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...Whoever violates division (A) of section 3749.09 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.

...o such agreement is in effect, the fire prevention officer of the municipal corporation or township. (F) "First response equipment" means equipment, other than emergency response and firefighting vehicles, designed primarily for the purpose of facilitating the safe and efficient response to unanticipated and unauthorized releases of hazardous substances and extremely hazardous substances. (G) "Hazardous chemical" h...

...evised Code, a member of the house of representatives appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives and a member of the senate appointed by the president of the senate, who may participate fully in all the commission's deliberations and activities, except that they shall serve as nonvoting members; and ten members to be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. The appointed memb...

...signate emergency planning districts to prepare and implement district chemical emergency response and preparedness plans under this chapter. The commission may designate existing political subdivisions or multijurisdictional planning organizations as districts and may revise its designation of districts as it considers necessary or appropriate. At the request of the local emergency planning committees of two or more...

... each emergency planning district shall prepare and submit to the emergency response commission a chemical emergency response and preparedness plan for the district. The district's plan shall contain all of the following: (1) An identification of each facility within the district that meets either of the following qualifications: (a) Has an extremely hazardous substance present at the facility in an amount that e...

...at has an extremely hazardous substance present in an amount that exceeds the threshold planning quantity for the substance established by rules adopted under division (B)(1)(a) or (C)(5) of section 3750.02 of the Revised Code is subject to this section and section 3750.04 of the Revised Code. Upon the written request of the local emergency planning committee of the emergency planning district in which a facility is ...

...to or exceeding the reportable quantity prescribed in rules adopted under division (B)(1)(c) or (C)(5) of section 3750.02 of the Revised Code shall provide the notices required by divisions (C) and (D) of this section. The owner or operator of any facility from which a release of oil occurs in an amount equal to or exceeding the reportable quantity prescribed in rules adopted under division (B)(3) of section 3750.02 ...

... operates a facility and is required to prepare or have available a material safety data sheet for a hazardous chemical under the "Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970," 84 Stat. 1590, 29 U.S.C.A. 651, as amended, and regulations adopted under it shall, within thirty days after the effective date of this section, submit to the local emergency planning committee of the emergency planning district in which the fa...

...erator of a facility who is required to prepare or have available a material safety data sheet for a hazardous chemical under the "Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970," 84 Stat. 1590, 29 U.S.C.A. 651, as amended, and regulations adopted under it, or who is required to submit a list under division (A), (D), or (E), or is authorized to submit material safety data sheets instead of that list under division (E), o...

...(A) Notwithstanding any provision in this chapter to the contrary, an owner or operator of a facility that is regulated under Chapter 1509. of the Revised Code shall be deemed to have satisfied all of the inventory requirements established under this chapter, except for the release reporting requirements established under section 3750.06 of the Revised Code, by complying with the requirements established in section 1...

...ity agreement or statement of need as a precondition for disclosure of a specific chemical identity under this division; however, the owner or operator may require the treating physician or nurse to provide a written confidentiality agreement under division (E)(4) of this section and a statement setting forth the conditions listed in divisions (E)(2)(a) to (c) of this section as soon after the request is made as circ...

...rtains to a hazardous chemical that was present at the facility in an amount equal to or exceeding ten thousand pounds at any time during the preceding calendar year, the commission or committee shall request the owner or operator of the facility to submit an emergency and hazardous chemical inventory form containing tier II information regarding the hazardous chemical. The owner or operator of the facility shall sub...

...(A) Except as provided in division (E) of this section, no local emergency planning committee shall enforce any resolution, rule, or requirement for the reporting or providing of the names or amounts of extremely hazardous substances or hazardous chemicals produced, used, or stored at facilities under the jurisdiction of the committee; for the reporting or providing of information regarding locations where those subs...

... if more than one hazardous chemical is present at a bulk storage area, a placard or label concerning only the chemical that is the most hazardous as determined under this chapter and rules adopted under it need be placed at the area; (C) Stipulate that the information that may be contained on placards or labels is subject to the restrictions on the release of trade secret information and confidential business infor...

...litical subdivision shall levy any fee, tax, excise, or other charge to carry out the purposes of this chapter. A committee may charge the actual costs involved in accessing any computerized data base established by the commission under this chapter or by the United States environmental protection agency under the "Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act of 1986," 100 Stat. 1729, 42 U.S.C.A. 11001. (D) Mo...

...tion of chemical emergency response and preparedness plans. The commission shall make grants under this division in accordance with rules adopted under division (B)(7) of section 3750.02 of the Revised Code. In making grants to committees and fire departments under this division, the commission shall consider the needs of the emergency planning district or fire department in terms of the minimum amount of money neces...

...tion of chemical emergency response and preparedness plans, advanced training, data management, performing hazard analysis and vulnerability studies for purposes of developing or revising their plans, and the acquisition of first response equipment. No more than twenty-five per cent of the moneys available for grants in any year shall be available to the commission. A fire department may apply for and receive a grant...

...response commission or his designated representative who also is an officer or employee of the state or a political subdivision, a member of the local emergency planning committee of the emergency planning district having territorial jurisdiction who is also an officer or employee of the state or a political subdivision, or the designated representative of the fire department having territorial jurisdiction, upon pr...

...(A) No person shall violate any section of this chapter or a rule adopted or order issued under it. (B) No person shall falsify, tamper with, or render inaccurate any information or records required to be submitted under any section of this chapter, a rule adopted under it, or an order issued under it. Violation of this division is not also a violation of division (C) of this section and is not falsification under s...

...r under this section is not a condition precedent to bringing a criminal, civil, or civil penalty action under section 3750.20 of the Revised Code.

...commission or executive committee shall prepare and certify to the environmental review appeals commission a record of proceedings out of which the appeal arises, including all documents. The setting of a hearing, the conduct of the hearing, the availability of a stay, the environmental review appeals commission's decision-making process, and all other procedures of the environmental review appeals commission that ar...

...has the jurisdiction to and shall grant preliminary and permanent injunctive relief upon a showing that the person against whom the action is brought has violated or is violating any section of this chapter or a rule adopted or order issued under it. The court shall give precedence to such an action over all other cases. Upon the certified written request of any person, the director of environmental protection shall...

...tion, if the plaintiff establishes by a preponderance of the evidence, and if the trier of fact finds, that the defendant violated that division or otherwise disclosed information classified as a trade secret or identified as confidential business information to a person not so authorized to have it, and that the plaintiff sustained injury or loss to person or property as a result of the violation or unauthorized dis...

...(A)(1) The owner or operator of a facility where chemicals are produced, or the owner or operator of any other facility or business of any type, may provide a copy of any vulnerability assessment of the facility or business or of any other security-sensitive information developed regarding the facility or business to any of the following: (a) The local emergency planning committee of the emergency planning district ...

...(A) Whoever recklessly violates section 3750.06 of the Revised Code or an order issued under section 3750.18 of the Revised Code to enforce that section is guilty of a felony and shall be fined at least ten thousand but not more than twenty-five thousand dollars or imprisoned for at least two but not more than four years, or both. Each day of violation is a separate offense. Upon a second or subsequent conviction for...