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Ohio Rev Code § 6109.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6109 | Safe Drinking Water|Section 6109.06 | Water Use Advisory.

Effective: December 14, 1978|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 445 - 112th General Assembly|Whenever the director of environmental protection determines that use of water from a public water system presents a threat to the health of persons using such water, he may issue a "water use advisory" alerting the owner, operator, or users of such system of the threat and advising that the use of the water be discontinued or that the water be boiled or otherwise treated to render it safe for use. The director may order the owner or operator of such system to notify its users, or potential users, of the water use advisory by newspaper or other means and to provide notification to radio and television stations.
Ohio Rev Code § 6109.071 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6109 | Safe Drinking Water|Section 6109.071 | Decrease in Public Water System Pumping Rates.

Effective: October 17, 2019|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 166 - 133rd General Assembly|(A) As used in this section and section 6109.072 of the Revised Code: (1) "Public water system well" means a well for use by a public water system. (2) "Well" means any excavation by digging, boring, drilling, driving, or other method for the purpose of removing ground water from an aquifer. "Well" does not include a private water system well or a monitoring well. (B) The director of environmental protection may require a public water system to decrease its pumping rates if either of the following applies: (1) The public water system is pumping at a rate that is drawing or has the potential to draw contaminants into the public water system or a public water system well.  (2) The chief of the division of water resources in the department of natural resources revokes, suspends, or amends a permit issued under section 1521.29 or 1522.12 of the Revised Code or requires a decrease in withdrawal with respect to either such permit.
Ohio Rev Code § 6109.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6109 | Safe Drinking Water|Section 6109.08 | Owner or Operator to Provide Financial Assurance.

Effective: October 6, 2017|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 2 - 132nd General Assembly|(A) The director of environmental protection shall not approve plans for construction, installation, or substantial modification of a community water system that serves fewer than five hundred service connections, or any part of such a system, except a system owned and operated by a public entity or a system regulated by the public utilities commission, unless the owner or operator of the system or part thereof has provided financial assurance, in a form acceptable to the director, in an amount equal to fifteen per cent of the cost of the system or part thereof owned by the owner or operator, but not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars. (B) If a system for which f inancial assurance is required under division (A) of this section is not properly constructed, maintained, repaired, or operated, the director may order the owner or operator of t he system or part thereof to correct the deficiencies, and shall authorize the use of m oney from the financial assurance as necessary to enable compliance with the order. When money from the financial assurance is used, the owner or the operator of t he system or part thereof shall replace such money within six months of its use. (C) For purposes of this section, "community water system" means a public water system that serves at least fifteen service connections used by year-round residents or t hat regularly serves at least twenty-five year-round residents.For purposes of this section, "public entity" means the federal government, the state, any political subdivision, and any agency, institution, or instrumentality thereof.
Ohio Rev Code § 6109.11 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6109 | Safe Drinking Water|Section 6109.11 | Investigation of Complaints of Impure Water.

Effective: December 14, 1978|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 445 - 112th General Assembly|Whenever any person files with the environmental protection agency a complaint, in writing, setting forth that it is believed that water provided by a public water system is impure and dangerous to health or does not contain quantities of fluoride as required by section 6109.20 of the Revised Code, the director of environmental protection shall forthwith inquire into and investigate the conditions contained in the complaint.
Ohio Rev Code § 6109.12 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6109 | Safe Drinking Water|Section 6109.12 | Public Water System Analyses.

Effective: December 14, 1978|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 445 - 112th General Assembly|Every owner or operator of a public water system shall have analyses of the water made at such intervals and in such manner as may be ordered by the environmental protection agency. Records of the results of such analyses shall be maintained and reported as required by the agency.
Ohio Rev Code § 6109.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6109 | Safe Drinking Water|Section 6109.13 | Approval of Connections to Public Water System.

Effective: December 14, 1978|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 445 - 112th General Assembly|No official, officer, or employee in charge of or being employed in the maintenance and operation of a public water system and no other person, firm, or corporation shall establish or permit to be established any connection whereby water from a private, auxiliary, or emergency water system may enter the public water system, unless such private, auxiliary, or emergency water system, and the method of connection and use of such system, has been approved by the environmental protection agency.
Ohio Rev Code § 6109.14 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6109 | Safe Drinking Water|Section 6109.14 | Notification of Danger of Contamination - Hearing.

Effective: December 14, 1978|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 445 - 112th General Assembly|When the director of environmental protection finds, upon investigation, that water in a public water system is subject to the danger of contamination by reason of unsatisfactory location, protection, construction, operation, or maintenance of the system, or by reason of the existence of an unsafe emergency system or connection to an unsafe private or auxiliary system, or if the director finds upon investigation that the public health is endangered by reason of the existence of an inadequate public water system, or that the system does not contain quantities of fluoride as required by section 6109.20 of the Revised Code, he shall notify the municipal corporation, county, public institution, or person, owning or operating such public water system of his findings and of the time and place, when and where a hearing may be had. Such notice shall be by personal service, or shall be sent by certified mail to the mayor or managing officer or officers of the municipal corporation, county, or public institution or to the person owning or operating such supply.
Ohio Rev Code § 6109.15 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6109 | Safe Drinking Water|Section 6109.15 | Improvements, Corrections, and Changes to Prevent Contamination.

Effective: December 14, 1978|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 445 - 112th General Assembly|After the hearing provided for in section 6109.14 of the Revised Code, if the director of environmental protection determines that improvements or changes are necessary and should be made, the director shall order the mayor or managing officer or officers of the municipal corporation, county, or public institution or other person owning or operating a public water system to make improvements, corrections, and changes in the location, protection, construction, operation, or maintenance of the system satisfactory to the director, so as to prevent the contamination of the water or to provide a system not subject to the danger of contamination, or to provide a system adequate to avoid endangering the public health or to provide required quantities of fluoride. Notice of the director's order shall be made by personal service upon or by certified mail to the mayor or managing officer or officers of the municipal corporation, county, or public institution or to the officials, corporation, partnership, or person to whom the order applies.
Ohio Rev Code § 6109.16 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6109 | Safe Drinking Water|Section 6109.16 | Writ of Mandamus.

Effective: December 14, 1978|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 445 - 112th General Assembly|If the responsible officers of a municipal corporation, county, or public institution fail to submit to the director, within ninety days after receipt of notice of an order of the director of environmental protection under section 6109.15 of the Revised Code, plans for compliance with the order, or fail to perform any act required of them by such order within a reasonable time, the order may be enforced by a writ of mandamus issued by any court authorized to issue such writ.
Ohio Rev Code § 6109.17 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6109 | Safe Drinking Water|Section 6109.17 | Funds for Safe Drinking Water Systems.

Effective: December 14, 1978|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 445 - 112th General Assembly|The legislative authority of each municipal corporation, or the department or officer having jurisdiction to provide for the raising of revenue by tax levies, sales of bonds, or otherwise shall take all steps necessary to secure the funds for any purpose set forth in sections 6109.11 to 6109.20 of the Revised Code. When the funds are secured, or the bonds therefor have been sold, such funds shall be considered as in the treasury and appropriated for such particular purpose, and shall not be used for any other purpose.
Ohio Rev Code § 6109.18 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6109 | Safe Drinking Water|Section 6109.18 | Emergency Bonds to Fund Safe Drinking Water Improvements.

Effective: October 30, 1989|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 230 - 118th General Assembly|If the director of environmental protection determines that the municipal corporation is unable to comply with section 6109.17 of the Revised Code by reason of existing debt and tax limitations, the director may find that an emergency exists requiring the immediate issuance of bonds. When such finding is approved by the tax commissioner and is certified to the taxing authority of the municipal corporation, it shall issue bonds, or notes in anticipation thereof, and such bonds or notes shall be outside the limitations provided by section 133.05 of the Revised Code. The debt charges on bonds issued under order of the director outside the limitations prescribed by section 133.05 of the Revised Code shall be outside the one per cent limitation prescribed by Section 2 of Article XII, Ohio Constitution.
Ohio Rev Code § 6109.19 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6109 | Safe Drinking Water|Section 6109.19 | Additional Charges for Water Supply to Pay for Improvements.

Effective: December 14, 1978|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 445 - 112th General Assembly|Where an order of the director of environmental protection to a person owning and operating a public water system whose rates are regulated by the public utilities commission is final and it is claimed by such person that the revenues derived from the operation of such system is not sufficient to warrant the expense of making the improvements or changes so ordered, an application may be made to the public utilities commission for authority to make and collect additional charges from the water consumers and users of the utility's service. Upon the filing of such application the commission shall fix a time for the hearing thereof and give notice thereof to the mayor of the municipal corporation and the director. If upon hearing the commission finds that the rates theretofore authorized to be charged will not provide revenue sufficient to operate said system and make a reasonable return upon the investment after such improvements and changes are made, it shall by order authorize the collection of such additional charges and compensation as may be just and reasonable.
Ohio Rev Code § 6109.20 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6109 | Safe Drinking Water|Section 6109.20 | Maintaining Fluoride Content of Public Water Supply.

Effective: December 14, 1978|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 445 - 112th General Assembly|If the natural fluoride content of supplied water of a public water system is less than eight-tenths milligrams per liter of water, fluoride shall be added to such water to maintain fluoride content of not less than eight-tenths milligrams per liter of water nor more than one and three-tenths milligrams per liter of water beginning:(A) On or before January 1, 1971, for a public water system supplying water to twenty thousand or more persons;(B) On or before January 1, 1972, for a public water system supplying water to five thousand or more persons, but less than twenty thousand persons.
Ohio Rev Code § 6109.23 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6109 | Safe Drinking Water|Section 6109.23 | Administrative Assessment and Collection of Monetary Penalties for Failure to Comply With Safe Drinking Water Rules.

Effective: November 26, 1997|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 321 - 122nd General Assembly|To the extent required by the Safe Drinking Water Act, the director of environmental protection may adopt, amend, and rescind rules pursuant to section 6109.04 of the Revised Code providing for the administrative assessment and collection of monetary penalties for failure to comply with this chapter or rules adopted under it. For public water systems serving populations of more than ten thousand, a monetary penalty assessed under this section shall be not less than one thousand dollars for each day of each violation, but in no case shall the total amount of monetary penalty exceed ten thousand dollars per violation. For public water systems serving populations of ten thousand or fewer, the rules adopted under this section shall establish a methodology for calculating the monetary penalty based on the size of the system, the threat to public health presented by the failure to comply, and other factors that may be necessary to ensure compliance with this chapter and rules adopted under it, but in no case shall the total amount of monetary penalty exceed two thousand five hundred dollars per violation. For the purposes of this section, the director may require the submission of compliance schedules and related information.Any orders, payments, sanctions, or other requirements imposed pursuant to rules adopted under this section are in addition to any other orders, payments, sanctions, or requirements issued or imposed under this chapter and rules adopted under it and shall not affect any civil or criminal enforcement proceedings brought under this chapter, rules adopted under it, or any other state or local law. Moneys collected pursuant to this section shall be credited to the drinking water protection fund created in section 6109.30 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 6109.30 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6109 | Safe Drinking Water|Section 6109.30 | Drinking Water Protection Fund.

Effective: September 29, 2015|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly|(A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the drinking water protection fund, which shall be administered by the director of environmental protection. The fund shall consist of moneys distributed to it and shall be used for all of the following purposes:(1) Administration of this chapter and rules adopted under it;(2) Administration in this state of the Safe Drinking Water Act;(3) Provision of technical assistance to public water systems in this state for the purposes of this chapter and rules adopted under it;(4) Special studies conducted by the director for the monitoring and testing of drinking water quality in this state;(5) Support of programs for the prevention of contamination of surface and ground water supplies in this state that are sources of drinking water.(B) The director may expend not more than two hundred thousand dollars from the fund in each fiscal year for the purpose of making loans to owners and operators of public water systems for emergency remediation of threats of contamination to public water supplies. The director shall not loan more than twenty-five thousand dollars to the owner or operator of any single public water system. The director shall adopt, and may amend and rescind, rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing application procedures and requirements for those loans. The rules shall require that an owner or operator receiving a loan under this division repay the loan to the fund not later than twelve months after receiving it.
Ohio Rev Code § 6109.31 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6109 | Safe Drinking Water|Section 6109.31 | Violations - Noncompliance.

Effective: September 5, 2012|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 294 - 129th General Assembly|(A) No person shall violate this chapter, a rule adopted under it, or any order or term or condition of a license, license renewal, variance, or exemption granted by the director of environmental protection under it. Each day of noncompliance is a separate violation. (B) No person shall make a false material statement or representation in an application, license, record, report, or other document that is required to be submitted to the director or to the attorney general under this chapter, a rule adopted under it, or any order or term or condition of a license, license renewal, variance, or exemption granted by the director under it.(C) No person shall alter, substitute, falsify, conceal, or purposefully omit a sample that is required to be collected pursuant to any reporting requirement that is established under this chapter or a rule adopted under it.(D) No person shall tamper with, alter, or interfere with the operation of a public water system without the authorization of the owner or operator of the system or of the director.
Ohio Rev Code § 6109.32 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6109 | Safe Drinking Water|Section 6109.32 | Investigations - Enforcement by Attorney General.

Effective: September 5, 2012|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 294 - 129th General Assembly|The director of environmental protection may on the director's own initiative investigate or make inquiries into any suspected violation of section 6109.31 of the Revised Code. The attorney general, upon written request by the director, shall bring an action for injunction or other appropriate civil action or criminal prosecution against any person violating or threatening to violate that section. In an action for injunction to enforce any final order of the director, the finding by the director, after hearing, is prima-facie evidence of the facts found therein.
Ohio Rev Code § 6109.33 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6109 | Safe Drinking Water|Section 6109.33 | Civil Penalty.

Effective: July 1, 1993|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 152 - 120th General Assembly|Any person who violates section 6109.31 of the Revised Code shall pay a civil penalty of not more than twenty-five thousand dollars for each violation, to be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the drinking water protection fund created in section 6109.30 of the Revised Code. The attorney general, upon written request by the director of environmental protection, shall bring an action for such a penalty against any person who violates that section. Such an action is a civil action, governed by the Rules of Civil Procedure and other rules of practice and procedure applicable to civil actions.
Ohio Rev Code § 6109.34 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 61 | Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches|Chapter 6109 | Safe Drinking Water|Section 6109.34 | Right of Entry.

Effective: December 14, 1978|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 445 - 112th General Assembly|The director of environmental protection or his duly authorized representative may enter at reasonable times upon any private or public property to inspect and investigate conditions relating to the construction, maintenance, and operation of a public water system, and may take samples for analysis. If entry or inspection authorized by this section is refused, hindered, or thwarted, the director or his authorized representative may by affidavit apply for, and any judge of a court of record may issue, an appropriate inspection warrant necessary to achieve the purposes of this chapter within the court's territorial jurisdiction.