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Title 61, Title 61. Water Supply-Sanitation-Ditches

20 chapters · 674 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 61674 Ch 6101, Chapter 6101 | Conservancy Districts92 Ch 6115, Chapter 6115 | Sanitary Districts87 Ch 6111, Chapter 6111 | Water Pollution Control75 Ch 6119, Chapter 6119 | Regional Water And Se…69 Ch 6117, Chapter 6117 | Sewer Districts; Coun…57 Ch 6131, Chapter 6131 | Single County Drainag…56 Ch 6103, Chapter 6103 | County Water Supply S…36 Ch 6109, Chapter 6109 | Safe Drinking Water34 Ch 6121, Chapter 6121 | Water Development Aut…27 Ch 6135, Chapter 6135 | Interstate County Ditches25 Ch 6105, Chapter 6105 | Watershed Districts24 Ch 6123, Chapter 6123 | Solid Waste And Energ…24 Ch 6137, Chapter 6137 | Drainage Improvement …18 Ch 6133, Chapter 6133 | Joint County Drainage…13

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Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6111.52 Level three credible data activities
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The director of environmental protection shall use only level three credible data to conduct any of the following activities:(A) Developing, reviewing, and revising use designations in water quality standards;(B) Developing a statewide water quality inventory or other water asses…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6111.53 Water quality monitoring program to collect levels one, two, and three credible data for surface water monitoring and assessment
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(A) The director of environmental protection shall establish and maintain a water quality monitoring program to collect levels one, two, and three credible data for surface water monitoring and assessment. In the same manner provided in division (A)(2) of section 6111.51 of the R…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6111.54 Submission of surface water quality data
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Each state agency in possession of surface water quality data shall submit the data to the environmental protection agency in a format designated by the director of environmental protection. Each such agency shall submit the data to the director at the same time that the agency c…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6111.55 Computerized database or databases composed of all credible data

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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 av…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6111.56 Determining source or sources of water impairment

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(A) If the source or sources of a pollutant causing an impairment of a water of the state are unknown, the water of the state may be identified and listed under section 303(d) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. However, the director of environmental protection shall cont…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6111.561 Development and establishment of total maximum daily load

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(A) As used in sections 6111.561 to 6111.654 of the Revised Code:(1) "NPDES" means national pollutant discharge elimination system.(2) "TMDL" means total maximum daily load.(B) The director of environmental protection shall develop and establish a TMDL for waters of the state whe…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6111.562 Notice and opportunity for input from stakeholders

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(A)(1) The director of environmental protection shall provide notice of and opportunity for input from potentially affected dischargers, county soil and water conservation districts, and other stakeholders during the development of a TMDL after March 24, 2015, at each of the foll…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6111.563 Official draft

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(A) Before establishing a final TMDL and plans and actions necessary for TMDL implementation, the director of environmental protection shall prepare an official draft TMDL. The official draft TMDL shall include, at a minimum, both of the following:(1) An estimate of the total amo…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6111.564 Final TMDL; appeal

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(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 …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6111.60 Issuance of NPDES permits

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Before issuing a national pollutant discharge elimination system permit for discharges from a publicly owned sewerage system, requiring and approving a long-term control plan for wet weather discharges from a publicly owned sewerage system, or enforcing the Federal Water Pollutio…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6111.99 Penalties

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(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 violat…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6112.01 Private sewer systems definitions

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As used in sections 6112.01 to 6112.05, inclusive, of the Revised Code:(A) "Sewage" means any substance that contains any of the waste products or excrementitious or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals, which pollutes the waters of the state.(B) "Industrial…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6112.02 Application for construction and installation of new disposal system for disposal of sewage, industrial waste, or other wastes

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For the purpose of preventing, controlling, and abating new or existing pollution of the waters of the state, the director of environmental protection, upon application by any person and determination by the director that such action will be conducive to the public health, safety…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6112.03 Manner and form of application

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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 directo…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6112.04 Supervision of a registered engineer

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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…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6112.05 Acquisition of sewerage and disposal systems by county

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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 ar…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6112.99 Penalty

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

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6113.01 Adoption of Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Compact

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The following Ohio river valley water sanitation compact, which has been negotiated by representatives of the states of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and West Virginia, is hereby approved, ratified, adopted, enacted into law, and entered in…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6113.02 Ohio commission members

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In pursuance of article IV of the compact set forth in section 6113.01 of the Revised Code, there shall be three members of the Ohio river valley water sanitation commission from this state. The governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint two of such commis…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6113.03 Powers and duties of commission - jurisdiction and enforcement

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There is hereby granted to the Ohio river valley water sanitation commission and the commissioners thereof all the powers provided for in the Ohio river valley water sanitation compact set forth in section 6113.01 of the Revised Code and all the powers necessary or incidental to …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6113.04 Powers supplemental to powers vested by other laws

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Any powers granted to the Ohio river valley water sanitation commission under sections 6113.01 to 6113.03, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be regarded as in aid of and supplemental to and in no case a limitation upon any of the powers vested in said commission by other laws…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6115.01 Sanitary district definitions

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As used in sections 6115.01 to 6115.79 of the Revised Code: (A) "Publication" means once a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the counties wherein publication is to be made or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code. Publication need…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6115.02 Sanitary district tax books and records

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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.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6115.03 Jurisdiction, evidence, forms establishing sanitary district

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(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 wi…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6115.04 Establishment and purpose of sanitary districts

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The court of common pleas of any county in this state, when the conditions stated in section 6115.05 of the Revised Code are found to exist, may establish sanitary districts within the county in which the court is located. Districts partly within and partly without such county ma…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6115.05 Petition for establishment of sanitary district

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Before any court establishes a sanitary district as outlined in section 6115.04 of the Revised Code, a petition shall be filed in the office of the clerk of said court, signed by five hundred freeholders, or by a majority of the freeholders, or by the owners of more than half of …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6115.06 Bond for expenses to be filed with petition

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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 connecte…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6115.07 Notice of petition and hearing - jurisdiction

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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…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6115.08 Hearing - order establishing district

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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 he…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6115.09 Filing and recording findings and decree of incorporation of district

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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 o…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6115.10 Appointment of directors

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Within thirty days after entering the decree incorporating a sanitary district, providing the district is wholly within one county, the court shall appoint one person who shall be a resident elector within the district as a director of the district for a term of five years from t…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6115.101 Directors of sanitary district organized wholly for reduction of populations of biting arthropods

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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…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6115.102 Sanitary district advisory council for sanitary district organized wholly for reduction of populations of biting arthropods

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(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 a…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6115.103 Directors of sanitary district organized wholly for purpose of providing water supply

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(A) The board of directors of a sanitary district organized wholly for the purpose of providing a water supply for domestic, municipal, and public use that includes two municipal corporations in two counties shall be appointed as follows:(1) One member shall be appointed by the c…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6115.104 Sanitary district advisory council for sanitary district organized wholly for purpose of providing water supply

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(A) With respect to a sanitary district organized wholly for the purpose of providing a water supply for domestic, municipal, and public use that includes two municipal corporations in two counties, there shall be appointed, within sixty days of the effective date of this section…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6115.11 Oath, bond of director

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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 intere…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6115.12 Seal - records - transcripts of meetings

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(A) The director or board of directors of a sanitary district shall adopt a seal and shall keep in a well-bound book a record of all proceedings, minutes of all meetings, certificates, contracts, bonds given by employees, and corporate acts. The book shall be open to the inspecti…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6115.13 President of board - temporary director - quorum

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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 arth…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6115.14 Secretary - executive director - chief engineer - treasurer - attorney - employees

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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 distri…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6115.141 Certificate of available funds

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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.

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6115.15 Plans for sewage or other liquid waste or treatment or disposal works submitted to board

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If a sanitary district is established for purposes other than the provision of a water supply for domestic, municipal, and public use, or for the reduction of populations of biting arthropods, after the establishment of the district and the organization of the board of directors …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6115.16 Improvement plan approval and execution

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Upon its qualification, the board of directors of a sanitary district shall prepare a plan for the improvement for which the district was created. The plan shall include such maps, profiles, plans, and other data and descriptions as are necessary to set forth properly the locatio…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6115.17 Right of entry for surveys and examinations

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(A) The board of directors of any sanitary district, or its employees or agents, including contractors and their employees, and the board of appraisers of the sanitary district and its assistants, may enter upon lands within or without the district to make surveys and examination…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6115.18 Powers and duties of board of directors

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The powers of the board of directors of a sanitary district do not include construction and maintenance of lateral sewers, sewerage systems, water mains, and distributing systems or other related improvements for local service within the political subdivisions forming the distric…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6115.19 Improvement plan for district organized to provide water supply

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In case a sanitary district or subdistrict is organized for the purpose of providing a water supply for domestic, municipal, and public use within such district or subdistrict, the board of directors of the sanitary district shall proceed to prepare a plan for the improvement. Th…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6115.191 Assessing interest on unpaid balance of water supply payments

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If a municipal corporation, township, or other member or customer of a sanitary district organized wholly for the purpose of providing a water supply for domestic, municipal, and public use that includes two municipal corporations in two counties is delinquent in paying any money…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6115.20 Contract bidding procedures

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(A) When it is determined to let the work relating to the improvements for which a sanitary district was established by contract, contracts in amounts to exceed fifty thousand dollars shall be advertised after notice calling for bids has been published once a week for five consec…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6115.201 Sanitary district contract requirements

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Notwithstanding section 6115.20 of the Revised Code, the board of directors of a sanitary district may comply with section 9.29 of the Revised Code regarding any contract for the engineering, repair, sustainability, water quality management, and maintenance of a water storage tan…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6115.21 Dominant right of eminent domain

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The board of directors of a sanitary district, when it is necessary for the purposes of sections 6115.01 to 6115.79 of the Revised Code, shall have a dominant right of eminent domain over the right of eminent domain of railroad, telephone, gas, water power, and other companies an…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 6115.22 Condemnation of land or property

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The board of directors of a sanitary district may condemn for the use of the district, any land or property within or without said district not acquired or condemned by the court on the report of the board of appraisers of the sanitary district, according to the procedure provide…