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...Section 13 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, is in part implemented by this chapter in furtherance of the public purposes of the state to create or preserve jobs and employment opportunities or to improve the economic welfare of the people of the state. Any issuer acting through its issuing authority may in accordance with Section 13 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution: (A) Acquire by gift or purchase and hold and ...

...(A) Any holder of bonds issued pursuant to this chapter or a trustee under a trust agreement or indenture of mortgage entered into pursuant to section 902.07 of the Revised Code, except to the extent that their rights are restricted by the bond proceedings or by the terms of the bonds, may by any suitable form of legal proceedings, protect and enforce any rights under the laws of this state or granted by the bond pro...

...(A)(1) Not later than one hundred eighty days after March 15, 2001, the director of agriculture shall prepare a program for the issuance of permits to install under this section. (2) On and after the date on which the director has finalized the program required under division (A)(1) of this section, no person shall modify an existing or construct a new concentrated animal feeding facility without first obtain...

...(A)(1) Not later than one hundred eighty days after March 15, 2001, the director of agriculture shall prepare a program for the issuance of permits to operate under this section. (2) Except for a concentrated animal feeding facility that is operating under an installation permit, on and after the date on which the director has finalized the program required under division (A)(1) of this section, no person shall own ...

...(A) On and after the date that is established in rules by the director of agriculture, both of the following apply: (1) The management and handling of manure at a major concentrated animal feeding facility, including the land application of manure or the removal of manure from a manure storage or treatment facility, shall be conducted only by or under the supervision of a person holding a livestock manager certific...

...(A) Each application for registration of an agricultural additive shall be accompanied by a registration fee of fifty dollars. Application shall be made on a form supplied by the director of agriculture and shall include: (1) The name and address of the registrant; (2) The additive's brand name; (3) The purpose or proposed use of the additive; (4) Directions for the additive's use; (5) The results or effects tha...

...(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) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, no person in the western basin shall surface apply fertilizer under either of the following circumstances: (a) On snow-covered or frozen soil; (b) When the top two inches of soil are saturated from precipitation. (2) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, no person in the western basin shall surface apply fertilizer in a granular form when the...

...(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 ...

...(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...

...No person shall sell or distribute any crushed or ground liming material in this state, except the oxide and hydrate forms, unless it is processed to meet the standard of fineness of one of the grades listed in this section and contains all the fines of fracture. (A) "Superfine liming materials" shall be of such degree of fineness that not less than eighty per cent of weight passes a number one hundred United States...

...(A) Each licensee shall file with the department of agriculture an annual tonnage report that includes the number of net tons of liming material sold or distributed to a non-licensee in this state, by county, by oxide and hydrate forms, and by grade as defined in section 905.54 of the Revised Code, within forty days after the thirty-first day of December of each calendar year. The inspection fee at the rate state...

...(A) All information furnished to or procured by the director of agriculture under section 905.56 of the Revised Code is for the exclusive use and information of the director in the discharge of his official duties and is not open to the public nor to be used in any court in any action or proceeding therein unless the director is a party to such action or proceeding, but such information may be consolidated in statist...

...No person shall label agricultural, vegetable, or flower seed that is intended for sale in this state unless the person holds a valid seed labeler permit that has been issued by the director of agriculture in accordance with this section. A person who wishes to obtain a seed labeler permit shall file an application with the director on a form that the director provides and shall submit a permit fee in the amou...

...(A) A person who holds a valid seed labeler permit issued under section 907.13 of the Revised Code shall report to the director of agriculture concerning the amount of seed that the person sells in this state. The report shall be made semiannually on a form that the director prescribes and provides. One semiannual report shall be filed with the director prior to the first day of February of each year with respe...

...As used in sections 907.41 to 907.47, inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) "Grain" means whole seeds or entire grains or any altered form thereof of wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley, and sorghum or any other large seeded cereal, field peas, field beans, soybeans, or any other large seeded legume. (B) "Treat" means to apply a substance designed to control or repel plant disease organisms, insects, or other pests of suc...

...No person shall sell, distribute, or have in his possession for sale any seed or grain which has been treated with a poisonous material unless the seed or grain has been colored or dyed a color contrasting with its natural color. Seed or grain to which a material has been applied for the express purpose of killing or mitigating insects, fungi, or other forms of plant or animal life present in the grain, and which bea...

...Each person, firm, partnership, or corporation that owns or operates a bakery shall register each bakery that it owns or operates with the director of agriculture. For the registration, the owner or operator of each bakery shall pay an annual fee of thirty dollars for a production capacity of one thousand pounds of bakery product per hour or less and an annual fee of thirty dollars for each one thousand pounds of bak...

...(A) No person shall manufacture, mix, compound, sell, or offer for sale, flour for human consumption in this state unless the following vitamins and minerals are contained in each pound of such flour: (1) Not less than two and not more than two and five-tenths milligrams of thiamine; (2) Not less than one and two-tenths and not more than one and five-tenths milligrams of riboflavin; (3) Not less than sixteen and n...

...No person, firm, or corporation shall engage in the business of operating a cannery without obtaining a license for the operation of each cannery from the director of agriculture. In order to obtain a license, an application shall be made on a form prescribed by the director and shall be accompanied by a fee of two hundred dollars. The director shall thereupon cause an investigation to be made. If the applicant is s...

...As used in sections 913.22 to 913.28, inclusive, of the Revised Code: (A) "Soft drink" means any nonalcoholic flavored carbonated beverage, soda, soda water, or fruitade, any nonalcoholic flavored still beverage, artificial waters whether carbonated or not, and bottled table waters, seltzer, or club soda. (B) "Soft drink flavors" means any type of soda water flavor, or beverage base, syrup, extract, concentra...

...(A) The director of agriculture may issue licenses as required by sections 913.22 to 913.28 of the Revised Code, may make the inspections and registrations required by those sections, and may prescribe the form of application to be filed under this section. (B) No person shall manufacture or bottle for sale within this state any soft drink in closed containers unless the person has a license issued by the director. ...

...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...

...The license fee for an establishment is fifty dollars. Any operator operating in connection with a cold-storage warehouse holding a license under section 915.02 of the Revised Code is not required to secure an additional license under section 915.15 of the Revised Code so long as the operator continues to be licensed as a cold-storage warehouse; but the operator shall comply with sections 915.14 to 915.24 of the Re...

...(A) The director of agriculture may do any of the following: (1) Adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code regulating all of the following: (a) The sanitary production, storage, transportation, manufacturing, handling, processing, sampling, testing, examination, and sale of dairy products; (b) The suspension and revocation of licenses issued under section 917.09 of the Revised Code, provided ...