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...ments with any official agency of the federal government, of this state or its subdivisions, or with any agency of another state and may enter into and receive grants-in-aid from them for the purpose of carrying out sections 921.01 to 921.29 of the Revised Code.

...The pesticide, fertilizer, and lime program fund is hereby created in the state treasury. The fund shall consist of money credited to it under this chapter and Chapter 905. of the Revised Code and rules adopted under them and all fines, penalties, costs, and damages, except court costs, that are collected by either the director of agriculture or the attorney general in consequence of any violation of those chap...

...anor involving moral turpitude or of a felony. (B) The director shall not deny a license, permit, or registration issued pursuant to this chapter because an applicant was convicted of or pleaded guilty to an offense unless the refusal is in accordance with section 9.79 of the Revised Code.

...se inconsistent with the pesticide's labeling, treatment standards, or other restrictions imposed by the director of agriculture; (B) Act as a commercial applicator without being licensed to do so; (C) Use any restricted use pesticide, unless the person is licensed to do so under this chapter; (D) Refuse or fail to keep or maintain records required by the director in rules adopted under this chapter, or to make...

...olating, this chapter or any rule or order adopted or issued under it, the director may conduct a hearing in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to determine whether a violation has occurred. Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(3) of this section, the director shall assess a civil penalty against any person who violates this chapter or any rule or order adopted or issued under it in accor...

...zed by law to conduct research in the field of pesticides, provided that the manufacturer or shipper is not required to obtain an experimental use permit from the United States environmental protection agency; (4) The manufacturer or shipper of a substance being tested in which its purpose only is to determine its value for pesticide purposes or to determine its toxicity or other properties, and from which the user...

...asonable cause to believe that a pesticide or device is being distributed, stored, transported, or used in violation of this chapter or of any rules, it shall be subject to seizure on complaint of the director to a court of competent jurisdiction in the locality in which the pesticide or device is located. (B) If the article is condemned, it shall, after entry or decree, be disposed of by destruction or sale a...

...person who claims damages from a pesticide application shall notify the director of agriculture and the pesticide applicator by submitting an oral or written statement of alleged damages. The statement shall contain all of the following: (A) The name of the person responsible for the application of the pesticide; (B) The name of the owner or operator of the land on which the crop is grown and for which damages are ...

...of violations of this chapter, as provided in this chapter or any other section of the Revised Code, shall be a lien in favor of the state upon the real and personal property of the person, upon the filing of a judgment or an order of the director of agriculture with the county in which the real and personal property is located. The real and personal property of the person shall be liable to execution for the f...

...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.

...ant to section 3123.43 of the Revised 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, registration, or permit issued pursuant to this chapter.

... 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, or removal" if the court finds that there was probable cause for that action.

...ment of agriculture buying, receiving, selling, slaughtering, with the exception of those persons designated by division (B)(1) of section 918.10 of the Revised Code, exchanging, negotiating, or soliciting the sale, resale, exchange, or transfer of any animals in an amount of more than two hundred fifty head of cattle, horses, or other equidae or five hundred head of sheep, goats, or other bovidae, swine and ot...

...(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...

...st business days during the preceding twelve months or such part thereof as the dealer or broker was purchasing, selling, or exchanging livestock. In no case shall the amount of the bond or deposit total less than ten thousand dollars. Whenever the amount of bond or deposit calculated as above specified exceeds fifty thousand dollars, the amount of the bond shall be fifty thousand dollars plus ten per cent of the v...

...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 p...

...2, 943.03, and 943.031 of the Revised Code, shall be paid to the department of agriculture. (B) All annual renewal fees for the licenses shall be paid by the applicant for the renewal of a license on or before the thirty-first day of March of each year to the treasurer of state. Except for license fees for small dealers, the fees for dealers or brokers shall be $250.00 per annum. In the event a dealer or broker ...

...ctor 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 transportation of animals, or has been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude or convicted of a felony; (b) Where there have been false or misleading ...

...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.

...s 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 under the direction of the veterinary inspector and as prescribed by the department. The cost of the inspection and disinf...

...r purchase, sale, or exchange be accurately weighed by the licensed weighers upon scales approved by the department and inspected, tested, maintained, and operated in accordance with this section. This section does not prevent such weighers from performing other duties not inconsistent with this section. (B) Any person maintaining and operating a weighing facility used for the purposes set forth in this section may ...

...ules and regulations of the department relating thereto. The license of any weigher convicted of a violation of such section shall be promptly revoked. A weigher's license, unless revoked, shall expire on the thirty-first day of March of each year and shall be renewed according to the standard renewal procedure of sections 4745.01 to 4745.03, inclusive, of the Revised Code. (B) The director of agriculture shall iss...

...ection facilities, services, and personnel performing similar functions under the "Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921," 42 Stat. 159, 7 U.S.C.A. 181 as amended, to whatever extent they may be available or desirable in carrying out this section. The operator of such weighing facilities shall bear all costs incident to the testing and sealing of such facilities.

...ectly 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.

...Any authorized representative of the department of agriculture may enter any stockyard livestock market, auction market, concentration yards, packing plant, conveyance, or place for assembling livestock for the purpose of inspecting the facilities, livestock, records, or scales, and may weigh or reweigh any livestock.