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...(A) The director of agriculture may require each handler, distributor, or processor of any Ohio agricultural commodity for which a marketing program is proposed to file with him within thirty days, a properly certified report which shows: (1) The correct name and address of each producer of such agricultural commodity from whom such handler, distributor, or processor received such agricultural commodity in the mark...

...(A) Within ninety days after approving an agricultural commodity marketing program proposed on or after the effective date of this amendment, or a proposed amendment to an agricultural commodity marketing program, the director of agriculture shall determine by a referendum whether the eligible producers favor the proposed marketing program or amendment. Any such marketing program or amendment to a marketing pr...

...(A) When the producers of an agricultural commodity who vote in a referendum favor a proposed marketing program, the director of agriculture shall order the program established and, if the marketing program does not provide for the election of an operating committee, appoint an operating committee consisting of producers of the commodity to administer the program. Each operating committee shall consist of not less th...

...The director of agriculture shall monitor the actions of each operating committee to assure that: (A) Each marketing program is self-supporting. (B) Each such committee keeps all records that are required for agencies of the state. (C) All program operations are in accord with: (1) The provisions of the marketing program; (2) Rules adopted by the director; (3) Sections 924.01 to 924.16 of the Revised Code....

...(A) Each operating committee may make assessments upon the marketable agricultural commodity for which the marketing program was established. (B) No operating committee shall levy any assessment: (1) That was not approved by the producers affected by the program; (2) That exceeds two cents per bushel of corn or two per cent of the average market price of any other agricultural commodity during the preceding market...

...(A) There is hereby established in the state treasury a fund for each marketing program that is established by the director of agriculture pursuant to this chapter. Except as authorized in division (B) of this section, all moneys collected by the department of agriculture from each marketing program pursuant to section 924.09 of the Revised Code shall be paid into the fund for the marketing program and shall be disbu...

...(A) The director of agriculture may temporarily suspend the operation of a marketing program, or any part thereof, for any reason, upon recommendation by the operating committee for the program, for a period of not more than twelve consecutive months. (B) At least once in each five years of operation, or at any time upon written petition by the lesser of twenty per cent or one thousand of the producers affected by ...

...(A) When affected producers of an agricultural commodity favor termination of a marketing program for the commodity the operating committee and the director of agriculture shall terminate all operations of the program. (B) Upon the termination of any marketing program, the director may spend any remaining unobligated funds for any lawful purpose of the department of agriculture.

...The director of agriculture may institute such action at law or in equity as appears necessary to enforce compliance with this chapter, any regulation adopted by the director under authority granted by this chapter, or any marketing program which is established in compliance with this chapter.

...(A) No person shall knowingly fail or refuse to withhold or remit any assessment adopted under section 924.09 of the Revised Code. (B) Before the director of agriculture institutes any criminal proceedings under this section, he shall give the alleged violator an opportunity to present his views to the director as to why such proceedings should not be instituted.

...Any record submitted to the department of agriculture under this chapter that indicates how an individual has voted in a referendum to establish or amend a marketing program under section 924.07 of the Revised Code, or in an election of the members of an operating committee under section 924.03 or 924.22 of the Revised Code is not a public record under section 149.43 of the Revised Code.

...As used in sections 924.20 to 924.30 of the Revised Code: (A) "Grain" means wheat, barley, rye, or oats. (B) "Handler" means a person who is in the business of agricultural commodity handling, as defined in section 926.01 of the Revised Code, of grain. (C) "Producer" means a person who is in the business of producing, or causing to be produced, grain for commercial sale. (D) "Rule" means a rule adopted under s...

...There is hereby established a grain marketing program. The program shall be administered in accordance with sections 924.20 to 924.30 of the Revised Code and rules.

...(A) There is hereby established the soybean marketing program. Except as provided under divisions (B) and (C) of this section, the procedures, requirements, and other provisions that are established under sections 924.20 to 924.30 of the Revised Code and rules that apply to the grain marketing program shall apply to the soybean marketing program. For purposes of that application, references in those sections to "grai...

...(A) For the purposes of sections 924.20 to 924.30 of the Revised Code, the director of agriculture shall hold an election to determine the membership of a grain marketing program operating committee in accordance with rules. The election shall be for nine members of the operating committee. (B) Not later than one hundred twenty days after the effective date of this section, the director shall accept the nam...

...(A) The grain marketing program operating committee shall hold at least one meeting per quarter each year. The members of the operating committee annually shall select officers, including a chairperson and a vice-chairperson. (B) A majority of the members of the operating committee constitutes a quorum. A majority of concurring votes is required to pass a motion or approve any operating committee action. (C) ...

...(A) The grain marketing program operating committee shall do all of the following: (1) Hire personnel and contract for services that are necessary for the operation of the grain marketing program; (2) Promote the sale of grain for the purpose of maintaining and expanding present markets and creating new and larger intrastate, interstate, and foreign markets for grain, and inform the public of the uses and benefits ...

...(A) The director of agriculture shall monitor the activities of the grain marketing program operating committee to ensure all of the following: (1) The grain marketing program is self-supporting. (2) The operating committee keeps all records that are required for agencies of the state. (3) The program's operations comply with all of the following: (a) The provisions of the program; (b) Rules; (c) Sections 924.2...

...(A) The grain marketing program operating committee shall levy on producers and, as provided in division (B) of this section, handlers the following assessments, as applicable: (1) One-half of one per cent of the per-bushel price of wheat at the first point of sale; (2) One-half of one per cent of the per-bushel price of barley at the first point of sale; (3) One-half of one per cent of the per-bushel price of rye...

...(A) The grain marketing program operating committee shall establish a fiscal year for the grain marketing program. Within sixty days of the end of each fiscal year, the operating committee shall publish an activity and financial report and make the report available to each producer who pays the assessment levied under section 924.26 of the Revised Code or otherwise contributes to the program and to other intere...

...The grain marketing program may be suspended or terminated in the same manner in which other marketing programs are suspended or terminated under sections 924.12 and 924.13 of the Revised Code.

...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...