The executive committee of the emergency response commission may issue orders requiring the owner or operator of a facility or other responsible person at a facility to abate a violation of any section of this chapter or a rule adopted under it, and orders requiring a local emergency planning committee or fire department to comply with this chapter or rules adopted under it.

Terms Used In Ohio Code 3750.18

  • Facility: means all buildings, equipment, structures, and other stationary items that are located on a single site or on contiguous or adjacent sites and that are owned or operated by the same person or by any person who controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with such person. See Ohio Code 3750.01
  • 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
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • Rule: includes regulation. See Ohio Code 1.59

Enforcement orders issued under this section and other orders issued by the commission under this chapter shall be issued in accordance with procedures established by the commission by rules adopted under division (B)(2)(g) of section 3750.02 of the Revised Code. Issuance of an enforcement order under this section is not a condition precedent to bringing a criminal, civil, or civil penalty action under section 3750.20 of the Revised Code.

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