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[Cite as State ex rel. Morrison v. Beck Energy Corp., 2013-Ohio-356.]
STATE OF OHIO ex rel. JACK
MORRISON, JR., LAW DIRECTOR
CITY OF MUNROE FALLS, OHIO, et al.,
CASE NO. 25953
BECK ENERGY CORPORATION, et al.,
Civil Appeal from the Summit County Court of Common Pleas, Case No. CV2011-04-
Thomas Saxer and Scott E. Mullaney, Amer Cunningham Co., LPA, Sixth Floor,
Society Building, 159 South Main Street, Suite 1100, Akron, OH 44308-1322 (For
Plaintiffs-Appellees).
John W. Solomon, Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, 106 South Main Street,
Suite 1100, Akron, OH 44308, and John K. Keller and Robert J. Krummen, Vorys,
Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP, 52 East Gay Street, P. O. Box 1008, Columbus, OH
43216-10008 (For Defendants-Appellants).
MARY JANE TRAPP, J., Eleventh Appellate District, sitting by assignment.
{¶1} Beck Energy Corporation secured a permit from Ohio’s Department of
Natural Resources to drill on Joseph Willingham’s property located in the City of Munroe
Falls, Ohio. When Beck Energy began drilling on the property, the city issued a Stop
Work Order and filed a complaint in the Summit County Court of Common Pleas for an
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injunction to stop Beck Energy from drilling. The city claimed Beck Energy did not
comply with its ordinances requiring permits for drilling, zoning, and rights-of-way
construction. The trial court granted the injunctive relief sought by the city and Beck
Energy and Mr. Willingham brought this appeal.
{¶2} On appeal, the question to be answered is whether the City of Munroe
Falls can enforce its ordinances governing oil and gas drilling and related zoning and
rights-of-way issues despite the state’s comprehensive statutory scheme for drilling set
forth in R.C. Chapter 1509. This appears to be an issue of first impression.
{¶3} In 2004, the General Assembly enacted statutes granting exclusive
regulation over oil and gas wells in Ohio to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
While we recognize that gas and oil drilling brings economic benefits to the entire state,
we also recognize that the burden of potential risk and harm, especially to a local area’s
infrastructure, is borne by the local residents in the wells’ immediate surroundings. But
our role is not to make policy decisions and re-write either state law and regulations or
local zoning ordinances; we are compelled to follow the established law in our
application of the constitutional home-rule analysis to Monroe Falls’ drilling ordinances.
Because the drilling ordinances are in direct conflict with the state statutes, the city
cannot enforce the ordinances as presently written. The city, however, is permitted to
enforce pertinent right-of-way ordinances in the face of the drilling activities, provided
these ordinances are not enforced in a discriminatory manner against oil and gas well
1. All the judges from the Ninth District Court of Appeals recused themselves from the case. The instant
panel from the Eleventh District Court of Appeals sits by assignment.
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Substantive Facts and Procedural History
{¶4} Mr. Willingham leased gas rights to Beck Energy Corporation (“Beck
Energy”) for several acres of property he owns within the City of Munroe Falls. Beck
Energy applied for a well permit from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources
(“ODNR”), Division of Mineral Resources Management, to drill a gas well on the
property. After reviewing the application, the division issued a well permit (#2-3126) to
Beck Energy on February 16, 2011. The permit sets forth terms and conditions,
including 29 Urbanized Area Permit Conditions, which include specific requirements
governing tree trimming, fencing, parking, noise, erosion, drainage, landscaping, and
{¶5} When Beck Energy began excavation and drilling at Mr. Willingham’s
residence, the city issued a Stop Work Order, alleging Beck Energy violated several
ordinances in drilling at the property without first obtaining various necessary permits
from the city. On April 6, 2011, the city and its Law Director, Jack Morrison, Jr.
(hereafter “the city”), filed a complaint in the Summit County Court of Common Pleas to
enjoin Beck Energy from engaging in drilling activities on Mr. Willingham’s property until
it complies with 11 ordinances and acquires the necessary permits pursuant to the
ordinances. In conjunction with the complaint, the city also filed an application for
preliminary and permanent injunction.
{¶6} The city claimed that in order to engage in the drilling activity, Beck
Energy must, as prescribed in the city’s ordinances: (1) obtain a drilling permit, a
“conditional” zoning certificate, and a zoning certificate; (2) appear before the city’s
planning commission in a public hearing and obtain its approval; (3) pay the necessary
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fees and post the requisite performance bond; and (4) obtain a rights-of-way
construction permit and pay the required fees.
{¶7} After the city filed the complaint, the parties agreed to maintain the status
quo and refrain from any drilling activity, and to submit briefs to the trial court
addressing whether an injunction should be issued. On May 3, 2011, the trial court
entered a preliminary injunction, and subsequently entered an order granting a
permanent injunction, enjoining Beck Energy from operations related to drilling on the
subject property until all relevant Munroe Falls ordinances have been complied with.
{¶8} Beck Energy now appeals from that order.
It assigns the following error
{¶9} “The trial court erred as a matter of law when it held that local city
ordinances, which prohibit defendants’ gas drilling operations in the absence of City-
issued permits, are not in conflict with Ohio state statutes, which specifically allow those
operations pursuant to a State-issued permit. The trial court’s ruling that the ordinances
are within the city’s home-rule authority should therefore be reversed.”
Standard of Review for Injunction
{¶10} “‘An injunction is an extraordinary remedy in equity where there is no
adequate remedy available at law. It is not available as a right but may be granted by a
court if it is necessary to prevent a future wrong that the law cannot.’ * * * The grant or
denial of an injunction is within the trial court’s discretion and will not be disturbed by a
reviewing court absent an abuse of that discretion. * * * In order to find an abuse of that
discretion, we must determine that the trial court’s decision was unreasonable, arbitrary
2. The State of Ohio, through its Attorney General, filed an amicus curiae brief in this appeal. It states
that it “supports neither party, but seeks only to protect the integrity of Ohio’s comprehensive, statewide
system for regulating oil and gas drilling while allowing for local regulations that do not interfere with state
law.” This court accepted the amicus curiae brief.
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or unconscionable. Blakemore v. Blakemore, 5 Ohio St.3d 217, 219, 5 Ohio B. 481,
450 N.E.2d 1140 (1983).” (Internal citations omitted.) Heron Point Condo. Unit Owner’s
Assn. v. E.R. Miller, Ltd., 9th Dist. Nos. C.A. Nos. 25861, 25863, 25998, 2012-Ohio-
2171, ¶15.
Standard of Review for Conflict Determination
{¶11} The central issue in this case is whether Monroe Falls’ ordinances
governing drilling and related matters conflict with R.C. 1509.02. “Whether there is a
conflict between a city’s ordinance and the state’s general law presents a question of
law, which this Court reviews de novo.” Smith Family Trust v. City of Hudson Bd. of
Zoning and Bldg. Appeals, 9th Dist. No. 24471, 2009-Ohio-2557, ¶10, citing Ohio Bell
Tel. Co. v. Pub. Util. Comm., 64 Ohio St.3d 145, 147 (1992).
R.C. 1509.02: The Oil and Gas Drilling Statute
{¶12} This appeal concerns the scope of R.C. Chapter 1509, Ohio’s oil and gas
drilling statutes. Pursuant to its constitutional authority, the General Assembly enacted
R.C. Chapter 1509 in 1965 to regulate all oil and gas drilling and production operations
in Ohio. See Redman v. Ohio Dept. of Industrial Relations, 75 Ohio St.3d 399 (1996).
In 2004, the General Assembly enacted H.B. 278, which expanded the regulatory
scheme and amended R.C.1509.02 to give the Division of Mineral Resources
Management of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources the “sole and exclusive
authority to regulate the permitting, location, and spacing of oil and gas wells.”
{¶13} Subsequently, the General Assembly enacted S.B. 165, effective June 30,
2010, which further expanded ODNR’s regulatory authority to include “production
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{¶14} The General Assembly again expanded ODNR’s authority in H.B. 153,
effective September 28, 2011. It amended ODNR’s authority to include “well
stimulation,” “completing,” “construction” of site, and “permitting related to those
{¶15} R.C. 1509.02 in its current form reads, in pertinent part:
{¶16} “There is hereby created in the department of natural resources the
division of oil and gas resources management, which shall be administered by the chief
of the division of oil and gas resources management. The division has sole and
exclusive authority to regulate the permitting, location, and spacing of oil and gas wells
and production operations within the state, excepting only those activities regulated
under federal laws for which oversight has been delegated to the environmental
protection agency and activities regulated under sections 6111.02 to 6111.029 of the
Revised Code. The regulation of oil and gas activities is a matter of general statewide
interest that requires uniform statewide regulation, and this chapter and rules adopted
under it constitute a comprehensive plan with respect to all aspects of the locating,
drilling, well stimulation, completing, and operating of oil and gas wells within this state,
including site construction and restoration, permitting related to those activities, and the
disposal of wastes from those wells. Nothing in this section affects the authority granted
to the director of transportation and local authorities in section 723.01 or 4513.34 of the
Revised Code, provided that the authority granted under those sections shall not be
exercised in a manner that discriminates against, unfairly impedes, or obstructs oil and
gas activities and operations regulated under this chapter.”
{¶17} R.C. Chapter 1509 thus provides a comprehensive regulatory scheme for
oil and gas wells operations in the state. A person wishing to drill a well for oil or gas
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must first obtain a drilling permit from the Division of Mineral Resources Management.
R.C. 1509.05 and R.C. 1509.06. R.C. 1509.021 governs minimum distance restrictions
on the surface location of wells and other facilities relative to existing property lines,
dwellings, buildings, and streets and roads. R.C. 1509.03 governs safe operations of
wells, protection of water supplies, necessity of fencing and screening, and mitigation of
noise. R.C. 1509.04 authorizes ODNR’s oversight after a permit is issued – by
providing for enforcement mechanisms which would allow the state to suspend
operations that threaten public safety or endanger natural resources. Finally, R.C.
1509.07 governs insurance and surety bond requirements.
{¶18} The statute on its face, however, reserves certain aspects of the oil and
gas wells’ operations to the control of other authorities, stating, “Nothing in this section
affects the authority granted to the director of transportation and local authorities in
section R.C. 723.01 and R.C. 4513.34.”
{¶19} R.C. 4513.34, not at issue in this case, permits local authorities and the
Ohio Department of Transportation to grant permits for oversize vehicles to use the
roads in their respective jurisdictions.
{¶20} R.C. 723.01 (“Care, supervision, and control of public roads”) is relevant to
this appeal. That statute provides, in relevant part:
{¶21} “Municipal corporations shall have special power to regulate the use of the
streets. * * * [T]he legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall have the care,
supervision, and control of the public highways, streets, avenues, alleys, sidewalks,
public grounds, bridges, aqueducts, and viaducts within the municipal corporation.”
{¶22} However, the statute expressly forbids the local authorities or the director
of transportation from exercising power under R.C. 723.01 or R.C. 4513.34 in a manner
that “discriminates against, unfairly impedes, or obstructs oil and gas activities and
operations regulated.” R.C. 1509.02.
{¶23} Beck Energy claims the city impermissibly applied its ordinances to
prohibit drilling on Mr. Willingham’s property, which has been sanctioned by a well
permit issued by ODNR, pursuant to R.C. 1509.02. It maintains the city’s attempt to use
its ordinances to regulate gas wells conflicts with the express directive of R.C. 1509.02,
which gives the state the sole and exclusive authority to regulate gas production
operations within Ohio. Its position is that the permit issued by the state precludes any
regulation or control of the drilling activity by the city.
{¶24} The city, on the other hand, maintains local municipalities have home-rule
authority, under Section 3, Article XVIII of Ohio Constitution, to regulate gas drilling
operations, because the authority given to the state by the statute only pertains to
“permitting, location, and spacing of” oil and gas well productions.
{¶25} The issue to be resolved in this appeal, as we see it, is whether, under a
home-rule analysis, R.C. Chapter 1509 precludes any local control or oversight of oil
and gas drilling taking place within the municipality’s boundaries.
The Home-Rule Analysis
{¶26} Ohio Constitution, Article XVIII, Section 3 confers upon municipalities the
“authority to exercise all powers of local self-government and to adopt and enforce
within their limits such local police, sanitary and other similar regulations, as are not in
conflict with general laws.” Morris v. Roseman, 162 Ohio St. 447, 449 (1954). This
section “is self-executing, and [ ] the power of local self-government is inherent in all
municipalities regardless of enabling legislation and the existence of municipal
charters.” Id. at 450.
{¶27} The Supreme Court of Ohio reiterated a three-step process for a home-
rule analysis in Ohioans for Concealed Carry, Inc. v. City of Clyde, 120 Ohio St.3d 96,
2008-Ohio-4605.
A. First Step: Whether the Ordinance is an Exercise of Local Self-
{¶28} The first step is to determine whether the ordinance is an exercise of local
self-government or an exercise of local police power. Clyde at ¶24. “An ordinance
created under the power of local self-government must relate ‘solely to the government
and administration of the internal affairs of the municipality.’” Clyde at ¶30, quoting
Marich v. Bob Bennett Constr. Co., 116 Ohio St.3d 553, 2008-Ohio-92, ¶11, quoting
Beachwood v. Cuyahoga Cty. Bd. of Elections, 167 Ohio St. 369 (1958), paragraph one
of the syllabus. The Supreme Court of Ohio provided the following test to determine
whether a particular ordinance is an exercise of local self-government:
{¶29} “‘To determine whether legislation is such as falls within the area of local
self-government, the result of such legislation or the result of the proceedings
thereunder must be considered. If the result affects only the municipality itself, with no
extraterritorial effects, the subject is clearly within the power of local self-government
and is a matter for the determination of the municipality. However, if the result is not so
confined it becomes a matter for the General Assembly.’” Kettering v. State
Employment Relations Bd., 26 Ohio St.3d 50, 54 (1986), quoting Cleveland Elec.
Illuminating Co. v. Painesville, 15 Ohio St.2d 125, 129 (1968), quoting Beachwood at
{¶30} Once a local ordinance is determined to relate solely to matters of self-
government, it is the end of the analysis, because the Constitution authorizes a
municipality to exercise all powers of local self-government within its jurisdiction. Clyde
at ¶24.
B. Second Step: If the Ordinance is an Exercise of Police Power, then We
Apply General-Law Analysis
{¶31} The second step is necessary if the local ordinance is determined to be an
exercise of police power, rather than local self-government. Clyde at ¶25. Police-power
ordinances are those that “protect the public health, safety, or morals, or the general
welfare of the public.” Id .
{¶32} If an ordinance is determined to be an exercise of police power, the court
then is required to review the statute at issue to determine whether the statute is a
“general law.” Clyde at ¶25. If the statute qualifies as a “general law,” it trumps the
local ordinance, if the local ordinance conflicts with the state statute. Id .
{¶33} “General laws are those ‘which prescribe a rule of conduct upon citizens
generally, and which operate with general uniform application throughout the state
under the same circumstances and conditions.’” Smith Family Trust, supra, at ¶10,
quoting Garcia v. Siffrin Residential Assn., 63 Ohio St.2d 259, 271 (1980), overruled on
other grounds by Saunders v. Clark County Zoning Dept., 66 Ohio St.2d 259 (1981).
{¶34} The Supreme Court of Ohio set forth a four-part test in Canton v. State, 95
Ohio St.3d 149, 2002-Ohio-2005, to determine if the statute qualifies as a general law:
{¶35} “To constitute a general law for purposes of home-rule analysis, a statute
must (1) be part of a statewide and comprehensive legislative enactment, (2) apply to all
parts of the state alike and operate uniformly throughout the state, (3) set forth police,
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