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(A) Except as hereinafter provided in Paragraph (B), commodities covered in Paragraph (B) of regulation 901:5-49-01 are prohibited entry into or within the State of Ohio from any area under quarantine unless each lot or shipment is accompanied by a certificate signed or bearing a facsimile signature of the authorized agricultural inspection official of the state of origin, affirming that the regulated articles accompanied thereby have originated in and are shipped from a non-infested area within his state or district, or that the regulated articles accompanied thereby have been treated under official supervision previous to shipment in a manner and by a method which will insure freedom from the living pest.
(B) Regulated articles may enter or be moved within the State of Ohio without an accompanying certificate as described in Paragraph (A) above if:
(1) The Chief of the Division of Plant Industry of the Ohio Department of Agriculture issues a special permit for movement to a specified destination for limited handling, utilization, processing or treatment;
(2) Such articles are from a non-infested portion of a state named in regulation 901:5-49-01, provided that such state has adopted and is enforcing a quarantine or regulation which imposes restrictions on intrastate movement of the regulated articles which are substantially the same as those imposed in Paragraph (B) of regulation 901:5-49-01.
(C) Notwithstanding Paragraph (A) & (B) of this regulation:
(1) Regulated articles accompanied by a certificate issued by an authorized agricultural inspection official may be refused entry into or within the State of Ohio, if in the opinion of the Director of the Ohio Department of Agriculture the issuance of such certificate was not based upon practices and procedures assuring the absence of the European Chafer; and
(2) Regulated articles entering Ohio under provisions of part (2) of Paragraph (B) above may be refused entry if the Director has reason to believe that the state of origin is not enforcing its quarantine or regulations in a manner assuring the absence of the European Chafer.
HISTORY: (former AG-71-89.03); Eff 12-15-72
Rule promulgated under: RC Chapter 119.
Rule authorized by: RC 927.71
119.032 Review Date: 4-21-00; 4-21-05