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...(A) The director of agriculture may do any of the following: (1) Adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code regulating all of the following: (a) The sanitary production, storage, transportation, manufacturing, handling, processing, sampling, testing, examination, and sale of dairy products; (b) The suspension and revocation of licenses issued under section 917.09 of the Revised Code, provided ...

...ion board consisting of the director of agriculture or the director's authorized representative, the director of health or the director's authorized representative, and the following members to be appointed by the director of agriculture: (A) Two grade A milk producers; (B) One manufacture milk producer; (C) Three milk processors, one of whom shall be a grade A milk processor and one of whom shall be a manufacture...

...Advise and consult with the director of agriculture in the administration and enforcement of this chapter and rules adopted under it; (B) Make recommendations to the director regarding proposed rules; (C) Approve or disapprove agreements between the director and any public or private entity desiring to perform or performing any of the inspections or analyses required under this chapter and rules adopted under it. ...

...dessert manufacturing. The director of agriculture shall appoint members of the three standing subcommittees after consulting with statewide trade organizations representing grade A milk producers and processors, manufacture milk producers and manufacturers, and frozen dessert manufacturers, respectively. The director shall appoint at least one member of the milk sanitation board to serve on each standing subcommitt...

...e with rules adopted by the director of agriculture under section 917.02 of the Revised Code, all final delivery containers used for the sale of raw milk to ultimate consumers with the words "this product has not been pasteurized and may contain disease producing organisms."

...tandards established by the director of agriculture by rule; (C) Conduct a test to determine the identity, quality, strength, purity, grade, quantity, or price of a dairy product in a manner that is not in accordance with rules adopted by the director; (D) Alter or destroy the results of a test conducted to determine the identity, quality, strength, purity, grade, quantity, or price of a dairy product; (E) Manufac...

...(A) As used in this section, "political subdivision" means a county, township, or municipal corporation and any other body corporate and politic that is responsible for government activities in a geographic area smaller than that of the state. (B) All political subdivisions shall give full faith and credit to the inspections and acts performed and records created in the administration and enforcement of this chapter...

... division of dairy in the department of agriculture.

...The director of agriculture shall conduct examinations to test qualifications of applicants for a weigher, sampler, or tester license issued under section 917.09 of the Revised Code at such times and in such places as in the director's opinion will afford the applicants an opportunity to take the examination at reasonable expense. The director may designate or employ one or more persons to conduct the examinations.

...(A) The director of agriculture may issue the following types of licenses: (1) Producer; (2) Processor; (3) Milk dealer; (4) Raw milk retailer; (5) Weigher, sampler, or tester; (6) Milk hauler. (B) The director may adopt rules establishing categories for each type of license that are based on the grade or type of dairy product with which the licensee is involved. (C) Except as provided in section 917....

...The director of agriculture may issue a temporary weigher, sampler, or tester license to an applicant upon determining that the applicant has met all qualifications for licensure under section 917.09 of the Revised Code except successful completion of an examination. A temporary weigher, sampler, or tester license is effective for ninety days from the date of issuance. An applicant who has not taken an examination fo...

...ingredient specified by the director of agriculture have been pasteurized in accordance with rules governing pasteurization adopted under section 917.02 of the Revised Code. Except as provided in division (B) of this section, pasteurization shall occur at the milk plant where retail packaging occurs. Repasteurization is not required at a retail establishment. (B) The director may adopt rules authorizing pasteurizati...

...All dairy products shall be identified during processing and all packaged products shall be labeled and branded as required by this chapter and Chapter 3715. of the Revised Code and rules adopted under those chapters, and by the "Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990," 104 Stat. 2353, 21 U.S.C.A. 343, as amended and regulations adopted under it.

...The director of agriculture may provide by regulation for reports to be filed with him at least monthly by dealers, containing such pertinent information as to all milk or cream received during the period covered by such report as the director deems necessary and proper to effectuate sections 917.01 to 917.23, inclusive, of the Revised Code. The director, or any person whom he may employ when duly authorized by the ...

...dealer shall file with the director of agriculture a statement setting forth the days of each calendar month on which payment is to be made to producers. Whenever any dealer does not pay any of his producers on such days, he shall file with the director a sworn statement containing the names and addresses of producers not so paid and the amount payable to each. Thereafter, on or before the twentieth day of ...

... file and maintain with the director of agriculture a surety bond to the state, which bond shall be of an amount determined by the director to be not less than twice the value of milk or cream purchased by such dealer during an average pay period of the preceding twelve months or, if figures are not available, in such amount as the director requires; such bond shall be conditioned upon the prompt payment by the deale...

...ny market, may petition the director of agriculture to approve a plan of weighing, sampling, or testing milk or cream, or of auditing payments to producers and schedule of uses, or petition that such functions be performed more frequently than they are ordinarily performed by the director. When such a petition is filed, after public hearing held in the market by the director after two weeks' notice thereof in a...

...(A) This chapter shall not restrain, limit, prejudice, abrogate, or take from any agricultural cooperative association the powers, privileges, and rights it has under Chapter 1729. of the Revised Code. (B) Specifically, but without limiting division (A) of this section, this chapter shall not derogate from or prejudice any rights of any co-operative association, provided that the association and its employees comply...

...shed to or procured by the director of agriculture under sections 917.01 to 917.23 of the Revised Code shall be for the exclusive use and information of the director in the discharge of his official duties and shall not be open to the public or be used in any court in any action or proceeding therein unless the director is a party to such action or proceeding; but such information may be consolidated in stati...

...mmediately shall notify the director of agriculture and the health commissioner of the city health district or general health district in which its dairy products are sold or offered for sale, advising both officials of the facts of the case. The director may order that the sale of the dairy products be stopped pending an investigation and for any time thereafter that the director requires. If the director determines...

... a person designated by the director of agriculture: (A) Milk plant facilities and equipment; (B) Milk transport vehicles; (C) Dairy farms, including dairy animals, stables, milk parlors, milk houses, and milk vessels of milk producers. The inspector, while in the normal, lawful, and peaceful pursuit of inspection duties, may enter upon, cross over, and remain upon privately owned lands for those purposes and sha...

...ployed or designated by the director of agriculture and who tested a sample shall be admissible as evidence in a prosecution for a violation of a statute or rule, provided that the report or document contains a sworn statement, signed by the analyst, that the report or document accurately contains or represents the findings or conclusions of the analyst.

...e remedy at law exists, the director of agriculture may apply to the court of common pleas of a county in which a violation of this chapter or rules adopted under it occurs for a temporary or permanent injunction or other appropriate relief concerning the violation.

...(A)(1) The director of agriculture may deny, suspend, or revoke a license issued under this chapter for a violation of this chapter or the rules adopted under it. Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, the denial, suspension, or revocation of a license is not effective until the licensee is given written notice of the violation, a reasonable amount of time to correct the violation, and an opportunity ...

...e with rules adopted by the director of agriculture pursuant to section 917.02 of the Revised Code. (B) Manufacture milk stored in accordance with division (A)(1) of this section shall be used exclusively in the manufacture of cheese. (C) This section does not apply to raw milk that is delivered to a manufacture milk plant not later than two hours after completion of milking.