Ohio Administrative Code
Title 4901:1 - Utilities
Chapter 4901:1-2 - Protection of Underground Utility Facilities
Section 4901:1-2-09 - Registration requirements

(A) Each utility, excavator, developer, and designer who participates in the one-call notification system in the current or previous calendar year shall receive notice from the commission to pay a safety registration fee not to exceed fifty dollars annually, which the commission may lower if the commission determines lowering the registration to be necessary.

(B) To recognize compliance, the commission may charge a discounted safety registration fee to those registrants that have no fines or penalties assessed against them in the previous calendar year.

(C) The registration year shall be the calendar year and registration will be accomplished through payment by the due date of the invoice issued by the commission.

(D) Subject to section 119.14 of the Revised Code, failure to pay the registration fee shall result in a fine of not more than two thousand five hundred dollars.

(E) The commission shall deposit all safety registrations and fines collected under this section in the underground facilities protection administrative fund created under section 4913.30 of the Revised Code.