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Ohio Administrative Code (Last Updated: January 12, 2021) |
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4901:1 Utilities |
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Chapter4901:1-10. Electric Companies |
4901:1-10-07. Outage reports
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(A) As used in this rule, "outage" means an interruption of service to:
(1) Two thousand five hundred or more customers in an area for a projected or actual period of four hours or more.
(2) One hundred or more customers in an area for a projected or actual period of twenty-four hours or more.
(3) A facility of any telephone company, electric light company, natural gas company, water-works company, or a sewage disposal system company, as defined in section 4905.03 of the Revised Code and including a company that is operated not-for-profit, or owned or operated by a municipal corporation, when an interruption to that facility for a projected period of four hours or more, affects or will affect public safety.
(4) Any police department, fire department, hospital, or countywide 9-1-1 system, for a projected period of four hours or more.
As used in this paragraph, "area" means the electric utility's certified territory within a county or all adjoining municipalities and townships in an electric utility's certified territory.
(B) Each electric utility shall immediately report each outage to the commission's outage coordinator in a format prescribed by the outage coordinator.