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...(A) Not later than ninety days after the effective date of this section, an electric utility supplying retail electric service in this state on that date shall file with the public utilities commission a plan for the utility's provision of retail electric service in this state during the market development period. This transition plan shall be in such form as the commission shall prescribe by rule adopted under divis...

...The public utilities commission has jurisdiction under section 4905.26 of the Revised Code, upon complaint by any person or upon complaint or initiative of the commission on or after the starting date of competitive retail electric service, to determine whether an electric utility has failed to implement, in conformance with an order under section 4928.33 of the Revised Code or in ongoing compliance with applicable p...

...(A) Upon determining under section 4928.39 of the Revised Code the allowable transition costs of an electric utility authorized for collection as transition revenues under sections 4928.31 to 4928.40 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission, by order under section 4928.33 of the Revised Code, shall establish the transition charge for each customer class of the electric utility and, to the extent possible,...

...(A) Beginning July 1, 2026, the director of job and family services shall administer the low-income customer assistance programs, except for the percentage of income payment plan rider established under section 4928.52 of the Revised Code. The director shall consolidate the administration of and redesign and coordinate the operations of the low-income customer assistance programs within the department to provide, to ...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section and section 4928.644 of the Revised Code, the baseline for an electric distribution utility's or an electric services company's compliance with the qualified renewable energy resource requirements of section 4928.64 of the Revised Code shall be the average of total kilowatt hours sold by the utility or company in the preceding three calendar years to the fo...

...(A) Not later than May 31, 2026, every electric distribution utility in the state shall develop and publicly share distribution system hosting capacity maps. The utility shall ensure that the maps are available on the utility's web site and shall be updated at least once per quarter. (B) The maps described in division (A) of this section shall include, at a minimum: (1) Total available distribution hosting capaci...

...(A) A natural gas company may file an application with the public utilities commission for approval of an infrastructure development rider to recover prudently incurred infrastructure development costs of one or more economic development projects approved under section 4929.163 of the Revised Code. (B) The commission shall approve a maximum of one infrastructure development rider per company. (C) The commission s...

...(A) As used in this section, "biologically derived methane gas" has the same meaning as in section 5713.30 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) The following property, equipment, or facilities installed or constructed by a natural gas company may be treated as instrumentalities and facilities for distribution service if the public utilities commission determines that treatment is just and reasonable: (a) Any property, e...

...(A) A telephone company may do either of the following in the unincorporated area of the township: (1) Construct telecommunications lines or facilities upon and along any of the public roads and highways and across any waters within that area by the erection of the necessary fixtures, including posts, piers, or abutments for sustaining the cords or wires of those lines or facilities. The lines and facilities s...

...(A) For the purpose of this section: (1) "Energy company" shall have the meaning assigned in division (A)(4) of section 5117.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Service disconnection for nonpayment" means the intentional discontinuation of gas or electric services to a residential customer by an energy company due to the failure of the customer to pay for such services. (3) "Service reconnections" means the reconnection ...

...(A) Annually, each electric distribution company, as defined in section 5727.80 of the Revised Code, shall state on each customer bill, or shall distribute to each of its customers, the following statement: "Under state law, the amount you are being billed includes: (1) Kilowatt-hour taxes that have been in effect since 2001 and are currently at $_________ (The current dollar figure of the kilowatt-hour taxes levi...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this section and Article XVIII of the Ohio Constitution, each electric supplier shall have the exclusive right to furnish electric service to all electric load centers located presently or in the future within its certified territory, and shall not furnish, make available, render, or extend its electric service for use in electric load centers located within the certified territory...

...The public utilities commission may delegate to any of its officers or employees such of its duties or powers under this chapter as it considers to be appropriate to be exercised under its supervision and control. (A) The commission shall: (1) Estimate statewide and regional needs for energy for the forthcoming five- and ten-year periods which, in the opinion of the commission, will reasonably balance requirements ...

...(A) The utility radiological safety board may: (1) Conduct any investigations, examinations, or studies requested by the governor or which it considers necessary or appropriate to carry out its responsibilities or duties under sections 4937.01 to 4937.05 of the Revised Code. (2) Formulate a recommendation regarding whether the governor should enter into any agreement with the federal nuclear regulatory commission p...

...(A) Subject to section 4939.0314 of the Revised Code and approval of an application under this section, an operator may, as a permitted use not subject to zoning review or approval, collocate a small cell facility and construct, maintain, modify, operate, or replace wireless support structures in, along, across, upon, and under the public way. An operator shall comply with generally applicable standards that are cons...

...(A) The time period required in section 4939.031 of the Revised Code may be tolled only: (1) By mutual agreement between the entity requesting consent and the municipal corporation; (2) In cases where the municipal corporation determines that the application is incomplete; or (3) If the number of requests for consent for small cell facilities or wireless support structures received is likely to result in difficult...

...(A)(1) A municipal corporation shall provide public utilities or cable operators with open, comparable, nondiscriminatory, and competitively neutral access to its public ways. (2) Nothing in division (A)(1) of this section prohibits a municipal corporation from establishing priorities for access to or occupancy or use of a public way by a public utility or cable operator when the public way cannot accommodate all pu...

...(A) A municipal corporation or township may establish within its jurisdiction one or more railroad quiet zones implementing and using one or more supplemental safety measures, through the enactment or adoption, after the effective date of initial regulations adopted pursuant to the "Swift Rail Development Act," Pub. L. No. 103-440, 108 Stat. 4615, 49 U.S.C. 20153, of an ordinance or resolution authorizing each zone a...

...(A) A company or person having control or management of any railroad except a scenic railway shall construct and maintain in good repair, or otherwise provide for, on each side of the railroad, along the line of the lands of the company owning or operating it, a fence sufficient to turn stock. If, pursuant to section 4907.08 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission determines that the company or person ha...

...(A) The Ohio rail development commission, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt, and may amend and rescind, rules governing the process whereby a private corporation or organization may apply to the commission for a franchise for all or part of a rail system. The rules also shall establish the financial and technical criteria upon which a franchise is awarded. The criteria may include all o...

...(A) A franchise agreement shall authorize the franchisee to do all of the following: (1) Acquire and dispose of real and personal property and request the Ohio rail development commission to appropriate real property for sale to the franchisee in accordance with division (A)(5) of section 4981.29 of the Revised Code; (2) Plan, design, finance, construct, reconstruct, improve, operate, and maintain its portion of th...

...(A) The requirements set forth in division (B) of this section are solely related to safety, including ensuring that no train or light engine used in connection with the movement of freight in this state is left without a functional crew person as a result of a medical emergency. (B) A train or light engine used in connection with the movement of freight shall have a crew that consists of at least two individuals. ...

...The month of November is designated as "Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency Awareness Month."

...(A) A board of township trustees, by resolution, may regulate and require the registration of massage establishments and their employees within the unincorporated territory of the township. In accordance with sections 503.40 to 503.49 of the Revised Code, for that purpose, the board, by a majority vote of all members, may adopt, amend, administer, and enforce regulations within the unincorporated territory of the tow...

...If a board of township trustees has adopted a resolution under section 503.41 of the Revised Code: (A) No person shall engage in, conduct or carry on, or permit to be engaged in, conducted or carried on in the unincorporated areas of the township, the operation of a massage establishment without first having obtained a permit from the board of township trustees as provided in section 503.43 of the Revised Code. (B)...