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...(A) The board of trustees of a regional airport authority may exercise the power of eminent domain to appropriate any land, rights, rights of way, franchises, easements, or other property, within or without the territorial boundaries of the regional airport authority, necessary or proper for the construction or efficient operation of any airport or airport facility or access thereto under its jurisdiction pursuant to...

...(A) The director of environmental protection, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt and may amend, suspend, or rescind rules having uniform application throughout the state governing solid waste facilities and the inspections of and issuance of permits and licenses for all solid waste facilities in order to ensure that the facilities will be located, maintained, and operated, and will under...

...(A) Any connections or tie-ins to existing utility services within a public right-of-way shall comply with permit requirements of the public authority that has jurisdiction over that right-of-way. (B) A developer or the designer employed by the developer shall not require, as a condition for entering into a contract for a project that will require excavation, that responsibility for performance of duties impo...

...division (J)(1) of this section and for utilities under division (J)(4) of this section; and (c) a first lien on the interest of the lessor in the unencumbered property so leased shall be obtained as additional security for the indebtedness; (M) In ground rents, land trust certificates, or fee ownership certificates representing or evidencing beneficial ownership of or interest in improved real estate under lea...

...(A) No person shall operate a motor vehicle, trackless trolley, or streetcar on any street, highway, or property open to the public for vehicular traffic while using, holding, or physically supporting with any part of the person's body an electronic wireless communications device. (B) Division (A) of this section does not apply to any of the following: (1) A person using an electronic wireless communications de...

...(A) As used in this section and each section referenced in division (B) of this section, all of the following apply: (1) "Distracted" means doing either of the following while operating a vehicle: (a) Using an electronic wireless communications device, as defined in section 4511.204 of the Revised Code, in violation of that section; (b) Engaging in any activity that is not necessary to the operation of a veh...

...(A) A port authority created in accordance with section 4582.22 of the Revised Code may: (1) Adopt bylaws for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its business; (2) Adopt an official seal; (3) Maintain a principal office within its jurisdiction, and maintain such branch offices as it may require; (4) Acquire, construct, furnish, equip, maintain, repair, sell, exchange, lease to or from, or lease w...

...No public utilities commissioner, attorney to the public utilities commission, secretary to the commission, or person employed or appointed to office by the commission or by its attorney shall accept any gift, gratuity, emolument, or employment from any public utility or railroad or any officer, agent, or employee of a public utility or railroad or solicit, suggest, request, or recommend, directly or indirectly, to a...

... by law, every order made by the public utilities commission shall become effective immediately upon entry thereof upon the journal of the public utilities commission. Every order shall be served by United States mail in the manner prescribed by the commission. No utility or railroad shall be found in violation of any order of the commission until notice of said order has been received by an officer of said util...

...e initiative or complaint of the public utilities commission, that any rate, fare, charge, toll, rental, schedule, classification, or service, or any joint rate, fare, charge, toll, rental, schedule, classification, or service rendered, charged, demanded, exacted, or proposed to be rendered, charged, demanded, or exacted, is in any respect unjust, unreasonable, unjustly discriminatory, unjustly preferential, or in vi...

...The public utilities commission may provide instruments for, and carry on, the examination and testing of all appliances used for the measurement of any product or service of a public utility or for the examination and testing of any devices or appliances of such public utility used for testing for accuracy any appliance used for the measurement of any product or service of such public utility. Any consumer or user m...

...en authorized by an order of the public utilities commission and not otherwise, issue notes, or other evidences of indebtedness payable at periods of not more than twelve months. This section shall not apply to: (A) The issue, renewal, or assumption of liability or notes, and other evidences of indebtedness maturing not more than twelve months after the date of such issue, renewal, or assumption of liability, and ag...

...905.40 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission shall hold such hearings, make such inquiries or investigations, and examine such witnesses, books, papers, documents, and contracts as it deems proper. An order issued under this section shall fix the amount, character, and terms of any issue of stocks, bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness, and the purposes to which the issue or any proce...

...her public utility whenever the public utilities commission determines, as provided in section 4905.51 of the Revised Code, that public convenience, welfare, and necessity require such use or joint use, and that such use or joint use will not result in irreparable injury to the owner or other users of such equipment or any substantial detriment to the service to be rendered by such owners or other users. In c...

...irection, and requirement of the public utilities commission made under authority of this chapter and Chapters 4901., 4903., 4907., and 4909. of the Revised Code, so long as they remain in force. Except as otherwise specifically provided in section 4905.95 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission may assess a forfeiture of not more than ten thousand dollars for each violation or failure against a pu...

...t section does not authorize the public utilities commission to relieve any producer of gas, as a gas company or natural gas company, of compliance with sections 4905.90 to 4905.96 of the Revised Code or the pipe-line safety code created under section 4905.91 of the Revised Code; (2) A pipe-line company, as defined in section 4905.03 of the Revised Code, when engaged in the business of transporting gas by pipeline; ...

...As used in Chapter 4906. of the Revised Code: (A) "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, association, estate, trust, or partnership or any officer, board, commission, department, division, or bureau of the state or a political subdivision of the state, or any other entity. (B)(1) "Major utility facility" means: (a) Electric generating plant and associated facilities designed for, or capable ...

...(A) The power siting board shall not grant a certificate for the construction, operation, and maintenance of, or a material amendment to an existing certificate for, a utility facility, either as proposed or as modified by the board, to be constructed in the unincorporated area of a county, if the board of county commissioners of the county in which a utility facility is to be located has adopted a resolution prohibi...

...rvice by any public utility, the public utilities commission may consider the costs attributable to such service. The utility shall file with the commission an allocation of the cost, except cost related to sparsity of population, for services for which a change in rates is proposed when evidence relating thereto is presented which indicates that the rate or rates do not generally reflect the cost of providing these ...

...rvice by any public utility, the public utilities commission may consider the efficiency, sufficiency, and adequacy of the facilities provided and the services rendered by the public utility, the value of such service to the public, and the ability of the public utility to improve such service and facility. If the commission determines that the facility or service is inefficient, insufficient, or inadequate, the com...

...vice by any public utility, the public utilities commission shall, in action upon an application filed pursuant to section 4909.18 of the Revised Code, require a public utility to file a report showing the proportionate amounts of the valuation of the property of the utility, as determined under section 4909.05 of the Revised Code, and the proportionate amounts of the revenues and expenses of the utility that ...

...tion, in a form approved by the public utilities commission, once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper published and in general circulation throughout the territory in which such public utility operates and directly affected by the matters referred to in said application. The notice shall include instructions for direct electronic access to the application or other documents on file with the public ...

...If the public utilities commission, after the hearing referred to in sections 4909.34 to 4909.36 of the Revised Code, is of the opinion that the rate, price, charge, toll, or rental, so fixed by ordinance is or will be unjust, unreasonable, or insufficient to yield reasonable compensation for the service, the commission shall fix and determine the just and reasonable rate, price, charge, toll, or rental to be charged...

...ty, subject to regulation by the public utilities commission or who is pecuniarily interested in, or holds stocks or bonds of any such utility or is a candidate for elective public office may be appointed to the office of the consumers' counsel or be appointed or employed by the counsel. If any such appointed or employed person becomes, subsequent to his initial appointment or employment, the owner of such stocks or...

...Any utility to which the consumers' counsel makes an inquiry on behalf of a residential customer concerning that customer's billing, or the availability, unavailability, or quality of that customer's service shall respond to the consumers' counsel on the merits of that inquiry within a reasonable time. If a definitive response cannot be made within three weeks of the making of the inquiry, the utility initially shall...