Ohio Rev. Code § 4909.41 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4909 / § 4909.41
§ 4909.41. Violation
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 Senate Bill 361 - 100th General Assembly No officer, agent, or employee in an official capacity of a public utility shall knowingly violate sections 4909.15 to 4909.19 , inclusive, or 4909.33 to 4909.40 , inclusive, of the Revised Code, or willfully fail to comply with any lawful order or direction of the public utilities commission made with respect to any public utility. Each day's continuance of such failure is a separate offense.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4909.059 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4909 / § 4909.059
§ 4909.059. Construction of sections
Status: in_force

April 5, 2019 House Bill 422 - 132nd General Assembly Sections 4905.481 , 4905.49 , 4905.491 , and 4909.051 to 4909.057 of the Revised Code shall be exclusively applied to voluntary and mutually agreeable acquisitions. Last updated February 24, 2022 at 12:36 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4957.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4957 / § 4957.22
§ 4957.22. Height of viaduct
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Any way, crossing, or viaduct constructed over a railroad track in any municipal corporation shall be of such height as not to be of less than twenty-one feet in the clear from the top surface of the rails in the railroad track to the lowest point or projection of such overhead way, crossing, or viaduct, unless the railroad company consents to, or the court of common pleas orders, a less height. In no event shall such court order a less height than sixteen feet and three inches.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4933.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4933 / § 4933.12
§ 4933.12. Company may shut off gas - exceptions
Status: in_force

May 18, 2005 House Bill 426 - 125th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section and division (E) of section 5117.11 of the Revised Code, if any person supplied with gas neglects or refuses to pay the amount due for the gas or for rent of articles hired by the person from a natural gas company or a gas company, the company may stop the gas from entering the premises of the person. In such cases, after twenty-four hours' notice, the officers, servants, or workers of the company may enter the premises of such persons, between eight a.m. and four p.m., take away such property of the company, and disconnect any meter from the mains or pipes of the company. (B) The company shall not refuse to furnish gas on account of arrearages due it for gas furnished to persons formerly receiving services at the premises as customers of the company, provided the former customers are not continuing to reside at the premises. (C) The company shall not, for any reason, unless required by the consumer for safety reasons, or unless tampering with utility company equipment or theft of gas or utility company equipment has occurred, stop gas from entering the premises of any residential consumer for the period beginning on the fifteenth day of November and ending on the fifteenth day of the following April, unless both of the following apply: (1) The account of the consumer is in arrears thirty days or more. (2) If the occupant of residential premises is a tenant whose landlord is responsible for payment for the service provided by the company, the company has, five days previously, notified the occupant of its intent to discontinue service to the occupant. (D) No company shall stop the gas from entering any residential premises between the fifteenth day of November and the fifteenth day of April because of a failure to pay the amount due for the gas unless the company, at the time it sends or delivers to the premises notices of termination, informs the occupant of the premises where to obtain state and federal aid for payment of utility bills and for home weatherization and information on local government aid for payment of utility bills and for home weatherization. (E) On or before the first day of November, a county human services department may request a company to give prior notification of any residential service terminations to occur during the period beginning on the fifteenth day of November immediately following the department's request and ending on the fifteenth day of the following April. If a department makes such a written request, at least twenty-four hours before the company terminates services to a residential customer in the county during that period for failure to pay the amount due for service, the company shall provide written notice to the department of the residential customer whose service the company so intends to terminate. No company that has received such a request shall terminate such service during that period unless it has provided the notice required under this division. (F) No company shall stop gas from entering the residential premises of any residential consumer who is deployed on active duty for nonpayment for gas supplied to the residential premises. Upon return of a residential consumer from active duty, the company shall offer the residential consumer a period equal to at least the period of deployment on active duty to pay any arrearages incurred during the period of deployment. The company shall inform the residential consumer that, if the period the company offers presents a hardship to the consumer, the consumer may request a longer period to pay the arrearages and, in the case of a company that is a public utility as defined in section 4905.02 of the Revised Code, may request the assistance of the public utilities commission to obtain a longer period. No late payment fees or interest shall be charged to the residential consumer during the period of deployment or the repayment period. If a company that is a public utility determines that amounts owed by a residential consumer who is deployed on active duty are uncollectible, the company may file an application with the public utilities commission for approval of authority to recover the amounts. The recovery shall be through a rider on the base rates of customers of the company or through other means as may be approved by the commission, provided that any amount approved to be recovered through a rider or other means shall not be considered by the commission in any subsequent rate determination. As used in this division, "active duty" means active duty pursuant to an executive order of the president of the United States, an act of the congress of the United States, or section 5919.29 or 5923.21 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4909.053 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4909 / § 4909.053
§ 4909.053. Appraisals
Status: in_force

April 5, 2019 House Bill 422 - 132nd General Assembly Each utility-valuation expert employed under section 4909.052 of the Revised Code shall return the appraisal required under that section, in writing, to both companies described in that section in a reasonable and timely manner. All appraisals shall be included in any filing associated with the acquisition under section 4905.481 or 4909.052 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4957.30 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4957 / § 4957.30
§ 4957.30. Petition for grade crossings
Status: in_force

September 28, 1973 House Bill 200 - 110th General Assembly When it is desired by a railroad company constructing a new railroad or in changing or altering the location of one previously constructed, or by any municipal corporation or authority constructing a new highway, that the railroad or highway should be so constructed that they will cross each other at the same grade, or if it is desired to divert, change, or alter an existing public highway, a petition shall be presented by the party desiring such construction or diversion, to the court of common pleas of the county within which the crossing or diversion is situated. If it is the authority constructing a highway asking for the right to cross a railroad, the railroad company shall be the defendant. If it is a railroad company asking for the right to cross a highway, or divert, change, or alter any existing public highway in a municipal corporation, such municipal corporation shall be the defendant. If outside the municipal corporation, and a road or highway other than on the state highway system, the board of township trustees of the township and the board of county commissioners of the county shall be the defendants. If it is a road or highway on the state highway system, the director of transportation shall be the defendant. Summons shall be served and the rule days and the rights of the defendants to plead shall be the same as in civil actions in such court.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4926.27 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4926 / § 4926.27
§ 4926.27. Compliance with public right-of-way requirements
Status: in_force

May 17, 2021 House Bill 2 - 134th General Assembly Nothing in sections 4926.01 to 4926.60 of the Revised Code affects a provider or other attaching party's obligation to obtain any necessary authorization before occupying public ways or private rights-of-way with its attachment. Last updated June 9, 2021 at 2:08 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4955.20 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4955 / § 4955.20
§ 4955.20. Highway crossings and sidewalks - maintenance and repair
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Companies operating a railroad in this state shall build and keep in repair good and sufficient crossings over or approaches to such railroad, its tracks, sidetracks, and switches, at all points where any public highway, street, lane, avenue, alley, road, or pike is intersected by such railroad, its tracks, sidetracks, or switches. Such companies shall build and keep in repair good and sufficient sidewalks on both sides of streets intersected by their railroads, the full width of the right of way owned, claimed, or occupied by them. The board of township trustees shall have power to fix, and determine the kind and extent, and the time and manner of constructing, crossings and approaches outside of municipal corporations. The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may exercise the same powers as to crossings, approaches, and sidewalks within municipal corporations as such board exercises concerning crossings and approaches outside of municipal corporations. Such crossings, approaches, and sidewalks shall be constructed, repaired, and maintained by the railroad companies as so ordered.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4939.0317 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4939 / § 4939.0317
§ 4939.0317. Duration of approval term
Status: in_force

August 1, 2018 House Bill 478 - 132nd General Assembly A municipal corporation's approval term of an attachment to a wireless support structure shall be for a period of not less than ten years, with presumption of renewal for successive five-year terms, subject to terms providing for early termination or nonrenewal for cause or by mutual agreement and unless otherwise agreed to by both the operator and the municipal corporation, except for generally applied permitting to safeguard the public health, safety, and welfare. An operator may remove its small cell facilities at any time subject to applicable work permit requirements and may stop paying annual charges or fees under division (B) of section 4939.0322 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4926.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4926 / § 4926.21
§ 4926.21. Make ready work compliance and costs; annual recurring pole attachment fee
Status: in_force

May 17, 2021 House Bill 2 - 134th General Assembly (A) A provider and an electric cooperative shall comply with the process for make-ready work under 47 U.S.C. 224 and the federal communications commission orders and regulations implementing that section, unless, pursuant to section 4926.57 of the Revised Code, a court of common pleas establishes a different process for make-ready work. (B) The cooperative shall provide a good-faith estimate for any make-ready work, which shall include pole replacement if necessary. All make-ready costs shall be based on the cooperative's actual costs not recovered through the annual recurring attachment rate. The cooperative shall provide detailed documentation of the actual costs. (C) A cooperative that charges an annual recurring attachment fee shall establish the fee in accordance with the cable pole attachment rate formula established in 47 U.S.C. 224(d) and commission orders and regulations implementing that formula, unless, pursuant to section 4926.57 of the Revised Code, a court of common pleas establishes a different attachment fee. Last updated June 9, 2021 at 2:08 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4923.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4923 / § 4923.15
§ 4923.15. Violations; procedure
Status: in_force

June 11, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly Proceedings of the public utilities commission for the assessment of forfeitures for violations of Chapters 4921. and 4923. of the Revised Code are subject to and governed by section 4923.99 of the Revised Code. In all other respects in which the commission has power and authority under Chapters 4921. and 4923. of the Revised Code, applications and complaints may be made and filed with the commission, processes may be issued, hearings may be held, opinions, orders, and decisions may be made and filed, petitions for rehearing may be filed and acted upon, and all proceedings before the supreme court of this state may be considered and disposed of by that court in the manner, under the conditions, subject to the limitations, and with the effect specified in the sections of the Revised Code governing the supervision of public utilities by the commission.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4963.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4963 / § 4963.06
§ 4963.06. Fire extinguishers required
Status: in_force

January 23, 1963 House Bill 1 - 105th General Assembly All railroad coaches carrying passengers shall be equipped with at least one portable fire extinguisher. Such fire extinguishers shall be of a construction which renders them durable and efficient. The public utilities commission shall enforce this section. No person, company, or corporation operating a railroad in whole or in part in this state shall violate this section. Each day that such person, company, or corporation runs its trains in violation of this section constitutes a separate offense.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4939.036 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4939 / § 4939.036
§ 4939.036. [Former R.C. 4939.035, amended and renumbered by H.B. 478, 132nd General Assembly, effective 8/1/2018] Tolling of time period for consent
Status: in_force

August 1, 2018 House Bill 478 - 132nd General Assembly (A) The time period required in section 4939.031 of the Revised Code may be tolled only: (1) By mutual agreement between the entity requesting consent and the municipal corporation; (2) In cases where the municipal corporation determines that the application is incomplete; or (3) If the number of requests for consent for small cell facilities or wireless support structures received is likely to result in difficulty processing applications within the time limits set forth in section 4939.031 of the Revised Code due to the lack of resources of the municipal corporation, then the municipal corporation may toll the time limits as follows: (a) The time period may be tolled for up to twenty-one days for the first fifteen small cell facility or wireless support structure requests received by a municipal corporation above the thresholds provided in divisions (A)(3)(a)(i) to (v) of this section and for the first thirty small cell facility or wireless support structure requests received by a municipal corporation above the thresholds provided in division (A)(3)(a) (vi) of this section, within any consecutive thirty-day period: (i) For a municipal corporation having a population of thirty thousand persons or less when it receives applications for at least fifteen small cell facility or wireless support structure requests; (ii) For a municipal corporation having a population of thirty thousand one to forty thousand persons when it receives applications for at least twenty small cell facility or wireless support structure requests; (iii) For a municipal corporation having a population of forty thousand one to fifty thousand persons when it receives applications for at least twenty-five small cell facility or wireless support structure requests; (iv) For a municipal corporation having a population of fifty thousand one to sixty thousand persons when it receives applications for at least thirty small cell facility or wireless support structure requests; (v) For a municipal corporation having a population of sixty thousand one to one hundred thousand persons when it receives applications for at least sixty small cell facility or wireless support structure requests; (vi) For a municipal corporation having a population of one hundred thousand one persons or more when it receives applications for at least ninety small cell facility or wireless support structure requests. (b) Further, for every additional fifteen requests that the municipal corporation receives above the thresholds provided in divisions (A)(3)(a)(i) to (v) of this section, and every additional thirty requests that the municipal corporation receives above the threshold provided in division (A)(3)(a)(vi) of this section within any consecutive thirty-day period, the municipal corporation may toll the time period for those requests for up to fifteen days in addition to the time period provided in division (A)(3)(a) of this section. (c) In no instance shall a municipal corporation toll the time period for any small cell facility or wireless support structure request by more than ninety consecutive days. Upon request, a municipal corporation shall provide an operator written notice of the time limit for a small cell facility or wireless support structure request. (B) To toll the time period for incompleteness, the municipal corporation shall provide written notice to the person requesting consent not later than thirty days after receiving the request, clearly and specifically delineating all missing documents or information. The missing documents or information shall be reasonably related to determining whether the request meets the requirements of applicable federal and state law. Any notice of incompleteness requiring other information or documentation, including information of the type described in section 4939.0313 of the Revised Code or documentation intended to illustrate the need for the request or to justify the business decision for the request, does not toll the time period. (C) The time period resumes when the entity makes a supplemental submission in response to the municipal corporation's notice of incompleteness. (D) If a supplemental submission is inadequate, the municipal corporation shall notify the entity not later than ten days after receiving the supplemental submission that the supplemental submission did not provide the information identified in the original notice delineating missing documents or information. The time period may be tolled in the case of second or subsequent notices under the procedures identified in divisions (A) to (C) of this section. Second or subsequent notices of incompleteness may not specify missing documents or information that was not delineated in the original notice of incompleteness. Last updated January 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4909.33 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4909 / § 4909.33
§ 4909.33. Supplemental order as to public utilities
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Whenever any rate, toll, charge, or service ordered substituted by the public utilities commission is a joint rate, toll, charge, or service, and the public utilities which are parties to it fail to agree upon the apportionment of such joint rate, toll, charge, or service within twenty days after the service of such order, the commission may, after hearing, make and issue a supplemental order fixing the apportionment of such joint rate, toll, charge, or service between such public utilities. Such order shall take effect of its own force as a part of the original order.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4913.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4913 / § 4913.15
§ 4913.15. Review of reports by underground technical committee
Status: in_force

April 3, 2025 House Bill 315 - 135th General Assembly (A) The underground technical committee shall review every report of the staff of the public utilities commission made available under section 4913.13 of the Revised Code or submitted under section 4913.16 of the Revised Code. (B) Not later than ninety days after the committee obtains the staff's report under section 4913.13 of the Revised Code, the committee shall do any of the following: (1) Make a written recommendation to the commission as to the imposition of a fine, a penalty, or a combination of fines and penalties, in accordance with section 4913.151 of the Revised Code; (2) Determine that no enforcement action should be taken and notify the commission in writing of the determination; (3) Request a hearing under section 4913.19 of the Revised Code. (C) There shall be a majority vote of the full committee, except as provided by section 3781.361 of the Revised Code, with at least one of the commercial-excavator stakeholders voting with the majority, for the committee to do any of the following: (1) Recommend a fine, penalty, or a combination of fines and penalties under this section or section 4913.16 of the Revised Code; (2) Determine, under this section or section 4913.16 of the Revised Code, that no enforcement action should be taken; (3) Request a hearing under section 4913.19 of the Revised Code. If the committee fails to achieve the required majority for any action described in division (C) of this section, it shall notify the commission. Last updated February 19, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4969.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4969 / § 4969.07
§ 4969.07. Sale of equipment
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Sections 4969.05 and 4969.06 of the Revised Code apply, not only to contracts made with a railroad company as vendee or lessee, but also apply to all contracts which may be made with any interurban railroad or street railway company, or other company, corporation, or person as vendee or lessee, by which any such interurban railroad or street railway company, or other corporation, company, or person undertakes to purchase, rent, lease, or hire any railroad, or interurban railroad, or street railway equipment, cars, rolling stock, or other personal property, designed for use on, or in connection with a railroad or interurban railroad, or street railway in this or other states.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4909.173 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4909 / § 4909.173
§ 4909.173. Water-works company replacement of water service line
Status: in_force

March 20, 2026 Senate Bill 103 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section and section 4909.174 of the Revised Code: (1) "Customer-owned water service line" means the water service line connected to the water-works company's water service line at the curb of a customer's property. (2) "Water-works company" means an entity defined under division (G) of section 4905.03 of the Revised Code that is a public utility under section 4905.02 of the Revised Code. (B) A water-works company may do any of the following: (1) Replace lead customer-owned water service lines concurrently with a scheduled utility main replacement project, an emergency replacement, or company-initiated lead water service line replacement program; (2) Replace lead customer-owned water service lines when mandated or ordered to replace such lines by law or a state or federal regulatory agency; (3) Replace customer-owned water service lines of other composition when mandated or ordered to replace such lines by law or a state or federal regulatory agency. (C) If a water-works company replaces customer-owned water service lines under this section, then the company shall include the cost of the replacement of the water service lines, including the cost of replacement of both company side and customer-owned water service lines and the cost to evaluate customer-owned water service lines of unknown composition, in the valuation report of the property of the company as required under division (B)(9) of section 4909.042 the Revised Code or division (B)(6) of section 4909.05 of the Revised Code, whichever is applicable, for inclusion in a rate case under this chapter. (D) The water service customer who is responsible for the customer-owned water service line that was replaced under this section shall hold legal title to the replaced water service line. Last updated January 20, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4909.42 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4909 / § 4909.42
§ 4909.42. Commission fails to issue timely order
Status: in_force

August 14, 2025 House Bill 15 - 136th General Assembly Except as provided for in section 4909.421 of the Revised Code, if the proceeding on an application filed with the public utilities commission under section 4909.18 of the Revised Code by any public utility requesting an increase on any rate, joint rate, toll, classification, charge, or rental or requesting a change in a regulation or practice affecting the same has not been concluded and an order entered pursuant to section 4909.19 of the Revised Code at the expiration of two hundred seventy-five days from the date of filing the application, an increase not to exceed the proposed increase shall go into effect upon the filing of a bond or a letter of credit by the public utility. The bond or letter of credit shall be filed with the commission and shall be payable to the state for the use and benefit of the customers affected by the proposed increase or change. An affidavit attached to the bond or letter of credit must be signed by two of the officers of the utility, under oath, and must contain a promise on behalf of the utility to refund any amounts collected by the utility over the rate, joint rate, toll, classification, charge, or rental, as determined in the final order of the commission. All refunds shall include interest at the rate stated in section 1343.03 of the Revised Code. The refund shall be in the form of a temporary reduction in rates following the final order of the commission, and shall be accomplished in such manner as shall be prescribed by the commission in its final order. The commission shall exercise continuing and exclusive jurisdiction over such refunds. If the public utilities commission has not entered a final order within five hundred forty-five days from the date of the filing of an application for an increase in rates under section 4909.18 of the Revised Code, a public utility shall have no obligation to make a refund of amounts collected after the five hundred forty-fifth day which exceed the amounts authorized by the commission's final order. Nothing in this section shall be construed to mitigate any duty of the commission to issue a final order under section 4909.19 of the Revised Code. Last updated May 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.661 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.661
§ 4928.661. Low-income customer portfolio plan re-established
Status: in_force

May 14, 2021 House Bill 6 - 134th General Assembly (A) If an electric distribution utility had a portfolio plan that terminated on December 31, 2020, pursuant to division (F) of section 4928.66 of the Revised Code and included a program that benefited, and was limited to, low-income customers with an annual income at or below two hundred per cent of the federal poverty level, the utility shall re-establish the part of the portfolio plan that included the low-income program. The portfolio plan program re-established under this section shall include the same terms and conditions that the public utilities commission approved for the low-income program as it existed prior to the portfolio plan's termination, including the funding level originally allocated to the program. (B) A portfolio plan program re-established under division (A) of this section shall terminate on December 31, 2021. (C) The commission shall issue an order requiring electric distribution utilities to re-establish the portfolio plan programs described in division (A) of this section and setting forth the process for their re-establishment. The order shall not authorize the implementation of any new cost recovery mechanisms for these programs or extensions of any cost recovery mechanisms that existed before the programs described in division (A) of this section were re-established. Last updated June 3, 2021 at 10:53 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4953.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4953 / § 4953.11
§ 4953.11. Detention upon probable cause by officer or agent of union terminal company
Status: in_force

March 23, 2000 Senate Bill 107 - 123rd General Assembly (A) An officer or agent of a union terminal company who has probable cause to believe that a person is a pickpocket, is a thief, has violated the public peace, has violated any rule or regulation posted as provided by section 4953.07 of the Revised Code, or has committed any crime or misdemeanor on the depot grounds may detain the person in a reasonable manner and for a reasonable length of time within the property of the union terminal company, for the purpose of recovering any property involved in the violation, causing an arrest to be made by a peace officer, or obtaining a warrant of arrest. (B) An officer or agent of a union terminal company acting under division (A) of this section shall not search the person detained, search or seize any property belonging to the person detained without the person's consent, or use undue restraint upon the person detained. (C) Any peace officer, as defined in section 2935.01 of the Revised Code, may arrest without a warrant any person who the officer has probable cause to believe is a pickpocket, is a thief, has violated any rule or regulation provided by section 4953.07 of the Revised Code that also is a violation of law, or has committed any crime or misdemeanor on the depot grounds and shall make the arrest within a reasonable time after the commission of the act or violation that is the basis of the arrest.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4926.45 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4926 / § 4926.45
§ 4926.45. Evidentiary requirements for complaint
Status: in_force

May 17, 2021 House Bill 2 - 134th General Assembly Before a court of common pleas may order any remedy under section 4926.57 of the Revised Code regarding a pole attachment complaint filed with respect to sections 4926.01 to 4926.60 of the Revised Code, the court shall determine, and a complainant shall establish, by a preponderance of the evidence, each of the following: (A) That any rate, term, or condition complained of is not just and reasonable or a denial of access was unlawful. (B) If the complaint concerns any rate, term, or condition, that such rate, term, or condition is contained in, or demanded by either party as a condition to entering into, either: (1) A new pole attachment agreement; or (2) An amendment, renewal, or replacement of an existing agreement that may be terminated, amended, renewed, or replaced on or after the effective date of this section ; (C) If the complaint concerns any rate, term, or condition, that the provider and the electric cooperative first attempted to negotiate regarding the terms of a new, amended, renewed, or replaced agreement for a period of at least forty-five days prior to filing the complaint. Last updated June 10, 2021 at 8:45 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4907.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4907 / § 4907.06
§ 4907.06. Commission may inquire into management of railroads
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The public utilities commission may inquire into the management of the business of any railroad, and shall keep itself informed as to the manner and method in which it is conducted. It may obtain from a railroad the information necessary to enable it to perform the duties and carry out the objects for which it was created.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4905.261 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4905 / § 4905.261
§ 4905.261. Telephone call center for consumer complaints
Status: in_force

September 29, 2005 House Bill 66 - 126th General Assembly The public utilities commission shall operate a telephone call center for consumer complaints, to receive complaints by any person, firm, or corporation against any public utility. The commission shall expeditiously provide the consumers' counsel with all information concerning residential consumer complaints received by the commission in the operation of the telephone call center and with any materials produced in the operation of the telephone call center by the commission concerning residential consumer complaints. If technology is reasonably available, the commission shall provide the consumers' counsel with real-time access to the commission's residential consumer complaint information.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4933.121 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4933 / § 4933.121
§ 4933.121. Company may shut off electricity - exception
Status: in_force

May 18, 2005 House Bill 426 - 125th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (E) of section 5117.11 of the Revised Code, an electric light company shall not, for any reason, unless requested by the consumer for safety reasons, or unless tampering with utility company equipment or theft of electricity or utility company equipment has occurred, cease to provide electricity to any residential consumer for the period beginning on the fifteenth day of November and ending on the fifteenth day of the following April, unless both of the following apply: (1) The account of the consumer is in arrears thirty days or more. (2) If the occupant of residential premises is a tenant whose landlord is responsible for payment for the service provided by the company, the company has, five days previously, notified the occupant of its intent to discontinue service to the occupant. (B) The company shall not refuse to furnish electricity on account of arrearages due it for electricity furnished to persons formerly receiving services at the premises as customers of the company, provided the former customers are not continuing to reside at the premises. (C) No company shall cease to provide electricity to any residential premises between the fifteenth day of November and the fifteenth day of April because of a failure to pay the amount due for the electricity unless the company, at the time it sends or delivers to the premises notices of termination, informs the occupant of the premises where to obtain state and federal aid for payment of utility bills and for home weatherization and information on local government aid for payment of utility bills and for home weatherization. (D) On or before the first day of November, a county human services department may request a company to give prior notification of any residential service terminations to occur during the period beginning on the fifteenth day of November immediately following the department's request and ending on the fifteenth day of the following April. If a department makes such a written request, at least twenty-four hours before the company terminates services to a residential customer in the county during that period for failure to pay the amount due for service, the company shall provide written notice to the department of the residential customer whose service the company so intends to terminate. No company that has received such a request shall terminate such service during that period unless it has provided the notice required under this division. (E) No company shall cease to provide electricity to the residential premises of any residential consumer who is deployed on active duty for nonpayment for electricity provided to the residential premises. Upon return of a residential consumer from active duty, the company shall offer the residential consumer a period equal to at least the period of deployment on active duty to pay any arrearages incurred during the period of deployment. The company shall inform the residential consumer that, if the period the company offers presents a hardship to the consumer, the consumer may request a longer period to pay the arrearages and, in the case of a company that is a public utility as defined in section 4905.02 of the Revised Code, may request the assistance of the public utilities commission to obtain a longer period. No late payment fees or interest shall be charged to the residential consumer during the period of deployment or the repayment period. If a company that is a public utility determines that amounts owed by a residential consumer who is deployed on active duty are uncollectible, the company may file an application with the public utilities commission for approval of authority to recover the amounts. The recovery shall be through a rider on the base rates of customers of the company or through other means as may be approved by the commission, provided that any amount approved to be recovered through a rider or other means shall not be considered by the commission in any subsequent rate determination. As used in this division, "active duty" means active duty pursuant to an executive order of the president of the United States, an act of the congress of the United States, or section 5919.29 or 5923.21 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4957.34 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4957 / § 4957.34
§ 4957.34. Plans and specifications to be filed with commission
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 Senate Bill 361 - 100th General Assembly Every railroad company, public or private corporation, or person building, or permitting to be built, any bridge, viaduct, overhead roadway, footbridge, wire, and other structure mentioned in sections 4957.35 and 4957.36 of the Revised Code shall, before proceeding, file with the public utilities commission, plans and specifications for, and have its permit for, the erection of such structure or wire.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4927.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4927 / § 4927.11
§ 4927.11. Access to basic local exchange service
Status: in_force

September 29, 2015 House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly (A) Except as otherwise provided in this section and section 4927.10 of the Revised Code, an incumbent local exchange carrier shall provide basic local exchange service to all persons or entities in its service area requesting that service, and that service shall be provided on a reasonable and nondiscriminatory basis. (B)(1) An incumbent local exchange carrier is not obligated to construct facilities and provide basic local exchange service, or any other telecommunications service, to the occupants of multitenant real estate, including, but not limited to, apartments, condominiums, subdivisions, office buildings, or office parks, if the owner, operator, or developer of the multitenant real estate does any of the following to the benefit of any other telecommunications service provider: (a) Permits only one provider of telecommunications service to install the company's facilities or equipment during the construction or development phase of the multitenant real estate; (b) Accepts or agrees to accept incentives or rewards that are offered by a telecommunications service provider to the owner, operator, developer, or occupants of the multitenant real estate and are contingent on the provision of telecommunications service by that provider to the occupants, to the exclusion of services provided by other telecommunications service providers; (c) Collects from the occupants of the multitenant real estate any charges for the provision of telecommunications service to the occupants, including charges collected through rents, fees, or dues. (2) A carrier not obligated to construct facilities and provide basic local exchange service pursuant to division (B)(1) of this section shall notify the public utilities commission of that fact within one hundred twenty days of receiving knowledge thereof. (3) The commission by rule may establish a process for determining a necessary successor telephone company to provide service to real estate described in division (B)(1) of this section when the circumstances described in that division cease to exist. (4) An incumbent local exchange carrier that receives a request from any person or entity to provide service under the circumstances described in division (B)(1) of this section shall, within fifteen days of such receipt, provide notice to the person or entity specifying whether the carrier will provide the requested service. If the carrier provides notice that it will not serve the person or entity, the notice shall describe the person's or entity's right to file a complaint with the commission under section 4927.21 of the Revised Code within thirty days after receipt of the notice. In resolving any such complaint, the commission's determination shall be limited to whether any circumstance described in divisions (B)(1)(a) to (c) of this section exists. Upon a finding by the commission that such a circumstance exists, the complaint shall be dismissed. Upon a finding that such circumstances do not exist, the person's or entity's sole remedy shall be provision by the carrier of the requested service within a reasonable time. (C) An incumbent local exchange carrier may apply to the commission for a waiver from compliance with division (A) of this section. The application shall include, at a minimum, the reason for the requested waiver, the number of persons or entities who would be impacted by the waiver, and the alternatives that would be available to those persons or entities if the waiver were granted. The incumbent local exchange carrier applying for the waiver shall publish notice of the waiver application one time in a newspaper of general circulation throughout the service area identified in the application and shall provide additional notice to affected persons or entities as required by the commission in rules adopted under this division. The commission's rules shall define "affected" for purposes of this division. The commission shall afford such persons or entities a reasonable opportunity to comment to the commission on the application. This opportunity shall include a public hearing conducted in accordance with rules adopted under this division and conducted in the service area identified in the application. After a reasonable opportunity to comment has been provided, but not later than one hundred twenty days after the application is filed, the commission either shall issue an order granting the waiver if, upon investigation, it finds the waiver to be just, reasonable, and not contrary to the public interest, and that the applicant demonstrates a financial hardship or an unusual technical limitation, or shall issue an order denying the waiver based on a failure to meet those standards and specifying the reasons for the denial. The commission shall adopt rules to implement division (C) of this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4933.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4933 / § 4933.11
§ 4933.11. Meter-prover and photometer
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly All gas companies supplying the public with artificial or natural gas shall provide for their use a meter-prover, the holder of which must contain not less than five feet. Such meter-prover shall be tested in the place where it is to be used, stamped, and sealed by the public utilities commission. Such tests shall be open to the public. All gas companies supplying artificial or natural gas for illuminating purposes shall, on the order of the commission provide for their own use a photometer of a type approved by such commission. Any person, firm, or corporation supplying the public with artificial or natural gas which fails to comply with this section shall forfeit to the state not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars to be recovered upon the complaint of any consumer, in the name of the state, before any court of competent jurisdiction.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4973.16 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4973 / § 4973.16
§ 4973.16. Liability of company or receiver
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly If a railroad company or its receiver replevies property under section 4973.15 of the Revised Code without reasonable cause to believe that it was unlawfully taken from some company or its receiver, such company or receiver shall be liable to the party entitled to such property in any sum not exceeding double the value of the property so replevied, in addition to such damages as such party sustains thereby.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4926.33 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4926 / § 4926.33
§ 4926.33. Cost sharing for modifications of pole facilities
Status: in_force

May 17, 2021 House Bill 2 - 134th General Assembly (A) If an electric cooperative's pole facility is modified, all parties that obtain access to the facility as a result of the modification and all parties that directly benefit from the modification shall share proportionately in the cost of the modification. (B) If a party makes an attachment to the facility after the completion of the modification, the party shall share proportionately in the costs of the modification if that modification rendered the added attachment possible. Last updated June 9, 2021 at 2:09 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4909.157 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4909 / § 4909.157
§ 4909.157. Cost recovery mechanisms prohibited
Status: in_force

March 20, 2026 Senate Bill 103 - 136th General Assembly (A) Except for a cost recovery mechanism provided under division (C)(1)(a) of section 4909.15 of the Revised Code, a natural gas, water-works, or sewage disposal system company that applies for a forecasted test period under that division shall not request, and the public utilities commission shall not approve, any rider or other cost recovery mechanism to recover capital investment that would be in addition to the company's base rates. (B) Upon rates going into effect based on a company's use of a forecasted test period under division (C)(1)(a) of section 4909.15 of the Revised Code, any riders and other cost recovery mechanisms previously approved to recover capital investment for the company shall terminate. (C) Notwithstanding divisions (A) and (B) of this section, a natural gas company may still apply for, or continue collecting from, an infrastructure development rider under section 4929.161 of the Revised Code. Last updated March 6, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4913.20 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4913 / § 4913.20
§ 4913.20. Factors to be considered
Status: in_force

March 23, 2015 Senate Bill 378 - 130th General Assembly In determining a fine or penalty recommendation or imposition or whether no enforcement action should be taken under section 4913.15 , 4913.16 , 4913.171 , 4913.19 , or 4913.25 of the Revised Code, the underground technical committee, the public utilities commission, and the commission staff, as applicable, shall consider the following factors, as they apply: (A) The person's demonstrated history of one-call, design, and excavation practices, including the following: (1) The number of locate requests received and responded to; (2) The number of locates completed; (3) The number of one calls placed; (4) The number of excavations completed; (5) The number of design or development projects. (B) The nature, circumstances, and gravity of the compliance failure, including the amount of damage involved in relation to the compliance failure, and whether it resulted in death, serious injury, dismemberment, or a significant threat to public safety; (C) The organizational size of the responsible person; (D) The prospective effect of a fine on the person's ability to pay business obligations and otherwise conduct business; (E) The history or number of compliance failures by the person; (F) The good faith effort on the person's part in attempting to achieve compliance after the compliance failure was identified.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4967.23 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4967 / § 4967.23
§ 4967.23. Cost of improvements
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The cost of the additions or improvements referred to in section 4967.22 of the Revised Code, unless otherwise agreed between the joint owners, shall be paid by them in proportion to their ownership in the joint property, irrespective of the amount of traffic which each owner may then have passing over such railroad. If either owner fails or refuses to pay the share of cost due from it on the basis fixed in this section, or within the period fixed by such commission, suit may be entered and judgment taken against that party. Such judgment shall be a valid lien upon the interest in such railroad or part thereof owned jointly of such party in default, and may be sold at public sale as in other cases upon execution. A railroad company having authority to own or operate a railroad in this state, may purchase such interest at such sale, and enjoy and exercise in respect thereto, all the rights, privileges, and franchises which were exercised or enjoyed by the company owning it up to the time of sale. The compulsory power of enforcing additions or improvements provided for in this section and section 4967.22 of the Revised Code does not extend to local or terminal depot or shop grounds or facilities, the joint use of which is not needed by all the joint owners.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4969.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4969 / § 4969.03
§ 4969.03. Dissenting stockholder may retain interest
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly No transfer shall be made under section 4969.01 of the Revised Code against the dissent of any stockholder, expressly declared and filed in writing at the meeting provided by section 4969.02 of the Revised Code, without the guaranty of the grantee company that it will issue to him, certificated of its capital stock, equal in amount to his pro rata interest as a stockholder of the grantor, in the amount for which the property is sold.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4931.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4931 / § 4931.05
§ 4931.05. Powers and restrictions
Status: in_force

September 13, 2010 Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly Any company organized at any time to transact a telephone or communications business may construct, reconstruct, own, use, lease, operate, maintain, and improve communications systems for the transmission of voices, sounds, writings, signs, signals, pictures, visions, images, or other forms of intelligence, as public utility services, by means of wire, cable, radio, radio relay, or other telecommunications facilities, methods, or media. Any such company has the powers and is subject to the restrictions prescribed in sections 4931.02 to 4931.04 of the Revised Code for telephone companies.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4963.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4963 / § 4963.02
§ 4963.02. Waiting rooms - toilet rooms
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Every person, firm, or corporation operating a railway wholly or in part within this state shall provide a suitable waiting room for the use of the traveling public at each station where a passenger train of the railroad is regularly scheduled to stop. Such room shall be so maintained and kept as to be conducive to the comfort and health of the patrons of the railroad. Where any such waiting room is located within a municipal corporation within reasonable connecting distance of a water supply and sewerage system, there shall be provided in connection with such waiting room suitable and separate toilet rooms and water closets for the use of male and female persons. Each such toilet room or water closet compartment shall be properly heated, lighted, and ventilated and shall contain sufficient floor space and a sufficient number of water closets, urinals, lavatories, and toilet accessories to properly and suitably accommodate such patrons. The location, construction, and installation of such toilet rooms and water closets shall be in accordance with the state building code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4933.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4933 / § 4933.19
§ 4933.19. Notice to customers concerning theft offenses
Status: in_force

June 11, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly Each electric light company, gas company, natural gas company, pipe-line company, water-works company, or heating or cooling company, as defined by division (C), (D), (E), (F), (G), or (H) of section 4905.03 of the Revised Code, or its lessees, trustees, or receivers, and each similar utility owned or operated by a political subdivision shall notify its customers, on an annual basis, that tampering with or bypassing a meter constitutes a theft offense that could result in the imposition of criminal sanctions.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4907.20 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4907 / § 4907.20
§ 4907.20. Forms - completion and verification
Status: in_force

January 1, 1974 House Bill 511 - 109th General Assembly A railroad receiving blank forms from the public utilities commission shall cause them to be properly filled, answering fully and correctly each question therein. In case it is unable to answer any question, such railroad shall give a good and sufficient reason for not answering it. Such answers shall be verified under oath by the proper officer of the railroad and returned to the commission within the time fixed by it.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4906.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4906 / § 4906.05
§ 4906.05. Certificate exemptions
Status: in_force

September 10, 2012 Senate Bill 315 - 129th General Assembly No certificate is required for a major utility facility on which construction had already commenced on October 23, 1972, or within two years thereafter. This section does not exempt such a facility from any other requirements of state and local laws and regulations. No certificate is required for any major utility facility already in operation on October 23, 1972, and the facility shall not be exempt from any applicable state or local laws or regulations. A certificate is required for any substantial addition to a facility already in operation. "Substantial addition" shall be defined by the power siting board. Any electric generating plant and associated facilities, electric transmission line and associated facilities, or gas pipeline and associated facilities which is not a major utility facility is not exempt from state or local laws or regulations.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4967.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4967 / § 4967.02
§ 4967.02. Consolidation or merger of railroad companies
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly A company organized in this state for the purpose of constructing, owning, and operating a railroad, or whose railroad is made or is in process of construction to a point within or without, or to the boundary line of, this state, may consolidate its capital stock, property, and franchises with those of a company in this or any other state, organized for a like purpose, whose railroad has been projected, constructed, or is in process of construction to the same point, or either company may merge or be merged into the other when the railroads so united and constructed will form a continuous or connected but not competing line for the passage of cars. Railroads running or to be constructed to the banks of a river which is not bridged, or to the tracks and property of a union depot or terminal company, the use of which is enjoyed by either of the companies proposed to be consolidated or merged, or to the tracks of another railroad over which either has the right to operate by favor of a lease or under any trackage agreement, shall be held to be continuous or connected under this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4905.57 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4905 / § 4905.57
§ 4905.57. Actions to recover forfeitures
Status: in_force

June 11, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly Except as otherwise specifically provided in sections 4905.96 and 4923.99 of the Revised Code, actions to recover forfeitures provided for in this chapter and Chapters 4901., 4903., 4907., 4909., and 4923. of the Revised Code shall be prosecuted in the name of the state and may be brought in the court of common pleas of any county in which the public utility, railroad, or motor carrier is located. Such actions shall be commenced and prosecuted by the attorney general when the attorney general is directed to do so by the public utilities commission. Moneys recovered by such actions shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4933.25 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4933 / § 4933.25
§ 4933.25. Issuing certificate of public convenience and necessity
Status: in_force

May 6, 1998 House Bill 26 - 122nd General Assembly No sewage disposal system company established after September 19, 1961, or expanding after October 2, 1969, or water-works company established or expanding after October 2, 1969, shall construct, install, or operate sewage disposal system facilities or water distribution facilities until it has been issued a certificate of public convenience and necessity by the public utilities commission. The commission shall adopt rules prescribing requirements and the manner and form in which sewage disposal system companies and water-works companies shall apply for such a certificate. Before the commission issues a certificate of public convenience and necessity, it may hold a public hearing concerning the issuance of the certificate. Notice of the hearing shall be given to the board of county commissioners of any county and the chief executive authority of any municipal corporation to be served by a sewage disposal system company or water-works company. As used in this section, "sewage disposal system company" and "water-works company" have the same meanings as in section 4905.03 of the Revised Code and include only "public utilities" as defined in section 4905.02 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4961.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4961 / § 4961.09
§ 4961.09. Change of location or grade
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly For the purpose of avoiding annoyance to public travel, dangerous or difficult curves or grades, or unsafe or unsubstantial grounds or foundations, or when the roadbed has been injured or destroyed by the current of a river, watercourse, or other unavoidable or reasonable cause, a railroad company may change the location or grade of any portion of its railroad, but shall not depart from the general route prescribed in the articles of incorporation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4933.83 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4933 / § 4933.83
§ 4933.83. Exclusive right to furnish electric service to electric load centers
Status: in_force

July 12, 1978 House Bill 577 - 112th General Assembly (A) Except as otherwise provided in this section and Article XVIII of the Ohio Constitution, each electric supplier shall have the exclusive right to furnish electric service to all electric load centers located presently or in the future within its certified territory, and shall not furnish, make available, render, or extend its electric service for use in electric load centers located within the certified territory of another electric supplier; provided that nothing in sections 4933.81 to 4933.90 of the Revised Code shall impair the power of municipal corporations to require franchises or contracts for the provision of electric service within their boundaries, and provided that any electric supplier may extend its facilities through the certified territory of another electric supplier to connect any of its facilities, to serve electric load centers within its own certified territory or to interconnect with other electric suppliers. In the event that a new electric load center should locate in an area that is composed of two or more adjacent certified territories, the electric supplier in whose certified territory the greater portion of the land area covered by the electric load center is located shall serve that electric load center. In the event that a municipal corporation refuses to grant a franchise or contract for electric service within its boundaries to an electric supplier whose certified territory is included within the municipality, any other electric supplier may serve the municipal corporation under a franchise or contract with the municipal corporation. (B) Electric suppliers shall furnish adequate facilities to meet the reasonable needs of the consumers and inhabitants in the certified territories that they are authorized and required to serve pursuant to sections 4933.81 to 4933.90 of the Revised Code. The public utilities commission may, after a hearing had upon due notice, make such findings as may be supported by proof as to whether any electric supplier operating in a certified territory, or providing electric service pursuant to division (C) of this section, is rendering or proposes to render physically adequate service to an electric load center and in the event the commission finds that such electric supplier is not rendering and does not propose to render physically adequate service, the commission may enter an order specifying in what particulars such electric supplier has failed to render or propose to render physically adequate service and order that such failure be corrected within a reasonable time to be fixed in such order. If the electric supplier so ordered to correct such failure fails to comply with such order, the commission may authorize another electric supplier to furnish electric service to such electric load center and shall appropriately amend the maps of the certified territory of such electric suppliers. (C) Except as provided in division (B) of this section and Article XVIII of the Ohio Constitution, each electric supplier has the obligation and exclusive right to furnish electric service to electric load centers, wherever located, which it was serving on January 1, 1977, or which it had agreed to serve under lawful contracts in effect on or resulting from written bids submitted under bond prior to January 1, 1977, and no other electric supplier shall furnish, make available, or extend electric service to any such electric load centers. (D) Sections 4933.81 to 4933.90 of the Revised Code shall not prevent an electric supplier from extending its electric service after the effective date of this section to its own property or facilities. (E) Notwithstanding the effectuation of certified territories established by or pursuant to sections 4933.81 to 4933.90 of the Revised Code, and the exclusive right of electric suppliers to serve within such territory, and notwithstanding any other provisions of such sections establishing rights of electric suppliers to furnish electric service, any two or more electric suppliers may jointly petition the commission for the reallocation of their own territories and electric load centers among them and designating which portions of such territories and electric load centers are to be served by each of the electric suppliers. The commission, if it finds that granting the petition will promote the purposes of sections 4933.81 to 4933.90 of the Revised Code and will provide adequate service to all territories and electric load centers affected thereby, shall approve such a petition, appropriately modify the territorial boundaries of the petitioning electric suppliers, and amend the maps of the certified territory of such electric suppliers accordingly.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4957.35 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4957 / § 4957.35
§ 4957.35. Height of structures over railroads
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 Senate Bill 361 - 100th General Assembly Except cases in which the public utilities commission finds that such construction is impracticable, bridges, viaducts, overhead roadways, footbridges, wire, or other structure built over the track of a railroad after April 16, 1900, by a county, municipal corporation, township, railroad company, or other corporation or person, shall be not less than twenty-one feet in the clear from the top of the rails of such track to such wire or other structure, or to the bottom of the lowest sill, girder, or crossbeam, and the lowest downward projection on the bridge, viaduct, overhead roadway, or footbridge.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4963.22 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4963 / § 4963.22
§ 4963.22. Automatic or foot-power doors required on locomotive engines
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Every railroad company operating locomotives on its railroads in or through this state shall provide and equip each locomotive engine so operated in this state with an automatic or foot-power door to the firebox of such engine. Such automatic or foot-power doors shall be so constructed and operated by steam, compressed air, electricity, or foot power, as deemed best and most efficient. The device for operating such door shall be so constructed that it may be operated by the fireman on said engine by means of a push button, pedal, or other appliance located in, on, or near the floor of the engine deck or floor of the tender at a suitable distance from such door to enable the fireman, while firing such engine, by pressure with his foot, to open such door. The public utilities commission shall enforce, and prosecute any violations of, this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4901.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4901 / § 4901.09
§ 4901.09. Payment of expenses
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly All expenses incurred by the public utilities commission pursuant to Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., 4923., and 4925. of the Revised Code, including the actual and necessary traveling and other expenses and disbursements of the commission, its officers and employees, incurred while on the business of the commission, shall be paid from funds appropriated for the use of the commission after being approved by the commission. An itemized statement of such expenses, when signed and submitted by the person who incurred them, shall be audited and paid in the same manner as other expenses.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.33 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.33
§ 4928.33. Transition plan approval
Status: in_force

October 5, 1999 Senate Bill 3 - 123rd General Assembly (A) Not later than two hundred seventy-five days after the date an electric utility files a transition plan under section 4928.31 of the Revised Code, but, in any event, not later than October 31, 2000, the public utilities commission shall issue a final order approving the transition plan as filed under section 4928.31 of the Revised Code or an order modifying and approving that plan. The order is subject to section 4903.15 of the Revised Code and is subject to review and appeal under chapter 4903. of the Revised Code. (B) If the commission fails to issue, by October 31, 2000, a final order approving a transition plan, or such a final order has been enjoined in whole or in part pending appeal to a court, the commission shall issue an interim order prescribing a transition plan, to have effect on an interim basis only, and containing the plan components required by division (A) of section 4928.31 of the Revised Code and providing for the opportunity for transition revenue receipt if such an application were included in the plan filed by the utility under that section. The interim order is subject to section 4903.15 of the Revised Code but is not subject to review and appeal under Chapter 4903. of the Revised Code. An interim plan prescribed under the interim order shall be effective for the electric utility beginning on the starting date of competitive retail electric service and shall continue in effect until such time as any other replacement transition plan takes effect pursuant to a final commission order or resolution of an appeal. Any interim plan so prescribed shall comply with the applicable provisions of section 4928.34 of the Revised Code. A final commission order shall provide for a reconciliation of those amounts determined in the final order relative to division (A) of section 4928.31 of the Revised Code as compared to the interim amounts as determined under this division. (C) No electric utility required to file a transition plan under section 4928.31 of the Revised Code shall fail to implement a transition plan approved or prescribed for the utility by a commission order issued under division (A) or (B) of this section. No electric utility shall provide retail electric service in this state during the market development period except pursuant to such an approved or prescribed transition plan.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4905.47 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4905 / § 4905.47
§ 4905.47. Capitalization
Status: in_force

September 13, 2010 Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly The public utilities commission shall not authorize the capitalization of any franchise or right to own, operate, or enjoy any franchise in excess of the amount, exclusive of any tax or annual charge, actually paid to any political subdivision of the state or county as the consideration for the grant of such franchise or right, nor shall the capital stock of a public utility or railroad corporation formed by the merger or consolidation of two or more corporations exceed the sum of the capital stock of the corporations consolidated or merged, at the par value of such stock, and such sum or any additional sum actually paid in cash. No contract for consolidation or lease shall be capitalized in the stock of any public utility or railroad corporation, and no such corporation shall issue any bonds against or as a lien upon any contract for consolidation or merger. The aggregate amount of the debt of such consolidated companies by reason of such consolidation shall not be increased. This section does not apply to telephone companies.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4927.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4927 / § 4927.04
§ 4927.04. Commission's authority under federal law
Status: in_force

September 13, 2010 Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly The public utilities commission has such power and jurisdiction as is reasonably necessary for it to perform the obligations authorized by or delegated to it under federal law, including federal regulations, which obligations include performing the acts of a state commission as defined in the "Communications Act of 1934," 48 Stat. 1064, 47 U.S.C. 153, as amended, and include, but are not limited to, carrying out any of the following: (A) Rights and obligations under the "Telecommunications Act of 1996," 110 Stat. 56, 47 U.S.C. 251, as amended; (B) Authority to mediate and arbitrate disputes and approve agreements under the "Telecommunications Act of 1996," 110 Stat. 56, 47 U.S.C. 252, as amended; (C) Administration of telephone numbers and number portability; (D) Certification of telecommunications carriers eligible for universal-service funding under 47 U.S.C. 214(e); (E) Administration of truth-in-billing; (F) Administration of customer proprietary network information under 47 U.S.C. 222 and federal regulations adopted thereunder; (G) Outage reporting consistent with federal requirements. Except as provided in division (B) of section 4927.03 of the Revised Code, the commission has power and jurisdiction under this section over a telecommunications carrier to the extent necessary to perform the obligations described in this section. Nothing in this chapter limits the commission's authority under the "Telecommunications Act of 1996," 110 Stat. 56, 47 U.S.C. 151, et seq., as amended, including the commission's authority over the provision of universal-service funding.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4933.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4933 / § 4933.02
§ 4933.02. Gas or electric companies may manufacture and supply both electricity and gas
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Every corporation organized under the laws of this state to manufacture and supply artificial gas for light, heat, or power purposes and every corporation organized under the laws of this state to manufacture and supply electricity for light, heat, or power purposes, subject to statutory provisions relating to the granting of franchises by municipal corporations for any such purpose in force at the time of granting the franchise, may manufacture and supply electricity and artificial gas, respectively, for light, heat, or power purposes. Such corporations may make all contracts and do all things necessary and convenient for furnishing electricity and artificial gas for both public and private objects.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4909.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4909 / § 4909.19
§ 4909.19. Publication of notice - investigation
Status: in_force

August 14, 2025 House Bill 15 - 136th General Assembly (A) Upon the filing of any application for increase provided for by section 4909.18 of the Revised Code the public utility shall forthwith publish notice of such application, in a form approved by the public utilities commission, once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper published and in general circulation throughout the territory in which such public utility operates and directly affected by the matters referred to in said application. The notice shall include instructions for direct electronic access to the application or other documents on file with the public utilities commission. The first publication of the notice shall be made in its entirety and may be made in a preprinted insert in the newspaper. The second publication may be abbreviated if all of the following apply: (1) The abbreviated notice is at least one-fourth of the size of the notice in the first publication. (2) At the same time the abbreviated notice is published, the notice in the first publication is posted in its entirety on the newspaper's web site, if the newspaper has a web site, and the commission's web site. (3) The abbreviated notice contains a statement of the web site posting or postings, as applicable, and instructions for accessing the posting or postings. (B) The commission shall determine a format for the content of all notices required under this section, and shall consider costs and technological efficiencies in making that determination. Defects in the publication of said notice shall not affect the legality or sufficiency of notices published under this section provided that the commission has substantially complied with this section, as described in section 4905.09 of the Revised Code. (C) The commission shall at once cause an investigation to be made of the facts set forth in said application and the exhibits attached thereto, and of the matters connected therewith. Within one hundred eighty days after the application is determined to be complete, a written report shall be made and filed with the commission, a copy of which shall be sent by certified mail to the applicant, the mayor of any municipal corporation affected by the application, and to such other persons as the commission deems interested. If no objection to such report is made by any party interested within thirty days after such filing and the mailing of copies thereof, the commission shall fix a date within ten days for the final hearing upon said application, giving notice thereof to all parties interested. At such hearing the commission shall consider the matters set forth in said application and make such order respecting the prayer thereof as to it seems just and reasonable. If objections are filed with the commission, the commission shall cause a pre-hearing conference to be held between all parties, intervenors, and the commission staff in all cases involving more than one hundred thousand customers. If objections are filed with the commission within thirty days after the filing of such report, the application shall be promptly set down for hearing of testimony before the commission or be forthwith referred to an attorney examiner designated by the commission to take all the testimony with respect to the application and objections which may be offered by any interested party. The commission shall also fix the time and place to take testimony giving ten days' written notice of such time and place to all parties. The taking of testimony shall commence on the date fixed in said notice and shall continue from day to day until completed. The attorney examiner may, upon good cause shown, grant continuances for not more than three days, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays. The commission may grant continuances for a longer period than three days upon its order for good cause shown. At any hearing involving rates or charges sought to be increased, the burden of proof to show that the increased rates or charges are just and reasonable shall be on the public utility. When the taking of testimony is completed, a full and complete record of such testimony noting all objections made and exceptions taken by any party or counsel, shall be made, signed by the attorney examiner, and filed with the commission. Prior to the formal consideration of the application by the commission and the rendition of any order respecting the prayer of the application, a quorum of the commission shall consider the recommended opinion and order of the attorney examiner, in an open, formal, public proceeding in which an overview and explanation is presented orally. Thereafter, the commission shall make such order respecting the prayer of such application as seems just and reasonable to it. In all proceedings before the commission in which the taking of testimony is required, except when heard by the commission, attorney examiners shall be assigned by the commission to take such testimony and fix the time and place therefor, and such testimony shall be taken in the manner prescribed in this section. All testimony shall be under oath or affirmation and taken down and transcribed by a reporter and made a part of the record in the case. The commission may hear the testimony or any part thereof in any case without having the same referred to an attorney examiner and may take additional testimony. Testimony shall be taken and a record made in accordance with such general rules as the commission prescribes and subject to such special instructions in any proceedings as it, by order, directs. Last updated May 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4959.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4959 / § 4959.09
§ 4959.09. Right to use culvert for cattle way
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly An owner of land through which a railroad is constructed, and upon which there is a culvert, waterway, or opening through the embankment of the railroad of sufficient height for such purpose, may use such culvert, waterway, or opening, as a stock or cattle way under the track of the railroad so as to permit stock to pass and repass. The landowner shall build and maintain all necessary fences on both sides of the opening, and shall not, by use or otherwise, permit the foundations of structures about such opening to be injured or interfered with.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4971.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4971 / § 4971.09
§ 4971.09. Enforcement of lien
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly In order to take advantage of section 4971.08 of the Revised Code, before the day fixed for the sale of the property of such railroad company under judgment or decree of foreclosure and sale, a party prosecuting an action referred to in such section shall file with the clerk of the court in which the judgment or decree was rendered, a notice in writing, setting forth the title of his action, the court in which it is pending, the amount of his claim, the date from which he claims interest thereon, the probable amount of costs, and that he claims the judgment sought by him to be recovered would, when obtained, become a lien prior in law or equity to the lien of the judgment or decree of foreclosure and sale. Before the day of sale, or at the time of such sale, he shall serve a certified copy of such notice upon the officer or other person making such sale. Prior to offering the property for sale, such officer or other person shall read such notice publicly at the time and place of sale, and with his return of sale, return the copy of notice with the indorsement of his proceedings under such notice upon it to the court.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4999.11 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4999 / § 4999.11
§ 4999.11. Mail cranes - livestock chutes
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly No person or company owning, operating, or controlling a railroad shall erect or permit to be erected, place, or maintain along said railroad, a mail crane or livestock chute, any portion of which approaches nearer than eighteen inches to the nearest point of contact with the cab of the widest locomotive used on such railroad. Whoever violates this section shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4926.48 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4926 / § 4926.48
§ 4926.48. Burden of proof regarding rate, term, or condition or denial of access
Status: in_force

May 17, 2021 House Bill 2 - 134th General Assembly (A) The complainant under section 4926.39 of the Revised Code has the burden of establishing a prima facie case that the rate, term, or condition complained of is not just and reasonable or that the denial of access was unlawful. (B) In a case involving a denial of access, the electric cooperative has the burden of establishing, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the denial was lawful, once a prima facie case is established by the complainant. Last updated June 9, 2021 at 2:11 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4907.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4907 / § 4907.12
§ 4907.12. Forfeiture for refusal to comply with subpoena
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly A railroad failing or refusing to comply within a reasonable time with an order or subpoena from the public utilities commission issued under section 4907.11 of the Revised Code shall forfeit and pay into the state treasury, for each day it so fails or refuses, not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, to be recovered in a civil action in the name of the commission.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4903.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4903 / § 4903.12
§ 4903.12. Jurisdiction
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly No court other than the supreme court shall have power to review, suspend, or delay any order made by the public utilities commission, or enjoin, restrain, or interfere with the commission or any public utilities commissioner in the performance of official duties. A writ of mandamus shall not be issued against the commission or any commissioner by any court other than the supreme court.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4951.28 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4951 / § 4951.28
§ 4951.28. Liabilities of the company leased or purchased
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly A company leasing or purchasing the property, rights, and franchises of an electric light and power company, natural or artificial gas company, or electric light and power and natural or artificial gas company, as provided in section 4951.27 of the Revised Code, has all the rights, power, and authority of the company whose property, rights, and franchises are so leased or purchased. The liability of the electric light and power company, natural or artificial gas company, or electric light and power and natural or artificial gas company shall in no manner be affected by such lease or sale.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4999.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4999 / § 4999.09
§ 4999.09. Two-person crew
Status: in_force

June 30, 2023 House Bill 23 - 135th General Assembly (A) The requirements set forth in division (B) of this section are solely related to safety, including ensuring that no train or light engine used in connection with the movement of freight in this state is left without a functional crew person as a result of a medical emergency. (B) A train or light engine used in connection with the movement of freight shall have a crew that consists of at least two individuals. No superintendent, trainmaster, or other employee of a railroad shall order or otherwise require a train or light engine used in connection with the movement of freight to be operated unless it has a crew that consists of at least two individuals. As used in this division, "train or light engine used in connection with the movement of freight" does not include hostler service or utility employees. (C)(1) The public utilities commission may assess a civil penalty against a person who willfully violates division (B) of this section. If the commission assesses a civil penalty, the commission shall do so as follows: (a) If, within three years of the violation, the commission has not previously assessed a civil penalty against the person under this section, in an amount not less than two hundred fifty, but not more than one thousand dollars; (b) If, within three years of the violation, the commission has previously assessed one civil penalty against the person under this section, in an amount not less than one thousand, but not more than five thousand dollars; (c) If, within three years of the violation, the commission has previously assessed two or more civil penalties against the person under this section, in an amount not less than five thousand, but not more than ten thousand dollars. (2) The attorney general, upon the request of the public utilities commission, shall bring a civil action to collect the penalties described in division (C)(1) of this section. All penalties collected under the division shall be deposited into the state treasury to the credit of the public utilities fund created in section 4905.10 of the Revised Code. (D) The requirements of this section do not apply on and after the date a federal law or regulation takes effect requiring a train or light engine used in connection with the movement of freight in this state to have a crew of at least two individuals. Last updated May 3, 2023 at 1:08 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4957.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4957 / § 4957.15
§ 4957.15. Procedure
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Upon the filing of a petition under section 4957.14 of the Revised Code, accompanied by plans, the railroad company or municipal corporation opposed to the prayer of such petition, or directly interested in it, shall have the right, within sixty days thereafter, to file an answer to such petition and to present other plans for the abolition of such crossing. After the expiration of such period of sixty days, the court shall proceed to a hearing upon the petition and any answers that have been filed, which hearing must be advanced upon the docket upon motion of either party. After examination of all plans presented to it and after hearing the evidence, the court shall make a finding as to whether the security and convenience of the public require that alterations be made in the crossing or the approaches to it, or in the location of the railroad or public way, or any grades thereof, so as to avoid a crossing at common grade, or that such crossings, or any of them, be discontinued with or without building a new way in substitution therefor, and whether such plans or any of them are reasonable and practicable.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4981.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4981 / § 4981.04
§ 4981.04. Plan for construction and operation of intercity conventional or high speed passenger transportation system
Status: in_force

June 30, 2023 House Bill 23 - 135th General Assembly (A) The Ohio rail development commission shall prepare a plan for the construction and operation of an intercity conventional or high speed passenger transportation system in this state. The system shall be constructed and operated by the commission or its designees. The plan for construction and operation shall be based on existing studies, and shall state that the system will connect any points in Ohio and nearby states as determined by the commission. The plan shall include the following information: (1) The route alignment of the proposed system; (2) The proposed technology; (3) The size, nature, and scope of the proposed system; (4) The sources of the public and private revenue needed to finance the system; (5) The projected ability of all revenue sources to meet both capital and operating funding requirements of the proposed system; (6) The construction, operation, and management plan for the system, including a timetable for construction and the proposed location and number of transit stations considered necessary; (7) The likelihood that Ohio-based corporations will be used to manufacture or supply components of the proposed system; (8) The likelihood that additional or subsidiary development will be generated; (9) The extent to which the proposed system will create an additional or reduced demand for sources of energy; (10) Any changes in the law necessary to implement the proposed system; (11) The proposed system's impact on the economy of the state and on the economic and other public policies of the state. The commission may revise any plan of the Ohio high speed rail authority or may submit a separate plan for construction and operation and a funding request to the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and to the president of the senate. Any plan for an intercity conventional or high speed passenger transportation system submitted by the commission pursuant to this section shall not propose the operation of such a system by the state other than through the commission. Last updated April 27, 2023 at 12:22 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4999.18 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4999 / § 4999.18
§ 4999.18. Demanding compensation when telegraph or telephone wires not working
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly No officer, agent, or other person acting for or in behalf of a railroad company operating ten or more miles of its railroad for the carrying or transporting of passengers or freight over its railroad within this state which fails to erect and maintain telegraph or telephone wires in complete working order for use and operation along its railroad, with an office and proper means of communication by such wires at each of its principal railway stations, shall order, direct, advise, ask, demand, or receive compensation for transportation of passengers or freight. Whoever violates this section shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not less than thirty nor more than ninety days, or both.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4961.33 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4961 / § 4961.33
§ 4961.33. Dissenting stockholder may sell stock
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly A stockholder of any railroad company, part or all of whose railroad is proposed to be leased or purchased or which it is proposed to aid by subscription, who refuses his assent to such sale, lease, or aid by subscription, and signifies it by notice in writing to the purchaser or lessee, or company subscribing such aid, within sixty days thereafter, on demand, shall be entitled to receive from such purchaser or lessee, or company subscribing such aid, previous to the consummation of such sale, lease, or aid, the average market value of his stock for six months next preceding the day of the meeting of the companies at which the sale, lease, or aid is approved, on surrendering the stock. If the stockholder and the purchaser, lessee, or company furnishing such aid cannot agree as to the value of the stock, the parties may submit the question to arbitration, to be conducted in accordance with the laws regulating arbitrations, so far as applicable, by three disinterested persons, to be appointed upon the motion of either of the parties by the judge of the court of common pleas of the county in which the owner of the stock resides, or, in case he is a nonresident of the state, or of any county through or into which the railroad passes, then the county in which the principal office of the company is kept.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4907.63 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4907 / § 4907.63
§ 4907.63. Violation
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly No officer, agent, or employee in an official capacity of a public utility or railroad shall knowingly violate section 4907.43 of the Revised Code, or willfully fail to comply with any lawful order or direction of the public utilities commission made with respect to any public utility or railroad. Each day's continuance of such failure is a separate offense.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.38 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.38
§ 4928.38. Commencing and terminating transition revenues
Status: in_force

October 5, 1999 Senate Bill 3 - 123rd General Assembly Pursuant to a transition plan approved under section 4928.33 of the Revised Code, an electric utility in this state may receive transition revenues under sections 4928.31 to 4928.40 of the Revised Code, beginning on the starting date of competitive retail electric service. Except as provided in sections 4905.33 to 4905.35 of the Revised Code and this chapter, an electric utility that receives such transition revenues shall be wholly responsible for how to use those revenues and wholly responsible for whether it is in a competitive position after the market development period. The utility's receipt of transition revenues shall terminate at the end of the market development period. With the termination of that approved revenue source, the utility shall be fully on its own in the competitive market. The commission shall not authorize the receipt of transition revenues or any equivalent revenues by an electric utility except as expressly authorized in sections 4928.31 to 4928.40 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4905.46 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4905 / § 4905.46
§ 4905.46. Restrictions on dividend or distribution
Status: in_force

September 13, 2010 Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly No public utility or railroad shall declare any stock, bond, or scrip dividend or distribution, or divide the proceeds of the sale of any stock, bond, or scrip among its stockholders, unless it is authorized to do so by the public utilities commission. This section does not apply to telephone companies.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4905.23 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4905 / § 4905.23
§ 4905.23. Electric generating plant closure prohibited
Status: in_force

August 14, 2025 House Bill 15 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, "base load electric generating facility" means an electric generating plant and associated facilities located in this state that primarily uses a nonrenewable fuel source to generate electricity, including natural gas and nuclear reaction, and that is not owned or operated by a public utility, municipal corporation, or electric cooperative. (B) No person shall enter into a settlement to abandon, close, or shut down either of the following: (1) A base load electric generating facility; (2) A generating plant owned or operated by a public utility. Last updated July 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4905.87 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4905 / § 4905.87
§ 4905.87. Biomass energy program fund
Status: in_force

June 6, 2001 House Bill 94 - 124th General Assembly (A) To the extent funding is available in the biomass energy program fund, the public utilities commission shall maintain a program to promote the development and use of biomass energy. (B) The biomass energy program fund is hereby created in the state treasury. Money received by the commission for the program maintained under this section shall be credited to the fund, and used for that program.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4926.54 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4926 / § 4926.54
§ 4926.54. Rebuttable presumptions
Status: in_force

May 17, 2021 House Bill 2 - 134th General Assembly In a complaint filed under section 4926.39 of the Revised Code, there is a rebuttable presumption that each of the following is just and reasonable: (A) The time frame to grant or deny access, if it is within the time frame established by the federal communications commission; (B) The process for make-ready work, if it is in accordance with the process for make-ready work under 47 U.S.C. 224 and the federal communications commission orders and regulations implementing that section; (C) The charged rate, if the electric cooperative can show that its charged rate does not exceed an annual recurring attachment rate calculated in accordance with the cable pole attachment rate formula in 47 U.S.C. 224(d) and federal communications commission orders and regulations implementing that formula. Last updated June 9, 2021 at 2:12 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.101 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.101
§ 4928.101. Small commercial customer consumer protections
Status: in_force

August 14, 2025 House Bill 15 - 136th General Assembly (A) As used in this section and section 4928.102 of the Revised Code: (1) "Small commercial customer" means any customer that receives electric service pursuant to a nonresidential tariff if the customer's demand for electricity does not exceed twenty-five kilowatts within the last twelve months. (2) "Small commercial customer" excludes any customer that does one or both of the following: (a) Manages multiple electric meters and, within the last twelve months, the electricity demand for at least one of the meters is twenty-five kilowatts or more; (b) Has, at the customer's discretion, aggregated the demand for the customer-managed meters. (B) The consumer protections described in section 4928.10 of the Revised Code and the rules adopted pursuant to that section apply to small commercial customers and to all other customers as set forth in the rules. Last updated June 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4909.052 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4909 / § 4909.052
§ 4909.052. Evaluation of petition for purchase of municipal water-works or sewage disposal system; acceptance of cost report
Status: in_force

August 14, 2025 House Bill 15 - 136th General Assembly Subject to a finding that such costs are just and reasonable, the public utilities commission in evaluating a petition submitted under section 4905.481 of the Revised Code shall accept the original cost, reported under division (B)(3) of section 4909.05 of the Revised Code, of the acquisition of a municipal water-works or sewage disposal system company that is acquired by a large water-works or sewage disposal system company, provided that the original cost is determined according to all of the following requirements: (A) The acquiring company has three appraisals performed on the property of the company being acquired. (B) The three appraisals are performed by three independent utility-valuation experts mutually selected by the acquiring company and the company being acquired from the list maintained under section 4909.054 of the Revised Code. (C) The average of the three appraisals is used as the fair market value of the company being acquired. (D) Each utility-valuation expert does all of the following: (1) Determines the fair market value of the company to be acquired by establishing the amount for which the company would be sold in a voluntary transaction between a willing buyer and a willing seller under no obligation to buy or sell; (2) Determines the fair market value in compliance with the uniform standards of professional appraisal practice; (3) Employs the cost, market, and income approach to independently quantify the future benefits of the company to be acquired; (4) Incorporates the assessment described in division (D)(5) of this section into the appraisal under the cost, market, and income approach; (5) Engages one engineer who is licensed to prepare an assessment of the tangible assets of the company to be acquired. The original source of funding for any part of the tangible assets shall not be relevant to the determination of the value of those assets. (E) The lesser of the purchase price or the fair market value, described in division (C) of this section, is reported as the original cost under division (B)(3) of section 4909.05 of the Revised Code of the company to be acquired. Last updated May 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4963.36 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4963 / § 4963.36
§ 4963.36. Company must keep right of way free from combustible material
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Every railroad company, or person in charge of a railroad as manager or receiver, shall keep the right of way clear from weeds, high grass, and decayed timber which from nature or condition are combustible and liable to take or communicate fire from passing locomotives to abutting or adjacent property. Such company is liable for all damages sustained by the owner or occupant of such property from carelessness or neglect to keep its right of way clear of such combustible material. In case of failure to comply with the requirements of this section, a person owning or controlling property abutting on or adjacent to a railroad right of way, the default still continuing after twenty days' notice in writing, may cause all combustible material to be removed from the right of way along or by such property. Upon presentation of a reasonable account for such removal to the agent at the nearest station of such company or receiver, if it or he refuses to pay the amount asked within thirty days, such amount may be recovered before any court having jurisdiction of such claim.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4913.251 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4913 / § 4913.251
§ 4913.251. Reconsideration order; appeal
Status: in_force

March 23, 2015 Senate Bill 378 - 130th General Assembly A reconsideration order issued under section 4913.25 of the Revised Code is subject to the rehearing and appeal process under Chapter 4903. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4957.25 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4957 / § 4957.25
§ 4957.25. Street railway company to share expense
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly In case the track of any street railway company within the limits of a municipal corporation where the improvements authorized by sections 4957.10 to 4957.24 , inclusive, of the Revised Code are made, crosses at grade or otherwise a public street or the right of way of any railroad company at a point where it has been determined to construct such improvements, the municipal corporation by ordinance may require such street railway company to bear a reasonable proportion of the cost assumed by it in making the improvement, not exceeding one half of the portion payable by the municipal corporation, which shall have a right of action against such street railway company for that part of the cost which the ordinance requires it to bear. Such part of the cost is also a lien upon all the property, real and personal, of such company situated in the same county with the municipal corporation after the date of the passage of such ordinance. The legislative authority of such municipal corporation may by ordinance provide the mode and time of payment for the proportion of the cost of such improvement to be borne by such street railway company.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4921.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4921 / § 4921.19
§ 4921.19. Payment of taxes; amounts
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly (A) Every for-hire motor carrier operating in this state shall, at the time of the issuance of a certificate of public convenience and necessity under section 4921.03 of the Revised Code, pay to the public utilities commission, for and on behalf of the treasurer of state, the following taxes: (1) For each motor vehicle used for transporting persons, thirty dollars; (2) For each commercial tractor, as defined in section 4501.01 of the Revised Code, used for transporting property, thirty dollars; (3) For each other motor vehicle transporting property, twenty dollars. (B) Every for-hire motor carrier operating in this state solely in intrastate commerce shall, annually between the first day of May and the thirtieth day of June, pay to the commission, for and on behalf of the treasurer of state, the following taxes: (1) For each motor vehicle used for transporting persons, thirty dollars; (2) For each commercial tractor, as defined in section 4501.01 of the Revised Code, used for transporting property, thirty dollars; (3) For each other motor vehicle transporting property, twenty dollars. (C) After a for-hire motor carrier has paid the applicable taxes under division (A) or (B) of this section and met all applicable requirements under section 4921.03 or division (C) of section 4921.13 of the Revised Code, the commission shall issue the carrier a tax receipt for each motor vehicle for which a tax has been paid under this section. The carrier shall keep the appropriate tax receipt in each motor vehicle operated by the carrier. The carrier shall maintain tax receipt records that specify to which motor vehicle each tax receipt is assigned. (D) A trailer used by a for-hire motor carrier shall not be taxed under this section. (E) The annual tax levied by division (B) of this section does not apply in those cases where the commission finds that the movement of agricultural commodities or foodstuffs produced therefrom requires a temporary and seasonal use of vehicular equipment for a period of not more than ninety days. In such event, the tax on the vehicular equipment shall be twenty-five per cent of the annual tax levied by division (B) of this section. If any vehicular equipment is used in excess of the ninety-day period, the annual tax levied by this section shall be paid. (F) All taxes levied by division (B) of this section shall be reckoned as from the beginning of the quarter in which the tax receipt is issued or as from when the use of equipment under any existing tax receipt began. (G) The fees for unified carrier registration pursuant to section 4921.11 of the Revised Code shall be identical to those established by the unified carrier registration act board as approved by the federal motor carrier safety administration for each year. (H) The application fee for a certificate for the transportation of household goods issued pursuant to sections 4921.30 to 4921.38 of the Revised Code shall be based on the certificate holder's gross revenue, in the prior year, for the intrastate transportation of household goods. (I) The fees and taxes provided under this section shall be in addition to taxes, fees, and charges fixed and exacted by other sections of the Revised Code, except the assessments required by section 4905.10 of the Revised Code, but all fees, license fees, annual payments, license taxes, or taxes or other money exactions, except the general property tax, assessed, charged, fixed, or exacted by local authorities such as municipal corporations, townships, counties, or other local boards, or the officers of such subdivisions are illegal and, are superseded by sections 4503.04 and 4905.03 and Chapter 4921. of the Revised Code. On compliance with sections 4503.04 and 4905.03 and Chapter 4921. of the Revised Code, all local ordinances, resolutions, bylaws, and rules in force shall cease to be operative as to the persons in compliance, except that such local subdivisions may make reasonable local police regulations within their respective boundaries not inconsistent with sections 4503.04 and 4905.03 and Chapter 4921. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4973.13 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4973 / § 4973.13
§ 4973.13. Sale of railroad scrap metal
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly No officer, agent, or employee of a company operating a railroad, except the superintendent, general managing agent, or a receiver of the company, may sell or dispose of worn or scrap metal, iron, brass, or other metal owned by such company. All sales and barter of such scraps or other metals made by any other officer, agent, or employee are void. No such superintendent, managing agent, or receiver shall sell or dispose of such scrap or other metals in quantities less than one ton, nor without delivering to the purchaser a bill of sale of such metal, a copy of which shall be retained and filed in the office of such superintendent, agent, or receiver. If a superintendent, managing agent, or receiver of a railroad company sells or disposes of railroad scrap metal in quantities less than one ton, or without delivering a bill of sale of such metal to the purchaser, the company which he represents shall not thereafter be entitled to the benefit of sections 4973.14 and 4973.15 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4905.04 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4905 / § 4905.04
§ 4905.04. Power to regulate public utilities and railroads
Status: in_force

September 13, 2010 Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly The public utilities commission is hereby vested with the power and jurisdiction to supervise and regulate public utilities and railroads, to require all public utilities to furnish their products and render all services exacted by the commission or by law, and to promulgate and enforce all orders relating to the protection, welfare, and safety of railroad employees and the traveling public, including the apportionment between railroads and the state and its political subdivisions of the cost of constructing protective devices at railroad grade crossings.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4909.156 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4909 / § 4909.156
§ 4909.156. Filing report showing property valuation
Status: in_force

March 20, 2026 Senate Bill 103 - 136th 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 shall, in action upon an application filed pursuant to section 4909.18 of the Revised Code, require a public utility to file a report showing the proportionate amounts of the valuation of the property of the utility, as determined under section 4909.042 or 4909.05 of the Revised Code, and the proportionate amounts of the revenues and expenses of the utility that are proposed to be considered as attributable to the service area involved in the application. "Valuation," as used in this section, may include: (A) With respect to a public utility that is a natural gas, water-works, or sewage disposal system company, projected valuation as of the date certain, if applicable because of a future date certain under section 4909.15 of the Revised Code; (B) 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 valuation and value during the forecasted test period. Last updated January 20, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4911.021 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4911 / § 4911.021
§ 4911.021. Customer telephone complaints
Status: in_force

September 29, 2017 House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly The consumers' counsel shall not operate a telephone call center for consumer complaints. However, for any calls received by the consumers' counsel concerning consumer complaints, the consumers' counsel may assist consumers with their complaints or forward the calls to the public utilities commission's call center.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4929.042 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4929 / § 4929.042
§ 4929.042. Notice of converting use of gathering facility
Status: in_force

September 10, 2012 House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly A natural gas company shall notify the public utilities commission in writing before converting the use of any gathering facilities described in division (B)(2) of section 4929.041 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4911.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4911 / § 4911.12
§ 4911.12. Employees
Status: in_force

September 29, 1995 House Bill 117 - 121st General Assembly (A) Notwithstanding Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code, the consumers' counsel may employ and fix the compensation of such officers, experts, lawyers, engineers, economists, statisticians, accountants, investigators, and employees in fiduciary, supervisory, or policy-making positions as are necessary to carry out Chapters 4909. and 4911. of the Revised Code or to perform the powers and duties conferred or imposed upon him by law. These employees shall be in the unclassified civil service, shall not be considered public employees for purposes of Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code, and shall serve at the pleasure of the counsel. The counsel may also employ such clerical employees, including clerks and stenographers, as are necessary to carry out Chapters 4909. and 4911. of the Revised Code or to perform his duties and exercise the powers conferred by law upon him. These clerical employees shall be in the classified civil service. All officers, lawyers, engineers, economists, statisticians, accountants, investigators, stenographers, clerks, and other employees of the counsel and the expenses of the office of the counsel, the expenses of the counsel, and the expenses of the employees of such office shall be paid from funds appropriated for the use of the consumers' counsel after being approved by the consumers' counsel. (B) The consumers' counsel may contract for the services of technically qualified persons in the area of public utility matters to assist him in carrying out the duties of his office. Such persons shall be paid from funds appropriated for the use of the consumers' counsel after being approved by the consumers' counsel.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4906.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4906 / § 4906.21
§ 4906.21. Decommissioning plan for solar and wind generation required
Status: in_force

October 11, 2021 Senate Bill 52 - 134th General Assembly (A) For the purposes of this section and sections 4906.21 to 4906.232 of the Revised Code: (1) "Applicant" means an applicant for a certificate, or a material amendment to an existing certificate, from the power siting board to construct, operate, or maintain a utility facility, and includes any subsequent person to whom the certificate is transferred. (2) "Material amendment" and "utility facility" have the same meanings as in section 303.57 of the Revised Code. (B) At least sixty days prior to the commencement of construction of a utility facility, the applicant shall submit a comprehensive decommissioning plan for review and approval by the power siting board. Last updated August 18, 2021 at 11:36 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4905.73 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4905 / § 4905.73
§ 4905.73. Jurisdiction
Status: in_force

September 13, 2010 Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly (A) The public utilities commission, upon complaint by any person or complaint or initiative of the commission, has jurisdiction under section 4905.26 of the Revised Code regarding any violation of division (B) of section 4905.72 of the Revised Code by a public utility. (B) Upon complaint or initiative under division (A) of this section, if the commission finds, after notice and hearing pursuant to section 4905.26 of the Revised Code, that a public utility has violated section 4905.72 of the Revised Code, the commission, by order, shall do all of the following: (1) Rescind the aggrieved consumer's change in service provider; (2) Require the public utility to absolve the aggrieved consumer of any liability for any charges assessed the consumer, or refund to the aggrieved consumer any charges collected from the consumer, by the public utility during the thirty-day period after the violation or failure to comply occurred or, where appropriate, during such other period after that occurrence as determined reasonable by the commission; (3) Require the public utility to refund or pay to the aggrieved consumer any fees paid or costs incurred by the consumer resulting from the change of the consumer's service provider or providers, or from the resumption of the consumer's service with the service provider or providers from which the consumer was switched; (4) Require the public utility to make the consumer whole regarding any bonuses or benefits, such as airline mileage or product discounts, to which the consumer is entitled, by restoring bonuses or benefits the consumer lost as a result of the violation or failure to comply and providing bonuses or benefits the consumer would have earned if not for the violation or failure to comply, or by providing something of equal value. (C) In addition to the remedies under division (B) of this section, if the commission finds, after notice and hearing pursuant to section 4905.26 of the Revised Code, that a public utility has violated section 4905.72 of the Revised Code, the commission, by order, may impose any of the following remedies or forfeitures: (1) Require the public utility to comply or undertake any necessary corrective action; (2) Require the public utility to compensate the service provider or providers from which the aggrieved consumer was switched in the amount of all charges the consumer would have paid that particular service provider for the same or comparable service had the violation or failure to comply not occurred; (3) Require the public utility to compensate the service provider or providers from which the aggrieved consumer was switched for any costs that the particular service provider incurs as a result of making the consumer whole as provided in division (B)(4) of this section or of effecting the resumption of the consumer's service; (4) Assess upon the public utility forfeitures of not more than one thousand dollars for each day of each violation or failure to comply. However, if the commission finds that the public utility has engaged or is engaging in a pattern or practice of committing any such violations or failures to comply, the commission may assess upon the public utility forfeitures of not more than five thousand dollars for each day of each violation or failure. Any forfeiture collected pursuant to this division shall be deposited into the state treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund. (5) Require the public utility to file with the commission a security payable to the state in such amount and upon such terms as the commission determines necessary to ensure compliance and payment of any forfeitures assessed pursuant to division (C)(4) of this section; (6) Rescind the public utility's authority to provide natural gas service or public telecommunications service within this state. (D) Proceedings of the commission pursuant to division (B) or (C) of this section are governed by Chapter 4903. of the Revised Code. (E) The commission may direct the attorney general to commence an action under section 4905.57 or 4905.60 of the Revised Code to enforce an order of the commission issued under division (B) or (C) of this section, including orders assessing forfeitures. Notwithstanding section 4905.57 of the Revised Code, an action authorized under this division may be brought in the court of common pleas of Franklin county or the court of common pleas of any county in which venue is proper under the Rules of Civil Procedure. (F) The remedy available under section 4905.61 of the Revised Code may be applied to any violation of section 4905.72 of the Revised Code. (G) The powers, remedies, forfeitures, and penalties provided by this section and section 4905.72 and division (C) of section 4905.99 of the Revised Code are in addition to any other power, remedy, forfeiture, or penalty provided by law.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4907.26 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4907 / § 4907.26
§ 4907.26. Schedules of joint rates
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly When passengers or property are transported over connecting railroads in this state operated by two or more railroads which establish joint rates, fares, and charges, a schedule thereof, compiled as provided in section 4907.25 of the Revised Code, shall be printed, filed with the public utilities commission, and filed in every depot, station, and office of such railroads where passengers or property are received for transportation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4909.29 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4909 / § 4909.29
§ 4909.29. Copies of orders to be supplied railroad
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Certified copies of all orders, other than those referred to in section 4909.28 of the Revised Code, of the public utilities commission shall be delivered to an officer or station agent of each railroad affected thereby, and shall take effect within such time thereafter as the commission prescribes.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4927.08 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4927 / § 4927.08
§ 4927.08. Basic local exchange service standards
Status: in_force

September 13, 2010 Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly (A) A telephone company providing basic local exchange service shall conduct its operations so as to ensure that the service is available, adequate, and reliable, consistent with applicable industry standards. (B) The public utilities commission shall adopt rules prescribing the following standards for the provision of basic local exchange service, and shall adopt no other rules regarding that service except as expressly authorized in this chapter: (1) Basic local exchange service shall be installed within five business days of the receipt by a telephone company of a completed application for that service. (2) A basic local exchange service outage or service-affecting problem shall be repaired within seventy-two hours after it is reported to the telephone company, and the telephone company shall make reasonable efforts to repair a basic local exchange service outage within twenty-four hours, excluding Sundays and legal holidays, after the outage is reported to the telephone company. (3)(a) Except as provided in division (B)(3)(b) of this section, if a basic local exchange service outage is reported to the telephone company and lasts more than seventy-two hours, the telephone company shall credit every affected customer, of which the telephone company is aware, in the amount of one month's charges for basic local exchange service. (b) If the outage is caused by a customer, the telephone company may elect not to credit that customer. (4) No telephone company shall establish a due date earlier than fourteen consecutive days after the date the bill is postmarked for a bill for basic local exchange service provided to end users. (5) A telephone company may disconnect basic local exchange service for nonpayment of any amount past due on a billed account not earlier than fourteen days after the due date of the customer's bill, provided that the customer is given notice of the disconnection seven days before the disconnection. (6) A telephone company may require a deposit, not to exceed two hundred thirty per cent of a reasonable estimate of one month's service charges, for the installation of basic local exchange service for any person that it determines, in its discretion, is not creditworthy. (7) A telephone company shall, unless prevented from doing so by circumstances beyond the telephone company's control or unless the customer requests otherwise, reconnect a customer whose basic local exchange service was disconnected for nonpayment of past due charges not later than one business day after the day the earlier of the following occurs: (a) The receipt by the telephone company of the full amount of past due charges; (b) The receipt by the telephone company of the first payment under a mutually agreed-upon payment arrangement. (C) The rules described in division (B) of this section shall provide for a waiver of the standards described in that division in circumstances determined appropriate by the commission.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4957.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4957 / § 4957.02
§ 4957.02. Resolution to alter or abolish
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly When it is deemed necessary by a municipal corporation or a county to join with any railroad company in the alteration or abolition of a grade or other crossing, the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, by a two-thirds vote of all the members elected to it, or the board of county commissioners of the county, by a unanimous vote, by resolution, shall declare such necessity and intent, and state in it the manner in which the alterations in the crossing are to be made, giving the method of constructing the new crossing with the grades for the railroad and public way, what land or other property it is necessary to appropriate and how the cost is to be apportioned between the municipal corporation or county and the railroad company, and by whom the work of construction is to be done and how its cost is to be apportioned between the municipal corporation or county and the railroad company. Such resolution shall be published and notice of its passage given to owners of property abutting on the proposed improvement, in the manner provided as to resolutions of a city legislative authority declaring the necessity of a contemplated public improvement. Claims for damages caused must be filed in the manner and within the time prescribed in such cases.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4955.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4955 / § 4955.05
§ 4955.05. Submission of question to electors
Status: in_force

July 2, 2010 House Bill 48 - 128th General Assembly The officials in charge of general elections, in accordance with the laws relating to elections, shall arrange for and conduct the submission of the question referred to in section 4955.04 of the Revised Code to the electors. The question whether the grant shall be made shall be submitted to the electors of such municipal corporation at the succeeding general election occurring more than ninety days after the expiration of the sixty days referred to in such section. The ballots at such election shall read "Elevated Railroad Grant--Yes;" "Elevated Railroad Grant--No." If at the election a majority of the votes cast on such question is against the grant, it shall be void.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4913.19 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4913 / § 4913.19
§ 4913.19. Request for administrative hearing
Status: in_force

March 23, 2015 Senate Bill 378 - 130th General Assembly In lieu of making a recommendation of a fine or penalty or a no-enforcement determination, the underground technical committee may request an administrative hearing with the public utilities commission if the committee believes that any person responsible for a compliance failure should be subject to a fine or penalty exceeding those described in section 4913.151 of the Revised Code. As a result of the hearing, the commission shall impose a fine or penalty or take no enforcement action.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4905.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4905 / § 4905.07
§ 4905.07. Information and records to be public
Status: in_force

September 17, 1996 House Bill 476 - 121st General Assembly Except as provided in section 149.43 of the Revised Code and as consistent with the purposes of Title XLIX of the Revised Code, all facts and information in the possession of the public utilities commission shall be public, and all reports, records, files, books, accounts, papers, and memorandums of every nature in its possession shall be open to inspection by interested parties or their attorneys.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4953.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4953 / § 4953.03
§ 4953.03. Recording - privileges
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The articles of incorporation referred to by section 4953.02 of the Revised Code shall be signed by the presidents in behalf of the railroad companies, with the corporate seals of the companies annexed to such articles, or by any number of persons, not less than five, a majority of whom are residents of this state, and shall be forwarded to the secretary of state, who shall record and preserve them in his office. A copy of such articles certified by the secretary of state, is evidence of the existence of such company. After such recording, the company may contract, sue and be sued, locate and acquire rights of way, grounds, and terminals, and appropriate so much land as it deems necessary for its depot, tracks, terminals, structures, and facilities, and shall have all the powers given to railroads by the laws of this state, for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, and operating its depot, tracks, terminals, structures, and facilities. Such company is not subject to sections 4953.13 to 4953.16 , inclusive, of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4957.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4957 / § 4957.06
§ 4957.06. Cost of maintenance of bridge borne by county or state
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly After the completion of the crossing alteration, the crossings and approaches shall be kept in repair as follows: (A) When the public way crosses a railroad, or railroad and interurban railroad, by an overhead bridge, the cost of maintenance must be borne by the county or the state as may be provided by law. (B) When the public way passes under a railroad, or railroad and interurban railroad, the bridge and its abutments shall be kept and maintained by the railroad company, or the railroad company and interurban railroad company, as the case may be, in such proportions as are fixed by agreement between the parties or, in the absence of such agreement, in such proportions as may be fixed by the court of common pleas of the county in which the improvement is located, and the public way and its approaches shall be maintained and kept in repair by the county in which they are situated or by the state as may be provided by law.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.6613 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.6613
§ 4928.6613. Effect of election to opt out
Status: in_force

September 12, 2014 Senate Bill 310 - 130th General Assembly Upon a customer's election to opt out under section 4928.6611 of the Revised Code and commencing on the effective date of the election to opt out, no account properly identified in the customer's verified notice under division (C) of section 4928.6612 of the Revised Code shall be subject to any cost recovery mechanism under section 4928.66 of the Revised Code or eligible to participate in, or directly benefit from, programs arising from electric distribution utility portfolio plans approved by the public utilities commission.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4973.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4973 / § 4973.12
§ 4973.12. Seats for conductor and motorman
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly No person or company shall operate in this state any electric or street railway car or interurban railroad car unless it is provided at all times during operation with seats for the motorman and conductor. A violation of this section constitutes a violation of it by the president, general manager, general superintendent, or other officer in charge of operation. An offense on any calendar day and as to any car is a separate and distinct offense from a violation on any other such day. The prosecuting attorneys of the various counties shall prosecute violations of this section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4907.44 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4907 / § 4907.44
§ 4907.44. Duty of commission as to dangerous structures
Status: in_force

June 11, 1968 Senate Bill 480 - 107th General Assembly A railroad subject to regulation by the public utilities commission shall, in accordance with American railway engineers association codes of rules for inspection or other standards approved by the public utilities commission, inspect annually every bridge used for transportation of freight, passengers, or railroad crews on which the railroad performs all or part of the structural maintenance work. Inspection shall be made or supervised by a professional engineer. If at any time a bridge is found to be dangerous or unfit for transportation of passengers, freight, or railroad crews, the railroad shall immediately report the condition of the bridge to the public utilities commission. When the bridge passes over a public highway, such report shall also be given to the public authority having jurisdiction over such highway. The railroad shall file the annual inspection report with the commission on forms furnished by the commission or in a form acceptable to the commission. The commission shall examine all inspection reports. If, as a result of examination of inspection reports, on complaint, or otherwise, the public utilities commission has reasonable grounds to believe that any of the tracks, bridges, or other structures of a railroad are in a condition which renders them dangerous or unfit for the transportation of passengers, freight, or railroad crews, it shall forthwith inspect and examine them. If the commission is of the opinion that such structures are unfit for the transportation of passengers, freight, or railroad crews with safety, it shall immediately give to the superintendent, or other executive officer of the company operating such railroad, notice of the condition thereof, and of the repairs or reconstruction necessary to place them in a safe condition. The commission shall prescribe the time within which such repairs or reconstruction must be made, and the rate of speed for trains passing over such dangerous or defective track, bridge, or other structure, until the repairs or reconstruction required are made. If of the opinion that it is needful and proper, the commission shall forbid the running of all trains over such defective track, bridge, or other structure.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4906.103 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4906 / § 4906.103
§ 4906.103. No power siting board certificate or amendment where limited
Status: in_force

October 11, 2021 Senate Bill 52 - 134th General Assembly If a board of county commissioners has adopted a resolution which limits the boundaries of the proposed utility facility to a smaller geographic area of the county, completely within what was proposed by the applicant, as described in section 303.62 of the Revised Code, the power siting board shall not grant a certificate or material amendment that includes an area outside of the geographic area approved by the board of county commissioners of the county in which the utility facility is to be located. Last updated July 23, 2021 at 4:51 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4905.09 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4905 / § 4905.09
§ 4905.09. Substantial compliance
Status: in_force

September 13, 2010 Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly A substantial compliance by the public utilities commission with the requirements of Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., 4923., and 4927. of the Revised Code is sufficient to give effect to all its rules and orders. Those rules and orders shall not be declared inoperative, illegal, or void for an omission of a technical nature. And, those chapters do not affect, modify, or repeal any law fixing the rate that a company operating a railroad may demand and receive for the transportation of passengers.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4905.43 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4905 / § 4905.43
§ 4905.43. Public utility in possession of receiver exempted
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Where a public utility or railroad was, on June 30, 1911, in the possession of one or more receivers or its property was under foreclosure, and a reorganization of such public utility or railroad was pending, any new company organized after such date to acquire such property or any part of it, is exempt from Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., 4923., and 4925. of the Revised Code with respect to the issue of bonds, stocks, and evidences of debt, but the total debts, obligations, and securities of such new or reorganized company exclusive of bonds, obligations, stocks, and other securities that may be issued or authorized for additional capital shall not exceed the debts, obligations, stocks, and other securities of the existing company. After its organization and the issue of such bonds, obligations, stocks, and other securities such chapters do apply to such new or reorganized company.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4925.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4925 / § 4925.05
§ 4925.05. Driver access to digital network; rider complaints
Status: in_force

March 23, 2016 House Bill 237 - 131st General Assembly (A)(1) A transportation network company shall prohibit any transportation network company driver from logging onto the transportation network company's digital network or providing transportation network company services while under the influence of any amount of alcohol or a drug of abuse. A transportation network company shall notify all drivers of this prohibition and shall provide notice of this policy on the digital network of the transportation network company. (2) As used in division (A)(1) of this section, "drug of abuse" has the same meaning as in section 4506.01 of the Revised Code. For purposes of this section, "drug of abuse" does not include any drug that was obtained pursuant to a prescription issued by a licensed health professional authorized to prescribe drugs if the drug is taken in accordance with the directions of the health professional and does not impair the ability of the person who took the drug to operate a motor vehicle. (B) A transportation network company shall establish a procedure by which a rider may report a complaint against a transportation network company driver for a violation of the company's prohibition established under division (A) of this section. The transportation network company shall provide information about the complaint procedure on the digital network of the transportation network company. Upon receiving a complaint alleging a violation of the prohibition established under division (A) of this section, a transportation network company shall immediately suspend the access of the driver accused of the violation to the transportation network company's digital network and shall conduct an investigation into the reported incident. (C) A transportation network company shall retain all complaints submitted under division (B) of this section, and all records related to the investigation of such a complaint, for a period of two years commencing on the date each complaint was filed.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.86 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.86
§ 4928.86. Heat maps
Status: in_force

September 30, 2025 House Bill 96 - 136th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, each public utility, as defined in section 4905.02 of the Revised Code, that owns or controls transmission facilities located in this state and is not a regional transmission organization shall create a heat map that includes both of the following: (1) For major transmission lines and substations, the additional power load the lines and substations can take at the time that the map is created, accounting for all signed electric service agreements; (2) The amount of localized generation that can be hosted on each transmission line. (B) If a heat map created under this section is not critical electric infrastructure information, then the utility that created the map shall publish the map on the utility's web site. Last updated August 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM Disclaimer Contact About
Ohio Rev. Code § 4955.46 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4955 / § 4955.46
§ 4955.46. Railroad quiet zones - governmental function - state liability - maintenance costs - funds
Status: in_force

November 18, 2004 House Bill 247 - 125th General Assembly (A) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the designation, establishment, design, construction, implementation, operation, repair, or maintenance of, or the lack of any of the preceding for, a public grade crossing included in a railroad quiet zone established pursuant to sections 4955.41 to 4955.47 of the Revised Code is a governmental function under section 2744.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Sections 9.85 to 9.87 and Chapter 2743. of the Revised Code specify the liability of this state or an officer or employee of this state with respect to a civil action brought for a violation of any provision of sections 4955.41 to 4955.47 of the Revised Code or any order issued under those sections. As used in this division, "state" has the same meaning as in section 2743.01 of the Revised Code, and "officer or employee" has the same meaning as in section 9.85 of the Revised Code. (C) Nothing in sections 4955.41 to 4955.47 of the Revised Code obligates or requires the payment by a railroad of any part of the costs of establishing or maintaining such a railroad quiet zone. (D) If, prior to the creation of a railroad quiet zone, a railroad is paying any part of the maintenance costs of a railroad grade crossing protective device then in existence at a railroad grade crossing located within the quiet zone, the railroad shall continue to pay those maintenance costs after the approval by the commission of the quiet zone, but the railroad is not required to pay any of the additional costs associated with the installation or maintenance of any protective device installed thereafter at the railroad grade crossing due to the creation of the quiet zone. (E) Except as provided in division (F) of this section, no money appropriated by the general assembly to pay the costs of measures taken to increase the safety of the traveling public at a public railroad grade crossing shall be diverted from such use after the effective date of this section to pay any of the costs associated with the establishment of a railroad quiet zone, including money in the grade crossing protection fund created by section 4907.472 of the Revised Code. (F) State grade crossing safety funds may be used to pay part of the costs of additional safety improvements required to establish a railroad quiet zone when the municipal corporation or township establishing the quiet zone complies with sections 4955.41 to 4955.47 of the Revised Code if either of the following circumstances exist: (1) The municipal corporation or township closes a public grade crossing in the same railroad corridor as the railroad quiet zone. (2) The department of transportation has selected the municipal corporation or township as a participant in the grade separation program along the same railroad corridor as the railroad quiet zone. (G) No political subdivision of the state may use state funds of any kind to assist in the planning, construction, development, operation, or maintenance of a railroad quiet zone unless the political subdivision acts in accordance with sections 4955.41 to 4955.47 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4963.03 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4963 / § 4963.03
§ 4963.03. Duty of public utilities commission
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly Upon the written complaint of ten or more citizens of this state being filed with the public utilities commission that section 4963.02 of the Revised Code is being violated the commission shall forthwith make investigation thereof. If it is found that such violation exists, it shall issue an order to the person, firm, or corporation guilty of such violation setting forth the nature of the improvement required and directing that it be completed within a time to be specified in such order. Any person, firm, or corporation failing to comply with such order or with this section or section 4963.02 of the Revised Code, upon conviction for such violation before a court of common pleas of the county in which such violation occurs, shall forfeit not less than one hundred dollars. Such forfeiture shall be recovered in a civil action in the name of the state for the benefit of the county in which the violation occurs. Such action shall be brought by the prosecuting attorney of the county, at the instance of the commission, as provided in other cases for the recovery of forfeitures against railroad companies.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4905.28 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4905 / § 4905.28
§ 4905.28. Standards of measurement
Status: in_force

October 26, 1953 House Bill 134 - 100th General Assembly The public utilities commission may ascertain and fix adequate and serviceable standards for the measurement of quality, pressure, initial voltage, or other conditions pertaining to the supply or quality of the product furnished or adequacy of service rendered by any public utility and may prescribe reasonable regulations for examination, testing, and measurement of such product or service. It may establish reasonable rules, regulations, specifications, and standards to secure the accuracy of all meters and appliances for measurements.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.2318 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.2318
§ 4928.2318. Assignee or financing party not considered an electric distribution utility
Status: in_force

March 22, 2012 House Bill 364 - 129th General Assembly An assignee or financing party shall not be considered an electric distribution utility or person providing electric service by virtue of engaging in the transactions described in sections 4928.23 to 4928.2313 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4969.12 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4969 / § 4969.12
§ 4969.12. Certain railroads may be sold at judicial sale
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly The real and personal property, roadbed, right of way, fixtures, and franchises of a railroad company in this state which has not completed, nor conveyed by deed of trust or mortage, any part of its railroad, and which is insolvent, and whose property is in the hands of a receiver appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction, may be sold at judicial sale, and title thereto, with all the rights, liberties, faculties, and franchises, shall pass by such sale, and vest in the purchaser thereof, as fully as they had been possessed, exercised, and enjoyed by such company.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4933.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4933 / § 4933.15
§ 4933.15. Right of entry - appropriation of property
Status: in_force

October 5, 1999 Senate Bill 3 - 123rd General Assembly For the purpose of making preliminary examinations and surveys, any company transmitting or distributing electricity in the state for public or private use may enter upon any land held by any individual or corporation, whether acquired by purchase, appropriation proceedings, or otherwise, unless such land is owned by and essential to the purposes of another corporation possessing the power of eminent domain. The company also may appropriate so much of such land, or any right or interest in the land, including any trees, edifices, or buildings on the land, as is deemed necessary for either of the following purposes: (A) The erection, operation, or maintenance of an electric plant, including its substations, switching stations, transmission and distribution lines, poles, towers, piers, conduits, cables, and wires and other necessary structures and appliances, but excluding its generating stations; (B) Rights-of-way over such land and adjacent lands for the purpose of access to any part of such land. The right of appropriation shall be exercised in the same manner provided by sections 163.01 to 163.22 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4913.05 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4913 / § 4913.05
§ 4913.05. Request for imposition of fine or penalty
Status: in_force

March 23, 2015 Senate Bill 378 - 130th General Assembly (A) Beginning January 1, 2016, an aggrieved person may request an inquiry with the staff of the public utilities commission seeking the imposition, in accordance with this chapter, of a fine or penalty on the person responsible for the alleged compliance failure described in division (A) of section 4913.01 of the Revised Code. The person shall make the request not later than ninety days after discovering the alleged compliance failure. The request shall not, by itself, cause the creation of a formal proceeding at the commission. (B) A request made under this section shall state, at a minimum and with particularity, the name of the person responsible for the alleged compliance failure, the date of the compliance failure, the nature of the compliance failure, the location of the compliance failure, and any other information that the requestor considers relevant. (C) The staff shall, not later than ten business days after receiving a request under this section, notify the person responsible for the alleged compliance failure that the request was made.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4903.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4903 / § 4903.01
§ 4903.01. Definitions
Status: in_force

September 13, 2010 Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly As used in sections 4903.01 to 4903.25 of the Revised Code: (A) "Public utility" has the same meaning as in section 4905.02 of the Revised Code. (B) "Railroad" has the same meaning as in section 4907.02 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4907.27 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4907 / § 4907.27
§ 4907.27. Changes in schedules
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly After schedules are filed as provided in sections 4907.25 and 4907.26 of the Revised Code, no change shall be made in any schedule, including a schedule of joint rates, or in any classification, except upon thirty days' notice to the public utilities commission. All such changes shall be plainly indicated upon existing schedules, or by filing new schedules thirty days prior to the time they are to take effect. The commission may, for good cause shown, allow changes upon less than the notice specified in this section, or modify the requirements of this section in respect to publishing, posting, and filing of tariffs, either in particular instances or by a general order applicable to special or peculiar circumstances or conditions. Copies of all new schedules shall be filed as provided in section 4907.26 of the Revised Code in every depot, station, and office of such railroad thirty days prior to the time they are to take effect, unless the commission prescribes a less time. When a change is made in an existing schedule, including schedules of joint rates, the railroad shall post a notice in a conspicuous place in every depot, station, and office, stating that changes have been made in the schedules on file, specifying the class or commodity affected, and stating the date when such changes will take effect.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4909.051 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4909 / § 4909.051
§ 4909.051. Definitions for sections 4909.052 to 4909.055
Status: in_force

April 5, 2019 House Bill 422 - 132nd General Assembly As used in sections 4909.052 to 4909.055 of the Revised Code: "Large water-works or sewage disposal system company" means a water-works or sewage disposal system company that has annual operating revenues of two hundred fifty thousand dollars or more. "Municipal water-works or sewage disposal system company" means any water-works or sewage disposal system company owned or operated by a political subdivision defined in section 6119.011 of the Revised Code or by a municipal corporation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.041 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.041
§ 4928.041. Competitive retail electric service from electric utility prohibited
Status: in_force

August 14, 2025 House Bill 15 - 136th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in sections 4928.141 and 4928.142 of the Revised Code, no electric utility shall provide a competitive retail electric service in this state if that service was deemed competitive or otherwise legally classified as competitive prior to the effective date of this section. (B) The standard service offer under section 4928.141 of the Revised Code shall continue to be provided to consumers in this state by electric utilities. Last updated July 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4973.17 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4973 / § 4973.17
§ 4973.17. Commissions for special police officers - term of office - training
Status: in_force

March 2, 2026 House Bill 23 - 136th General Assembly (A)(1)(a) Upon the application of any bank; savings and loan association; savings bank; credit union; or association of banks, savings and loan associations, savings banks, or credit unions in this state, the secretary of state may appoint and commission any persons that the bank; savings and loan association; savings bank; credit union; or association of banks, savings and loan associations, savings banks, or credit unions designates, or as many of those persons as the secretary of state considers proper, to act as police officers for and on the premises of that bank; savings and loan association; savings bank; credit union; or association of banks, savings and loan associations, savings banks, or credit unions; or elsewhere, when directly in the discharge of their duties. (b) Upon the application of any prior parent company of a bank, the secretary of state may appoint and commission any persons that the prior parent company of a bank designates, or as many of those persons as the secretary of state deems proper, to act as police officers for and on the premises of the bank; savings and loan association; savings bank; credit union; or association of banks, savings and loan associations, savings banks, or credit unions that the prior parent company of the bank previously had a controlling interest in; or elsewhere, when directly in the discharge of their duties. (2) Police officers so appointed shall be citizens of this state and of good character. Police officers so appointed who start to perform their duties on or after April 14, 2006, shall successfully complete a training program approved by the Ohio peace officer training commission described in section 109.71 of the Revised Code and be certified by the commission within six months after starting to perform their duties. Police officers so appointed shall hold office for three years, unless, for good cause shown, their commission is revoked by the secretary of state, or by the bank; savings and loan association; savings bank; credit union; association of banks, savings and loan associations, savings banks, or credit unions; or the prior parent company of a bank, as provided by law. (3) Persons commissioned as police officers pursuant to division (A) of this section prior to April 14, 2006, who have not successfully completed a training program approved by the Ohio peace officer training commission, and who have not been certified by the commission, may be reappointed and re-commissioned by the secretary of state only during the person's continuous employment as a police officer by the institution for which the person was employed on April 14, 2006, or by a successor institution to the institution for which the person was employed on April 14, 2006. The secretary of state shall note on such appointments and commissions that the person is not a peace officer as defined in section 109.71 of the Revised Code. (4) For the exclusive purpose of assigning break in service update training as prescribed in rule 109:2-1-12 (D) of the Administrative Code, a police officer appointed under division (A) of this section, who began performing police officer duties on or before April 14, 2006, shall be credited as holding a valid peace officer appointment retroactive to the date on which the officer began performing these duties. (5) As used in division (A) of this section, "prior parent company of a bank" means all of the following: (a) A company that previously had a controlling interest in a bank; savings and loan association; savings bank; credit union; or association of banks, savings and loan associations, savings banks, or credit unions in this state; (b) A company that has sold, divested, or otherwise dissolved the company's controlling interest in that bank; savings and loan association; savings bank; credit union; or association of banks, savings and loan associations, savings banks, or credit unions in this state; (c) A company that had persons appointed and commissioned as police officers pursuant to division (A) of this section at that bank; savings and loan association; savings bank; credit union; or association of banks, savings and loan associations, savings banks, or credit unions in this state for at least three years prior to the date that the company sold, divested, or otherwise dissolved the company's controlling interest in that bank; savings and loan association; savings bank; credit union; or association of banks, savings and loan associations, savings banks, or credit unions in this state. (B) Upon the application of a company owning or using a railroad in this state and subject to section 4973.171 of the Revised Code, the secretary of state may appoint and commission any persons that the railroad company designates, or as many of those persons as the secretary of state considers proper, to act as police officers for and on the premises of the railroad company, its affiliates or subsidiaries, or elsewhere, when directly in the discharge of their duties. Police officers so appointed, within the time set by the Ohio peace officer training commission, shall successfully complete a commission approved training program and be certified by the commission. They shall hold office for three years, unless, for good cause shown, their commission is revoked by the secretary of state, or railroad company, as provided by law. Any person holding a similar commission in another state may be commissioned and may hold office in this state without completing the approved training program required by this division provided that the person has completed a substantially equivalent training program in the other state. The Ohio peace officer training commission shall determine whether a training program in another state meets the requirements of this division. (C) Upon the application of any company under contract with the United States atomic energy commission for the construction or operation of a plant at a site owned by the commission, the secretary of state may appoint and commission persons the company designates, not to exceed one hundred fifty, to act as police officers for the company at the plant or site owned by the commission. Police officers so appointed shall be citizens of this state and of good character. They shall hold office for three years, unless, for good cause shown, their commission is revoked by the secretary of state or by the company, as provided by law. (D)(1) Upon the application of any hospital that employs and maintains its own proprietary police department or security department and that satisfies division (D)(1)(a) or (b) of this section and subject to section 4973.171 of the Revised Code, the secretary of state may appoint and commission any persons that the hospital designates, or as many of those persons as the secretary of state considers proper, to act as police officers for the hospital. A hospital described in this division must satisfy either of the following conditions: (a) Be operated by a public hospital agency or nonprofit hospital agency; (b) Be a for-profit hospital that, before converting to for-profit status, was operated by a nonprofit hospital agency employing police officers appointed under this division. (2) No person who is appointed as a police officer under division (D)(1) of this section shall engage in any duties or activities as a police officer for the hospital or any affiliate or subsidiary of the hospital unless all of the following apply: (a) The chief of police of the municipal corporation in which the hospital is located or, if the hospital is located in the unincorporated area of a county, the sheriff of that county has granted approval to the hospital to permit persons appointed as police officers under division (D)(1) of this section to engage in those duties and activities. The approval required by this division is general in nature and is intended to cover in the aggregate all persons appointed as police officers for the hospital under division (D)(1) of this section; a separate approval is not required for each appointee on an individual basis. (b) Subsequent to the grant of approval described in division (D)(2)(a) of this section, the hospital has entered into a written agreement with the chief of police of the municipal corporation in which the hospital is located or, if the hospital is located in the unincorporated area of a county, with the sheriff of that county, that sets forth the standards and criteria to govern the interaction and cooperation between persons appointed as police officers for the hospital under division (D)(1) of this section and law enforcement officers serving the agency represented by the chief of police or sheriff who signed the agreement in areas of their concurrent jurisdiction. The written agreement shall be signed by the appointing authority of the hospital and by the chief of police or sheriff. The standards and criteria may include, but are not limited to, provisions governing the reporting of offenses discovered by hospital police officers to the agency represented by the chief of police or sheriff, provisions governing investigatory responsibilities relative to offenses committed on hospital property, and provisions governing the processing and confinement of persons arrested for offenses committed on hospital property. The agreement required by this division is intended to apply in the aggregate to all persons appointed as police officers for the hospital under this division; a separate agreement is not required for each appointee on an individual basis. (c) The person has successfully completed a training program approved by the Ohio peace officer training commission and has been certified by the commission. A person appointed as a police officer under division (D)(1) of this section may attend a training program approved by the commission and be certified by the commission regardless of whether the appropriate chief of police or sheriff has granted the approval described in division (D)(2)(a) of this section and regardless of whether the hospital has entered into the written agreement described in division (D)(2)(b) of this section with the appropriate chief of police or sheriff. (3)(a) A person who is appointed as a police officer under division (D)(1) of this section is entitled, upon the grant of approval described in division (D)(2)(a) of this section and upon the person's and the hospital's compliance with the requirements of divisions (D)(2)(b) and (c) of this section, to act as a police officer for the hospital on the premises of the hospital and of its affiliates and subsidiaries that are within the territory of the municipal corporation served by the chief of police or the unincorporated area of the county served by the sheriff who signed the written agreement described in division (D)(2)(b) of this section, whichever is applicable, and anywhere else within the territory of that municipal corporation or within the unincorporated area of that county. The authority to act as a police officer as described in this division is granted only if the person, when engaging in that activity, is directly in the discharge of the person's duties as a police officer for the hospital. The authority to act as a police officer as described in this division shall be exercised in accordance with the standards and criteria set forth in the written agreement described in division (D)(2)(b) of this section. (b) Additionally, a person appointed as a police officer under division (D)(1) of this section is entitled, upon the grant of approval described in division (D)(2)(a) of this section and upon the person's and the hospital's compliance with the requirements of divisions (D)(2)(b) and (c) of this section, to act as a police officer elsewhere, within the territory of a municipal corporation or within the unincorporated area of a county, if the chief of police of that municipal corporation or the sheriff of that county, respectively, has granted approval for that activity to the hospital, police department, or security department served by the person as a police officer and if the person, when engaging in that activity, is directly in the discharge of the person's duties as a police officer for the hospital. The approval described in this division may be general in nature or may be limited in scope, duration, or applicability, as determined by the chief of police or sheriff granting the approval. (4) Police officers appointed under division (D)(1) of this section shall hold office for three years, unless, for good cause shown, their commission is revoked by the secretary of state or by the hospital, as provided by law. (5) Notwithstanding section 2744.02 of the Revised Code, the municipal corporation in which the hospital is located or, if the hospital is located in the unincorporated area of a county, the county is immune from civil or criminal liability in any action brought under the laws of this state if all of the following apply: (a) The action arises out of the actions of a police officer appointed under division (D)(1) of this section. (b) The actions of the police officer are directly in the discharge of the person's duties as a police officer for the hospital. (c) The actions of the police officer occur on the premises of the hospital or its affiliates or subsidiaries that are within the territory of the municipal corporation served by the chief of police or the unincorporated area of the county served by the sheriff who signed the agreement described in division (D)(2)(b) of this section, whichever is applicable, or anywhere else within the territory of that municipal corporation or within the unincorporated area of that county. (6) A court's finding of tort liability of any public hospital agency, nonprofit hospital agency, or for-profit hospital for any actions of a police officer appointed for the applicable hospital agency or for-profit hospital under division (D)(1) of this section is not subject to apportionment of tort liability under sections 2307.22 and 2307.23 of the Revised Code with the municipal corporation or the county in which a written agreement as described in division (D)(2)(b) of this section is in effect. (7) Nothing in division (D)(5) of this section shall be construed as granting immunity from civil or criminal liability for any actions occurring on the premises of any hospital operated by a public hospital agency or nonprofit hospital agency, on the premises of any for-profit hospital, or on the premises of that hospital's affiliate or subsidiary to any of the following: (a) Any police officer appointed under division (D)(1) of this section; (b) Any hospital that applied for the appointment of any police officer under division (D)(1) of this section, or any affiliate or subsidiary of the hospital; (c) Any other police or security officer who is employed by, or whose services are utilized by, any hospital operated by a public hospital agency or a nonprofit hospital agency, any for-profit hospital, or any affiliate or subsidiary of the hospital; (d) Any entity that supplies the services of police or security officers to any hospital operated by a public hospital agency or a nonprofit hospital agency, any for-profit hospital, or any affiliate or subsidiary of the hospital. (8) As used in division (D) of this section: (a) "Public hospital agency" and "nonprofit hospital agency" have the same meanings as in section 140.01 of the Revised Code. (b) "Tort liability" means the liability of a party as determined by a court in a tort action as defined in section 2307.011 of the Revised Code. (E)(1) Upon the application of any owner or operator of an amusement park that has an average yearly attendance in excess of six hundred thousand guests and that employs and maintains its own proprietary police department or security department and subject to section 4973.171 of the Revised Code, any judge of the municipal court or county court that has territorial jurisdiction over the amusement park may appoint and commission any persons that the owner or operator designates, or as many of those persons as the judge considers proper, to act as police officers for the amusement park. If the amusement park is located in more than one county, any judge of the municipal court or county court of any of those counties may make the appointments and commissions as described in this division. No person who is appointed as a police officer under this division shall engage in any duties or activities as a police officer for the amusement park or any affiliate or subsidiary of the owner or operator of the amusement park unless all of the following apply: (a) The appropriate chief or chiefs of police of the political subdivision or subdivisions in which the amusement park is located as specified in this division have granted approval to the owner or operator of the amusement park to permit persons appointed as police officers under this division to engage in those duties and activities. If the amusement park is located in a single municipal corporation or a single township, the chief of police of that municipal corporation or township is the appropriate chief of police for the grant of approval under this division. If the amusement park is located in two or more townships, two or more municipal corporations, or one or more townships and one or more municipal corporations, the chiefs of police of all of the affected townships and municipal corporations are the appropriate chiefs of police for the grant of approval under this division, and the approval must be jointly granted by all of those chiefs of police. The approval required by this division is general in nature and is intended to cover in the aggregate all persons appointed as police officers for the amusement park under this division. A separate approval is not required for each appointee on an individual basis. (b) Subsequent to the grant of approval described in division (E)(1)(a) of this section, the owner or operator has entered into a written agreement with the appropriate chief or chiefs of police of the political subdivision or subdivisions in which the amusement park is located as specified in this division and has provided the sheriff of the county in which the political subdivision or subdivisions are located with a copy of the agreement. If the amusement park is located in a single municipal corporation or a single township, the chief of police of that municipal corporation or township is the appropriate chief of police for entering into the written agreement under this division. If the amusement park is located in two or more townships, two or more municipal corporations, or one or more townships and one or more municipal corporations, the chiefs of police of all of the affected townships and municipal corporations are the appropriate chiefs of police for entering into the written agreement under this division, and the written agreement must be jointly entered into by all of those chiefs of police. The written agreement between the owner or operator and the chief or chiefs of police shall address the scope of activities, the duration of the agreement, and mutual aid arrangements and shall set forth the standards and criteria to govern the interaction and cooperation between persons appointed as police officers for the amusement park under this division and law enforcement officers serving the agency represented by the chief of police who signed the agreement. The written agreement shall be signed by the owner or operator and by the chief or chiefs of police who enter into it. The standards and criteria may include, but are not limited to, provisions governing the reporting of offenses discovered by the amusement park's police officers to the agency represented by the chief of police of the municipal corporation or township in which the offense occurred, provisions governing investigatory responsibilities relative to offenses committed on amusement park property, and provisions governing the processing and confinement of persons arrested for offenses committed on amusement park property. The agreement required by this division is intended to apply in the aggregate to all persons appointed as police officers for the amusement park under this division. A separate agreement is not required for each appointee on an individual basis. (c) The person has successfully completed a training program approved by the Ohio peace officer training commission and has been certified by the commission. A person appointed as a police officer under this division may attend a training program approved by the commission and be certified by the commission regardless of whether the appropriate chief of police has granted the approval described in division (E)(1)(a) of this section and regardless of whether the owner or operator of the amusement park has entered into the written agreement described in division (E)(1)(b) of this section with the appropriate chief of police. (2)(a) A person who is appointed as a police officer under division (E)(1) of this section is entitled, upon the grant of approval described in section (E)(1)(a) of this section and upon the person's and the owner or operator's compliance with the requirements of division (E)(1)(b) and (c) of this section, to act as a police officer for the amusement park and its affiliates and subsidiaries that are within the territory of the political subdivision or subdivisions served by the chief of police, or respective chiefs of police, who signed the written agreement described in division (E)(1)(b) of this section, and upon any contiguous real property of the amusement park that is covered by the written agreement, whether within or adjacent to the political subdivision or subdivisions. The authority to act as a police officer as described in this division is granted only if the person, when engaging in that activity, is directly in the discharge of the person's duties as a police officer for the amusement park. The authority to act as a police officer as described in this division shall be exercised in accordance with the standards and criteria set forth in the written agreement described in division (E)(1)(b) of this section. (b) In addition to the authority granted under division (E)(2)(a) of this section, a person appointed as a police officer under division (E)(1) of this section is entitled, upon the grant of approval described in division (E)(1)(a) of this section and upon the person's and the owner or operator's compliance with the requirements of divisions (E)(1)(b) and (c) of this section, to act as a police officer elsewhere within the territory of a municipal corporation or township if the chief of police of that municipal corporation or township has granted approval for that activity to the owner or operator served by the person as a police officer and if the person, when engaging in that activity, is directly in the discharge of the person's duties as a police officer for the amusement park. The approval described in this division may be general in nature or may be limited in scope, duration, or applicability, as determined by the chief of police granting the approval. (3) Police officers appointed under division (E)(1) of this section shall hold office for five years, unless, for good cause shown, their commission is revoked by the appointing judge or the judge's successor or by the owner or operator, as provided by law. (F) A fee of fifteen dollars for each commission applied for under this section shall be paid at the time the application is made, and this amount shall be returned if for any reason a commission is not issued. Last updated December 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Ohio Rev. Code § 4999.01 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4999 / § 4999.01
§ 4999.01. Drawing, driving, or moving vehicle on railroad track
Status: in_force

March 15, 1993 House Bill 667 - 119th General Assembly No person shall draw, drive, or cause to be moved any vehicle on or between the rails or tracks or on or along the graded roadway of a railroad without the knowledge and consent of the owner or controller of such railroad, unless compelled by necessity to do so. Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4999.02 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4999 / § 4999.02
§ 4999.02. Climbing upon railroad cars
Status: in_force

March 15, 1993 House Bill 667 - 119th General Assembly No person shall climb, jump, step, or stand upon, or cling or attach himself to, a locomotive, engine, or car upon the track of a railroad, unless in compliance with law or by permission under the rules of the corporation managing such railroad. Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4901.21 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4901 / § 4901.21
§ 4901.21. Employment of Ohio state university engineers and experts
Status: in_force

October 1, 1953 House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly In the employment of engineers, experts, or other assistants the public utilities commission may make use of engineers and experts employed in the Ohio state university in such manner as is provided by mutual arrangement between the commission and the trustees and faculty of such university. Any information, data, and equipment of such university shall be placed at the disposal of the commission.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4981.34 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4981 / § 4981.34
§ 4981.34. Issuing bonds
Status: in_force

June 30, 1997 House Bill 210 - 122nd General Assembly (A) On behalf of a franchisee and pursuant to section 4981.15 of the Revised Code, the Ohio rail development commission may issue bonds for loans to finance development and construction of a franchisee's portion of a rail system. Any bonds issued pursuant to this section do not, and shall state that they do not, represent or constitute a debt or pledge of the faith and credit of the state, nor do such bonds grant to the bondholders or noteholders any right to have the general assembly levy any taxes or appropriate any funds for the payment of the principal or interest thereon. Such bonds shall be payable solely from the loan repayments the commission receives from the franchisee to which the loan was made. The loan repayments shall be made from revenues that the franchisee receives from the operation of its portion of the rail system and that shall be pledged to repay the commission, or from such other credit sources as the franchisee may arrange. (B) The portion of the rail system awarded to a franchisee, any elements thereof, or the land upon which a franchise is situated may be owned by the franchisee or owned by the commission and leased to the franchisee for the term of the franchise. (C) The rail system may be financed partially by the commission and partially by franchisees. With respect to that portion of the rail system financed by the commission, the commission may utilize all of the bonding and financial authority contained in sections 4981.01 to 4981.26 of the Revised Code and also may seek to obtain state funding or federal financing on behalf of the rail system. Commission financing, credit support, and financial assistance may not be commingled with private financing obtained by the franchisee, and any moneys of the commission to be expended by the commission to finance a portion of a rail system shall be kept in accounts that are separate and apart from and not a part of the accounts in which are kept any moneys to be expended by a franchisee to finance its portion of a rail system. (D) The franchisee may arrange financing and refinancing of the system through any combination of debt, equity, and public sources available to it that it determines in its sole discretion. A franchisee shall not be precluded from utilizing any type of public or private assistance available to it in connection with the development of its franchise. A franchisee shall furnish the commission all relevant and necessary information with respect to financing terms to enable the commission to exercise its oversight responsibilities with respect to the franchisee's reasonable return on its investment. (E) When requested by a franchisee, the commission shall seek from the office of budget and management an allotment of proceeds from the issuance of private activity bonds. The commission shall distribute those proceeds to franchisees in such proportions and amounts as it determines in its discretion. (F)(1) The commission may levy and collect special assessments upon all parcels of real property, other than real property owned by a railroad corporation, in the immediate vicinity of any rail system station or terminal of the commission or a franchisee, including, without limitation, parcels that abut, are adjacent or contiguous to, or otherwise increase in value due to the existence of, the station or terminal. An assessment levied under this division shall be for the purpose of enabling the commission to collect a portion of the increase in the true value in money of any such parcel of property subsequent to the commencement of operation of a rail system station or terminal. All assessments shall be applied, directly or indirectly, to the development and financing of the portion of the rail system of which the station or terminal is a part. (2) Upon written request of the commission, the county auditor of a county in which a rail system station or terminal commences operation shall assess each parcel of real property that is located in the immediate vicinity of the station or terminal and that the commission has reasonable cause to believe has increased in true value in money because of the existence of the station or terminal. The county auditor shall utilize appropriate assessment techniques specified in rules adopted by the tax commissioner pursuant to Chapter 5713. of the Revised Code to determine the increase in true value, if any, of the real property. Any increase shall be measured by comparing the true value of the real property in the year in which the commission adopted the resolution designating the location of the station or terminal, as reflected on the tax list for that year, with the highest true value of the real property as of the month in which rail system operations commenced at the station or terminal. The county auditor shall then determine what percentage of the true value increase, if any, is directly attributable to the existence of and commencement of operations at the station or terminal. The county auditor shall convert the percentage increase to an amount certain, and certify the results of the assessments to the commission. Within thirty days after receipt of the certified results, the commission shall reimburse the county auditor for the actual cost to the auditor of making the assessments. (3) In no case shall any special assessment levied by the commission upon a parcel of real property exceed twenty per cent of the increase in the true value of the property that the county auditor certifies to the commission as being directly attributable to the existence of and commencement of operations at the station or terminal. A special assessment shall constitute a lien against the property and shall be added to the tax list and duplicate for collection. Payments on the special assessment shall be made semiannually at the same time as real property taxes are required to be paid, but upon written request of the owner of the real property assessed, the county auditor may permit the owner to pay the assessment in equal installments over a period of not longer than ten years. (4) An owner of real property upon which a special assessment is levied under this section may file a petition in the court of common pleas of the county in which the real property is located challenging any aspect of the assessment, including the fact of the special assessment itself or the amount. The filing of such a petition shall stay the collection of any part of the special assessment, and collection shall not commence until a decision on the merits is rendered by the court. (G) Nothing in this section shall be construed as limiting the power of the commission to issue bonds pursuant to section 4981.15 of the Revised Code for the purposes stated in that section.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4905.302 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4905 / § 4905.302
§ 4905.302. Purchased gas adjustment clause
Status: in_force

September 9, 2011 House Bill 95 - 129th General Assembly (A)(1) For the purpose of this section, the term "purchased gas adjustment clause" means: (a) A provision in a schedule of a gas company or natural gas company that requires or allows the company to, without adherence to section 4909.18 or 4909.19 of the Revised Code, adjust the rates that it charges to its customers in accordance with any fluctuation in the cost to the company of obtaining the gas that it sells, that has occurred since the time any order has been issued by the public utilities commission establishing rates for the company pertaining to those customers; (b) A provision in an ordinance adopted pursuant to section 743.26 or 4909.34 of the Revised Code or Section 4 of Article XVIII, Ohio Constitution, with respect to which a gas company or natural gas company is required or allowed to adjust the rates it charges under such an ordinance in accordance with any fluctuation in the cost to the company of obtaining the gas that it sells, that has occurred since the time of the adoption of the ordinance. (2) For the purpose of this section, the term "special purchase" means any purchase of interstate natural gas, any purchase of liquefied natural gas, and any purchase of synthetic natural gas from any source developed after the effective date of this section, April 27, 1976, provided that this purchase be of less than one hundred twenty days duration and the price for this purchase is not regulated by the federal power commission. For the purpose of this division, the expansion or enlargement of a synthetic natural gas plant existing at such date shall be considered a source so developed. (3) For the purpose of this section, the term "residential customer" means urban, suburban, and rural patrons of gas companies and natural gas companies insofar as their needs for gas are limited to their residence. Such term includes those patrons whose rates have been set under an ordinance adopted pursuant to sections 743.26 and 4909.34 of the Revised Code or Section 4 of Article XVIII, Ohio Constitution. (B) A purchased gas adjustment clause may not allow, and no such clause may be interpreted to allow, a gas company or natural gas company that has obtained an order from the public utilities commission permitting the company to curtail the service of any customer or class of customers other than residential customers, such order being based on the company's inability to secure a sufficient quantity of natural gas, to distribute the cost of any special purchase made subsequent to the effective date of such order, to the extent that such purchase decreases the level of curtailment of any such customer or class of customers, to any class of customers of the company that was not curtailed, to any class of residential customers of the company, or to any class of customers of the company whose level of curtailment was not decreased and whose consumption increased as a result of, or in connection with, the special purchase. (C)(1) The commission shall promulgate a purchased gas adjustment rule, consistent with this section, that establishes a uniform purchased gas adjustment clause to be included in the schedule of gas companies and natural gas companies subject to the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission and that establishes investigative procedures and proceedings including, but not limited to, periodic reports, audits, and hearings. (2) The commission shall not require that a management or performance audit pertaining to the purchased gas adjustment clause of a gas or natural gas company, or a hearing related to such an audit, be conducted more frequently than once every three years. Any such management or performance audit and any such hearing shall be strictly limited to the gas or natural gas company's gas or natural gas production and purchasing policies. No such management or performance audit and no such hearing shall extend in scope beyond matters that are necessary to determine the following: (a) That the gas or natural gas company's purchasing policies are designed to meet the company's service requirements; (b) That the gas or natural gas company's procurement planning is sufficient to reasonably ensure reliable service at optimal prices and consistent with the company's long-term strategic supply plan; (c) That the gas or natural gas company has reviewed existing and potential supply sources ; (3) Unless otherwise ordered by the commission for good cause shown and except as provided in division (D) of this section: (a) The commission's staff shall conduct any audit or other investigation of a natural gas company having fifteen thousand or fewer customers in this state that may be required under the purchased gas adjustment rule. (b) Except as provided in section 4905.10 of the Revised Code, the commission shall not impose upon such company any fee, expense, or cost of such audit or other investigation or any related hearing under this section. (4) Unless otherwise ordered by the commission for good cause shown either by an interested party or by the commission on its own motion, no natural gas company having fifteen thousand or fewer customers in this state shall be subject under the purchased gas adjustment rule to any audit or other investigation or any related hearing, other than a financial audit or, as necessary, any hearing related to a financial audit. (5) In issuing an order under division (C)(3) or (4) of this section, the commission shall file a written opinion setting forth the reasons showing good cause under such division and the specific matters to be audited, investigated, or subjected to hearing. Nothing in division (C)(3) or (4) of this section relieves such a natural gas company from the duty to file such information as the commission may require under the rule for the purpose of showing that a company has charged its customers accurately for the cost of gas obtained. (D) A natural gas company that does not sell natural gas under a purchased gas adjustment clause shall not be subject to this section. (E) Nothing in this section or any other provision of law shall be construed to mean that the commission, in the event of any cost distribution allowed under this section, may issue an order pursuant to which the prudent and reasonable cost of gas to a gas company or natural gas company of any special purchase may not be recovered by the company. For the purpose of this division, such cost of gas neither includes any applicable franchise taxes nor the ordinary losses of gas experienced by the company in the process of transmission and distribution. (F) The commission shall not at any time prevent or restrain such costs as are distributable under this section from being so distributed, unless the commission has reason to believe that an arithmetic or accounting inaccuracy exists with respect to such a distribution or that the company has not accurately represented the amount of the cost of a special purchase, or has followed imprudent or unreasonable procurement policies and practices, has made errors in the estimation of cubic feet sold, or has employed such other practices, policies, or factors as the commission considers inappropriate. (G) The cost of natural gas under this section shall not include any cost recovered by a natural gas company pursuant to section 4929.25 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4961.07 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4961 / § 4961.07
§ 4961.07. Route may be changed
Status: in_force

October 11, 1955 House Bill 70 - 101st General Assembly When a railroad company, the line of whose railroad has not been finally located in whole or in part, finds it necessary, in order to avoid dangerous or difficult curves, grades, or dangerous or unsubstantial grounds or foundations, or for other reasonable cause, to pass through a county not named in the articles of incorporation, or to avoid passing into or through a county named in them, other than a county in which a terminus of the railroad has been fixed by its articles of incorporation, or in which is located a municipal corporation or place by or through which the line of such railroad is to pass, its president and board of directors, or a majority of such board, under their hands and seals, may make a certificate declaring such necessity and the cause thereof, and name in it the counties through which it is necessary to pass or to avoid, which certificate shall be signed and filed as provided in section 1701.73 of the Revised Code. A copy of the certificate, certified by the secretary of state is evidence of the facts stated in such certificate. This section does not authorize the abandonment of any part of the company's line of railroad which is finally located, or a change of the general route of the line of such railroad or the terminal points named in the articles of incorporation.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4928.15 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4928 / § 4928.15
§ 4928.15. Schedules for provision of noncompetitive service
Status: in_force

October 5, 1999 Senate Bill 3 - 123rd General Assembly (A) Except as otherwise provided in sections 4928.31 to 4928.40 of the Revised Code, no electric utility shall supply noncompetitive retail electric distribution service in this state on or after the starting date of competitive retail electric service except pursuant to a schedule for that service that is consistent with the state policy specified in section 4928.02 of the Revised Code and filed with the public utilities commission under section 4909.18 of the Revised Code. The schedule shall provide that electric distribution service under the schedule is available to all consumers within the utility's certified territory and to any supplier to those consumers on a nondiscriminatory and comparable basis. Distribution service rates and charges under the schedule shall be established in accordance with Chapters 4905. and 4909. of the Revised Code. The schedule 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. (B) Except as otherwise provided in sections 4928.31 to 4928.40 of the Revised Code and except as preempted by federal law, no electric utility shall supply the transmission service or ancillary service component of noncompetitive retail electric service in this state on or after the starting date of competitive retail electric service except pursuant to a schedule for that service component that is consistent with the state policy specified in section 4928.02 of the Revised Code and filed with the commission under section 4909.18 of the Revised Code. The schedule shall provide that transmission or ancillary service under the schedule is available to all consumers and to any supplier to those consumers on a nondiscriminatory and comparable basis. Service rates and charges under the schedule shall be established in accordance with Chapters 4905. and 4909. of the Revised Code. (C) A self-generator shall have access to backup electricity supply from its competitive electric generation service provider at a rate to be determined by contract.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4925.06 — Ohio Revised Code / Title 49 / Chapter 4925 / § 4925.06
§ 4925.06. Nondiscrimination policies
Status: in_force

March 23, 2016 House Bill 237 - 131st General Assembly (A) No transportation network company driver shall fail to comply with the nondiscrimination policy of a transportation network company for which the driver provides transportation network services if such a policy has been established or with any applicable law regarding nondiscrimination or the accommodation of service animals. (B) No transportation network company shall charge any additional fee for providing transportation network company services to a person with a disability on the basis of the disability. (C) A transportation network company shall provide an option on the digital network of the transportation network company for a potential rider to request a wheelchair-accessible vehicle. If the transportation network company cannot arrange such a service for a potential rider who requests a wheelchair-accessible vehicle, the transportation network company shall direct the potential rider to another provider if possible.