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Ohio Rev Code § 3781.14 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3781 | Building Standards - General Provisions|Section 3781.14 | Court Action Against Board of Building Standards.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Any person in interest mentioned in section 3781.13 of the Revised Code who is dissatisfied with any action of the board of building standards adopted and confirmed by determination of the board as provided in said section, may commence an action in the court of common pleas of Franklin county against the board as defendant to set aside, vacate, or amend any such provision on the ground that the provision is unreasonable or unlawful and the said court is hereby authorized and vested with exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine such action. The board shall be served with summons as in other civil cases. The answer of the board shall be filed within ten days after service of summons upon it, and with its answer it shall file a certified transcript of its record in said matter. Upon the filing of said answer said action shall be at issue and shall be advanced and assigned for trial by the court, upon the application of either party, at the earliest possible date.
Ohio Rev Code § 3781.15 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3781 | Building Standards - General Provisions|Section 3781.15 | Injunction Proceedings.

Effective: September 14, 1970|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 938 - 108th General Assembly|The construction, use, or occupation of any building which is declared by sections 3781.06 to 3781.18, inclusive, section 3781.031, and section 3791.04 of the Revised Code, to be a public nuisance may be enjoined in a proceeding instituted in the name of any department or officer mentioned in section 3781.03 of the Revised Code in the court of common pleas of the county in which said building is or will be situated.
Ohio Rev Code § 3781.16 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3781 | Building Standards - General Provisions|Section 3781.16 | Effect on Municipal or Other State Authorities.

Effective: October 29, 1995|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 162 - 121st General Assembly|Sections 3781.06 to 3781.18 and section 3791.04 of the Revised Code do not limit any of the powers of the public utilities commission, the bureau of workers' compensation, or the department of commerce, or the division of fire marshal, except as specifically provided in those sections, nor exempt any officer or department from the obligation of enforcing all laws. Those sections do not limit any of the powers conferred upon municipal corporations by the constitution or the laws of this state.
Ohio Rev Code § 3781.17 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3781 | Building Standards - General Provisions|Section 3781.17 | Assistance by Commerce Department.

Effective: October 29, 1995|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 162 - 121st General Assembly|The board of building standards may require the department of commerce to make such investigations, reports, and tests and submit such information as it deems necessary to assist it in the determination of any question coming before it, and may utilize for such purpose the services of the engineering experiment station at the Ohio state university.
Ohio Rev Code § 3781.18 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3781 | Building Standards - General Provisions|Section 3781.18 | Certain Descriptions Prescribe Minimum Standards.

Effective: May 27, 2005|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 175 - 125th General Assembly|Wherever Chapters 3781. and 3791. of the Revised Code or the rules adopted pursuant to those chapters describe particular fixtures, devices, materials, systems, method of manufacture, product of a manufacturing process, or methods or manners of construction or installation pertaining to nonresidential buildings, those descriptions prescribe minimum standards of safety and sanitary conditions that a particular fixture, device, material, system, method of manufacture, product of a manufacturing process, or method or manner of construction or installation exemplifies. The use of another fixture, device, material, system, industrialized unit, newly designed product, or method, or manner of construction or installation that is at variance with the descriptions is permissible if the fixture, device, material, system, manufactured component or unit, product, method, or manner of construction complies with performance standards as the board determines.
Ohio Rev Code § 3781.184 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3781 | Building Standards - General Provisions|Section 3781.184 | Federal Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards.

Effective: March 30, 1999|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 142 - 122nd General Assembly|(A) Every manufactured home, as defined in division (C)(4) of section 3781.06 of the Revised Code, shall be constructed in accordance with the federal construction and safety standards established by the secretary of housing and urban development pursuant to the "Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974," 88 Stat. 700, 42 U.S.C.A. 5401, 5403. The federal standards shall be the exclusive construction and safety standards in this state and neither the state nor any political subdivision of the state may establish any other standard governing the construction of manufactured homes.(B) Every manufactured home constructed in accordance with the federal standards specified in division (A) of this section, shall have a permanent label or tag affixed to it, as specified in 42 U.S.C.A. 5415, certifying compliance with the federal construction and safety standards.(C)(1) Every manufactured home that is constructed in accordance with the federal standards specified in division (A) of this section and is a permanently sited manufactured home as defined in division (C)(6) of section 3781.06 of the Revised Code shall be a permitted use in any district or zone in which a political subdivision permits single-family homes, and no political subdivision may prohibit or restrict the location of a permanently sited manufactured home in any zone or district in which a single-family home is permitted.(2) This division does not limit the authority of a political subdivision to do either of the following:(a) Require that a permanently sited manufactured home comply with all zoning requirements that are uniformly imposed on all single-family residences within the district or zone in which the permanently sited manufactured home is or is to be located, except requirements that specify a minimum roof pitch and requirements that do not comply with the standards established pursuant to the "Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974," 88 Stat. 700, 42 U.S.C.A. 5401;(b) Prohibit from any residential district or zone, travel trailers, park trailers, and mobile homes, as these terms are defined in section 4501.01 of the Revised Code, and manufactured homes that do not qualify as permanently sited manufactured homes.(D) This section does not prohibit a private landowner from incorporating a restrictive covenant in a deed, prohibiting the inclusion on the conveyed land of manufactured homes, as defined in division (C)(4) or (6) of section 3781.06 of the Revised Code, or of travel trailers, park trailers, and mobile homes, as defined in section 4501.01 of the Revised Code. This division does not create a new cause of action or substantive legal right for a private landowner to incorporate such a restrictive covenant in a deed.
Ohio Rev Code § 3781.191 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3781 | Building Standards - General Provisions|Section 3781.191 | Board Jurisdiction Regarding Residential Building Code.

Effective: September 29, 2005|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 66 - 126th General Assembly|The Ohio board of building appeals has no authority to hear any case based on the Ohio residential building code or to grant any variance to the Ohio residential building code.
Ohio Rev Code § 3781.26 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3781 | Building Standards - General Provisions|Section 3781.26 | Protection Service for Underground Utility Facilities.

Effective: March 27, 2013|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 458 - 129th General Assembly|(A) Each utility that owns or operates underground utility facilities shall participate in and register the location of its underground utility facilities with a protection service that serves the area where the facilities are located. A utility may elect to participate in the service on a limited basis and if it does so, it shall register the location of its underground utility facilities by identifying the municipal corporations, and outside the limits of a municipal corporation, the townships by county and, where applicable, the immediate geographic area in which it has facilities. The service shall establish reasonable fees for limited basis participants. (B) Protection services, utilities, commercial excavators, excavation equipment dealers, the public utilities commission of Ohio, the board of building standards, local law enforcement agencies, and fire departments should publicize the importance of ascertaining the location of underground utility facilities before excavating and the use of protection services to ascertain that information.(C) A protection service shall maintain records of notifications received from developers, designers, and excavators, and of its notifications made to utilities, developers, designers, and excavators, under sections 3781.27 and 3781.28 of the Revised Code. The records of a protection service shall identify by reference number, the notifications it received regarding a proposed excavation site, the notifications it provided regarding a proposed excavation site, and the date and time of each notification.(D) Each utility fully participating in a protection service pursuant to this section shall also participate in its affiliated positive response system. Each utility participating in a protection service on a limited basis shall directly communicate to the excavator the presence or absence of any conflict between the existing underground utility facilities and the proposed excavation site.
Ohio Rev Code § 3781.261 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3781 | Building Standards - General Provisions|Section 3781.261 | Protection of Underground Utility Facilities Training.

Effective: March 27, 2013|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 458 - 129th General Assembly|An excavator, contractor, or utility that utilizes a protection service shall obtain training in the protection of underground utility facilities. An excavator, contractor, or utility shall be deemed to have obtained that training if the excavator, contractor, or utility is a member of a protection service or a statewide association representing excavators, contractors, or utilities and the service or association provides that training. An excavator, contractor, or utility also may obtain the training from such a service or association without becoming a member.
Ohio Rev Code § 3781.271 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3781 | Building Standards - General Provisions|Section 3781.271 | Modification of One-Call Notification System.

Effective: March 27, 2013|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 458 - 129th General Assembly|Beginning on July 1, 2013, each protection service shall reasonably modify its one-call notification system so as to permit the reasonable identification of the location of a proposed excavation site in a manner in which the protection service may then notify any potentially affected limited basis participants. Each member of a protection service, including limited basis participants, shall be responsible for providing current contact information to the protection service.
Ohio Rev Code § 3781.30 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3781 | Building Standards - General Provisions|Section 3781.30 | Duties of Excavator.

Effective: March 27, 2013|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 458 - 129th General Assembly|(A) When making excavations using traditional or trenchless technologies, the excavator shall do all of the following: (1) Maintain reasonable clearance between any underground facility and the cutting edge or point of powered equipment;(2) Protect and preserve the markings of tolerance zones of underground utility facilities until those markings are no longer required for proper and safe excavations;(3) When approaching and excavating within the tolerance zone of underground utility facilities with powered equipment, require an individual other than the equipment operator, to visually monitor the excavation activity for any indication of the underground utility facility;(4) Conduct the excavation within the tolerance zone of underground utility facilities in a careful, prudent, and nondestructive manner, when necessary, in order to prevent damage;(5) Excavate up to the total depth of the excavation to either determine the precise location of underground utility facilities or verify that the total depth of excavation is free of such facilities;(6) As soon as any damage is discovered, including gouges, dents, or breaks to coatings, cable sheathes, and cathodic protection anodes or wiring, report the type and location of the damage to the utility and permit the utility a reasonable amount of time to make necessary repairs;(7) Immediately report to the utility, the protection service, and, if necessary, to the appropriate law enforcement agencies and fire departments by calling 9-1-1, any damage to an underground utility facility that results in escaping flammable, corrosive, explosive, or toxic liquids or gas, and take reasonable appropriate actions needed to protect persons and property and to minimize safety hazards until those agencies and departments and the utility arrive at the scene.(B) When utilizing trenchless excavation methods, the excavator must comply with the following requirements, in a manner consistent with division (A) of this section:(1) Expose and confirm all underground utility facilities at each crossing point by the proposed excavation in a nondestructive manner to the installation depth of the new facility;(2) Expose all parallel underground utility facilities in a nondestructive manner at the beginning and end of each trenchless excavation to the installation depth of the new facility. If the proposed alignment is within the tolerance zone of any parallel underground utility facility, the underground utility facility shall be exposed every one hundred feet.(3) Ensure that the final product installation maintains the proper clearances of existing underground utility facilities as determined pursuant to division (E)(4) of section 3781.27 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 3781.31 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3781 | Building Standards - General Provisions|Section 3781.31 | Notifying of Commencement of Excavation or of Removal of Markings.

Effective: March 27, 2013|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 458 - 129th General Assembly|(A) When a utility marks its underground utility facilities in accordance with section 3781.29 of the Revised Code, the utility may request that the excavator provide prior notice to the utility of the actual commencement of the excavation. An excavator that receives a request for notice under this division shall provide the notice to the utility at least one full working day prior to the commencement of excavation. The excavator may make this notice by telephone. (B) If the markings of underground utility facilities made under section 3781.29 of the Revised Code are destroyed or removed before excavation is completed, the excavator shall notify the utility through the protection service that the markings have been destroyed or removed, and the utility shall remark the facilities in accordance with section 3781.29 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 3781.32 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3781 | Building Standards - General Provisions|Section 3781.32 | Connections or Tie-Ins Within Right-of-Way.

Effective: March 27, 2013|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 458 - 129th General Assembly|(A) Any connections or tie-ins to existing utility services within a public right-of-way shall comply with permit requirements of the public authority that has jurisdiction over that right-of-way. (B) A developer or the designer employed by the developer shall not require, as a condition for entering into a contract for a project that will require excavation, that responsibility for performance of duties imposed under sections 3781.25 to 3781.32 of the Revised Code shall be assumed by a person other than the person on whom those duties are imposed under those sections. This division does not prohibit a utility from entering into any contract for the performance of duties that are imposed on a utility under those sections.(C) Nothing in sections 3728.25 to 3728.32 of the Revised Code shall be construed to require a utility to relocate its underground utility facilities located at an excavation site.
Ohio Rev Code § 3781.34 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3781 | Building Standards - General Provisions|Section 3781.34 | Underground Technical Committee.

Effective: March 23, 2015|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 378 - 130th General Assembly|(A) There is hereby created the underground technical committee.(B) The committee shall consist of four members from the stakeholder group of the commercial excavator industry, in accordance with division (C) of this section, and one member from each of the following stakeholder groups:(1) The natural gas transmission pipeline industry, appointed by the president of the senate;(2) The natural gas distribution industry, appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives;(3) Electric utilities, appointed by the governor;(4) Electric cooperatives, appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives;(5) A statewide organization representing independent oil and gas producers, appointed by the president of the senate;(6) The telephone industry, appointed by the governor;(7) Cable service providers, appointed by the president of the senate;(8) Locators of underground utility facilities, appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives;(9) Municipal corporations, appointed by the governor;(10) The department of transportation, appointed by the governor;(11) The general public, appointed by the governor;(12) The hazardous liquids pipeline industry, appointed by the governor;(13) Designers, developers, or surveyors, appointed by the governor.(C) The president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, the minority leader of the senate, and the minority leader of the house of representatives shall each appoint one of the members from the stakeholder group of the commercial excavator industry.(D) The terms of office for members initially appointed shall be staggered at two, three, and four years and determined by lot, except that the stakeholder group of the commercial excavator industry shall have only one member with an initial two-year term. The term of office for each member subsequently appointed shall be four years.(E) Each member may be reappointed for an unlimited number of times.(F) If a vacancy occurs during a member's term of office, a new member shall be appointed in the same manner as the original appointment.
Ohio Rev Code § 3781.341 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3781 | Building Standards - General Provisions|Section 3781.341 | Conflicts of Interest.

Effective: March 23, 2015|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 378 - 130th General Assembly|A member of the underground technical committee who has a conflict of interest in a particular review under section 4913.15 of the Revised Code shall declare the conflict to the committee and recuse self from committee discussions and voting regarding that review.
Ohio Rev Code § 3781.342 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3781 | Building Standards - General Provisions|Section 3781.342 | Meetings.

Effective: March 23, 2015|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 378 - 130th General Assembly|(A) The underground technical committee may conduct meetings in person, by teleconference, or by video conference.(B) The committee shall establish a primary meeting location that is open and accessible to the public.(C) Before convening a meeting by teleconference or video conference, the committee shall send, via electronic mail, facsimile, or United States postal service, a copy of meeting-related documents to each committee member.(D) The minutes of each meeting shall specify who was attending by teleconference, who was attending by video conference, and who was physically present. Any vote taken in a meeting held by teleconference that is not unanimous shall be recorded as a roll call vote.
Ohio Rev Code § 3781.343 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3781 | Building Standards - General Provisions|Section 3781.343 | Disclosure Requirements.

Effective: March 23, 2015|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 378 - 130th General Assembly|A member of the underground technical committee is not subject to the disclosure requirements of sections 102.02 and 102.021 of the Revised Code by virtue of membership on the committee.
Ohio Rev Code § 3781.36 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3781 | Building Standards - General Provisions|Section 3781.36 | Duties of Committee.

Effective: March 23, 2015|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 378 - 130th General Assembly|(A) The underground technical committee shall do the following:(1) Coordinate with the public utilities commission in carrying out its duties under Chapter 4913. of the Revised Code;(2) Provide subject matter expertise when requested during inquiries conducted under section 4913.09 of the Revised Code;(3) Review reports in accordance with section 4913.15 of the Revised Code;(4) Make recommendations under sections 4913.15 and 4913.16 of the Revised Code;(5) Perform any additional duties as may be required under this chapter.(B) The committee shall meet as necessary to carry out its duties and meet the time-period requirements of division (B) of section 4913.15 of the Revised Code, but not less than once every three months. A majority of committee members constitutes a quorum.
Ohio Rev Code § 3781.38 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 37 | Health-Safety-Morals|Chapter 3781 | Building Standards - General Provisions|Section 3781.38 | Member Immunity.

Effective: March 23, 2015|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 378 - 130th General Assembly|Every member of the underground technical committee shall be immune, individually and jointly, from civil liability for any act or omission done or made in performance of the member's duties while serving as a member of the committee, but only in the absence of willful misconduct.