Bill Text: OH HB500 | 2011-2012 | 129th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: To authorize a fee on the recycling of brine from oil and gas operations to benefit local governments.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-29 - To Agriculture & Natural Resources [HB500 Detail]
Download: Ohio-2011-HB500-Introduced.html
|
|
Representative Gerberry
Cosponsors:
Representatives Murray, Gonzales, Boyd, Hagan, R.
To enact section 1509.39 of the Revised Code to | 1 |
authorize a fee on the recycling of brine from oil | 2 |
and gas operations to benefit local governments. | 3 |
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That section 1509.39 of the Revised Code be | 4 |
enacted to read as follows: | 5 |
Sec. 1509.39. (A) For the purposes of defraying the added | 6 |
costs to a county and to a municipal corporation or township | 7 |
resulting from the location and operation of a facility that | 8 |
recycles brine from oil and gas operations within the county and | 9 |
the municipal corporation or township, a county and the municipal | 10 |
corporation or township in which such a facility is located each | 11 |
may levy a fee of seventeen and one-half cents per barrel of brine | 12 |
recycled at the facility. | 13 |
(B) The legislative authority of a county, municipal | 14 |
corporation, or township may levy a fee under this section by | 15 |
enacting an ordinance or adopting a resolution establishing the | 16 |
fee. Upon doing so, the legislative authority shall mail a | 17 |
certified copy of the ordinance or resolution to the owner or | 18 |
operator of the facility that is required to collect the fee and | 19 |
to the chief of the division of oil and gas resources management. | 20 |
(C) Collection of a fee levied under this section shall | 21 |
commence on the first day of the second month following the month | 22 |
in which notification is sent to the owner or operator. The owner | 23 |
or operator of a brine recycling facility shall collect the fee | 24 |
levied under this section on behalf of the county, municipal | 25 |
corporation, or township and forward the proceeds of the fee to | 26 |
the county, municipal corporation, or township, as applicable, on | 27 |
a monthly basis. | 28 |
(D) A county, municipal corporation, or township that levies | 29 |
a fee under this section shall deposit the proceeds of the fee in | 30 |
the general fund of the county, municipal corporation, or | 31 |
township, as applicable. | 32 |