Ohio Revised Code Chapter 743 - Utilities - Electric; Gas; Water

• Section 743.01 - General Powers Of Legislative Authority.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may take possession of any land obtained for the construction or extension of water works, reservoirs, or...
• Section 743.02 - Bylaws And Regulations.
  The director of public service may make such bylaws and regulations as he deems necessary for the safe, economical, and efficient management and protection...
• Section 743.03 - Duties Of Director Of Public Service.
  The director of public service shall manage, conduct, and control the water works of a municipal corporation, furnish supplies of water, collect water rents,...
• Section 743.04 - Assessment And Collection Of Water Rents.
  (A) For the purpose of paying the expenses of conducting and managing the waterworks of a municipal corporation, including operating expenses and the costs...
• Section 743.05 - Disposition Of Surplus Funds.
  After payment of the expenses of conducting and managing the water works, any surplus of a municipal corporation may be applied to the repairs,...
• Section 743.06 - Proceeds From Water Works To Be A Separate Fund.
  Money collected for water-works purposes shall be deposited weekly with the treasurer of the municipal corporation, and shall be kept as a separate and...
• Section 743.07 - Director May Make Certain Contracts.
  Subject to Title VII [7] of the Revised Code, the director of public service may make contracts for the building of machinery, water-works buildings,...
• Section 743.08 - Investigation By Legislative Authority.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation in which water works are situated or are in the process of construction may appoint a committee...
• Section 743.09 - Water Supply Free For Certain Purposes.
  No charge shall be made by a municipal corporation or the water-works department thereof for supplying water for extinguishing fire, cleaning fire apparatus, or...
• Section 743.10 - Protection To Attachments.
  Attachments of whatever nature made to the water pipes or other fixtures belonging to the water works of a municipal corporation and intended for...
• Section 743.11 - Bond Of Contractor - Emergency.
  Before entering into any contract for work to be done concerning the water works of the municipal corporation, the director of public service shall...
• Section 743.12 - Extension Of Public Utility Service Beyond Municipal Corporation Limits.
  On the written request of any number of citizens living outside the limits of a municipal corporation, the municipal corporation may extend, construct, lay...
• Section 743.13 - Expense Of Service Outside Municipal Corporation.
  When any person at his own expense has laid down and extended mains and water pipes or electric light and power lines beyond the...
• Section 743.14 - Supervision Of Territory Having Water Service Outside Municipal Corporation.
  All ordinances, except those relative to taxation or assessment, resolutions, rules, and regulations relative to the construction, maintenance, and operation of water works, mains,...
• Section 743.15 - Disposition Of Aqueducts And Water Pipes In Case Of Annexation.
  The municipal corporation shall take full charge and control of the mains and water pipes mentioned in sections 743.12 to 743.14, inclusive, of the...
• Section 743.16 - Regulation And Protection Of Aqueducts And Water Pipes.
  The aqueducts and water pipes mentioned in sections 743.12 to 743.15, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be so constructed and laid as not...
• Section 743.17 - Water Works In Contiguous Municipal Corporation.
  A municipal corporation owning water works whose territory is contiguous to that of another municipal corporation may, with the assent of such other municipal...
• Section 743.18 - Authority To Supply Other Municipal Corporations.
  A municipal corporation which has water works or electric works may contract with any other municipal corporation to supply it or its inhabitants with...
• Section 743.19 - Construction Of Water Works By Two Or More Municipal Corporations.
  Two or more municipal corporations may unite in the construction of a water-works plant for the purpose of supplying water to the municipal corporations...
• Section 743.20 - Ownership Of Water Works When Municipal Corporations Are Annexed.
  Upon the annexation of one municipal corporation to another, the water works theretofore constructed by either shall thereby become the property of the united...
• Section 743.21 - Termination Of Contract Upon Annexation.
  A contract entered into by one municipal corporation for the supply of water to another, as provided by section 743.18 of the Revised Code,...
• Section 743.22 - Tax For Payment Of Interest, Lien On Property.
  For the purpose of paying the interest on money borrowed for the erection and completion of a water works, during the erection and completion...
• Section 743.23 - Laying Pipes In Highway.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may prescribe by ordinance for the laying of water pipes in all highways about to be paved,...
• Section 743.24 - Municipal Corporations May Contract For A Water Supply - Contract To Be Submitted To A Vote.
  A municipal corporation may contract with any individual or an incorporated company for supplying water for fire purposes, or for cisterns, reservoirs, streets, squares,...
• Section 743.25 - Jurisdiction Of Municipal Corporations To Prevent Water Pollution.
  No person shall pollute a running stream, the water of which is used for domestic purposes by a municipal corporation, by putting therein a...
• Section 743.26 - Regulation Of Price Of Electric Light, Gas, Sewage Disposal, And Water.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation in which electric lighting companies, natural or artificial gas companies, gaslight or coke companies, sewage disposal system...
• Section 743.27 - Free Use Of Municipally Owned Public Utilities.
  The legislative authority of any municipal corporation owning and operating municipal water, gas, or electric light plants, may provide by ordinance that the products...
• Section 743.28 - Negotiation Of One-price Schedule Contract.
  (A) Where the legislative authority of a municipal corporation fixes the price at which a company shall furnish electricity or either natural or artificial...
• Section 743.29 - Surveys For Construction And Repair Of Public Works Of Municipal Corporations.
  The legislative authorities of municipal corporations may make surveys of water works, sewerage systems, or other public works or improvements which they are by...
• Section 743.30 - Occupation Of Streets By Legislative Authority For Gas Purposes.
  If at any time any company, mentioned in section 743.28 of the Revised Code, required by the legislative authority to lay pipes and light...
• Section 743.31 - Forfeiture Of Charter For Neglect To Furnish Gas - Exception.
  Any gaslight company which neglects to furnish gas to the citizens and other consumers of gas or to the municipal corporation in accordance with...
• Section 743.32 - Provision By Legislative Authority For Electric Current And Gas Inspection.
  In a municipal corporation in which gasworks are constructed, the legislative authority thereof may provide, by ordinance, for the appointment of an officer, to...
• Section 743.33 - Exclusive Monopoly Shall Not Be Allowed To Gas Companies.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation shall not agree by ordinance, contract, or otherwise with any person for the construction or extension of...
• Section 743.34 - Legislative Authority May Erect Or Purchase Gas Or Electric Works.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may erect gasworks or electric works at the expense of the municipal corporation, or purchase any such...
• Section 743.35 - Sale Of Natural Gas To Village.
  When a municipal corporation is the owner of a natural gas plant by which the citizens thereof are supplied with natural gas, and such...
• Section 743.36 - Delivery Of Gas Outside Of Municipal Corporation - Sales For Manufacturing Purposes.
  When a municipal corporation is the owner of a natural gas plant for the purpose of supplying the citizens thereof with natural gas for...
• Section 743.37 - Laying Of Gas Pipes - Assessment Of Costs.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may prescribe, by ordinance, for the laying down of gas pipes in highways about to be paved,...
• Section 743.38 - Contracts To Supply Municipal Corporation With Electric Light Or Gas.
  A municipal corporation may contract with any company for supplying such municipal corporation with electric light and natural or artificial gas for the purpose...
• Section 743.39 - Right Of Eminent Domain In Municipal Corporations For Public Service Enterprises.
  For the purpose of erecting or building dams across rivers or streams to raise and maintain a head of water, constructing and maintaining canals,...
• Section 743.40 - Manner Of Appropriation - Restrictions Thereon.
  Appropriation of lands under section 743.39 of the Revised Code shall be made in accordance with sections 719.01 to 719.21, inclusive, of the Revised...
• Section 743.41 - Property Not To Be Appropriated Without Consent Of Municipal Corporation.
  Sections 743.39 and 743.40 of the Revised Code do not confer power to appropriate or confer any right in any portion of a street,...
• Section 743.42 - Construction Restrictions.
  In appropriation proceedings under sections 743.39 to 743.41, inclusive, of the Revised Code, no reservoir for the storage or transportation of water shall be...
• Section 743.43 - Further Powers Of Municipal Corporation.
  A municipal corporation appropriating property pursuant to sections 743.39 to 743.42, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may transport, store, insure, and ship natural gas,...
• Section 743.44 - Power Of Municipal Corporation Outside Corporate Limits To Provide Natural Gas.
  A municipal corporation authorized by law to purchase or lease lands, purchase, lease, or sink natural gas wells, procure rights of way, and purchase...
• Section 743.45 - Municipal Corporation May Request Public Utilities Commission To Review Electric Rates.
  Nothing in section 743.26, 743.34, or 4909.34 of the Revised Code shall be construed to mean that a municipal corporation may not request the...
• Section 743.50 - .
  (A) A municipal corporation that has established and implemented a watershed management program with regard to a reservoir for drinking water shall allow an...
• Section 743.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates section 743.25 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than five nor more than five hundred dollars. Effective Date:

Last modified: October 10, 2016