Ohio Revised Code Search

...ion of exhibitions, and to provide for related food safety and the health, safety, and welfare of livestock, and may adopt by reference rules adopted by other public or private agencies such as the Ohio farm animal care commission. Rules of the director may specify those grooming, commercial, or medical practices that are generally accepted within the community of persons exhibiting livestock and may specify false, d...

...(b) The livestock's health, safety, or welfare may be threatened; (c) The livestock constitutes a threat to or may adversely affect food safety. (2) The director may conduct random inspections and investigations regarding any matter involving livestock present at an exhibition. (3) With the consent of the property owner and the livestock owner, the director or the director's designee may enter at all reasonable...

...ivestock threatens, endangers, or adversely affects food safety or the health, safety, or welfare of livestock; (3) The person has refused to cooperate with the director or the director's designee in the inspection, sampling, and testing of livestock under section 901.73 of the Revised Code, unless the person withheld consent to the inspection, sampling, and testing and no search warrant was issued; (4) The perso...

...lified by the director of agriculture under section 901.74 of the Revised Code or has been disqualified from exhibiting livestock by any court having jurisdiction.

...of a valid veterinarian-client-patient relationship; (2) Accepted grooming, commercial, or medical practices as defined by rules of the director adopted under section 901.72 of the Revised Code. (E) As used in this section: (1) "Tamper" means any of the following: (a) Treatment of livestock in such a manner that food derived from the livestock would be considered adulterated as defined in division (A), (B), (C), ...

... "Agritourism" means an agriculturally related educational, entertainment, historical, cultural, or recreational activity, including you-pick operations or farm markets, conducted on a farm that allows or invites members of the general public to observe, participate in, or enjoy that activity. (3) "Agritourism provider" means a person who owns, operates, provides, or sponsors an agritourism activity or an employee o...

...be based on a plan that the director develops. Assessments shall be paid from the funds designated in the plan and credited by means of intrastate transfer voucher to the department of agriculture central support indirect costs fund, which is hereby created in the state treasury. The fund shall be administered by the director of agriculture and used to pay central support and administrative costs of the department of...

....76 of the Revised Code is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree on a first offense and of a felony of the fourth degree on each subsequent offense. (D) Whoever violates division (B) of section 901.76 of the Revised Code is guilty of a felony of the fourth degree. (E) Whoever violates division (B) of section 901.511 of the Revised Code is guilty on a first offense of a misdemeanor or a felony that is one degree hi...

...nt that will prevent, destroy, kill, repel, control, or mitigate any pest, or that will act as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant. (B) "Adulterated" shall apply to any pesticide if its strength or purity is less than or greater than the professed standard or quality as expressed on its labeling or under which it is sold, if any substance has been substituted wholly or in part for the pesticide, or if any va...

...wing conditions are met: (1) Its composition is such as to warrant the proposed claims for it. (2) Its labeling and other material required to be submitted comply with the requirements of the federal act and of this chapter, and rules adopted thereunder. (3) It will perform its intended function without unreasonable adverse effects on the environment. (4) When used in accordance with widespread and commonly r...

...Provided the state is authorized by the administrator of the United States environmental protection agency to issue experimental use permits, the director of agriculture may: (A) Issue an experimental use permit to any applicant if he determines that such a permit is necessary in order to accumulate information necessary to register a pesticide; (B) Refuse to issue an experimental permit if he determines that the p...

... (2) Submit such marked material separately from other material required to be submitted under this chapter. (B) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the director of agriculture shall not make public privileged or confidential information which in his judgment contains or relates to trade secrets or commercial or financial information obtained from a person, except that, when necessary to carry out t...

...s for it or if the pesticide and its labeling and other material required to be submitted do not comply with this chapter or rules adopted thereunder, he shall notify the applicant of the manner in which the pesticide, labeling, or other material required to be submitted fails to comply with this chapter so as to afford the applicant an opportunity to make the necessary corrections. If, upon receipt of such notice, t...

... or 6115. of the Revised Code, respectively; (c) Apply restricted use pesticides. Division (A)(1)(c) of this section does not apply to a private applicator. (d) If the individual is the owner of a business other than a pesticide business or an employee of such an owner, apply pesticides at any of the following publicly accessible sites that are located on the property: (i) Food service operations that are li...

...No person shall own or operate a pesticide business without obtaining a license from the director of agriculture. Licenses shall be issued for a period of time established by rule and shall be renewed in accordance with deadlines established by rule. (2) A person applying for a pesticide business license shall obtain a license for each location that is owned by the person and used for the purpose of engaging in th...

...ide business shall upon notice immediately execute evidence of financial responsibility meeting the requirements of this section or applicable rules, and should the pesticide business fail to do so, the director shall suspend the pesticide business's license and give the business notice of such suspension. (C) The licensee to whom a suspension order is issued shall be afforded a hearing in accordance with Chapter...

...ator; (3) Performing other pesticide-related activities, including transporting or storing pesticide containers that have been opened, cleaning equipment, and disposing of excess pesticides, spray mix, equipment wash waters, pesticide containers, and other pesticide-containing materials. (B) No individual shall use restricted use pesticides unless the individual is one of the following: (1) Licensed under secti...

...echnology and to assure a continuing level of competence and ability to use pesticides safely and properly. (E) The holder of a private applicator license may renew the license within one hundred eighty days after the date of expiration without re-examination unless the director determines that a new examination is necessary to insure that the holder continues to meet the requirements of changing technology and to ...

...o is acting in the capacity of a pesticide dealer or who advertises or assumes to act as a pesticide dealer at any time shall obtain a pesticide dealer license from the director of agriculture. Licenses shall be issued for a period of time established by rule and shall be renewed in accordance with deadlines established by rule. A license is required for each location or outlet within this state from which the person...

...All diagnostic inspections conducted to determine infestations of pests as required by rules adopted under division (C) of section 921.16 of the Revised Code; (2) All pesticide applications made by the applicator and by any trained serviceperson as required by rules adopted under division (C) of section 921.16 of the Revised Code. Each commercial applicator shall submit copies of the records required under divisi...

...les shall be in conformity with the guidelines and rules established by the Ohio environmental protection agency.

...tration of this chapter. The rules may relate to, but are not limited to, the time, place, manner, and methods of application, materials, and amounts and concentrations of application of pesticides, may restrict or prohibit the use of pesticides in designated areas during specified periods of time, and shall encompass all reasonable factors that the director determines necessary to minimize or prevent damage to the e...

...tions 921.01 to 921.29 of the Revised Code may with like force and effect be executed by such employees of the department of agriculture as the director may designate for said purpose.

...sticide application records, contracts related to pesticide business activities, and financial responsibility documents; (b) Inspect the storage or disposal of pesticides; (c) Inspect and sample pesticides in storage or in use; (d) Inspect equipment or devices used to apply pesticides; (e) Inspect storage facilities and sites; (f) Inspect production areas of persons that manufacture pesticides for commercial p...

...is chapter and the rules adopted thereunder with respect to the application, handling, and use of pesticides. Each state agency, municipal corporation, and other governmental agency and political subdivision is responsible for the acts of each of its employees in the application, handling, and use of pesticides.