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...he Revised Code: (A) "Garbage" means all waste material derived in whole or in part from the meat of any animal, including fish and poultry, or other animal material, and other refuse of any character that has been associated with such waste material resulting from the handling, preparation, cooking, or consumption of food. (B) "Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, association, society, compan...

...(A) No person shall feed on the person's premises, or permit the feeding of, garbage or treated garbage to swine. (B) No person shall bring into this state a swine that has been fed garbage or treated garbage.

...evised Code and make inquiries into any alleged violations as are necessary to secure compliance with this chapter and orders issued under it. (B) With the consent of the owner of a premises, lessee of a premises, or the owner, keeper, or harborer of a swine that is kept or harbored on a premises, the director or the director's authorized representative may enter at all reasonable times on any premises where swine ...

... protection fund created in section 943.26 of the Revised Code.

...her of the following: (A) An individual who feeds garbage from the individual's household to the individual's own animals or an individual who only feeds bakery waste, candy waste, eggs, vegetables, or dairy products to swine; (B) Rendered products. As used in this division, "rendered product" means raw rendering material that has been ground and heated to a minimum temperature of two hundred thirty degrees Fahr...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Animals" or "livestock" means horses, mules, and other equidae, cattle, sheep, and goats and other bovidae, swine and other suidae, poultry, alpacas, llamas, and monitored captive deer, captive deer with status, or captive deer with certified chronic wasting disease status. (B) "Dealer" or "broker" means any person found by the department of agriculture buying, receiving, selling...

...(A) No person shall act as a small dealer, dealer, or broker without first being licensed. No person shall be an employee of more than one small dealer, dealer, or broker. Except as provided in division (B) of this section, no person holding a license as a small dealer, dealer, or broker shall be an employee. No employee shall act for any small dealer, dealer, or broker unless the small dealer, dealer, or broker is l...

...(A)(1) Application for a license as a dealer or broker shall be made in writing to the department of agriculture. The application shall state the nature of the business, the municipal corporation, township, and county, and the post-office address of the location where the business is to be conducted, the name of any employee authorized to act in the dealer's or broker's behalf, and such additional information as the ...

...(A) Application for a license as a small dealer shall be made in writing to the department of agriculture. The application shall state the nature of the business, the municipal corporation or township, county, and post-office address of the location where the business is to be conducted, the name of any employee who is authorized to act in the small dealer's behalf, and any additional information that the department ...

... protection fund created in section 943.26 of the Revised Code.

...ion, refuse to grant or may suspend a small dealer's, dealer's, or broker's license, without prior hearing, after determining from evidence presented to the director that there is reasonable cause to believe any of the following situations exist: (a) Where the applicant or licensee or an employee has violated the laws of the state or official regulations governing the interstate or intrastate movement, shipment, or...

...Every small dealer, dealer, and broker licensed under section 943.03 or 943.031 of the Revised Code, as applicable, and carrying on or conducting business under that license, shall post in a conspicuous place in or at the place of business of the licensee a copy of the license furnished by the department of agriculture, to be kept so posted and exposed for inspection by any person.

...Each small dealer, dealer, or broker leasing, renting, operating, or owning livestock yards, pens, premises, or vehicles in which animals are quartered, fed, held, or transported, shall have a veterinary inspector approved by the department of agriculture, inspect, when directed, all such yards, premises, and vehicles and shall thoroughly and completely disinfect all such yards, pens, premises, and vehicles und...

...n with, or incident to the purchase or sale of livestock at any auction market, concentration yard, stockyard, packing plant, or place for assembling livestock in the state, shall do both of the following: (1) Maintain and operate all the weighing facilities so as to ensure accurate weights; (2) Be licensed as a weigher, or employ one or more weighers licensed by the department of agriculture, and require that all ...

...ivision (B) of this section, licenses shall be issued by the department of agriculture to weighers under such rules and regulations as the department shall prescribe. Each weigher shall display the weigher's license in a conspicuous place on or adjacent to the weighing facility operated by such weigher. A weigher's license may be revoked for a violation of section 943.11 of the Revised Code or of the rules and regula...

...All weighing facilities operated under the "Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921," 42 Stat. 159, 7 U.S.C.A. 181 as amended, shall be maintained and operated in accordance with rules of the United States department of agriculture; and all other such weighing facilities shall be maintained and operated in accordance with rules of the state department of agriculture. All such weighing facilities not regularly inspected an...

...No weigher shall improperly weigh any livestock, or give any false certificate of weight, or accept directly or indirectly money or other consideration for any neglect or improper performance of duty, and no person shall wrongfully influence or interfere, or attempt to so influence or interfere, with any such weigher in the performance of his duty or attempt to do so.

...he facilities, livestock, records, or scales, and may weigh or reweigh any livestock.

...The department of agriculture shall require inspection, tests, and treatments necessary to prevent the spread of diseases of all animals sold or transferred from pens, yards, premises, or vehicles by small dealers, dealers, or brokers except when such animals are immediately delivered to a slaughtering establishment. The inspection, tests, and treatments shall be made by a veterinary inspector approved by the d...

...hereunder, have been violated. (B) A small dealer, dealer, or broker, employee, or person described in division (B)(4) of section 943.01 of the Revised Code, who acquires or disposes of an animal by any means, shall make a record of the name and address of the person from whom the animal was acquired and to whom disposed. The record also shall show the individual identification of each animal at the time of acquisit...

...7 of the Revised Code. (B) No person shall fail to comply with any rule adopted under division (A) of this section.

... protection fund created in section 943.26 of the Revised Code.

...Municipal courts, county courts, and courts of common pleas have jurisdiction in cases arising under sections 943.01 to 943.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...In addition to the remedies provided and irrespective of whether or not there exists an adequate remedy at law, the director of agriculture may apply to the court of common pleas for a temporary or permanent injunction or other appropriate relief against continued violation of the provisions of sections 943.01 to 943.17 of the Revised Code.

...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.