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...The Ohio athletic commission shall comply with section 4776.20 of the Revised Code.

...or of the first degree. (B) An athlete agent who violates division (C) of section 4771.02 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Aggrieved person" means a 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 and who is directly involved with or impacted by the alleged compliance failure, as identified in the request for inquiry, of another person with duties and obligations under sections 153....

...(A) Each utility, excavator, developer, and designer who participates in the one-call notification system shall register with the public utilities commission and pay a safety registration not to exceed fifty dollars annually, which the commission may lower if the commission determines lowering the registration to be necessary. The commission shall administer and oversee the registration process. Failure to register s...

... make the request not later than ninety days after discovering the alleged compliance failure. The request shall not, by itself, cause the creation of a formal proceeding 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 failu...

...ance 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.

...(A) The staff of the public utilities commission shall conduct an inquiry upon receiving a request made under section 4913.05 of the Revised Code. The inquiry shall be limited to whether there was a compliance failure. (B) During an inquiry conducted under this section, the staff shall examine relevant facts regarding the alleged compliance failure and may request records verification, informal meetings, teleconfere...

...The staff of the public utilities commission shall make a report of each inquiry conducted under section 4913.09 of the Revised Code available to the underground technical committee, created under section 3781.34 of the Revised Code. The report shall contain any admission made under section 4913.07 of the Revised Code by the person who is the subject of the inquiry. This report shall not contain a recommendation as t...

...vised Code. (B) Not later than ninety days after the committee obtains the staff's report under section 4913.13 of the Revised Code, the committee shall do 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 sh...

...In determining a fine or penalty recommendation as required under section 4913.15 or 4913.16 of the Revised Code: (A) If the compliance failure 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...

...The underground technical committee may communicate with persons who have knowledge or information concerning the alleged compliance failure as part of the committee's review under section 4913.15 of the Revised Code and to assist the committee in making recommendations under that section and section 4913.16 of the Revised Code.

...nical committee votes during the ninety-day time period as required under division (B) of section 4913.15 of the Revised Code but fails to achieve the required majority as described in division (C) of that section, no enforcement action shall be taken. (2) If the committee, during the ninety-day time period, fails to vote on any action as required under division (B) of section 4913.15 of the Revised Code, the staff ...

...(A) Based upon the number and type of compliance failures committed by a person, the underground technical committee may find, as part of the committee's review under section 4913.15 of the Revised Code, that the person is a persistent noncomplier. (B) The committee shall report a finding made under division (A) of this section to the staff of the public utilities commission. (C) There shall be a majority vote of...

...If the underground technical committee reports that a person responsible 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.

...In lieu of making a recommendation of a fine or penalty or a no-enforcement determination, the underground technical committee may request an administrative hearing with the public utilities commission if the committee 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 c...

...nce failure, including the amount of damage involved in relation to the compliance failure, and whether it resulted in death, serious injury, dismemberment, or a significant threat to public safety; (C) The organizational size of the responsible person; (D) The prospective effect of a fine on the person's ability to pay business obligations and otherwise conduct business; (E) The history or number of compliance fa...

...Except as provided in sections 4913.171 and 4913.19 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission shall impose every recommendation made under section 4913.15 or 4913.16 of the Revised Code by the underground technical committee.

...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)...

...ither 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 particularity the grounds for reconsideration. (B) Upon the filing of an application for reconsideration under this section, the commission shal...

...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.