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...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this section and Article XVIII of the Ohio Constitution, each electric supplier shall have the exclusive right to furnish electric service to all electric load centers located presently or in the future within its certified territory, and shall not furnish, make available, render, or extend its electric service for use in electric load centers located within the certified territory...

...Annexation or incorporation by a municipal corporation or other unit of local government does not affect the right of an electric supplier to continue or extend electric service within its certified territory except insofar as that right is affected or modified by Article XVIII or any other article of the Ohio Constitution. Notwithstanding this section or any other provision of law, the right of a municipal corporati...

...The rights and authority granted under sections 4933.81 to 4933.84 of the Revised Code may be assigned or transferred only with the approval of the public utilities commission and approval shall be granted if the commission finds that the assignment or transfer is not contrary to the public interest. Upon the merger or consolidation of electric suppliers, the surviving or new electric supplier shall, without further ...

...Any electric supplier that renders electric service in violation of sections 4933.81 to 4933.90 of the Revised Code is subject to remedies and penalties provided by sections 4905.54, 4905.56, 4905.57, 4905.59, 4905.60, and 4905.61 and division (B) of section 4905.99 of the Revised Code.

...Nothing contained in sections 4933.81 to 4933.90 of the Revised Code shall be construed to affect the right of municipal corporations to generate, transmit, distribute, or sell electric energy. The rights and powers of municipal corporations as they exist on or after the effective date of this section to acquire, construct, own, lease, or operate in any manner a public utility or to supply the service or product by m...

...The expenses of the public utilities commission in administering sections 4933.81 to 4933.90 of the Revised Code shall be assessed by the commission against the affected electric suppliers on the following basis: (A) Expenses that relate to the preparation or review of maps to establish the certified territory of a single electric supplier in any area where there is no other electric supplier shall be assessed solel...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury a fund to be known as the public utilities territorial administration fund. The funds collected under section 4933.88 of the Revised Code as assessments shall be credited to the public utilities territorial administration fund.

...Action of the public utilities commission pursuant to sections 4933.81 to 4933.90 of the Revised Code is subject to review in accordance with Chapter 4903. of the Revised Code but during any appeal therefrom, the continuance of existing electric service is lawful.

...(A) Whoever violates section 4933.16 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. (B) Whoever violates section 4933.20, 4933.22, 4933.24, or 4933.25 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. (C) Whoever violates section 4933.21 or 4933.23 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. (D) Whoever violates division (E) of section 4933.28 of the ...

... least five household sewage treatment systems, as those systems are defined in section 3718.01 of the Revised Code. (B) A board of township trustees may maintain and repair private sewage collection tiles located within a township road right-of-way in the township, where the expenditure from the township general fund for materials to maintain and repair the tiles does not exceed two hundred dollars for any one p...

...ty owners whose property is served by a private sewage collection tile, or upon the board's own initiative by the adoption of a resolution, the board of township trustees may repair or maintain a private sewage collection tile within a township road right-of-way in the township as provided in this chapter. On receiving a petition, the township fiscal officer shall give to the board of township trustees a notice of...

...d to the corporations, either public or private, affected by the improvement. The notice shall set forth the substance of the petition or board request, and the time and place of the hearing on it. If the hearing is to be held in response to a petition, the township fiscal officer shall deliver a copy of the notice to any of the petitioners, who shall see that the notice is served on each lot or land owner or left...

...At the time and place specified in the notice given under section 521.03 of the Revised Code, the board of township trustees shall meet and hear any and all proof offered by any of the parties affected by the improvement, and by other persons competent to testify. The board shall go over and along the rights-of-way where the tiles in need of repair or maintenance are located, and, by actual view of them and of the pr...

...(A) If the total estimated cost of any improvement provided for in section 521.04 of the Revised Code is fifty thousand dollars or less, the contract may be let without competitive bidding. When competitive bidding is required, the board of township trustees shall post, in three of the most conspicuous public places in the township, a notice specifying the improvement to be made and the time, which shall be at ...

...The cost and expenses of making the improvement made pursuant to a determination by the board under section 521.04 of the Revised Code shall be paid from a fund raised by special assessments against the lots and lands in the township that are benefited by the improvement, except that if the board of township trustees finds, by resolution, that the improvement will result in general as well as special benefits, there ...

...The board of township trustees shall, by resolution, assess against the benefited lots and parcels of land in the township, in accordance with section 521.06 of the Revised Code, such portion of the costs of the improvement, for the period of the contract and the proceedings in relation to the contract, as does not exceed the special benefits resulting from the improvement, and shall certify these costs to the audito...

...(A) The bonds issued under this chapter may be called conservancy bonds, and the term shall be engraved or printed on the face of the bonds. (B) The records provided for in this chapter shall be termed conservancy records.

...(A) In any orders of the court, the words "The court now here finds that it hath jurisdiction of the parties to and of the subject matter of this proceeding" are equivalent to a finding that each jurisdictional fact necessary to confer plenary jurisdiction upon the court, beginning with the proper signing and filing of the initial petition to the date of the order containing that recital, has been scrutinized by the ...

...he flow of streams and conserving their waters; (F) Diverting or in whole or in part eliminating watercourses; (G) Providing a water supply for domestic, industrial, and public use; (H) Providing for the collection and disposal of sewage and other liquid wastes produced within the district; (I) Arresting erosion along the Ohio shore line of Lake Erie. This section does not terminate the existence of any district...

...rning body of any public corporation or watershed district created under section 6105.02 of the Revised Code lying wholly or partly within the proposed district, in such manner as it prescribes, and when so signed by any such governing body such a petition on the part of the governing body shall fill all the requirements of representation upon the petition of the residents of the public corporation or watershed distr...

...At the time of filing the petition provided for in section 6101.05 of the Revised Code, or at any time subsequent thereto and prior to the time of the hearing on said petition, a bond shall be filed, with security approved by the judge of the court of common pleas determining the sufficiency of the petition, sufficient to pay all the expenses connected with the proceeding in case the court refuses to organize t...

...the proceeding or within the same major watershed area as defined by the department of natural resources and the director of environmental protection. The director of natural resources, the director of environmental protection, and the directors of such conservancy districts may appear at any hearing considering the establishment, dissolution or merger of any conservancy district or subdistrict thereof, and be heard ...

...ermination of rates of compensation for water under sections 6101.24 and 6101.63 of the Revised Code; (I) The examination of the annual report of the board of directors of the conservancy district as provided under section 6101.66 of the Revised Code. The concurrence of two of the three judges designated shall be necessary for any action or determination by the judges, and it has, if so provided by the rules of the...

...At the preliminary meeting of the court, it shall fix the time and place of the hearing on the petition for the establishment of the proposed conservancy district, which hearing shall be held not later than sixty days thereafter, and the clerk of the court shall give notice of the hearing by publication. Any owner of real property in a proposed district who individually has not signed the petition and who wishes to o...

...Within thirty days after the conservancy district has been declared a corporation by the court, the clerk of such court shall transmit to the secretary of state, to the director of the department of natural resources, and to the county recorder in each of the counties having lands in the district, copies of the findings and the decree of the court incorporating the district. The same shall be filed and recorded in th...