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...No railroad company owning or operating a railroad wholly or partly within this state shall, directly or indirectly, issue or give a free ticket, free pass, or free transportation for passengers, except to: (A) Its employees and their families, its officers, agents, surgeons, physicians, and attorneys at law; (B) Ministers of religion, traveling secretaries of railroad young men's or young women's Christian a...

...(A) Whoever violates section 4907.21 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars. (B) Whoever violates section 4907.22 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars. (C) Whoever violates section 4907.32 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars. (D) Whoever violates...

...Subject to a finding that such costs are just and reasonable, the public utilities commission in evaluating a petition submitted under section 4905.481 of the Revised Code shall accept the original cost, reported under division (B)(3) of section 4909.05 of the Revised Code, of the acquisition of a municipal water-works or sewage disposal system company that is acquired by a large water-works or sewage disposal system...

...(A) The public utilities commission, when fixing and determining just and reasonable rates, fares, tolls, rentals, and charges, shall determine: (1)(a) With respect to a public utility that is an electric light, natural gas, water-works, or sewage disposal system company that chooses not to file a forecasted test period under section 4909.18 of the Revised Code, the valuation as of the date certain of the property...

...(A) A waterworks company, or a sewage disposal system company, that is a public utility may file an application with the public utilities commission for approval to collect an infrastructure improvement surcharge, determined in accordance with this section, from customers located in the company's affected service areas and subject to affected schedules filed by the company under section 4905.32 of the Revised Code. T...

...Any public utility desiring to establish any rate, joint rate, toll, classification, charge, or rental, or to modify, amend, change, increase, or reduce any existing rate, joint rate, toll, classification, charge, or rental, or any regulation or practice affecting the same, shall file a written application with the public utilities commission. Except for actions under section 4909.16 of the Revised Code, no public ut...

...(A) If the public utilities commission, under division (D) of section 4909.15 of the Revised Code, incorporated proposed adjustments to revenues and expenses into the commission's determination under that section, the public utility shall, not later than ninety days after actual data for all of the incorporated adjustments becomes known, submit to the commission proposed rate or charge adjustments that provide for th...

...Every gas or natural gas company shall, prior to accepting any rate, price, charge, toll, or rental fixed by ordinance of a municipal corporation, submit to the legislative authority of the municipal corporation the following information: (A) A report of its property used and useful in rendering the service to be provided; (B) A complete operating statement of the previous fiscal year, showing in detail all its rec...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Public utility" means every one as defined in divisions (A), (C), (D), (E), (F), (G), (H), and (M) of section 4905.03 of the Revised Code, including all public utilities that operate their utilities not for profit, except the following: (1) Electric light companies that operate their utilities not for profit; (2) Public utilities, other than telephone companies, that are owned a...

...In determining a fine or penalty recommendation or imposition or whether no enforcement action should be taken under section 4913.15, 4913.16, 4913.171, 4913.19, or 4913.25 of the Revised Code, the underground technical committee, the public utilities commission, and the commission staff, as applicable, shall consider the following factors, as they apply: (A) The person's demonstrated history of one-call, design, an...

...The public utilities commission shall, by letter, promptly notify the person that requested the inquiry and the person responsible for the compliance failure of any fine or penalty imposed under section 4913.171, 4913.19, or 4913.21 of the Revised Code or division (C)(2) of section 4913.16 of the Revised Code, or of a no-enforcement determination under section 4913.15 or 4913.19 of the Revised Code or division (A)(1)...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Ambulance" has the same meaning as in section 4766.01 of the Revised Code. (B) "For-hire motor carrier" means a person engaged in the business of transporting persons or property by motor vehicle for compensation, except when engaged in any of the following in intrastate commerce: (1) The transportation of persons in taxicabs in the usual taxicab service; (2) The transportation o...

...(A) No for-hire motor carrier may operate in intrastate commerce unless the carrier has a current and valid certificate of public convenience and necessity. (B) The public utilities commission shall issue a certificate of public convenience and necessity to any person who does all of the following: (1) Files with the commission, in accordance with rules adopted under section 4921.05 of the Revised Code, a com...

...(A) No certificate of public convenience and necessity shall be issued by the public utilities commission to any for-hire motor carrier until the carrier has filed with the commission a liability insurance certificate, policy, or bond satisfactory to the commission, in the sum and with the provisions the commission considers necessary adequately to protect the interests of the public, having due regard for the ...

...(A) Every for-hire motor carrier operating in this state shall, at the time of the issuance of a certificate of public convenience and necessity under section 4921.03 of the Revised Code, pay to the public utilities commission, for and on behalf of the treasurer of state, the following taxes: (1) For each motor vehicle used for transporting persons, thirty dollars; (2) For each commercial tractor, as defined in sec...

...(A) As used in this section, "adjusted credit amount" means the aggregate amount credited to the public utilities transportation safety fund, less the sum of both of the following: (1) The fees collected by the public utilities commission, in accordance with the unified carrier registration plan under section 4921.11 of the Revised Code, that exceed the federal certification of revenue for each year of the plan; (2...

...In accordance with sections 4921.30 to 4921.36 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission may adopt rules regarding any of the following: (A) Providing for binding estimates by for-hire motor carriers engaged in the transportation of household goods in intrastate commerce; (B) Providing for guaranteed-not-to-exceed estimates by those carriers; (C) Requiring those carriers to include their certifica...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Ambulance," "interstate commerce," "intrastate commerce," "motor vehicle," "public highway," "ridesharing arrangement," and "school bus" have the same meanings as in section 4921.01 of the Revised Code. (B) "For-hire motor carrier" means a person engaged in the business of transporting persons or property by motor vehicle for compensation, except when engaged in any of the following...

...(A) As used in this chapter, "private motor carrier" does not include a person when engaged in any of the following in intrastate commerce: (1) The transportation of persons in taxicabs in the usual taxicab service; (2) The transportation of pupils in school busses operating to or from school sessions or school events; (3) The transportation of farm supplies to the farm or farm products from farm to market or to f...

...(A) The public utilities commission may, through the commission's inspectors or other authorized employees, enter in or upon any motor vehicle of any motor carrier, or any person engaging in the transportation of hazardous material or hazardous waste, to inspect the motor vehicle or driver subject to rules adopted under section 4923.04 of the Revised Code. (B) In order to assist the commission in performing it...

...(A)(1) Whoever violates Chapter 4921. or 4923. of the Revised Code, or rules adopted thereunder, is liable to the state for a forfeiture of not more than twenty-five thousand dollars for each day of each violation. The public utilities commission, after providing reasonable notice and the opportunity for a hearing in accordance with the procedural rules adopted under section 4901.13 of the Revised Code, shall assess,...

...A transportation network company shall do all of the following: (A) Disclose its fare calculation method on its digital network; (B) Provide transportation network company riders or potential riders with the applicable rates charged by the transportation network company; (C) Allow a transportation network company rider or potential rider to request and receive an estimated fare before the rider or potential rid...

...(A) Chapters 4111., 4121., 4123., 4141., and sections 4113.15 and 4113.16 of the Revised Code do not apply to transportation network companies with regard to transportation network company drivers and transportation network company drivers are not employees for purposes of those chapters or sections, except where agreed to by written contract. If the parties agree to the application of one or more of these laws in...

...(A) Except as provided in divisions (A) and (B) of section 4927.04 of the Revised Code and except to the extent required to exercise authority under federal law, the public utilities commission has no authority over any interconnected voice over internet protocol-enabled service or any telecommunications service that is not commercially available on September 13, 2010, and that employs technology that became a...

...(A)(1) No telephone company shall operate in this state without first obtaining a certificate from the public utilities commission, and no wireless service provider shall operate in this state without first being registered with the commission. A telephone company not holding such a certificate on the effective date of this section, or a wireless service provider not so registered on that date, shall file, re...