Ohio · statute · Ohio Rev. Code ch. 5117 · 15 active provisions
As used in sections 5117.01 to 5117.12 of the Revised Code:(A) "Credit" means the credit on utility heating bills granted under division (A) of section 5117.09 of the Revised Code.(B) "Current monthly bill" means the amount charged for energy consumed in the most recent monthly billing period and does not include any p…
(A) The director of development shall adopt rules, or amendments and rescissions of rules, pursuant to section 4928.52 of the Revised Code, for the administration of the Ohio energy credit program under sections 5117.01 to 5117.12 of the Revised Code. (B) As a means of efficiently administering the program, the directo…
(A)(1) The director of development shall prescribe the form of the application for assistance under the Ohio energy credit program. The application shall be in the form of a signed statement, shall require no more information than is necessary to establish an applicant's eligibility under section 5117.07 of the Revised…
(A) Every energy company and energy dealer, at least once during June, and once during August, shall begin to distribute to each of its residential heating customers a plain and clear notice, printed in ten-point type on a sheet or card on which no other words appear on either the front or back, that states the right o…
The director of development, in consultation with the commission on Hispanic-Latino affairs, shall develop an outreach program, including Spanish-speaking communication formats, designed to make all Spanish-speaking persons who meet the eligibility requirements for participation in the Ohio energy credit program aware…
(A) On or before the first day of October, the director of development shall review all applications submitted under division (C) of section 5117.03 of the Revised Code and shall determine the eligibility of each applicant to receive a credit or payment. The total income and current total income amounts set forth in di…
(A) In September of each year, the tax commissioner shall adjust the total income amounts set forth in sections 5117.07 and 5117.09 of the Revised Code to be used for applications submitted for the heating season commencing in the next calendar year, by completing the following steps:(1) Determine the percentage increa…
(A)(1) On or before the tenth day of October, the director of development shall begin to prepare and certify to each energy company that provides energy for home heating a list containing the name and account number of each head of household determined eligible for a credit under divisions (A) and (B) of section 5117.0…
(A)(1) With respect to each of its residential customers, every energy company shall, after receipt of a certification list provided under division (A) of section 5117.08 of the Revised Code, cause the granting of a credit in accordance with this section against the monthly billing of each household appearing on the li…
(A) On or before the fifteenth day of January, the director of development services shall pay each applicant determined eligible for a payment under divisions (A) and (B) of section 5117.07 of the Revised Code one hundred twenty-five dollars. (B) The director may withhold from any payment to which a person would otherw…
(A) No person shall purposely fail to grant the credit provided under division (A) of section 5117.09 of the Revised Code. Each day that each person entitled to the credit is not afforded the credit constitutes a separate offense. Clerical errors shall not be considered an offense under this division.(B) No person shal…
(A) On or before the thirty-first day of August of each year, each energy company shall file a written report with the director of development regarding the impact, if any, of the requirements of division (E) of section 5117.11 of the Revised Code on the number of uncollectible and past due residential accounts for the…
Not less than fifteen per cent of the funds received by the state in any fiscal year for the low-income home energy assistance block grant under Title XXVI of the "Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981," 95 Stat. 893, 42 U.S.C.A. 8621, and any amendments thereto, shall be used to provide low cost residential weathe…
All petroleum violation escrow funds received by this state from the federal government shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the energy oil overcharge fund, which is hereby created. The fund shall be used by the development services agency for energy conservation and assistance programs approved by…
(A) Whoever violates division (A) of section 5117.11 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.(B) Whoever violates division (B), (C), or (E) of section 5117.11 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.(C) Whoever violates division (D) of section 5117.11 of the Revised Code is guil…