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...ce. The governing board shall meet at least every third month of the year. Meetings may be held more often at the request of a majority of the members or upon call of the chairperson. At the first meeting of each year, the board shall select a chairperson and vice-chairperson. With the approval of the board, the chairperson may designate the vice-chairperson to perform the duties of the chairperson, including th...

...posit it into the state treasury to the credit of the consumers' counsel operating fund, which is hereby created. Beginning in calendar year 2006, on or before the fifteenth day of May in each year, the consumers' counsel shall notify each public utility that had a sum assessed against it for the current fiscal year of more than one thousand dollars that fifty per cent of that amount shall be paid to the consumers' c...

...complaint proceeding under section 4905.26 of the Revised Code, upon the motion of the consumers' counsel, regardless of whether further evidence concerning the subject of the inquiry is offered.

...m by the board, and shall serve at the pleasure of the board. The board may appoint an employee of the office of the consumers' counsel as deputy consumers' counsel. The board shall determine the salary of the deputy consumers' counsel. If a deputy consumers' counsel is appointed, the consumers' counsel shall not perform the duties and powers that are assigned by the governing board to the deputy.

...by the alleged compliance failure, as identified in the request for inquiry, of another person with duties and obligations under sections 153.64, 3781.27, and 3781.28 to 3781.32 of the Revised Code and divisions (A) and (B) of section 3781.26 of the Revised Code. (B) "Compliance failure" means a failure to comply with any provision of sections 153.64, 3781.27, and 3781.28 to 3781.32 of the Revised Code and divisions...

...t all safety registrations and fines collected under this section in the underground facilities protection administrative fund created under section 4913.30 of the Revised Code.

... at the commission. (B) A request made under this section shall state, at a minimum and with particularity, the name of the person responsible for the alleged compliance failure, the date of the compliance failure, the nature of the compliance failure, the location of the compliance failure, and any other information that the requestor considers relevant. (C) The staff shall, not later than ten business days after ...

...f the Revised Code, the person responsible for the alleged compliance failure may, not later than thirty days after being notified under that section, respond to the request, providing any information that the person considers relevant to the request. The response may include an admission of the compliance failure.

...ification, informal meetings, teleconferences, photo documentation, and any other documentation or information relevant to the inquiry.

.... This report shall not contain a recommendation as to the imposition of a fine or penalty or as to whether no enforcement action should be taken.

...any of the following: (1) Make a written recommendation to the commission as to the imposition of a fine, a penalty, or a combination of fines and penalties, in accordance with section 4913.151 of the Revised Code; (2) Determine that no enforcement action should be taken and notify the commission in writing of the determination; (3) Request a hearing under section 4913.19 of the Revised Code. (C) There shall ...

...re is the first for the person responsible, the underground technical committee may recommend a penalty of a training requirement, an education requirement, or another nonmonetary penalty, or may recommend a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars, or may recommend a combination of this fine and these penalties. (B) If the compliance failure is a subsequent compliance failure for the person responsible,...

...to assist the committee in making recommendations under that section and section 4913.16 of the Revised Code.

...ll cause the initial report made available under section 4913.13 of the Revised Code to be amended to add the recommendation, and shall submit the amended report to the committee. (B) Not later than thirty days after the committee receives an amended report under division (A)(2) of this section, the committee shall do any of the following, subject to division (C) of section 4913.15 of the Revised Code: (1) Make a w...

...n 3781.361 of the Revised Code, with at least one of the commercial-excavator stakeholders voting with the majority, for the committee to make a finding under division (A) of this section.

...ponsible for a compliance failure has been found to be a persistent noncomplier under section 4913.17 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission may impose a fine on the person not exceeding ten thousand dollars. A penalty recommended by the committee under section 4913.15 or 4913.16 of the Revised Code may also be imposed by the commission.

...ittee believes that any person responsible for a compliance failure should be subject to a fine or penalty exceeding those described in section 4913.151 of the Revised Code. As a result of the hearing, the commission shall impose a fine or penalty or take no enforcement action.

...n, and the commission staff, as applicable, shall consider the following factors, as they apply: (A) The person's demonstrated history of one-call, design, and excavation practices, including the following: (1) The number of locate requests received and responded to; (2) The number of locates completed; (3) The number of one calls placed; (4) The number of excavations completed; (5) The number of design or deve...

... shall impose every recommendation made under section 4913.15 or 4913.16 of the Revised Code by the underground technical committee.

...ater than sixty days after the fine or penalty is imposed. A person subject to a penalty imposed under any of those sections or that division shall begin compliance with the penalty not later than thirty days after the penalty is imposed.

... failure of any fine or penalty imposed under section 4913.171, 4913.19, or 4913.21 of the Revised Code or division (C)(2) of section 4913.16 of the Revised Code, or of a no-enforcement determination under section 4913.15 or 4913.19 of the Revised Code or division (A)(1) or (C)(1) of section 4913.16 of the Revised Code. The notice shall include all of the following, as applicable: (A) The date of the compliance fail...

...o-enforcement determination made by the underground technical committee under section 4913.15, 4913.16, 4913.17, or 4913.19 of the Revised Code, either person may, not later than thirty days after receiving notice under section 4913.23 of the Revised Code, file a written application with the public utilities commission for reconsideration of the committee's finding. The application for reconsideration must state with...

...A reconsideration order issued under section 4913.25 of the Revised Code is subject to the rehearing and appeal process under Chapter 4903. of the Revised Code.

...e shall be conducted in a manner consistent with Chapter 4903. of the Revised Code.

... the proceeding shall be bound by the rules of the public utilities commission governing discovery in matters pending before it.