Ohio Code 3750.17 – Prohibitions
(A) No person shall violate any section of this chapter or a rule adopted or order issued under it.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 3750.17
- Fire department: means a fire department of a municipal corporation or township, a township fire district, a joint township fire district, a private fire company or volunteer fire company that has entered into an agreement for the use and operation of fire-fighting equipment with a municipal corporation, township, township fire district, or joint township fire district or, in a municipal corporation or township where no such fire department or district exists and no such agreement is in effect, the fire prevention officer of the municipal corporation or township. See Ohio Code 3750.01
- Local emergency planning committee: means the local emergency planning committee of an emergency planning district, joint emergency planning district, or joint interstate planning district established under section 3750. See Ohio Code 3750.01
- Person: means the state, any political subdivision, any other state or local body, the United States and any agency or instrumentality thereof, and any person as defined in section 1. See Ohio Code 3750.01
- Rule: includes regulation. See Ohio Code 1.59
- state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
(B) No person shall falsify, tamper with, or render inaccurate any information or records required to be submitted under any section of this chapter, a rule adopted under it, or an order issued under it. Violation of this division is not also a violation of division (C) of this section and is not falsification under section 2921.13 of the Revised Code.
(C) No person who is required to submit information under this chapter, a rule adopted under it, or an order issued under it shall submit any information that is inaccurate or misleading. It is an affirmative defense in any civil action or civil penalty action brought under section 3750.20 of the Revised Code for an alleged violation of this division that the submission of the inaccurate or misleading information resulted from a good faith error that occurred notwithstanding the maintenance of procedures that were adopted by the owner or operator to avoid such an error.
(D) No person shall influence, intimidate, harass, or retaliate by any means or method against the director of environmental protection or an officer or employee of the environmental protection agency, a member or employee of the emergency response commission or a local emergency planning committee, an officer or employee of a fire department, an emergency responder, or an officer or employee of this state or a political subdivision, so as to hinder or attempt to hinder him from carrying out his duties under this chapter and rules adopted under it. Violation of this division is not intimidation under section 2921.03 of the Revised Code.