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...of carrying out the duties given him in Chapter 4911. of the Revised Code, the consumers' counsel shall have access to all books, contracts, records, documents, and papers in the possession of the public utilities commission at any time.

...ives of organized groups representing each of the following areas: labor; residential consumers; and family farmers. No more than five members of this board may be members of the same political party. The members of the board shall be appointed by the attorney general with the advice and consent of the senate. No later than January 1, 1977, the attorney general shall make initial appointments to the board. Of the i...

...is section against a retail natural gas supplier or governmental aggregator subject to certification under section 4929.20 of the Revised Code, such receipts shall be those specified in the supplier's or aggregator's most recent report of intrastate gross receipts and sales of hundred cubic feet of natural gas, filed with the commission pursuant to division (B) of section 4929.23 of the Revised Code, and verified by ...

...nsel on the merits of the inquiry. The failure of a utility to comply with this section is admissible evidence in a complaint proceeding under section 4905.26 of the Revised Code, upon the motion of the consumers' counsel, regardless of whether further evidence concerning the subject of the inquiry is offered.

...If the consumers' counsel governing board determines that the appointment of a deputy consumers' counsel is necessary to ensure the full and proper performance of the powers and duties of the consumers' counsel, the board may appoint a deputy consumers' counsel. The board may assign the deputy consumers' counsel any of the duties and powers of the consumers' counsel, and the deputy shall perform the assigned duties a...

...h or impacted by the alleged compliance failure, as identified in the request for inquiry, of another person with duties and obligations under sections 153.64, 3781.27, and 3781.28 to 3781.32 of the Revised Code and divisions (A) and (B) of section 3781.26 of the Revised Code. (B) "Compliance failure" means a failure to comply with any provision of sections 153.64, 3781.27, and 3781.28 to 3781.32 of the Revised Code...

...r and oversee the registration process. Failure to register shall result in a fine of not more than two thousand five hundred dollars. (B) The commission shall deposit all safety registrations and fines collected under this section in the underground facilities protection administrative fund created under section 4913.30 of the Revised Code.

... responsible for the alleged compliance failure described in division (A) of section 4913.01 of the Revised Code. The person shall make the request not later than ninety days after discovering the alleged compliance failure. The request shall not, by itself, cause the creation of a formal proceeding at the commission. (B) A request made under this section shall state, at a minimum and with particularity, the name of...

... responsible for the alleged compliance failure may, not later than thirty days after being notified under that section, respond to the request, providing any information that the person considers relevant to the request. The response may include an admission of the compliance failure.

...mited to whether there was a compliance failure. (B) During an inquiry conducted under this section, the staff shall examine relevant facts regarding the alleged compliance failure and may request records verification, informal meetings, teleconferences, photo documentation, and any other documentation or information relevant to the inquiry.

...ies commission shall make a report of each inquiry conducted under section 4913.09 of the Revised Code available to the underground technical committee, created under section 3781.34 of the Revised Code. The report shall contain any admission made under section 4913.07 of the Revised Code by the person who is the subject of the inquiry. This report shall not contain a recommendation as to the imposition of a fine or ...

...of the Revised Code. If the committee fails to achieve the required majority for any action described in division (C) of this section, it shall notify the commission.

...e person responsible, the underground technical committee may recommend a penalty of a training requirement, an education requirement, or another nonmonetary penalty, or may recommend a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars, or may recommend a combination of this fine and these penalties. (B) If the compliance failure is a subsequent compliance failure for the person responsible, the committee may rec...

...ation concerning the alleged compliance failure as part of the committee's review under section 4913.15 of the Revised Code and to assist the committee in making recommendations under that section and section 4913.16 of the Revised Code.

...section 4913.15 of the Revised Code but fails to achieve the required majority as described in division (C) of that section, no enforcement action shall be taken. (2) If the committee, during the ninety-day time period, fails to vote on any action as required under division (B) of section 4913.15 of the Revised Code, the staff of the public utilities commission shall make a recommendation as to a fine or penalty or ...

...ommitted by a person, the underground technical committee may find, as part of the committee's review under section 4913.15 of the Revised Code, that the person is a persistent noncomplier. (B) The committee shall report a finding made under division (A) of this section to the staff of the public utilities commission. (C) There shall be a majority vote of the full committee, except as provided by section 3781.361...

...t a person responsible for a compliance failure has been found to be a persistent noncomplier under section 4913.17 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission may impose a fine on the person not exceeding ten thousand dollars. A penalty recommended by the committee under section 4913.15 or 4913.16 of the Revised Code may also be imposed by the commission.

...any person responsible for a compliance failure should be subject to a fine or penalty exceeding those described in section 4913.151 of the Revised Code. As a result of the hearing, the commission shall impose a fine or penalty or take no enforcement action.

...mstances, and gravity of the compliance failure, including the amount of damage involved in relation to the compliance failure, and whether it resulted in death, serious injury, dismemberment, or a significant threat to public safety; (C) The organizational size of the responsible person; (D) The prospective effect of a fine on the person's ability to pay business obligations and otherwise conduct business; (E) Th...

...f the Revised Code by the underground technical committee.

...A person subject to a fine 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 shall pay the fine not later than sixty days after the fine or penalty is imposed. A person subject to a penalty imposed under any of those sections or that division shall begin compliance with the penalty not later than thirty days after the penalty is imposed.

...e 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) or (C)(1) of section 4913.16 of the Revised Code. The notice shall include all of the following, as applicabl...

...determination made by the underground technical committee under section 4913.15, 4913.16, 4913.17, or 4913.19 of the Revised Code, either person may, not later than thirty days after receiving notice under section 4913.23 of the Revised Code, file a written application with the public utilities commission for reconsideration of the committee's finding. The application for reconsideration must state with particularity...

... the rehearing and appeal process under Chapter 4903. of the Revised Code.

... public utilities commission under this chapter and under the process described in section 4913.251 of the Revised Code shall be conducted in a manner consistent with Chapter 4903. of the Revised Code.

... 6133.11 of the Revised Code and make such order as to costs as is equitable.

...The state shall pay to the county treasurer of the lead county the assessment levied against it for the state's proportionate share of the cost of any improvement authorized or constructed under sections 6131.01 to 6131.64, 6133.01 to 6133.15, and 6135.01 to 6135.27 of the Revised Code and all unpaid assessments for maintenance as provided by sections 6137.01 to 6137.12 of the Revised Code.

... a petition for the improvement of a ditch or drain has been regularly filed with the clerk of the board of county commissioners thereof, then said board shall proceed as in single county ditches, if lands affected by said improvement lie wholly in one county, and shall proceed as in joint county ditches if two or more counties are affected, and shall order the county engineers, or disinterested engineers, of such co...

...is state, the clerk of the county in which the petition was filed shall notify in writing the proper officials of the counties of the adjoining state of the filing of said report. A copy of the petition and bond shall be attached thereto. The notice shall state the time and place of meeting for the purpose of organizing.

...county commissioners shall proceed at such time and place to form themselves into a joint board for the purpose before them by electing one of their number as president and another as clerk. The president and clerk shall not both be selected from the board representing the same state, and a majority of each proper board must be present to constitute a quorum.

...Without regard to the number of each board of county commissioners present at the meeting referred to in section 6135.03 of the Revised Code, the members from this state shall have the casting of one half of all votes on all questions, which vote shall be represented equally by the different members present of the boards from this state.

...um of the board of each county affected fails to meet as provided in section 6135.03 of the Revised Code, they shall adjourn until such time as they shall again receive like notice as provided by section 6135.02 of the Revised Code for their first meeting.

...th, welfare, or convenience, and that such route is the best one to accomplish the desired relief, it shall locate the ditch, or order the widening or deepening of the ditch, drain, or watercourse in substantial conformity with the prayer of the petition. If the route described is not the best in its opinion, it shall locate the improvement on the route best adapted to secure the relief desired, with the best conting...

... in this state that part of the main ditch, or any of its tributaries, which will lie partially in both states or which will drain lands of both states.

...eer to determine the proper route on which a ditch or its branches shall be located. No engineer shall be employed by such joint board until it has determined that the improvement is necessary for the public welfare, health, or convenience. In their view of such route and in their deliberations over it, the members of the joint board of county commissioners from this state may adjourn from time to time, not exceedin...

...nd the president of the joint board, which shall be read before the joint board. A copy thereof shall be sent to the clerk of the board of county commissioners of each county affected in Ohio, and to the proper officer of each county affected in the other state.

...After the adjournment of the joint board of county commissioners, if its report, as provided in section 6135.09 of the Revised Code, is in favor of the location, the members thereof from this state shall select a competent engineer to meet one to be appointed by the proper authorities of the other state joining with them in the proceedings.

...ile a bond with the county auditor of each county in this state affected by the improvement, in the sum of one thousand dollars, with two approved sureties, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties.

...The engineer appointed in accordance with section 6135.10 of the Revised Code, with the engineer from the adjoining state joining in the matter, shall perform all duties as prescribed for the county engineer in sections 6131.14 and 6131.15 of the Revised Code.

...the receipt of the reports, plans, and schedules required by section 6135.12 of the Revised Code, the clerk of the board of county commissioners of the county in which the petition was filed shall notify the joint board of county commissioners of the receipt thereof as in the case of the filing of a petition and bond as provided in section 6135.02 of the Revised Code. The clerk shall send a copy of the report to all ...

...The joint board of county commissioners, on assembling for the meeting set by the clerk of the board of county commissioners under section 6135.14 of the Revised Code, shall be governed by like rules as provided by law for the first meeting thereof. They may call to their assistance the engineers who surveyed and planned the proposed improvement.

...oint board, to the proper official of each county affected in the other state and to the county auditor of each county affected in this state. Their adjournment shall be subject to a call of a majority of the members of either state, notice of which shall be given as provided in section 6135.14 of the Revised Code.

...n this state in an interstate county ditch project, may enter upon lands in this state, along any portion of said located ditch or its tributaries, to perform work which is assigned them to do by the joint board of county commissioners when in session.

...e location of county or joint county ditches taken at this stage of the proceedings. The boards of county commissioners, at their hearing on the apportionment made, may assess any other owners and lands not mentioned in the first report of the engineers, which they deem to be benefited thereby. The owners shall have due notice thereof.

...ners of any county in this state, in which are located owners and lands affected and charged for the improvement or construction of a ditch, drain, or watercourse, as provided by law, may cause to be performed any work which is assigned to them outside of the limits of this state in a like manner as under the laws for similar duties, if the necessary privilege to do so has been granted by the legislature of the state...

... the improvement and construction of ditches, as provided in sections 6135.01 to 6135.20, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be as for like services in county ditch work.

... day of hearing on the apportionment. Such claims as are allowed, with costs of location actually incurred, shall be paid out of the county fund.

...for the location or improvement of a ditch, drain, or watercourse in such county, the waters from which flow into or through an adjoining county in another state, and it is of the opinion that the outlet for such proposed improvement is insufficient, it may enter into an agreement with the proper officials of such adjoining county for the construction or improvement of the outlet for such ditch, drain, or watercourse...

...y law in the case of a single county ditch.

...ve the outlet for water flowing in a ditch, drain, or watercourse from such upper adjoining county into or through a lower county in this state enlarged or improved, the board of county commissioners of such lower county may enter into an agreement with the proper officials of such upper adjoining county for the improvement of such outlet by the lower county and for the payment to the lower county for the benefit of ...