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...Whoever violates sections 927.51 to 927.72 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree on a first offense; on each subsequent offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree.

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Container" means the innermost wrapping, packaging, or vessel in direct contact with a final hemp-derived cannabinoid product in which the final hemp-derived cannabinoid product is enclosed for retail sale to consumers, such as a jar, bottle, bag, box, packet, can, carton, or cartridge. "Container" does not include bulk shipping containers or outer wrappings that are not essential for ...

...(A)(1) The director of agriculture may establish a program to monitor and regulate hemp cultivation and shall establish a program to monitor and regulate hemp processing in this state. (2) If the director establishes a program to monitor and regulate hemp cultivation in this state and subsequently intends to transfer authority to the United States department of agriculture to monitor and regulate hemp cultivation ...

...ll be filed with the joint committee on agency rule review within six months of the list being adopted or changed.

...(A) Except as authorized under division (A)(4) or (5) of section 928.02 of the Revised Code, no person shall cultivate hemp without a hemp cultivation license issued by the director of agriculture under this chapter, if the director implements a program to monitor and regulate hemp cultivation under division (A)(1) of section 928.02 of the Revised Code, or process hemp without a hemp processing license issued by the ...

...(A) The director of agriculture shall issue a corrective action plan to any person that the director determines has negligently violated section 928.04 of the Revised Code. The director shall include in the corrective action plan both of the following: (1) A reasonable date by which the person shall correct the violation; (2) A requirement that the person report to the director regarding the person's compliance ...

...There is hereby created in the state treasury the hemp program fund. The fund shall consist of all fees collected under rules adopted under section 928.03 of the Revised Code; money appropriated to the fund; and any other money received from gifts or federal grants. All investment earnings of the fund shall be credited to the fund. The director of agriculture shall use money in the fund to administer and enforce thi...

...(A) The director of agriculture may enter 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 jur...

...The department of agriculture, in consultation and in cooperation with the Ohio investigative unit in the department of public safety, shall enforce this chapter.

...(A) Whoever recklessly violates section 928.04 of the Revised Code is guilty of the following: (1) For a first offense, a minor misdemeanor ; (2) For each subsequent offense, a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. The court shall order an offender who is convicted of or pleads guilty to a third or subsequent offense ineligible to receive a hemp cultivation license or hemp processing license under this chapter. The...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Agricultural production" means commercial aquaculture, algaculture meaning the farming of algae, apiculture, animal husbandry, or poultry husbandry; the production for a commercial purpose of timber, field crops, tobacco, fruits, vegetables, nursery stock, ornamental shrubs, ornamental trees, flowers, or sod; the growth of timber for a noncommercial purpose if the land on which the tim...

...tion program under an agreement with an agency of the federal government and if: (a) The land is composed of tracts, lots, or parcels that total not less than ten acres; or (b) The activities conducted on the land produced an average yearly gross income of at least twenty-five hundred dollars during that three-year period or the owner has evidence of an anticipated gross income of that amount from those activities....

...(A)(1) No public entity with authority to levy special assessments on real property shall collect an assessment for purposes of sewer, water, or electrical service on real property that is within an agricultural district as described in division (A)(2) of this section without the permission of the owner, except that any assessment may be collected on a lot surrounding a dwelling or other structure not used in a...

...(A) As used in this section, "agricultural activities" means common agricultural practices, including all of the following: (1) The cultivation of crops or changing crop rotation; (2) Raising of livestock or changing the species of livestock raised; (3) Entering into and operating under a livestock contract; (4) The storage and application of commercial fertilizer; (5) The storage and application of manure;...

...(A) No public or private agency, as defined in section 163.01 of the Revised Code, shall appropriate more than ten acres or ten per cent of an individual property under one ownership and currently used in agricultural production in an agricultural district, whichever is greater, except as provided in this section. No state agency, municipal corporation, county, township, or other political subdivision or taxing autho...

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Agriculture" has the same meaning as in section 1.61 of the Revised Code. (B) "Best management practices" means the engagement of agricultural production and management, including practices such as manure handling, tillage, forestry management, and similar practices, in a manner that is generally accepted in the agriculture industry and that is approved by any of the following: (1) Th...

...(A) Land that is located in the unincorporated area of a township or county may be enrolled in an agricultural security area through the submittal of an application to the board of township trustees of each township and to the board of county commissioners of each county in which the land is located requesting the establishment of such an area. Land that is located in a municipal corporation and land that is located ...

...mployee of the environmental protection agency orders the construction, modification, or operation for the purpose of enabling water and sewer service areas that are outside of the agricultural security area to be connected to each other, and provided that the lines do not provide service connections to land within the agricultural security area. (2) A requirement that the owner or owners of the land in the area use...

...(A) An owner of land that is enrolled in an agricultural security area may do either or both of the following: (1) Request approval from each board of township trustees and each board of county commissioners that adopted a resolution approving the establishment of the agricultural security area to operate any business that does not impair the owner's ability to engage in agriculture and does not cause the l...

...Upon request, the director of agriculture or the director's authorized representative shall provide guidance and technical assistance to owners of land who are seeking enrollment in agricultural security areas and to boards of township trustees and boards of county commissioners who receive applications requesting the establishment of agricultural security areas.

...Not later than one hundred eighty days prior to the expiration of an agricultural security area, an owner of land that is enrolled in the area may renew the enrollment. The procedures established under this chapter for the initial enrollment of land in an agricultural security area apply to the renewal of enrollment. In addition, all of the requirements governing initial enrollment apply to enrollment renewal.

...ne of its political subdivisions, or an agency as defined in section 163.01 of the Revised Code. (3) The county auditor of a county in which land enrolled in an agricultural security area is located who discovers that any of the events described in division (A)(2) of this section has occurred and that the owner of the land has not complied with the notice requirements established in that division shall provide the r...

...No owner of land that is enrolled in an agricultural security area shall fail to comply with the statement that the owner submitted under division (A)(3) of section 931.02 of the Revised Code that the owner will not initiate, approve, or finance any new development on the land for nonagricultural purposes.

...The director of agriculture shall prepare and submit to the governor, the president of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives an annual report concerning agricultural security areas in the state. The report shall include information concerning the number of acres that are enrolled in agricultural security areas and their location and any tax exemptions granted under section 5709.28 of the Revised...

...Whoever violates division (A)(2) of section 931.07 of the Revised Code or section 931.08 of the Revised Code shall be fined five hundred dollars for violation of each section. The clerk of the court that receives payment of the fine money shall forward half of the money to the board of township trustees of the township and half of the money to the board of county commissioners of the county in which the applica...