisdiction as necessary to assist in the conduct of hearings and any investigation or studies it may undertake; (5) Conduct any studies or investigations that are necessary or appropriate to carry out its responsibilities under this section. (6) Review and evaluate that advanced transmission technologies were properly reported in accordance with division (C)(7) of this section and allow stakeholders to provide comments. (7) Approve advanced transmission technology congestion mitigation implementation plans, including cost recovery. (E)(1) The scope of the hearing held under division (D)(3) of this section shall be limited to issues relating to forecasting. The power siting board, the office of consumers' counsel, and all other persons having an interest in the proceedings shall be afforded the opportunity to be heard and to be represented by counsel. The commission may adjourn the hearing from time to time. (2) The hearing shall include, but not be limited to, a review of: (a) The projected loads and energy requirements for each year of the period; (b) The estimated installed capacity and supplies to meet the projected load requirements. (F) Based upon the report furnished pursuant to division (C) of this section and the hearing record, the commission, within ninety days from the close of the record in the hearing, shall determine if: (1) All information relating to current activities, facilities agreements, and published energy policies of the state has been completely and accurately represented; (2) The load requirements are based on substantially accurate historical information and adequate methodology; (3) The forecasting methods consider the relationships between price and energy consumption; (4) The report identifies and projects reductions in energy demands due to energy conservation measures in the industrial, commercial, residential, transportation, and energy production sectors in the service area; (5) Utility company forecasts of loads and resources are reasonable in relation to population growth estimates made by state and federal agencies, transportation, and economic development plans and forecasts, and make recommendations where possible for necessary and reasonable alternatives to meet forecasted electric power demand; (6) The report considers plans for expansion of the regional power grid and the planned facilities of other utilities in the state; (7) All assumptions made in the forecast are reasonable and adequately documented. (G) The commission shall adopt rules under section 111.15 of the Revised Code to establish criteria for evaluating the long-term forecasts of needs for gas and electric transmission service, to conduct hearings held under this section, to establish reasonable fees to defray the direct cost of the hearings and the review process, and such other rules as are necessary and convenient to implement this section. (H) The hearing record produced under this section and the determinations of the commission shall be introduced into evidence and shall be considered in determining the basis of need for power siting board deliberations under division (A)(1) of section 4906.10 of the Revised Code. The hearing record produced under this section shall be introduced into evidence and shall be considered by the commission in its initiation of programs, examinations, and findings under section 4905.70 of the Revised Code, and shall be considered in the commission's determinations with respect to the establishment of just and reasonable rates under section 4909.15 of the Revised Code and financing utility facilities and authorizing issuance of all securities under sections 4905.40 , 4905.401 , 4905.41 , and 4905.42 of the Revised Code. The forecast findings also shall serve as the basis for all other energy planning and development activities of the state government where electric and gas data are required. (I)(1) No court other than the supreme court shall have power to review, suspend, or delay any determination made by the commission under this section, or enjoin, restrain, or interfere with the commission in the performance of official duties. A writ of mandamus shall not be issued against the commission by any court other than the supreme court. (2) A final determination made by the commission shall be reversed, vacated, or modified by the supreme court on appeal, if, upon consideration of the record, such court is of the opinion that such determination was unreasonable or unlawful. The proceeding to obtain such reversal, vacation, or modification shall be by notice of appeal, filed with the commission by any party to the proceeding before it, against the commission, setting forth the determination appealed from and errors complained of. The notice of appeal shall be served, unless waived, upon the commission by leaving a copy at the office of the chairperson of the commission at Columbus. The court may permit an interested party to intervene by cross-appeal. (3) No proceeding to reverse, vacate, or modify a determination of the commission is commenced unless the notice of appeal is filed within sixty days after the date of the determination. Last updated May 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4951.35 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4951 / § 4951.35
§ 4951.35. Elevated and subway structures must not obstruct travel or impair streets
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Elevated structures and crossings referred to in section 4951.34 of the Revised Code shall be of such height and construction as not to prevent substantially the ordinary use of, and traffic upon, roads, streets, alleys, ways, or grounds, whether by pedestrians, vehicles, streetcars, or otherwise, except temporarily when necessary in the construction of the elevated structures and crossings. Tunnels for elevated railroads, or subways for underground railroads shall be constructed as not to impair the stability of the roads, streets, alleys, or public grounds, or prevent the use of any sewers, street railway tracks and appliances, pipes, wires, and conduits used for any purpose in the streets, alleys, ways, or grounds except temporarily when necessary in the construction of the tunnels or subways, except as provided in sections 4951.35 to 4951.38 , inclusive, of the Revised Code. Such elevated structures, crossings, tunnels, and subways shall be constructed in accordance with general plans approved by the director of public service of the city. All such work of construction shall be subject to the supervision and control of the director of public service.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.54 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.54
§ 4928.54. Aggregate percentage of income payment plan program customers
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly The public utilities commission shall aggregate percentage of income payment plan program customers for the purpose of establishing a competitive procurement process for the supply of competitive retail electric service for those customers. The process shall be an auction. Only bidders certified under section 4928.08 of the Revised Code may participate in the auction. Last updated August 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.35 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.35
§ 4928.35. Schedules containing unbundled rate components set in approved plan
Status: in_force

July 31, 2008 Senate Bill 221 - 127th General Assembly (A) Upon approval of its transition plan under sections 4928.31 to 4928.40 of the Revised Code, an electric utility shall file in accordance with section 4905.30 of the Revised Code schedules containing the unbundled rate components set in the approved plan in accordance with section 4928.34 of the Revised Code. The schedules shall be in effect for the duration of the utility's market development period, shall be subject to the cap specified in division (A)(6) of section 4928.34 of the Revised Code, and shall not be adjusted during that period by the public utilities commission except as otherwise authorized by division (B) of this section or as otherwise authorized by federal law or except to reflect any change in tax law or tax regulation that has a material effect on the electric utility. (B) Efforts shall be made to reach agreements with electric utilities in matters of litigation regarding property valuation issues. Irrespective of those efforts, the unbundled components for an electric utility's retail electric generation service and distribution service, as provided in division (A) of this section, are not subject to adjustment for the utility's market development period, except that the commission shall order an equitable reduction in those components for all customer classes to reflect any refund a utility receives as a result of the resolution of utility personal property tax valuation litigation that is resolved on or after the effective date of this section and not later than December 31, 2005. Immediately upon the issuance of that order, the electric utility shall file revised rate schedules under section 4909.18 of the Revised Code to effect the order. (C) The schedule under division (A) of this section containing the unbundled distribution components shall provide that electric distribution service under the schedule will be available to all retail electric service customers in the electric utility's certified territory and their suppliers on a nondiscriminatory and comparable basis on and after the starting date of competitive retail electric service. The schedule also shall include an obligation to build distribution facilities when necessary to provide adequate distribution service, provided that a customer requesting that service may be required to pay all or part of the reasonable incremental cost of the new facilities, in accordance with rules, policy, precedents, or orders of the commission. (D) During the market development period, an electric distribution utility shall provide consumers on a comparable and nondiscriminatory basis within its certified territory a standard service offer of all competitive retail electric services necessary to maintain essential electric service to consumers, including a firm supply of electric generation service priced in accordance with the schedule containing the utility's unbundled generation service component. Immediately upon approval of its transition plan, the utility shall file the standard service offer with the commission under section 4909.18 of the Revised Code, during the market development period. The failure of a supplier to deliver retail electric generation service shall result in the supplier's customers, after reasonable notice, defaulting to the utility's standard service offer filed under this division until the customer chooses an alternative supplier. A supplier is deemed under this section to have failed to deliver such service if any of the conditions specified in section 4928.14 of the Revised Code is met. (E) An amendment of a corporate separation plan contained in a transition plan approved by the commission under section 4928.33 of the Revised Code shall be filed and approved as a corporate separation plan pursuant to section 4928.17 of the Revised Code. (F) Any change to an electric utility's opportunity to receive transition revenues under a transition plan approved in accordance with section 4928.33 of the Revised Code shall be authorized only as provided in sections 4928.31 to 4928.40 of the Revised Code. (G) The commission, by order, shall require each electric utility whose approved transition plan did not include an independent transmission plan as described in division (A)(13) of section 4928.34 of the Revised Code to be a member of, and transfer control of transmission facilities it owns or controls in this state to, one or more qualifying transmission entities, as described in division (B) of section 4928.12 of the Revised Code, that are planned to be operational on and after December 31, 2003. However, the commission may extend that date if, for reasons beyond the control of the utility, a qualifying transmission entity is not planned to be operational on that date. The commission's order may specify an earlier date on which the transmission entity or entities are planned to be operational if the commission considers it necessary to carry out the policy specified in section 4928.02 of the Revised Code or to encourage effective competition in retail electric service in this state. Upon the issuance of the order, each such utility shall file with the commission a plan for such independent operation of the utility's transmission facilities consistent with this division. The commission may reject and require refiling of any substantially inadequate plan submitted under this division. After reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing, the commission shall approve the plan upon a finding that the plan will result in the utility's compliance with the order, this division, and any rules adopted under division (A) of section 4928.06 of the Revised Code. The approved independent transmission plan shall be deemed a part of the utility's transition plan for purposes of sections 4928.31 to 4928.40 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4925.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4925 / § 4925.09
§ 4925.09. Regulations
Status: in_force

March 23, 2016 House Bill 237 - 131st General Assembly (A)(1) The regulation of transportation network companies, transportation network company drivers, and transportation network company services is a matter of general statewide interest that requires statewide regulation. Chapter 4925. and sections 3942.01 to 3942.04 of the Revised Code constitute a comprehensive plan with respect to all aspects of the regulation of transportation network companies, transportation network company drivers, and transportation network company services. Accordingly, except as authorized in division (A)(2) of this section, it is the intent of the general assembly to preempt any local ordinance, resolution, or other law adopted to license, register, tax, or otherwise regulate transportation network companies, transportation network company drivers, or transportation network company services. (2) The operator of a public-use airport, as defined in section 4563.30 of the Revised Code, may adopt reasonable standards, regulations, procedures, and fees that are applicable to transportation network company services that are provided to any transportation network company rider who requests service to, from, or on the property of the public-use airport. A transportation network company or transportation network company driver shall comply with any applicable standards, regulations, or procedures adopted by a public-use airport and shall pay any applicable fees in a timely manner. (B) With regard to the provision of transportation network company services, no transportation network company or transportation network company driver is subject to regulation as a chauffeured limousine under section 4511.85 of the Revised Code, as a taxicab or vehicle for hire, or as a for-hire motor carrier under Chapters 4921. and 4923. of the Revised Code. No vehicle used to provide transportation network company services shall be required to register as a chauffeured limousine, taxicab or vehicle for hire, commercial car, or for-hire motor carrier in order to provide transportation network company services.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4959.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4959 / § 4959.03
§ 4959.03. Cattle guards and crossings
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Before operating a railroad, the company or person having control or management of such railroad shall maintain at every point where a public road, street, lane, or highway used by the public crosses such railroad, safe and sufficient crossings, and on each side of such crossings cattle guards sufficient to prevent domestic animals from going upon such railroad. Such company or person shall be liable for all damages sustained in person or property by reason of the want or insufficiency of such fence, crossing, or cattle guard, or neglect or carelessness in the construction or keeping in repair of such fence, crossing, or cattle guard.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4929.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4929 / § 4929.16
§ 4929.16. Definitions
Status: in_force

March 28, 2024 House Bill 201 - 135th General Assembly As used in sections 4929.16 to 4929.167 of the Revised Code: (A) "Infrastructure development" means constructing, upgrading, extending, or any other investment in, or associated with, transmission or distribution facilities that, except as provided for in division (B)(2)(b) of this section, a natural gas company owns and operates. (B)(1) "Infrastructure development costs" means costs associated with an investment in infrastructure development to which either of the following apply: (a) The investment is for any deposit required by the natural gas company, as defined in the line-extension provision of the company's tariff, less any contribution in aid of construction received from the owner or developer of the project. (b) The investment is designed to provide natural gas service to a site or economic development project that is supported by JobsOhio, any JobsOhio network or regional partner, or the department of development. (2) "Infrastructure development costs" includes all of the following: (a) Planning, development, and construction costs, including costs incurred prior to the approval of an economic development project pursuant to section 4929.163 of the Revised Code; (b) Costs associated with establishing or upgrading any connections with any source of supply to serve an economic development project, including interstate or intrastate pipelines, regardless of ownership of the facilities; (c) A return on all infrastructure development costs, with such return equal to the natural gas company's return on equity authorized in the natural gas company's most recently approved rate case under section 4909.18 of the Revised Code. Last updated January 16, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.02
§ 4928.02. State policy
Status: in_force

October 17, 2019 House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly It is the policy of this state to do the following throughout this state: (A) Ensure the availability to consumers of adequate, reliable, safe, efficient, nondiscriminatory, and reasonably priced retail electric service; (B) Ensure the availability of unbundled and comparable retail electric service that provides consumers with the supplier, price, terms, conditions, and quality options they elect to meet their respective needs; (C) Ensure diversity of electricity supplies and suppliers, by giving consumers effective choices over the selection of those supplies and suppliers and by encouraging the development of distributed and small generation facilities; (D) Encourage innovation and market access for cost-effective supply- and demand-side retail electric service including, but not limited to, demand-side management, time-differentiated pricing, waste energy recovery systems, smart grid programs, and implementation of advanced metering infrastructure; (E) Encourage cost-effective and efficient access to information regarding the operation of the transmission and distribution systems of electric utilities in order to promote both effective customer choice of retail electric service and the development of performance standards and targets for service quality for all consumers, including annual achievement reports written in plain language; (F) Ensure that an electric utility's transmission and distribution systems are available to a customer-generator or owner of distributed generation, so that the customer-generator or owner can market and deliver the electricity it produces; (G) Recognize the continuing emergence of competitive electricity markets through the development and implementation of flexible regulatory treatment; (H) Ensure effective competition in the provision of retail electric service by avoiding anticompetitive subsidies flowing from a noncompetitive retail electric service to a competitive retail electric service or to a product or service other than retail electric service, and vice versa, including by prohibiting the recovery of any generation-related costs through distribution or transmission rates; (I) Ensure retail electric service consumers protection against unreasonable sales practices, market deficiencies, and market power; (J) Provide coherent, transparent means of giving appropriate incentives to technologies that can adapt successfully to potential environmental mandates; (K) Encourage implementation of distributed generation across customer classes through regular review and updating of administrative rules governing critical issues such as, but not limited to, interconnection standards, standby charges, and net metering; (L) Protect at-risk populations, including, but not limited to, when considering the implementation of any new advanced energy or renewable energy resource; (M) Encourage the education of small business owners in this state regarding the use of, and encourage the use of, energy efficiency programs and alternative energy resources in their businesses; (N) Facilitate the state's effectiveness in the global economy. (O) Encourage cost-effective, timely, and efficient access to and sharing of customer usage data with customers and competitive suppliers to promote customer choice and grid modernization. (P) Ensure that a customer's data is provided in a standard format and provided to third parties in as close to real time as is economically justifiable in order to spur economic investment and improve the energy options of individual customers. In carrying out this policy, the commission shall consider rules as they apply to the costs of electric distribution infrastructure, including, but not limited to, line extensions, for the purpose of development in this state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.151 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.151
§ 4928.151. Uniform policy regarding electric transmission facilities
Status: in_force

July 31, 2008 Senate Bill 221 - 127th General Assembly The public utilities commission shall adopt and enforce rules prescribing a uniform, statewide policy regarding electric transmission and distribution line extensions and requisite substations and related facilities that are requested by nonresidential customers of electric utilities, so that, on and after the effective date of the initial rules so adopted, all such utilities apply the same policies and charges to those customers. Initial rules shall be adopted not later than six months after the effective date of this section. The rules shall address the just and reasonable allocation to and utility recovery from the requesting customer or other customers of the utility of all costs of any such line extension and any requisite substation or related facility, including, but not limited to, the costs of necessary technical studies, operations and maintenance costs, and capital costs, including a return on capital costs.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4906.022 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4906 / § 4906.022
§ 4906.022. Ad hoc member designation
Status: in_force

October 11, 2021 Senate Bill 52 - 134th General Assembly (A) Voting ad hoc members of the power siting board under section 4906.021 of the Revised Code shall be designated not later than thirty days after a board of county commissioners or a board of township trustees receives notification that an application, for which an ad hoc member shall be included, has been found to be in compliance with division (A) of section 4906.06 of the Revised Code by the chairperson of the power siting board or the chairperson's designee and is accepted by the board. (B) The ad hoc members shall be designated in accordance with the requirements set forth in division (C) of section 4906.021 of the Revised Code. Last updated July 23, 2021 at 4:46 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4927.124 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4927 / § 4927.124
§ 4927.124. Notice of rate alteration
Status: in_force

March 20, 2019 House Bill 402 - 132nd General Assembly (A) An incumbent local exchange carrier altering its rates for basic local exchange service under section 4927.12 , 4927.121 , or 4927.122 of the Revised Code shall provide not less than thirty days' notice to the public utilities commission and to affected customers. (B) Division (A) of this section also applies to an incumbent local exchange carrier altering its rates for basic local exchange service in an exchange area for which the carrier has been granted an exemption under section 4927.123 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4926.42 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4926 / § 4926.42
§ 4926.42. Jurisdiction over pole attachment complaints
Status: in_force

May 17, 2021 House Bill 2 - 134th General Assembly Subject to the venue requirements of section 4926.43 of the Revised Code, the court of common pleas of the county in which an electric cooperative's Ohio headquarters is located has jurisdiction to hear complaints and to grant remedies with respect to sections 4926.01 to 4926.60 of the Revised Code regarding attachment disputes for which a complaint is filed. Last updated June 9, 2021 at 2:24 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4957.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4957 / § 4957.21
§ 4957.21. Claims for damages and judicial inquiry
Status: in_force

November 1, 1977 House Bill 219 - 112th General Assembly The laws relating to the manner of service of the notices, the filing of claims for damages, and the effect of failure to file the claims, shall apply to the notice provided in section 4957.20 of the Revised Code and to all claims for damages by reason of the proposed improvement. After the expiration of the time for the filing of the claims, the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, when claims have been filed within the time limited, shall determine by ordinance or resolution whether the claims are to be judicially inquired into before commencing or after the completion of the proposed improvement. Thereupon, the mayor, or village solicitor, or city director of law of the municipal corporation shall make application for a jury in the manner provided by law to the court of common pleas or probate court of the county in which the municipal corporation, or the larger part of it, is situated, either before commencing or after the completion of the improvement, as the legislative authority determines. All proceedings upon the application shall be governed by the laws relating to the application provided for in other cases of city improvements.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4901.17 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4901 / § 4901.17
§ 4901.17. Legal adviser and attorney
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The attorney general shall be the legal adviser of the public utilities commission, but he shall designate, subject to the approval of the governor, one or more of his assistants to perform the services and discharge the duties of attorney to the commission. Such specially designated counsel shall receive a salary which shall be paid in the same manner as that of the members of the commission.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.80 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.80
§ 4928.80. Rate schedule applicable to county fairs and agricultural societies
Status: in_force

October 22, 2019 House Bill 6 - 133rd General Assembly (A) Each electric distribution utility shall file with the public utilities commission a rate schedule applicable to county fairs and agricultural societies that includes either of the following: (1) A fixed monthly service fee; (2) An energy charge on a kilowatt-hour basis. (B) The minimum monthly charge shall not exceed the fixed monthly service fee and the customer shall not be subject to any demand-based riders. (C) The electric distribution utility shall be eligible to recover any revenue loss associated with customer migration to this new rate schedule.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4925.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4925 / § 4925.01
§ 4925.01. Definitions
Status: in_force

March 23, 2016 House Bill 237 - 131st General Assembly As used in this chapter, "transportation network company," "transportation network company driver," "transportation company services," "digital network," and "transportation network company rider" have the same meanings as in section 3942.01 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4967.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4967 / § 4967.03
§ 4967.03. Merger with other railroad companies
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly A railroad company formed by the consolidation of a company of this state with a company of another state, or the surviving company in case of a merger of such companies, may make a further consolidation or merger with a company of this state, or of this state and any other state, or of another state or states, owning or operating over continuous, connected, but not parallel or competing lines. This section or section 4967.02 of the Revised Code does not authorize any such company organized under the laws of this state or of this state and any other state to be merged into any other company that is not so organized or authorized to do business in this state. The companies may fix by the the agreement for consolidation or merger the terms upon which it is to be made. Such terms may include the payment or retirement of the preferred stock of either or any of the companies parties to such agreement, if they have such stock. If the new or surviving company is to issue preferred stock, the par value of the shares thereof may be fixed by the agreement of consolidation or merger, or by resolution for the issue thereof without regard to the par value of shares of the common stock of such company.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4999.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4999 / § 4999.19
§ 4999.19. Diverting freight
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly No agent of a railroad company shall knowingly divert or permit freight under his control to be diverted from the railroads over which it is ordered to be conveyed by the shipper of such freight. Whoever violates this section shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.6611 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.6611
§ 4928.6611. Opting out of portfolio plan
Status: in_force

September 12, 2014 Senate Bill 310 - 130th General Assembly Beginning January 1, 2017, a customer of an electric distribution utility may opt out of the opportunity and ability to obtain direct benefits from the utility's portfolio plan. Such an opt out shall extend to all of the customer's accounts, irrespective of the size or service voltage level that are associated with the activities performed by the customer and that are located on or adjacent to the customer's premises.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.07
§ 4928.07. Separate pricing of services on bill
Status: in_force

October 5, 1999 Senate Bill 3 - 123rd General Assembly To the maximum extent practicable on or after the starting date of competitive retail electric service, an electric utility, electric services company, electric cooperative, or governmental aggregator subject to certification under section 4928.08 of the Revised Code shall separately price competitive retail electric services, and the prices shall be itemized on the bill of a customer or otherwise disclosed to the customer. Although a competitive retail electric service shall be supplied to any consumer on such a basis, such an electric utility, electric services company, electric cooperative, or governmental aggregator may repackage the service on or after the starting date and offer it on a bundled basis with other retail electric services to meet consumer preferences. Such repackaging by an electric utility shall be subject to sections 4905.33 to 4905.35 of the Revised Code. Repackaging by such an electric services company, electric cooperative, or governmental aggregator shall be subject to the limitation that no such entity, as to a competitive retail electric service for which the company, cooperative, or aggregator is subject to certification, shall furnish free service or service for less than actual cost for the purpose of destroying competition.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4913.47 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4913 / § 4913.47
§ 4913.47. Multiple fines for same failure
Status: in_force

March 23, 2015 Senate Bill 378 - 130th General Assembly Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary, if a person is subject to more than one fine for the same compliance failure, and one fine is imposed under this chapter and one or more other fines are imposed under federal law, rules, or regulations, the person shall not be required to pay the fine imposed under this chapter.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4981.032 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4981 / § 4981.032
§ 4981.032. Issuing grants and loans
Status: in_force

October 20, 1994 House Bill 250 - 120th General Assembly The Ohio rail development commission may issue grants and loans to any transportation authority or to any person for the purpose of continuing or instituting rail transportation in the state. The grants and loans may be used for rehabilitation, construction, planning, relocation, or acquisition of rail transportation or rail property, or for substitute service. The grants and loans may be provided by the commission with funds from the United States government, the state, any transportation authority, or any person, or from any combination of those sources. The commission shall establish eligibility and distribution criteria for the grants and loans.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4905.96 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4905 / § 4905.96
§ 4905.96. Civil action against operator
Status: in_force

April 16, 1993 House Bill 365 - 119th General Assembly (A) Upon the written request of or order by the public utilities commission, the attorney general shall bring a civil action against an operator in the name of the state to enforce orders of the commission issued under section 4905.95 of the Revised Code, including orders assessing forfeitures under division (B)(1) of that section, and for other appropriate relief, including a temporary restraining order or a preliminary or permanent injunction. The action may be brought in the court of common pleas of Franklin county, the court of common pleas of any county in which venue is proper under the Rules of Civil Procedure, or the appropriate United States district court pursuant to 82 Stat. 720 (1968), 49 U.S.C.A. App. 1686. The action has precedence over all other civil actions in common pleas court. (B) The attorney general shall file a certified copy of the order of the commission or decision of the supreme court affirming or modifying that order when the civil action to enforce that order or decision is brought in the court of common pleas. The order or decision is a mandate to the court of common pleas for execution of the order or decision. The issue of an operator's compliance with the order or decision shall be heard in a hearing before the court of common pleas.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4933.10 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4933 / § 4933.10
§ 4933.10. Inspection of gas meters
Status: in_force

February 14, 1967 House Bill 2 - 107th General Assembly If authorized in writing by the president, treasurer, agent, or secretary of a gas company, its officer or servant may enter, at any reasonable time, any premises lighted with gas supplied by such company, to examine or remove the gas meters, and to ascertain the quantity of gas consumed or supplied. If a person prevents or hinders such officer or servant from so entering such premises, or from making such examination or removal, a judge of a county court or judge of a municipal court of the county in which the premises are located may, on complaint by the officer or servant under oath, stating the facts in the case, so far as he has knowledge of them, issue a warrant, directed to any constable of the municipal corporation where such company is located, commanding him to take sufficient aid and go to such premises, accompanied by such officer or servant who shall examine such meters and ascertain the quantity of gas consumed or supplied, and if required, remove any meters belonging to the company.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4909.153 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4909 / § 4909.153
§ 4909.153. Hearing service complaints
Status: in_force

September 1, 1976 Senate Bill 94 - 111th General Assembly In fixing the just, reasonable, and compensatory rates, joint rates, tolls, classifications, charges, or rentals to be observed and charged for service by any public utility, the public utilities commission may hear service complaints, if any, that may be presented by customers and the public during any proceeding involving such rates, joint rates, tolls, classifications, charges, or rentals. No complaint shall be considered by the commission unless the public utility has been given notice of the complaint to be considered at the hearing. The notice shall be in writing and shall be given at least fifteen days prior to the hearing.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4921.38 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4921 / § 4921.38
§ 4921.38. Optional rule authority
Status: in_force

June 11, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly In accordance with sections 4921.30 to 4921.36 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission may adopt rules regarding any of the following: (A) Providing for binding estimates by for-hire motor carriers engaged in the transportation of household goods in intrastate commerce; (B) Providing for guaranteed-not-to-exceed estimates by those carriers; (C) Requiring those carriers to include their certificate number in all advertising, written estimates, and contracts related to the transportation of household goods in intrastate commerce; (D) As are necessary and proper to carry out this chapter with respect to those carriers; (E) Providing for the enforcement of the consumer protection provisions of Title 49 of the United States Code related to the delivery and transportation of household goods in interstate commerce, as permitted by 49 U.S.C. 14710. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 4905.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4905 / § 4905.16
§ 4905.16. Copy of contract may be required by commission
Status: in_force

September 13, 2010 Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly When and as required by the public utilities commission, every public utility shall file with it a copy of any contract, agreement, or arrangement, in writing, with any other public utility relating in any way to the construction, maintenance, or use of its plant or property, or to any service, rate, or charge.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.111 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.111
§ 4928.111. Review of distribution and transmission infrastructure
Status: in_force

September 10, 2012 Senate Bill 315 - 129th General Assembly The public utilities commission shall consult with electric distribution utilities to review the distribution infrastructure in this state and shall consult with regional transmission organizations and entities that own or control transmission facilities to review the transmission infrastructure in this state.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4909.99 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4909 / § 4909.99
§ 4909.99. Penalty
Status: in_force

July 1, 1996 Senate Bill 2 - 121st General Assembly Whoever violates section 4909.14 or 4909.41 of the Revised Code is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree. Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 4905.41 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4905 / § 4905.41
§ 4905.41. Proceedings to obtain authority
Status: in_force

September 13, 2010 Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly The proceedings for obtaining the authority of the public utilities commission for the issue of stocks, bonds, notes and other evidences of indebtedness, as provided in section 4905.40 of the Revised Code, shall be as follows: (A) In case the stocks, bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness are to be issued for money only, the public utility or railroad shall file with the commission a statement, signed and verified by the president or vice president and the secretary or treasurer of such public utility or railroad, setting forth: (1) The amount and character of the stocks, bonds, or other evidence of indebtedness; (2) The purposes for which they are to be issued; (3) The terms upon which they are to be issued; (4) The total assets and liabilities and an income statement of the public utility or railroad in such detail as the commission requires; (5) If the issue is desired for the purpose of the reimbursement of money expended from income, as provided by section 4905.40 of the Revised Code, the amount expended and when and for what purposes it was expended; (6) Such other facts and information pertinent to the inquiry as the commission requires. (B) If the stocks, bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness are to be issued partly or wholly for property, services, or other consideration than money, the public utility or railroad shall file with the commission a statement, signed and verified by its president or vice president and its secretary, or treasurer setting forth: (1) The amount and character of the stocks, bonds, or other evidence of indebtedness proposed to be issued; (2) The purposes for which they are to be issued; (3) The description and estimated value of the property or services for which they are to be issued; (4) The terms on which they are to be issued or exchanged; (5) The amount of money to be received in addition to the property, service, or other consideration; (6) The total assets and liabilities and an income statement of the public utility or railroad in such detail as the commission requires; (7) Such other facts and information pertinent to the inquiry as the commission requires. This section and section 4905.40 of the Revised Code do not apply to union depot companies organized and under contract prior to June 30, 1911, until the same are completed. This section does not apply to a telephone company.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4905.301 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4905 / § 4905.301
§ 4905.301. Application to recover public way regulation costs
Status: in_force

April 3, 2025 House Bill 315 - 135th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Governmental entity" has the same meaning as in section 9.23 of the Revised Code, except that "governmental entity" excludes a municipal corporation. (2) "Right of way" means the surface of, and the space within, through, on, across, above, or below any land designated for public use that is owned or controlled by a governmental entity, except that "right of way" includes a public way as defined in section 4939.01 of the Revised Code, and is not a private easement. (B) A public utility subject to the rate-making jurisdiction of the public utilities commission may file an application with the commission for the accounting authority to classify a cost that meets the requirements of division (C) of this section as a regulatory asset for the purpose of recovering the cost. The commission, by order, shall authorize such accounting authority as may be reasonably necessary to classify the cost as a regulatory asset. (C) A cost is eligible for recovery as a regulatory asset under this section if the cost is directly incurred by the public utility on or after the effective date of this section as a result of a governmental entity's regulation of the public utility's occupancy or use of a right of way. (D) If the commission determines, upon an application under division (B) of this section or its own initiative, that classification of a cost described in division (C) of this section as a regulatory asset is not practical or that deferred recovery of that cost would impose a hardship on the public utility or its customers, the commission shall establish a charge and collection mechanism to permit the public utility full recovery of that cost. (E) Cost recovery authorized as a regulatory asset under this section is not subject to any other provision of law or any agreement establishing price caps, rate freezes, or rate increase moratoria. (F) The commission shall process applications submitted under this section in the same manner as set forth in divisions (E) and (F) of section 4939.07 of the Revised Code and according to rules adopted under division (G) of that section. Last updated February 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4905.37 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4905 / § 4905.37
§ 4905.37. Commission may change rules and regulations of public utilities
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Whenever the public utilities commission is of the opinion, after hearing had upon complaint or upon its own initiative or complaint, served as provided in section 4905.26 of the Revised Code, that the rules, regulations, measurements, or practices of any public utility with respect to its public service are unjust or unreasonable, or that the equipment or service of such public utility is inadequate, inefficient, improper, insufficient, or cannot be obtained, or that a telephone company refuses to extend its lines to serve inhabitants within the telephone company operating area, the commission shall determine the regulations, practices, and service to be installed, observed, used, and rendered, and shall fix and prescribe them by order to be served upon the public utility. After service of such order such public utility and all of its officers, agents, and official employees shall obey such order and do everything necessary or proper to carry it into effect. This section does not give the commission power to make any order requiring the performance of any act which is unjust, unreasonable, or in violation of any law of this state or the United States.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4929.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4929 / § 4929.15
§ 4929.15. Investigating service complaints
Status: in_force

September 17, 1996 House Bill 476 - 121st General Assembly (A) If, by the consumers' counsel's own inquiries or as a result of complaints, the consumers' counsel has reasonable grounds to believe that a natural gas company is engaging in an act or practice giving rise to a ground for complaint under section 4905.26 of the Revised Code, the consumers' counsel may investigate. Prior to commencing an investigation, the consumers' counsel shall notify the natural gas company in writing of the information that the consumers' counsel will seek by the authority granted by this section. If the natural gas company fails to provide the information requested within twenty days after the date of receipt of notice from the consumers' counsel, the consumers' counsel may administer oaths, subpoena witnesses, adduce evidence, and require the production of relevant matter. (B) Within ten days after the date a subpoena has been served pursuant to division (A) of this section, an application to extend the return day, or modify or quash the subpoena, stating good cause, may be filed with the public utilities commission. The commission shall rule on the application within ten days after the date of its filing. (C) A person subpoenaed under this section shall comply with the terms of the subpoena, unless, as provided under division (B) of this section, the parties agree to modify the terms of the subpoena or unless the commission has modified or quashed the subpoena, extended the return day of the subpoena, or issued any other order with respect to the subpoena prior to its return day. (D) If a person fails without lawful excuse to obey a subpoena or to produce relevant matter under this section, the consumers' counsel may file an application with the commission for an order compelling compliance. The commission shall rule on the application within ten days after the date of its filing.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4909.14 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4909 / § 4909.14
§ 4909.14. Wrongful valuation
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly No member of the public utilities commission shall willfully overvalue the property of a public utility for the purpose of enabling such public utility to exact a higher rate for service than could lawfully be exacted, or willfully undervalue such property for the purpose of preventing such public utility from charging a lawful rate for such service.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4906.102 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4906 / § 4906.102
§ 4906.102. No power siting board certificate or amendment where prohibited
Status: in_force

October 11, 2021 Senate Bill 52 - 134th General Assembly (A) The power siting board shall not grant a certificate for the construction, operation, and maintenance of, or a material amendment to an existing certificate for, a utility facility, either as proposed or as modified by the board, to be constructed in the unincorporated area of a county, if the board of county commissioners of the county in which a utility facility is to be located has adopted a resolution prohibiting the construction of the utility facility as described in section 303.62 of the Revised Code. (B) If the utility facility is to be located in multiple counties and less than all of the boards of county commissioners adopt a resolution prohibiting the construction of a utility facility, the power siting board shall modify the certificate or material amendment to exclude the area of each county whose board of county commissioners rejected the certificate or material amendment. Last updated July 23, 2021 at 4:50 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4955.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4955 / § 4955.22
§ 4955.22. Failure to construct or repair crossings or sidewalks - forfeiture
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly A railroad company which neglects to comply with sections 4955.20 and 4955.21 of the Revised Code is liable to pay damage to the municipal corporation or township in which the highway is situated in the sum of thirty dollars for such neglect, and a further sum of ten dollars per day for each day such company fails to comply with the terms of such sections, to be recovered in an action brought in the name of the municipal corporation or township. The prosecuting attorney of the county shall prosecute to judgment any claim arising under such sections without charge to the municipal corporation or township.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4971.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4971 / § 4971.12
§ 4971.12. Provisions applicable to certain other companies
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Sections 4971.01 to 4971.19 , inclusive, of the Revised Code apply to companies whose railroads are party within and party without this state. A domestic company possessing such a railroad, may exercise all its powers, privileges, faculties, and franchises outside this state. A foreign corporation possessing a railroad which is partly in another state and partly within this state, may exercise and enjoy all its powers, privileges, faculties, and franchises in this state, for the purposes of such railroad and its business, not inconsistent with the laws of this state. Mortgages and deeds of trust made by such corporation upon its railroad, equipment, or other property within this state, shall operate in the manner and with like effect as provided with respect to railroad companies so reorganized. Such part of the railroad as is within this state is subject to taxation and all regulations of law as are railroads of this state in like cases, and the corporation owning such railroad shall be subject to all duties imposed by law in respect to it. Such corporation may sue and be sued in all cases and in the manner that a company of this state might sue or be sued.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4903.18 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4903 / § 4903.18
§ 4903.18. Order to keep excess accounts pending review
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly In case the supreme court stays or suspends any order or decision of the public utilities commission lowering any rate, joint rate, fare, toll, rental, charge, or classification, the commission, upon the execution and approval of the suspending bond required by section 4903.16 of the Revised Code, may require the public utility or railroad affected, under penalty of the immediate enforcement of the order or decision of the commission, pending review, to keep such accounts, verified by oath, as are, in the judgment of the commission, sufficient to show the amounts being charged or received by such public utility or railroad in excess of the charges allowed by the order or decision of the commission, together with the names and addresses of the corporations or persons to whom overcharges will be refundable in case the charges made by the public utility or railroad pending review are not sustained by the supreme court.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4961.40 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4961 / § 4961.40
§ 4961.40. Owner of land leased for right of way not to be taxed
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Each railroad company owning and occupying a right of way or easement in lands, either by agreement with the owners or by virtue of an appropriation proceeding, shall present to the county auditor of the county in which the land is situated a statement of the quantity embraced within the right of way or easement. Such quantity shall be deducted by the auditor from the land on the tax duplicate so that the owners shall not be required to pay taxes on such land. A company becoming the owner and occupant of any such right of way or easement, within six months after so becoming the owner, shall present such statement to the auditor. Upon the failure of the company to make the statement the owner of the land may make it.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4933.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4933 / § 4933.05
§ 4933.05. Gas company may extend mains beyond city
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly A gas company in a municipal corporation may extend its pipes used for conveying gas to the various localities and inhabitants of the municipal corporation to any place in the vicinity of such municipal corporation outside the corporate limits; but the right of way must be obtained from the authorities or persons having control of the places to be affected by such extension.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4955.26 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4955 / § 4955.26
§ 4955.26. Crossing of highway to cemetery
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly All railroads constructed across an avenue or public highway leading from a city to a public cemetery of such city located within or without the limits of the city, shall be constructed so as to pass under or over such avenue or highway at an elevation or depression that will allow the unobstructed passage of all vehicles necessary for any person to use on such avenue or highway.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4905.402 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4905 / § 4905.402
§ 4905.402. Acquiring or merging with domestic telephone or electric utility company or holding company
Status: in_force

March 20, 2019 House Bill 402 - 132nd General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) "Control" means the possession of the power to direct the management and policies of a domestic telephone company or a holding company of a domestic telephone company, or the management and policies of a domestic electric utility or a holding company of a domestic electric utility through the ownership of voting securities, by contract, or otherwise, but does not include the power that results from holding an official position or the possession of corporate office with the domestic company or utility or the holding company. Control is presumed to exist if any person, directly or indirectly, owns, controls, holds the power to vote, or holds with the power to vote proxies that constitute, twenty per cent or more of the total voting power of the domestic company or utility or the holding company. (2) "Electric utility" has the same meaning as in section 4928.07 of the Revised Code. (3) "Holding company" excludes any securities broker performing the usual and customary broker's function. (4) "Telephone company" means any company described in division (A) of section 4905.03 of the Revised Code that is a public utility under section 4905.02 of the Revised Code and provides basic local exchange service, as defined in section 4927.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Except as provided in division (H)(1) of this section: (1) No person shall acquire control, directly or indirectly, of a domestic telephone company or a holding company controlling a domestic telephone company or of a domestic electric utility or a holding company controlling a domestic electric utility unless that person obtains the prior approval of the public utilities commission under this section. (2) To obtain approval required under division (B)(1) of this section, the person seeking the approval shall file an application with the public utilities commission demonstrating that the acquisition will promote public convenience and result in the provision of adequate service for a reasonable rate, rental, toll, or charge. The application shall contain such information as the public utilities commission may require. If the public utilities commission considers a hearing necessary, it may fix a time and place for hearing. If, after review of the application and after any necessary hearing, the public utilities commission is satisfied that approval of the application will promote public convenience and result in the provision of adequate service for a reasonable rate, rental, toll, or charge, the public utilities commission shall approve the application and make such order as it considers proper. If the public utilities commission fails to issue an order within thirty days of the filing of the application under this division, or within twenty days of the conclusion of a hearing, if one is held, the application shall be deemed approved by operation of law. (C) Except as provided in division (H)(2) of this section: (1) No domestic telephone company shall merge with another domestic telephone company unless the merging companies obtain the prior approval of the public utilities commission. (2) An application seeking approval required under division (C)(1) of this section shall be filed, processed, and decided in the manner provided for an application under division (B)(2) of this section. (D) The public utilities commission shall adopt such rules as it finds necessary to carry out the provisions of this section. The rules shall specify the time and manner in which a company must file the notice required under division (G) of this section. (E) If it appears to the public utilities commission or to any person that may be adversely affected that any person is engaged in or about to engage in any acts or practices that would violate division (B) or (C) of this section or any provision of a rule adopted under this section, the attorney general, when directed to do so by the public utilities commission, or the person claiming to be adversely affected may bring an action in any court of common pleas that has jurisdiction and venue to enjoin such acts or practices and enforce compliance. Upon a proper showing, the court shall grant, without bond, a restraining order or temporary or permanent injunction. (F) The courts of this state have jurisdiction over every person not a resident of or domiciled or authorized to do business in this state that files, or is prohibited from acting without first filing, an application under division (B) or (C) of this section, and over all actions involving such person arising out of violations of any provision of this section or of a rule adopted under this section. The secretary of state shall be the agent for service of process for any such person in any action, suit, or proceeding arising out of such violations. Copies of all such lawful process shall be served upon the secretary of state and transmitted by certified mail, with return receipt requested, by the secretary of state to such person at the person's last known address. (G) A domestic telephone company or a holding company controlling a domestic telephone company that files an application with the federal communications commission seeking authority for a merger or transfer of control shall file notice of the application with the public utilities commission. The notice shall include an internet link to the application. (H)(1) Divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section do not apply to the acquisition of control of a domestic telephone company or a holding company controlling a domestic telephone company if there is a pending application with the federal communications commission regarding the acquisition. If the federal communications commission waives the exercise of its authority regarding the acquisition or otherwise chooses not to exercise its authority regarding the acquisition, then divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section apply. (2) Divisions (C)(1) and (2) of this section do not apply if there is a pending application with the federal communications commission regarding a merger of domestic telephone companies. If the federal communications commission waives the exercise of its authority regarding the merger or otherwise chooses not to exercise its authority regarding the merger, then divisions (C)(1) and (2) of this section apply. (I) Nothing in division (G) or (H) of this section shall affect the obligations and rights described in division (A) of section 4927.101 of the Revised Code. Last updated September 19, 2023 at 4:53 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4903.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4903 / § 4903.13
§ 4903.13. Reversal of final order - notice of appeal
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly A final order made by the public utilities commission shall be reversed, vacated, or modified by the supreme court on appeal, if, upon consideration of the record, such court is of the opinion that such order was unlawful or unreasonable. The proceeding to obtain such reversal, vacation, or modification shall be by notice of appeal, filed with the public utilities commission by any party to the proceeding before it, against the commission, setting forth the order appealed from and the errors complained of. The notice of appeal shall be served, unless waived, upon the chairman of the commission, or, in the event of his absence, upon any public utilities commissioner, or by leaving a copy at the office of the commission at Columbus. The court may permit any interested party to intervene by cross-appeal.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4929.057 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4929 / § 4929.057
§ 4929.057. Application Approval
Status: in_force

March 20, 2026 Senate Bill 103 - 136th General Assembly (A) An application for an alternative rate plan filed pursuant to sections 4929.052 and 4929.053 of the Revised Code shall be deemed approved ninety days after the date the natural gas company filed the application with the public utilities commission. The commission may suspend the approval of the application for good cause shown. (B) If the public utilities commission does not issue an order within ninety days from the date an alternative rate plan application is suspended pursuant to division (A) of this section, the company's proposed alternative rate plan shall be deemed approved by operation of law. Last updated March 6, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4907.23 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4907 / § 4907.23
§ 4907.23. Duty of railroad to report certain accidents
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Whenever an accident attended with loss of human life occurs within this state upon the line of any railroad, or on the depot grounds or yards of any railroad, such railroad shall give immediate notice of such accident to the public utilities commission. In case of such accident, the commission, if it deems the public interest requires it, shall cause an investigation to be made forthwith, which shall be held in the locality of the accident, unless for greater convenience of those concerned, the commission orders such investigation held at some other place. Such investigation may be adjourned from place to place as is necessary and convenient. The commission shall give reasonable notice to an officer or station agent of the company of the time and place of the investigation. The cost of such investigation shall be certified by the chairman of the commission, and audited and paid by the state as other expenses. The commission shall keep a record or file of the proceedings and evidence.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4905.64 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4905 / § 4905.64
§ 4905.64. Forfeiture shall be cumulative
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly All forfeitures under Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., 4923., and 4925. of the Revised Code are cumulative, and a suit for and recovery of one does not bar the recovery of any other.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4933.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4933 / § 4933.22
§ 4933.22. Tampering with hydrant, pipe, or meter
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly No person shall maliciously open, close, adjust, or interfere with a fire hydrant, valve, regulator, gauge, gate, disc, curb cock, stopcock, meter, or other regulator, operating or measuring device, or appliance in or attached to the wells, tanks, reservoirs, conduits, pipes, mains, service pipes, house pipes, or other pipes or apparatus of a water company or furnisher of water, with intent to cause the escape of water or to injure or destroy such property. No person shall tap, sever, open, or make unauthorized connections with a main or pipe used or intended for the transmission of water. This section does not apply to the agent or employee for that purpose, of the owner or operator of the appliances referred to in this section, and does not apply to anything done by or under authority of any regularly constituted fire department.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4957.24 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4957 / § 4957.24
§ 4957.24. Cost of maintenance
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly After the completion of the work, crossings and approaches shall be kept in repair as follows: (A) When the public way crosses a railroad by an overhead bridge, the cost of maintenance must be borne by the municipal corporation; (B) When the public way passes under the railroad, the bridge and its abutments shall be kept and maintained by the railroad company, and the public way and its approaches shall be maintained and kept in repair by the municipal corporation in which they are situated.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4909.23 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4909 / § 4909.23
§ 4909.23. Special contract rates
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., 4923., and 4925. of the Revised Code do not prevent concentration, commodity, transit, and other special contract rates, but all such rates are subject to such chapters as to their printing and filing. Such rates shall be open to all shippers for a like kind of traffic under similar circumstances and conditions and shall be under the supervision and regulation of the public utilities commission.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4903.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4903 / § 4903.07
§ 4903.07. Certified copy as evidence
Status: in_force

January 9, 1961 House Bill 1 - 104th General Assembly A transcribed copy of the evidence and proceedings on an investigation, or a specific part thereof, taken by a stenographer appointed by the public utilities commission, certified by such stenographer to be a true and correct transcript of such evidence and proceedings, and carefully compared by him with his original notes, shall be received in evidence as if such stenographer was present and testified to the facts as certified. A copy of such transcript shall be furnished on demand, free of cost, to a party to such investigation, and to all other persons upon payment of a reasonable amount for it.