Ohio Revised Code Search

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...(A) There is hereby created the utility radiological safety board composed of the chairperson of the public utilities commission, the director of environmental protection, the director of health, the director of agriculture, the executive director of the emergency management agency, and the director of commerce, or their designees each of whom shall be an employee of the member agency of the board member for whom the...

...ote the availability of a wide range of utility, communication, and other services to residents of this state at reasonable costs, including the rapid implementation of new technologies and innovative services; (3) Promote the rapid deployment of small cell facility infrastructure and related capital investment in this state by ensuring that municipal corporations grant or deny consent to install, operate, modify, ...

...ancy or use of a public way by a public utility or cable operator when the public way cannot accommodate all public way occupants or users, which priorities as applied to public utilities or cable operators shall not be unduly discriminatory and shall be competitively neutral. (B) The management, regulation, and administration of a public way by a municipal corporation with regard to matters of local concern shall b...

...blic ways occupied or used, the type of utility service provided by a public utility, or any different treatment required by the public health, safety, and welfare. (2) A municipal corporation may waive all or a portion of any public way fee for a governmental entity or a charitable organization. (3) A municipal corporation shall not require any person, including a reseller, that does not occupy or use a public way...

...chise or to any agreement with a public utility, cable operator, or operator, for the balance of its term, if the franchise or agreement meets all of the following, as applicable: (1)(a) With respect to a public utility or cable operator, the franchise was granted, or the agreement was authorized by ordinance or otherwise and was entered into, by a municipal corporation prior to July 2, 2002. (b) With respect to an...

...d, interurban railroad, or other public utility, and to this end shall formulate and issue rules, regulations, and complete detailed specifications covering each class of construction, maintenance, and operation of such electric wire crossing or parallel, under the various conditions existing. The commission, upon complaint of any person, railroad, interurban railroad, or public utility claiming to be injuriously af...

..., and appurtenant equipment supplying a utility service have been relocated underground and service connections have been provided to the street, right-of-way, or property line, to install underground wires, cables, or conduits from the street or right-of-way to the buildings or other structures on the property to which the utility service is supplied. The township may pay the cost incurred in installing undergroun...

...m or a small solar facility as a public utility for purposes of sections 519.02 to 519.25 of the Revised Code shall not affect the classification of a small wind farm, a small solar facility, or any other public utility for purposes of state or local taxation. (D) Nothing in division (C) of this section shall be construed as affecting the classification of a telecommunications tower as defined in division (B) or (E...

...ments with railroads, or with a public utility, political subdivision, public corporation, or private corporation owning transportation facilities for the readjustment, relocation, or improvement of their facilities, a fee simple title or an easement may be acquired by purchase or appropriation in the name of the railroad, public utility, political subdivision, public corporation, or private corporation in the...

...p, limited liability company, or public utility in the same manner that a summons is served in a civil action in the court of common pleas, the production within this state, at the time and place the commissioner designates, of any books, accounts, papers, or records kept by that company, firm, corporation, person, association, partnership, limited liability company, or public utility in any office or place within or...

...the general tax list of real and public utility property were reduced under section 319.302 of the Revised Code for the preceding tax year; (B) For fiscal year 2020 and thereafter, an amount not to exceed forty-five hundredths of one per cent of the total amount of taxes charged and payable against public utility personal property on the general tax list of real and public utility property for the preceding tax year...

...ersonal property acquired from a public utility or interexchange telecommunications company as defined in section 5727.01 of the Revised Code and leased back to the public utility or interexchange telecommunications company pursuant to a sale and leaseback transaction as defined in division (I) of section 5727.01 of the Revised Code. For tax year 2007 and thereafter, "taxable property" of a telephone, telegraph, o...

..., personal property leased to a public utility or interexchange telecommunications company as defined in section 5727.01 of the Revised Code and used directly in the rendition of a public utility service as defined in division (P) of section 5739.01 of the Revised Code shall be listed and assessed at the same percentage of true value in money that such property is required to be assessed by section 5727.111 of...

...ions that the amount of real and public utility property taxes levied by the county or each taxing unit in the county in the preceding tax year bears to the amount of such taxes levied by the county and all such units in the county in the preceding tax year. If after such credit has been made, there remains any balance of such overpayment, or if there are no taxes, assessments, or charges due from such person, upon a...

...) Receipts from sales to another public utility for resale, provided such other public utility is subject to the tax levied by section 5727.24 or 5727.30 of the Revised Code; (iii) Receipts of a combined company derived from operating as a natural gas company that is subject to the tax imposed by section 5727.24 of the Revised Code. (b) The total gross receipts of the company, for the year next preceding the firs...

...ommissioner, on application by a public utility, may extend to the public utility a further specified time, not to exceed thirty days, within which to file any report or statement required by this chapter to be filed with the commissioner, except reports required by sections 5727.24 to 5727.29 of the Revised Code. A public utility must file such an application, in writing, with the commissioner on or before the date ...

...If any public utility fails to make any report to the tax commissioner required by law, or makes such report and fails to report or reports erroneously any information essential to the determination of any amount, value, proportion, or other fact to be determined by the commissioner pursuant to law, which is necessary for the fixing of any fee, tax, or assessment, the commissioner shall determine such amount, value, ...

...Every public utility required by law to make returns, statements, or reports to the tax commissioner under sections 5727.01 to 5727.62 of the Revised Code shall file therewith, in such form as the commissioner prescribes, an affidavit subscribed and sworn to by a person or officer having knowledge of the facts setting forth that such public utility has not, during the preceding year, except as permitted by sections 3...

...domestic, owning and operating a public utility in this state, and required by law to file reports with the tax commissioner and to pay an excise tax upon its gross receipts, and insurance, fraternal, beneficial, bond investment, and other corporations required by law to file annual reports with the superintendent of insurance and dealers in intangibles, the shares of which are, or the capital or ownership in capital...

...rry forward a credit against its public utility excise tax liability under section 5727.39 of the Revised Code is entitled to carry forward any amount of that credit remaining after its last public utility excise tax payment for the period of July 1, 2003, through June 30, 2004, and claim that amount as a credit against its corporation franchise tax liability under this section. Nothing in this section authorizes a t...

...sted on the tax list of real and public utility property. (d) "Taxable property" has the same meaning as in section 5727.01 of the Revised Code. (e) "Tax rate" of an eligible taxing district means one of the following: (i) For townships, the sum of the rates of levies imposed under section 505.39, 505.51, or division (I), (J), (U), or (JJ) of section 5705.19 of the Revised Code and extended on the tax list of r...

...om the water consumers and users of the utility's service. Upon the filing of such application the commission shall fix a time for the hearing thereof and give notice thereof to the mayor of the municipal corporation and the director. If upon hearing the commission finds that the rates theretofore authorized to be charged will not provide revenue sufficient to operate said system and make a reasonable return upon the...

...ribution, or research, including public utility companies, are hereby determined to be those that qualify as facilities for the control of water pollution and thermal pollution related to water under Section 13 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution. (L) "Water management facilities" means facilities for the development, use, and protection of water resources, including, without limitation, facilities for water supply, ...

...l operations, including those of public utility companies, and commercial, distribution, research, agricultural, and community operations, including garbage, tires, combustible, noncombustible, or radioactive material, street dirt, and debris. (D) "Solid waste facilities" means facilities or property, or the modification or replacement of property, for the collection, storage, treatment, utilization, processing, tra...