Terms Used In Ohio Code > Chapter 1571 - Underground Storage of Gas

• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• 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
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Bond: includes an undertaking. See Ohio Code 1.02
• Boundary: when used in referring to the boundary of a gas storage reservoir, means the boundary of such reservoir as shown on the map or maps thereof on file in the division of oil and gas resources management as required by this chapter. See Ohio Code 1571.01
• Casing: means a string or strings of pipe commonly placed in a well. See Ohio Code 1571.01
• Coal bearing township: means a township designated as a coal bearing township by the chief of the division of mineral resources management as required by section 1561. See Ohio Code 1571.01
• Coal mine: means the underground excavations of a mine that are being used or are usable or are being developed for use in connection with the extraction of coal from its natural deposit in the earth. See Ohio Code 1571.01
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• 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.
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Gas: means any natural, manufactured, or by-product gas or any mixture thereof. See Ohio Code 1571.01
• Gas storage well inspector: means the gas storage well inspector in the division. See Ohio Code 1571.01
• 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
• Inactivate: means to shut off temporarily all flow of gas from a well at a point below the horizon of the coal mine that might be affected by such flow of gas, by means of a plug or other suitable device or by injecting water, bentonite, or some other equally nonporous material into the well, or any other method approved by an oil and gas resources inspector. See Ohio Code 1571.01
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• 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.
• Linear feet: when used to indicate distance between two points that are not in the same plane, means the length in feet of the shortest horizontal line that connects two lines projected vertically upward or downward from the two points. See Ohio Code 1571.01
• Map: means a graphic representation of the location and size of the existing or proposed items it is made to represent, accurately drawn according to a given scale. See Ohio Code 1571.01
• opening: when used in clauses relating to the time when a coal mine operator intends to open a new coal mine, or the time when a new coal mine is opened, or the time of the opening of a new coal mine, or when used in other similar clauses to convey like meanings, means that time and condition in the initial development of a new coal mine when the second opening required by section 1563. See Ohio Code 1571.01
• operator: when used in referring to the operator of a gas storage reservoir, means a person who is engaged in the work of preparing to inject, or who injects gas into, or who stores gas in, or who removes gas from, a gas storage reservoir, and who owns the right to do so. See Ohio Code 1571.01
• Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Pillar: means a solid block of coal or other material left unmined to support the overlying strata in a coal mine, or to protect a well. See Ohio Code 1571.01
• Property: means real and personal property. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Registered mail: includes certified mail and "certified mail" includes registered mail. See Ohio Code 1.02
• 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.
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• reservoir: means a continuous area of a subterranean porous sand or rock stratum or strata, any part of which or of the protective area of which, is within a coal bearing township, into which gas is or may be injected for the purpose of storing it therein and removing it therefrom, or for the purpose of testing whether such stratum is suitable for such storage purposes. See Ohio Code 1571.01
• Retreat mining: means the removal of pillars and ribs and stumps and other coal remaining in a section of a coal mine after the development mining has been completed in such section. See Ohio Code 1571.01
• Rule: includes regulation. See Ohio Code 1.59
• state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Testing: means injecting gas into, or storing gas in or removing gas from, a gas storage reservoir for the sole purpose of determining whether such reservoir is suitable for use as a gas storage reservoir. See Ohio Code 1571.01
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Underground excavations: when used in referring to the underground excavations of a coal mine, includes the abandoned underground excavations of such mine. See Ohio Code 1571.01
• United States: includes all the states. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Well: means any hole, drilled or bored, or being drilled or bored, into the earth, whether for the purpose of, or whether used for:

  (1) Producing or extracting any gas or liquid mineral, or natural or artificial brines, or oil field waters;

  (2) Injecting gas into or removing gas from an underground gas storage reservoir;

  (3) Introducing water or other liquid pressure into an oil bearing sand to recover oil contained in such sand, provided that "well" does not mean a hole drilled or bored, or being drilled or bored, into the earth, whether for the purpose of, or whether used for, producing or extracting potable water to be used as such. See Ohio Code 1571.01

• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.