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...and county, and the head of each public agency charged with the duty of protecting the environment or of planning land use, in the area in which any portion of such facility is to be located. (C) Each applicant within fifteen days after the date of the filing of the application shall give public notice to persons residing in the municipal corporations and counties entitled to receive notice under division (B) of th...

...(A) No person may be appointed consumers' counsel unless he is admitted to the practice of law in this state and is qualified by knowledge and experience to practice in public utility proceedings. (B) No person who is in the employ of or acting in an official capacity with any public utility, subject to regulation by the public utilities commission or who is pecuniarily interested in, or holds stocks or bonds of an...

...nized militia. The counsel shall not engage in any other occupation or business, but shall devote full time to the duties of the office of consumers' counsel.

...(A) Notwithstanding Chapter 4117. of the Revised Code, the consumers' counsel may employ and fix the compensation of such officers, experts, lawyers, engineers, economists, statisticians, accountants, investigators, and employees in fiduciary, supervisory, or policy-making positions as are necessary to carry out Chapters 4909. and 4911. of the Revised Code or to perform the powers and duties conferred or imposed upon...

...(A) Annually, each electric distribution company, as defined in section 5727.80 of the Revised Code, shall state on each customer bill, or shall distribute to each of its customers, the following statement: "Under state law, the amount you are being billed includes: (1) Kilowatt-hour taxes that have been in effect since 2001 and are currently at $_________ (The current dollar figure of the kilowatt-hour taxes levi...

... emergency conditions for critical shortages or interruptions in the supply of electric power, natural gas, coal, or individual petroleum fuels and specifying appropriate measures to be taken at each level or for each type of energy emergency as necessary to protect the public health or safety or prevent unnecessary or avoidable damage to property. The rules may prescribe different measures for each different type or...

...If there is a vacancy by reason of the nonacceptance, death, or removal of a person chosen to an office in any township at the regular election, or if there is a vacancy from any other cause, the board of township trustees shall appoint a person having the qualifications of an elector to fill such vacancy for the unexpired term or until a successor is elected. If a township is without a board or if no appointm...

...Immediately after the election or appointment of township officers as provided by sections 503.22 to 503.24 of the Revised Code, the township fiscal officer shall make a list of all the officers elected or appointed, stating the offices to which each is chosen or appointed, and the fiscal officer shall add to the list a requisition that the officers appear before the fiscal officer, or some other officer authori...

...d to no other person, either attorney, agent, factor, or clerk, except by special order of the head of the department, district, or office.

.... Each trustee shall certify the percentage of time spent working on matters to be paid from the township general fund and from other township funds in such proportions as the kinds of services performed. A board of township trustees that has adopted a salary method of compensation may return to a method of compensation on a per diem basis as specified in this division by a majority vote. Any change in the method of ...

...joint ambulance districts, governmental agencies, nonprofit corporations, or private ambulance owners located either within or outside the state, to furnish or receive ambulance services or emergency medical services within the several territories of the contracting parties, if the contract is first authorized by all boards of trustees and legislative authorities concerned; (8) Establish reasonable charges for the u...

...th the fire department of a city or village prior to July 2, 1970, or as a volunteer firefighter with the fire department of a city, village, or other township or fire district prior to July 2, 1979, and receives a certificate issued under section 4765.55 of the Revised Code. No person shall receive an appointment under this section, in the case of a volunteer firefighter, unless the person has, not more than sixt...

...When the office of township fiscal officer becomes vacant, or when a township fiscal officer is unable to carry out the duties of office because of illness, because of entering the military service of the United States, because of a court ordered suspension as provided for under section 507.13 of the Revised Code, or because the fiscal officer is otherwise incapacitated or disqualified, the board of township trustees...

...(A) The township fiscal officer may hire and appoint one or more persons as the fiscal officer finds necessary to provide assistance to the township fiscal officer or deputy fiscal officer. The township fiscal officer may set the compensation of those persons subject to division (B) of this section. Those persons shall serve at the pleasure of the township fiscal officer or, in the absence of the township fiscal offi...

... by certification specifying the percentage of time spent working on matters to be paid from the township general fund or from other township funds in such proportions as the kinds of services performed.

...The department of job and family services shall be responsible for all administrative undertakings for the youth and family ombudsmen office, including the provision of offices, equipment, and supplies, as necessary.

... (2) Adopt rules for the nonpartisan management of the institutions under the department's control. An officer or employee of the department or any officer or employee of any institution under its control who, by solicitation or otherwise, exerts influence directly or indirectly to induce any other officer or employee of the department or any of its institutions to adopt the exerting officer's or employee's political...

...t of a facility that is operated and managed by the department of mental health and addiction services to provide psychiatric hospitalization services in accordance with the requirements of this section pursuant to an agreement between the directors of rehabilitation and correction and mental health and addiction services or, is licensed by the department of mental health and addiction services pursuant to section 51...

..., medical and mental health resource management, mortality and morbidity review, and identification and prevention of medical or mental health incidents and risks, whether performed by a quality assurance committee or by persons who are directed by a quality assurance committee. (4) "Quality assurance records" means the proceedings, records, minutes, and reports that emanate from quality assurance program activities...

... an increase in an ICF/IID's square footage. (B) "Affiliated operator" means an operator affiliated with either of the following: (1) The exiting operator for whom the affiliated operator is to assume liability for the entire amount of the exiting operator's debt under the medicaid program or the portion of the debt that represents the franchise permit fee the exiting operator owes; (2) The entering operator...

...s that the individual is sixty years of age or older but does not have a developmental disability, it shall refer the case to the county department of job and family services. If the county board determines that the individual is an adult with a developmental disability, it shall continue its review of the case. (B) For each review over which the county board retains responsibility under division (A) of this section...

...neral assembly and that is under the management and control of the department of youth services or a private entity with which the department has contracted for the institutional care and custody of felony delinquents. (3) "Quality assurance program" means a comprehensive program within the department of youth services to systematically review and improve the quality of comprehensive services, including but not lim...

...on 112 (1965), has authorized and encouraged compacts for cooperative efforts and mutual assistance in the prevention of crime. It is the purpose of this compact and the interstate commission created under this compact, through means of joint and cooperative action among the compacting states: to provide the framework for the promotion of public safety and protect the rights of victims through the control and regula...

...Immediately upon the organization of the joint board of county commissioners as provided by section 5153.36 of the Revised Code, or as soon thereafter as practicable, such joint board of county commissioners shall appoint a board of five trustees, which shall hold office and perform it duties until the first annual meeting after the choice of an established site and buildings or after the selection and purchase of a ...

...Except as otherwise provided in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, before entering upon official duties, the superintendent or administrator of the county home shall give bond as the board of county commissioners or operator requires, with a surety acceptable to the board or operator, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of that office. The bond, with the approval of the board or operator and the oath...

...A person subject to a fine 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 shall pay the fine not later 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.

...The public utilities commission shall, by letter, promptly notify the person that requested the inquiry and the person responsible for the compliance 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)...

...(A) If either the person that requested the inquiry or the person responsible for the compliance failure disagrees with either a finding or a no-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 appli...

...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.

...All hearings conducted by the public utilities commission under this chapter and under the process described in section 4913.251 of the Revised Code shall be conducted in a manner consistent with Chapter 4903. of the Revised Code.

...Any documentation obtained pursuant to an inquiry conducted under section 4913.09 of the Revised Code, communications described in section 4913.152 of the Revised Code, or an administrative hearing conducted under section 4913.19 of the Revised Code shall be treated as confidential until a formal proceeding is commenced under section 4913.25 of the Revised Code, at which time the parties to the proceeding shall be bo...

...Except for safety registrations and fines collected under section 4913.03 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission shall deposit all fines collected under this chapter into the underground facilities protection fund created under section 4913.29 of the Revised Code.

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the underground facilities protection fund. The fund shall consist of all fines collected under this chapter, except for safety registrations and fines collected under section 4913.03 of the Revised Code. The fund shall retain the interest earned. The amounts in the fund shall be used solely to fund grants under section 4913.31 of the Revised Code.

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the underground facilities protection administrative fund to be administered by the public utilities commission. The fund shall consist of all safety registrations and fines collected under section 4913.03 of the Revised Code. The fund shall retain the interest earned. The amounts in the fund shall be used for the operation of the underground technical committee, created ...

...ay administer an underground utility damage prevention grant program to provide grants for any of the following purposes: (1) Public awareness programs established by a protection service; (2) Training and education programs for excavators, operators, designers, persons who locate underground utility facilities, or other persons; (3) Programs providing incentives for excavators, operators, persons who locate under...

...The public utilities commission shall submit to the general assembly an annual report of the previous year's activities under this chapter. Each report shall be submitted on or before April 1. Each report shall be made publicly available on the commission's web site.

... contents of the underground utility damage prevention grant program established under section 4913.31 of the Revised Code; (4) The gathering, review, and acceptance of applications for a grant under section 4913.31 of the Revised Code; (5) The dispensation and tracking of money from the underground facilities protection fund; (6) The committee's duties, including rules that establish the committee's operation, me...

...Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary, if a person is subject to more than one fine for the same compliance failure, and one fine is imposed under this chapter and one or more other fines are imposed under federal law, rules, or regulations, the person shall not be required to pay the fine imposed under this chapter.

...e right of any party to obtain civil damages for personal injury or property damage in a private cause of action. No finding, determination, or recommendation of the underground technical committee, no decision of the public utilities commission under this chapter, and no no-enforcement determination under this chapter shall be determinative of civil liability in a private cause of action for personal injury or prope...

...A person with a permit for excavation from the state or a local governmental unit is subject to this chapter. This chapter does not affect or impair local ordinances, charters, or other provisions of law requiring permits to be obtained before excavating.

...Except where the roadbed of a railroad extends through or by swampland, the company or person operating the railroad shall make and keep open ditches or drains along such roadbed of depth, width, and grade sufficient to conduct water accumulating at the sides of the roadbed from the building or operation of the railroad to some proper outlet.

... company or person having control or management of any railroad except a scenic railway shall construct and maintain in good repair, or otherwise provide for, on each side of the railroad, along the line of the lands of the company owning or operating it, a fence sufficient to turn stock. If, pursuant to section 4907.08 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission determines that the company or person having ...

... company or person having control or management of such railroad shall maintain at every point where a public road, street, lane, or highway used by the public crosses such railroad, safe and sufficient crossings, and on each side of such crossings cattle guards sufficient to prevent domestic animals from going upon such railroad. Such company or person shall be liable for all damages sustained in person or property ...

... and if such fencing is destroyed or damaged by fire from passing trains or by the elements, the company or person owning or operating the railroad shall rebuild or repair such fence if the property holder demands it. If the company fails to construct a fence after having received written notice to do so from the owner or occupant of lands through which the railroad passes, after thirty days from the time of serving ...

...ny, or person having the control and management of a railroad, and the proprietors or occupants of lands adjoining for the construction or maintenance of fences and cattle guards.

...If an owner of lands abutting on the line of lands of a company, who is legally bound to build or repair the fence dividing his lands from the lands of the company, fails to build or repair such fence within the time in which he is bound to build or repair it, the company may build or repair such fence and present an itemized account of the cost of labor and materials so expended to such owner for payment. If it is n...

...An owner of land through which a railroad is constructed, and upon which there is a culvert, waterway, or opening through the embankment of the railroad of sufficient height for such purpose, may use such culvert, waterway, or opening, as a stock or cattle way under the track of the railroad so as to permit stock to pass and repass. The landowner shall build and maintain all necessary fences on both sides of the open...

...any or person having the control and management of a railroad, who fails to comply with any provision of this chapter, shall forfeit and pay, for each day the company or person so fails, a sum not exceeding fifty dollars per day, to be recovered in a civil action in the name of the state for the use of the county in which suit is brought.

...ed Code. (B) The superintendent or manager of a toll road, railroad, or electric railway shall destroy all brush, briers, burrs, vines, and noxious weeds growing or being cut within the limits of such toll road, railroad, or railway, or within the limits of any right of way belonging to the company owning such toll road, railroad, or railway, whether or not it is in actual operation on such right of way, between su...

...t," 29 U.S.C. 3164(a)(1)(C). (D) "Lead agency" means the local participating agency designated under section 5116.22 of the Revised Code to serve for a fiscal biennial period, or part thereof, as a county's lead agency for the purpose of the comprehensive case management and employment program. (E) "Local participating agencies" means the county department of job and family services and workforce development agency...