Chapter 6112 | Private Sewer Systems

Section 6112.01 | Private sewer systems definitions.

• Effective: September 19, 1961
• Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 500 - 104th General Assembly

As used in sections 6112.01 to 6112.05, inclusive, of the Revised Code:

(A) "Sewage" means any substance that contains any of the waste products or excrementitious or other discharge from the bodies of human beings or animals, which pollutes the waters of the state.

(B) "Industrial waste" means any liquid, gaseous, or solid waste substance resulting from any process of industry, manufacture, trade, or business, or from the development, processing, or recovery of any natural resource, together with such sewage as is present, which pollutes the waters of the state.

(C) "Other wastes" means garbage, refuse, decayed wood, sawdust shavings, bark, and other wood debris, lime (except hydrated or dehydrated lime), sand, ashes, offal, night soil, oil, tar, coal dust, or silt, and other substances which are not included within the definitions of sewage and industrial waste set forth in this section, which pollute the waters of the state.

(D) "Sewerage system" means pipe lines or conduits, pumping stations, and force mains, and all other constructions, devices, appurtenances, and facilities used for collecting or conducting water-borne sewage, industrial waste, or other wastes to a point of disposal or treatment.

(E) "Treatment works" means any plant, disposal field, lagoon, dam, pumping station, incinerator, or other works used for the purpose of treating, stabilizing, or holding sewage, industrial waste, or other wastes.

(F) "Disposal system" means a system for disposing of sewage, industrial waste, or other wastes, and includes sewerage systems and treatment works.

(G) "Waters of the state" mean all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation systems, drainage systems, and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface and underground, natural or artificial, which are situated wholly or partly within, or border upon, this state, or are within its jurisdiction, except those private waters which do not combine or effect a junction with natural surface or underground waters.

(H) "Person" means a person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation, other than a county, township, municipal corporation, or other political subdivision.

Section 6112.02 | Application for construction and installation of new disposal system for disposal of sewage, industrial waste, or other wastes.

• Effective: October 23, 1972
• Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 397 - 109th General Assembly

For the purpose of preventing, controlling, and abating new or existing pollution of the waters of the state, the director of environmental protection, upon application by any person and determination by the director that such action will be conducive to the public health, safety, convenience, and welfare, may grant approval for general plans to such person for the construction and installation of a disposal system for the disposal of sewage, industrial waste, or other wastes to serve any geographical area in one or more counties, whether or not said geographical area is part of one or more then existing sewer districts established under Chapter 6117. of the Revised Code, provided that said geographical area is not then being served by a disposal system for the disposal of sewage, industrial waste, or other wastes.

Upon receipt of any application, the director shall notify the board of county commissioners in any county in which any part of said geographical area is situated that such application has been filed. The board of county commissioners shall certify to the director, within thirty days after receipt of such notice, whether said geographical area is or is not then being served by a disposal system for the disposal of sewage, industrial waste, or other wastes.

There shall be submitted with such application such data required by the director to establish the need therefor to serve the public health, safety, convenience, and welfare, and such surveys, topographic maps, and profiles as are necessary for the determination of the proper boundaries of such geographical area. Surveys accompanying applications requesting the approval of general plans provided for in this section shall have been made under the supervision of and certified by a registered engineer or surveyor.

Section 6112.03 | Manner and form of application.

• Effective: May 6, 1998
• Latest Legislation: House Bill 26 - 122nd General Assembly

Applications for approval of plans for the construction and installation of facilities under this chapter shall be made in the manner and form prescribed by the director of environmental protection and shall be accompanied by plans, specifications, and other data that the director may require relative to the facilities for which approval of plans is requested. Thereafter, the director shall act upon the application in accordance with law and the rules adopted pursuant thereto.

Section 6112.04 | Supervision of a registered engineer.

• Effective: October 23, 1972
• Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 397 - 109th General Assembly

The construction of the facilities for which plans have been approved by the director of environmental protection shall be performed under the supervision of a registered engineer, in a manner acceptable to the director. Such registered engineer shall be employed by the applicant at his own expense.

Section 6112.05 | Acquisition of sewerage and disposal systems by county.

• Effective: September 19, 1961
• Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 500 - 104th General Assembly

A board of county commissioners may acquire, by purchase, sewerage systems and disposal systems serving sewer districts within its county, constructed by any person under the authority granted by sections 6112.02 and 6112.03 of the Revised Code. If the board and owners thereof are unable to agree upon its purchase and sale, or the amount of compensation therefor, the board may appropriate the sewerage system and disposal system. To carry out the appropriation of the sewerage system and disposal system, the board shall proceed in the same manner as is provided by law for the appropriation of private property by a municipal corporation at the time such appropriation is made. The board shall perform all duties required to be performed by the mayor or legislative authority of a municipal corporation by such laws, and the passage of equivalent resolutions by such board shall fulfill the requirements of such laws as to resolutions and ordinances to be passed by the legislative authority of a municipal corporation.

Section 6112.99 | Penalty.

• Effective: May 6, 1998
• Latest Legislation: House Bill 26 - 122nd General Assembly

Whoever violates section 6112.02 or 6112.04 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars.