Ohio Revised Code Search

...As used in sections 905.31 to 905.503 of the Revised Code: (A) "Brand name" means a name or expression, design, or trademark used in connection with one or several grades of any type of fertilizer. (B) "Bulk fertilizer" means any type of fertilizer in solid, liquid, or gaseous state, or any combination thereof, in a nonpackaged form. (C) "Distribute" means to offer for sale, sell, barter, or otherwise supply fe...

...(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...

...As used in sections 905.51 to 905.65 of the Revised Code: (A) "Liming material" means all materials, the calcium and magnesium content of which is used to neutralize soil acidity, and includes the oxide, hydrate, carbonate, and silicate forms, as defined by rule, or combinations of those forms. "Liming material" includes materials such as the following: (1) Limestone; (2) Hydrated lime; (3) Burnt lime; (4) ...

...The director of agriculture shall do all of the following: (A) Sample, inspect, analyze, and test agricultural, vegetable, and flower seed sold for sowing purposes, at such times and places and to such extent as the director regards necessary to determine whether the seed complies with sections 907.01 to 907.17 of the Revised Code and notify promptly the person who sold the seed of any violation; (B) Adopt rules in...

...As used in sections 907.27 to 907.35, inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) "Person" includes any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, society, or association. (B) "Distribute" means to offer for sale, hold for sale, sell, barter, or otherwise supply legume inoculants or pre-inoculated seed. (C) "Legume inoculant" means a pure or mixed culture of bacteria of the genus rhizobium capable of effec...

...As used in sections 907.41 to 907.47, inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) "Grain" means whole seeds or entire grains or any altered form thereof of wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley, and sorghum or any other large seeded cereal, field peas, field beans, soybeans, or any other large seeded legume. (B) "Treat" means to apply a substance designed to control or repel plant disease organisms, insects, or other pests of suc...

...As used in sections 909.01 to 909.18 of the Revised Code: (A) "Person" includes corporations, companies, societies, associations, partnerships, any individual or combination of individuals, or any institution, park, or other public agency administered by the state or by any district, county, municipal corporation, or other governmental subdivision thereof. When construing or enforcing such sections, the act, omissio...

...As used in sections 911.31 to 911.35, inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) "Flour" includes and shall be limited to the foods commonly known in the milling and baking industries as: (1) White flour, also known as wheat flour or plain flour; (2) Bromated flour; (3) Self-rising flour, also known as self-rising white flour or self-rising wheat flour; (4) Phosphated flour, also known as phosphated white flour or phos...

...As used in sections 913.01 to 913.05 of the Revised Code: (A) "Cannery" means a place or building where fruits, vegetables, or specialty products are packed in hermetically sealed containers and thermally sterilized and the products of which are placed on the market for general consumption as human food, regardless of where the product is sold in commerce. (B) "Low-acid foods" means any foods, other than alcoholic ...

...As used in sections 913.22 to 913.28, inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) "Soft drink" means any nonalcoholic flavored carbonated beverage, soda, soda water, or fruitade, any nonalcoholic flavored still beverage, artificial waters whether carbonated or not, and bottled table waters, seltzer, or club soda. (B) "Soft drink flavors" means any type of soda water flavor, or beverage base, syrup, extract, concentra...

...As used in section 915.01 to 915.12, inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) "Cold storage" means the storage of food, at or below a temperature of forty degrees Fahrenheit, in a cold-storage warehouse. (B) "Cold-storage warehouse" means a place artificially cooled by the employment of refrigerating machinery or ice or other means, in which articles of food are stored for thirty days or more at a temperature of forty...

...As used in sections 915.14 to 915.24 of the Revised Code, unless the context otherwise requires: (A) "Food" means: (1) Articles used for food or drink for humans or animals; (2) Chewing gum; (3) Articles used for components of any such articles. (B) "Establishment" means any business location or building of which any of the following facilities or operations are a part: a frozen food manufacturing facility...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Person" means any individual, government agency, political subdivision, partnership, corporation, association, co-operative association, or other business unit. (B) "Co-operative association" or "agricultural cooperative association" means any agricultural cooperative organized under Chapter 1729. of the Revised Code and qualified to do business in this state if the director of agricul...

...The director of agriculture shall, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, adopt and enforce rules as necessary for the implementation, administration, and enforcement of sections 918.21 to 918.31 of the Revised Code. The rules shall meet or exceed the federal standards for meat inspection established in Title 9 of the Code of Federal Regulations. The rules adopted under this section shall provide for...

...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, ...

...Any horse meat food product is adulterated if it includes any ingredient which is foreign to or in excess of standards prescribed for the product in regulations promulgated by the director of agriculture; any artificial coloring, flavoring, chemicals, or preservatives not approved in regulations promulgated by the director; any meat of other animals; or any substance unfit for human food or dangerous to human health....

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Active ingredient" means any ingredient that will prevent, destroy, kill, repel, control, or mitigate any pest, or that will act as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant. (B) "Adulterated" shall apply to any pesticide if its strength or purity is less than or greater than the professed standard or quality as expressed on its labeling or under which it is sold, if any substance ha...

...(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 period...

...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 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 ...

...reference, may adopt: (1) The official definitions of feed ingredients and official feed terms adopted and published by the association of American feed control officials; (2) Rules promulgated pursuant to the federal act.

...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 section...

...(A) Each operating committee may make assessments upon the marketable agricultural commodity for which the marketing program was established. (B) No operating committee shall levy any assessment: (1) That was not approved by the producers affected by the program; (2) That exceeds two cents per bushel of corn or two per cent of the average market price of any other agricultural commodity during the preceding market...

...As used in sections 924.20 to 924.30 of the Revised Code: (A) "Grain" means wheat, barley, rye, or oats. (B) "Handler" means a person who is in the business of agricultural commodity handling, as defined in section 926.01 of the Revised Code, of grain. (C) "Producer" means a person who is in the business of producing, or causing to be produced, grain for commercial sale. (D) "Rule" means a rule adopted under s...

...As used in sections 925.01 to 925.13 of the Revised Code: (A) "Food processor" means any person, other than an egg breaker, who utilizes broken eggs to produce a food product. (B) "Processor" means any person engaged in the operation of assembling, receiving, grading, or packing shell eggs for commercial sale or distribution. (C) "Producer" means any person engaged in the operation of egg production who maintains ...