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...al property of the person shall be liable to execution for the fines, penalties, costs, and damages by the attorney general, who shall deposit any proceeds from an execution upon the property in the pesticide, fertilizer, and lime program fund created in section 921.22 of the Revised Code.

...of, or issue any order or institute any enforcement procedure for, a violation of this chapter or a rule adopted under it whenever the director believes that the public interest will be best served by a suitable written notice of warning. A person who receives a written notice of warning may respond in writing to the notice.

...f the Revised Code with respect to a license, registration, or permit issued pursuant to this chapter.

...anor of the second degree on a first offense and a misdemeanor of the first degree on a subsequent offense. (B) Whoever violates division (G) or (P) of section 921.24 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree on a first offense and a felony of the fourth degree on each subsequent offense. (C) No recovery of damages shall be allowed from administrative action taken or for "stop sale, use, ...

...mixed whole seeds or physically altered entire unmixed seeds, that are not adulterated and that are distributed for use as feed or for mixing in feed for animals. "Commercial feed" or "feed" does not include drugs that are not incorporated into feed and that are not distributed to be mixed in feed. "Commercial feed" and "feed" also does not include negligible amounts of feed ingredients added to a drug solely for the...

...aterials; (B) Individual chemical compounds or substances when those compounds or substances are not mixed with other materials.

...r. (B) The director may revoke or suspend a registration or refuse to register a person upon a finding that the manufacturer, distributor, or person violated any provision of sections 923.41 to 923.55 of the Revised Code or any rule adopted under those sections. No registration shall be revoked, suspended, or refused until the manufacturer, distributor, or person has an opportunity to appear at an adjudication he...

...contents, which may be stated in metric units in addition to avoirdupois weight; (2) Product name, and brand name if any, under which the feed is distributed; (3) Name and principal address of the manufacturer or distributor; (4) Guaranteed analysis of the feed stated in terms that the director of agriculture, by rule, determines are required to advise the user of the composition of the feed or to support claim...

...y collected under this section shall be credited to the commercial feed and seed fund created in section 923.46 of the Revised Code.

...oper: (A) Information concerning the sale of commercial feed, including any production and use data the director considers advisable, provided that the data does not disclose the operation of any manufacturer or distributor; (B) A comparison of the analyses of official samples of commercial feeds distributed in this state with the guaranteed analyses on the label.

...ords of all receipts into and disbursements from the fund and shall prepare, and provide upon request, an annual report classifying the receipts and disbursements that pertain to commercial feed or seed.

... the Revised Code and any rules adopted under those sections, the director of agriculture, or his agent, to the extent he considers necessary, upon presenting credentials and a written inspection notice to the person in charge, may enter, during regular business hours, any factory, warehouse, or establishment where commercial feeds are manufactured, processed, packed, or held for distribution or any vehicle used to t...

...ious, or nonnutritive substance that is unsafe within the meaning of section 406 of the federal act, 21 U.S.C. 346, except such a substance that is either a food additive or a pesticide chemical in or on a raw agricultural commodity; (3) It is, or it bears or contains any food additive that is unsafe within the meaning of section 409 of the federal act, 21 U.S.C. 348; (4) It is a raw agricultural commodity and be...

... (C) It does not meet the label requirements of section 923.43 of the Revised Code or any rule adopted under that section; (D) It purports to be or is represented as a commercial feed or it purports to contain or is represented as containing a feed ingredient when it does not conform with the definition of that commercial feed or feed ingredient which the director shall establish by rule; (E) Any word, statement, o...

...all adopt, and may amend or rescind, rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. (B) The director, by reference, may adopt: (1) The official definitions of feed ingredients and official feed terms adopted and published by the association of American feed control officials; (2) Rules promulgated pursuant to the federal act.

...ctor of agriculture or the director's agent or to the courts when relevant in any judicial proceeding under sections 923.41 to 923.55 of the Revised Code or any rules adopted under those sections, any information acquired under the authority of those sections of the Revised Code or rules adopted under those sections that as a trade secret is entitled to protection; (G) Fail or refuse to register as required under s...

...f the Revised Code or any rule adopted under those sections. The commercial feed shall be held until a release in writing is issued by the director. A release shall not be issued until sections 923.41 to 923.55 of the Revised Code and the rules adopted under those sections are complied with and until all costs and expenses incurred in connection with the violation have been paid by the manufacturer or distribu...

...ctor of agriculture to a court of competent jurisdiction in the county in which the commercial feed is located. The court, upon a finding that the commercial feed is in violation of sections 923.41 to 923.55 of the Revised Code or any rule adopted under those sections, shall order the condemnation of the commercial feed and it shall be disposed of in a manner consistent with the quality of the feed and the laws of th...

...of the Revised Code or any rule adopted under those sections shall cause appropriate proceedings to be instituted in the proper court without delay and to be prosecuted in the manner required by law. Before any violation of sections 923.41 to 923.55 of the Revised Code or any rule adopted under those sections is reported to a prosecuting authority for the institution of a criminal proceeding, the person against whom ...

... to 923.55 of the Revised Code or any rule adopted under those sections.

...anor of the fourth degree on a first offense; on each subsequent offense the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.

...ng, canning, freezing, dehydrating, fermenting, distilling, extracting, preserving, grinding, crushing, juicing, or in any other way preserving or changing the form of any agricultural commodity. (H) "Producer" means any person who is in the business of producing, or causing to be produced, any agricultural commodity for commercial sale, except that when used in reference to nursery stock, "producer" also means a ...

...ucts for specific uses. (B) Adopt and enforce rules to put into effect the intent of sections 924.01 to 924.16 of the Revised Code; (C) Except as provided in section 924.06 of the Revised Code, determine the eligibility of producers to participate in referendums and other procedures that may be required to establish marketing programs for agricultural commodities.

...ty instead of appointed by the director under section 924.07 of the Revised Code, the marketing program shall include nomination and election procedures.

...ntation of the petition to the director under division (A) of this section, the petitioners also shall present the proposed amendment or a proposed program, which shall include all of the following: (1) The rate of assessment to be made on the marketable agricultural commodity, which shall not exceed two per cent of the average market price of that agricultural commodity during the preceding marketing year as define...