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...The director of agriculture may institute an action at law or in equity that appears necessary to enforce compliance with sections 924.20 to 924.30 of the Revised Code, rules, or the grain marketing program that is established in compliance with those sections and rules.

...(A) No person shall knowingly fail or refuse to withhold or remit an assessment levied under section 924.26 of the Revised Code. (B) Before instituting an enforcement action for a violation of this section, the director of agriculture shall give the alleged violator an opportunity to present the alleged violator's views to the director as to why the action should not be instituted.

...(A) For purposes of sections 924.40 to 924.46 of the Revised Code, the director of agriculture shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that establish procedures and requirements that are necessary to administer and implement a marketing agreement executed under those sections for an agricultural commodity or a region of the state concerning an agricultural commodity that is the sub...

...A marketing agreement that is executed in compliance with and pursuant to sections 924.40 to 924.45 of the Revised Code for the purpose of the voluntary participation of persons who are signatories to the agreement may provide for the establishment and regulation of one or more of the following: (A) Standards of production for an agricultural commodity, including growing and handling practices, provided that t...

...(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) After receipt of a petition submitted under division (A) of section 924.42 of the Revised Code, the director of agriculture shall notify all producers included in the list provided to the director under division (C)(1) of that section. The notification shall contain a description of the purpose of the proposed marketing agreement and provide the date, time, and location of a public meeting that will be cond...

...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)(1) After a marketing agreement takes effect, a board of directors that will administer the marketing agreement shall be established in accordance with the terms of the marketing agreement. Except for the director of agriculture or the director's designee who shall serve as an ex officio member of the board of directors, members of the board shall be selected only from individuals who are producers that signed the...

...(A) There is hereby created the Ohio grape industries committee consisting of nine 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 chief of the division of markets of the department of agriculture, the viticulture extension specialist of the Ohio agricultural research a...

...(A) The Ohio grape industries committee may: (1) Conduct, and contract with others to conduct, research, including the study, analysis, dissemination, and accumulation of information obtained from the research or elsewhere, concerning the marketing and distribution of grapes and grape products, the storage, refrigeration, processing, and transportation of them, and the production and product development of gra...

...The director of agriculture shall hire all employees of the Ohio grape industries committee. The director shall select the employees from the list of recommended applicants submitted by the committee under section 924.52 of the Revised Code. Employees of the committee shall be paid with moneys from the Ohio grape industries fund.

...(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) All moneys collected by the treasurer of state under sections 4301.43 and 4301.432 of the Revised Code shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the Ohio grape industries fund, which is hereby created. Moneys in the fund shall be disbursed to carry out the purposes of sections 924.51 to 924.55 of the Revised Code pursuant to vouchers approved by the director of agriculture. (B) The Ohio grape ind...

...The department of agriculture shall be reimbursed for actual administrative and overhead costs incurred in the administration of sections 924.51 to 924.55 of the Revised Code in an amount not to exceed ten per cent per year of the amount received in that year in the Ohio grape industries fund created under section 924.54 of the Revised Code.

...Whoever violates division (A) of section 924.16 or of section 924.30 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.

...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 ...

...The standards, grades, and weight classes for shell eggs adopted by the United States department of agriculture, agricultural marketing service, poultry division, effective July 1, 1958, are hereby adopted as the standards, grades, and weight classes for shell eggs of this state, provided that the term "United States" or "U.S." need not be used in designating the grades or weight classes of shell eggs and the term "c...

...(A) No person shall sell, offer for sale, or expose for sale shell eggs in a container which is not labeled with: (1) The name and address of the packer or distributor; (2) An accurate statement of the quantity of the contents in terms of numerical count; (3) The date the shell eggs were processed; (4) The correct grade and size or weight class of the contents thereof in accordance with the standards adopted by t...

...No person shall sell, offer for sale, or expose for sale shell eggs from a bulk lot which is not plainly marked with a placard having letters no less than one-half inch high designating the correct grade and size or weight class of the bulk lot in accordance with the standards adopted by this state, provided that a bulk lot of shell eggs which has not been graded for quality or which fails to meet the requirements of...

...(A) No person shall advertise shell eggs in any manner or by any means for the purpose of inducing, or which is likely to induce, directly or indirectly, the purchase of shell eggs unless such advertisement includes the correct grade and size or weight class of the shell eggs so advertised in accordance with the standards adopted by this state, provided that such advertisement of shell eggs which have not been graded...

...No person shall sell, offer for sale, or advertise for sale shell eggs as "No. 1," "specials," "fancy," "direct from farm," "quality eggs," "hennery eggs," "fresh eggs," "new laid eggs," or "strictly fresh eggs," or any other name of similar import that do not meet the minimum requirements for United States consumer grade A.

...No person shall advertise, sell, offer for sale, or expose for sale shell eggs as federally graded or under any other terms that imply that they have been graded by an agency of the United States government, unless such shell eggs have been officially graded by an agency of the United States government and cases, cartons, or any other containers properly labeled or sealed under the supervision of the grading service ...

...(A) Each producer and processor shall maintain shell eggs in refrigeration at an ambient temperature that does not exceed forty-five degrees Fahrenheit. (B) Each food processor, distributor, and owner or operator of a food service establishment, retail food store, or other food establishment shall maintain any shell eggs intended for sale or distribution in refrigeration at an ambient temperature that does not excee...

...Each producer and processor shall keep records of the date of processing of the shell eggs distributed, sold, or offered for sale by him. Each producer and processor shall maintain such records for not less than six months after the shell eggs are packaged and shall make the records available to the director of agriculture or his designee upon request.

...The director of agriculture shall enforce sections 925.01 to 925.13 of the Revised Code. Certificates of inspection issued by licensed inspectors of the grading service of the United States government are prima facie evidence in any court of facts contained therein.