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Ohio Rev Code § 4909.171 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4909 | Public Utilities Commission - Fixation of Rates|Section 4909.171 | Basing Waterworks Rate Charge on Change in Water Cost Imposed by Local Government.

Effective: January 6, 2004|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 44 - 125th General Assembly|(A) Any waterworks company or any sewage disposal system company may submit an application to the public utilities commission for an increase or decrease in any rate or charge for, respectively, water or sewage treatment, if both of the following conditions are met:(1) The water or sewage treatment is provided to the company by either of the following:(a) A municipal corporation or other local governmental unit of this state whose rates are not subject to regulation by the commission;(b) Another waterworks company, or another sewage disposal system company, that is a public utility and whose rates for the water, or the sewage treatment, have been approved by the commission pursuant to an application filed under section 4909.18 of the Revised Code.(2) The change in rate or charge is based solely on a change in the cost to the company of the water or the sewage treatment.Sections 4909.18 and 4909.19 of the Revised Code do not apply to any application filed under this section. An application shall be accompanied by evidence of the new rates and charges charged the company by a provider described in division (A)(1)(a) or (b) of this section.(B) Pursuant to the filing of an application under division (A) of this section by a waterworks company or a sewage disposal system company, the commission shall approve appropriate revisions in the schedule of the company filed under section 4905.30 of the Revised Code, which revisions shall reflect solely the change in the cost to the company of the water or the sewage treatment, as specified in division (A) of this section and no other cost, charge, or item, and shall not change the distribution of the revenue responsibility of the various classes of the company's customers.(C) An increase authorized pursuant to division (B) of this section shall not be effective until forty-five days after the date the waterworks company or the sewage disposal system company has provided affected customers with notification of the increase, in such form and by such method as the commission shall prescribe.
Ohio Rev Code § 4909.20 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4909 | Public Utilities Commission - Fixation of Rates|Section 4909.20 | Regulation of Freight Charges.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No railroad company, or person owning, controlling, or operating a railroad in whole or in part within this state, shall charge or receive any greater compensation in the aggregate for the transportation of freight of like kind, for a shorter than for a longer distance over the same line or route in the same direction, the shorter being included within the longer distance, or charge any greater compensation as a through route than the aggregate of the intermediate rates, within the state. This section does not authorize any company or person within the terms of this section to charge or receive as great compensation for a shorter as for a longer distance. Upon application to the public utilities commission, such company or person may in special cases, after investigation, be authorized by the commission to charge less for a longer than for shorter distances for transportation of freight of like kind, and the commission may prescribe the extent to which such designated company or person may be relieved from the operation of this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 4909.21 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4909 | Public Utilities Commission - Fixation of Rates|Section 4909.21 | Rules and Regulations Relative to Carload Shipments of Livestock.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Any company owning or operating a railroad in whole or in part in this state, which receives livestock for shipment in carload lots, shall be governed and regulated by the following rules and regulations relative to the intrastate rates and minimum weights to be charged in carload lot shipments of livestock:(A) If such company receives hogs for carload lot shipments in cares:(1) Of a length of thirty-six and seven-tenths feet or under, the rate charged shall be on a basis of a minimum weight of not more than sixteen thousand pounds for single-deck cars, and twenty-two thousand pounds for double-deck cars;(2) Of a length exceeding thirty-six and seven-tenths feet, and not more than forty feet, the rate charged shall be on a basis of minimum weight of not more than seventeen thousand pounds for single-deck cars, and twenty-three thousand pounds for double-deck cars;(3) Over forty feet in length the rate charged shall be on a basis of a minimum weight of not exceeding eighteen thousand pounds for single-deck cars and twenty-four thousand pounds for double-deck cars.(B) If such company receives for shipment a car containing a mixture of hogs, cattle, and sheep, or any two of them, the freight rate charged shall be based upon the same animal classification as is used to determine the minimum freight weight. The public utilities commission shall enforce this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 4909.22 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4909 | Public Utilities Commission - Fixation of Rates|Section 4909.22 | Rates Shall Be Just and Reasonable.

Effective: June 11, 2012|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly|When passengers or property are transported over two or more connecting railroads between points in this state, and the railroad companies have made joint rates for the transportation of such passengers or property, such rates and all charges in connection therewith shall be just and reasonable. Every unjust and unreasonable charge is prohibited. A less charge by each of such railroads for its proportion of such joint rates than is made locally between the same points on their respective lines is not for that reason a violation of Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., and 4909. of the Revised Code and does not render such railroads liable to any of the penalties in such chapters.
Ohio Rev Code § 4909.23 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4909 | Public Utilities Commission - Fixation of Rates|Section 4909.23 | Special Contract Rates.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., 4923., and 4925. of the Revised Code do not prevent concentration, commodity, transit, and other special contract rates, but all such rates are subject to such chapters as to their printing and filing. Such rates shall be open to all shippers for a like kind of traffic under similar circumstances and conditions and shall be under the supervision and regulation of the public utilities commission.
Ohio Rev Code § 4909.24 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4909 | Public Utilities Commission - Fixation of Rates|Section 4909.24 | Complaints and Hearings.

Effective: June 11, 2012|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly|Upon complaint of a person, firm, corporation, or association, of a mercantile, agricultural, or manufacturing society, or of a body politic or municipal organization, that any of the rates, fares, charges, or classifications, or any joint rates are in any respect unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory, or that any regulation or practice, affecting the transportation of persons or property, or any service in connection therewith, are in any respect unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory, or that any service is inadequate, the public utilities commission may notify the railroad complained of that complaint has been made, and ten days after such notice proceed to investigate such charges as provided in Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., and 4909. of the Revised Code. Before making such investigation, the commission shall give the railroad and the complainants ten days' notice of the time and place such matters will be considered and determined, and such parties are entitled to be heard and to have process to enforce the attendance of witnesses. A railroad may make complaint with like effect as though made by any person, firm, corporation, or association, mercantile, agricultural, or manufacturing society, body politic, or municipal organization.
Ohio Rev Code § 4909.25 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4909 | Public Utilities Commission - Fixation of Rates|Section 4909.25 | Separate Hearings.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When complaint is made of more than one rate or charge, the public utilities commission may order separate hearings thereon, and may consider and determine the matters complained of separately, and at such times as it prescribes. No complaint shall necessarily be dismissed because of the absence of direct damage to the complainant.
Ohio Rev Code § 4909.26 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4909 | Public Utilities Commission - Fixation of Rates|Section 4909.26 | Commission May Change Unreasonable Rate.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Upon an investigation, if the rate, or any regulation, practice, or service of any railroad complained of is found to be unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory, or the service inadequate, the public utilities commission may fix and order substituted therefor, such rate, fare, charge, or classification as it determines is to be just and reasonable, which shall be charged, imposed, and followed in the future. The commission may also make such orders respecting such regulation, practice, or service as it determines is reasonable, which shall be observed and followed in the future, but no rate fixed shall exceed the maximum rate prescribed by any statute of this state in force at the time the commission fixes such rates.
Ohio Rev Code § 4909.27 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4909 | Public Utilities Commission - Fixation of Rates|Section 4909.27 | Investigating Rates Upon Its Own Motion.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If the public utilities commission believes that any rate or charge may be unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory, and that an investigation relating thereto should be made, it may investigate them upon its own motion. Before such investigation it shall present to the railroad a statement in writing setting forth the rate or charge to be investigated. Thereafter, on ten days' notice to the railroad of the time and place of such investigation, the commission may proceed to investigate such rate or charge in the same manner and make like orders in respect thereto, as if such investigation had been made upon complaint.When any schedule is filed with the commission stating a new individual or joint rate or charge, any new individual or joint classification, or any new individual or joint regulation or practice affecting any rate or charge, the commission may, either upon complaint or upon its own initiative without complaint, at once, and if it so orders, without answer or other formal pleading by the interested carriers, but upon reasonable notice, enter upon a hearing concerning the propriety of such rate, charge, classification, regulation, or practice. Pending such hearing and the decision thereon, the commission upon filing with such schedule and delivering to the carriers affected thereby, a statement in writing of its reasons for such suspension, may suspend the operation of such schedule and postpone the use and operation of such rate, charge, classification, regulation, or practice, for a period of not longer than one hundred twenty days beyond the time when such rate, charge, classification, regulation, or practice would otherwise go into effect. After a full hearing, whether completed before or after the rate, charge, classification, regulation, or practice goes into effect, the commission may make such order in reference to such rate, charge, classification, regulation, or practice as would be proper in a proceeding initiated after the rate, charge, classification, regulation, or practice, had become effective. If any such hearing cannot be concluded within such period of suspension, the commission may extend the time of suspension for a further period not exceeding thirty days. At any hearing involving a rate increased or a rate sought to be increased, the burden of proof to show that the increased rate or the proposed increased rate is just and reasonable is upon the common carrier, and the commission shall give to the hearing and decision of such question preference over all other questions pending before it and decide the same as speedily as possible.A full record shall be kept of the proceedings before the commission on such investigations. All testimony shall be taken by the stenographer appointed by the commission.
Ohio Rev Code § 4909.28 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4909 | Public Utilities Commission - Fixation of Rates|Section 4909.28 | Commission May Change Rate or Service.

Effective: June 11, 2012|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 487 - 129th General Assembly|If, upon an investigation under Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., and 4909. of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission finds that any existing rate, fare, charge, or classification, any joint rate, or any regulation or practice affecting the transportation of persons or property, or service in connection therewith, is unreasonable or unjustly discriminatory, or that any service is inadequate, it shall determine and by order fix a reasonable rate, fare, charge, classification, joint rate, regulation, practice, or service to be imposed, observed, and followed in the future, in place of that so found to be unreasonable, unjustly discriminatory, or inadequate. A certified copy of each such order shall be delivered to an officer or station agent of the railroad affected, and such order shall of its own force take effect and become operative thirty days after service. All railroads to which such order applies shall make such changes in their schedules on file as are necessary to conform to such order, and no change shall thereafter be made by any railroad in any such rate, fare, or charge, or in any joint rate, without the approval of the commission.
Ohio Rev Code § 4909.29 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4909 | Public Utilities Commission - Fixation of Rates|Section 4909.29 | Copies of Orders to Be Supplied Railroad.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  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 § 4909.30 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4909 | Public Utilities Commission - Fixation of Rates|Section 4909.30 | Commission May Rescind or Amend an Order.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Upon application of any person or any railroad, and after notice to the parties in interest and opportunity to be heard as provided in section 4909.24 of the Revised Code for other hearings has been given, the public utilities commission may rescind, alter, or amend an order fixing any rate, fare, charge, or classification, or any other order made by the commission with respect to a railroad. Certified copies of such orders shall be served and take effect as provided for original orders.
Ohio Rev Code § 4909.31 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4909 | Public Utilities Commission - Fixation of Rates|Section 4909.31 | Supplemental Order as to Railroads.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Whenever a joint rate or charge is ordered substituted by the public utilities commission, and the railroads party thereto fail to agree within twenty days after the service of such order upon the apportionment of such rate or charge, the commission may, after a hearing, issue a supplemental order declaring the apportionment of such joint rate or charge, which shall take effect of its own force as part of the original order.
Ohio Rev Code § 4909.32 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4909 | Public Utilities Commission - Fixation of Rates|Section 4909.32 | Commission May Fix Joint Rate.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Whenever railroads refuse or neglect to establish a joint rate for the transportation of persons or property, the public utilities commission may, upon notice to the railroads and after opportunity to be heard, fix and establish such joint rate. If the railroads party thereto fail to agree upon the apportionment of such joint rate within twenty days after service of such order, the commission may, upon a like hearing, issue a supplemental order declaring the apportionment of such joint rate which shall take effect of its own force as part of the original order.
Ohio Rev Code § 4909.33 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4909 | Public Utilities Commission - Fixation of Rates|Section 4909.33 | Supplemental Order as to Public Utilities.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  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 § 4909.35 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4909 | Public Utilities Commission - Fixation of Rates|Section 4909.35 | Failure of Municipal Corporation to Fix Rates.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If the legislative authority of any municipal corporation fails to regulate, within sixty days after the expiration of any lawful rate, by ordinance, the rates to be charged by any public utility engaged in the business of supplying water for public or private consumption, such water company or one per cent of the qualified electors of such municipal corporation may petition the public utilities commission to fix the just and reasonable rates for the furnishing of such services, and the commission may thereupon proceed to fix the just and reasonable rates, tolls, and charges for such services which may be charged for two years from the date of the filing of such petition and thereafter until changed, altered, or modified by the legislative authority of such municipal corporation or further order of the commission upon like application.
Ohio Rev Code § 4909.36 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4909 | Public Utilities Commission - Fixation of Rates|Section 4909.36 | Hearing Upon Accepted Rates - Procedure.

Effective: September 28, 1979|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 156 - 113th General Assembly|If any public utility has accepted any rate, price, charge, toll, or rental fixed by ordinance of a municipal corporation or ordinances of a group of municipal corporations, it shall become operative, unless a complaint signed by not less than ten per cent of the qualified electors of such municipal corporation or not less than ten per cent of the qualified electors of each municipal corporation in such group has been filed with the public utilities commission within sixty days after such acceptance. Upon such filing, the commission shall forthwith give notice of the filing and pendency of such complaint to the mayor of such municipal corporation or the mayors of the group of municipal corporations, and fix a time and place for the hearing of such complaint. The commission shall, at such time and place, hear such complaint, and may adjourn the hearing from day to day.The filing of a complaint by a public utility, as provided in section 4909.34 of the Revised Code, shall be held to be the consent of such public utility to continue to furnish its product or service, and devote its property engaged in so furnishing its product or service to such public use during the term so fixed by ordinance or by Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., and 4923. of the Revised Code. Parties to the complaint shall be entitled to be heard, represented by counsel, and to have process to force the attendance of witnesses.
Ohio Rev Code § 4909.37 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4909 | Public Utilities Commission - Fixation of Rates|Section 4909.37 | Hearing Where Cause of Action Arose.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|In all cases arising under sections 4909.34 to 4909.36, inclusive, and other sections of the Revised Code providing for the hearing of complaints or protests against rates, hearings, when feasible and proper, may be held in the community in which the cause of action arose.
Ohio Rev Code § 4909.38 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4909 | Public Utilities Commission - Fixation of Rates|Section 4909.38 | Complaint, Appeal, or Notification Requirements.

Effective: September 28, 1979|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 156 - 113th General Assembly|A complaint or appeal to the public utilities commission under division (A) of section 4909.34 or section 4909.35 of the Revised Code, shall meet the requirements of and shall be governed in all respects by sections 4909.17 to 4909.19 and 4909.42 of the Revised Code.Upon notification by a public utility pursuant to division (B) of section 4909.34 of the Revised Code that it does not accept an ordinance or ordinances, its pending application shall be governed in all respects by sections 4909.17 to 4909.19 and 4909.42 of the Revised Code.Such complaint, appeal, or notification to the commission shall suspend, vacate, and set aside all provisions of the ordinance or ordinances complained of, appealed from, or not accepted.
Ohio Rev Code § 4909.40 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4909 | Public Utilities Commission - Fixation of Rates|Section 4909.40 | Certain Rates, Fares, Regulations, and Prices Excepted.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., 4923., and 4925. of the Revised Code do not apply to any rate, fare, or regulation prescribed by any municipal corporation granting a right, permission, authority, or franchise to use its streets, alleys, avenues, or public places for street railway purposes, or to any prices so fixed under sections 715.34, 743.26, and 743.28 of the Revised Code, except as provided in sections 4909.34, 4909.35, 4909.36, 4909.38, and 4909.39 of the Revised Code.