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...(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...

...observed and charged for service by any public utility, the public utilities commission may consider the costs attributable to such service. The utility shall file with the commission an allocation of the cost, except cost related to sparsity of population, for services for which a change in rates is proposed when evidence relating thereto is presented which indicates that the rate or rates do not generally reflect t...

...observed and charged for service by any public utility, the public utilities commission may consider the efficiency, sufficiency, and adequacy of the facilities provided and the services rendered by the public utility, the value of such service to the public, and the ability of the public utility to improve such service and facility. If the commission determines that the facility or service is inefficient, insuffici...

...observed and charged for service by any public utility, the public utilities commission may hear service complaints, if any, that may be presented by customers and the public during any proceeding involving such rates, joint rates, tolls, classifications, charges, or rentals. No complaint shall be considered by the commission unless the public utility has been given notice of the complaint to be considered at the hea...

...observed and charged for service by any public utility, the public utilities commission shall consider the management policies, practices, and organization of the public utility. The commission shall require such public utility to supply information regarding its management policies, practices, and organization. If the commission finds after a hearing that the management policies, practices, or organization of the p...

...observed and charged for service by any public utility, the public utilities commission may require the utility to file a report showing: (A) The amounts, date of issuance, due date, terms, and rates of interest of all bonds and debentures outstanding against such utility; (B) The face value of any outstanding preferred stock and the stated value of all outstanding common stock issued by such utility; (C) The tota...

...observed and charged for service by any public utility, the public utilities commission shall, in action upon an application filed pursuant to section 4909.18 of the Revised Code, require a public utility to file a report showing the proportionate amounts of the valuation of the property of the utility, as determined under section 4909.042 or 4909.05 of the Revised Code, and the proportionate amounts of the revenues ...

...hat division shall not request, and the public utilities commission shall not approve, any rider or other cost recovery mechanism to recover capital investment that would be in addition to the company's base rates. (B) Upon rates going into effect based on a company's use of a forecasted test period under division (C)(1)(a) of section 4909.15 of the Revised Code, any riders and other cost recovery mechanisms previo...

...tion from the company's full books. The public utilities commission shall ensure appropriate protections against the disclosure of the company's trade secrets or proprietary information.

...When the public utilities commission deems it necessary to prevent injury to the business or interests of the public or of any public utility of this state in case of any emergency to be judged by the commission, it may temporarily alter, amend, or, with the consent of the public utility concerned, suspend any existing rates, schedules, or order relating to or affecting any public utility or part of any public utilit...

...ed to be a normal expense incurred by a public utility in the course of rendering service to the public, and may be recovered as such in accordance with an order of the public utilities commission. Any public utility required to pay any such increased excise tax levy may file with the public utilities commission revised rate schedules that will permit full recovery on an interim or permanent basis in its rates, of th...

...classification, charge, or rental of a public utility shall become effective until the public utilities commission, by order, determines it to be just and reasonable, except as provided in this section and sections 4909.18, 4909.19, and 4909.191 of the Revised Code. Such sections do not apply to any rate, joint rate, toll, classification, charge, or rental, or any regulation or practice affecting the same, of ...

...ompany may submit an application to the public utilities commission for an increase or decrease in any rate or charge for, respectively, water or sewage treatment, if both of the following conditions are met: (1) The water or sewage treatment is provided to the company by either of the following: (a) A municipal corporation or other local governmental unit of this state whose rates are not subject to regulation b...

...wage 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. The application shall be in such f...

...n 4905.03 of the Revised Code that is a public utility under section 4905.02 of the Revised Code. (B) A water-works company may do any of the following: (1) Replace lead customer-owned water service lines concurrently with a scheduled utility main replacement project, an emergency replacement, or company-initiated lead water service line replacement program; (2) Replace lead customer-owned water service lines...

...(A) A water-works company shall reimburse a customer who replaces the customer's customer-owned water service line, if both of the following occur: (1) The company confirms that the customer-owned water service line was composed of lead or other composition that was mandated or ordered to be replaced by law or a state or federal regulatory agency; (2) The customer submits the reimbursement request to the company ...

...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) As used in this section, "electric distribution utility" has the same meaning as in section 4928.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Not later than December 31, 2029, and at least every three years thereafter, each electric distribution utility shall file a rate case application regarding distribution service under section 4909.18 of the Revised Code.

...Not later than December 31, 2029, and at least every three years thereafter, each natural gas company that provides utility service to two hundred fifty thousand or more customers shall file a rate case application under section 4909.18 of the Revised Code.

...section 4909.18 of the Revised Code the public utility shall forthwith publish notice of such application, in a form approved by the public utilities commission, once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper published and in general circulation throughout the territory in which such public utility operates and directly affected by the matters referred to in said application. The notice shall include instructio...

...(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...

...ection 4909.18 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission may approve the following: (A) Nondiscriminatory programs available for all energy-intensive customers to implement economic development, job growth, job retention, or interruptible rates that enhance distribution and transmission grid reliability and promote economic development. (B) Nondiscriminatory programs available for all mercantile custom...

...(A) The public utilities commission shall determine whether an application for an increase filed under section 4909.18 of the Revised Code is complete not more than forty-five days after the application is filed. If the commission does not issue a determination within the time period required by this section, the application shall be deemed complete by operation of law. (B) For purposes of section 4909.421 of the R...

...onger distance. Upon application to the public utilities commission, such company or person may in special cases, after investigation, be authorized by the commission to charge less for a longer than for shorter distances for transportation of freight of like kind, and the commission may prescribe the extent to which such designated company or person may be relieved from the operation of this section.

...termine the minimum freight weight. The public utilities commission shall enforce this section.

...(A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the drug law enforcement fund. Ninety-seven per cent of three dollars and fifty cents out of each ten-dollar court cost imposed pursuant to section 2949.094 of the Revised Code shall be credited to the fund. Money in the fund shall be used only in accordance with this section to award grants to counties, municipal corporations, townships, township police districts, an...

...ntelligence center in the department of public safety. The center shall operate as a division within the department. (B) The director of public safety shall appoint an executive director of the center. The executive director shall serve at the discretion of the director of public safety. The executive director shall advise the governor and the director of public safety on matters pertaining to illegal drug activit...

... is hereby created in the department of public safety the Ohio mobile training team, which shall be administered by a chief mobile training officer. The team shall provide services to public and nonpublic schools regarding school safety and security. (B) Not later than December 11, 2022, the director of public safety shall appoint an individual who satisfies the criteria specified in division (B) of section 5502.70...

...(A) As used in this section, "veteran" means any person who has completed service in the armed forces of the United States and who has been honorably discharged under honorable conditions from the armed forces, or who has been transferred to the reserve with evidence of satisfactory service. (B) No person is eligible for appointment to the position of chief mobile training officer or the position of regional mobile...

... duties prescribed by the department of public safety. (C) The duties of a regional mobile training officer include: (1) Upon request, assisting an administrator within an officer's region in the development or review of an emergency management plan under section 5502.262 of the Revised Code; (2) Upon request, assisting an administrator of a public or nonpublic school within an officer's region with any other s...

...ide instruction and training, including firearms training, that individuals may complete to satisfy the criterion specified in division (D)(1)(d)(i) of section 2923.122 of the Revised Code to be permitted to convey deadly weapons or dangerous ordnance into a school safety zone under division (D)(1)(d) of that section. Except as otherwise specified in division (D)(1)(d)(i) of that section, an individual shall successf...

...(A) Whoever violates division (A) of section 5502.37 of the Revised Code shall be fined fifty dollars or imprisoned for not less than sixty days, or both. (B) Whoever violates division (B) of section 5502.37 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than five thousand nor more than ten thousand dollars, or imprisoned for not less than one nor more than five years, or both. (C) Whoever violates division (C) or (D)...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Public utility" means each person referred to as a telephone company, telegraph company, electric company, natural gas company, pipe-line company, water-works company, water transportation company, heating company, rural electric company, railroad company, combined company, or energy company. (B) "Gross receipts" means the entire receipts for business done by any person from operati...

...As used in this chapter, "public utility," "electric company," "natural gas company," "pipe-line company," "water-works company," "water transportation company," or "heating company" does not include any of the following: (A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, any person that is engaged in some other primary business to which the supplying of electricity, heat, natural gas, water, water trans...

...on 5727.31 of the Revised Code for each public utility activity subject to the excise tax imposed by section 5727.30 of the Revised Code. The tax commissioner shall exclude from the assessment issued by the tax commissioner on or before the first Monday in November 2002, and thereafter, the taxable gross receipts directly attributable to the activity of an electric company or a rural electric company. In addition, th...

...(A) A person that is engaged in some other primary business to which the supplying of electricity to others is incidental shall file a report under section 5727.08 of the Revised Code as an electric company but shall only report therein as taxable property the amounts required in divisions (B) and (C) of this section. All time limits and other procedural requirements of this chapter for the reporting and assessment o...

...sions of this chapter do not exempt any public utility or interexchange telecommunications company from the assessment and taxation of its property in the manner provided by law.

...Sections 5727.01 to 5727.61 of the Revised Code do not apply to either of the following: (A) Nonprofit corporations as defined in division (C) of section 1702.01 of the Revised Code that are engaged exclusively in the treatment, distribution, and sale of water to consumers; (B) Municipal corporations within this state.

...g constitutes the taxable property of a public utility, interexchange telecommunications company, or public utility property lessor that shall be assessed by the tax commissioner: (1) For tax years before tax year 2006: (a) In the case of a railroad company, all real property and tangible personal property owned or operated by the railroad company in this state on the thirty-first day of December of the prec...

... the first day of March, annually, each public utility and interexchange telecommunications company, and, for tax years 2009 and thereafter, each public utility property lessor, shall file a report with the tax commissioner, on a form prescribed by the tax commissioner. The report shall include such information as the tax commissioner requires to enable the tax commissioner to make any assessment or apportionment re...

...on contained in the report filed by the public utility and such other evidence and rules as will enable the commissioner to make these determinations. Before issuing the preliminary assessment under section 5727.23 of the Revised Code, the commissioner shall notify each public utility of the proposed total taxable value of its taxable property, including any proposed penalty. After receiving such notice, a public ut...

...uation using cost as capitalized on the public utility's books and records less composite annual allowances as prescribed by the commissioner. If the commissioner finds that application of this method will not result in the determination of true value of the public utility's taxable property, the commissioner may use another method of valuation. (B)(1) Except as provided in division (B)(2) of this section, the true...

...t project. The taxable property of each public utility, except a railroad company, and of each interexchange telecommunications company shall be assessed at the following percentages of true value: (A) In the case of a rural electric company, one of the following: (1) Fifty per cent in the case of its taxable transmission and distribution property or energy conversion equipment first subject to taxation in this s...

...As used in this chapter, "property used in railroad operations" means property used in or determined by the tax commissioner to be held by a railroad for use in railroad operations. In determining the true value of all real and personal property owned or leased by each railroad company and used in railroad operations, the commissioner shall use the unitary method and value all of the property of the company's railroa...

...he entire value of the property of such public utility, determined in accordance with sections 5727.01 to 5727.62 of the Revised Code, and apportion it to this state in the proportion that the length of the road in this state bears to the whole length of road. As used in this section, "length of road" means the miles of single or first main track, measured by the distance between termini, over which railroad transpor...

...When all the taxable property of a public utility is located in one taxing district, the tax commissioner shall apportion the total taxable value thereof to that taxing district. When taxable property of a public utility is located in more than one taxing district, the commissioner shall apportion the total taxable value thereof among the taxing districts as follows: (A)(1) In the case of a telegraph, intere...

...all assess the taxable property of each public utility and interexchange telecommunications company, and for tax year 2009 and thereafter of each public utility property lessor. If the taxpayer failed to file its annual report required by section 5727.08 of the Revised Code at least sixty days prior to the first Monday of October, the commissioner may make the assessment under this section within sixty days after the...

...For the purpose of providing revenue to meet the needs of the state, on and after May 1, 2000, an excise tax is hereby levied on the gross receipts of a natural gas company and on the gross receipts of a combined company from operating as a natural gas company. The tax shall be computed by multiplying the taxable gross receipts as determined under section 5727.33 of the Revised Code by four and three-fourths per cent...

...As used in this section, "taxpayer" means any person subject to the tax imposed by section 5727.24 of the Revised Code. Upon the issuance of a tax credit certificate by the Ohio venture capital authority under section 150.07 of the Revised Code, a refundable credit may be claimed against the tax imposed on a taxpayer under section 5727.24 of the Revised Code. The credit shall be claimed on a return due under section...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, within forty-five days after the last day of March, June, September, and December, each natural gas company or combined company subject to the excise tax imposed by section 5727.24 of the Revised Code shall file a return with the tax commissioner, in such form as the commissioner prescribes, and pay the full amount of the tax due on its taxable gross receipts fo...