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...o impact an ephemeral feature that is a water of the state to conduct mitigation in accordance with the following: (1) If the proposal will have permanent impacts, the director may require the person to do any of the following: (a) Provide mitigation by constructing an equivalent area of channel at a one-to-one ratio using the required AMIT or site-specific measurements specified under division (A)(4) of this sec...

...the development, use, and protection of water resources, covering all aspects of water management and including regional water development plans. The director of natural resources shall prepare and maintain the elements of such plans relating to recreation, fish, wildlife, flood control, and flood plain management. The director of environmental protection shall not adopt any comprehensive plan until the director of ...

...d wholly for the purpose of providing a water supply for domestic, municipal, and public use that includes two municipal corporations in two counties, there shall be appointed, within sixty days of the effective date of this section, a sanitary district advisory council. The council shall consist of one member who uses water supplied directly or indirectly by the district to be appointed from each municipal corporati...

...rganized for the purpose of providing a water supply for domestic, municipal, and public use within such district or subdistrict, the board of directors of the sanitary district shall proceed to prepare a plan for the improvement. The proceedings in reference to the improvement shall in all matters conform to this chapter; except that in the issuance of bonds, in the levying of assessments or taxes, and in all other ...

...f the following: (1) Disconnect storm water inflows to sanitary sewers maintained and operated by the board and not operated as a combined sewer, or to connections with those sewers; (2) Disconnect non-storm water inflows to storm water sewers maintained and operated by the board and not operated as a combined sewer, or to connections with those storm water sewers; (3) Reconnect or relocate any such disconne...

...In the discretion of the Ohio water development authority any water development revenue bonds or notes or water development revenue refunding bonds issued under Chapter 6121. of the Revised Code, may be secured by a trust agreement between the authority and a corporate trustee, which trustee may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within or without the state. Any such trust agreement ma...

...se. As the operation and maintenance of water development projects will constitute the performance of essential governmental functions, the Ohio water development authority shall not be required to pay any taxes or assessments upon any water development project, or upon any property acquired or used by the authority under Chapter 6121. of the Revised Code, or upon the income therefrom. The exemption from taxes and as...

... is included a part of the shore of the waters of Lake Erie may, in aid of navigation and water commerce, construct, maintain, use, and operate, piers, docks, wharves, and connecting ways, places, tracks, and other water terminal improvements with buildings and appurtenances necessary or incidental to such use, on any land belonging to the municipal corporation held under title permitting such use, and also over and ...

...A municipal corporation owning water works whose territory is contiguous to that of another municipal corporation may, with the assent of such other municipal corporation, establish and maintain such portion of its water works as is advisable within the limits of such other municipal corporation, and may make such use of the streets, alleys, and public grounds thereof as is necessary to construct, lay down, and maint...

...A municipal corporation which has water works or electric works may contract with any other municipal corporation to supply it or its inhabitants with water or electricity upon such terms as are agreed upon by their respective legislative authorities. A municipal corporation which has a water works may dispose of surplus water, for manufacturing or other purposes, by lease or otherwise, upon such terms as are agreed ...

...orations, counties, townships, soil and water conservation districts established under Chapter 940. of the Revised Code, and charitable organizations described in division (B) of section 5301.69 of the Revised Code for the purchase of agricultural easements. With respect to agricultural easements that are purchased or proposed to be purchased with such matching grants that consist in whole or in part of moneys from t...

...nd that are regulated under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act together with a listing of the animal feeding facilities that the applicant or any such person owns, has owned, has operated, or is operating outside the United States; (3) A listing of all administrative enforcement orders issued to the applicant or any person identified by the applicant under division (C)(1) of section 903.02 or 903.03 of the Rev...

...The board of supervisors of a soil and water conservation district have the following powers in addition to its other powers: (A) To conduct surveys, investigations, and research relating to the character of soil erosion, floodwater and sediment damages, and the preventive and control measures and works of improvement for flood prevention and the conservation, development, utilization, and disposal of water needed ...

...ployee" means an employee of a soil and water conservation district who receives donated sick leave as authorized by this section. (2) "Donating employee" means an employee of a soil and water conservation district who donates sick leave as authorized by this section. (3) "Paid leave" has the same meaning as in section 124.391 of the Revised Code. (4) "Full-time employee" means an employee of a soil and water c...

... of mining on the availability of land, water, and other resources for other uses present special problems which probably can be approached only with due consideration for the rights and interests of those engaged in mining, those using or proposing to use these resources for other purposes, and the public; (3) Measures for the reduction of the adverse effects of mining on land, water, and other resources may be cos...

...ation of the reasonableness of a use of water depends upon a consideration of the interests of the person making the use, of any person harmed by the use, and of society as a whole. (B) In accordance with section 858 of the Restatement (Second) of Torts of the American law institute, all of the following factors shall be considered, without limitation, in determining whether a particular use of water is reasonable: ...

...catch any fish by angling in any of the waters in the state or engage in fishing in those waters without a license. No person shall take or catch frogs or turtles without a valid fishing license, except as provided in this section. Persons fishing in privately owned ponds, lakes, or reservoirs to or from which fish are not accustomed to migrate are exempt from the license requirements set forth in this section. Perso...

... the chief of the division of parks and watercraft, with the approval of the director of natural resources, shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that are necessary for the proper management of state parks, bodies of water, and the lands adjacent to them under its jurisdiction and control, including rules: (1) Governing opening and closing times and dates of state parks; (2) Establ...

...(A) Except on the waters of the Ohio River or Lake Erie and immediately connected harbors and bays, any person who rides or attempts to ride upon one or more water skis, surfboard, or similar device, or who engages or attempts to engage in barefoot skiing, and any person who operates a vessel towing a person riding or attempting to ride on one or more water skis, surfboard, or similar device, or engaging or attemptin...

... whenever any vessel is operated on the waters in this state, whether the waters are under the jurisdiction and control of a state department, conservancy district, or political subdivision, or when any activity regulated by this chapter takes place thereon; but nothing in this chapter prevents the adoption of any rule or ordinance relating to operation and equipment of vessels the provisions of which are identical t...

...living organism, deterioration of food, water, equipment, supplies, or material of any kind, or deleterious alteration of the environment. (5) "Toxin" means the toxic material of plants, animals, microorganisms, viruses, fungi, or infectious substances, or a recombinant molecule, whatever its origin or method of reproduction, including, but not limited to, any poisonous substance or biological product that may be en...

...bine located in the state's territorial waters of Lake Erie; methane gas emitted from an abandoned coal mine; storage facility that will promote the better utilization of a renewable energy resource that primarily generates off peak; or distributed generation system used by a customer to generate electricity from any such energy. As used in this division, "hydroelectric facility" means a hydroelectric generating faci...

... are wholly or partially saturated with water and are capable of storing, transmitting, and yielding significant amounts of water to wells or springs. (2) "Category 3 wetland" means a wetland that supports superior habitat or hydrological or recreational functions as determined by an appropriate wetland evaluation methodology acceptable to the director of environmental protection. "Category 3 wetland" includes a w...

...g: (a) The overflow of inland or tidal waters; (b) The unusual and rapid accumulation or runoff of surface waters from any source; (c) Mudslides that are proximately caused by flooding as defined in division (AA)(1)(b) of this section and that are akin to a river of liquid and flowing mud on the surface of normally dry land areas, as when earth is carried by a current of water and deposited along the path of ...

...bine located in the state's territorial waters of Lake Erie; methane gas emitted from an abandoned coal mine; waste energy recovery system placed into service or retrofitted on or after the effective date of the amendment of this section by S.B. 315 of the 129th general assembly, September 10, 2012, except that a waste energy recovery system described in division (A)(38)(b) of this section may be included only if it ...