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Ohio Rev Code § 4981.30 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4981 | Rail Development Commission|Section 4981.30 | Applying for and Award of Franchises.

Effective: October 20, 1994|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 250 - 120th General Assembly|(A) The Ohio rail development commission, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt, and may amend and rescind, rules governing the process whereby a private corporation or organization may apply to the commission for a franchise for all or part of a rail system. The rules also shall establish the financial and technical criteria upon which a franchise is awarded. The criteria may include all of the following:(1) The qualifications of each applicant, including the familiarity of the applicant with the transportation needs and resources of the state and the applicant's prior involvement and experience with respect to the development of rail service in this state;(2) The level of transport services offered;(3) The technology proposed;(4) The timetable for construction;(5) The construction, operation, and management plans;(6) The financial plan and the applicant's financial ability to provide reliable service;(7) Whether the proposed rail system will meet all applicable state and federal safety requirements;(8) Any legislative changes that may be necessary in order to implement the applicant's proposal;(9) Any plans and studies prepared for the commission;(10) The projected ability of each applicant's proposed revenue sources to meet projected capital and operating funding requirements.(B) The commission may solicit letters of intent from private corporations or organizations interested in applying for a franchise, and may require that a nonrefundable fee be submitted with the letter of intent. Any such fee may be applied against costs the commission incurs in evaluating applications and for subsequent administration of a franchise.(C) The commission may request proposals to be delivered for a franchise to construct, operate, and maintain the rail system or a portion thereof.(D) All applications for a franchise shall address the items contained in divisions (A)(1) to (11) of section 4981.04 of the Revised Code.(E) The commission shall notify all prospective bidders for a franchise that any private corporation or organization that is awarded a franchise with respect to the 3-C corridor shall be obligated to reimburse the commission for amounts payable by the commission, up to a maximum of one million five hundred thousand dollars, arising out of commitments of the commission in connection with the preparation of the plan under section 4981.04 of the Revised Code, and out of other pre-existing contractual arrangements of the commission with respect to the 3-C corridor.(F) The commission may award a franchise for the rail system or a portion of the system to the applicant the commission determines is best qualified, in accordance with standards for evaluation of applicants established by rule and previously announced.
Ohio Rev Code § 4981.33 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4981 | Rail Development Commission|Section 4981.33 | Review and Monitoring of Franchisee.

Effective: October 20, 1994|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 250 - 120th General Assembly|(A) The Ohio rail development commission shall review all plans and specifications of a franchisee for its portion of a rail system to ensure that the plans and specifications conform to commission standards, and shall inspect and approve the construction of all portions of the rail system. The commission shall assume responsibility for and indemnify any franchisee for third-party claims arising out of franchisee design and construction activities performed without fault that have been reviewed and approved by the commission.(B) The commission shall monitor maintenance practices of a franchisee or its operator to secure and maintain safety and efficiency in the operation of those portions of the rail system operated by the franchisee.(C) All rules adopted by the commission affecting the rail system or franchises shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.(D) The commission shall not regulate rates and fares a franchisee charges for its portion of the rail system.(E) The commission may require a franchisee to furnish to the commission data sufficient to enable it to verify the franchisee's compliance with all terms of its franchise agreement.(F) Except for rules adopted by the commission or the franchisee pursuant to sections 4981.28 to 4981.34 of the Revised Code, the laws of this state relating to rail carriers apply to all portions of the rail system, and the powers of arrest of law enforcement officers on and around any portion of the rail system are the same there as elsewhere in the state.
Ohio Rev Code § 4981.40 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4981 | Rail Development Commission|Section 4981.40 | Including All Federally Designated High-Speed Rail Corridors in Ohio and All Passenger Rail Corridors in Ohio Hub Study.

Effective: July 1, 2009|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 2 - 128th General Assembly|In any overall programmatic environmental impact study or other comprehensive high-speed rail project development study, the department of transportation and the rail development commission shall include all federally designated high-speed rail corridors in Ohio and all passenger rail corridors in the Ohio hub study. The department of transportation and the rail development commission shall work with Amtrak to examine methods to improve existing service between Toledo and Cleveland with a goal of creating optimum service to connect the planned Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, and Cincinnati service.The department of transportation and the rail development commission shall examine the financial and economic feasibility of developing a passenger rail system between Toledo and Columbus, including necessary characteristics of a viable connection between the cities.
Ohio Rev Code § 4999.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4999 | Crimes Relating to Railroads|Section 4999.01 | Drawing, Driving, or Moving Vehicle on Railroad Track.

Effective: March 15, 1993|Latest Legislation:  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 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4999 | Crimes Relating to Railroads|Section 4999.02 | Climbing Upon Railroad Cars.

Effective: March 15, 1993|Latest Legislation:  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 § 4999.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4999 | Crimes Relating to Railroads|Section 4999.03 | Riding or Driving Into Enclosures of Railroads.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No person shall, at a place other than a private crossing or for a purpose other than crossing a railroad, ride or drive a horse or other domestic animal into an enclosure of a railroad or knowingly permit such animal to go into or remain in such enclosure, or place feed, salt, or other thing within such enclosure to induce such animal to enter into it or upon the track of such railroad, or, while constructing a private crossing or crossing a railroad at a private crossing, permit a fence to remain down or open for a longer time than is necessary to construct or use such crossing. Whoever violates this section shall be fined not more than ten dollars or imprisoned for not less than ten nor more than thirty days.Each ten hours such animal is knowingly permitted to remain in such enclosure or upon such track is an additional offense. Such animal is not exempt from execution for a fine or costs imposed under this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 4999.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4999 | Crimes Relating to Railroads|Section 4999.04 | Failure to Stop.

Effective: September 29, 2013|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly|(A) No person in charge of a locomotive shall fail to bring the locomotive to a full stop at least two hundred feet before arriving at a crossing with another track, or proceed through the crossing before signaled to do so or before the way is clear. (B)(1) Whoever violates this section or fails to comply with division (B)(1) of section 4955.32 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. If the violation or failure to comply causes physical harm to any person, whoever violates this section or fails to comply with division (B)(1) of section 4955.32 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.(2) With respect to a charge of violating division (B)(1) of this section for a failure to comply with division (B)(1) of section 4955.32 of the Revised Code, it is an affirmative defense that an alternative audible warning system described in division (B)(2) of that section was activated.
Ohio Rev Code § 4999.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4999 | Crimes Relating to Railroads|Section 4999.05 | Flagmen on Railroads.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No person or company owning, operating, or controlling a railroad shall employ as a flagman, hostler, or assistant hostler, a person who cannot read, write, and speak the English language. Whoever violates this section shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars. This section does not apply to flagmen at street or highway crossings.
Ohio Rev Code § 4999.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4999 | Crimes Relating to Railroads|Section 4999.06 | Running Passenger Trains With Less Than Full Crew.

Effective: January 1, 1976|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 205 - 111th General Assembly|No superintendent, trainmaster, or other employee of a railroad shall send or cause to be sent outside of yard limits, a passenger train of not more than five cars, any one of which carries passengers, with a crew consisting of less than one engineer, one fireman, one conductor, and one brakeman. If four of said cars are day coaches carrying passengers, or if in a train of more than five cars, three or more cars are day coaches carrying passengers, of if in a train of more than six cars, four cars carrying passengers, or if in a train of more than seven cars, two or more cars are carrying passengers, of if any train, six or more cars are carrying passengers, such crew shall consist of at least one additional brakeman, regularly employed as such. When such train consists of more than two cars, either of which carries passengers, no such superintendent, trainmaster, or other employee shall require a brakeman to perform the duties of baggage master or express agent. Whoever violates this section shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars for each offense.For the purpose of this section, a combination mail or baggage and passenger car is a day coach, but straight dining cars and private cars are not cars carrying passengers.This section does not apply to trains picking up a car between terminals in this state, or to cars propelled by electricity.Mayors and county court judges have jurisdiction under this section. The public utilities commission shall enforce this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 4999.10 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4999 | Crimes Relating to Railroads|Section 4999.10 | Constructing Bridges Over Tracks.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No person, railroad company, private corporation, county, municipal corporation, or township shall violate any law relating to the height of bridges, viaducts, overhead roadways, footbridges, wires, or other structures constructed over the tracks of a railroad. Whoever violates this section shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars. Each day such structure or wire is permitted to so remain constitutes a separate offense.
Ohio Rev Code § 4999.11 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4999 | Crimes Relating to Railroads|Section 4999.11 | Mail Cranes - Livestock Chutes.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  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 § 4999.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4999 | Crimes Relating to Railroads|Section 4999.13 | Couplers and Brakes on Railroads.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No superintendent, conductor, or other officer or employee of a railroad company, shall refuse or neglect, upon receiving notice from the inspector appointed by the public utilities commission, of a defective coupler or brake, to have it repaired forthwith or, on receiving notice from such inspector condemning a car, tender, or engine, shall fail to put it out of service at the first freight division terminal. No superintendent, conductor, or other officer or employee shall violate any other law relating to automatic couplers and air brakes. Whoever violates this section shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than five hundred dollars. Such person is also personally liable for any injuries resulting to any employee from such violation.
Ohio Rev Code § 4999.16 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4999 | Crimes Relating to Railroads|Section 4999.16 | Examination of Employee for Color Blindness.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No railroad company shall contract to employ a person in a position which requires such person to distinguish form or color signals, unless within two years preceding such date he has been examined for color blindness, in the distinct colors in actual use by such company by a competent person employed and paid by such company, and has received a certificate that he is not disqualified for such position by color blindness in the colors used by the company. No such company shall fail to require such person to be re-examined at least once each two years at the expense of such company. This section does not prevent a railroad company from continuing in its employment an employee having defective sight when such defective sight can be fully remedied by the use of glasses or by other means satisfactory to the person making such examination. Whoever violates this section shall be fined one hundred dollars.
Ohio Rev Code § 4999.17 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4999 | Crimes Relating to Railroads|Section 4999.17 | Discipline or Discharge of Employee Without Hearing.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No railroad company, or its superintendent, or manager, employing any special agent, detective, or person commonly known as "spotter" for the purpose of investigating, obtaining, and reporting to the employer, its agent, superintendent, or manager, information concerning its employees, shall discipline or discharge any employee in its service, where such act of discipline or the discharge is based upon a report by such special agent, detective, or spotter, which report involves a question of integrity, honesty, or a breach of rules of the employer, unless such employer, its agent, superintendent, or manager, before disciplining or discharging such employee, grants such employee a fair opportunity to be heard in defense or explanation of the complaint against him, at which hearing said employer shall state specific charges on which said act or discharge is based and at which the accused employee has the right to furnish testimony in his defense.Whoever violates this section shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than three hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. Such imprisonment, when imposed, shall be imposed upon the officers or agents of such company committing such offense.
Ohio Rev Code § 4999.18 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4999 | Crimes Relating to Railroads|Section 4999.18 | Demanding Compensation When Telegraph or Telephone Wires Not Working.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  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 § 4999.19 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4999 | Crimes Relating to Railroads|Section 4999.19 | Diverting Freight.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No agent of a railroad company shall knowingly divert or permit freight under his control to be diverted from the railroads over which it is ordered to be conveyed by the shipper of such freight. Whoever violates this section shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both.
Ohio Rev Code § 4999.20 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4999 | Crimes Relating to Railroads|Section 4999.20 | Seniority Roster Date of Railroad Employee.

Effective: June 15, 1972|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 464 - 109th General Assembly|No railroad employee who has a seniority roster date on the effective date of the repeal of sections 4999.07 and 4999.08 of the Revised Code shall be removed from his employment or have his seniority rights or vacation or other fringe benefits reduced by reason of such repeal.Any carrier which violates this section shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five thousand dollars. The public utilities commission shall enforce this section and prosecute any violations thereof.
Ohio Rev Code § 5101.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 51 | Public Welfare|Chapter 5101 | Department of Job and Family Services- General Provisions|Section 5101.01 | Referring to Department or Director of Public Welfare or Human Services; References to County Department of Job and Family Services; References to Board of County Commissioners.

Effective: September 29, 2013|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly|(A) As used in the Revised Code, the "department of public welfare" and the "department of human services" mean the department of job and family services and the "director of public welfare" and the "director of human services" mean the director of job and family services. Except as provided in section 5160.011 of the Revised Code, whenever the department or director of public welfare or the department or director of human services is referred to or designated in any statute, rule, contract, grant, or other document, the reference or designation shall be deemed to refer to the department or director of job and family services, as the case may be. (B) As used in this chapter:(1) References to a county department of job and family services include a joint county department of job and family services established under section 329.40 of the Revised Code.(2) References to a board of county commissioners include the board of directors of a joint county department of job and family services established under section 329.40 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5101.02 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 51 | Public Welfare|Chapter 5101 | Department of Job and Family Services- General Provisions|Section 5101.02 | Authority of Director of Job and Family Services.

Effective: July 1, 2000|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 470 - 123rd General Assembly|The director of job and family services is the executive head of the department of job and family services. All duties conferred on the various work units of the department by law or by order of the director shall be performed under such rules as the director prescribes, and shall be under the director's control.
Ohio Rev Code § 5101.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 51 | Public Welfare|Chapter 5101 | Department of Job and Family Services- General Provisions|Section 5101.03 | Assistant Directors - Powers and Duties.

Effective: July 1, 2000|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 471 - 123rd General Assembly|The assistant directors of the department of job and family services shall exercise the powers and perform the duties which the director of job and family services may order. The director is authorized to designate which assistant director shall act as director in the absence or disability of the director or in case of a vacancy in the position of director.
Ohio Rev Code § 5101.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 51 | Public Welfare|Chapter 5101 | Department of Job and Family Services- General Provisions|Section 5101.04 | Contract With Commercial Consumer Reporting Agency.

Effective: September 30, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly|Notwithstanding any provision of law or regulation to the contrary, in order to improve the timeliness of public assistance benefit deliveries, to maximize operational efficiencies, increase cost savings, and minimize fraud, the department of job and family services may contract with a third-party commercial consumer reporting agency, in accordance with the "Fair Credit Reporting Act," 15 U.S.C. 1681 et seq., for the purpose of assisting the department with eligibility determinations for supplemental nutrition assistance supplemental program benefits, benefits funded by the temporary assistance for needy families block grant, and unemployment compensation benefits. The department shall undertake efforts to incorporate real-time employment and income information into existing verification and eligibility determination procedures. Last updated September 9, 2021 at 2:41 PM