Ohio Code § 6111.20

§ 6111.20.

When the director of environmental protection finds upon investigation, that any water

purification or sewage treatment works, on account of incompetent supervision or inefficient

operation is not producing an effluent of such quality as might be reasonably obtained

from such water purification or sewage treatment works, and by reason of such neglect

the public water supply has become impure and dangerous to health, or that a stream,

watercourse, canal, lake, pond, or body of water has become offensively polluted or

has become a public nuisance or that a public water supply taken from such stream,

watercourse, canal, lake, pond, or body of water has been rendered impure and dangerous

to health, the director shall issue an order to the mayor or managing officer or officers

of the municipal corporation, public institution, or person having charge of or owning

such water purification or sewage treatment works, to secure an effluent of such quality

as might be reasonably expected from such works and satisfactory to the director. If such managing officer or officers of a municipal corporation, public institution,

or person fails, for a period of five days after receiving such order, to secure an

effluent satisfactory to the director, the director shall order such managing officer

or officers or person owning such works to appoint, within ten days, and pay the salary

of a competent person to be approved by the director, to take charge of and operate

such works as to secure the results demanded by the director.