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...The director of agriculture may suspend, revoke, or refuse to issue a permit to label seed for any violation of sections 907.01 to 907.17 of the Revised Code. No permit to label seed shall be suspended or revoked except for failure to pay either the fee or penalty provided in section 907.14 of the Revised Code until the permit holder has been given a hearing by the director in regard to the proposed suspension or re...

...No person shall manufacture or distribute any type of legume inoculant or pre-inoculated seeds in this state until the person has registered the brand of the legume inoculant with the director of agriculture. Applications for registration shall be made on forms obtainable from the director and shall be accompanied by the fee prescribed in section 907.31 of the Revised Code. A copy of each label used with each brand s...

...by rule of the director. The inspection fees shall be paid to the director and deposited by the director with the treasurer of state to the credit of the plant pest program fund created in section 927.54 of the Revised Code. If any serious bee diseases are diagnosed, appropriate controls and eradication measures immediately shall be implemented by the person shipping or owning the bee colonies or used beekeeping equ...

...All moneys from registration fees and from fines imposed and recovered under sections 909.01 to 909.18 of the Revised Code shall be paid to the director of agriculture, who shall deposit such moneys in the state treasury to the credit of the plant pest program fund created in section 927.54 of the Revised Code.

...All licenses issued under section 913.02 of the Revised Code shall be renewed annually by the last day of June pursuant to this section and the standard renewal procedure of sections 4745.01 to 4745.03, inclusive, of the Revised Code. The renewal fee for each license shall be paid by the applicant for such renewal to the treasurer of state.

...No person, firm, or corporation, except one licensed under sections 918.01 to 918.11 of the Revised Code, shall operate an establishment unless such person has secured a license therefor from the department of agriculture and has otherwise complied with sections 915.14 to 915.24 of the Revised Code. A separate license shall be secured for each establishment. The application for such license shall be in writing on fo...

...Upon receipt of the application for a license accompanied by the required fee, the department of agriculture shall inspect the establishment to be licensed and if it finds that such establishment, its equipment, facilities, surrounding premises, and operations comply with sections 915.14 to 915.24 of the Revised Code and the applicable rules adopted thereunder, and that the establishment is being operated under prope...

...(A) As used in this section, "political subdivision" means a county, township, or municipal corporation and any other body corporate and politic that is responsible for government activities in a geographic area smaller than that of the state. (B) All political subdivisions shall give full faith and credit to the inspections and acts performed and records created in the administration and enforcement of this chapter...

...(A) The director of agriculture may issue the following types of licenses: (1) Producer; (2) Processor; (3) Milk dealer; (4) Raw milk retailer; (5) Weigher, sampler, or tester; (6) Milk hauler. (B) The director may adopt rules establishing categories for each type of license that are based on the grade or type of dairy product with which the licensee is involved. (C) Except as provided in section 917....

...(A) Except as provided in division (F) of section 918.08 of the Revised Code, application for a license to operate an establishment shall be made to the director of agriculture on forms provided by the department of agriculture. The director shall inspect the establishment and if, upon inspection, the establishment is found to be in compliance with this chapter and rules adopted under it, the director shall so ...

...and may include the following: (A) The fees and rates to be charged to the vendors and establishments for the state acceptance service. The charges shall be established on an hourly basis, and the time chargeable to a vendor or establishment shall include the travel time of the state acceptor as well as the time spent doing acceptance work at the establishment. Mileage, per diem, and laboratory sampling charges also...

...of the graders, the method of assessing fees and collecting payments for the services provided, requirements for supervision of the graders, the maintenance of records of receipts from work performed by the graders and any other records necessary to maintain, and procedures for suspending and revoking a grader's license.

...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...

...(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...

...As used in sections 923.41 to 923.55 of the Revised Code: (A) "Animal" means any animate being, other than a human. (B) "Commercial feed" or "feed" means all materials, except unmixed whole seeds or physically altered entire unmixed seeds, that are not adulterated and that are distributed for use as feed or for mixing in feed for animals. "Commercial feed" or "feed" does not include drugs that are not incorporate...

...t section; (H) Fail to pay inspection fees or file semiannual reports as required under section 923.44 of the Revised Code or any rule adopted under that section.

...ate or federal law; (C) Collection of fees for services provided pursuant to the marketing agreement; (D) Any other topic that the director of agriculture may allow by rule.

...(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...

...All fines, fees, and costs collected under prosecutions begun, or caused to be begun, by the director of agriculture, shall be paid by the court to the director within thirty days after collection, unless an appeal on questions of law has been properly begun and prosecuted. In case the judgment is sustained, the fine shall be paid within thirty days after such judgment or affirmance and by the director paid into the ...

...(A) The director of agriculture may issue a handler's license, or renewal thereof, upon the payment of the prescribed application fee, if the director is satisfied that the applicant meets the standards of financial responsibility required under this section and has complied with this chapter and the rules adopted under it. (B)(1) Each applicant for a handler's license, or renewal thereof, shall have and main...

...The director of agriculture, by order, may refuse to grant or may suspend or conditionally suspend a handler's license, without prior hearing, when the director determines that there is reasonable cause to believe that the applicant or licensee: (A) Has failed to maintain the insurance coverage required under section 926.07 of the Revised Code; (B) Has failed to maintain accurate and complete records and acc...

...; (2) The application and examination fees collected under division (B) of section 926.05 of the Revised Code; (3) Any moneys transferred from the agricultural commodity depositors fund under section 926.16 of the Revised Code; (4) All fines, penalties, and costs, except court costs, that are collected under section 926.99 of the Revised Code in consequence of a violation of this chapter; (5) All sums collect...

...evised Code in the same manner as other fees collected under that division. (C) All receipts issued by a licensed handler shall be numbered and issued consecutively. (D) Before issuing any receipt, a licensed handler shall file with the director a certified copy of the handler's signature and the signature of any person the handler has authorized to issue receipts. (E) No licensed handler shall fail to return to t...

...(A) Any licensed handler operating a warehouse in this state may make a valid sale or pledge of any receipt issued for an agricultural commodity of which he is the owner either solely, jointly, or in common with others. The recital of ownership on the receipt shall constitute notice of the right to sell or pledge it and of the title or specific lien of the transferee or pledgee on the handler's commodity represented...