Ohio Revised Code Chapter 4913 - Public Utilities Commission - Enforcement Of Underground-utility-damage-prevention Law

• Section 4913.01 - Definitions.
  As used in this chapter: (A) "Aggrieved person" means a person with duties and obligations under sections 153.64, 3781.27, and 3781.28 to 3781.32 of...
• Section 4913.03 - Safety Registration.
  (A) Each utility, excavator, developer, and designer who participates in the one-call notification system shall register with the public utilities commission and pay a...
• Section 4913.05 - Request For Imposition Of Fine Or Penalty.
  (A) Beginning January 1, 2016, an aggrieved person may request an inquiry with the staff of the public utilities commission seeking the imposition, in...
• Section 4913.07 - Response To Request For Inquiry.
  If a request for an inquiry is made under section 4913.05 of the Revised Code, the person responsible for the alleged compliance failure may,...
• Section 4913.09 - Conduct Of Inquiry.
  (A) The staff of the public utilities commission shall conduct an inquiry upon receiving a request made under section 4913.05 of the Revised Code....
• Section 4913.13 - Reports Of Inquiries.
  The staff of the public utilities commission shall make a report of each inquiry conducted under section 4913.09 of the Revised Code available to...
• Section 4913.15 - Review Of Reports By Underground Technical Committee.
  (A) The underground technical committee shall review every report of the staff of the public utilities commission made available under section 4913.13 of the...
• Section 4913.151 - Determinatio Of Fine Or Penalty Recommendation.
  In determining a fine or penalty recommendation as required under section 4913.15 or 4913.16 of the Revised Code: (A) If the compliance failure is...
• Section 4913.152 - Communications With Knowledgeable Persons.
  The underground technical committee may communicate with persons who have knowledge or information concerning the alleged compliance failure as part of the committee's review...
• Section 4913.16 - Failure To Achieve Majority Or Act.
  (A) (1) If the underground technical committee votes during the ninety-day time period as required under division (B) of section 4913.15 of the Revised...
• Section 4913.17 - Finding Of Persistent Noncompliance.
  (A) Based upon the number and type of compliance failures committed by a person, the underground technical committee may find, as part of the...
• Section 4913.19 - Request For Administrative Hearing.
  In lieu of making a recommendation of a fine or penalty or a no-enforcement determination, the underground technical committee may request an administrative hearing...
• Section 4913.20 - Factors To Be Considered.
  In determining a fine or penalty recommendation or imposition or whether no enforcement action should be taken under section 4913.15, 4913.16, 4913.171, 4913.19, or...
• Section 4913.21 - Imposition Of Recommendations.
  Except as provided in sections 4913.171 and 4913.19 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission shall impose every recommendation made under section 4913.15...
• Section 4913.22 - Payment Of Fine; Compliance With Penalty.
  A person subject to a fine imposed under section 4913.171, 4913.19, or 4913.21 of the Revised Code or division (C)(2) of section 4913.16 of...
• Section 4913.23 - Notice.
  The public utilities commission shall, by letter, promptly notify the person that requested the inquiry and the person responsible for the compliance failure of...
• Section 4913.25 - Application For Reconsideration.
  (A) If either the person that requested the inquiry or the person responsible for the compliance failure disagrees with either a finding or a...
• Section 4913.171 - Imposition Of Fine On Persistent Noncomplier.
  If the underground technical committee reports that a person responsible for a compliance failure has been found to be a persistent noncomplier under section...
• Section 4913.251 - Reconsideration Order; Appeal.
  A reconsideration order issued under section 4913.25 of the Revised Code is subject to the rehearing and appeal process under Chapter 4903. of the...
• Section 4913.252 - Hearings.
  All hearings conducted by the public utilities commission under this chapter and under the process described in section 4913.251 of the Revised Code shall...
• Section 4913.26 - Confidentiality.
  Any documentation obtained pursuant to an inquiry conducted under section 4913.09 of the Revised Code, communications described in section 4913.152 of the Revised Code,...
• Section 4913.27 - Disposition Of Fines.
  Except for safety registrations and fines collected under section 4913.03 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission shall deposit all fines collected under...
• Section 4913.29 - Underground Facilities Protection Fund.
  There is hereby created in the state treasury the underground facilities protection fund. The fund shall consist of all fines collected under this chapter,...
• Section 4913.30 - Underground Facilities Protection Administrative Fund.
  There is hereby created in the state treasury the underground facilities protection administrative fund to be administered by the public utilities commission. The fund...
• Section 4913.31 - Underground Utility Damage Prevention Grant Program.
  (A) The public utilities commission may administer an underground utility damage prevention grant program to provide grants for any of the following purposes: (1)...
• Section 4913.43 - Annual Report.
  The public utilities commission shall submit to the general assembly an annual report of the previous year's activities under this chapter. Each report shall...
• Section 4913.45 - Rules To Carry Out Chapter.
  (A) The public utilities commission shall, in consultation with the underground technical committee, adopt rules under section 111.15 of the Revised Code to carry...
• Section 4913.47 - Multiple Fines For Same Failure.
  Notwithstanding any provision of the Revised Code to the contrary, if a person is subject to more than one fine for the same compliance...
• Section 4913.50 - Civil Actions.
  Any proceeding held under this chapter, any no-enforcement determination under this chapter, and any fine or penalty imposed under this chapter shall neither prevent...
• Section 4913.52 - Permittee For Excavation.
  A person with a permit for excavation from the state or a local governmental unit is subject to this chapter. This chapter does not...

Last modified: October 10, 2016