Effective: September 9, 2016 Latest Legislation: House Bill 512 – 131st General Assembly As used in this chapter: (A) “Public water system ” means a system for the provision to the public of water for human consumption through pipes or other constructed conveyances if the system has at least fifteen service connections or regularly serves […]
Effective: October 6, 2017 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 2 – 132nd General Assembly Except for section 6109.05 of the Revised Code, Chapter 6109. of the Revised Code does not apply to a public water system which meets all the following conditions: (A) Consists only of distribution and storage facilities and does not have any collection […]
Effective: December 14, 1978 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 445 – 112th General Assembly The purpose of Chapter 6109. of the Revised Code is to protect the public health and welfare and to enable the state to assume and retain primary enforcement responsibility under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Effective: November 26, 1997 Latest Legislation: House Bill 321 – 122nd General Assembly (A) The director of environmental protection shall administer and enforce this chapter and rules adopted under it. (B) The director shall adopt, amend, and rescind such rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as may be necessary or desirable […]
Effective: December 14, 1978 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 445 – 112th General Assembly (A) The director of environmental protection shall adopt a plan for the provision of safe drinking water in emergencies. For purposes of this section “emergency” means an imminent and substantial danger to human health. (B) Whenever the director determines that a water […]
Effective: December 14, 1978 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 445 – 112th General Assembly Whenever the director of environmental protection determines that use of water from a public water system presents a threat to the health of persons using such water, he may issue a “water use advisory” alerting the owner, operator, or users of such […]
Effective: November 26, 1997 Latest Legislation: House Bill 321 – 122nd General Assembly (A) No person shall begin construction or installation of a public water system, or make a substantial change in a public water system, until plans therefor have been approved by the director of environmental protection under division (A)(1) or (2) of this […]
Effective: October 17, 2019 Latest Legislation: House Bill 166 – 133rd General Assembly (A) As used in this section and section 6109.072 of the Revised Code: (1) “Public water system well” means a well for use by a public water system. (2) “Well” means any excavation by digging, boring, drilling, driving, or other method for […]
Effective: October 17, 2019 Latest Legislation: House Bill 166 – 133rd General Assembly (A) No person shall install a public water system well without an approved well siting application issued by the director of environmental protection in accordance with this chapter and any rules adopted under it. (B) In addition to meeting the siting requirements […]
Effective: October 6, 2017 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 2 – 132nd General Assembly (A) The director of environmental protection shall not approve plans for construction, installation, or substantial modification of a community water system that serves fewer than five hundred service connections, or any part of such a system, except a system owned and operated […]
Effective: September 9, 2016 Latest Legislation: House Bill 512 – 131st General Assembly (A)(1) As used in this section, “lead free” means: (a) Containing not more than two-tenths of one per cent lead when used with respect to solders or flux; (b) Containing not more than a weighted average of twenty-five-hundredths per cent lead when […]
Effective: December 14, 1978 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 445 – 112th General Assembly Whenever any person files with the environmental protection agency a complaint, in writing, setting forth that it is believed that water provided by a public water system is impure and dangerous to health or does not contain quantities of fluoride as required […]
Effective: December 14, 1978 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 445 – 112th General Assembly Every owner or operator of a public water system shall have analyses of the water made at such intervals and in such manner as may be ordered by the environmental protection agency. Records of the results of such analyses shall be maintained […]
Effective: September 30, 2021 Latest Legislation: House Bill 110 – 134th General Assembly (A) The director of environmental protection shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that do all of the following: (1) Require the owner or operator of a community or nontransient noncommunity water system to conduct sampling of […]
Effective: December 14, 1978 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 445 – 112th General Assembly No official, officer, or employee in charge of or being employed in the maintenance and operation of a public water system and no other person, firm, or corporation shall establish or permit to be established any connection whereby water from a private, […]
Effective: December 14, 1978 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 445 – 112th General Assembly When the director of environmental protection finds, upon investigation, that water in a public water system is subject to the danger of contamination by reason of unsatisfactory location, protection, construction, operation, or maintenance of the system, or by reason of the existence […]
Effective: December 14, 1978 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 445 – 112th General Assembly 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 necessary and should be made, the director shall order the mayor or managing officer or officers of the […]
Effective: December 14, 1978 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 445 – 112th General Assembly If the responsible officers of a municipal corporation, county, or public institution fail to submit to the director, within ninety days after receipt of notice of an order of the director of environmental protection under section 6109.15 of the Revised Code, plans […]
Effective: December 14, 1978 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 445 – 112th General Assembly The legislative authority of each municipal corporation, or the department or officer having jurisdiction to provide for the raising of revenue by tax levies, sales of bonds, or otherwise shall take all steps necessary to secure the funds for any purpose set […]
Effective: October 30, 1989 Latest Legislation: House Bill 230 – 118th General Assembly 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 of existing debt and tax limitations, the director may find that an emergency exists requiring the immediate issuance […]
