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...(A) The director of health is the licensor and shall administer and enforce this chapter and the rules adopted thereunder. (B) If the director determines that a board of health can satisfactorily enforce this chapter and the rules adopted thereunder, the director shall delegate the director's authority to enforce this chapter and the rules adopted thereunder to the board. The director may enter an agreement with a...

...The attorney general, or the prosecuting attorney of the county, or the city director of law shall upon complaint of the licensor prosecute to termination or bring an action for a temporary restraining order or preliminary or permanent injunction against any person violating this chapter or the rules adopted thereunder. The common pleas court in which an action for a temporary restraining order or preliminary or perm...

...cause a direct or serious threat to the health or safety of migrant agricultural laborers, the attorney general, or the attorney general in conjunction with the director of health, shall investigate the complaint. If after an investigation period, which shall not exceed forty-eight hours, the attorney general finds probable cause to believe that existing conditions cause a direct or serious threat to the health or sa...

...No person shall violate sections 3733.41 to 3733.471 of the Revised Code or the rules adopted thereunder.

...Whoever violates section 3733.48 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.

...r domestic activities, and includes pre-consumer recovered materials and post-consumer materials. (2) Its use or intended use is as feedstock for the manufacturing of feedstocks, raw materials, other intermediate products, or final products using advanced recycling. (3) It has been sorted from solid waste and other regulated waste, but may contain incidental contaminants or impurities, such as paper labels or m...

...ocedures, controls, and other pertinent data as the director may require. The director shall grant a variance only if the applicant demonstrates to the director's satisfaction that construction and operation of the solid waste facility in the manner allowed by the variance and any terms or conditions imposed as part of the variance will not create a nuisance or a hazard to the public health or safety or the environme...

...ation with all required information and data. (3) The director may hold a public hearing on an application submitted under division (F) of this section for a variance at a location in the county in which the operations that are the subject of the application for a variance or renewal of variance are conducted. Not less than twenty days before the hearing, the director shall provide to the applicant notice of the h...

...As used in sections 3734.024, 3734.025, and 3734.026 of the Revised Code, "off-site infectious waste treatment facility" and "treatment facility" mean an infectious waste treatment facility for which a license is required under division (B) of section 3734.05 of the Revised Code. "Off-site infectious waste treatment facility" and "treatment facility" also include a solid waste incineration facility for which the lice...

...ng financial assistance to the board of health of the health district having jurisdiction within the municipal corporation or township for the enforcement of the infectious waste provisions of this chapter and rules, orders, and terms and conditions of permits and licenses adopted or issued under them, the municipal corporation or township may levy a fee of not more than five dollars per ton on the treatment of infec...

...The owner or operator of an off-site infectious waste treatment facility shall pay the fees levied by an ordinance or resolution adopted under section 3734.024 of the Revised Code monthly to the treasurer or other such officer of the municipal corporation as, by virtue of the charter, has the duties of the treasurer or to the fiscal officer of the township. The owner or operator shall remit the fees to the treasurer...

...The director of environmental protection shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code establishing procedures for remitting fees levied under section 3734.024 of the Revised Code to the treasurers or other appropriate fiscal officers of municipal corporations and to the fiscal officers of townships. The rules also shall establish the dates for remitting the fees to those officers and may est...

...Except as authorized by the director of health under Chapter 3748. of the Revised Code and rules adopted under it, no owner or operator of a solid waste facility, infectious waste treatment facility, or hazardous waste facility shall accept for transfer, storage, treatment, or disposal or shall transfer, store, treat, or dispose of any radioactive waste specified in division (A) of this section.

...ctices does not pose a threat to public health or safety or the environment. The rules may establish differing standards of quality for compost products, in accordance with their various uses, if the director considers such standards to be necessary or appropriate to protect public health and safety and the environment. The rules shall require the owner or operator of a composting facility subject to this chapter tha...

...(A)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(2) of this section, the standards of quality for compost products established in rules adopted under division (A) of section 3734.028 of the Revised Code apply to compost products produced by a facility composting dead animals that is subject to section 939.04 of the Revised Code in addition to compost products produced by facilities subject to this chapter. (2) Th...

...No person shall dispose of solid wastes by open burning or open dumping, except as authorized by the director of environmental protection in rules adopted in accordance with division (V) of section 3734.01, section 3734.02, or sections 3734.70 to 3734.73 of the Revised Code and except for burying or burning the body of a dead animal as authorized by section 941.14 of the Revised Code. No person shall dispose of treat...

...The board of health of each district maintaining a program on the approved list under division (A) or (B) of section 3734.08 of the Revised Code shall provide for the inspection, licensing, and enforcement of sanitary standards for solid waste facilities, other than scrap tire facilities, in conformity with this chapter and for the inspection and licensing of solid waste facilities that are scrap tire collection, sto...

...toring to the director and the board of health of the health district in which the landfill is located in accordance with the approved plan and the schedule for implementation contained in the approved plan. No person shall violate or fail to perform a duty imposed by a plan approved under this section. (B) Division (A) of this section does not apply to a sanitary landfill or closed sanitary landfill that exclusive...

...ill, or recovery facility, the board of health of the health district having jurisdiction promptly shall conduct an inspection of the facility named in the complaint. If the board of health finds from the inspection that vectors are present at the facility in such numbers that the chemical treatment of the scrap tires present at the facility is necessary to protect the public health, and if the board has exhausted al...

...ep or submit any plans, specifications, data, reports, records, manifests, or other information required to be kept or submitted to the director by this chapter or the rules adopted under it. (H)(1) Each person who holds an installation and operation permit issued under this section and who wishes to obtain a permit renewal shall submit a completed application for an installation and operation permit renewal and an...

...uch terms and conditions, by a board of health on the approved list under section 3734.08 of the Revised Code. (2) Division (A) of this section does not alter, impair, or limit the authority of a board of health or political subdivision of this state that has been delegated any of the powers and duties of the director of environmental protection under Chapter 3704. of the Revised Code pursuant to division (P) of sec...

...t of the applicable fee to the board of health or the director, as appropriate, within thirty days after issuance of the license. (B) The board of health shall retain two thousand five hundred dollars of each license fee collected by the board under divisions (A)(1), (2), (3), and (4) of this section or the entire amount of any such fee that is less than two thousand five hundred dollars. The moneys retained shall ...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the waste management fund. The fund shall consist of money credited to it under this chapter and Chapter 3714. of the Revised Code. The environmental protection agency shall use money in the fund to pay the costs of administering and enforcing this chapter and Chapter 3714. of the Revised Code and rules adopted under those chapters, including ground water evaluations rela...

...r more often if necessary, the board of health shall cause each solid waste facility and infectious waste treatment facility to be inspected and a record to be made of each inspection and shall require each solid waste facility and infectious waste treatment facility in the health district to be in substantial compliance with this chapter and the rules adopted under it. (B) Within thirty days after the issuance of a...

...l protection shall survey annually each health district licensing solid waste facilities and infectious waste treatment facilities as provided by section 3734.05 or 3734.81 of the Revised Code to determine whether there is substantial compliance with this chapter and rules adopted under it and, upon determining that there is substantial compliance, shall place the health district upon an approved list. The director s...