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...No person shall sell, exchange, offer for sale or exchange, or distribute for sale or exchange in this state any agricultural additive unless its container is conspicuously labeled with the following information: (A) The additive's brand name; (B) Its purpose or proposed use; (C) The net weight of the contents of the container; (D) Directions for the additive's use; (E) The results or effects that can be expecte...

...The director of agriculture may adopt, modify, or rescind rules, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, to implement sections 905.01 to 905.11 of the Revised Code.

...The director of agriculture shall: (A) Gather information on the performance of various agricultural additives, including distributors' and manufacturers' claims, the results of investigation or research on additives, and the conditions when they are useful, and make the information available to the public; (B) Provide and distribute, in cooperation with OSU extension, information on the use of agricultural a...

...The director of agriculture or his duly authorized representative may enter any property, public or private, in order to make inspections to determine whether or not there is compliance with sections 905.01 to 905.11 of the Revised Code or if any agricultural additive is useful for agricultural production in this state. If refused entry he may apply for and the court of common pleas may issue an appropriate warrant. ...

...The director of agriculture may issue an order to the owner or custodian of any package or lot of an agricultural additive requiring it to be held at a designated place during the period the director has suspended or revoked the product's registration under section 905.07 of the Revised Code. The agricultural additive shall be held until the director issues a release in writing. A release shall not be issued until t...

...The director of agriculture may apply to the court of common pleas for an injunction against any person who continues to sell, exchange, offer for sale or exchange, or distribute for sale or exchange an agricultural additive for which an order to hold has been issued under section 905.08 of the Revised Code or that is not registered with the department of agriculture under section 905.02 of the Revised Code. Each pac...

...Upon written request by the director of agriculture, the attorney general may join or bring class actions on behalf of persons who are adversely affected by the purchase of agricultural additives or who are injured by violation of sections 905.01 to 905.11 of the Revised Code.

...No person shall falsely represent that an agricultural additive: (A) Can be used in lieu of another product or products, including fertilizers and agricultural liming materials, with the same or similar results; (B) Enhances the effects or benefits of a fertilizer or agricultural liming material; (C) Is useful and effective when used under weather conditions normal for this state or in soils in this state; (D) Is...

...one, water, residual farm products, and animal and vegetable manures unless mixed with fertilizer materials or distributed with a guaranteed analysis. (E) "Grade" means the percentages of total nitrogen, available phosphorus or available phosphate (P2O5), and soluble potassium or soluble potash (K2O) stated in the same terms, order, and percentage as in guaranteed analysis. (F) "Guaranteed analysis" means: (1) ...

...(A) No person shall manufacture or distribute in this state any type of fertilizer until a license to manufacture or distribute has been obtained by the manufacturer or distributor from the department of agriculture upon payment of a five-dollar fee: (1) For each fixed (permanent) location at which fertilizer is manufactured in this state; (2) For each mobile unit used to manufacture fertilizer in this state...

...(A) Beginning September thirtieth of the third year after August 21, 2014, no person shall apply fertilizer for the purposes of agricultural production unless that person has been certified to do so by the director of agriculture under this section and rules or is acting under the instructions and control of a person who is so certified. (B) Except as otherwise provided in this division, a person shall be certifie...

...(A) The director of agriculture shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that do all of the following: (1) Create a fertilizer applicator certification program pursuant to section 905.321 of the Revised Code that does all of the following: (a) Educates an applicant for certification on the time, place, form, amount, handling, and application of fertilizer; (b) Serves as a compone...

...(A)(1) A person who owns or operates agricultural land may do any of the following: (a) Develop a voluntary nutrient management plan; (b) Request any person to develop a voluntary nutrient management plan on behalf of the person who owns or operates the agricultural land; (c) Request the supervisors of the applicable soil and water conservation district organized in accordance with Chapter 940. of the Revised Code...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the director of agriculture, an employee of the department of agriculture, the supervisors of a soil and water conservation district, an employee of a district, and a contractor of the department or a district shall not disclose information, including data from geographic information systems and global positioning systems, used in the development or approval of ...

...In a private civil action for claims involving or resulting from the application of fertilizer, it is an affirmative defense if all of the following apply: (A) The person applying the fertilizer is certified or is applying fertilizer under the instruction and control of a person who is certified under section 905.321 of the Revised Code and rules. (B) Records have been properly maintained for the application ...

...ties that are permitted as concentrated animal feeding facilities under that chapter. (E) As used in this section, "western basin" means land in the state that is located in the following watersheds identified by the specified United States geological survey hydrologic unit code: (1) St. Marys watershed, hydrologic unit code 04100004; (2) Auglaize watershed, hydrologic unit code 04100007; (3) Blanchard watershed,...

...(A) The director of agriculture may assess a civil penalty against a person that violates section 905.326 of the Revised Code. The director may impose a civil penalty only if the director affords the person an opportunity for an adjudication hearing under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to challenge the director's determination that the person violated section 905.326 of the Revised Code. The person may waive the ri...

...(A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, no person shall distribute in this state a specialty fertilizer until it is registered by the manufacturer or distributor with the department of agriculture. An application, in duplicate, for each brand and product name of each grade of specialty fertilizer shall be made on a form furnished by the director of agriculture and shall be accompanied with a fee ...

...No person who engages in the business of blending a custom mixed fertilizer for use on lawns, golf courses, recreation areas, or other real property that is not used for agricultural production shall fail to register a specialty fertilizer in accordance with division (A) of section 905.33 of the Revised Code unless the person has obtained an annual nonagricultural production custom mixed fertilizer blender lice...

...No distributor shall be required to obtain a license under division (A) of section 905.32 of the Revised Code to distribute fertilizer if the fertilizer is registered under division (A) of section 905.33 of the Revised Code.

...(A) No person shall distribute in this state any type of fertilizer in packages unless the packages have placed on or affixed to them in legibly written or printed form the following: (1) Net weight of the contents; (2) Brand and product name; (3) Name and address of the manufacturer or distributor that appears on the license or registration; (4) Grade expressed in whole numbers only for all mixed fertilizers exc...

...(A) A licensee or registrant shall pay the director of agriculture an inspection fee of twenty-five cents per ton for all of the following, as applicable: (1) All fertilizer that the licensee distributes in this state to a person that has not been issued a license under section 905.32 of the Revised Code; (2) All fertilizer that the licensee applies in this state for purposes of agricultural production and al...

...(A) The director of agriculture may distribute annual statements of fertilizer sales by grades of materials and mixed fertilizer by counties, in a manner prescribed by the director. (B) The director may publish annually a report of the analysis of fertilizers inspected. (C) The director may distribute a state fertilizer usage report by grade of materials and mixed fertilizers for each month.

...(A) The director of agriculture shall inspect and sample any fertilizer within the state to such an extent as the director considers necessary and make an analysis where need is indicated to determine whether the fertilizer is in compliance with sections 905.31 to 905.503 of the Revised Code and rules. The director may enter upon any public or private premises or conveyances during regular business hours in ord...

...The director of agriculture shall adopt and enforce uniform rules: (A) Governing the storing and handling of anhydrous ammonia that is used for agricultural purposes; (B) For safety in the design, construction, location, installation, or operation of anhydrous ammonia systems for agricultural use. In addition, with regard to an anhydrous ammonia system that is used for agricultural purposes, the rules shall ...