Terms Used In Ohio Code > Chapter 3752 - Cessation of Regulated Operations

• Another: when used to designate the owner of property which is the subject of an offense, includes not only natural persons but also every other owner of property. See Ohio Code 1.02
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Asbestos-containing material: means any material that contains more than one per cent by weight of asbestos. See Ohio Code 3752.01
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Cessation of regulated operations: means the discontinuation or termination of regulated operations or the finalizing of any transaction or proceeding through which those operations are discontinued. See Ohio Code 3752.01
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Establishment: means an economic unit generally at a single physical location where business is conducted or where services or industrial operations are performed. See Ohio Code 3752.01
• 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. See Ohio Code 3752.01
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Hazardous chemical: means a substance identified or listed in rules adopted under division (B)(1)(b) of section 3750. See Ohio Code 3752.01
• Hazardous waste: means a substance identified or listed in rules adopted under division (A) of section 3734. See Ohio Code 3752.01
• in writing: includes any representation of words, letters, symbols, or figures; this provision does not affect any law relating to signatures. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Issue: when used in connection with any order that the director of environmental protection is authorized to issue under this chapter, includes modify, suspend, or vacate. See Ohio Code 3752.01
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. ^{Source: OCC}
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
• Motor vehicles and rolling stock: means cargo-carrying vehicles that are used or originally designed to be used for the transportation of cargo by any mode, including, without limitation, automobiles, vans, tractors, trucks, semitrailers, tank cars, or rail cars that are so used or designed to be so used. See Ohio Code 3752.01
• Operator: means the person responsible for the overall operation of a reporting facility. See Ohio Code 3752.01
• Outdoor location of operation: means an outdoor location at a reporting facility upon which is situated any stationary tank, vat, electrical transformer, vessel, piping, or nonstationary container that contains a regulated substance or upon which is situated any motor vehicle or rolling stock that is used for the storage or other handling of a regulated substance and that contains a regulated substance in a quantity or manner other than that necessary for the operation of the motor vehicle or rolling stock in transporting cargo. See Ohio Code 3752.01
• Owner: means the person who owns a reporting facility or part of a reporting facility. See Ohio Code 3752.01
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Property: means real and personal property. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Regulated operations: means the production, use, storage, or other handling of regulated substances. See Ohio Code 3752.01
• Regulated substances: includes extremely hazardous substances, hazardous substances, flammable substances, and petroleum. See Ohio Code 3752.01
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Reporting facility: means a facility where regulated operations occur in connection with which the owner or operator of the facility is required to submit a list of hazardous chemicals or one or more material safety data sheets under section 3750. See Ohio Code 3752.01
• Rule: includes regulation. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Undertaking: includes a bond. See Ohio Code 1.02
• United States: includes all the states. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Whoever: includes all persons, natural and artificial; partners; principals, agents, and employees; and all officials, public or private. See Ohio Code 1.02