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...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Method detection limit" has the same meaning as in 40 C.F.R. part 136, appendix B, and shall be determined in accordance with the procedures set forth in that appendix. (2) "Practical quantification level" means a concentration that is five times the method detection limit for the most sensitive available analytical procedure currently approved under 40 C.F.R. part 136 for a poll...

...The director of environmental protection may enter into an agreement with a political subdivision or investor-owned public utility that owns or operates a disposal system and that intends to extend the sewerage lines of its disposal system or to increase the number of service connections to its sewerage system, which agreement authorizes a qualified official or employee of the political subdivision or investor-owned ...

...(A) As used in this section and in sections 6111.32 and 6111.34 of the Revised Code, "dredged material" means material excavated or dredged from a federal navigation channel during harbor or navigation maintenance activities. (B) No person shall use, manage, or place dredged material in any location except in accordance with the following: (1) Section 6111.32 of the Revised Code; (2) Rules adopted under Chapter...

...In addition to the exemption established under division (B)(4) of section 6111.44 of the Revised Code, sewerage or treatment works for the on-lot disposal or treatment of sewage from a small flow on-site sewage treatment system, as defined in section 3718.01 of the Revised Code, concerning which the board of health of a city or general health district has notified the director of health and the director of envi...

...Not later than one hundred eighty days after the effective date of this section, the director of environmental protection shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code specifying construction activities that do not, by themselves, constitute installing works for the treatment or disposal of sewage or other waste for which approval of plans is required under section 6111.44 or 6111.45 of the Re...

...(A) The environmental protection agency shall exercise general supervision of the treatment and disposal of sewage and industrial wastes and the operation and maintenance of works or means installed for the collection, treatment, and disposal of sewage and industrial wastes. Such general supervision shall apply to all features of construction, operation, and maintenance of the works or means that do or may affect the...

...Following the adoption of rules under sections 6111.51 and 6111.53 of the Revised Code, the director of environmental protection shall establish and maintain a computerized database or databases composed of all credible data in the director's possession and shall make the data available to other agencies and all other interested persons. The data shall be stored in such a manner that they are easily retrieved and ana...

...(A) A final TMDL established by the director of environmental protection or a United States environmental protection agency approved TMDL may be challenged during the appeal of an NPDES permit containing TMDL-based effluent limits, pretreatment limits derived therefrom, or other terms and conditions based on that TMDL before the environmental review appeals commission in accordance with Chapter 3745. of the Revised C...

...(A) Whoever purposely violates section 6111.04, 6111.042, 6111.05, or division (A) or (C) of section 6111.07 of the Revised Code is guilty of a felony and shall be fined not more than twenty-five thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than four years, or both. Each day of violation is a separate offense. (B) Whoever knowingly violates section 6111.04, 6111.042, 6111.045, 6111.047, 6111.05, 6111.45, or division (A) ...

...Applications for approval of plans for the construction and installation of facilities under this chapter shall be made in the manner and form prescribed by the director of environmental protection and shall be accompanied by plans, specifications, and other data that the director may require relative to the facilities for which approval of plans is requested. Thereafter, the director shall act upon the application i...

...The construction of the facilities for which plans have been approved by the director of environmental protection shall be performed under the supervision of a registered engineer, in a manner acceptable to the director. Such registered engineer shall be employed by the applicant at his own expense.

...A board of county commissioners may acquire, by purchase, sewerage systems and disposal systems serving sewer districts within its county, constructed by any person under the authority granted by sections 6112.02 and 6112.03 of the Revised Code. If the board and owners thereof are unable to agree upon its purchase and sale, or the amount of compensation therefor, the board may appropriate the sewerage system and disp...

...Whoever violates section 6112.02 or 6112.04 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars.

...The tax books and records provided for in this chapter shall be termed "sanitary district books" or "sanitary district records," and such titles shall be printed, stamped, or written thereon.

...(A) In any orders of court the words "The court now here finds that it hath jurisdiction of the parties to and of the subject matter of this proceeding" are equivalent to a finding that each jurisdictional fact necessary to confer plenary jurisdiction upon the court, beginning with the proper signing and filing of the initial petition to the date of the order, meets every legal requirement imposed by sections 6115.01...

...At the time of filing the petition provided for in section 6115.05 of the Revised Code, or at any time subsequent thereto and prior to the time of the hearing on said petition, a bond shall be filed, with security approved by the court, sufficient to pay all the expenses connected with the proceedings in case the court refuses to organize the sanitary district. If at any time during the proceeding the court is satisf...

...Immediately after the filing of the petition provided for in section 6115.05 of the Revised Code, the clerk of the court with whom such petition is filed shall give notice by publication, in accordance with the suggested form in division (A) of section 6115.79 of the Revised Code, of the pendency of the petition and of the time and place of the hearing thereon. The clerk shall send notice by certified mail to the dir...

...Any owner of real property in a proposed sanitary district who individually has not signed a petition under section 6115.05 of the Revised Code, and who wishes to object to the organization and incorporation of said district shall, on or before the date set for the cause to be heard, file his objections to the organization and incorporation of such district. Such objections shall be limited to a denial of the statem...

...Within thirty days after the sanitary district has been declared a corporation by the court, the clerk of such court shall transmit to the secretary of state, and to the county recorder in each of the counties having lands in said district, copies of the findings and the decree of the court incorporating said district. The same shall be filed and recorded in the office of the secretary of state in the same manner as ...

...The board of directors of a sanitary district organized after the effective date of this section wholly for the reduction of populations of biting arthropods shall consist of five members to be appointed by the advisory council of the district, one of whom shall be an employee of a city or general health district. Within sixty days after the court enters the decree incorporating the district, the advisory council sha...

...(A) With respect to sanitary districts organized after the effective date of this section wholly for the reduction of populations of biting arthropods, there shall be appointed, within thirty days after the court enters the decree incorporating the district, a sanitary district advisory council. The council shall consist of one member to be appointed from each municipal corporation, county, township, city health dist...

...Each director of a sanitary district, before entering upon his official duties, shall take and subscribe to an oath before an officer authorized to administer oaths that he will honestly, faithfully, and impartially perform the duties of his office, and that he will not be interested directly or indirectly in any contract let for the purpose of carrying out sections 6115.01 to 6115.79, inclusive, of the Revised Code...

...Upon taking the oath of office, the board of directors of a sanitary district shall choose one of its members as president of the board. If a district, other than a district organized after the effective date of this amendment wholly for the reduction of populations of biting arthropods, is composed of an even number of counties or parts thereof and the board finds itself unable to agree on any question pertaining t...

...Upon taking the oath of office, the director or board of directors of a sanitary district shall select some suitable person as secretary. The secretary selected by the board may or may not be a member of the board. The secretary shall be the custodian of the records of the district and of its corporate seal and shall assist the board in such particulars as it directs in the performance of its duties. The secretary sh...

...The prohibition and requirements established under division (D) of section 5705.41 of the Revised Code, other than those applicable solely to counties, apply to a sanitary district established under this chapter.