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...The state medical board shall comply with section 4776.20 of the Revised Code.

...(A) Whoever violates section 4772.02 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree on a first offense; on each subsequent offense, the person is guilty of a felony of the fourth degree. (B) Whoever violates division (A), (B), (C), or (D) of section 4772.23 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense; on each subsequent offense the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of...

...s facilities, by and through the instrumentalities and facilities of a natural gas company, regardless of the party having title to the natural gas. (G) "Natural gas company" means a natural gas company, as defined in section 4905.03 of the Revised Code, that is a public utility as defined in section 4905.02 of the Revised Code and excludes a retail natural gas supplier. (H) "Person," except as provided in div...

...(A) It is the policy of this state to, throughout this state: (1) Promote the availability to consumers of adequate, reliable, and reasonably priced natural gas services and goods; (2) Promote the availability of unbundled and comparable natural gas services and goods that provide wholesale and retail consumers with the supplier, price, terms, conditions, and quality options they elect to meet their respectiv...

...Except as otherwise provided in section 4929.04 of the Revised Code, only the commodity sales services, distribution services, and ancillary services of a natural gas company are subject to the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission. Chapter 4905. with the exception of section 4905.10, Chapter 4909., Chapter 4935. with the exception of sections 4935.01 and 4935.03, and sections 4933.08, 4933.09, 4933.11, 493...

...(A) The public utilities commission, upon the application of a natural gas company, after notice, after affording the public a period for comment, and in the case of a natural gas company with fifteen thousand or more customers after a hearing and in the case of a natural gas company with fewer than fifteen thousand customers after a hearing if the commission considers a hearing necessary, shall exempt, by order, any...

...(A) As used in this section, "regulatory exemption" means an exemption from all provisions of Chapter 4905. of the Revised Code with the exception of sections 4905.10, 4905.35, and 4905.90 to 4905.96 of the Revised Code, Chapters 4909., 4933., and 4935. of the Revised Code, with the exception of section 4935.03 of the Revised Code, and from any rule or order issued under the exempted provisions of those chapter...

...A natural gas company shall notify the public utilities commission in writing before converting the use of any gathering facilities described in division (B)(2) of section 4929.041 of the Revised Code.

...(A) A natural gas company may request approval of an alternative rate plan by filing an application under section 4909.18 of the Revised Code, regardless of whether the application is for an increase in rates. After investigation, which may include a hearing at the discretion of the public utilities commission, the commission shall authorize the applicant to implement an alternative rate plan if the natural gas...

...(A) An alternative rate plan filed by a natural gas company under section 4929.05 of the Revised Code and proposing to initiate or continue a revenue decoupling mechanism shall be considered an application not for an increase in rates if the rates, joint rates, tolls, classifications, charges, or rentals are based upon the billing determinants and revenue requirement authorized by the public utilities commissio...

...In carrying out sections 4929.04 and 4929.05 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission may prescribe different classifications, procedures, terms, or conditions for different natural gas companies and for the natural gas services they provide, provided the classifications, procedures, terms, or conditions are reasonable and do not confer any undue economic, competitive, or market advantage or preference up...

...(A) Within thirty days after the date of issuance of an order approving an exemption or alternative rate plan under section 4929.04 or 4929.05 of the Revised Code or within twenty days after the issuance of a rehearing entry pursuant to section 4903.10 of the Revised Code, whichever is later, the natural gas company shall do either of the following: (1) File with the public utilities commission a notice of its inten...

...ative rate regulation is affecting detrimentally the integrity or safety of the natural gas company's distribution system or the quality of any of the company's regulated services or goods, the commission, after a hearing, may abrogate the order granting such an exemption or alternative rate regulation.

...In accordance with the commission's order prescribing a separation plan under division (E) of section 4929.04 of the Revised Code, a natural gas company granted an exemption under section 4929.04 of the Revised Code for a commodity sales service or ancillary service may designate the natural gas supplies that have been obtained to provide that exempt service. Nothing in this section prevents the public utilities comm...

...The public utilities commission shall adopt rules to carry out this chapter. Initial rules shall be adopted within one hundred eighty days after the effective date of this section.

...(A) Upon an application filed under this section, the public utilities commission may allow any automatic adjustment mechanism or device in a natural gas company's rate schedules that allows a natural gas company's rates or charges for a regulated service or goods to fluctuate automatically in accordance with changes in a specified cost or costs. (B) Upon an application filed under section 4909.18 or 4929.05 ...

...rders of the commission or other governmental entity having jurisdiction. (B) An application submitted under division (A) of this section shall specify the total cost of the capital expenditure program. (C) If the commission finds that the capital expenditure program is consistent with the natural gas company's obligation under section 4905.22 of the Revised Code to furnish necessary and adequate services and...

...Except as otherwise provided in the amendment of sections 4901.12, 4905.02, 4905.07, 4905.35, 4911.10, and 5727.33 and the enactment of sections 4929.01 to 4929.15 of the Revised Code by House Bill No. 476 of the 121st general assembly, the general assembly does not intend any modification to the existing powers of the public utilities commission under Title XLIX of the Revised Code.

...A natural gas company granted an exemption or alternative rate regulation under section 4929.04 or 4929.05 of the Revised Code is a public utility for the purpose of exercising the rights of a public utility in support of its regulated services and goods. Nothing in this chapter affects the right of appropriation of a natural gas company under law in support of its regulated services and goods.

...Sections 1345.01 to 1345.13 of the Revised Code shall apply to transactions between a natural gas company and its customers that involve natural gas services or goods that are exempt from or otherwise not subject to the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission pursuant to section 4929.03 to 4929.05 of the Revised Code.

...(A) If, by the consumers' counsel's own inquiries or as a result of complaints, the consumers' counsel has reasonable grounds to believe that a natural gas company is engaging in an act or practice giving rise to a ground for complaint under section 4905.26 of the Revised Code, the consumers' counsel may investigate. Prior to commencing an investigation, the consumers' counsel shall notify the natural gas company in ...

...As used in sections 4929.16 to 4929.167 of the Revised Code: (A) "Infrastructure development" means constructing, upgrading, extending, or any other investment in, or associated with, transmission or distribution facilities that, except as provided for in division (B)(2)(b) of this section, a natural gas company owns and operates. (B)(1) "Infrastructure development costs" means costs associated with an investment...

...(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...

...Under an infrastructure development rider, in each monthly billing period: (A) The natural gas company may not recover more than one dollar and fifty cents from any single customer in this state, for all projects that were approved under section 4929.163 of the Revised Code and for which recovery was authorized under that rider. (B) The company shall recover the same amount from every customer. (C)(1) If reques...

...(A) A natural gas company may file an application with the public utilities commission for approval of an economic development project for which the company will incur infrastructure development costs. (B) The company shall file the application for project approval prior to beginning the project. (C) The application for project approval, to the extent applicable, shall contain a description of each of the followi...