Ohio Revised Code Search

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Horse meat market" means any establishment in which the parts of horses are processed and sold, or exposed or offered for sale at retail for human food other than a horse slaughterhouse. (B) "Establishment" includes all premises where horses or parts thereof are processed and sold, or exposed or offered for sale at retail for human food such as canneries, sausage factories, rendering, ...

...(A)(1) No person shall own or operate a pesticide business without obtaining a license from the director of agriculture. Licenses shall be issued for a period of time established by rule and shall be renewed in accordance with deadlines established by rule. (2) A person applying for a pesticide business license shall obtain a license for each location that is owned by the person and used for the purpose of engagin...

...(A) As used in this section, "use" means any of the following: (1) Performing pre-application activities involving mixing and loading the pesticide; (2) Applying the pesticide by a commercial applicator or private applicator; (3) Performing other pesticide-related activities, including transporting or storing pesticide containers that have been opened, cleaning equipment, and disposing of excess pesticides, spr...

...(A) The director of agriculture shall adopt rules the director determines necessary for the effective enforcement and administration of this chapter. The rules may relate to, but are not limited to, the time, place, manner, and methods of application, materials, and amounts and concentrations of application of pesticides, may restrict or prohibit the use of pesticides in designated areas during specified periods of t...

...(A) The director of agriculture may: (1) In order to determine compliance with this chapter and rules adopted under it, enter any public or private premises or transport vehicles during regular business hours to do any or all of the following: (a) Inspect and copy books, pesticide application records, contracts related to pesticide business activities, and financial responsibility documents; (b) Inspect the s...

...No person shall do any of the following: (A) Apply, use, directly supervise such application or use, or recommend a pesticide for use inconsistent with the pesticide's labeling, treatment standards, or other restrictions imposed by the director of agriculture; (B) Act as a commercial applicator without being licensed to do so; (C) Use any restricted use pesticide, unless the person is licensed to do so under th...

...(A)(1) Whenever the director of agriculture has cause to believe that any person has violated, or is violating, this chapter or any rule or order adopted or issued under it, the director may conduct a hearing in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to determine whether a violation has occurred. Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(3) of this section, the director shall assess a civil penalty ...

...(A) The penalties provided for violations of this chapter do not apply to any of the following: (1) Any carrier while lawfully engaged in transporting a pesticide or device within this state, if that carrier, upon request, permits the director of agriculture to copy all records showing the transactions in the movement of the pesticides or devices; (2) Public officials of this state and the federal government, oth...

...As used in sections 923.41 to 923.55 of the Revised Code: (A) "Animal" means any animate being, other than a human. (B) "Commercial feed" or "feed" means all materials, except unmixed whole seeds or physically altered entire unmixed seeds, that are not adulterated and that are distributed for use as feed or for mixing in feed for animals. "Commercial feed" or "feed" does not include drugs that are not incorporate...

...(A) For the purpose of enforcing sections 923.41 to 923.55 of the Revised Code and any rules adopted under those sections, the director of agriculture, or his agent, to the extent he considers necessary, upon presenting credentials and a written inspection notice to the person in charge, may enter, during regular business hours, any factory, warehouse, or establishment where commercial feeds are manufactured, process...

...A commercial feed is misbranded if any of the following occur: (A) The labeling is false or misleading in any particular; (B) It is distributed under the product or brand name of another commercial feed; (C) It does not meet the label requirements of section 923.43 of the Revised Code or any rule adopted under that section; (D) It purports to be or is represented as a commercial feed or it purports to contain or ...

...No person shall commit any of the following acts or cause to be committed any of the following acts: (A) Adulterate commercial feed or distribute adulterated commercial feed; (B) Adulterate pet food or distribute adulterated pet food; (C) Misbrand commercial feed or distribute misbranded commercial feed; (D) Adulterate any agricultural commodity such as whole seed, hay, straw, stover, silage, cobs, husks, or ...

...As used in sections 924.01 to 924.16 and 924.40 to 924.55 of the Revised Code: (A) "Agricultural commodity" means any food, fiber, feed, animal, or plant, or group of foods, fibers, feeds, animals, or plants that the director of agriculture determines to be of the same nature, in either a natural or a processed state. "Agricultural commodity" does not include any of the following: (1) Grain, as defined in sectio...

...(A) When the producers of an agricultural commodity who vote in a referendum favor a proposed marketing program, the director of agriculture shall order the program established and, if the marketing program does not provide for the election of an operating committee, appoint an operating committee consisting of producers of the commodity to administer the program. Each operating committee shall consist of not less th...

...(A) For the purposes of sections 924.20 to 924.30 of the Revised Code, the director of agriculture shall hold an election to determine the membership of a grain marketing program operating committee in accordance with rules. The election shall be for nine members of the operating committee. (B) Not later than one hundred twenty days after the effective date of this section, the director shall accept the names of p...

...(A) The grain marketing program operating committee shall hold at least one meeting per quarter each year. The members of the operating committee annually shall select officers, including a chairperson and a vice-chairperson. (B) A majority of the members of the operating committee constitutes a quorum. A majority of concurring votes is required to pass a motion or approve any operating committee action. (C) ...

...(A) Producers of an agricultural commodity in this state may present to the director of agriculture a petition signed by at least two hundred or twenty-five per cent of all the producers of that agricultural commodity in this state, whichever is less, requesting the director to approve a marketing agreement for that agricultural commodity. (B) A petition submitted under division (A) of this section shall incl...

...A marketing agreement submitted by a provisional board of directors under section 924.43 of the Revised Code at a minimum shall contain terms that establish all of the following: (A) The identification of the agricultural commodity or of the region of the state concerning the agricultural commodity that is the subject of the marketing agreement; (B) Standards, if any, of production for the agricultural commo...

...(A) There is hereby created the Ohio grape industries committee consisting of ten members. The members shall be the director of agriculture or the director's designee, who shall chair the committee, the superintendent of liquor control or the superintendent's designee, the viticulture extension specialist of the Ohio agricultural research and development center, who shall be a nonvoting member, and seven members who ...

...(A) Every person who packs or repacks fresh fruits or vegetables, consigns, delivers, receives, distributes, has in his possession for sale, sells, or offers the same for sale, either privately or in the open market, shall cause such containers to be marked in a plain and legible manner as follows: (1) With his full name and address; (2) With the contents, by net weight at the time of sale, numerical count, or dry ...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Agricultural commodity" means corn, soybeans, wheat, or any other agricultural crop that the director of agriculture may designate by rule. "Agricultural commodity" does not mean any grain that is purchased for sale as seed. (B) "Agricultural commodity handling" or "handling" means any of the following: (1) Engaging in or participating in the business of purchasing from producers ...

...The director of agriculture shall administer this chapter and may, in addition to any other powers conferred by it: (A) Inspect, or cause to be inspected, any warehouse, or premises suspected of being a warehouse, at any reasonable time; (B) Require the filing of reports describing any warehouse or the operation thereof; (C) Determine whether warehouses are suitable for the storing, shipping, and conditioning of a...

...(A) Each person desiring to obtain or renew a handler's license shall file an application annually with the director of agriculture at such times, on such forms, and containing such information as the director prescribes, including, if applicable, the appointment of a statutory agent under section 926.051 of the Revised Code. (B) Each application for a license or license renewal shall be accompanied by an applicati...

...The director of agriculture, by order, may refuse to grant or may suspend or conditionally suspend a handler's license, without prior hearing, when the director determines that there is reasonable cause to believe that the applicant or licensee: (A) Has failed to maintain the insurance coverage required under section 926.07 of the Revised Code; (B) Has failed to maintain accurate and complete records and acc...

...(A) Each licensed handler shall keep in a place of safety complete and correct records and accounts of: (1) Agricultural commodities received in the handler's warehouse and withdrawn therefrom; (2) Unissued receipts and tickets in the handler's possession; (3) Receipts and tickets issued by the handler; (4) Receipts and tickets returned to and canceled by the handler; (5) Agricultural commodities handled by the ...