Ohio Revised Code Search

... operation, or maintenance of the major utility facility as the board considers appropriate. The certificate shall be subject to sections 4906.101, 4906.102, and 4906.103 of the Revised Code and conditioned upon the facility being in compliance with standards and rules adopted under section 4561.32 and Chapters 3704., 3734., and 6111. of the Revised Code. An applicant may withdraw an application if the board grants a...

...A railroad subject to regulation by the public utilities commission shall, in accordance with American railway engineers association codes of rules for inspection or other standards approved by the public utilities commission, inspect annually every bridge used for transportation of freight, passengers, or railroad crews on which the railroad performs all or part of the structural maintenance work. Inspection shall b...

...ully overvalue the property of a public utility for the purpose of enabling such public utility to exact a higher rate for service than could lawfully be exacted, or willfully undervalue such property for the purpose of preventing such public utility from charging a lawful rate for such service.

...sposal system company, that is a public utility may file an application with the public utilities commission for approval to collect an infrastructure improvement surcharge, determined in accordance with this section, from customers located in the company's affected service areas and subject to affected schedules filed by the company under section 4905.32 of the Revised Code. The application shall be in such form and...

...Whenever any rate, toll, charge, or service ordered substituted by the public utilities commission is a joint rate, toll, charge, or service, and the public utilities which are parties to it fail to agree upon the apportionment of such joint rate, toll, charge, or service within twenty days after the service of such order, the commission may, after hearing, make and issue a supplemental order fixing the apportionment...

...If any public utility has accepted any rate, price, charge, toll, or rental fixed by ordinance of a municipal corporation or ordinances of a group of municipal corporations, it shall become operative, unless a complaint signed by not less than ten per cent of the qualified electors of such municipal corporation or not less than ten per cent of the qualified electors of each municipal corporation in such group has bee...

...(A) No public utility shall file a rate increase application covering a municipal corporation pursuant to section 4909.18 or 4909.35 of the Revised Code at any time prior to six months before the expiration of an ordinance of that municipal corporation enacted for the purpose of establishing the rates of that public utility. (B) Not later than thirty days prior to the filing of an application pursuant to section 490...

...r commodities or services by any public utility, the plant or property of which lies wholly within this state. Where the property of a public utility lies partly within this state, the jurisdiction of the consumers' counsel extends to that part of the plant or property which lies within this state, the persons or companies owning, leasing, or operating the public utility, and the records and accounts of the business ...

...(A) The public utilities commission shall issue a transportation network company permit to any entity that does all of the following: (1) Applies for a permit issued in accordance with rules adopted under this section; (2) Affirms that the entity will maintain compliance with the applicable requirements established under sections 4925.03 to 4925.08 of the Revised Code and with rules adopted under this section; ...

... the certified territory of an electric utility on or after the starting date of competitive retail electric service is a competitive retail electric service that the consumers may obtain from any supplier or suppliers subject to this chapter. The commission may issue such order, after investigation and public hearing, only if it first determines either of the following: (1) There will be effective competition with ...

...n" means a unique electric distribution utility number or other customer identification number used by the utility to identify a customer and the customer's account record. (B) The public utilities commission shall adopt rules to ensure that an electric distribution utility processes a customer's change in competitive retail electric supplier by using customer account information. A customer who consents to a chang...

... phase-in of any electric distribution utility rate or price established under sections 4928.141 to 4928.143 of the Revised Code, and inclusive of carrying charges, as the commission considers necessary to ensure rate or price stability for consumers. If the commission's order includes such a phase-in, the order also shall provide for the creation of regulatory assets pursuant to generally accepted acc...

...928.40 of the Revised Code, no electric utility shall supply noncompetitive retail electric distribution service in this state on or after the starting date of competitive retail electric service except pursuant to a schedule for that service that is consistent with the state policy specified in section 4928.02 of the Revised Code and filed with the public utilities commission under section 4909.18 of the Revised Cod...

...iliated with the electric distribution utility subject to the final financing order or to any affiliate of the electric distribution utility created for the limited purpose of acquiring, owning, or administering that property, issuing phase-in-recovery bonds under the final financing order, or a combination of these purposes. (B) All or any portion of the phase-in-recovery property may be pledged to secure th...

...The public utilities commission shall employ a federal energy advocate to monitor the activities of the federal energy regulatory commission and other federal agencies and to advocate on behalf of the interests of retail electric service consumers in this state. The attorney general shall represent the advocate before the federal energy regulatory commission and other federal agencies. Among other duties assign...

... any amount in the rates of an electric utility for the funding of low-income customer energy efficiency programs. The universal service rider shall be a rider on retail electric distribution service rates as such rates are determined by the public utilities commission pursuant to this chapter. The universal service rider for the first five years after the starting date of competitive retail electric service shall be...

...fund and for each electric distribution utility, the annual amount of revenue collected from customers for the purpose of supporting the universal service fund and the low-income customer assistance programs. (2) For 2016, 2017, and 2018, and for each electric distribution utility, a forecast of the annual amount of revenue that will be collected from customers for the purpose of supporting the universal service fun...

...(A) If an electric distribution utility had a portfolio plan that terminated on December 31, 2020, pursuant to division (F) of section 4928.66 of the Revised Code and included a program that benefited, and was limited to, low-income customers with an annual income at or below two hundred per cent of the federal poverty level, the utility shall re-establish the part of the portfolio plan that included the low-income p...

...omers or through electric distribution utility programs that comply with federal standards for either or both energy efficiency and peak demand reduction requirements, including resources associated with such savings or reduction that are recognized as capacity resources by the regional transmission organization operating in Ohio in compliance with section 4928.12 of the Revised Code, shall count toward compli...

...may opt in to an electric distribution utility's portfolio plan after a previous election to opt out under section 4928.6611 of the Revised Code if both of the following apply: (1) The customer has previously opted out for a period of at least three consecutive calendar years. (2) The customer gives twelve months' advance notice of its intent to opt in to the public utilities commission and the electric dist...

...out the use of an electric distribution utility's or electric cooperative's distribution system or transmission system; (d) Is located on either of the following: (i) A property owned or controlled by a mercantile customer member or the entity that owns or operates the mercantile customer self-power system; (ii) Land adjacent to a mercantile customer member if the facilities connect directly with the customer. ...

... Code, and that involves tampering with utility equipment or theft of utility service, or where a physical act of a customer or its agent causes inaccurate or no recording of the meter reading, or inaccurate or no measurement of the gas or electricity rendered.

...nt. (5) Except in the case of a public utility subject to the jurisdiction and recognized on the rolls of the public utilities commission or of a cable operator possessing a valid franchise awarded pursuant to the "Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984," 98 Stat. 2779, 47 U.S.C.A. 541, a municipal corporation, for good cause shown, may withhold, deny, or delay its consent to any person based upon the person's fail...

...e are no wireless support structures or utility poles taller than thirty feet in height above ground level; (b) The maximum allowable height for building construction in the underlying zoning district is thirty-five feet in height above ground level or less. (3) For an existing wireless support structure, the antenna and any associated shroud or concealment material are permitted to be collocated at the top of t...

... extent that an investor-owned electric utility whose rates are regulated by the public utilities commission, its affiliate, an electric cooperative, or an independent transmission company is not an operator as defined by this chapter, nothing in sections 4939.01 and 4939.031 to 4939.039 of the Revised Code shall be construed to modify, add to, replace, or supersede any construction standard or engineering practice, ...