Ohio Code 4905.92 – Assessments against operators – pipe-line safety fund
(A) In addition to the assessment required by section 4905.10 of the Revised Code, the public utilities commission shall assess against all operators an amount equal to the appropriation in each fiscal year from the pipe-line safety fund. The assessment against each operator shall be based on the total Mcfs of gas it supplied or delivered in this state during the calendar year next preceding the assessment. The commission shall not assess against any operator an amount exceeding five one-hundredths of one cent multiplied by such total Mcfs of gas it supplied or delivered, except that, if the commission determines that an assessment so computed will amount to seventy-five dollars or less, the commission shall assess the operator seventy-five dollars.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 4905.92
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
(B) For the purpose of computing the assessment under division (A) of this section, each operator designated by the commission shall notify the commission, no later than ninety days after the end of the calendar year next preceding the assessment, of the total Mcfs of gas it supplied or delivered in this state during that calendar year.
(C) On or before the first day of October in each year, the commission shall notify each operator of the amount assessed against it under this section. No later than thirty days after the date the notice is given, the operator shall pay the assessment to the commission.
(D) There is hereby created in the state treasury the pipe-line safety fund into which shall be deposited all assessments paid under this section. Money in the fund shall be for the exclusive use of the commission for the administration and enforcement of sections 4905.90 to 4905.96 of the Revised Code and the pipe-line safety code. Any such assessments paid into the pipe-line safety fund, but not expended by the commission, shall be credited ratably, after first deducting any deficits accumulated from prior years, by the commission to operators that pay more than the minimum assessment, according to the respective portions of the sums assessable against them for the ensuing calendar year. The assessments for that calendar year shall be reduced correspondingly.