Ohio Revised Code Chapter 4933 - Companies - Gas; Electric; Water; Others

• Section 4933.01 - Powers.
  A company organized for the purpose of supplying gas for lighting the streets and public and private buildings of a municipal corporation or township...
• Section 4933.02 - Gas Or Electric Companies May Manufacture And Supply Both Electricity And Gas.
  Every corporation organized under the laws of this state to manufacture and supply artificial gas for light, heat, or power purposes and every corporation...
• Section 4933.021 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 11-29-1981
• Section 4933.03 - Consent Of Municipal Corporation.
  Section 4933.02 of the Revised Code does not confer a right to engage in the business referred to in such section, or to erect...
• Section 4933.04 - Contracts With Municipal Corporation For Light, Sewage Disposal, And Water.
  The proper officers of any municipal corporation or the board of township trustees of any township in which a gas, sewage disposal system company,...
• Section 4933.05 - Gas Company May Extend Mains Beyond City.
  A gas company in a municipal corporation may extend its pipes used for conveying gas to the various localities and inhabitants of the municipal...
• Section 4933.06 - Minimum Heating Value Of Natural Gas.
  Except as otherwise provided in arrangements approved under section 4905.31 of the Revised Code, natural gas delivered to customers shall have a heating value...
• Section 4933.07 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 04-16-1993
• Section 4933.08 - Gas Meter Must Be Sealed And Stamped.
  No gas meter shall be set unless it is tested by a meter-prover, sealed, and stamped as provided in section 4933.11 of the Revised...
• Section 4933.09 - Testing Of Gas Meters.
  Gas meters in use shall be tested on the request of the consumer, in his presence if desired by him, with a tested and...
• Section 4933.10 - Inspection Of Gas Meters.
  If authorized in writing by the president, treasurer, agent, or secretary of a gas company, its officer or servant may enter, at any reasonable...
• Section 4933.11 - Meter-prover And Photometer.
  All gas companies supplying the public with artificial or natural gas shall provide for their use a meter-prover, the holder of which must contain...
• Section 4933.12 - Company May Shut Off Gas - Exceptions.
  (A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section and division (E) of section 5117.11 of the Revised Code, if any person supplied...
• Section 4933.121 - Company May Shut Off Electricity - Exception.
  (A) Except as provided in division (E) of section 5117.11 of the Revised Code, an electric light company shall not, for any reason, unless...
• Section 4933.122 - Procedure For Terminating Residential Service.
  No natural gas, gas, or electric light company shall terminate service, except for safety reasons or upon the request of the customer, at any...
• Section 4933.123 - Annual Report Of Service Disconnections For Nonpayment.
  (A) For the purpose of this section: (1) "Energy company" shall have the meaning assigned in division (A)(4) of section 5117.01 of the Revised...
• Section 4933.13 - Powers Of Electric Light And Power Companies.
  A company organized for supplying electricity for power purposes, and for lighting the streets and public and private buildings of a municipal corporation, may...
• Section 4933.14 - Electric Light, Power, And Automatic Package Carrier Companies.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section ,division (A) of section4931.02 , and sections 4931.03, 4931.04, and 4933.13 to 4933.16...
• Section 4933.15 - Right Of Entry - Appropriation Of Property.
  For the purpose of making preliminary examinations and surveys, any company transmitting or distributing electricity in the state for public or private use may...
• Section 4933.151 - Appropriation Of Property By Water Works Companies.
  Any company organized for supplying water for public and private use may enter upon any land held by any individual or private corporation, whether...
• Section 4933.16 - Municipal Control Of Electricity.
  No person or company shall place, string, construct, or maintain a line, wire, fixture, or appliance of any kind to conduct electricity for lighting,...
• Section 4933.17 - Cash Deposit - Interest.
  No person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of furnishing gas, natural gas, water, or electricity to consumers shall demand or require a...
• Section 4933.18 - Tampering With Utility Equipment.
  (A) In a prosecution for a theft offense, as defined in section 2913.01 of the Revised Code, that involves alleged tampering with a gas,...
• Section 4933.19 - Notice To Customers Concerning Theft Offenses.
  Each electric light company, gas company, natural gas company, pipe-line company, water-works company, or heating or cooling company, as defined by division (C), (D),...
• Section 4933.20 - Tampering With Gas Pipes And Apparatus.
  No person shall maliciously open, close, adjust, or interfere with a valve, regulator, gauge, gate, disc, curb cock, stopcock, meter, or other regulating, operating,...
• Section 4933.21 - Interfering With Electric Wires.
  No person shall willfully or maliciously injure, destroy, or intentionally permit to be injured or destroyed, disconnect, displace, cut, break, tap, ground, or make...
• Section 4933.22 - Tampering With Hydrant, Pipe, Or Meter.
  No person shall maliciously open, close, adjust, or interfere with a fire hydrant, valve, regulator, gauge, gate, disc, curb cock, stopcock, meter, or other...
• Section 4933.23 - Interfering With Pipes And Meters.
  No person shall willfully or maliciously injure or destroy, or intentionally permit to be injured or destroyed, cut, break, adjust, or interfere with any...
• Section 4933.24 - Prohibiting Interference With Apparatus Of Sewage Disposal Companies Or Unauthorized Taps.
  No person shall maliciously open, close, adjust, or interfere with a valve, regulator, gauge, gate, disc, curb cock, stopcock, meter, or other regulator, operating...
• Section 4933.25 - Issuing Certificate Of Public Convenience And Necessity.
  No sewage disposal system company established after September 19, 1961, or expanding after October 2, 1969, or water-works company established or expanding after October...
• Section 4933.26 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-02-1980
• Section 4933.27 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 01-01-2001
• Section 4933.28 - Correcting Residential Utility Billings.
  (A) Whenever a gas, natural gas, or electric light company operated for profit or not for profit has undercharged any residential customer as the...
• Section 4933.29 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 12-31-1981
• Section 4933.31 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 05-27-2005
• Section 4933.32 - Application Of Schedules And Orders For Curtailment Of Residential Service.
  Every portion of the schedule of an electric light, natural gas, and gas company and every order of the public utilities commission relating to...
• Section 4933.33 - Annual Statement.
  (A) Annually, each electric distribution company, as defined in section 5727.80 of the Revised Code, shall state on each customer bill, or shall distribute...
• Section 4933.34 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 01-01-2001
• Section 4933.42 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 09-26-1984
• Section 4933.81 - Certified Territories For Electric Suppliers Definitions.
  As used in sections 4933.81 to 4933.90 of the Revised Code: (A) "Electric supplier" means any electric light company as defined in section 4905.03...
• Section 4933.82 - Boundaries Of Certified Territory Of Electric Suppliers.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the boundaries of the certified territory of each electric supplier shall be considered set as a...
• Section 4933.83 - Exclusive Right To Furnish Electric Service To Electric Load Centers.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in this section and Article XVIII of the Ohio Constitution, each electric supplier shall have the exclusive right to...
• Section 4933.84 - Right Of Electric Supplier To Continue Or Extend Electric Service Within Certified Territory Following Annexation Or Incorporation Of Territory.
  Annexation or incorporation by a municipal corporation or other unit of local government does not affect the right of an electric supplier to continue...
• Section 4933.85 - Assigning Or Transferring Rights.
  The rights and authority granted under sections 4933.81 to 4933.84 of the Revised Code may be assigned or transferred only with the approval of...
• Section 4933.86 - Violations.
  Any electric supplier that renders electric service in violation of sections 4933.81 to 4933.90 of the Revised Code is subject to remedies and penalties...
• Section 4933.87 - Right Of Municipal Corporations To Generate, Transmit, Distribute, Or Sell Electric Energy.
  Nothing contained in sections 4933.81 to 4933.90 of the Revised Code shall be construed to affect the right of municipal corporations to generate, transmit,...
• Section 4933.88 - Assessing Expenses Of Administration.
  The expenses of the public utilities commission in administering sections 4933.81 to 4933.90 of the Revised Code shall be assessed by the commission against...
• Section 4933.89 - Public Utilities Territorial Administration Fund.
  There is hereby created in the state treasury a fund to be known as the public utilities territorial administration fund. The funds collected under...
• Section 4933.90 - Review Of Public Utilities Commission Actions.
  Action of the public utilities commission pursuant to sections 4933.81 to 4933.90 of the Revised Code is subject to review in accordance with Chapter...
• Section 4933.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates section 4933.16 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. (B) Whoever violates section 4933.20, 4933.22,...

Last modified: October 10, 2016