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...arketing 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) The director of...

...e is required to levy under section 924.26 of the Revised Code, including the method and frequency of collection; (4) Establish procedures to be used by a person who wishes to file for a refund of the person's assessment that is levied under section 924.26 of the Revised Code; (5) Perform all acts and exercise all powers incidental to, in connection with, or considered reasonably necessary, proper, or advisable to ...

...(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...

...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 at the first ...

...he assessment levied under section 924.26 of the Revised Code or otherwise contributes to the program and to other interested persons. (B) In addition to the reports required by division (A) of this section, the operating committee shall submit to the director of agriculture both of the following: (1) An annual financial statement prepared by a certified public accountant holding a permit issued by the accou...

...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.

...ent levied under section 924.212 or 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.

...sed 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 subject of the marketing agreement. (B) For purposes of se...

...tandards of production for an agricultural commodity, including growing and handling practices, provided that the standards are equivalent to or more stringent than standards of production for that agricultural commodity that are established in the laws of this state or federal law; (B) Standards for the establishment and use of a logo, trademark, or brand associated with an agricultural commodity, provided th...

...(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...

...ed Code, the director of agriculture shall notify all producers included in the list provided to the director under division (C)(1) of that section. The notification shall contain a description of the purpose of the proposed marketing agreement and provide the date, time, and location of a public meeting that will be conducted by the director as required by division (B) of this section. The notification shall ...

...ting agreement submitted by a provisional board of directors under section 924.43 of the Revised Code at a minimum shall contain terms that establish all of the following: (A) The identification of the agricultural commodity or of the region of the state concerning the agricultural commodity that is the subject of the marketing agreement; (B) Standards, if any, of production for the agricultural commodity or...

...ll administer the marketing agreement shall be established in accordance with the terms of the marketing agreement. Except for the director of agriculture or the director's designee who shall serve as an ex officio member of the board of directors, members of the board shall be selected only from individuals who are producers that signed the marketing agreement. (2) The provisional board of directors created pursuan...

...onsisting of ten members. The members shall be the director of agriculture or the director's designee, who shall chair the committee, the superintendent of liquor control or the superintendent's designee, the viticulture extension specialist of the Ohio agricultural research and development center, who shall be a nonvoting member, and seven members who shall be residents of this state and appointed by the director of...

...duct, research, including the study, analysis, dissemination, and accumulation of information obtained from the research or elsewhere, concerning the marketing and distribution of grapes and grape products, the storage, refrigeration, processing, and transportation of them, and the production and product development of grapes and grape products. The committee shall expend for these activities no more than seve...

...The director of agriculture shall hire all employees of the Ohio grape industries committee. The director shall select the employees from the list of recommended applicants submitted by the committee under section 924.52 of the Revised Code. Employees of the committee shall be paid with moneys from the Ohio grape industries fund.

...(A) The director of agriculture shall monitor the conduct of the Ohio grape industries committee to ensure that: (1) The committee is operating within the requirements of sections 924.51 to 924.55 of the Revised Code; (2) The committee's program is self-supporting; (3) The committee keeps all records that are required by agencies of the state. (B) The director may, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised C...

...(A) All moneys collected by the treasurer of state under sections 4301.43 and 4301.432 of the Revised Code shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the Ohio grape industries fund, which is hereby created. Moneys in the fund shall be disbursed to carry out the purposes of sections 924.51 to 924.55 of the Revised Code pursuant to vouchers approved by the director of agriculture. (B) The Ohio grape ind...

...The department of agriculture shall be reimbursed for actual administrative and overhead costs incurred in the administration of sections 924.51 to 924.55 of the Revised Code in an amount not to exceed ten per cent per year of the amount received in that year in the Ohio grape industries fund created under section 924.54 of the Revised Code.

...Whoever violates division (A) of section 924.16 or of section 924.30 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.

...ding, or packing shell eggs for commercial sale or distribution. (C) "Producer" means any person engaged in the operation of egg production who maintains annually more than five hundred birds.

...es department of agriculture, agricultural marketing service, poultry division, effective July 1, 1958, are hereby adopted as the standards, grades, and weight classes for shell eggs of this state, provided that the term "United States" or "U.S." need not be used in designating the grades or weight classes of shell eggs and the term "consumer" need not be used in designating the consumer grades and weight classes for...

...(A) No person shall sell, offer for sale, or expose for sale shell eggs in a container which is not labeled with: (1) The name and address of the packer or distributor; (2) An accurate statement of the quantity of the contents in terms of numerical count; (3) The date the shell eggs were processed; (4) The correct grade and size or weight class of the contents thereof in accordance with the standards adopted by t...

...No person shall sell, offer for sale, or expose for sale shell eggs from a bulk lot which is not plainly marked with a placard having letters no less than one-half inch high designating the correct grade and size or weight class of the bulk lot in accordance with the standards adopted by this state, provided that a bulk lot of shell eggs which has not been graded for quality or which fails to meet the requirements of...