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...No person shall do any of the following: (A) Detach, alter, deface, conceal, or destroy any label required by sections 907.01 to 907.17 of the Revised Code or the rules adopted under them, or alter or substitute seed in a manner that may defeat the purposes of those sections; (B) Disseminate, with the intention of inducing a sale, any false or misleading claim or advertisement concerning the vigor, vitality, growth...

...(A) Sections 907.03, 907.07, and 907.08 of the Revised Code do not apply to: (1) Agricultural, vegetable, or flower seed not intended for sowing purposes; (2) Unprocessed agricultural, vegetable, or flower seed in storage or being transported to or consigned to a seed processing establishment, provided that the label accompanying a shipment of the seed shall bear the statement "seed for processing" and provided f...

...The director of agriculture or the director's authorized agent may: (A) Enter any public or private place of business during regular business hours in order to gain access to any seed or records subject to sections 907.01 to 907.17 of the Revised Code or the rules and regulations adopted thereunder; (B) In conformity with sections 907.01 to 907.17 of the Revised Code and the rules and regulations adopted thereund...

...If the director of agriculture or any of his inspectors or agents, is of the opinion that a place named in section 913.41 of the Revised Code is being operated in violation of such section he shall notify the proprietor, owner, or manager thereof, in writing, to place it in a clean and sanitary condition within a reasonable time to be stated in such notice, which time shall not be less than ten days. The director or...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Locker" means the individual section or compartment, provided with a lock, of a capacity not to exceed twenty-five cubic feet, in the locker room of an establishment, which is rented by a person, firm, or corporation for the purpose of storing frozen food for its use. (2) "Locker room" means any room in an establishment in which lockers are located and in which space may be provi...

...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 ...

...No person shall: (A) Operate an establishment without first securing a license from the department of agriculture, unless exempted under section 918.27 of the Revised Code; (B) Deny access to any authorized inspector at any reasonable time for the purposes of enforcing sections 918.21 to 918.31, inclusive, of the Revised Code, upon the presentation of proper identification; (C) Operate a licensed establishment con...

...(A) The director of agriculture may enter into an agreement with the United States department of agriculture authorizing employees of the department of agriculture to provide the federal meat grading and certification service to grade and certify meat, poultry, meat products, and poultry products in the state. The agreement shall comply with sections 125.111 and 126.07 of the Revised Code. (B) If the director enters...

...(A) Any person who is acting in the capacity of a pesticide dealer or who advertises or assumes to act as a pesticide dealer at any time shall obtain a pesticide dealer 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. A license is required for each location or outlet within this stat...

...(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...

...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, is a tr...

...(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) The director of agriculture shall monitor the conduct of the Ohio grape industries committee to ensure that: (1) The committee is operating within the requirements of sections 924.51 to 924.55 of the Revised Code; (2) The committee's program is self-supporting; (3) The committee keeps all records that are required by agencies of the state. (B) The director may, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised C...

...(A) The director of agriculture may issue a handler's license, or renewal thereof, upon the payment of the prescribed application fee, if the director is satisfied that the applicant meets the standards of financial responsibility required under this section and has complied with this chapter and the rules adopted under it. (B)(1) Each applicant for a handler's license, or renewal thereof, shall have and main...

...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...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Soil and water conservation district" means a district organized in accordance with this chapter. (B) "Supervisor" means one of the members of the governing body of a district. (C) "Landowner," "owner," or "owner of land" means an owner of record as shown by the records in the office of the county recorder. With respect to an improvement or a proposed improvement, "landowner," "...

...(A) At the conclusion of the hearing conducted under section 940.30 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners shall vote to approve or dismiss the petition. (B) The board may approve the petition if the board is reasonably certain that: (1) The benefits of the proposed improvement outweigh the costs. (2) The proposed improvement is necessary. (3) The proposed improvement will be conducive to the ...

...(A) If a proposed improvement would affect more than one county, the board of county commissioners from each of the counties that would be affected by the proposed improvement shall meet on a date fixed by the clerk of the board of county commissioners of the lead county. The boards shall meet in the lead county to organize a joint board of county commissioners and elect a president, which shall be the first order of...

...(A) If an animal is ordered destroyed by the director of agriculture under this chapter, the director shall take an inventory of each animal that is destroyed and record sufficient information in order for an appraisal to be conducted, if necessary. (B)(1) Within thirty days after receiving a destruction order issued under this chapter, the owner of the animal subject to the order that seeks indemnification for the ...

...(A)(1) The director of agriculture may, except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, refuse to grant or may suspend a small dealer's, dealer's, or broker's license, without prior hearing, after determining from evidence presented to the director that there is reasonable cause to believe any of the following situations exist: (a) Where the applicant or licensee or an employee has violated the laws of the s...

...(A) Dogs that have been seized by the county dog warden and impounded shall be kept, housed, and fed for three days for the purpose of redemption, as provided by section 955.18 of the Revised Code, unless any of the following applies: (1) Immediate humane destruction of the dog is necessary because of obvious disease or injury. If the diseased or injured dog is registered, as determined from the current year's regi...

...The registration fees provided for in sections 955.01 to 955.14 of the Revised Code constitute a special fund known as "the dog and kennel fund." The fees shall be deposited by the county auditor in the county treasury daily as collected. Money in the fund shall be used for the purpose of defraying the cost of furnishing all blanks, records, tags, nets, and other equipment, for the purpose of paying the compensation ...

...(A)(1) At least once annually, the director of agriculture or the director's authorized representative shall inspect a high volume breeder that is subject to licensure under this chapter and rules adopted under section 956.03 of the Revised Code to ensure compliance with this chapter and rules adopted under it, including the standards of care established in rules adopted under that section. (2) The director or the d...

...The director of agriculture, the director's authorized representative, or the attorney general may require the attendance of witnesses and the production of books, records, papers, and dogs that are needed either by the director or the attorney general or by any party to a hearing before the director and for that purpose may issue a subpoena for any witness or a subpoena duces tecum to compel the production of ...

...(A) After a declaration has been filed pursuant to section 961.02 of the Revised Code, the land described in the declaration shall be used for pet cemetery purposes only unless the restriction for such use is removed by order of the court of common pleas in the county where the land is located in a proceeding brought by the pet cemetery owner or the owner's heirs or assigns. (B) The court of common pleas may ...

...When a company no longer requires the services of a policeman appointed as provided in section 4973.17 of the Revised code, it may file in the office of the secretary of state a notice to that effect signed by its authorized officer, which notice shall be noted by the secretary of state upon the margin of the record where the commission is recorded, and thereupon the power of such policeman shall cease. No charge sh...

...All official seals shall have engraved thereon the coat of arms of the state, as described in section 5.04 of the Revised Code. The great seal of the state shall be two and one-half inches in diameter and shall consist of the coat of arms of the state within a circle having a diameter of one and three-fourths inches, surrounded by the words "THE GREAT SEAL OF THE STATE OF OHIO" in news gothic capitals. The great se...

...Before action is taken on an application for partition, alteration, change, or laying off of the boundaries of a township by the board of county commissioners, at least thirty days' notice of the time for the hearing on such application or petition shall be given by advertisement, at three public places within the bounds of the territory proposed to be partitioned, altered, changed, or laid off. The board shall cause...

...If a person elected or appointed to a township office takes the oath of office required by section 503.25 of the Revised Code before an officer other than the township fiscal officer, the officer before whom it is taken shall immediately deposit with the fiscal officer a certificate of the oath. The fiscal officer shall make a record of all official oaths.

...All township officers shall deliver to their successors in office all books, records, documents, laws, obligations, papers, blanks, and all other articles and property belonging to their respective offices or deposited with them in their official capacity. Any person who has been a township officer and refuses to deliver over such property, or any part thereof, shall forfeit not less than five nor more than fifty dol...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Tourism development district" means a district designated by a township under this section. (2) "Territory of a tourism development district" means all of the area included within the territorial boundaries of a tourism development district. (3) "Business" means a sole proprietorship, a corporation for profit, a pass-through entity as defined in section 5733.04 of the Revised C...

...(A) The vote on the question of passage of a resolution provided for in section 504.10 of the Revised Code or a motion related to that resolution shall be taken by yeas and nays and entered on the journal, and the resolution or motion shall not be passed without concurrence of a majority of all members of the board of township trustees, except that each emergency resolution under that section shall require the affirm...

...Immediately after the expiration of the period of publication of summaries of resolutions required by section 504.122 of the Revised Code, the fiscal officer of the township shall enter on the record of resolutions, in a blank to be left for such purpose under the recorded resolution, a certificate stating in which manner and on what dates such publication was made, and shall sign the fiscal officer's name thereto of...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Immediate family" means a spouse, who resides in the same household, and children. (2) "Nonproductive land" means nonproductive land as defined in section 5722.01 of the Revised Code that has been acquired by a township pursuant to Chapter 5722. of the Revised Code. (3) "Building nuisance" means a building satisfying all of the following: (a) The building is situated on a lot or ...

...A board of township trustees may acquire suitable lands and materials, including landscape planting and other site improvement materials and playground, athletic, and recreational equipment and apparatus, to establish a township park pursuant to section 505.26 of the Revised Code and for those purposes may issue, subject to Chapter 133. of the Revised Code, securities and other public obligations as defined in divisi...

...As used in this section and in sections 5101.27 to 5101.30 of the Revised Code: (A) "Community control sanction" has the same meaning as in section 2929.01 of the Revised Code. (B) "County agency" means a county department of job and family services or a public children services agency. (C) "Fugitive felon" means an individual who is fleeing to avoid prosecution, or custody or confinement after conviction, u...

...(A) As used in this section, "physician" means a person who holds a valid license to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery issued under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code. (B) Unless required by the United States Constitution or by federal statute, regulation, or decisions of federal courts, state or local funds may not be used for payment or reimbursement for abortion services unless th...

...(A) As used in this section and section 5103.131 of the Revised Code: (1)(a) "Children's crisis care facility" means a facility that has as its primary purpose the provision of residential and other care to either or both of the following: (i) One or more preteens voluntarily placed in the facility by the preteen's parent or other caretaker who is facing a crisis that causes the parent or other caretaker to see...

... fees; (R) Procedures for receiving, recording, and responding to complaints about centers; (S) Procedures for enforcing section 5104.04 of the Revised Code; (T) Minimum qualifications for employment as an administrator or child care staff member, which shall not include requiring an administrator or child care staff member to hold or obtain a bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree; (U) Requirements for...

... fees; (R) Procedures for receiving, recording, and responding to complaints about type A homes; (S) Procedures for enforcing section 5104.04 of the Revised Code; (T) A standard requiring the inclusion of a current department of children and youth toll-free telephone number on each type A home license that any person may use to report a suspected violation by the type A home of this chapter or rules adopted ...

...ation; (Q) Procedures for receiving, recording, and responding to complaints; (R) Standards providing for the needs of children who have disabilities or who receive treatment for health conditions while the child is receiving child care or publicly funded child care in the type B home; (S) Requirements for the amount of usable indoor floor space for each child; (T) Requirements for safe outdoor play space...

...ation; (J) Procedures for receiving, recording, and responding to complaints; (K) Qualifications and training requirements for in-home aides; (L) Standards providing for the needs of children who have disabilities or who receive treatment for health conditions while the child is receiving publicly funded child care in the child's own home; (M) Any other procedures and standards necessary to carry out the ...

...The county department of job and family services shall require the parent of each participating student, or, if the student is eighteen or nineteen years of age, the student to consent to release of the student's school attendance records. If the parent or participating student refuses to consent, the county department shall reduce the assistance group's cash assistance payment for the month immediately following the...

...(A) When the vote under section 511.22 of the Revised Code is in favor of establishing one or more public parks, the board of park commissioners shall constitute a board, to be called the board of park commissioners of that township park district, and they shall be a body politic and corporate. Their office is not a township office within the meaning of section 703.22 of the Revised Code but is an office of the towns...

...(A) The director of mental health and addiction services is the chief executive and appointing authority of the department of mental health and addiction services. The director may organize the department for its efficient operation, including creating divisions or offices as necessary. The director may establish procedures for the governance of the department, conduct of its employees and officers, performance of it...

...(A) The department of mental health and addiction services, in accordance with division (B) of this section, shall give priority to developing, and promptly shall develop, with available public and private resources a program that does all of the following: (1) Provides a manner of identifying the aggregate number of pregnant women in this state who are addicted to a drug of abuse; (2) Provides for an effective mea...

...(A) No appointing officer shall appoint a person to fill a position in either the classified or unclassified service of the department of mental health and addiction services if the person has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a violation of the following: (1) Any felony contained in the Revised Code, if the felony bears a direct and substantial relationship to the position being filled; (2) Any crime c...

...(A)(1)(a) Except as provided in division (A)(1)(b) of this section, no person or government entity shall operate an opioid treatment program requiring certification, as certification is defined in 42 C.F.R. 8.2, unless the person or government entity is a community addiction services provider and the program is licensed under this section. (b) Division (A)(1)(a) of this section does not apply to a program operated...

...(A) The director of mental health and addiction services may enter into agreements with any person, political subdivision, or state agency for the sale or lease of land or facilities under the jurisdiction of the director of mental health and addiction services in the following manner: (1) The director of mental health and addiction services shall designate lands and facilities that are not needed by the department...

...The "interstate compact on mental health" is hereby ratified, enacted into law, and entered into by the state of Ohio as a party thereto with any other state which has legally joined in the compact as follows: INTERSTATE COMPACT ON MENTAL HEALTH The contracting states solemnly agree that: Article I The party states find that the proper and expeditious treatment of the mentally ill and intellectually disabled ...