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...As used in sections 9.98 to 9.983 of the Revised Code: (A) "Absolute obligor" means the person, other than the issuer, ultimately responsible under a loan agreement, lease, or sale or installment sale agreement, or other contract with the issuer to make payments necessary to provide adequate moneys to meet the debt service on the bonds, whether or not such payments are also provided for pursuant to a credit facili...

...The division of markets may do all of the following: (A) Investigate the cost of production and marketing in all its phases; (B) Gather and disseminate information concerning supply, demand, prevailing prices, and commercial movements, including common and cold storage of food products, and maintain market news service for disseminating such information; (C) Promote, assist, and encourage the organization and oper...

...As used in this section and in section 901.42 of the Revised Code: (A) "Director" means the director of agriculture or the designee of the director of agriculture. (B) "Exhibition" means a display of animals that is open to the public. (C) "National exhibition" means an exhibition where species from fifteen or more states or nations are exhibited. (D) "Nonprofit association" means any corporation, society, par...

...(A) The director of agriculture may authorize any department of agriculture laboratory to perform a laboratory service for any person, organization, political subdivision, state agency, federal agency, or other entity, whether public or private. The director shall adopt and enforce rules to provide for the rendering of a laboratory service. (B) The director may charge a reasonable fee for the performance of a labor...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Agricultural product" means any of the following items that is produced for testing or research in the context of a product development program in conjunction or coordination with a private research facility, a university, or any federal, state, or local governmental agency or that is produced for personal, commercial, pharmaceutical, or educational purposes: field crop or fi...

...There is hereby created the office of farmland preservation within the department of agriculture. The office shall do all of the following: (A) Prepare guidelines and criteria for use in the development of comprehensive local land use plans that encourage the efficient use of public infrastructure and the preservation of farmland; (B) Establish a farmland preservation program to coordinate and assist local f...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Agricultural production" has the same meaning as in section 929.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Agritourism" means an agriculturally related educational, entertainment, historical, cultural, or recreational activity, including you-pick operations or farm markets, conducted on a farm that allows or invites members of the general public to observe, participate in, or enjoy that activity...

...(A) Whoever violates section 901.51 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. (B) Whoever violates section 901.75 or division (C) of section 901.73 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree. (C) Whoever violates division (A) of section 901.76 of the Revised Code is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree on a first offense and of a felony of the fourth degree on ea...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Bonds" means bonds, notes, or other forms of evidences of obligation issued in temporary or definitive form, including refunding bonds and notes and bonds and notes issued in anticipation of the issuance of bonds and renewal notes. (B) "Bond proceedings" means the resolution or ordinance or the trust agreement or indenture of mortgage, or combination thereof, authorizing or providing f...

...Section 13 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, is in part implemented by this chapter in furtherance of the public purposes of the state to create or preserve jobs and employment opportunities or to improve the economic welfare of the people of the state. Any issuer acting through its issuing authority may in accordance with Section 13 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution: (A) Acquire by gift or purchase and hold and ...

...(A) An issuer may from time to time issue bonds to carry out the lawful purposes set forth in this chapter including, but not limited to, the purchase of loans or other evidence of debt from and the making of loans to or through lending institutions, the payment of the costs of insurance, letters of credit, certificates of deposit, and purchase agreements related to the bonds or loans, underwriting, legal, accounting...

...The bond proceedings may contain provisions which shall be part of the contract with the bondholders as to: (A) Determinations by the issuing authority that the project to be financed thereunder is a project, as defined in this chapter, and is consistent with the purposes of Section 13 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, and such determinations shall be conclusive as to the validity and enforceability of the bonds i...

...The agricultural financing commission may make the following determinations in connection with any issuance of its bonds: (A) The number, location, and other characteristics of projects, including to the extent reasonably possible, assurance that the projects to be financed by bonds will create or preserve jobs and employment opportunities or improve the economic welfare of the people of the state; (B) Eligibility ...

...(A) An issuer may make and contract to make loans to or through lending institutions to finance a project on such terms and conditions as the issuer shall determine, and all lending institutions are hereby authorized to borrow from any issuer in accordance with this section. (B) An issuer may purchase and contract to purchase from lending institutions loans or other evidence of debt to finance a project on such term...

...(A)(1) Not later than one hundred eighty days after March 15, 2001, the director of agriculture shall prepare a program for the issuance of permits to install under this section. (2) On and after the date on which the director has finalized the program required under division (A)(1) of this section, no person shall modify an existing or construct a new concentrated animal feeding facility without first obtain...

...(A)(1) The director of agriculture is authorized to participate in the national pollutant discharge elimination system in accordance with the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. Not later than one hundred eighty days after March 15, 2001, the director shall prepare a state program in accordance with 40 C.F.R. 123.21 for point sources that are subject to this section and shall submit the program to the United S...

...(A) Prior to issuing or modifying a permit to install, permit to operate, or NPDES permit, the director of agriculture shall issue a draft permit. The director or the director's representative shall mail notice of the issuance of a draft permit to the applicant and shall publish the notice once in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the concentrated animal feeding facility or discharger is locat...

...(A) The director of agriculture may propose to require corrective actions and assess a civil penalty against an owner or operator of a concentrated animal feeding facility if the director or the director's authorized representative determines that the owner or operator is not in compliance with section 903.02 or 903.03 or division (A) of section 903.07 of the Revised Code, the terms and conditions of a permit to inst...

...As used in sections 905.01 to 905.11 of the Revised Code: (A) "Distributor" means a person who offers for sale, sells, trades, or supplies an agricultural additive. (B) "Manufacturer" means a person who mines, extracts, processes, refines, blends, or mixes an agricultural additive. (C) "Registrant" means the manufacturer who registers an agricultural additive under sections 905.01 to 905.11 of the Revised Code. (...

...No person shall sell, exchange, offer for sale or exchange, or distribute for sale or exchange in this state any agricultural additive unless its container is conspicuously labeled with the following information: (A) The additive's brand name; (B) Its purpose or proposed use; (C) The net weight of the contents of the container; (D) Directions for the additive's use; (E) The results or effects that can be expecte...

...No person shall falsely represent that an agricultural additive: (A) Can be used in lieu of another product or products, including fertilizers and agricultural liming materials, with the same or similar results; (B) Enhances the effects or benefits of a fertilizer or agricultural liming material; (C) Is useful and effective when used under weather conditions normal for this state or in soils in this state; (D) Is...

...(A) The director of agriculture shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that do all of the following: (1) Create a fertilizer applicator certification program pursuant to section 905.321 of the Revised Code that does all of the following: (a) Educates an applicant for certification on the time, place, form, amount, handling, and application of fertilizer; (b) Serves as a compone...

...(A)(1) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, no person in the western basin shall surface apply fertilizer under either of the following circumstances: (a) On snow-covered or frozen soil; (b) When the top two inches of soil are saturated from precipitation. (2) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, no person in the western basin shall surface apply fertilizer in a granular form when the...

...(A) The director of agriculture may assess a civil penalty against a person that violates section 905.326 of the Revised Code. The director may impose a civil penalty only if the director affords the person an opportunity for an adjudication hearing under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to challenge the director's determination that the person violated section 905.326 of the Revised Code. The person may waive the ri...

...(A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, no person shall distribute in this state a specialty fertilizer until it is registered by the manufacturer or distributor with the department of agriculture. An application, in duplicate, for each brand and product name of each grade of specialty fertilizer shall be made on a form furnished by the director of agriculture and shall be accompanied with a fee ...