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Ohio Rev Code § 4929.29 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4929 | Alternate Rate Plan for Natural Gas Companies; Certification of Governmental Aggregators and Retail Natural Gas Suppliers|Section 4929.29 | Order for Distribution of Service on Comparable and Nondiscriminatory Basis to Nonmercantile Consumers.

Effective: June 26, 2001|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 9 - 124th General Assembly|(A)(1) The legislative authority of a municipal corporation described in division (K)(1) of section 4929.01 of the Revised Code, the board of township trustees of a township, or the board of county commissioners of a county may petition the public utilities commission to require a natural gas company with fifteen thousand or more customers in this state to provide, upon the effective date of an ordinance or resolution authorized and adopted under section 4929.26 or 4929.27 of the Revised Code, distribution service on a fully open, equal, and nondiscriminatory basis to consumers that are not mercantile customers and are within the area of the governmental aggregation and to which the company provides distribution service through distribution facilities it singly or jointly owns or operates.(2) The legislative authority of a municipal corporation described in division (K)(2) of section 4929.01 of the Revised Code may petition the commission to require a natural gas company with fifteen thousand or more customers in this state to provide, upon the effective date of an ordinance adopted under Section 5 of Article XVIII, Ohio Constitution, distribution service on a fully open, equal, and nondiscriminatory basis to consumers that are within the area of the governmental aggregation and to which the company provides distribution service through distribution facilities it singly or jointly owns or operates.(3) A retail natural gas supplier may petition the commission to require a natural gas company with fifteen thousand or more customers in this state to so provide such fully open, equal, and nondiscriminatory service to all consumers that are not mercantile customers and to which the company provides distribution service through distribution facilities it singly or jointly owns or operates.(B) Upon petition under division (A)(1), (2), or (3) of this section, the commission, after notice and opportunity for hearing and by order, may require that the natural gas company provide the service within the area specified in the petition, provided that the commission finds that the provision of the service within the area is in the public interest. The applicant shall have the burden of proof under this division. Chapter 4903. of the Revised Code shall apply to a proceeding under this division.(C) Upon the issuance of an order under division (B) of this section requiring distribution service on a comparable and nondiscriminatory basis within the area specified in the order, the natural gas company shall file with the commission under section 4905.30 of the Revised Code revised schedules under which the company shall provide the service so ordered. The commission shall act promptly to approve the schedules.
Ohio Rev Code § 4929.30 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4929 | Alternate Rate Plan for Natural Gas Companies; Certification of Governmental Aggregators and Retail Natural Gas Suppliers|Section 4929.30 | Prior Arrangements, Contracts and Aggregation Programs.

Effective: June 26, 2001|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 9 - 124th General Assembly|(A) Nothing in sections 4929.20 to 4929.29 of the Revised Code affects any arrangement or other contract to supply or arrange for the supply of commodity sales service or ancillary service to a consumer in this state, which arrangement or contract was entered into prior to the effective date of initial rules adopted pursuant to division (A) of section 4929.20 of the Revised Code, and was authorized as a result of a rule or order adopted or issued by the public utilities commission under Chapter 4905. of the Revised Code; and nothing in sections 4929.20 to 4929.29 of the Revised Code affects any rights or duties of any person under such an arrangement or contract for the term of the arrangement or contract.(B) Nothing in sections 4929.20 to 4929.29 of the Revised Code applies to a community aggregation program that is designed and operated to avoid gaps in the cumulative coverage of the aggregation and under which more than fifty per cent of a natural gas company's customers were enrolled in the program as of January 1, 2001. A municipal corporation served under such a program by the facilities of a natural gas company may continue to provide competitive retail natural gas service to customers in the aggregation, including school districts and customers outside the boundaries of the municipal corporation.
Ohio Rev Code § 4931.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4931 | Companies - Telegraph; Telephone|Section 4931.01 | "Telephone Company" Defined.

Effective: September 13, 2010|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly|As used in sections 4931.02 to 4931.05 of the Revised Code, "telephone company" has the same meaning as in section 4927.01 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 4931.02 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4931 | Companies - Telegraph; Telephone|Section 4931.02 | Acquisition or Construction of Other Lines.

Effective: September 13, 2010|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly|(A) A telephone company may construct, own, use, and maintain telecommunications lines and facilities, whether described in its original articles of incorporation or not, and whether such lines or facilities are wholly within or partly beyond the limits of this state. It may join with another company or association in conducting, leasing, owning, using, or maintaining such lines or facilities, on terms agreed upon between the directors or managers of the respective companies. Such companies may own and hold any interest in such lines or facilities, or become lessees thereof on such terms as they agree upon, but no such company and the owner of rights of way shall contract for the exclusive use of such rights of way for telecommunications purposes. (B) A telephone company's lines and facilities shall not unreasonably interfere with the practical uses of the property on which they are located. A telephone company shall repair defective lines and facilities, which repairs shall be consistent with reasonable business practices and applicable industry standards.
Ohio Rev Code § 4931.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4931 | Companies - Telegraph; Telephone|Section 4931.03 | Construction in Unincorporated Area of Township.

Effective: September 13, 2010|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly|(A) A telephone company may do either of the following in the unincorporated area of the township: (1) Construct telecommunications lines or facilities upon and along any of the public roads and highways and across any waters within that area by the erection of the necessary fixtures, including posts, piers, or abutments for sustaining the cords or wires of those lines or facilities. The lines and facilities shall be constructed so as not to incommode the public in the use of the roads or highways, or endanger or injuriously interrupt the navigation of the waters.(2) Construct telecommunications lines and facilities in such a manner as to protect them beneath the surface of any of the public roads and highways and beneath any waters within that area. Those lines and facilities shall be constructed so as not to incommode the public in the use of the roads or highways, or endanger or injuriously interrupt the navigation of the waters.(B)(1) This section does not authorize the construction of a bridge across any waters within the state.(2) Construction under this section is subject to section 5571.16 of the Revised Code, as applicable, and any other applicable law, including, but not limited to, any law requiring approval of the legislative authority, the county engineer, or the director of transportation.
Ohio Rev Code § 4931.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4931 | Companies - Telegraph; Telephone|Section 4931.04 | Right of Entry.

Effective: September 13, 2010|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly|A telephone company may enter upon any land held by an individual or a corporation, whether such land was acquired by purchase, appropriation, or by virtue of any provision in its charter, for the purpose of making preliminary examination and surveys, with a view to the location and construction of telecommunications lines and facilities, and may appropriate so much of such land in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22 of the Revised Code, as it deems necessary for the construction and maintenance of those lines and facilities, and the right of way in, through, over, across, and under such lands and adjacent lands, sufficient to enable it to construct and repair the lines and facilities.
Ohio Rev Code § 4931.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4931 | Companies - Telegraph; Telephone|Section 4931.05 | Powers and Restrictions.

Effective: September 13, 2010|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly|Any company organized at any time to transact a telephone or communications business may construct, reconstruct, own, use, lease, operate, maintain, and improve communications systems for the transmission of voices, sounds, writings, signs, signals, pictures, visions, images, or other forms of intelligence, as public utility services, by means of wire, cable, radio, radio relay, or other telecommunications facilities, methods, or media. Any such company has the powers and is subject to the restrictions prescribed in sections 4931.02 to 4931.04 of the Revised Code for telephone companies.
Ohio Rev Code § 4931.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4931 | Companies - Telegraph; Telephone|Section 4931.06 | Privileged Communications of Person With Communicative Impairment.

Effective: September 13, 2010|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 162 - 128th General Assembly|(A) As used in this section and in sections 2317.02 and 2921.22 of the Revised Code: (1) "Communications assistant" means a person who transliterates conversation from text to voice and from voice to text between the end users of a telecommunications relay service provided pursuant to this section or Title II of the "Communications Act of 1934," 104 Stat. 366 (1990), 47 U.S.C. 225.(2) "Communicative impairment" means deafness or speech impairment.(3) "Deafness" means a hearing loss that prevents a person from being able to understand speech over the telephone.(4) "Speech impairment" means a speech impairment that renders a person's speech unintelligible on the telephone.(5) "Telecommunications relay service" means telephone transmission services that provide the ability for an individual who has a communicative impairment to engage in a communication by wire or radio with a hearing individual in a manner that is functionally equivalent to the ability of an individual who does not have a communicative impairment to communicate using voice communication services by wire or radio. "Telecommunications relay service" includes services that enable two-way communication between an individual who uses a text telephone or other nonvoice terminal device and an individual who does not use such a device.(B) Any communication made by or to a person with a communicative impairment with the assistance of a communications assistant at a telecommunications relay service is confidential and privileged and shall not be disclosed by the communications assistant in any civil case or proceeding or in any legislative or administrative proceeding, unless the person making the communication and the person to whom the communication is made each waive the privilege of confidentiality or the obligation to divulge the communication is mandated by federal law or regulation or pursuant to subpoena in a criminal proceeding.(C) A communications assistant or a telecommunications relay service provider is not subject to criminal prosecution and is not liable in damages in any civil action on account of the act of transliterating or the content of any communication transliterated, or any injury, death, or loss to person or property allegedly arising from the act of transliterating or the content of any communication transliterated, between the end users of a telecommunications relay service, except in cases of willful or wanton misconduct.
Ohio Rev Code § 4931.10 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4931 | Companies - Telegraph; Telephone|Section 4931.10 | Transmitting Advertising by Facsimile Device.

Effective: December 20, 2012|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 360 - 129th General Assembly|(A) As used in this section: (1) "Advertisement" means a message or material intended to cause the sale of realty, goods, or services.(2) "Facsimile device" means a device that electronically or telephonically receives and copies onto paper reasonable reproductions or facsimiles of documents and photographs through connection with a telephone network.(3) "Pre-existing business relationship" does not include transmitting an advertisement to the owner's or lessee's facsimile device.(B)(1) No person shall transmit an advertisement to a facsimile device unless the person has received prior permission from the owner or, if the device is leased, from the lessee of the device to which the message is to be sent to transmit the advertisement; or the person has a pre-existing business relationship with such owner or lessee. Division (B)(1) of this section does not apply to a person who transmits an advertisement to a facsimile device located on residential premises.(2) No person shall transmit an advertisement to a facsimile device located on residential premises unless the person has received prior written permission from the owner or, if the device is leased, from the lessee of the device to which the message is to be sent to transmit the advertisement. In addition to any other penalties or remedies, a recipient of an advertisement transmitted in violation of division (B)(2) of this section may bring a civil action against the person who transmitted that advertisement or caused it to be transmitted. In that action, the recipient may recover one thousand dollars for each violation.(C) When requested by the owner or lessee, the transmission shall occur between seven p.m. and five a.m.This section applies to all such advertisements intended to be so transmitted within this state.
Ohio Rev Code § 4931.99 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4931 | Companies - Telegraph; Telephone|Section 4931.99 | Penalties.

Effective: December 20, 2012|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 360 - 129th General Assembly|(A) Whoever violates division (B) of section 4931.06 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor in the first degree. (B) Whoever violates section 4931.10 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor for a first offense and a misdemeanor of the first degree on each subsequent offense.
Ohio Rev Code § 4933.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4933 | Companies - Gas; Electric; Water; Others|Section 4933.01 | Powers.

Effective: September 19, 1961|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 500 - 104th General Assembly|A company organized for the purpose of supplying gas for lighting the streets and public and private buildings of a municipal corporation or township may manufacture, sell, and furnish the gas required in such municipal corporation or township for such or other purposes, a company organized for the purpose of supplying the inhabitants of a municipal corporation or township with water may sell and furnish any quantity of water required in such municipal corporation or township for such or other purposes, and a company organized for the purpose of supplying the inhabitants of a municipal corporation or township with sewage disposal services may supply said services as required by such municipal corporation or township for such or other purposes. Such companies may lay conductors for conducting gas, sewage, or water through the streets, lands, alleys, and squares in such municipal corporation with the consent of the municipal authorities or the board of township trustees under such reasonable regulations as such authorities or board prescribes.
Ohio Rev Code § 4933.02 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4933 | Companies - Gas; Electric; Water; Others|Section 4933.02 | Gas or Electric Companies May Manufacture and Supply Both Electricity and Gas.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Every corporation organized under the laws of this state to manufacture and supply artificial gas for light, heat, or power purposes and every corporation organized under the laws of this state to manufacture and supply electricity for light, heat, or power purposes, subject to statutory provisions relating to the granting of franchises by municipal corporations for any such purpose in force at the time of granting the franchise, may manufacture and supply electricity and artificial gas, respectively, for light, heat, or power purposes. Such corporations may make all contracts and do all things necessary and convenient for furnishing electricity and artificial gas for both public and private objects.
Ohio Rev Code § 4933.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4933 | Companies - Gas; Electric; Water; Others|Section 4933.03 | Consent of Municipal Corporation.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Section 4933.02 of the Revised Code does not confer a right to engage in the business referred to in such section, or to erect or maintain structures in a street, alley, or public place, without the consent of the municipal corporation in which such structures are to be constructed.
Ohio Rev Code § 4933.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4933 | Companies - Gas; Electric; Water; Others|Section 4933.04 | Contracts With Municipal Corporation for Light, Sewage Disposal, and Water.

Effective: September 19, 1961|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 500 - 104th General Assembly|The proper officers of any municipal corporation or the board of township trustees of any township in which a gas, sewage disposal system company, or water company is organized may contract with such company for lighting, disposal of sewage, or supplying with water the streets, lands, lanes, squares, and public places in such municipal corporation or township.
Ohio Rev Code § 4933.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4933 | Companies - Gas; Electric; Water; Others|Section 4933.05 | Gas Company May Extend Mains Beyond City.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|A gas company in a municipal corporation may extend its pipes used for conveying gas to the various localities and inhabitants of the municipal corporation to any place in the vicinity of such municipal corporation outside the corporate limits; but the right of way must be obtained from the authorities or persons having control of the places to be affected by such extension.
Ohio Rev Code § 4933.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4933 | Companies - Gas; Electric; Water; Others|Section 4933.06 | Minimum Heating Value of Natural Gas.

Effective: April 16, 1993|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 365 - 119th General Assembly|Except as otherwise provided in arrangements approved under section 4905.31 of the Revised Code, natural gas delivered to customers shall have a heating value of not less than nine hundred British thermal units per cubic foot when measured in the laboratory by direct heat release or by chemical composition, according to the procedures of the American society for testing and materials or other recognized analytical methods in effect on the effective date of this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 4933.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4933 | Companies - Gas; Electric; Water; Others|Section 4933.08 | Gas Meter Must Be Sealed and Stamped.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No gas meter shall be set unless it is tested by a meter-prover, sealed, and stamped as provided in section 4933.11 of the Revised Code. A company authorizing the setting of a meter, or allowing it to be used by a consumer of gas, without being so sealed and stamped, shall forfeit not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, to be recovered upon the complaint of such consumer, in the name of the state, before any court of competent jurisdiction.
Ohio Rev Code § 4933.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4933 | Companies - Gas; Electric; Water; Others|Section 4933.09 | Testing of Gas Meters.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Gas meters in use shall be tested on the request of the consumer, in his presence if desired by him, with a tested and sealed meter-prover, by an officer or servant of the gas company. If the meter is found to be correct, and it is deemed correct if the variation is not greater than three per cent, the party requesting the inspection shall pay a fee of twenty-five cents, and the expense of removing it for the purpose of being tested. The reinspection shall be stamped on the meter. If the meter is proved incorrect, no fees or expense shall be paid by the consumer, and the company shall furnish a new meter without charge to the consumer. No gas company shall charge rent for meters.This section applies to all gas companies supplying the public with either natural or artificial gas. Any person, firm, or corporation providing either natural or artificial gas to the public which fails to comply with this section shall forfeit to the state not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, to be recovered upon the complaint of any consumer of such gas in the name of the state before any court of competent jurisdiction.
Ohio Rev Code § 4933.10 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 49 | Public Utilities|Chapter 4933 | Companies - Gas; Electric; Water; Others|Section 4933.10 | Inspection of Gas Meters.

Effective: February 14, 1967|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 2 - 107th General Assembly|If authorized in writing by the president, treasurer, agent, or secretary of a gas company, its officer or servant may enter, at any reasonable time, any premises lighted with gas supplied by such company, to examine or remove the gas meters, and to ascertain the quantity of gas consumed or supplied. If a person prevents or hinders such officer or servant from so entering such premises, or from making such examination or removal, a judge of a county court or judge of a municipal court of the county in which the premises are located may, on complaint by the officer or servant under oath, stating the facts in the case, so far as he has knowledge of them, issue a warrant, directed to any constable of the municipal corporation where such company is located, commanding him to take sufficient aid and go to such premises, accompanied by such officer or servant who shall examine such meters and ascertain the quantity of gas consumed or supplied, and if required, remove any meters belonging to the company.