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...(A) If the holder of a mortgage or fiduciary fails to undertake the actions required under division (B) of section 3752.11 or of section 3752.111 of the Revised Code, respectively, the director of environmental protection, on behalf of the state, or any political subdivision in which the affected reporting facility is located may undertake the actions required under division (B) of either of those sections. The costs...

...ted substances that may endanger public health or safety if released into the environment. The indenture trustee shall continue the security measures, and maintain the warning signs, as required at each such building, structure, or outdoor location of operation until the indenture trustee no longer holds legal title to the facility or until the indenture trustee or another person has performed the measures required u...

...(A) The director of environmental protection or his authorized representative , upon proper identification and upon stating the purpose and necessity of an inspection, may enter at reasonable times upon any public or private property, real or personal, to inspect or investigate, obtain samples, and examine and copy records to determine compliance with this chapter and rules adopted and orders issued under it. The dir...

...minent and substantial threat to public health or safety or are causing or contributing to, or are threatening to cause or contribute to, air or water pollution or soil contamination, the director may expend moneys from the immediate removal fund created in section 3745.12 of the Revised Code to take such remedial actions as are necessary or appropriate to protect the public health or safety or the environment, provi...

...(A) No person, without privilege to do so, shall do any of the following: (1) Enter or remain on the premises of a reporting facility at which warning signs are posted in compliance with section 3752.07, 3752.11, 3752.111, 3752.112, or 3752.113 of the Revised Code; (2) Enter or remain in a building or structure located at a reporting facility, or an outdoor location of operation, at which warning signs are posted i...

...No person shall falsify, tamper with, or render inaccurate any certification, information, or records required to be kept or submitted under this chapter or a rule adopted or order issued under it. Violation of this section is not falsification under section 2921.13 of the Revised Code.

...The director of environmental protection may issue orders in accordance with Chapter 3745. of the Revised Code directing the owner or operator of a reporting facility to abate a violation of any section of this chapter other than section 3752.11, 3752.111, or 3752.113 of the Revised Code, or a rule adopted under this chapter, within a specified, reasonable time. No person shall violate a term or condition of an orde...

...dangers or threatens to endanger public health or safety or is causing or threatening to cause air or water pollution or soil contamination, the court shall give precedence to such an action over all other cases. Notwithstanding any section of the Revised Code relating to the distribution and crediting of fines for violations of the Revised Code, fines imposed under section 3752.99 of the Revised Code for all violati...

...This chapter does not abridge rights of action or remedies in equity, under common law, or as provided by statute or limit the state or any political subdivision or person in the exercise of their rights in equity, under common law, or as provided by statute to suppress nuisances or to abate or prevent pollution.

...(A) Whoever recklessly violates any section of this chapter or a rule adopted or order issued under it, except section 3752.07, 3752.11, 3752.111, 3752.113, or 3752.14 of the Revised Code, a rule adopted under section 3752.03 of the Revised Code pertaining to the securing of buildings, structures, or outdoor locations of operation, or an order issued to enforce any of those sections or such a rule, shall be fined not...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Accidental release" means an unanticipated emission of a regulated substance into the ambient air from a stationary source. (B) "Clean Air Act Amendments" means the "Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990," 91 Stat. 685, 42 U.S.C. 7401 et al., as amended, and regulations adopted under it. (C) "Covered process" means a process that has a regulated substance present in an amount that is in ex...

...For the purpose of implementing and administering this chapter, the director of environmental protection may adopt, amend, and rescind rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. The rules shall be consistent with, equivalent in scope, content, and coverage to, and no more stringent than the requirements of section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act Amendments and any regulations adopted pursuant to that sect...

...(A) Effective upon the date that the United States environmental protection agency delegates the program created under section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act Amendments to the environmental protection agency of this state, an owner or operator of a stationary source that has a covered process shall develop and submit a risk management plan no later than the latest of the following: (1) Not later than ten days after the...

...e United States occupational safety and health administration safety management standard under 29 C.F.R. 1910.119. (E) The owner or operator of a stationary source at which one or more covered processes are present that meet the conditions established under division (B) of this section shall comply with all of the following program 1 requirements: (1) Submit with the risk management plan an analysis of the worst ca...

...(A) Except as provided in division (G) of this section, an owner or operator who is required to submit a risk management plan under this chapter shall pay annually to the environmental protection agency a fee of fifty dollars together with any of the following applicable fees: (1) A fee of sixty-five dollars if a covered process in the stationary source includes propane and propane is the only regulated substance at...

...No person shall violate any provision of this chapter or a rule adopted or order issued under it.

...The director of environmental protection or the director's authorized representative, upon proper identification and upon stating the purpose and necessity of an inspection, may enter at reasonable times upon any private or public property, real or personal, to inspect, investigate, obtain samples, and examine and copy records to determine compliance with this chapter and rules adopted or orders issued under it. The ...

...The director of environmental protection may issue orders requiring an owner or operator who is subject to this chapter to abate a violation of section 3753.06 of the Revised Code. The director may issue such orders as final orders without issuing a proposed action under section 3745.07 of the Revised Code and, notwithstanding section 119.06 of the Revised Code, without the necessity to hold an adjudication hearing. ...

...(A) The attorney general or the prosecuting attorney of the county or director of law of the city where a violation has occurred or is occurring, upon written request of the director of environmental protection, shall prosecute to termination any person who has violated division (D) of section 3753.03 of the Revised Code or shall bring an action for injunction against any person who has violated or is violating secti...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Harm" means injury to, death of, or loss to person or property. (2) "Tort action" means a civil action for damages for harm, but does not include a civil action for damages for a breach of contract or other agreement between persons or for a breach of a warranty that exists pursuant to the Revised Code or the common law of this state. (B) The state, and any officer or employee of ...

...Whoever purposely violates division (D) of section 3753.03 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than twenty thousand dollars and imprisoned for not more than one year, or both. Each day of violation is a separate offense.

...As used in sections 3761.01 to 3761.10, inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) "Mob" means a collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose and intending to do damage or injury to anyone, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and without authority of law. (B) "Lynching" means an act of violence by a mob upon the body of any person. (C) "Serious injury" means such injury a...

...A person taken from officers of justice by a mob, and assaulted with whips, clubs, missles, or in any other manner, may recover from the county in which the assault is made, damages not to exceed one thousand dollars.

...A person assaulted and lynched by a mob may recover, from the county in which such assault is made, a sum of not to exceed five hundred dollars; or, if the injury received therefrom is serious, a sum of not to exceed one thousand dollars; or, if such injury results in permanent disability to earn a livelihood by manual labor, a sum of not to exceed five thousand dollars.

...Sections 3761.01 to 3761.10, inclusive, of the Revised Code shall apply to a person suffering death or injury from a mob while it is attempting to lynch another person. Such person, or his legal representatives, shall have a like right of action as one purposely injured or killed by such mob.