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...s the company, at the time it sends or delivers to the premises notices of termination, informs the occupant of the premises where to obtain state and federal aid for payment of utility bills and for home weatherization and information on local government aid for payment of utility bills and for home weatherization. (E) On or before the first day of November, a county human services department may request a company ...

...section 5117.11 of the Revised Code, an electric light company shall not, for any reason, unless requested by the consumer for safety reasons, or unless tampering with utility company equipment or theft of electricity or utility company equipment has occurred, cease to provide electricity to any residential consumer for the period beginning on the fifteenth day of November and ending on the fifteenth day of the follo...

...t of the customer, at any time to a residential consumer, except pursuant to procedures that provide for all of the following: (A) Reasonable prior notice is given to such consumer, including notice of rights and remedies, and no due date shall be established, after which a customer's account is considered to be in arrears if unpaid, that is less than fourteen days after the mailing of the billing. This limitation ...

...e intentional discontinuation of gas or electric services to a residential customer by an energy company due to the failure of the customer to pay for such services. (3) "Service reconnections" means the reconnection of gas or electric services by an energy company to a residential customer whose service was discontinued by such company for nonpayment. (B) Annually, on or before the thirtieth day of June, each ener...

...consent of the municipal corporation, under such reasonable regulations as such municipal corporation prescribes, such company may construct lines for conducting electricity for power and light purposes through the streets, alleys, lanes, lands, squares, and public places of such municipal corporation, by the erection of the necessary fixtures, including posts, piers, and abutments necessary for the wires.

...lands, squares, and public places with electric light and power, and to an automatic package carrier. Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, every such company has the powers and is subject to the restrictions prescribed for a telephone company by division (A) of section 4931.02 and sections 4931.03 and 4931.04 of the Revised Code. (B) Section 4931.04 of the Revised Code applies to a co...

...ifices, or buildings on the land, as is deemed necessary for either of the following purposes: (A) The erection, operation, or maintenance of an electric plant, including its substations, switching stations, transmission and distribution lines, poles, towers, piers, conduits, cables, and wires and other necessary structures and appliances, but excluding its generating stations; (B) Rights-of-way over such land and ...

...on, as is deemed necessary for the acquisition, construction, installation, operation, or maintenance of pumps, storage tanks, aqueducts, and water pipes, and for the protection thereof, and other structures and appliances necessary for the maintenance of pressure and the purification of water, and for rights of way over such land and adjacent for the purpose of access to any part of such land. The right of appropria...

...rights received through and exercised under proceedings of a probate court prior to February 26, 1910. The penalty provided by section 4933.99 of the Revised Code for a violation of this section is cumulative to other means of enforcing this section open to the municipal corporation, by way of injunction or otherwise, and is not exclusive.

...ater, or electricity to consumers shall demand or require a consumer to deposit cash as security for the payment of any bills for such commodity to be furnished: (A) If the proposed consumer is a freeholder who is financially responsible or a person who is able to give a reasonably safe guaranty in an amount sufficient to secure the payment of bills for sixty days' supply; (B) If the security is not demanded within...

...involves alleged tampering with a gas, electric, steam, or water meter, conduit, or attachment of a utility that has been disconnected by the utility, proof that a meter, conduit, or attachment of a utility has been tampered with is prima-facie evidence that the person who is obligated to pay for the service rendered through the meter, conduit, or attachment and is in possession or control of the meter, condui...

...ft offense that could result in the imposition of criminal sanctions.

...ice or appliance in or attached to the wells, tanks, conduits, pipelines, mains, service pipes, house pipes, display pipes, or other pipes of a gas company or manufacturer or furnisher of gas with intent to cause the escape of gas or to injure or destroy such property. No person shall maliciously enlarge or alter a mixer furnished or approved by a gas company or manufacturer or furnisher of gas to or for a consumer o...

...re, legally erected, put, or strung, or electrical apparatus, appliance, or machinery used in the construction or operation of an electrical railway, electric light plant, or plant used in generating or transmitting electricity, or any meter, pipe, conduit, wire, line, post, lamp, burner, heater, machine, motor, or other appliance or apparatus used in the construction or operation of any such electrical railway or el...

...ce, or appliance in or attached to the wells, tanks, reservoirs, conduits, pipes, mains, service pipes, house pipes, or other pipes or apparatus of a water company or furnisher of water, with intent to cause the escape of water or to injure or destroy such property. No person shall tap, sever, open, or make unauthorized connections with a main or pipe used or intended for the transmission of water. This section does ...

...hall willfully or maliciously injure or destroy, or intentionally permit to be injured or destroyed, cut, break, adjust, or interfere with any pipe, valve, regulator, gauge, gate, stopcock, trap, meter, or other regulating or measuring device or appliance used in the construction or operation of any plant furnishing or distributing hot water or steam for heating purposes. No person shall willfully or maliciously prev...

...other regulator, operating or measuring device, or appliance in or attached to the tanks, conduits, pipes, mains, service pipes, house pipes, or other pipes or apparatus of a sewage disposal company, with intent to interfere with the flow of sewage, or to injure or destroy such property. No person shall tap, sever, open, or make unauthorized connections with a main or pipe used or intended for the transmission of sew...

... as in section 4905.03 of the Revised Code and include only "public utilities" as defined in section 4905.02 of the Revised Code.

...ated for profit or not for profit has undercharged any residential customer as the result of a meter or metering inaccuracy or other continuing problem under its control, the company may only bill the customer for the amount of the unmetered gas or electricity rendered in the three hundred sixty-five days immediately prior to the date the company remedies the meter inaccuracy. The maximum portion of the undercharge f...

...atural gas, and gas company and every order of the public utilities commission relating to curtailment of residential service by such a company shall apply uniformly to all residential consumers, as defined in section 4911.01 of the Revised Code, and shall not distinguish as to whether the residence of such consumers utilizes a solar, wind, or hydrothermal energy system, as defined in section 1551.20 of the Revised C...

... each electric distribution company, as defined in section 5727.80 of the Revised Code, shall state on each customer bill, or shall distribute to each of its customers, the following statement: "Under state law, the amount you are being billed includes: (1) Kilowatt-hour taxes that have been in effect since 2001 and are currently at $_________ (The current dollar figure of the kilowatt-hour taxes levied by section...

...ons 4933.41 to 4933.42 of the Revised Code: (A) "Political subdivision" means a township, county, or municipal corporation. (B) "Competitive retail natural gas service," "natural gas company," "distribution service," and "retail natural gas service" have the same meanings as in section 4929.01 of the Revised Code. (C) "Energy dealer" has the same meaning as in section 5117.01 of the Revised Code. (D) "Propane...

...tural gas company with capacity to provide service to the person in that location or any available competitive retail natural gas service from any competitive retail natural gas service supplier certified to provide that service to that person in that location. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require a natural gas company to obtain or continue any exemption under section 4929.04 of the Revised Code. (...

...Section 4933.41 of the Revised Code promotes the public policy of the state to do the following: (A) Increase utilization of the state's indigenous energy resources as provided in section 1551.18 of the Revised Code. (B) Promote the availability of natural gas services and goods as provided in section 4929.02 of the Revised Code. (C) Encourage the utilization of propane.

... to 4933.90 of the Revised Code: (A) "Electric supplier" means any electric light company as defined in section 4905.03 of the Revised Code, including electric light companies organized as nonprofit corporations, but not including municipal corporations or other units of local government that provide electric service. (B) "Adequate facilities" means distribution lines or facilities having sufficient capacity to m...