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...epartment of agriculture. The office shall do all of the following: (A) Prepare guidelines and criteria for use in the development of comprehensive local land use plans that encourage the efficient use of public infrastructure and the preservation of farmland; (B) Establish a farmland preservation program to coordinate and assist local farmland preservation initiatives; (C) Educate existing agencies and orga...

... used in this section: (1) "Agricultural asset" means agricultural land, livestock, facilities, buildings, and machinery used for agricultural production in this state. (2) "Agricultural land" means land that is composed of tracts, lots, or parcels totaling not less than ten acres devoted to agricultural production or totaling less than ten acres devoted to agricultural production if the land produces an average ...

...s any of the following: (1) A show or sale of livestock at a fair or elsewhere that is sponsored by or under the control of a county or independent agricultural society organized under section 1711.01 or 1711.02 of the Revised Code; (2) A show or sale of livestock at the Ohio state fair; (3) A livestock show at a fair or elsewhere or a livestock sale at or associated with a fair or livestock show that is asse...

... of education and workforce's agricultural education service, the Ohio state university extension, the national farmers organization, and the Ohio state grange, or their designees. Each of these members shall be chosen by the organization the member represents. (4) The chairperson of the Ohio expositions commission, or the chairperson's designee; (5) Three persons who shall be appointed by the director, each of...

...ovide for related food safety and the health, safety, and welfare of livestock, and may adopt by reference rules adopted by other public or private agencies such as the Ohio farm animal care commission. Rules of the director may specify those grooming, commercial, or medical practices that are generally accepted within the community of persons exhibiting livestock and may specify false, deceptive, misleading, unethic...

...e Revised Code; (b) The livestock's health, safety, or welfare may be threatened; (c) The livestock constitutes a threat to or may adversely affect food safety. (2) The director may conduct random inspections and investigations regarding any matter involving livestock present at an exhibition. (3) With the consent of the property owner and the livestock owner, the director or the director's designee may enter...

...pparent intent that the livestock eventually is to be entered in an exhibition is subject to disciplinary action by the department of agriculture for any of the following reasons: (1) The person has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a violation of section 901.76 or 2925.09 of the Revised Code, or has been found by the director of agriculture to have tampered with or sabotaged livestock; (2) The director reas...

...No person shall exhibit livestock owned or raised by another person if the person owning or raising the livestock has been disqualified by the director of agriculture under section 901.74 of the Revised Code or has been disqualified from exhibiting livestock by any court having jurisdiction.

...(A) No person shall tamper with any livestock. (B) No person shall sabotage any livestock exhibited at an exhibition. (C) In addition to the penalties established in section 901.99 of the Revised Code, whoever violates division (A) or (B) of this section is subject to disciplinary action by the director of agriculture under section 901.74 of the Revised Code. (D) This section does not apply to either of the follow...

... used in this section: (1) "Agricultural production" has the same meaning as in section 929.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Agritourism" means an agriculturally related educational, entertainment, historical, cultural, or recreational activity, including you-pick operations or farm markets, conducted on a farm that allows or invites members of the general public to observe, participate in, or enjoy that activity. ...

...to pay a share of the department's central support and administrative costs. The assessments shall be based on a plan that the director develops. Assessments shall be paid from the funds designated in the plan and credited by means of intrastate transfer voucher to the department of agriculture central support indirect costs fund, which is hereby created in the state treasury. The fund shall be administered by the di...

...y that is one degree higher than the penalty for the most serious underlying specified offense that is involved in the violation. However, if on such an initial violation the penalty for the most serious underlying specified offense is a felony of the first degree, the violator is guilty of a felony of the first degree. On each subsequent violation of division (B) of that section, the violator is guilty of a misdeme...

...ation of the issuance of bonds and renewal notes. (B) "Bond proceedings" means the resolution or ordinance or the trust agreement or indenture of mortgage, or combination thereof, authorizing or providing for the terms and conditions applicable to bonds issued under authority of this chapter. (C) "Borrower" means the recipient of a loan or the lessee or purchaser of a project under this chapter and is limited to a ...

...etermined that agriculture is an essential and indispensable part of the commerce and industry of the state and is of vital importance to the creation and preservation of jobs and employment opportunities and to the improvement of the economic welfare of the people of the state, that agriculture creates, promotes, and is a part of the continuous exchange of goods and services in the state economy, that there exists i...

...ift or purchase and hold and mortgage real estate and interests therein and personal property to be used as a project; (B) Purchase, construct, reconstruct, enlarge, improve, furnish, and equip and lease, sell, exchange, and otherwise dispose of projects including, without limitation, the sale of projects by conditional or installment sale under which title may pass prior to or after completion of construction of a ...

...to the bonds or loans, underwriting, legal, accounting, financial consulting, rating, printing, and other services relating to the issuance and sale of the bonds, fees of any trustee, paying agent, bond registrar, depository, transfer agent, and authenticating agent, interest on the bonds, establishment of reserve funds securing the bonds, and any other costs reasonably related to the issuance, sale, marketing, servi...

...ceedings may contain provisions which shall be part of the contract with the bondholders as to: (A) Determinations by the issuing authority that the project to be financed thereunder is a project, as defined in this chapter, and is consistent with the purposes of Section 13 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution, and such determinations shall be conclusive as to the validity and enforceability of the bonds issued under ...

...The agricultural financing commission may make the following determinations in connection with any issuance of its bonds: (A) The number, location, and other characteristics of projects, including to the extent reasonably possible, assurance that the projects to be financed by bonds will create or preserve jobs and employment opportunities or improve the economic welfare of the people of the state; (B) Eligibility ...

...ot limited to: (1) A pledge of the rentals, revenues, and other income, charges, and moneys out of which the principal of and interest on the bonds shall be payable and a mortgage of all or any part of the pledged facilities, including any enlargements of and additions to such pledged facilities thereafter made. (2) Maintenance of each pledge, trust agreement, and indenture of mortgage made for the security of any ...

...ch terms and conditions as the issuer shall determine, and all lending institutions are hereby authorized to borrow from any issuer in accordance with this section. (B) An issuer may purchase and contract to purchase from lending institutions loans or other evidence of debt to finance a project on such terms and conditions as the issuer shall determine, and all lending institutions are hereby authorized to sell such...

...e 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 proceedings. Such rights include the right to compel the performance of all duties of the issuer required by this chapter or the bond proceedings; to enjoin unlawful activities; and in the event of default with respect to the payment of any principal of and interest on any bond or...

...All bonds issued under this chapter are lawful investments of banks, societies for savings, savings and loan associations, deposit guarantee associations, trust companies, trustees, fiduciaries, insurance companies, including domestic for life and domestic not for life, trustees or other officers having charge of sinking and bond retirement or other special funds of political subdivisions and taxing districts of this...

...(A) Any real or personal property, or both, of an issuer that is acquired, constructed, reconstructed, enlarged, improved, furnished, or equipped, or any combination thereof, and leased or subleased under authority of this chapter shall be subject to ad valorem, sales, use, and franchise taxes and to zoning, planning, and building regulations and fees, to the same extent and in the same manner as if the lessee-user o...

...When a special assessment is made on real property owned by an issuer and leased under authority of this chapter, the installments of the assessment shall be paid by the lessee of such real property so long as such property is leased and any installment thereof remaining unpaid at the termination of any such lease shall thereafter be paid by the issuer so long as such property is owned by it.

...s used in this chapter: (A) "Agricultural animal" means any animal generally used for food or in the production of food, including cattle, sheep, goats, rabbits, poultry, and swine; horses; alpacas; llamas; and any other animal included by the director of agriculture by rule. "Agricultural animal" does not include fish or other aquatic animals regardless of whether they are raised at fish hatcheries, fish farms, or ...