(a) This section is enacted by the City pursuant to the authority of R.C. 3737.80 and R.C. 3745.13 of the Ohio Revised Code, in addition to the Constitutional home rule authority vested in the City.
(b) The Port Clinton Fire Chief is hereby designated as the Emergency Hazardous Material Manager for the City.
(c) It shall be the practice and policy of the City of Port Clinton, that when emergency action is required to protect the public health or safety or the environment, to charge any person responsible for causing or allowing an unauthorized spill, release, or discharge of material into or upon the environment or responsible for the operation of an illegal methamphetamine manufacturing laboratory that has caused contamination of the environment for the necessary and reasonable, additional or extraordinary costs incurred in investigating, mitigating, minimizing, removing, or abating the spill, release, discharge, or contamination, in the course of its emergency action, but, to the extent criteria and methods for response actions prescribed under 40 C.F.R. 300, as amended, may be applied to the type of material involved and the conditions of the spill, release, discharge, or contamination, the person is liable for those costs only if the City employed those criteria and methods in its emergency action. The City will follow the procedure described in R.C. 3745.13, as may be amended, in computing and collecting the costs incurred.
(d) The City hereby adopts the Ottawa County Plan for Response to Hazardous Materials Emergencies (the "Plan")and particularly the reimbursement cost schedule for hazardous materials incidents and the training procedures described in the Plan, as amended from time to time, as approved and adopted by the Ottawa County Emergency Management Agency.
(Ord. 42-18. Passed 12-11-18.)