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...(A) The director of agriculture shall issue a corrective action plan to any person that the director determines has negligently violated section 928.04 of the Revised Code. The director shall include in the corrective action plan both of the following: (1) A reasonable date by which the person shall correct the violation; (2) A requirement that the person report to the director regarding the person's compliance ...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the hemp program fund. The fund shall consist of all fees collected under rules adopted under section 928.03 of the Revised Code; money appropriated to the fund; and any other money received from gifts or federal grants. All investment earnings of the fund shall be credited to the fund. The director of agriculture shall use money in the fund to administer and enforce thi...

...(A) The director of agriculture may enter at reasonable times upon any public or private property at which hemp is being cultivated or processed for the purpose of determining compliance with this chapter and rules adopted under it. The director may apply for and any judge of an appropriate court of record may issue a search warrant, necessary to achieve the purposes of this chapter within the court's territorial jur...

...The department of agriculture, in consultation and in cooperation with the Ohio investigative unit in the department of public safety, shall enforce this chapter.

...(A) Whoever recklessly violates section 928.04 of the Revised Code is guilty of the following: (1) For a first offense, a minor misdemeanor ; (2) For each subsequent offense, a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. The court shall order an offender who is convicted of or pleads guilty to a third or subsequent offense ineligible to receive a hemp cultivation license or hemp processing license under this chapter. The...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Agricultural production" means commercial aquaculture, algaculture meaning the farming of algae, apiculture, animal husbandry, or poultry husbandry; the production for a commercial purpose of timber, field crops, tobacco, fruits, vegetables, nursery stock, ornamental shrubs, ornamental trees, flowers, or sod; the growth of timber for a noncommercial purpose if the land on which the tim...

...(A)(1) Any person who owns agricultural land may file an application with the county auditor to place the land in an agricultural district for five years if, during the three calendar years prior to the year in which that person files the application, the land has been devoted exclusively to agricultural production or devoted to and qualified for payments or other compensation under a land retirement or conservation ...

...(A)(1) No public entity with authority to levy special assessments on real property shall collect an assessment for purposes of sewer, water, or electrical service on real property that is within an agricultural district as described in division (A)(2) of this section without the permission of the owner, except that any assessment may be collected on a lot surrounding a dwelling or other structure not used in a...

...(A) As used in this section, "agricultural activities" means common agricultural practices, including all of the following: (1) The cultivation of crops or changing crop rotation; (2) Raising of livestock or changing the species of livestock raised; (3) Entering into and operating under a livestock contract; (4) The storage and application of commercial fertilizer; (5) The storage and application of manure;...

...(A) No public or private agency, as defined in section 163.01 of the Revised Code, shall appropriate more than ten acres or ten per cent of an individual property under one ownership and currently used in agricultural production in an agricultural district, whichever is greater, except as provided in this section. No state agency, municipal corporation, county, township, or other political subdivision or taxing autho...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Agriculture" has the same meaning as in section 1.61 of the Revised Code. (B) "Best management practices" means the engagement of agricultural production and management, including practices such as manure handling, tillage, forestry management, and similar practices, in a manner that is generally accepted in the agriculture industry and that is approved by any of the following: (1) Th...

...ies of water, roads, rights-of-way, and railroads together with any existing residential, recreational, commercial, or industrial facilities that are situated on the land to be included in the area and within five hundred feet of the perimeter of the area. The map also shall show the location of all utility, water, and sewer lines that are situated on the land to be included in the area and within five hundred feet o...

...quent ten years to existing or proposed roads that are located or are to be located within the area that is proposed for enrollment in an agricultural security area. As used in division (A)(1) of this section, "proposed road" means any future roadway project that is on a new alignment or relocation of an existing alignment and for which state or federal funding has been allocated for, but not limited to, a planning l...

...(A) An owner of land that is enrolled in an agricultural security area may do either or both of the following: (1) Request approval from each board of township trustees and each board of county commissioners that adopted a resolution approving the establishment of the agricultural security area to operate any business that does not impair the owner's ability to engage in agriculture and does not cause the l...

...Upon request, the director of agriculture or the director's authorized representative shall provide guidance and technical assistance to owners of land who are seeking enrollment in agricultural security areas and to boards of township trustees and boards of county commissioners who receive applications requesting the establishment of agricultural security areas.

...Not later than one hundred eighty days prior to the expiration of an agricultural security area, an owner of land that is enrolled in the area may renew the enrollment. The procedures established under this chapter for the initial enrollment of land in an agricultural security area apply to the renewal of enrollment. In addition, all of the requirements governing initial enrollment apply to enrollment renewal.

...(A)(1) An owner of land that is enrolled in an agricultural security area may withdraw from the area by sending written notice of withdrawal, by certified mail, to all of the following: (a) The county auditor of each county in which the land is located; (b) The board of township trustees of each township in which the land is located; (c) The board of county commissioners of each county in which the land is located...

...No owner of land that is enrolled in an agricultural security area shall fail to comply with the statement that the owner submitted under division (A)(3) of section 931.02 of the Revised Code that the owner will not initiate, approve, or finance any new development on the land for nonagricultural purposes.

...The director of agriculture shall prepare and submit to the governor, the president of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives an annual report concerning agricultural security areas in the state. The report shall include information concerning the number of acres that are enrolled in agricultural security areas and their location and any tax exemptions granted under section 5709.28 of the Revised...

...Whoever violates division (A)(2) of section 931.07 of the Revised Code or section 931.08 of the Revised Code shall be fined five hundred dollars for violation of each section. The clerk of the court that receives payment of the fine money shall forward half of the money to the board of township trustees of the township and half of the money to the board of county commissioners of the county in which the applica...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Board of health" means the board of health of a city or general health district or the authority having the duties of a board of health in any city authorized by section 3709.05 of the Revised Code. (B) "Circus" means a traveling show to which all of the following apply: (1) It is licensed by the United States department of agriculture under the federal animal welfare act. (2) ...

...The director of agriculture may recommend to the general assembly species of animals to be included in the definition of "dangerous wild animal" and species of snakes to be included in the definition of "restricted snake" in section 935.01 of the Revised Code. The director shall not add species of animals to be included in the definition of "dangerous wild animal" and species of snakes to be included in the def...

...(A) No person shall possess a dangerous wild animal on or after January 1, 2014. (B)(1) Except as provided in divisions (G)(1) and (2) of section 935.06 of the Revised Code, no person shall acquire, buy, sell, trade, or transfer possession or ownership of a dangerous wild animal on or after the effective date of this section. (2) Notwithstanding division (B)(1) of this section, a person that operates a rescu...

...(A) Division (A) of section 935.02 of the Revised Code does not apply to any of the following: (1) A person to which all of the following apply: (a) The person possesses a dangerous wild animal. (b) The person has been issued a license by the United States department of agriculture under the federal animal welfare act. (c) The director of agriculture has determined that the person is in the process of becomi...

...(A) A person that possesses a dangerous wild animal on the effective date of this section shall register the animal with the director of agriculture in accordance with this section not later than sixty days after the effective date of this section. (B) A person shall register a dangerous wild animal on a form prescribed and provided by the director. The form shall include all of the following: (1) The name, ...

...Trumbull county and being a part of the road known as Niles Vienna road, shall be known as the "Vienna Township Veterans Bridge." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers upon the bridge or its approaches indicating its name.

...route number seven between archers fork road and Grandview hill road, in Washington county, shall be known as the "Specialist Five Frederick Wayne Taylor Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.

...The bridge spanning Walnut creek, located in the municipal corporation of Cortland in Trumbull county and being a part of the highway known as state route number five, shall be known as the "Cortland Veterans Memorial Bridge." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers upon the bridge or its approaches indicating its name.

...ght between the intersections of Dallas road and Hickory Grove road, in Champaign county, shall be known as the "Army Corporal Charles E. Hiltibran Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.

... Code or otherwise, that portion of the road known as interstate route seventy-seven commencing at the intersection of that route and Brecksville road and extending in a northerly and southerly direction to the intersection of that route and interstate route two hundred seventy-one, in Summit county only, shall be known as the "Marine Gunnery Sgt. Robert L. Gilbert II Memorial Highway." The director of transportati...

...In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, the eastbound and westbound lanes of state route number one hundred seventy-two between seventeenth street NW and thirty-second street NW, in Stark county, shall be known as the "Sgt. Cory M. Endlich Corridor." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.

...In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, the northeastbound and southwestbound lanes of interstate route number ninety between east fifty-fifth street and east seventy-second street, in Cuyahoga county, shall be known as the "Lance Corporal Jimmy Rizzo Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.

...ne hundred sixty-three between Fostoria road and Hartshorn road, in Ottawa county, shall be known as the "Ottawa County Veterans Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.

... route number forty-four between Prouty road and Mentor avenue, in Lake county, shall be known as the "Lance Corporal Austin B. Schwenk Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.

...te route number thirty-one and township road number one hundred ninety-seven, in Hardin county, shall be known as the "Major David McGue Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.

...t between the intersections of township road number two hundred nineteen east and county road number thirty-seven, in Logan county, shall be known as the "Army PFC Herbert S. Bechtel Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.

...e between the intersections of township road number forty-three and state route number forty-seven, in Logan county, shall be known as the "Patrolman Frank J. Hossler Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.

...The bridge spanning Schenck creek that is part of state route number thirty-six and that is located in Monroe township in Knox county shall be known as the "Corporal Nathan R. Anderson Memorial Bridge." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers upon the bridge or its approaches indicating its name.

...In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, the eastbound and westbound lanes of state route number one hundred sixty-one in Licking county shall be known as the "Licking County Veterans Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.

...In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, that portion of interstate route seventy-seven commencing at mile marker thirty-three and proceeding in a southerly direction to mile marker thirty-two, within Noble county, shall be known as the "U.S.S. Shenandoah Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.

... Castleberry court and the Happy Hallow road overpass, in Clermont county, shall be known as the "CPT Louis John Speidel Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.

...In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, that portion of state route number seven hundred eighty-one commencing at mile marker two and proceeding in an easterly direction to mile marker four, within Adams county, shall be known as the "CPL Willard Boston Wallace Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.

...In addition to any other name prescribed in the Revised Code or otherwise, the northeastbound and southwestbound lanes of state route number two between the western border of Lake county and the eastern border of the municipal corporation of Willoughby, in Lake county, shall be known as the "Specialist Lloyd Andrew Sellers Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highwa...

... intersection of that route and Grafton road and the intersection of that route and state route number five hundred eleven near the municipal corporation of Oberlin, in Lorain county, shall be known as the "U.S. Army Specialist Jason N. Cox Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.

...The eastbound and westbound lanes of state route number two hundred sixty-one between the intersection of that route and state route number ninety-four and the intersection of state route number two hundred sixty-one and state route number twenty-one, in Medina and Summit counties, shall be known as the "Sergeant James F. Allen III Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along t...

...umber one hundred twenty-three and Hart road within the municipal corporation of Lebanon; (B) Within the municipal corporation of Lebanon, the portion of state route number one hundred twenty-three known as the state route number one hundred twenty-three bypass, commencing at the intersection of the bypass and Hart road and proceeding in a southerly direction to the intersection of the bypass and state route number...

...The bridge connecting the southbound lanes of interstate route number seventy-five and the westbound lanes of interstate route number seventy-four in Hamilton county shall be known as the "Peter and Sarah Fossett Memorial Bridge." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers upon the bridge or its approaches indicating its name.

...er two hundred seventy between Hamilton road and Morse road, in Franklin county, shall be known as the "Murray Ebner, Holocaust Survivor and Korean War Veteran, Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.

...mber one hundred sixty and Roush Hollow road, in Gallia county, shall be known as the "Pharmacist's Mate Third Class Willard L. Shupe Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.

...e number forty-two between Fields Ertel road and west Chester road, in Butler county, shall be known as the "LCpl. Timothy Michael Bell, Jr. Memorial Highway." The director of transportation may erect suitable markers along the highway indicating its name.