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Ohio Rev Code § 4901.15 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4901 | Public Utilities Commission - Organization|Section 4901.15 | Information Furnished by Commission.

Effective: September 13, 2010|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly|The public utilities commission shall, whenever called upon by any officer, board, or commission of this state or any political subdivision of this state, furnish any data or information to such officer, board, or commission and shall aid or assist any such officer, board, or commission in performing official duties. All officers, boards, or commissions of this state or any political subdivision of this state shall furnish to the commission, upon request, any data or information that will assist the commission in the discharge of the duties imposed upon it by Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., 4923., and 4927. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 4901.16 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4901 | Public Utilities Commission - Organization|Section 4901.16 | Penalty for Divulging Information.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Except in his report to the public utilities commission or when called on to testify in any court or proceeding of the public utilities commission, no employee or agent referred to in section 4905.13 of the Revised Code shall divulge any information acquired by him in respect to the transaction, property, or business of any public utility, while acting or claiming to act as such employee or agent. Whoever violates this section shall be disqualified from acting as agent, or acting in any other capacity under the appointment or employment of the commission.
Ohio Rev Code § 4901.17 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4901 | Public Utilities Commission - Organization|Section 4901.17 | Legal Adviser and Attorney.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The attorney general shall be the legal adviser of the public utilities commission, but he shall designate, subject to the approval of the governor, one or more of his assistants to perform the services and discharge the duties of attorney to the commission. Such specially designated counsel shall receive a salary which shall be paid in the same manner as that of the members of the commission.
Ohio Rev Code § 4901.18 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4901 | Public Utilities Commission - Organization|Section 4901.18 | Examiners.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The public utilities commission shall appoint one or more examiners for the purpose of making any investigation or holding any inquiry or hearing which the commission is required or permitted to make or hold. Such examiners may administer oaths, take depositions, issue subpoenas, compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, accounts, papers, records, documents, and testimony, examine witnesses, receive evidence, certify to official acts, and perform such other duties as are prescribed by the commission. The commission shall, by general order or in its order of appointment, prescribe the authority and duties of such examiners. Unless otherwise provided in the order appointing the examiner, such examiner shall report his findings and recommendations to the commission and file with it the testimony taken before him. The findings and recommendations of such examiner are advisory only and do not preclude the commission from taking further evidence. Any such findings made or order recommended by any such examiner, which are approved and confirmed, or modified, by the commission and filed in its office, are the findings and order of the commission.
Ohio Rev Code § 4901.19 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4901 | Public Utilities Commission - Organization|Section 4901.19 | Employees of Commission - Duties of Secretary or Other Officer.

Effective: September 29, 1997|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 215 - 122nd General Assembly|The public utilities commission may appoint a secretary, attorney examiners, experts, engineers, accountants, and such other officers as it considers necessary, who shall be in the classified civil service except for persons in attorney examiner or supervisory policy-making positions, who shall serve at the pleasure of the commission. The commission's discretion as to whether or not a position is an attorney examiner position or a supervisory policy-making position shall be exercised upon the affirmative vote of at least four commissioners. All vouchers for the payment of officers, experts, examiners, engineers, statisticians, accountants, inspectors, stenographers, clerks, and other employees of the commission shall be approved by two public utilities commissioners.The secretary, or such other officer as is designated by the commission, shall keep a complete record of all proceedings of the commission, issue all necessary process, writs, warrants, and notices, and keep all books, maps, documents, and papers ordered filed by the commission, or approved and confirmed by it and ordered filed. Such secretary or other officer shall be responsible to the commission for the custody and safe preservation of all documents in its office. Under the direction of the commission, the secretary or any other officer shall perform such duties as the commission prescribes. The secretary and attorney examiners may administer oaths in all parts of the state insofar as the exercise of such power is properly incidental to the performance of their duties or the duties of the commission.
Ohio Rev Code § 4901.21 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4901 | Public Utilities Commission - Organization|Section 4901.21 | Employment of Ohio State University Engineers and Experts.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  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 § 4901.22 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4901 | Public Utilities Commission - Organization|Section 4901.22 | Power of Commissioners to Administer Oaths.

Effective: September 13, 2010|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly|Each of the public utilities commissioners, for the purposes mentioned in Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., 4921., 4923., and 4927. of the Revised Code, may administer oaths, certify to official acts, issue subpoenas, and compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, waybills, books, accounts, documents, and testimony.
Ohio Rev Code § 4901.23 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4901 | Public Utilities Commission - Organization|Section 4901.23 | Right of Commissioners and Employees to Pass on Vehicles of Common Carrier.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The public utilities commissioners and the attorney, secretary, other officers, and employees of the public utilities commission may, when in the performance of their official duties, pass free of charge on all railroads, cars, vessels, and other vehicles of every common carrier, subject to control or regulation by the commission, between points within this state, and such persons shall not be denied the right to travel upon any railroad, car, vessel, or other vehicle of such common carrier, whether such railroad, car, vessel, or other vehicle is used for the transportation of passengers or freight, and regardless of its class.
Ohio Rev Code § 4901.24 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4901 | Public Utilities Commission - Organization|Section 4901.24 | Acceptance of Gifts Prohibited.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No public utilities commissioner, attorney to the public utilities commission, secretary to the commission, or person employed or appointed to office by the commission or by its attorney shall accept any gift, gratuity, emolument, or employment from any public utility or railroad or any officer, agent, or employee of a public utility or railroad or solicit, suggest, request, or recommend, directly or indirectly, to any person, corporation, or public utility subject to the supervision of the commission, or to any officer, attorney, agent, or employee thereof, the appointment of any person to any office, place, position, or employment. Whoever violates this section shall be removed from office.
Ohio Rev Code § 4901.99 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4901 | Public Utilities Commission - Organization|Section 4901.99 | Penalty.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|(A) Whoever violates section 4901.16 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars.
Ohio Rev Code § 4903.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4903 | Public Utilities Commission - Hearings|Section 4903.01 | Definitions.

Effective: September 13, 2010|Latest Legislation:  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 § 4903.02 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4903 | Public Utilities Commission - Hearings|Section 4903.02 | Examination of Witnesses - Production of Records.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The public utilities commission may, either through the public utilities commissioners or by inspectors or employees authorized by it, examine under oath, at any time and for assisting the commission in the performance of any powers or duties of the commission, any officer, agent, or employee of any public utility or railroad or any other person, in relation to the business and affairs of such public utility or railroad and may compel the attendance of such witness for the purpose of such examination. In case of disobedience on the part of any person of any order relating to the production or examination of books, contracts, records, documents, and papers, or in case of the refusal of any person to testify to any matter regarding which he may be lawfully interrogated by any such member, employee, or inspector of the commission at any time or place, the court of common pleas of any county or any judge thereof, shall, on application of any commissioner, compel obedience by contempt proceedings as in the case of the disobedience of the requirements of a subpoena issued from such court or a refusal to testify therein.
Ohio Rev Code § 4903.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4903 | Public Utilities Commission - Hearings|Section 4903.03 | Examination of Records.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The public utilities commission may, through the public utilities commissioners or by inspectors or employees authorized by it, examine all books, contracts, records, documents, and papers of any public utility, and by subpoena duces tecum may compel the production thereof, or of verified copies of the same or any of them. The commission may compel the attendance of such witnesses as it requires to give evidence at such examination.
Ohio Rev Code § 4903.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4903 | Public Utilities Commission - Hearings|Section 4903.04 | Witnesses May Be Compelled to Testify.

Effective: January 9, 1961|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 104th General Assembly|If a person disobeys an order of the public utilities commission or a public utilities commissioner, or a subpoena, or if a witness refuses to testify to any matter regarding which he may be lawfully interrogated, the court of common pleas of a county or a judge of such court, on application of a commissioner, shall compel obedience by attachment proceedings for contempt, as in the case of disobedience of the requirements of a subpoena issued from such court or a refusal to testify therein. The commission also shall have the powers vested in notaries public to compel witnesses to testify and to produce books and papers.
Ohio Rev Code § 4903.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4903 | Public Utilities Commission - Hearings|Section 4903.05 | Witness Fees and Mileage.

Effective: July 1, 2009|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 525 - 127th General Assembly|Each witness who appears before the public utilities commission by its order shall receive the fees and mileage provided for under section 119.094 of the Revised Code, which shall be audited and paid by the state as other expenses are audited and paid, upon the presentation of proper vouchers sworn to by such witnesses and approved by the chairperson of the commission. No witness subpoenaed at the instance of parties other than the commission is entitled to compensation from the state for attendance or travel, unless the commission certifies that the witness's testimony was material to the matter investigated.
Ohio Rev Code § 4903.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4903 | Public Utilities Commission - Hearings|Section 4903.06 | Depositions.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|In an investigation, the public utilities commission or any party to the investigation may cause the depositions of witnesses residing within or without the state to be taken in the manner prescribed for depositions in civil actions in the court of common pleas.
Ohio Rev Code § 4903.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4903 | Public Utilities Commission - Hearings|Section 4903.07 | Certified Copy as Evidence.

Effective: January 9, 1961|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 104th General Assembly|A transcribed copy of the evidence and proceedings on an investigation, or a specific part thereof, taken by a stenographer appointed by the public utilities commission, certified by such stenographer to be a true and correct transcript of such evidence and proceedings, and carefully compared by him with his original notes, shall be received in evidence as if such stenographer was present and testified to the facts as certified. A copy of such transcript shall be furnished on demand, free of cost, to a party to such investigation, and to all other persons upon payment of a reasonable amount for it.
Ohio Rev Code § 4903.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4903 | Public Utilities Commission - Hearings|Section 4903.08 | Incrimination No Excuse.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No person shall be excused from testifying or from producing accounts, books, and papers, in any hearing before the public utilities commission any public utilities commissioner, or any person appointed by the commission to investigate any matter under its jurisdiction, on the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence might tend to incriminate him, or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture. No such person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture on account of, any transaction or matter concerning which he has testified or produced any documentary evidence. No person so testifying shall be exempted from prosecution or punishment for perjury in so testifying.
Ohio Rev Code § 4903.081 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4903 | Public Utilities Commission - Hearings|Section 4903.081 | Discussions of Case After Assignment of Formal Docket Number.

Effective: January 11, 1983|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 378 - 114th General Assembly|After a case has been assigned a formal docket number neither a member of the public utilities commission nor any examiner associated with the case shall discuss the merits of the case with any party or intervenor to the proceeding, unless all parties and intervenors have been notified and given the opportunity of being present or a full disclosure of the communication insofar as it pertains to the subject matter of the case has been made. Failure of any assigned examiner of the public utilities commission or any commissioner to abide by this section may, at the discretion of the commissioners, lead to that examiner's or commissioner's removal from a particular case or appropriate disciplinary action.
Ohio Rev Code § 4903.082 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4903 | Public Utilities Commission - Hearings|Section 4903.082 | Right of Discovery.

Effective: January 11, 1983|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 378 - 114th General Assembly|All parties and intervenors shall be granted ample rights of discovery. The present rules of the public utilities commission should be reviewed regularly by the commission to aid full and reasonable discovery by all parties. Without limiting the commission's discretion the Rules of Civil Procedure should be used wherever practicable.
Ohio Rev Code § 4903.083 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4903 | Public Utilities Commission - Hearings|Section 4903.083 | Public Hearings on Increase in Rates.

Effective: September 9, 2011|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 95 - 129th General Assembly|(A) For all cases involving applications for an increase in rates pursuant to section 4909.18 of the Revised Code the public utilities commission shall hold public hearings in each municipal corporation in the affected service area having a population in excess of one hundred thousand persons, provided that, at least one public hearing shall be held in each affected service area. At least one such hearing shall be held after 5:00 p.m. Notice of such hearing shall be published by the commission once each week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the service area. Said notice shall state prominently the total amount of the revenue increase requested in the application for the increase. 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 half 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.
Ohio Rev Code § 4903.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4903 | Public Utilities Commission - Hearings|Section 4903.09 | Written Opinions Filed by Commission in All Contested Cases.

Effective: October 26, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 134 - 100th General Assembly|In all contested cases heard by the public utilities commission, a complete record of all of the proceedings shall be made, including a transcript of all testimony and of all exhibits, and the commission shall file, with the records of such cases, findings of fact and written opinions setting forth the reasons prompting the decisions arrived at, based upon said findings of fact.
Ohio Rev Code § 4903.11 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4903 | Public Utilities Commission - Hearings|Section 4903.11 | Proceeding Deemed Commenced.

Effective: September 29, 1997|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 215 - 122nd General Assembly|No proceeding to reverse, vacate, or modify a final order of the public utilities commission is commenced unless the notice of appeal is filed within sixty days after the date of denial of the application for rehearing by operation of law or of the entry upon the journal of the commission of the order denying an application for rehearing or, if a rehearing is had, of the order made after such rehearing. An order denying an application for rehearing or an order made after a rehearing shall be served forthwith by regular mail upon all parties who have entered an appearance in the proceeding.
Ohio Rev Code § 4903.12 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4903 | Public Utilities Commission - Hearings|Section 4903.12 | Jurisdiction.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  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 § 4903.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4903 | Public Utilities Commission - Hearings|Section 4903.13 | Reversal of Final Order - Notice of Appeal.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|A final order made by the public utilities commission shall be reversed, vacated, or modified by the supreme court on appeal, if, upon consideration of the record, such court is of the opinion that such order was unlawful or unreasonable.The proceeding to obtain such reversal, vacation, or modification shall be by notice of appeal, filed with the public utilities commission by any party to the proceeding before it, against the commission, setting forth the order appealed from and the errors complained of. The notice of appeal shall be served, unless waived, upon the chairman of the commission, or, in the event of his absence, upon any public utilities commissioner, or by leaving a copy at the office of the commission at Columbus. The court may permit any interested party to intervene by cross-appeal.
Ohio Rev Code § 4903.14 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4903 | Public Utilities Commission - Hearings|Section 4903.14 | Certified Copy of Order as Evidence.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Upon application, the public utilities commission shall furnish certified copies under its seal of any order made by it, which certified copies shall be prima-facie evidence in a court or proceeding of the facts stated therein.