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...e. (B) Counties, townships, and municipal corporations may, upon the vote of the board of county commissioners, the board of township trustees, or the legislative authority of any municipal corporation, purchase or rent equipment and may purchase supplies designed to combat a pest for which a quarantined area is established and may contract for the hire of necessary employees to operate such equipment and carry out...

...s, or legislative authority of a municipal corporation may authorize an agent to enter upon any lands in a quarantined area within the subdivisions for the sole purpose of inspecting such lands for the existence of the pest for which the quarantined area has been established. Such powers of inspection may be exercised by any such subdivision, through its agent, solely to prepare a campaign within the subdivision agai...

...Upon the purchase or rental of equipment and the purchase of supplies to combat a pest for which a quarantined area is established, the agents of the board of county commissioners, board of township trustees, or legislative authority of a municipal corporation may contact the owners of land in the quarantined area within the subdivision, to obtain permission to enter upon such lands to combat that pest. After obtain...

...he legislative authority of any municipal corporation may obtain the assistance of the department of agriculture or the United States department of agriculture upon any problem that arises in connection with combating dutch elm disease and phloem necrosis. (B) If the board of county commissioners, the board of township trustees, or the legislative authority of a municipal corporation issues general obligation...

...or" means any person who collects, for sale, plants from wood lots, fields, forests, or other native habitat. (C) "Dealer" means any person other than a nurseryman who offers for sale, sells, or distributes nursery stock, either exclusively or in connection with other merchandise, in or from any nursery, store, sales ground, stand, lot, truck, railway car, or other vehicle. "Dealer" includes any landscaper who ...

...(A) The director of agriculture shall adopt and enforce any rules that are necessary to carry out sections 927.51 to 927.73 of the Revised Code. (B) The director may revoke, suspend, or refuse to issue any nursery certificate or dealer's license for any violation of sections 927.51 to 927.71 of the Revised Code, or of any rules adopted under those sections. (C) The director may publish reports describing nurs...

...sed Code, the director of agriculture shall comply with sections 3123.41 to 3123.50 of the Revised Code and any applicable rules adopted under section 3123.63 of the Revised Code with respect to a license, certificate, or permit issued pursuant to this chapter.

...(A) Each collector or dealer who sells, offers, or exposes for sale, or distributes nursery stock within this state, or ships nursery stock to other states, shall pay an annual license fee of one hundred twenty-five dollars to the director of agriculture for each place of business the collector or dealer operates. (B)(1) Each dealer shall furnish the director, annually, an affidavit that the dealer will buy and se...

...ated in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of money credited to it under section 909.15 of the Revised Code and under this chapter and any rules adopted under it. The director of agriculture shall use money in the fund to administer this chapter and Chapter 909. of the Revised Code. The director shall keep accurate records of all receipts into and disbursements from the fund and shall prepare, and pro...

...ply to: (A) A person who produces for sale either within this state or within any state in which such plants and parts do not require a certificate of inspection as a condition of entry, only nonhardy plants and plant parts, vegetable plants, herbs, or forced floral plants, of whatever nature, while in bloom; (B) A person who conducts the sale of nursery stock as a fund raiser for a nonprofit organization or nonpro...

...(A) Each nurseryman, dealer, or collector of nursery stock, who resides in or has his principal place of business in another state and who sends nursery stock into this state without having a bona fide order in advance for all such nursery stock, shall obtain the same license that is required by section 927.53 of the Revised Code. (B) The director of agriculture may enter into such reciprocal contracts and ag...

...e department of agriculture of the arrival of such shipment, the contents thereof, and the name and address of the consignor. If instructed to do so by the director, such person shall hold any such shipment unopened until inspected or released by the director. Any infested stock which is discovered in such shipment is subject to sections 927.68 and 927.70 of the Revised Code.

...ure or his authorized representative, shall, at least once each year, inspect each nursery and other place in this state in which nursery stock is stored or held for sale. The director or his authorized representative shall have free access, within reasonable hours, to any field, orchard, garden, greenhouse, packing ground, building, cellar, freight, or express office, or warehouse, car, vessel, motor vehicle, or oth...

... delivers nursery stock in this state shall apply in writing before the fifteenth day of April of each year to the director of agriculture for inspection of his nursery stock growing in this state. Such nurseryman or collector is liable for any additional expense incurred in the inspection of the nursery stock which may be due to his failure to give such notice prior to said date.

...(A) The director of agriculture shall issue to each nurseryman, after the stock in his nursery has been officially inspected and found to be apparently free from injurious or harmful pests and after payment of the fees required by section 927.53 of the Revised Code, a certificate setting forth the fact of such inspection. The certificate is valid not to exceed one year from the first day of January following the fili...

...(A) No person shall make a false declaration of acreage or conceal any nursery stock from inspection. (B) Each person who sells nursery stock shall, if requested, furnish the director of agriculture with copies of the order forms, contracts, and agreements with his customers which are furnished for the use of agents or customers, or both.

...premises used for growing, storage, or sale of nursery stock is destructive or harmful, he shall: (1) Notify the nurseryman, dealer, collector or person having charge of the premises, in writing, of the presence of such pest; (2) Restrict the movement of such infested stock, or withold such person's license or certificate until the premises are freed from such pest or until the pest has been brought under control ...

...(A) Each person who wholesales, sells for resale, or distributes for resale nursery stock in this state shall attach on the outside of each package, box, bale, or vehicle load, or lot sold or delivered, a tag or poster on which shall appear on exact copy of his valid license or certificate of inspection. (B) No person shall use certificate tags or posters which have been altered or are invalid. (C) No person shall ...

... state from another state or country, shall have attached thereto a tag or poster bearing a facsimile copy of a valid state or federal certificate of inspection. (B) No person shall accept any nursery stock for transportation which does not have a facsimile of a valid certificate or license plainly affixed on the outside of the package, box, bale, vehicle, or car containing such nursery stock, which shows that the c...

...(A) No person shall sell or offer for sale or distribute any nursery stock which: (1) Is not securely labeled in accordance with the "International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants" with the complete correct botanical or approved common name as recognized by the latest edition of: (a) "Wyman's gardening encyclopedia"; (b) Bailey's "Hortus III"; or (c) Other authoritative works and checklists. (2) Is la...

...ative may seize, or order removed from sale, any nursery stock which has been removed from the field where grown, has not been permanently replanted, and: (1) Does not comply with the requirements of section 927.67 of the Revised Code with respect to soundness, vigor, or freedom from pests; (2) Is not correctly labeled in accordance with section 927.67 of the Revised Code; (3) Does not bear a certificate tag or po...

...No person and no political subdivision, agency, department, or instrumentality of the state shall, without a permit issued by the director of agriculture, sell, offer for sale, or plant any variety of multiflora rose plants or seed in this state, except that a licensed nurseryman may plant the multiflora rose for use as a root stock in growing roses other than the multiflora rose in his nursery. The director may issu...

...f this section, no person and no political subdivision, agency, department, or instrumentality of the state shall sell, offer for sale, or plant Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife) plants or seed in this state without a permit issued by the director of agriculture. The director may issue permits to plant Lythrum salicaria for use in controlled experiments. (B) The director, by rule, shall exempt from the permit r...

...; (C) Conduct inspections of agricultural products that are required by other states, the United States department of agriculture, other federal agencies, or foreign countries to determine whether the products are infested. If, upon making such an inspection, the director or the director's authorized representative determines that an agricultural product is not infested, the director or the director's authoriz...

...(A) No person shall knowingly permit any plant pest that has been determined to be destructive or dangerously harmful by the director of agriculture, in compliance with procedures required by division (A) of section 927.52 of the Revised Code, to exist in or on the person's premises. (B) Whenever the director or the director's authorized representative finds any article or commodity to be infested or has reas...