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...(A) Whoever violates sections 941.03, 941.05, 941.06, 941.08, 941.14, 941.24, 941.25, 941.54, 941.56, or division (C) of section 941.07, division (B) of section 941.09, division (C) of section 941.10, division (B) of section 941.11, or division (A) of section 941.55 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. For each subsequent violation, such person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third d...

...As used in sections 942.01 to 942.05 of the Revised Code: (A) "Garbage" means all waste material derived in whole or in part from the meat of any animal, including fish and poultry, or other animal material, and other refuse of any character that has been associated with such waste material resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, or consumption of food. (B) "Person" means any individual, corporation, ...

...(A) No person shall feed on the person's premises, or permit the feeding of, garbage or treated garbage to swine. (B) No person shall bring into this state a swine that has been fed garbage or treated garbage.

...(A) Upon receipt of a complaint or on the director of agriculture's own initiative, the director may investigate violations of section 942.02 of the Revised Code and make inquiries into any alleged violations as are necessary to secure compliance with this chapter and orders issued under it. (B) With the consent of the owner of a premises, lessee of a premises, or the owner, keeper, or harborer of a swine that is k...

...(A) The director of agriculture may assess a civil penalty against a person that violates section 942.02 of the Revised Code. The director may assess a civil penalty only if the director affords the person an opportunity for an adjudication hearing under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. The person may waive the right to an adjudication hearing. (B) If the opportunity for an adjudication hearing is waived or if, af...

...This chapter does not apply to either of the following: (A) An individual who feeds garbage from the individual's household to the individual's own animals or an individual who only feeds bakery waste, candy waste, eggs, vegetables, or dairy products to swine; (B) Rendered products. As used in this division, "rendered product" means raw rendering material that has been ground and heated to a minimum temperature ...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Animals" or "livestock" means horses, mules, and other equidae, cattle, sheep, and goats and other bovidae, swine and other suidae, poultry, alpacas, llamas, and monitored captive deer, captive deer with status, or captive deer with certified chronic wasting disease status. (B) "Dealer" or "broker" means any person found by the department of agriculture buying, receiving, selling...

...r, dealer, or broker who terminates the services of an employee shall notify the department in writing of the employee's termination. No person who is a licensed small dealer, dealer, or broker shall have livestock exempted pursuant to divisions (B)(1) to (6) of section 943.01 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) No person who has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a violation of this chapter or rules adopted under it sh...

...(A)(1) Application for a license as a dealer or broker shall be made in writing to the department of agriculture. The application shall state the nature of the business, the municipal corporation, township, and county, and the post-office address of the location where the business is to be conducted, the name of any employee authorized to act in the dealer's or broker's behalf, and such additional information as the ...

...(A) Application for a license as a small dealer shall be made in writing to the department of agriculture. The application shall state the nature of the business, the municipal corporation or township, county, and post-office address of the location where the business is to be conducted, the name of any employee who is authorized to act in the small dealer's behalf, and any additional information that the department ...

...(A) Fees for the initial issuance of any license issued pursuant to sections 943.02, 943.03, and 943.031 of the Revised Code, shall be paid to the department of agriculture. (B) All annual renewal fees for the licenses shall be paid by the applicant for the renewal of a license on or before the thirty-first day of March of each year to the treasurer of state. Except for license fees for small dealers, the fees...

...(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...

...Every small dealer, dealer, and broker licensed under section 943.03 or 943.031 of the Revised Code, as applicable, and carrying on or conducting business under that license, shall post in a conspicuous place in or at the place of business of the licensee a copy of the license furnished by the department of agriculture, to be kept so posted and exposed for inspection by any person.

...Each small dealer, dealer, or broker leasing, renting, operating, or owning livestock yards, pens, premises, or vehicles in which animals are quartered, fed, held, or transported, shall have a veterinary inspector approved by the department of agriculture, inspect, when directed, all such yards, premises, and vehicles and shall thoroughly and completely disinfect all such yards, pens, premises, and vehicles und...

...(A) Each person maintaining and operating any weighing facilities used for, in connection with, or incident to the purchase or sale of livestock at any auction market, concentration yard, stockyard, packing plant, or place for assembling livestock in the state, shall do both of the following: (1) Maintain and operate all the weighing facilities so as to ensure accurate weights; (2) Be licensed as a weigher, or empl...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, licenses shall be issued by the department of agriculture to weighers under such rules and regulations as the department shall prescribe. Each weigher shall display the weigher's license in a conspicuous place on or adjacent to the weighing facility operated by such weigher. A weigher's license may be revoked for a violation of section 943.11 of the Revised Code...

... may utilize the inspection facilities, services, and personnel performing similar functions under the "Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921," 42 Stat. 159, 7 U.S.C.A. 181 as amended, to whatever extent they may be available or desirable in carrying out this section. The operator of such weighing facilities shall bear all costs incident to the testing and sealing of such facilities.

...No weigher shall improperly weigh any livestock, or give any false certificate of weight, or accept directly or indirectly money or other consideration for any neglect or improper performance of duty, and no person shall wrongfully influence or interfere, or attempt to so influence or interfere, with any such weigher in the performance of his duty or attempt to do so.

...Any authorized representative of the department of agriculture may enter any stockyard livestock market, auction market, concentration yards, packing plant, conveyance, or place for assembling livestock for the purpose of inspecting the facilities, livestock, records, or scales, and may weigh or reweigh any livestock.

...d by the department. The fees for that service shall be paid by the small dealer, dealer, or broker. This section shall not apply to a person operating a slaughtering establishment at which antemortem veterinary inspection is regularly maintained. The director of agriculture, without a prior hearing, may revoke the approval of a veterinary inspector. A person to whom an order of revocation is issued shall ...

...(A) The department of agriculture or any of its authorized agents may inspect the records of any licensee or employee at any time to determine the origin and destination of any livestock handled by the licensee and to determine if sections 943.01 to 943.18 of the Revised Code, or the rules adopted thereunder, have been violated. (B) A small dealer, dealer, or broker, employee, or person described in division (B)(4) ...

...(A) The department of agriculture may adopt and enforce rules for the purpose of carrying into effect sections 943.01 to 943.17 of the Revised Code. (B) No person shall fail to comply with any rule adopted under division (A) of this section.

...All fines imposed and collected under section 943.99 of the Revised Code shall be credited to the animal and consumer protection laboratory fund created in section 901.43 of the Revised Code.

...Municipal courts, county courts, and courts of common pleas have jurisdiction in cases arising under sections 943.01 to 943.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...In addition to the remedies provided and irrespective of whether or not there exists an adequate remedy at law, the director of agriculture may apply to the court of common pleas for a temporary or permanent injunction or other appropriate relief against continued violation of the provisions of sections 943.01 to 943.17 of the Revised Code.