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...sh, when otherwise not established by a law of this state, definitions for a food or class of food and standards for the following items as they pertain to the food or class of food: (1) Quality, identity, purity, grade, and strength; (2) Packaging and labeling; (3) Food processing equipment; (4) Processing procedures; (5) Fill of containers. The standards and definitions, where applicable, shall conform to the...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Food processing establishment" means a premises or part of a premises where food is processed, packaged, manufactured, or otherwise held or handled for distribution to another location or for sale at wholesale. "Food processing establishment" includes the activities of a bakery, confectionery, cannery, bottler, warehouse, or distributor, and the activities of an entity that receive...

...(A) All food products, including those produced and packaged by a cottage food production operation, and all packaged maple syrup, sorghum, and honey, are subject to food sampling conducted by the director of agriculture, or a representative the director authorizes, to determine if a food product is misbranded or adulterated. A component of the food sampling conducted under this section may include the performance of...

...(A) A cottage food production operation and a maple syrup or sorghum processor and beekeeper described in division (A) of section 3715.021 of the Revised Code shall label each of their food products and include the following information on the label of each of their food products: (1) The name and address of the business of the cottage food production operation, processor, or beekeeper; (2) The name of the food pro...

...(A) A maple syrup or sorghum processor and beekeeper described in division (A) of section 3715.021 of the Revised Code may request that the director of agriculture conduct a voluntary inspection of the processor's or beekeeper's facilities. After the inspection is completed, if the inspector determines that the facilities comply with the rules adopted by the director pursuant to division (B) of this section, the proc...

...(A) A cottage food production operation shall not process acidified foods, low acid canned foods, or potentially hazardous foods. (B) The director of agriculture shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code specifying the food items a cottage food production operation may produce that are in addition to the food items identified by name in division (A)(19) of section 3715.01 of the Re...

...The director of agriculture, in performing duties under this chapter, may enter a creamery, factory, store salesroom, pharmacy, laboratory, or other place where the director believes or has reason to believe drugs, food, or drink is made, prepared, dispensed, sold, or offered for sale; examine the books therein; and open a cask, tub, jar, bottle, or other package containing or supposed to contain a drug or an article...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Certificate of health and freesale" means a document issued by the director of agriculture that certifies to states and countries receiving products that the products have been produced and warehoused in this state under sanitary conditions at a food processing establishment or at a place of business of a manufacturer of over-the-counter drugs or cosmetics, as applicable, that has b...

...(A)(1) As used in this section, "food processing establishment" has the same meaning as in section 3715.021 of the Revised Code. (2) A person that operates a food processing establishment shall register the establishment annually with the director of agriculture. The person shall submit an application for registration or renewal on a form prescribed and provided by the director. Except as provided in division (G) o...

...product that contains ephedrine. (5) "Law enforcement official" means an officer or employee of any agency or authority of the United States, a state, a territory, a political subdivision of a state or territory, or an Indian tribe, who is empowered by the law to investigate or conduct an official inquiry into a potential violation of law or prosecute or otherwise conduct a criminal, civil, or administrative ...

...the log book or as required by federal law; (4) Include in the log book in the manner described in division (D) of this section or, in the alternative, post in a conspicuous location the following statement: "Ohio law prohibits the over-the-counter purchase of a consumer product containing a total amount of base pseudoephedrine or base ephedrine that exceeds either three and six tenths grams in a single day o...

...The duty to comply with this section is subject to the conditions specified in section 3715.053 of the Revised Code. (A)(1) Beginning June 1, 2013, a retailer or terminal distributor of dangerous drugs shall submit the following information to the national precursor log exchange regarding each sale of pseudoephedrine product or ephedrine product that is not made pursuant to a valid prescription: (a) The purc...

...A retailer or terminal distributor of dangerous drugs is not required to comply with section 3715.052 of the Revised Code if one or more of the following are the case: (A) There is any charge from the national precursor log exchange for using the exchange, including a charge for obtaining access to the exchange, submitting information to the exchange, or receiving a stop-sale alert from the exchange. (B) Ther...

...A retailer or terminal distributor of dangerous drugs is not liable in damages in a civil action for injury, death, or loss to person or property resulting from any act or omission in carrying out the duties specified in sections 3715.05, 3715.051, and 3715.052 of the Revised Code regarding the sale of a pseudoephedrine product or ephedrine product, unless the act or omission is negligent or reckless or constit...

...on discovery of the theft or loss; (2) Law enforcement authorities. If the incident is a theft and the theft constitutes a felony, the retailer, terminal distributor of dangerous drugs, pharmacy, prescriber, or wholesaler shall report the theft to the law enforcement authorities in accordance with section 2921.22 of the Revised Code. (B) Within thirty days after making a report by telephone to the state board of ph...

...A flavoring extract is adulterated within the meaning of sections 3715.01 to 3715.34 of the Revised Code, if, when sold under or by any one of the following names it differs from the standard fixed therefor by this section: (A) Almond extract is the flavoring extract prepared from oil of bitter almonds, free from hydrocyanic acid, and shall contain not less than one per cent by volume of oil of bitter almonds. (B...

...No person shall sell any diphtheria antitoxin produced and distributed by the department of health.

...As used in this section: "Quality assurance period" means the period of time following the completion of normal manufacturing, processing, and packaging procedures during which a food product subjected to normal conditions of exposure will maintain conformity with all of the characteristics normally associated with the food product and will provide the benefits for which the food product is normally purchased. Food ...

...No dealer, slaughterer, or processor of meat or meat products for human consumption shall kill or have in his possession for the purpose of killing, a calf less than four weeks old or have in his possession the carcass of a calf not sufficiently mature to be fit for human consumption. The carcass of such calf may be confiscated by an authorized agent of the United States department of agriculture, the department of ...

...No person shall manufacture for sale, sell, or offer for sale, candy with an admixture of terra alba, barytes, talc, or other mineral substance, or with poisonous colors or flavors or other ingredients deleterious or detrimental to health. No manufacturer of or dealer in candy, shall refuse, upon demand and a tender of payment therefor, to furnish a sample thereof for analysis. Whoever violates this section shall p...

...(A) As used in this section and section 3715.25 of the Revised Code: (1) "Grade" means standards for grades of maple syrup adopted by the United States department of agriculture and accepted by the director of agriculture or grades as defined in rules adopted by the director. (2) "Maple products" means maple syrup, maple sugar, maple cream, or any other product in which the sugar content is entirely derived from pu...

...(A) No person shall manufacture, offer for sale, possess with intent to sell, sell, or deliver a maple product that is adulterated as described in section 3715.59 of the Revised Code or is misbranded as described in section 3715.60 of the Revised Code. (B) No person shall offer for sale, possess with intent to sell, sell, or deliver an adulteration of a maple product in a package having the word "maple" or a compoun...

...(A) As used in this section, "cider" means the unfermented juice, obtained by mechanically expressing the juice from sound, mature, non-citrus fruit, from which is removed excess pulp and seeds, other than embryonic seeds and small fragments of seeds that cannot be separated by good manufacturing practice. The cider may contain natural or artificial citric acid, preservatives authorized by rules adopted under section...

...Vinegar shall be made wholly from the fruit or grain from which it purports, or is represented, to be made and shall not contain a foreign substance or less than four per cent, by weight, of absolute acetic acid.

...Vinegar manufactured, offered or exposed for sale, sold, or delivered, or in the possession of a person with intent to sell or deliver, under the name of cider vinegar, apple vinegar, or any compounding of the word "cider" or "apple" as the name or part of the name of vinegar, shall be the product made by the alcoholic and subsequent acetous fermentations of the juice of apples, and shall not contain any foreign subs...

...pter 3317. of the Revised Code or other laws referring to the "taxes charged and payable" for a school district, the taxes charged and payable for a qualifying school district that levies a tax under division (B) of this section includes only the taxes charged and payable under that levy for the current expenses of the school district, and does not include the taxes charged and payable for the current expenses of par...

...(A)(1) The board of education of any school district, at any time and by a vote of two-thirds of all of its members, may declare by resolution that the amount of taxes that may be raised within the ten-mill limitation will be insufficient to provide an adequate amount for the present and future requirements of the school district, that it is necessary to levy not more than five taxes in excess of that limitation for ...

...(A)(1) The board of education of any school district, at any time and by a vote of two-thirds of all of its members, may declare by resolution that the amount of taxes that may be raised within the ten-mill limitation will be insufficient to provide an adequate amount for the present and future requirements of the school district and that it is necessary to levy a tax in excess of that limitation for current expenses...

...Not more than three elections during any calendar year shall include the questions by a school district of tax levies proposed under any one or any combination of the following sections: sections 5705.194, 5705.199, 5705.21, 5705.212, 5705.213, 5705.217, 5705.218, 5705.219, 5705.2112, and 5748.09 of the Revised Code.

...(A) The governing board of an educational service center that is the taxing authority of a county school financing district, upon receipt of identical resolutions adopted within a sixty-day period by a majority of the members of the board of education of each school district that is within the territory of the county school financing district, may submit a tax levy to the electors of the territory in the same manner ...

...A board of education that has issued notes in anticipation of the proceeds of a permanent improvements levy in the maximum amount permitted under division (D)(2) or (3) of section 5705.21 of the Revised Code or a taxing authority of a county school financing district that has issued notes in anticipation of the proceeds of a levy in the maximum amount permitted under section 5705.215 of the Revised Code may, if the p...

...(A) The board of education of a city, local, or exempted village school district, at any time by a vote of two-thirds of all its members, may declare by resolution that the amount of taxes that can be raised within the ten-mill limitation will be insufficient to provide an adequate amount for the present and future requirements of the school district; that it is necessary to levy an additional tax in excess of that l...

...(A) The board of education of a city, local, or exempted village school district, at any time by a vote of two-thirds of all its members, may declare by resolution that it may be necessary for the school district to issue general obligation bonds for permanent improvements. The resolution shall state all of the following: (1) The necessity and purpose of the bond issue; (2) The date of the special election at whi...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Eligible school district" means a city, local, or exempted village school district in which the taxes charged and payable for current expenses on residential/agricultural real property in the tax year preceding the year in which the levy authorized by this section will be submitted for elector approval or rejection are greater than two per cent of the taxable value of the residenti...

...(A) For purposes of this section: (1) "Carryover property" has the same meaning as in section 319.301 of the Revised Code. (2) "Residential/agricultural real property" has the same meaning as in section 5705.219 of the Revised Code. (B) For each city, local, or exempted village school district in which the tax authorized by section 5705.219 of the Revised Code has been approved by electors in the preceding ye...

...(A) If the board of directors of a regional student education district created under section 3313.83 of the Revised Code desires to levy a tax in excess of the ten-mill limitation throughout the district for the purpose of funding the services to be provided by the district to students enrolled in the school districts of which the district is composed and their immediate family members, the board shall propose the le...

...of the Revised Code or other applicable law. (5) "Acquisition of classroom facilities" has the same meaning as in section 3318.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The fiscal board of a qualifying partnership may levy a tax under this section in excess of the ten-mill limitation for the purpose of funding the acquisition of classroom facilities that benefit the qualifying partnership. The tax is subject to the approval of t...

...pter 133. of the Revised Code and other law applying to Chapter 133. securities, except as otherwise provided in this section. (E) The combined territory and tax valuation of all participating school districts is the territory and tax valuation of the subdivision for the purposes of that section. (F) The fiscal board is a "taxing authority" for the purposes of Chapter 133. of the Revised Code with respect to the ta...

...(A) If the board of directors of a career-technical cooperative education district created under section 3313.831 of the Revised Code desires to levy a tax in excess of the ten-mill limitation throughout the district for the purpose of funding the services to be provided by the district to students enrolled in the school districts of which the district is composed, the board shall propose the levy to each of the boar...

...The board of county commissioners of any county, at any time and in any year, after providing the normal and customary percentages of the total general fund appropriations for the support of county hospitals, by vote of two-thirds of all members of said board, may declare by resolution that the amount of taxes which may be raised within the ten-mill limitation will be insufficient to provide an adequate amount ...

...(A) At any time, the board of county commissioners of any county by a majority vote of the full membership may declare by resolution and certify to the board of elections of the county that the amount of taxes which may be raised within the ten-mill limitation by levies on the current tax duplicate will be insufficient to provide the necessary requirements of the county's alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health se...

...(A) At any time the board of county commissioners of any county by a majority vote of the full membership may declare by resolution and certify to the board of elections of the county that the amount of taxes which may be raised within the ten-mill limitation by levies on the current tax duplicate will be insufficient to provide the necessary requirements of the county board of developmental disabilities established ...

...es of the board in accordance with the law applicable to the board. After the approval of a levy on the current tax list and duplicate to provide an increase in current expenses, and prior to the time when the first tax collection from such levy can be made, the taxing authority at the request of the board of library trustees may anticipate a fraction of the proceeds of such levy and issue anticipation notes i...

...(A) As used in this section, "criminal justice facility" means any facility located within the county in which a tax is levied under this section and for which the board of commissioners of such county may make an appropriation under section 307.45 of the Revised Code. (B) The board of county commissioners of any county, at any time, may declare by resolution that it may be necessary for the county to issue general...

...The board of county commissioners of any county, at any time and in any year, after providing the normal and customary percentage of the total general fund appropriations for the support of children services and the care and placement of children, by vote of two-thirds of all the members of said board may declare by resolution that the amount of taxes which may be raised within the ten-mill limitation will be i...

...(A)(1) A copy of any resolution adopted as provided in section 5705.19 or 5705.2111 of the Revised Code shall be certified by the taxing authority to the board of elections of the proper county not less than ninety days before the general election in any year, and the board shall submit the proposal to the electors of the subdivision at the succeeding November election. In the case of a qualifying library levy, the b...

...(A) A copy of a resolution adopted under section 5705.212 or 5705.213 of the Revised Code shall be certified by the board of education to the board of elections of the proper county not less than ninety days before the date of the election specified in the resolution, and the board of elections shall submit the proposal to the electors of the school district at a special election to be held on that date. The board of...

...(A) If the legislative authority of a municipal corporation adopts a resolution for the purposes provided in section 306.55 of the Revised Code and division (XX) of section 5705.19 of the Revised Code and certifies the resolution to the board of elections as a combined question, the question appearing on the ballot shall read: "Shall the territory within the ______ (name of municipal corporation) be withdrawn from ...

...Except as otherwise provided in section 5705.191 of the Revised Code, if the majority of the electors voting on a levy authorized by sections 5705.19 to 5705.25 of the Revised Code vote in favor of such levy at such election, the taxing authority of the subdivision may levy a tax within the subdivision or, in the case of a qualifying library levy, within the library district or association library district, at ...

...(A) The question of decrease of an increased rate of levy approved for a continuing period of time by the voters of a subdivision or, in the case of a qualifying library levy, the voters of the library district or association library district, may be initiated by the filing of a petition with the board of elections of the proper county not less than ninety days before the general election in any year requesting that ...