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...(A) Any person may file with the public utilities commission, or the commission may initiate, a complaint against a telephone company other than a wireless service provider, alleging that any rate, practice, or service of the company is unjust, unreasonable, unjustly discriminatory, or in violation of or noncompliance with any provision of sections 4927.01 to 4927.20 of the Revised Code or a rule or order adopt...

...(A) Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code, other than division (B) of this section: (1) Broadband internet access service is not subject to regulation by the public utilities commission. (2) No agency, commission, or political subdivision of this state shall enact, adopt, or enforce, either directly or indirectly, any law, rule, regulation, ordinance, standard, order or other provision having the forc...

...at improve reliability, efficiency, resiliency, or reduce energy demand or use, including, but not limited to, advanced metering and automation of system functions. (40) "Combined heat and power system" means the coproduction of electricity and useful thermal energy from the same fuel source designed to achieve thermal-efficiency levels of at least sixty per cent, with at least twenty per cent of the system's tota...

...It is the policy of this state to do the following throughout this state: (A) Ensure the availability to consumers of adequate, reliable, safe, efficient, nondiscriminatory, and reasonably priced retail electric service; (B) Ensure the availability of unbundled and comparable retail electric service that provides consumers with the supplier, price, terms, conditions, and quality options they elect to meet their r...

...Beginning on the starting date of competitive retail electric service, retail electric generation, aggregation, power marketing, and power brokerage services supplied to consumers within the certified territory of an electric utility are competitive retail electric services that the consumers may obtain subject to this chapter from any supplier or suppliers. In accordance with a filing under division (F) of section 4...

...(A) The public utilities commission by order may declare that retail ancillary, metering, or billing and collection service supplied to consumers within the certified territory of an electric utility on or after the starting date of competitive retail electric service is a competitive retail electric service that the consumers may obtain from any supplier or suppliers subject to this chapter. The commission may issue...

...(A) Except as provided in sections 4928.141 and 4928.142 of the Revised Code, no electric utility shall provide a competitive retail electric service in this state if that service was deemed competitive or otherwise legally classified as competitive prior to the effective date of this section. (B) The standard service offer under section 4928.141 of the Revised Code shall continue to be provided to consumers in th...

...(A)(1) A competitive retail electric service supplied by an electric services company, or by an electric utility consistent with section 4928.141 of the Revised Code, shall not be subject to supervision and regulation by a municipal corporation under Chapter 743. of the Revised Code or by the public utilities commission under Chapters 4901. to 4909., 4933., 4935., and 4963. of the Revised Code, except sections 4905.1...

...(A) Beginning on the starting date of competitive retail electric service, the public utilities commission shall ensure that the policy specified in section 4928.02 of the Revised Code is effectuated. To the extent necessary, the commission shall adopt rules to carry out this chapter. Initial rules necessary for the commencement of the competitive retail electric service under this chapter shall be adopted within one...

...To the maximum extent practicable on or after the starting date of competitive retail electric service, an electric utility, electric services company, electric cooperative, or governmental aggregator subject to certification under section 4928.08 of the Revised Code shall separately price competitive retail electric services, and the prices shall be itemized on the bill of a customer or otherwise disclosed to the cu...

...(A) This section applies to an electric cooperative, or to a governmental aggregator that is a municipal electric utility, only to the extent of a competitive retail electric service it provides to a customer to whom it does not provide a noncompetitive retail electric service through transmission or distribution facilities it singly or jointly owns or operates. (B)(1) No electric utility, electric services company...

...(A)(1) No person shall operate in this state as an electric utility, an electric services company, a billing and collection agent, or a regional transmission organization approved by the federal energy regulatory commission and having the responsibility for maintaining reliability in all or part of this state on and after the starting date of competitive retail electric service unless that person first does bot...

...For the protection of consumers in this state, the public utilities commission shall adopt rules under division (A) of section 4928.06 of the Revised Code specifying the necessary minimum service requirements, on or after the starting date of competitive retail electric service, of an electric utility, electric services company, electric cooperative, or governmental aggregator subject to certification under section 4...

...(A) As used in this section and section 4928.102 of the Revised Code: (1) "Small commercial customer" means any customer that receives electric service pursuant to a nonresidential tariff if the customer's demand for electricity does not exceed twenty-five kilowatts within the last twelve months. (2) "Small commercial customer" excludes any customer that does one or both of the following: (a) Manages multiple e...

...(A) If a competitive retail electric service supplier offers a residential or small commercial customer a contract for a fixed introductory rate that converts to a variable rate upon the expiration of the fixed rate, the supplier shall send two notices to each residential and small commercial customer that enters into such a contract. Each notice shall provide all of the following information to the customer: (1) T...

...(A) As used in this section, "customer account information" means a unique electric distribution utility number or other customer identification number used by the utility to identify a customer and the customer's account record. (B) The public utilities commission shall adopt rules to ensure that an electric distribution utility processes a customer's change in competitive retail electric supplier by using custome...

...(A) A competitive retail electric service supplier may offer alternative billing and payment structures as agreed upon in a service contract with a mercantile customer, without restriction to specific models, provided the supplier complies with applicable laws and regulations. The alternative billing and payment structure may include any of the following: (1) Daily, weekly, or milestone-based payments; (2) Online...

...(A) Upon receiving a certified request from a competitive retail electric service supplier under a service agreement that explicitly authorizes an expedited return to an electric distribution utility's standard service offer, voluntarily entered into by a mercantile customer, a utility shall complete the request within three business days. (B) The electric distribution utility shall not be held liable for any dispu...

...(A) For the protection of consumers in this state, the public utilities commission shall adopt rules under division (A) of section 4928.06 of the Revised Code that specify minimum service quality, safety, and reliability requirements for noncompetitive retail electric services supplied by an electric utility in this state, to the extent such authority is not preempted by federal law. The rules shall include prescript...

...The public utilities commission shall consult with electric distribution utilities to review the distribution infrastructure in this state and shall consult with regional transmission organizations and entities that own or control transmission facilities to review the transmission infrastructure in this state.

...(A) In the event of an interruption of electric service during a period of emergency or disaster, an electric distribution utility's service restoration plan shall give priority to hospitals that are customers of the electric distribution utility. (B) If requested by a hospital that is its customer, an electric distribution utility shall confer at least biennially with that hospital regarding power quality i...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in sections 4928.31 to 4928.40 of the Revised Code, no entity shall own or control transmission facilities as defined under federal law and located in this state on or after the starting date of competitive retail electric service unless that entity is a member of, and transfers control of those facilities to, one or more qualifying transmission entities, as described in division (B) ...

...Through a periodic filing with the public utilities commission in such form as the commission shall prescribe by rule under division (A) of section 4928.06 of the Revised Code, each electric utility that owns nuclear generation facilities located in this state shall demonstrate compliance with decommissioning requirements of the nuclear regulatory commission and public utilities commission and shall demonstrate adequ...

...(A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, the failure of a supplier to provide retail electric generation service to customers within the certified territory of an electric distribution utility shall result in the supplier's customers, after reasonable notice, defaulting to the utility's standard service offer under sections 4928.141 and 4928.142 of the Revised Code until the customer chooses an alterna...

...(A)(1) An electric distribution utility shall provide consumers, on a comparable and nondiscriminatory basis within its certified territory, a standard service offer of all competitive retail electric services necessary to maintain essential electric service to consumers, including a firm supply of electric generation service. To that end, the electric distribution utility shall apply to the public utilities commissi...

...With respect to interests in real property in existence at the time that an environmental covenant is created or amended, all of the following apply: (A) An interest that has priority under other law is not affected by an environmental covenant unless the person that owns the interest agrees to subordinate that interest to the environmental covenant. (B) Sections 5301.80 to 5301.92 of the Revised Code do not requir...

...sed Code do not authorize a use of real property that is otherwise prohibited by zoning, by law other than sections 5301.80 to 5301.92 of the Revised Code regulating use of real property, or by a recorded instrument that has priority over an environmental covenant. An environmental covenant may prohibit or restrict uses of real property that are authorized by zoning or by law other than sections 5301.80 to 5301.92 of...

...corder of each county in which the real property that is subject to the environmental covenant is located and shall be recorded in the same manner as a deed to the property. For purposes of indexing, a holder shall be treated as a grantee. (B) Pursuant to Chapter 5309. of the Revised Code, an environmental covenant and any amendment or termination of the environmental covenant in connection with registered land, as ...

...ent owner of the fee simple of the real property that is subject to the environmental covenant; (3) Each person that originally signed the environmental covenant unless one or more of the following apply: (a) The person waived in a signed record the right to consent; (b) A court finds that the person no longer exists or cannot be located or identified with the exercise of reasonable diligence; (c) The app...

...(5) A person whose interest in the real property or whose collateral or liability may be affected by the alleged violation of the environmental covenant; (6) A unit of local government in which the real property that is subject to the environmental covenant is located; (7) An original signatory of the environmental covenant who is no longer an owner of the real property that is subject to the environmental cove...

...Sections 5301.80 to 5301.92 of the Revised Code modify, limit, or supersede the "Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act," 114 Stat. 464 (2000), 15 U.S.C. 7001 et seq., as amended, except that sections 5301.80 to 5301.92 of the Revised Code do not modify, limit, or supersede section 101 of that act, 15 U.S.C. 7001(a), as amended, or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in se...

...or fewer units. (3) "Residential PACE lien" means the encumbrance on the qualifying residential real property created by the special assessment for a residential PACE loan. (4) "Residential PACE loan" means the extension of financing that is offered to pay for the installation of cost effective energy improvements on a homeowner's qualifying residential real property and is repayable by the homeowner through a sp...

...(A) As used in this section, "right-to-list home sale agreement" has the same meaning as in section 4735.01 of the Revised Code. (B) A right-to-list home sale agreement executed, modified, or extended after the effective date of this section is void ab initio and unenforceable. (C) A right-to-list home sale agreement described in division (B) of this section is an unfair or deceptive act or practice in violatio...

...percent of the market value of the real property or mineral or mining rights about which information must be filed with the secretary of state pursuant to section 5301.254 of the Revised Code. (B) Whoever violates section 5301.61 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

...The forms set forth in sections 5302.05, 5302.07, 5302.09, 5302.11, 5302.12, 5302.14, 5302.17, and 5302.31 of the Revised Code may be used and shall be sufficient for their respective purposes. They shall be known as "Statutory Forms" and may be referred to as such. They may be altered as circumstances require, and the authorization of those forms shall not prevent the use of other forms. Wherever the phrases defined...

...The rules and definitions contained in sections 5302.03, 5302.04, 5302.06, 5302.08, 5302.10, 5302.13, 5302.17, 5302.18, 5302.19, 5302.20, and 5302.21 of the Revised Code apply to all deeds or other instruments relating to real estate, whether the statutory forms or other forms are used, where the instruments are executed on or after October 1, 1965. The rules and definitions contained in section 5302.22 of the ...

...In a conveyance of real estate or any interest therein, the word "grant" is a sufficient word of conveyance without the use of more words. No covenant shall be implied from the use of the word "grant."

...In a conveyance of real estate or any interest therein, all rights, easements, privileges, and appurtenances belonging to the granted estate shall be included in the conveyance, unless the contrary is stated in the deed, and it is unnecessary to enumerate or mention them either generally or specifically.

... __________________, the following real property: (description of land or interest therein and encumbrances, reservations, and exceptions, if any) Prior Instrument Reference: Volume _____, Page _____ _______________, wife (husband) of the grantor, releases all rights of dower therein. Executed this _______________ day of ________________ _______________________________ (Signature of Grantor) (Execution ...

...In a conveyance of real estate, or any interest therein, the words "general warranty covenants" have the full force, meaning, and effect of the following words: "The grantor covenants with the grantee, his heirs, assigns, and successors, that he is lawfully seized in fee simple of the granted premises; that they are free from all encumbrances; that he has good right to sell and convey the same, and that he does warra...

...ress is ___________, the following real property: (description of land or interest therein and encumbrances, reservations, and exceptions, if any) Prior Instrument Reference: Volume _____, Page _____ ___________, wife (husband) of said grantor, releases to said grantee all rights of dower therein. Executed this _______________ day of __________________ ______________________________ (Signature of Grantor)...

...In a conveyance of real estate, or any interest therein, the words "limited warranty covenants" have the full force, meaning, and effect of the following words: "The grantor covenants with the grantee, his heirs, assigns, and successors, that the granted premises are free from all encumbrances made by the grantor, and that he does warrant and will defend the same to the grantee and his heirs, assigns, and successors,...

...ddress is _________, the following real property: (description of land or interest therein and encumbrances, reservations, and exceptions, if any) Prior Instrument Reference: Volume _____, Page _____ Executed this _______________ day of ________________ _______________________________ (Signature of Grantor) (Execution in accordance with Chapter 5301. of the Revised Code)"

...In a conveyance of real estate, or any interest therein, the words "fiduciary covenants" have the full force, meaning, and effect of the following words: "The grantor covenants with the grantee, his heirs, assigns, and successors, that he is duly appointed, qualified, and acting in the fiduciary capacity described in such deed, and is duly authorized to make the sale and conveyance of the granted premises, and that i...

...dress is __________, the following real property: (description of land or interest therein and encumbrances, reservations, and exceptions, if any) Prior Instrument Reference: Volume _______, Page ______ _______________, wife (husband) of the grantor, releases all rights of dower therein. Executed this _______________ day of ___________ _______________________________ (Signature of Grantor) (Execution in...

...ons of any prior mortgage, pays all the taxes and assessments, maintains insurance against fire and other hazards, and does not commit or suffer waste, then this mortgage shall be void. ___________________, wife (husband) of the mortgagor, releases to the mortgagee all rights of dower in the described real property. Executed this _______________ day of ________________ _______________________________ (Signatu...

...In a mortgage of real estate, or any interest therein, the words "mortgage covenants" have the full force, meaning, and effect of the following words, and shall be applied and construed accordingly: "The mortgagor covenants with the mortgagee and his heirs, assigns, and successors, that he is lawfully seized in fee simple of the granted premises; that they are free from all encumbrances; that the mortgagor has good ...

...ance shall pay when due and payable all taxes and assessments on the mortgaged premises, shall keep the buildings on said premises insured against fire and other hazards commonly known as Extended Coverage Risks in a sum not less than the amount secured by the mortgage or as otherwise provided therein for the benefit of the mortgagee and his executors, administrators, assigns, and successors, in a company or companie...

...n the same manner as mortgages of real property.

...ed by reference in any mortgage of real property situated in the county where such master mortgage form is recorded, by stating in such mortgage the volume and page number of the record of mortgages where such master mortgage form is recorded, and, if only a part of such master mortgage form is to be incorporated in the mortgage, the part or parts to be excluded. A copy of such master mortgage form shall be furnished...