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...All registration fees collected under sections 919.01 to 919.18, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be paid to the director of agriculture and deposited by him with the treasurer of state to the credit of the general revenue fund. Fifty per cent of all fines collected for violations of sections 919.01 to 919.18, inclusive, and section 919.20, of the Revised Code, shall be paid to the treasurer of state to the cre...

...No proprietor of a market shall place horse meat or a horse meat food product, which is intended as a pet or animal food, in a refrigerated compartment with food for human consumption.

...On receipt of a notice pursuant to section 3123.43 of the Revised Code, the director of agriculture shall comply with sections 3123.41 to 3123.50 of the Revised Code and any applicable rules adopted under section 3123.63 of the Revised Code with respect to a license issued pursuant to this chapter.

...Whoever violates sections 919.01 to 919.20 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.

...ropagation, or other use, by humans or animals. (D) "Aircraft" means any device used or designed for navigation or flight in the air, except a parachute or other device used primarily as safety equipment. (E) "Animal" means all vertebrate and invertebrate species, including, but not limited to, humans and other mammals, birds, fish, and shellfish. (F) "Authorized diagnostic inspection" means a diagnostic inspect...

...(A) No person shall distribute a pesticide within this state unless the pesticide is registered with the director of agriculture under this chapter. Registrations shall be issued for a period of time established by rule and shall be renewed in accordance with deadlines established by rule. Registration is not required if a pesticide is shipped from one plant or warehouse to another plant or warehouse operated ...

...Provided the state is authorized by the administrator of the United States environmental protection agency to issue experimental use permits, the director of agriculture may: (A) Issue an experimental use permit to any applicant if he determines that such a permit is necessary in order to accumulate information necessary to register a pesticide; (B) Refuse to issue an experimental permit if he determines that the p...

...(A) In submitting data required for product registration under this chapter, the applicant may: (1) Clearly mark any portions thereof which in his opinion are trade secrets or commercial or financial information; (2) Submit such marked material separately from other material required to be submitted under this chapter. (B) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the director of agriculture shall not m...

...(A) If it appears to the director of agriculture that: (1) The pesticide does not warrant the proposed claims for it or if the pesticide and its labeling and other material required to be submitted do not comply with this chapter or rules adopted thereunder, he shall notify the applicant of the manner in which the pesticide, labeling, or other material required to be submitted fails to comply with this chapter so as...

...(A)(1) No individual shall do any of the following without having a commercial applicator license issued by the director of agriculture: (a) Apply pesticides for a pesticide business without direct supervision; (b) Apply pesticides as part of the individual's duties while acting as an employee of the United States government, a state, county, township, or municipal corporation, or a park district, port authorit...

...(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 register each location that is owned by the person and used for the purpose of engaging in th...

...(A) The director of agriculture shall not issue a pesticide business license until the applicant has submitted to the director an effective liability insurance policy or such other evidence of financial responsibility as the director determines necessary. The director shall establish by rule, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the amount and condition of such liability insurance or other evidence o...

...(A)(1) No individual shall apply restricted use pesticides unless the individual is one of the following: (a) Licensed under section 921.06 of the Revised Code; (b) Licensed under division (B) of this section; (c) A trained serviceperson who is acting under the direct supervision of a commercial applicator; (d) An immediate family member or a subordinate employee of a private applicator who is acting under th...

...(A) The director of agriculture shall require each applicant for a license by examination under section 921.06 or 921.11 of the Revised Code to be examined on the applicant's knowledge and competency in each of the following: (1) This chapter and rules adopted under it; (2) The proper use, handling, and application of pesticides and, if the applicant is applying for a license under section 921.06 of the Revised C...

...(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) Each commercial applicator shall keep a record of both of the following: (1) All diagnostic inspections conducted to determine infestations of pests as required by rules adopted under division (C) of section 921.16 of the Revised Code; (2) All pesticide applications made by the applicator and by any trained serviceperson acting under the applicator's direct supervision as required by rules adopted under divi...

...No person shall transport, store, dispose of, display, or distribute any pesticide or pesticide container in such a manner as to have unreasonable adverse effects on the environment. The director of agriculture may adopt and enforce rules in accordance with this section and Chapter 119. of the Revised Code governing the disposal and storage of such pesticide or pesticide containers. Such rules shall be in conformity ...

...in living human beings or other living animals, that is injurious to health or the environment. (I) The director may make reports to the United States environmental protection agency, in the form and containing the information the agency may require. (J) The director shall adopt rules for the application, use, storage, and disposal of pesticides if, in the director's judgment, existing programs of the United S...

...All authority vested in the director of agriculture by virtue of sections 921.01 to 921.29 of the Revised Code may with like force and effect be executed by such employees of the department of agriculture as the director may designate for said purpose.

...(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...

...Every state agency, municipal corporation, and other governmental agency and political subdivision is subject to this chapter and the rules adopted thereunder with respect to the application, handling, and use of pesticides. Each state agency, municipal corporation, and other governmental agency and political subdivision is responsible for the acts of each of its employees in the application, handling, and use of ...

...The director of agriculture may cooperate with, and enter into cooperative agreements with any official agency of the federal government, of this state or its subdivisions, or with any agency of another state and may enter into and receive grants-in-aid from them for the purpose of carrying out sections 921.01 to 921.29 of the Revised Code.

...The pesticide, fertilizer, and lime program fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of money credited to it under this chapter and Chapter 905. of the Revised Code and rules adopted under them and all fines, penalties, costs, and damages, except court costs, that are collected by either the director of agriculture or the attorney general in consequence of any violation of those chap...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the director of agriculture may suspend, prior to a hearing, for not longer than ten days, and after the opportunity for a hearing may deny, suspend, revoke, refuse to renew, or modify any provision of any license, permit, or registration issued pursuant to this chapter if the director finds that the applicant or the holder of a license, permit, or registration ...

...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...