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...stant fire marshal, or a certified fire safety inspector may arrest, or may cause the arrest of, any person whom the fire marshal, assistant fire marshal, or certified fire safety inspector finds in the act of violating, or who the fire marshal, assistant fire marshal, or certified fire safety inspector has reasonable cause to believe has violated, sections 3743.60 to 3743.66 of the Revised Code. Any arrest shall be...

...(A) The state fire marshal shall not refuse to issue a license, permit, or registration under this chapter if the applicant or any individual holding, owning, or controlling a five per cent or greater beneficial or equity interest in the applicant for the license, permit, or registration has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a disqualifying offense under section 9.79 of the Revised Code unless the refusal is in ...

...fire marshal's ability to ensure public safety. (F) As used in division (A) of this section: (1) "Person" includes any person or entity, in whatever form or name, that acquires possession of a manufacturer or wholesaler of fireworks license issued pursuant to this chapter by transfer of possession of a license, whether that transfer occurs by purchase, assignment, inheritance, bequest, stock transfer, or any oth...

...oes, or other signals necessary for the safe operation of railroads; (C) The manufacture, sale, possession, transportation, storage, or use of blank cartridges in connection with theaters or shows, or in connection with athletics as signals or for ceremonial purposes; (D) The manufacture for, the transportation, storage, possession, or use by, or sale to the armed forces of the United States and the militia of th...

...(A) Whoever violates division (A) or (B) of section 3743.60 or division (H) of section 3743.64 of the Revised Code is guilty of a felony of the third degree. (B) Whoever violates division (C) or (D) of section 3743.60, division (A), (B), (C), or (D) of section 3743.61, or division (A) or (B) of section 3743.64 of the Revised Code is guilty of a felony of the fourth degree. (C) Whoever violates division (E), (F), ...

...There is hereby created the environmental protection agency, headed by the director of environmental protection. The agency, under the supervision of the director, shall administer the laws pertaining to chemical emergency planning, community right-to-know, and toxic chemical release reporting; the cessation of chemical handling operations; the prevention, control, and abatement of air and water pollution; pub...

...tection and preservation of the health, safety, welfare, and property of the people of the state; (C) Administer the air, water, and other natural resources of the state for the use and benefit of the people of the state; (D) Promote the development of technology for environmental protection and management; (E) Operate the state government in ways designed to minimize environmental damage, and assist and cooper...

...(A) The director of environmental protection shall collect all moneys for permits, licenses, plan approvals, variances, and certifications of any nature issued and administered by the environmental protection agency under Chapter 3704., 3714., 3734., 6109., or 6111. of the Revised Code. The director shall keep a record of all such moneys collected showing the amounts received, from whom, and for what purpose collecte...

...Except for those moneys specifically required by law to be credited to another fund, all moneys received by the environmental protection agency from the sale of goods or services shall be credited to the sale of goods and services fund which is hereby created in the state treasury. Moneys credited to the fund shall include: (A) Moneys received pursuant to service agreements between programs or activities of the envi...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the central support indirect fund, which shall be administered by the director of environmental protection. Money credited to the fund shall be used for administrative costs of the environmental protection agency. The director may assess any operating funds from which the agency receives appropriations, except the central support indirect fund, for a share of the administ...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the environmental protection fund consisting of money credited to the fund under division (A)(3) of section 3734.57 of the Revised Code. The environmental protection agency shall use money in the fund to pay the agency's costs associated with administering and enforcing, or otherwise conducting activities under, this chapter and Chapters 3704., 3734., 3746., 3747., 3748.,...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the federally supported cleanup and response fund consisting of money credited to the fund from federal grants, gifts, and contributions. The environmental protection agency shall use money in the fund to support the investigation and remediation of contaminated property and implementation of the hazardous waste provisions of Chapter 3734. of the Revised Code.

... to the environment and to the health, safety, or welfare of the public. (2) The information is obtained independently by the director or the director's authorized representatives as part of a compliance inspection, record review, investigation, or enforcement proceeding by the agency. (3) The information is emissions data or other information concerning which holding the information as either confidential b...

...The director of environmental protection shall establish within environmental protection the agency a division to administer the agency's financial, technical, and compliance programs to assist communities, businesses, and other regulated entities. The division shall administer all of the following: (A) State revolving wastewater and drinking water loan programs under sections 6109.22 and 6111.036 of the Revised Cod...

...(A) Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code or Administrative Code requiring the director of environmental protection to provide public notice by publication in one or more newspapers, including one or more newspapers of general circulation, the director may instead provide public notice by publication on the environmental protection agency's official web site. (B) Notwithstanding any provision of the Re...

...There is hereby created an environmental review appeals commission, consisting of three members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. Terms of office shall be for six years, commencing on the twenty-third day of October and ending on the twenty-second day of October, except that the terms of the first members of the commission shall be for two, four, and six years, respectively, as desi...

...(A) The environmental review appeals commission shall adopt or amend, as appropriate, regulations governing procedure to be followed for hearings before it, including regulations governing all of the following: (1) Expedited hearings; (2) Expedited decisions; (3) Stays. (B) No regulation adopted by the commission shall be effective until the tenth day after it has been adopted by the filing of a certified copy th...

...(A) As used in this section, "any person" means any individual, any partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity, or any political subdivision, instrumentality, or agency of a state, whether or not the individual or legal entity is an applicant for or holder of a license, permit, or variance from the environmental protection agency, and includes any department, agency, or instrumentality of the federa...

...(A) In hearing the appeal, if an adjudication hearing was conducted by the director of environmental protection in accordance with sections 119.09 and 119.10 of the Revised Code or conducted by a board of health, the environmental review appeals commission is confined to the record as certified to it by the director or the board of health, as applicable. The commission may grant a request for the admission of a...

...Any party adversely affected by an order of the environmental review appeals commission may appeal to the court of appeals of Franklin county, or, if the appeal arises from an alleged violation of a law or regulation, to the court of appeals of the district in which the violation was alleged to have occurred. Any party desiring to so appeal shall file with the commission a notice of appeal designating the order appea...

...s collected under this section shall be deposited in the general revenue fund. If the director issues, denies, modifies, revokes, or renews a permit, license, or variance without issuing a proposed action, an officer of an agency of the state or of a political subdivision, acting in a representative capacity, or any person who would be aggrieved or adversely affected thereby, may appeal to the environmental review a...

...(A) An officer of an agency of the state or of a political subdivision, acting in the officer's representative capacity, or any person who is or will be aggrieved or adversely affected by a violation that has occurred, is occurring, or will occur may file a complaint, in writing and verified by the affidavit of the complainant, the complainant's agent, or attorney, with the director of environmental protection, in ac...

...Upon investigation of any complaint filed under section 3704.06, 3734.10, 3745.08, or 6109.11 of the Revised Code, if the director of environmental protection finds that the violation is caused by or contributed to from air or water pollution sources outside Ohio, he shall immediately notify the responsible officials of the state in which the source lies, the United States environmental protection agency, and the att...

...r division (B) of this section shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the Title V clean air fund created in section 3704.035 of the Revised Code. Annually, not more than fifty cents per ton of each fee assessed under division (B) of this section on actual emissions from a source and received by the environmental protection agency pursuant to that division may be transferred by the director using an...

...During the month of August 1997, and biennially thereafter, the director of environmental protection shall enter into a contract for the performance of an independent evaluation of the Title V permit program to be conducted under the supervision of an independent certified public accountant. The evaluation shall review the finances, operations, revenues, costs, and expenditures of the Title V permit program und...