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...(A) Upon the filing of an application by a natural gas company in such form and pursuant to such procedures as shall be prescribed by rule of the commission under section 4929.10 of the Revised Code for the purpose of this division, the commission shall determine the total allowable amount of capacity and commodity costs, and costs incidental thereto, of the company to be received as revenues under this division. Suc...

...(A)(1) The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may adopt an ordinance, or the board of township trustees of a township or the board of county commissioners of a county may adopt a resolution, under which, in accordance with this section and except as otherwise provided in division (A)(2) of this section, the legislative authority or board may aggregate automatically, subject to the opt-out require...

...(A)(1) The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may adopt an ordinance, or the board of township trustees of a township or the board of county commissioners of a county may adopt a resolution, under which, in accordance with this section and except as otherwise provided in division (A)(2) of this section, the legislative authority or board may aggregate, with the prior consent of each person whose ...

...Any governmental aggregator as defined in division (K)(1) or (2) of section 4929.01 of the Revised Code or retail natural gas supplier shall act in good faith with a natural gas company to resolve any issues regarding an aggregation prior to the date of commencement of service to the aggregated load. In the event agreement cannot be reached, either party may petition the public utilities commission to resolve the iss...

...(A)(1) The legislative authority of a municipal corporation described in division (K)(1) of section 4929.01 of the Revised Code, the board of township trustees of a township, or the board of county commissioners of a county may petition the public utilities commission to require a natural gas company with fifteen thousand or more customers in this state to provide, upon the effective date of an ordinance or resolutio...

...(A) Nothing in sections 4929.20 to 4929.29 of the Revised Code affects any arrangement or other contract to supply or arrange for the supply of commodity sales service or ancillary service to a consumer in this state, which arrangement or contract was entered into prior to the effective date of initial rules adopted pursuant to division (A) of section 4929.20 of the Revised Code, and was authorized as a result of a r...

...As used in sections 4931.02 to 4931.05 of the Revised Code, "telephone company" has the same meaning as in section 4927.01 of the Revised Code.

...(A) A telephone company may construct, own, use, and maintain telecommunications lines and facilities, whether described in its original articles of incorporation or not, and whether such lines or facilities are wholly within or partly beyond the limits of this state. It may join with another company or association in conducting, leasing, owning, using, or maintaining such lines or facilities, on terms agreed u...

...s applicable, and any other applicable law, including, but not limited to, any law requiring approval of the legislative authority, the county engineer, or the director of transportation.

...A telephone company may enter upon any land held by an individual or a corporation, whether such land was acquired by purchase, appropriation, or by virtue of any provision in its charter, for the purpose of making preliminary examination and surveys, with a view to the location and construction of telecommunications lines and facilities, and may appropriate so much of such land in accordance with sections 163....

...Any company organized at any time to transact a telephone or communications business may construct, reconstruct, own, use, lease, operate, maintain, and improve communications systems for the transmission of voices, sounds, writings, signs, signals, pictures, visions, images, or other forms of intelligence, as public utility services, by means of wire, cable, radio, radio relay, or other telecommunications faci...

...he communication is mandated by federal law or regulation or pursuant to subpoena in a criminal proceeding. (C) A communications assistant or a telecommunications relay service provider is not subject to criminal prosecution and is not liable in damages in any civil action on account of the act of transliterating or the content of any communication transliterated, or any injury, death, or loss to person or pro...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Advertisement" means a message or material intended to cause the sale of realty, goods, or services. (2) "Facsimile device" means a device that electronically or telephonically receives and copies onto paper reasonable reproductions or facsimiles of documents and photographs through connection with a telephone network. (3) "Pre-existing business relationship" does not include...

...(A) Whoever violates division (B) of section 4931.06 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor in the first degree. (B) Whoever violates section 4931.10 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor for a first offense and a misdemeanor of the first degree on each subsequent offense.

...A company organized for the purpose of supplying gas for lighting the streets and public and private buildings of a municipal corporation or township may manufacture, sell, and furnish the gas required in such municipal corporation or township for such or other purposes, a company organized for the purpose of supplying the inhabitants of a municipal corporation or township with water may sell and furnish any quantity...

...Every corporation organized under the laws of this state to manufacture and supply artificial gas for light, heat, or power purposes and every corporation organized under the laws of this state to manufacture and supply electricity for light, heat, or power purposes, subject to statutory provisions relating to the granting of franchises by municipal corporations for any such purpose in force at the time of granting t...

...Section 4933.02 of the Revised Code does not confer a right to engage in the business referred to in such section, or to erect or maintain structures in a street, alley, or public place, without the consent of the municipal corporation in which such structures are to be constructed.

...The proper officers of any municipal corporation or the board of township trustees of any township in which a gas, sewage disposal system company, or water company is organized may contract with such company for lighting, disposal of sewage, or supplying with water the streets, lands, lanes, squares, and public places in such municipal corporation or township.

...A gas company in a municipal corporation may extend its pipes used for conveying gas to the various localities and inhabitants of the municipal corporation to any place in the vicinity of such municipal corporation outside the corporate limits; but the right of way must be obtained from the authorities or persons having control of the places to be affected by such extension.

...Except as otherwise provided in arrangements approved under section 4905.31 of the Revised Code, natural gas delivered to customers shall have a heating value of not less than nine hundred British thermal units per cubic foot when measured in the laboratory by direct heat release or by chemical composition, according to the procedures of the American society for testing and materials or other recognized analytical me...

...No gas meter shall be set unless it is tested by a meter-prover, sealed, and stamped as provided in section 4933.11 of the Revised Code. A company authorizing the setting of a meter, or allowing it to be used by a consumer of gas, without being so sealed and stamped, shall forfeit not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, to be recovered upon the complaint of such consumer, in the name of the state...

...Gas meters in use shall be tested on the request of the consumer, in his presence if desired by him, with a tested and sealed meter-prover, by an officer or servant of the gas company. If the meter is found to be correct, and it is deemed correct if the variation is not greater than three per cent, the party requesting the inspection shall pay a fee of twenty-five cents, and the expense of removing it for the purpo...

...If authorized in writing by the president, treasurer, agent, or secretary of a gas company, its officer or servant may enter, at any reasonable time, any premises lighted with gas supplied by such company, to examine or remove the gas meters, and to ascertain the quantity of gas consumed or supplied. If a person prevents or hinders such officer or servant from so entering such premises, or from making such examinatio...

...All gas companies supplying the public with artificial or natural gas shall provide for their use a meter-prover, the holder of which must contain not less than five feet. Such meter-prover shall be tested in the place where it is to be used, stamped, and sealed by the public utilities commission. Such tests shall be open to the public. All gas companies supplying artificial or natural gas for illuminating purposes s...

...(A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section and division (E) of section 5117.11 of the Revised Code, if any person supplied with gas neglects or refuses to pay the amount due for the gas or for rent of articles hired by the person from a natural gas company or a gas company, the company may stop the gas from entering the premises of the person. In such cases, after twenty-four hours' notice, the officers, ...

...ion, if the subdivision is permitted by law to establish such a program; (3) To provide for the payment of claims, assessments, and deductibles under a self-insurance program, individual retrospective ratings plan, group rating plan, group retrospective rating plan, medical only program, deductible plan, or large deductible plan for workers' compensation. The ordinance or resolution establishing a reserve balance...

...A taxing authority of a subdivision may establish a nonexpendable trust fund for the purpose of receiving donations or contributions that the donor or contributor requires to be maintained intact. The principal of such fund may be invested, and the investment earnings on the principal shall be credited to the fund. The principal of the fund, and any additions to principal arising from sources other than the reinvest...

...for any purpose for which the board may lawfully expend money of the township other than for the purposes for which a reserve balance account may be established under section 5705.13 of the Revised Code. Money may be transferred to the reserve balance account from another fund or account of the township only if money in that fund or account may lawfully be expended for the purpose for which the reserve balance accoun...

...No transfer shall be made from one fund of a subdivision to any other fund, by order of the court or otherwise, except as follows: (A) The unexpended balance in a bond fund that is no longer needed for the purpose for which such fund was created shall be transferred to the sinking fund or bond retirement fund from which such bonds are payable. (B) The unexpended balance in any specific permanent improvement fund,...

...s derived from any excise tax levied by law for a specified purpose, and the proceeds or balances of any license fees imposed by law for a specified purpose.

...A resolution of the taxing authority of any political subdivision shall be passed by a majority of all the members thereof, declaring the necessity for the transfer of funds authorized by section 5705.15 of the Revised Code, and such taxing authority shall submit to the tax commissioner a petition that includes the name and amount of the fund, the fund to which it is desired to be transferred, a copy of such resoluti...

...e fifteen-mill limitation prescribed by law prior to January 1, 1934, for the three years next preceding the year in which a charter provision has originally taken effect, except that: (A) For the purpose of computing such average rate the annual rate allowed in the year 1933 or in any year prior thereto for the purposes of the next succeeding year shall be taken to be two thirds of the rate actually allowed in each...

...rted by, the subdivision under whatever law organized or authorized to be supported; (E) For a municipal university, not to exceed two mills over the limitation of one mill prescribed in section 3349.13 of the Revised Code; (F) For the construction or acquisition of any specific permanent improvement or class of improvements that the taxing authority of the subdivision may include in a single bond issue; (G) Fo...

...The taxing authority of any subdivision, other than the board of education of a school district or the taxing authority of a county school financing district, by a vote of two-thirds of all its members, may declare by resolution that the amount of taxes that may be raised within the ten-mill limitation by levies on the current tax duplicate will be insufficient to provide an adequate amount for the necessary r...

...(A) For the purposes of this section only, "taxing authority" includes a township board of park commissioners appointed under section 511.18 of the Revised Code. (B) A taxing authority may propose to replace an existing levy that the taxing authority is authorized to levy, regardless of the section of the Revised Code under which the authority is granted, except a school district emergency levy proposed pursuant to...

...When the electors of a county have approved a tax levy under section 5705.191 of the Revised Code for the purpose of providing funds for the acquisition or construction of a specific permanent improvement or class of permanent improvements for the county, the taxing authority of such county may anticipate a fraction of the proceeds of such levy and from time to time, during the life of such levy, issue anticipation n...

...The board of education of any city, local, exempted village, cooperative education, or joint vocational school district at any time may declare by resolution that the revenue that will be raised by all tax levies which the district is authorized to impose, when combined with state and federal revenues, will be insufficient to provide for the emergency requirements of the school district or to avoid an operating defic...

...Within ten days after the resolution is certified to the county auditor as provided by section 5705.194 of the Revised Code, the auditor shall calculate and certify to the taxing authority the annual levy, expressed in dollars for each one hundred thousand dollars of the county auditor's appraised value as well as in mills for each one dollar of taxable value, throughout the life of the levy which will be required to...

...The election provided for in section 5705.194 of the Revised Code shall be held at the regular places for voting in the district, and shall be conducted, canvassed, and certified in the same manner as regular elections in the district for the election of county officers, provided that in any such election in which only part of the electors of a precinct are qualified to vote, the board of elections may assign voters ...

...The form of the ballot to be used at the election provided for in section 5705.195 of the Revised Code shall be as follows: "Shall a levy be imposed by the _____________ (here insert name of school district) for the purpose of _____________ (here insert purpose of levy) in the sum of $__________ (here insert annual amount the levy is to produce) and a levy of taxes to be made outside of the ten-mill limitation esti...

...The taxing authority of a joint recreation district may levy a tax approved by the electors for the purpose stated in division (H) of section 5705.19 of the Revised Code and for a continuing period of time, and in accordance with that section. After the approval at any time of a levy for that purpose by vote, the taxing authority of a joint recreation district may anticipate a fraction of the proceeds of that levy an...

...(A) At any time the board of education of a city, local, exempted village, cooperative education, or joint vocational school district, by a vote of two-thirds of all its members, may declare by resolution that the revenue that will be raised by all tax levies that the district is authorized to impose, when combined with state and federal revenues, will be insufficient to provide for the necessary requirements of the ...

...The board of county commissioners of any county, in any year, after providing the normal and customary percentage of the total general fund appropriations for the support of the tuberculosis treatment specified under section 339.73 of the Revised Code or for the support of tuberculosis clinics established pursuant to section 339.76 of the Revised Code, by vote of two-thirds of all the members of said board may ...

...pter 3317. of the Revised Code or other laws referring to the "taxes charged and payable" for a school district, the taxes charged and payable for a qualifying school district that levies a tax under division (B) of this section includes only the taxes charged and payable under that levy for the current expenses of the school district, and does not include the taxes charged and payable for the current expenses of par...

...(A)(1) The board of education of any school district, at any time and by a vote of two-thirds of all of its members, may declare by resolution that the amount of taxes that may be raised within the ten-mill limitation will be insufficient to provide an adequate amount for the present and future requirements of the school district, that it is necessary to levy not more than five taxes in excess of that limitation for ...

...(A)(1) The board of education of any school district, at any time and by a vote of two-thirds of all of its members, may declare by resolution that the amount of taxes that may be raised within the ten-mill limitation will be insufficient to provide an adequate amount for the present and future requirements of the school district and that it is necessary to levy a tax in excess of that limitation for current expenses...

...Not more than three elections during any calendar year shall include the questions by a school district of tax levies proposed under any one or any combination of the following sections: sections 5705.194, 5705.199, 5705.21, 5705.212, 5705.213, 5705.217, 5705.218, 5705.219, 5705.2112, and 5748.09 of the Revised Code.

...(A) The governing board of an educational service center that is the taxing authority of a county school financing district, upon receipt of identical resolutions adopted within a sixty-day period by a majority of the members of the board of education of each school district that is within the territory of the county school financing district, may submit a tax levy to the electors of the territory in the same manner ...

...A board of education that has issued notes in anticipation of the proceeds of a permanent improvements levy in the maximum amount permitted under division (D)(2) or (3) of section 5705.21 of the Revised Code or a taxing authority of a county school financing district that has issued notes in anticipation of the proceeds of a levy in the maximum amount permitted under section 5705.215 of the Revised Code may, if the p...

...(A) The board of education of a city, local, or exempted village school district, at any time by a vote of two-thirds of all its members, may declare by resolution that the amount of taxes that can be raised within the ten-mill limitation will be insufficient to provide an adequate amount for the present and future requirements of the school district; that it is necessary to levy an additional tax in excess of ...