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...agreements between the director and any private or public entity desiring to perform or performing any of the inspections or analyses required under this chapter and rules adopted under it.

...ience, a government certification, or a private certification as described in that chapter as a producer; processor; milk dealer; raw milk retailer; weigher, sampler, or tester; or milk hauler, as applicable, in a state that does not issue the applicable license or registration.

...gular business hours upon any public or private premises, including any vehicle used to transport or hold feeds, to obtain official samples of commercial feed and to examine any records that relate to the distribution of feed sampled. (C) The director shall maintain a laboratory with equipment and personnel necessary to effectively administer and enforce sections 923.41 to 923.55 of the Revised Code and the rules ad...

...ate with and enter into agreements with private associations and with governmental agencies of this state, other states, and the United States for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of sections 923.41 to 923.55 of the Revised Code or any rule adopted under those sections.

...make public, or available to anyone for private use, the information contained in the individual reports of producers, handlers, or processors which are filed with him pursuant to this section.

...mmodity may be sold at either public or private sale without advertising if, in the opinion of the director, the commodity should be sold without delay and the director gives the handler written authority to make the sale without advertisement. For the purposes of this section, the owners of the commodity shall be considered to be, in order: (1) The licensed handler to the extent of any commodity that he owns and st...

...ing a calendar year; (C) Any public or private arboretum operated not for profit, which exchanges inspected nursery stock in limited quantities for experimental or permanent arboretum plantings.

...ction 3345.12 of the Revised Code and a private nonprofit institution with a certificate of authorization issued pursuant to Chapter 1713. of the Revised Code. (L) "USDA" means the United States department of agriculture.

...ience, a government certification, or a private certification as described in that chapter as a hemp cultivator or hemp processor in a state that does not issue the applicable license.

... at reasonable times upon any public or private property at which hemp is being cultivated or processed for the purpose of determining compliance with this chapter and rules adopted under it. The director may apply for and any judge of an appropriate court of record may issue a search warrant, necessary to achieve the purposes of this chapter within the court's territorial jurisdiction. (B) (1) If the director det...

...he property is separated by a public or private right-of-way or rights-of-way or by rivers, streams, creeks, or other bodies of water.

...e within its jurisdiction, except those private waters that do not combine or effect a junction with natural surface or underground waters.

...nvestigation to be conducted. (C) In a private civil action for nuisances involving agricultural pollution, it is an affirmative defense if the person owning, operating, or otherwise responsible for agricultural land or an animal feeding operation is operating under and in substantial compliance with an approved operation and management plan developed under division (A) of this section, with an operation and managem...

...signee may enter at reasonable times on private property, with the consent of the property owner, or on public property to inspect and investigate conditions to determine whether or not there is compliance with the rules adopted under division (E)(1) of section 939.02 of the Revised Code. Upon reason to believe there is a violation, the director or the director's designee may apply for and a judge of the court of com...

...ates government, or any other public or private agency, or organization, for the performance of the prescribed duties of the department of agriculture under this chapter and Chapter 940. of the Revised Code or for accomplishing cooperative projects within the scope of those duties; (B) Enter into agreements with local government agencies for the purpose of soil surveys, land use inventories, and other soil-related d...

...or the director's designee may enter on private or public lands to investigate and take action to mitigate, minimize, remove, or abate the conditions that are the subject of the order. (F) A person that is responsible for causing or allowing the unauthorized spill, release, or discharge of manure or residual farm products is liable to the director for the costs incurred in investigating, mitigating, minimizing, remo...

...ee may enter at reasonable times on any private or public property to inspect and investigate conditions relating to any such alleged failure to comply with this section. (3) If an individual denies access to the individual's property, the director may apply to a court of competent jurisdiction in the county in which the premises is located for a search warrant authorizing access to the premises for the purposes of ...

...designated representatives, upon lands, private or public, in the necessary discharge of their duties; (K) To enter into agreements or contracts with the department of agriculture for the determination, implementation, inspection, and funding of agricultural pollution abatement measures whereby landowners, operators, managers, and developers may meet adopted state standards for a quality environment, except that fa...

...by first class mail to every public and private property owner whose property is subject to assessment, at the tax mailing or other known address of the owner. The notice shall contain all of the following: (1) A statement of the amount to be assessed against the property of the addressee; (2) A description of the method used to determine the necessity for and the amount of the proposed assessment; (3) A descri...

... (2) "Organization" means a public or private entity that is engaged in water quality improvement activities. (3) "Political subdivision" means a county, township, municipal corporation, or any other body corporate and politic that is responsible for government activities in a geographic area smaller than that of the state. (B)(1) There is hereby created a statewide watershed planning and management program for...

...ease in accordance with rules, and are privately owned primarily for the purposes of agriculture, propagation, or providing captive deer to a wild animal hunting preserve licensed under section 1533.721 of the Revised Code. (H) "Captive deer with certified chronic wasting disease status" means captive white-tailed deer that have been legally acquired or their offspring, are part of a herd that has been monito...

...ience, a government certification, or a private certification as described in that chapter as a weigher in a state that does not issue that license.

... 3345.32 of the Revised Code; (2) Any private college or university that holds a certificate of authorization issued by the Ohio board of regents pursuant to Chapter 1713. of the Revised Code; (3) Any elementary or secondary school operated by a board of education; (4) Any chartered or nonchartered nonpublic elementary or secondary school; (5) Any school issued a certificate of registration by the state board...

...ience, a government certification, or a private certification as described in that chapter as a dog broker in a state that does not issue that license.

...ience, a government certification, or a private certification as described in that chapter as an animal rescue for dogs operator in a state that does not issue that license or registration.