Ohio Code 3734.45 – Causes for revocation
Any permit or license may be revoked by the director of environmental protection or board of health for any of the following causes, in addition to other causes for revocation authorized by this chapter:
Terms Used In Ohio Code 3734.45
- Board of health: means the board of health of a city or general health district or the authority having the duties of a board of health in any city as authorized by section 3709. See Ohio Code 3734.01
- Director: means the director of environmental protection. See Ohio Code 3734.01
- Disposal: means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, emitting, or placing of any solid wastes or hazardous waste into or on any land or ground or surface water or into the air. See Ohio Code 3734.01
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- Hazardous waste: includes any substance identified by regulation as hazardous waste under the "Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976" 90 Stat. See Ohio Code 3734.01
- Rule: includes regulation. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Solid wastes: means such unwanted residual solid or semisolid material as results from industrial, commercial, agricultural, and community operations, excluding earth or material from construction, mining, or demolition operations, or other waste materials of the type that normally would be included in demolition debris, nontoxic fly ash and bottom ash, including at least ash that results from the combustion of coal and ash that results from the combustion of coal in combination with scrap tires where scrap tires comprise not more than fifty per cent of heat input in any month, spent nontoxic foundry sand, nontoxic, nonhazardous, unwanted fired and unfired, glazed and unglazed, structural products made from shale and clay products, materials converted into a feedstock that replaces a raw material in a manufacturing process at an advanced recycling facility, materials used as a legitimate fuel at an advanced recycling facility, and slag and other substances that are not harmful or inimical to public health, and includes, but is not limited to, garbage, scrap tires, combustible and noncombustible material, street dirt, and debris. See Ohio Code 3734.01
(A) Any cause that would require disqualification pursuant to division (A), (B), (D), or (E) of section 3734.44 of the Revised Code from receiving a permit upon original application;
(B) Fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation in securing the permit or in the conduct of the permitted or licensed activity;
(C) Offering, conferring, or agreeing to confer any benefit to induce any other individual or business concern to violate the provisions of this chapter, of any rule adopted thereunder, or of any other law relating to the transportation, transfer, treatment, storage, or disposal of solid wastes, infectious wastes, or hazardous waste;
(D) Coercion of a customer by violence or economic reprisal or the threat thereof to utilize the services of any permittee;
(E) Preventing, without authorization of the director, any individual or business concern from transferring or disposing of solid wastes or hazardous waste at a permitted treatment, transfer, storage, or disposal facility other than a facility owned or operated by the applicant or permittee, or preventing, without authorization of the director, any individual or business concern from treating infectious waste at a licensed infectious waste treatment facility other than a facility owned and operated by the applicant or licensee.