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...No officer, agent, or employee in an official capacity of a public utility shall knowingly violate section 4903.03 or 4903.24 of the Revised Code, nor shall any officer, agent, or employee in an official capacity or a public utility or railroad knowingly violate section 4903.02 or 4903.08 of the Revised Code, or willfully fail to comply with any lawful order or direction of the public utilities commission made w...

...ficers, and representatives, as well as employees responsible for hiring, supervising, training, assigning, or dispatching drivers and employees concerned with the installation, inspection, and maintenance of motor-vehicle equipment and accessories; (C) An electric light company, when engaged in the business of supplying electricity for light, heat, or power purposes to consumers within this state, including suppl...

...venience or welfare of the public or of employees, or in order to secure adequate service or facilities, the commission may make and serve an appropriate order directing that such repairs, improvements, or additions be made within a reasonable time and in a manner specified in such order. Every such public utility, its officers, agents, and official employees, shall obey such order.

...ce, the act or omission of any officer, employee, or agent of an operator, while acting within the scope of his duties or employment, is deemed the act or omission of the operator. (B) Establish and maintain any record, make any report, and provide any information and evidence the commission requires to administer and enforce sections 4905.90 to 4905.96 of the Revised Code and the pipe-line safety code; (C) Permit ...

...r of a master-meter system shall permit employees and agents of a natural gas company to perform a safety inspection pursuant to division (C)(1) of this section and to review the operator's maps and records. The natural gas company shall report the findings of the safety inspection to the commission within thirty days after the inspection. (D) The commission shall permit a natural gas company to recover all reasonab...

...his state, by its officers, agents, or employees, or by any person operating a railroad. The commission shall enforce Chapters 4901., 4903., 4905., 4907., 4909., and 4959. of the Revised Code, as well as all other laws relating to railroads, and report violations thereof to the attorney general. If, upon complaint or otherwise, the commission has reason to believe that a railroad or any officer, agent, or empl...

...ficers, and representatives, as well as employees responsible for hiring, supervising, training, assigning, or dispatching drivers and employees concerned with the installation, inspection, and maintenance of motor-vehicle equipment and accessories. Divisions (B)(1) to (9) of this section shall not be construed to relieve a person from compliance with rules governing unified carrier registration adopted under secti...

...h the public utilities commissioners or employees authorized by it, may do either or both of the following: (1) Apply for, and any judge of a court of record of competent jurisdiction may issue, an appropriate search warrant; (2) Examine under oath, at the offices of the commission, any officer, agent, or employee of any person subject to this chapter. The commission, by subpoena, also may compel the attendance of ...

...on does not prohibit the common use of employee benefit plans, facilities, equipment, or employees, subject to proper accounting and the code of conduct ordered by the commission as provided in division (A)(1) of this section. (E) Section 4905.61 of the Revised Code applies in the case of any violation of section 4928.17 of the Revised Code or of any rule adopted or order issued under that section.

...n 4928.06 of the Revised Code; (4) An employee assistance plan for providing severance, retraining, early retirement, retention, outplacement, and other assistance for the utility's employees whose employment is affected by electric industry restructuring under this chapter; (5) A consumer education plan consistent with former section 4928.42 of the Revised Code and any rules adopted by the commission under divis...

...4928.06 of the Revised Code. (10) The employee assistance plan required by division (A)(4) of section 4928.31 of the Revised Code sufficiently provides severance, retraining, early retirement, retention, outplacement, and other assistance for the utility's employees whose employment is affected by electric industry restructuring under this chapter. (11) The consumer education plan required under division (A)(5) o...

...this section shall include the costs of employee assistance under the employee assistance plan included in the utility's approved transition plan under section 4928.33 of the Revised Code, which costs exceed those costs contemplated in labor contracts in effect on the effective date of this section. Further, the commission's order under this section shall separately identify regulatory assets of the utility that are...

...e company's operations, resources, and employees, and the associated books and records, involved in the provision or marketing of a company-provided service related to an investment exempted under the regulatory exemption from the operations, resources, and employees, and the associated books and records, involved in the provision or marketing of any company-provided service not exempted under the regulatory e...

...shall establish, and publish to all the employees on the railroad, such rules and regulations as in all cases will secure strict compliance with sections 4955.10 and 4955.11 of the Revised Code, and shall republish such rules and regulations on each timetable or card issued to the employees on the railroad.

...iability of this state or an officer or employee of this state with respect to a civil action brought for a violation of any provision of sections 4955.41 to 4955.47 of the Revised Code or any order issued under those sections. As used in this division, "state" has the same meaning as in section 2743.01 of the Revised Code, and "officer or employee" has the same meaning as in section 9.85 of the Revised Code. (C) No...

...No railroad company and no employee or agent of the company shall be charged, or is liable in damages to person or property, for any failure to sound an audible warning by whistle, horn, bell, or other audible warning device at a railroad grade crossing to which any of the following apply: (A) The crossing is equipped in accordance with division (B)(2) of section 4955.32 of the Revised Code. (B) The crossing ...

...Any employee of a common carrier engaged in moving traffic on a railroad between points within this state, who is killed or injured by a locomotive, tender, car, similar vehicle, or train, in use contrary to sections 4963.14 and 4963.15 of the Revised Code, shall not be deemed to have assumed the risk thereby occasioned, although continuing in the employment of such carrier after the unlawful use of such locomotive, ...

...n for the government of its servants or employees, or make or enter into an agreement with a person engaged in or about to engage in its service, in which such employee in any manner promises or agrees to hold such company harmless on account of an injury he may receive by reason of accident to, breakage, defect, or insufficiency in the cars or machinery and attachments thereto belonging on cars owned, operated, or ...

...ive are in any manner defective. If an employee of such company receives injury by reason of a defect in a car or locomotive, or the machinery or attachments belonging to such car or locomotive, owned and operated or being operated by such company, it shall be deemed to have had knowledge of such defect before and at the time such injury is so sustained. When such defect is made to appear in the trial of any action ...

...n this state, for personal injury to an employee or where such injuries have resulted in his death, the fact that he was guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery when such negligence was slight and that of the employer greater in comparison. But the damages must be diminished by the jury in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to such employee. All questions of negligence and contribu...

...No officer, agent, or employee of a company operating a railroad, except the superintendent, general managing agent, or a receiver of the company, may sell or dispose of worn or scrap metal, iron, brass, or other metal owned by such company. All sales and barter of such scraps or other metals made by any other officer, agent, or employee are void. No such superintendent, managing agent, or receiver shall sell or disp...

...on, and a secretary-treasurer and other employees that the commission considers appropriate. The commission may fix the compensation of the employees. (F) Six members of the commission shall constitute a quorum, and the affirmative vote of six members shall be necessary for any action taken by the commission. No vacancy in the membership of the commission shall impair the rights of a quorum to exercise all the righ...

... teachers retirement system, the public employees retirement system, the school employees retirement system, and the Ohio police and fire pension fund, notwithstanding any other provision of the Revised Code or rules adopted pursuant thereto by any governmental agency of the state with respect to investments by them, and are acceptable as security for the deposit of public moneys.

...o superintendent, trainmaster, or other employee of a railroad shall send or cause to be sent outside of yard limits, a passenger train of not more than five cars, any one of which carries passengers, with a crew consisting of less than one engineer, one fireman, one conductor, and one brakeman. If four of said cars are day coaches carrying passengers, or if in a train of more than five cars, three or more cars are ...

...o superintendent, trainmaster, or other employee of a railroad shall order or otherwise require a train or light engine used in connection with the movement of freight to be operated unless it has a crew that consists of at least two individuals. As used in this division, "train or light engine used in connection with the movement of freight" does not include hostler service or utility employees. (C)(1) The publi...