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...(A)(1) The utility radiological safety board may request information from nuclear electric utilities or nuclear electric utility holding companies which it considers necessary to conduct investigations, examinations, and studies it may undertake, but shall not impose any undue burden on the utilities or holding companies in this regard. (2) The board may, either through its members or by persons authorized by it, ex...

...earinghouse for recommendations made by independent organizations or private citizens and review and investigate such recommendations. (6) Adopt and publish rules to conduct its business and regulate the mode and manner of all investigations, examinations, and studies it undertakes. (7) Provide an annual report to the governor, the president of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives detailing t...

... excluding receipts from sales to other public utilities for resale, for the calendar year next preceding that in which the assessments are made, or be made based upon the utility's decommissioning budget for the year of the assessment, if the utility is not engaged in the business of producing electricity using nuclear energy. On or before the first day of October in each year, the board shall notify each such utili...

...he keeper of the national register, the individual who has been delegated the authority by the federal agency to list properties and determine their eligibility for the national register, in accordance with section VI.D.1.a.i-v of the nationwide programmatic agreement codified at 47 C.F.R. part 1, Appendix C; (2) A registered historic district as defined in section 149.311 of the Revised Code. (H) "Micro wireless f...

...(A) It is the public policy of this state to do all of the following: (1) Promote the public health, safety, and welfare regarding access to and the occupancy or use of public ways, to protect public and private property, and to promote economic development in this state; (2) Promote the availability of a wide range of utility, communication, and other services to residents of this state at reasonable costs, includ...

...(A) No person shall occupy or use a public way except in accordance with law. (B) In occupying or using a public way, no person shall unreasonably compromise the public health, safety, and welfare. (C)(1) No person shall occupy or use a public way without first obtaining, under this section or section 1332.24 or 4939.031 of the Revised Code, any requisite consent of the municipal corporation owning or controlling t...

... in, along, across, upon, and under the public way. An operator shall comply with generally applicable standards that are consistent with this chapter and adopted by a municipal corporation for construction and public safety in a public way. All structures and facilities shall be constructed and maintained so as not to impede or impair public safety or the legal use of the public way by the municipal corporation, the...

...poration that authorizes the use of the public way pursuant to section 4939.03 or 4939.031 of the Revised Code shall include the name of the person who owns or will own the facility or structure.

...es in, along, across, upon, and under a public way.

...(A) The time period required in section 4939.031 of the Revised Code may be tolled only: (1) By mutual agreement between the entity requesting consent and the municipal corporation; (2) In cases where the municipal corporation determines that the application is incomplete; or (3) If the number of requests for consent for small cell facilities or wireless support structures received is likely to result in difficult...

...Nothing in this chapter precludes a municipal corporation from applying its generally applicable health, safety, and welfare regulations when granting consent for a small cell facility or wireless support structure.

...Notwithstanding sections 4939.031 to 4939.037 of the Revised Code, a municipal corporation shall approve within sixty days, and may not deny, an eligible facilities request under 47 C.F.R. 1.40001.

...port structures in the public way shall indemnify, protect, defend, and hold the municipal corporation and its elected officials, officers, employees, agents, and volunteers harmless against any and all claims, lawsuits, judgments, costs, liens, losses, expenses, fees to include reasonable attorney fees and costs of defense, proceedings, actions, demands, causes of action, liability and suits of any kind and nature, ...

...e following activities conducted in the public way: (1) Routine maintenance of wireless facilities; (2) The replacement of wireless facilities with wireless facilities that are consistent with the municipal corporation's current design guidelines and that are either of the following: (a) Substantially similar to the existing wireless facilities; (b) The same size or smaller than the existing wireless facilities. ...

...(A) A municipal corporation shall permit a person seeking to construct, modify, collocate, or replace more than one small cell facility or more than one wireless support structure within the jurisdiction of a single municipal corporation to file, at the person's discretion, a consolidated application for consent under section 4939.031 of the Revised Code for up to thirty small cell facilities requests in a single ap...

...ociated wireless support structure in a public way, a municipal corporation shall not do any of the following: (A) Require a person to submit information about, or evaluate a person's business decisions with respect to, the person's service, customer demand, or quality of service to or from a particular area or site as a condition for approval of the request; (B) Require a person to submit information about the nee...

...lity or wireless support structure in a public way, a municipal corporation may do any of the following: (A) Reserve space for future public safety or transportation uses in the public way or on a wireless support structure or pole owned by a municipal corporation in a documented and approved plan in place at the time an application is filed. A reservation of space shall not preclude placement of a pole or collocat...

...No municipal corporation may institute a moratorium on the filing, acceptance of filings, consideration, or approval of requests for consent described in section 4939.031 of the Revised Code.

...Any fee charged by a municipal corporation under section 4939.031 of the Revised Code for granting or processing an application for consent shall not exceed a one-time fee of two hundred fifty dollars per small cell facility. Beginning on the effective date of this section, a municipal corporation may adjust this fee ten per cent every five years, rounded to the nearest five dollars. During each five-year period, th...

...lly applied permitting to safeguard the public health, safety, and welfare. An operator may remove its small cell facilities at any time subject to applicable work permit requirements and may stop paying annual charges or fees under division (B) of section 4939.0322 of the Revised Code.

...filiate, an electric cooperative, or an independent transmission company is not an operator as defined by this chapter, nothing in sections 4939.01 and 4939.031 to 4939.039 of the Revised Code shall be construed to modify, add to, replace, or supersede any construction standard or engineering practice, tariff, contractual obligation or right, or federal or state law or regulation regarding utility poles, similar stru...

...A municipal corporation shall not enter into an exclusive arrangement with any entity for the right to attach to the municipal corporation's wireless support structures.

...rt structure along, across, and under a public way in excess of the size limits, to the extent permitted by the municipal corporation's applicable regulations.

...) A municipal corporation shall provide public utilities or cable operators with open, comparable, nondiscriminatory, and competitively neutral access to its public ways. (2) Nothing in division (A)(1) of this section prohibits a municipal corporation from establishing priorities for access to or occupancy or use of a public way by a public utility or cable operator when the public way cannot accommodate all public ...

...e right or privilege to occupy or use a public way, and shall not levy a public way fee except in accordance with this section. (B)(1) A municipal corporation may levy different public way fees based upon the amount of public ways occupied or used, the type of utility service provided by a public utility, or any different treatment required by the public health, safety, and welfare. (2) A municipal corporation may ...