Ohio Revised Code Chapter 6109 - Safe Drinking Water

• Section 6109.01 - Safe Drinking Water Definitions.
  As used in this chapter: (A) "Public water system" means a system for the provision to the public of water for human consumption through...
• Section 6109.02 - Public Water System Exemptions.
  Chapter 6109: of the Revised Code does not apply to a public water system which meets all the following conditions: (A) Consists only of...
• Section 6109.03 - Purpose Of Safe Drinking Water Statutes.
  The purpose of Chapter 6109. of the Revised Code is to protect the public health and welfare and to enable the state to assume...
• Section 6109.04 - Director Of Environmental Protection To Administer And Enforce.
  (A) The director of environmental protection shall administer and enforce this chapter and rules adopted under it. (B) The director shall adopt, amend, and...
• Section 6109.05 - Plan For The Provision Of Safe Drinking Water In Emergencies.
  (A) The director of environmental protection shall adopt a plan for the provision of safe drinking water in emergencies. For purposes of this section...
• Section 6109.06 - Water Use Advisory.
  Whenever the director of environmental protection determines that use of water from a public water system presents a threat to the health of persons...
• Section 6109.07 - Construction, Installation Or Change Of Public Water System.
  (A) No person shall begin construction or installation of a public water system, or make a substantial change in a public water system, until...
• Section 6109.08 - Owner Or Operator To Make Escrow Deposit.
  The director of environmental protection shall not approve plans for construction, installation, or substantial modification of a community water system which serves fewer than...
• Section 6109.10 - Prevention Of Lead Contamination.
  (A) As used in this section, "lead free" means: (1) When used with respect to solders or flux, solders or flux containing not more...
• Section 6109.11 - Investigation Of Complaints Of Impure Water.
  Whenever any person files with the environmental protection agency a complaint, in writing, setting forth that it is believed that water provided by a...
• Section 6109.12 - Public Water System Analyses.
  Every owner or operator of a public water system shall have analyses of the water made at such intervals and in such manner as...
• Section 6109.13 - Approval Of Connections To Public Water System.
  No official, officer, or employee in charge of or being employed in the maintenance and operation of a public water system and no other...
• Section 6109.14 - Notification Of Danger Of Contamination - Hearing.
  When the director of environmental protection finds, upon investigation, that water in a public water system is subject to the danger of contamination by...
• Section 6109.15 - Improvements, Corrections, And Changes To Prevent Contamination.
  After the hearing provided for in section 6109.14 of the Revised Code, if the director of environmental protection determines that improvements or changes are...
• Section 6109.16 - Writ Of Mandamus.
  If the responsible officers of a municipal corporation, county, or public institution fail to submit to the director, within ninety days after receipt of...
• Section 6109.17 - Funds For Safe Drinking Water Systems.
  The legislative authority of each municipal corporation, or the department or officer having jurisdiction to provide for the raising of revenue by tax levies,...
• Section 6109.18 - Emergency Bonds To Fund Safe Drinking Water Improvements.
  If the director of environmental protection determines that the municipal corporation is unable to comply with section 6109.17 of the Revised Code by reason...
• Section 6109.19 - Additional Charges For Water Supply To Pay For Improvements.
  Where an order of the director of environmental protection to a person owning and operating a public water system whose rates are regulated by...
• Section 6109.20 - Maintaining Fluoride Content Of Public Water Supply.
  If the natural fluoride content of supplied water of a public water system is less than eight-tenths milligrams per liter of water, fluoride shall...
• Section 6109.21 - License To Operate Public Water System.
  (A) Except as provided in divisions (I) and (J) of this section, no person shall operate a public water system in this state without...
• Section 6109.22 - Rules For Administrative Assessment And Collection Of Monetary Penalties.
  (A) There is hereby created the drinking water assistance fund to provide financial and technical assistance for the purposes of protecting public health and...
• Section 6109.23 - Administrative Assessment And Collection Of Monetary Penalties For Failure To Comply With Safe Drinking Water Rules.
  To the extent required by the Safe Drinking Water Act, the director of environmental protection may adopt, amend, and rescind rules pursuant to section...
• Section 6109.24 - Demonstration Of Technical, Managerial, And Financial Capability Of New Systems.
  A public water system that is a community water system, or that is not a community water system and serves a nontransient population, and...
• Section 6109.30 - Drinking Water Protection Fund.
  (A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the drinking water protection fund, which shall be administered by the director of environmental protection....
• Section 6109.31 - Violations - Noncompliance.
  (A) No person shall violate this chapter, a rule adopted under it, or any order or term or condition of a license, license renewal,...
• Section 6109.32 - Investigations - Enforcement By Attorney General.
  The director of environmental protection may on the director's own initiative investigate or make inquiries into any suspected violation of section 6109.31 of the...
• Section 6109.33 - Civil Penalty.
  Any person who violates section 6109.31 of the Revised Code shall pay a civil penalty of not more than twenty-five thousand dollars for each...
• Section 6109.34 - Right Of Entry.
  The director of environmental protection or his duly authorized representative may enter at reasonable times upon any private or public property to inspect and...
• Section 6109.35 - Nonliability Of Water Suppliers.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Water supplier" means an entity that is subject to this chapter and rules adopted under it and...
• Section 6109.99 - Criminal Penalties.
  (A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, whoever recklessly violates section 6109.31 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor...

Last modified: October 10, 2016