Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4901:1 - Utilities › Chapter 4901:1-2 - Protection of Underground Utility Facilities › Section 4901:1-2-01 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1,
			 2024
As used within this chapter, these
				terms denote the following:
(A)
								 "Aggrieved person," for purposes of this chapter,
			 shall have the same meaning as defined in division (A) of section
			 4913.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(B)
								 "Commission" means the public utilities commission of
			 Ohio.
(C)
								 "Committee" means the underground technical committee
			 created pursuant to section
			 3781.34 of the Revised Code that
			 shall carry out the duties outlined by section
			 3781.36 of the Revised
			 Code.
(D)
								 "Compliance failure," for purposes of this chapter,
			 shall have the same meaning as defined in division (B) of section
			 4913.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(E)
								 "Coordinator" shall be a full-time employee of the
			 commission designated by the director of the service monitoring and enforcement
			 department to assist the committee in the performance of its
			 duties.
(F)
								 "Days," when used to compute any period of time
			 prescribed or allowed by these rules, shall not include the date of the act or
			 event from which the designated period of time begins to run. The last day of
			 the period so computed shall be included, unless it is a Saturday, Sunday, or
			 legal holiday, in which event the period runs until the end of the next day
			 which is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.
(G)
								 "Designer,"
			 "developer," "excavation," "excavator," "one-call notification system,"
			 "person," "protection service," "underground utility facility," and "utility"
			 shall have the same meanings as in section
			 3781.25 of the Revised
			 Code.
(H)
								 "Director" means the director of the commission's
			 service monitoring and enforcement department or the director's
			 designee.
(I)
								 "Filing" means delivery, through paper filing,
			 facsimile transmission (fax) filing, or electronic filing (e-file), to the
			 commission's docketing division in accordance with rule
			 4901-1-02
			 of the Administrative Code.
(J)
								 "Hearing" means
			 all proceedings before the commission conducted in a manner consistent with
			 Chapter 4903. of the Revised Code.
(K)
								 "Participants"
			 means the aggrieved person and the person responsible for the alleged
			 compliance failure and any persons permitted to intervene after commencement of
			 a proceeding.
(L)
								 "Report of inquiry" is a document summarizing the
			 investigation of a compliance failure and reporting on a fine, penalty, or
			 no-penalty determination made by either the committee or the staff, when
			 applicable.
(M)
								 "Respondent" means the person, as defined in section
			 3781.25 of the Revised Code,
			 responsible for the alleged compliance failure.
(N)
								 Staff" means
			 those employees of the commission to whom responsibility has been delegated for
			 administering the provisions of Chapter 4913. of the Revised Code, as
			 applicable.
(O)
								 "Violation" means any conduct, act, or failure to act,
			 prohibited by Chapter 4913. of the Revised Code.
Effective: 12/4/2015
Five Year
				Review (FYR) Dates: 11/30/2020
Promulgated Under:
				111.15
Statutory
				Authority: 4913.45
Rule
				Amplifies: 4913.01