Chapter 3741 | Gasoline; Oils; Paints

Section 3741.01 | Oil and paint definitions.

• Effective: October 1, 1953
• Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly

As used in sections 3741.01 to 3741.07, inclusive, of the Revised Code:

(A) "Naval stores" means spirits of turpentine and rosin.

(B) "Spirits of turpentine" includes gum spirits of turpentine and wood turpentine.

(C) "Gum spirits of turpentine" means spirits of turpentine made from oleoresin gum from a living tree.

(D) "Wood turpentine" includes steam distilled wood turpentine and destructively distilled wood turpentine.

(E) "Steam distilled wood turpentine" means wood turpentine distilled with steam from the oleoresin within or extracted from the wood.

(F) "Destructively distilled wood turpentine" means wood turpentine obtained in the destructive distillation of the wood.

(G) "Rosin" includes gum rosin and wood rosin.

(H) "Gum rosin" means rosin remaining after the distillation of gum spirits of turpentine.

(I) "Wood rosin" means rosin remaining after the distillation of steam distilled wood turpentine.

(J) "Paint" includes oxide of zinc, red lead, and white lead, dry or in any kind of oil, and a compound intended for like use, colors ground in oil, paste, or semipaste paint, and liquid or mixed paint ready for use.

Section 3741.02 | Labels.

• Effective: October 1, 1953
• Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly

No person, firm, or corporation shall expose for sale, offer for sale, or sell paint, naval stores, or linseed oil which is labeled or marked so as to tend to deceive the purchaser thereof as to its nature or composition, or which is not labeled as required by this section.

The label, required by sections 3741.01 to 3741.07, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall clearly state the name and residence of the manufacturer of the paint or of the distributor thereof or of the party for whom it is manufactured, and shall show the name of any substance used in quantities sufficient to be dangerous or injurious to human life or health whether through absorption, contact, or inhalation. The label shall be printed in the English language in plain, legible type, in continuous list, with no intervening matter of any kind.

The label on paint sold by measure shall show the net measure of the contents of the container. The label on paint sold by weight shall show the net weight of the contents of the package.

Section 3741.03 | Standards shall be official.

• Effective: October 1, 1953
• Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly

For the purposes of sections 3741.01 to 3741.07, inclusive, of the Revised Code, the standards of quality and purity of gum spirits of turpentine, steam distilled wood turpentine, destructively distilled wood turpentine, gum rosin, and wood rosin shall be those of the official naval stores standards of the United States, as set forth in the Naval Stores Act or amendments thereto.

Section 3741.04 | Prohibited acts.

• Effective: October 1, 1953
• Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly

The following acts are prohibited:

(A) The sale in this state, of any naval stores or of anything offered for sale as such, except under or by reference to the official naval stores standards of the United States;

(B) The sale of any naval stores in this state under or by reference to the official naval stores standards of the United States, which is other than what it is represented to be;

(C) The use in this state of the word "turpentine" or the word "rosin," singly or with any other word or of any compound, derivative, or imitation of words, letter, or combination of letters, provided in the Naval Stores Act to define the official naval stores standards of the United States, to be used or to designate naval stores of any kind or grade, in selling, offering for sale, advertising, or shipping, anything other than naval stores of the official naval stores standards of the United States;

(D) The use of any false, misleading, or deceitful means or practice in the sale of naval stores, or of anything offered for sale as such.

Section 3741.05 | Possession prima-facie evidence.

• Effective: October 1, 1953
• Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly

The possession of an article or substance improperly marked or inaccurately labeled by a person, firm, or corporation dealing therein, shall be prima-facie evidence that it is being kept in violation of sections 3741.01 to 3741.07, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

Section 3741.06 | Enforcement.

• Effective: October 1, 1953
• Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly

The director of agriculture shall enforce sections 3741.01 to 3741.07, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and the director, his assistant and employees, shall have access to the places of business, stores, buildings, and yards used for the sale of paint, naval stores, or linseed oil, and may open any package, tank car, tank, drum, barrel, can, jar, tub, or other receptacle containing any article that may be sold, offered for sale, or exposed for sale in violation of such sections.

Section 3741.07 | Prohibition.

• Effective: October 1, 1953
• Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly

No person shall violate sections 3741.01 to 3741.06, inclusive, of the Revised Code, relating to the labeling, marketing, stenciling, selling, offering or exposing for sale, or advertising of paints, mixed paints and similar compounds, naval stores, linseed oil, or white lead by manufacturers or distributors thereof.

Section 3741.08 | Manufacture and sale of raw flaxseed or linseed oil.

• Effective: October 1, 1953
• Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly

No person shall manufacture, offer, or expose for sale raw flaxseed or linseed oil unless it is wholly obtained from the seeds of the flax plant and fulfills all the requirements recognized by the eighth decennial revision of the United States pharmacopoeia.

Section 3741.09 | Manufacture and sale of boiled linseed oil.

• Effective: October 1, 1953
• Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly

No person shall manufacture, offer, or expose for sale, boiled linseed oil unless it has been prepared by heating pure raw linseed oil to a temperature of two hundred twenty-five degrees Fahrenheit and incorporating not to exceed four per cent by weight of drier. Such boiled linseed oil must also conform to the following requirements:

(A) Its specific gravity at sixty degrees Fahrenheit must be not less than nine hundred thirty-five thousandths and not greater than nine hundred forty-five thousandths.

(B) Its saponification value, Koettstorfer figure, must not be less than one hundred eighty-six.

(C) Its iodine number must not be less than one hundred sixty.

(D) Its acid value must not exceed ten.

(E) The volatile matter expelled at two hundred twelve degrees Fahrenheit must not exceed one half of one per cent.

(F) No mineral oil shall be present, and the amount of unsaponifiable matter as determined by standard methods shall not exceed two and five tenths per cent.

(G) The film left after flowing the oil over glass and allowing it to drain in a vertical position must be free from tackiness in not to exceed twenty hours, at a temperature of about seventy degrees Fahrenheit.

Section 3741.10 | Selling boiled oil under false name or without proper branding.

• Effective: October 1, 1953
• Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly

No person shall sell, expose, or offer for sale, flaxseed or linseed oil except under its true name, and unless each tank car, tank, barrel, keg, or other vessel containing such oil has distinctly and durably painted, stamped, stenciled, or marked thereon in ordinary bold-faced capital letters not less than five lines pica in size, the words "pure linseed oil--raw" or "pure linseed oil--boiled" and the name and address of the manufacturer thereof.

Section 3741.11 | Falsification.

• Effective: July 1, 1996
• Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 269 - 121st General Assembly

A person who knowingly makes a false statement on a stamp or label on a tank car, barrel, keg, can, or other vessel containing flaxseed or linseed oil is guilty of falsification under section 2921.13 of the Revised Code.

Section 3741.12 | Enforcement.

• Effective: July 1, 1996
• Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 2 - 121st General Assembly

The director of agriculture shall enforce sections 3741.08 to 3741.10 of the Revised Code.

Section 3741.13 | Designating successor-in-interest to franchisee.

• Effective: September 20, 1984
• Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 200 - 115th General Assembly

(A) No franchise, as defined in the "Petroleum Marketing Practices Act," 92 Stat. 322 (1978), 15 U.S.C.A. 2801, as amended, entered into or renewed on or after January 1, 1985, shall prohibit the franchised dealer or retailer of motor fuel from designating his spouse or adult child as successor-in-interest to the franchise in the event of his death or retirement. At the time a franchise agreement is entered into or renewed, the franchised dealer or retailer may designate his spouse or adult child as successor in interest to the franchise in the event of the dealer's or retailer's death or retirement. The franchisor shall approve in writing the designation of the successor in interest except for good cause shown. Nothing in the franchise agreement shall prohibit the franchised dealer or retailer from notifying the franchisor in writing of his intent to change his designee during the term of the franchise agreement, and the franchisor shall accept in writing the new designee, except for good cause shown. The designated successor shall give the franchisor refiner or distributor of motor fuel written notice of the designated successor's intention to assume and operate the franchise within thirty days after the date of the franchisee's death or retirement.

(B) Notwithstanding any provision in a franchise agreement which provides for the termination of the franchise upon the death or retirement of the franchisee, except for good cause shown, and after receipt of the notice required pursuant to division (A) of this section, the franchisor shall grant the designated successor a trial franchise for one year under the same terms and conditions as the original franchise. The franchisor has the right to require the successor-in-interest to attend a service station dealer school or equivalent educational training at the franchisor's cost.

(C) During the period of the trial franchise and with the franchisor's consent, the successor franchisee may either sell his business assets or renew the franchise under terms and conditions that are agreed to by the franchisor and the successor franchisee. The franchisor shall not unreasonably withhold his consent to the successor franchisee's sale of the business assets or the renewal of the franchise as authorized in this division.

Section 3741.14 | Rules governing the equipment, operation, and maintenance of self-service filling stations.

• Effective: September 30, 2021
• Latest Legislation: House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly

(A) Each filling station offering self-service shall be operated in accordance with the most recent version of the national fire protection association standard number 30A, as that standard is incorporated into the fire code adopted by the state fire marshal in accordance with section 3737.82 of the Revised Code, and the provisions of the "Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970," 84 Stat. 1590, 5 U.S.C.A. 5108, and any amendments thereto and standards adopted thereunder.

(B) The fire marshal shall adopt, as part of the state fire code, rules governing the equipment, operation, and maintenance of filling stations. The rules shall be such as are necessary for the protection of the persons and property of the public, but shall require as a minimum that:

(2) A sign, in block letters at least four inches in height, be conspicuously displayed on each gasoline pump island where self-service is offered stating that it is a self-service island;

(3) Signs giving instructions for the operation of gasoline dispensing equipment, in block letters, be conspicuously posted at each filling station offering self-service;

(4) A sign bearing the following words in block letters be conspicuously posted on each gasoline pump island where self-service is offered:

(a) "STOP ENGINE";

(b) "NO SMOKING";

(c) "WARNING--IT IS UNLAWFUL AND DANGEROUS TO DISPENSE GASOLINE INTO UNAPPROVED CONTAINERS";

(d) "PERSONS USING DISPENSERS WITH HOLD-OPEN LATCHES MUST REMAIN AT THE REFUELING POINT DURING REFUELING".

(5) All signs required by this section be constructed of rigid, weather-resistant material;

(6) Gasoline dispensing nozzles used by any person other than a supervisor, employee, or attendant be of an approved automatic closing type. Any person other than a supervisor, employee, or attendant using a dispenser with a hold-open latch shall remain at the refueling point during refueling.

(C) The fire marshal shall not prohibit the operation of a filling station offering self-service solely because it is an unattended filling station that utilizes key- or card-operated self-service flammable or combustible liquid dispensing equipment.

(D) Nothing in this section shall be interpreted to prohibit the fire marshal from adopting reasonable rules governing the safety of self-service flammable or combustible liquid dispensing equipment.

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Section 3741.141 | Option of conducting business.

• Effective: January 1, 1977
• Latest Legislation: House Bill 1161 - 111th General Assembly

Franchised dealers shall be allowed the option as to whether they wish to offer full-service, self-service on one island, or complete self-service in the conduct of their business.

Section 3741.99 | Penalty.

• Effective: July 1, 1996
• Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 2 - 121st General Assembly

(A) Whoever violates section 3741.07 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than fifty dollars for a first offense and shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars, imprisoned not less than thirty nor more than one hundred days, or both, for each subsequent offense.

(B) Whoever violates section 3741.08, 3741.09, or 3741.10 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, imprisoned not less than thirty nor more than ninety days, or both.