Ohio Revised Code Chapter 1533 - Hunting; Fishing

• Section 1533.01 - Hunting - Fishing Definitions.
  As used in this chapter, "person," "resident," "nonresident," "division rule," "rule," "closed season," "open season," "take or taking," "possession," "bag limit," "transport and transportation,"...
• Section 1533.02 - Fishing And Trapping Districts - Restrictions On Taking, Possession And Selling.
  Fish in the inland and Lake Erie fishing districts, game birds and game quadrupeds throughout the state, and fur-bearing animals in the inland and...
• Section 1533.03 - Prevention Of Authorized Hunting, Trapping, Or Fishing Prohibited.
  (A) No person shall purposely prevent or attempt to prevent any person from hunting, trapping, or fishing for a wild animal as authorized by...
• Section 1533.031 - Prevention Of Hunting By Creating Noise Prohibited.
  (A) No person shall purposely prevent or attempt to prevent any person from hunting a wild animal as authorized by this chapter by creating...
• Section 1533.04 - Use Of Suppressor.
  (A) A person who holds a valid hunting license issued under this chapter and who hunts game birds or wild quadrupeds may use a...
• Section 1533.05 - Raptors For Use In Sport Of Falconry.
  (A) As used in this section and section 1533.051 of the Revised Code, "raptor" means a live migratory bird of the family Falconidae or...
• Section 1533.051 - Commercial And Noncommercial Propagation Of Raptors.
  (A) The chief of the division of wildlife may authorize commercial and noncommercial propagation of raptors by rules adopted pursuant to section 1531.08 of...
• Section 1533.06 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 09-26-2003
• Section 1533.07 - Protection Afforded Nongame Birds.
  No person shall catch, kill, injure, pursue, or have in the person's possession, either dead or alive, or purchase, expose for sale, transport, or...
• Section 1533.08 - Scientific, Educational Or Rehabilitation Collection Permits.
  Except as otherwise provided by division rule, any person desiring to collect or possess wild animals that are protected by law or their nests...
• Section 1533.081 - Permit For Taking Of Wild Animal.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Energy" has the same meaning as in section 1551.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Energy facility" means...
• Section 1533.09 - Annual Report Of Operations Under Collection Permit - Revocation And Forfeiture Of Permit.
  Before the fifteenth day of March of each year, each wild animal permit holder shall file with the division of wildlife a written report...
• Section 1533.10 - Hunting License - Tourist's Hunting License - Hunter Education And Conservation Course.
  Except as provided in this section or division (A)(2) of section 1533.12or section 1533.73 or 1533.731 of the Revised Code, no person shall hunt...
• Section 1533.101 - Reissued License, Stamp Or Permit.
  Any person who has been issued a hunting or fishing license, a wetlands habitat stamp, a deer or wild turkey permit, or a fur...
• Section 1533.102 - Apprentice Hunting Licenses And Fur Taker Permits.
  The chief of the division of wildlife may adopt rules under section 1531.10 of the Revised Code that the chief considers to be necessary...
• Section 1533.103 - Electric-powered Vehicle Permits For Mobility-impaired Persons.
  The chief of the division of wildlife shall adopt rules under section 1531.10 of the Revised Code that are necessary to administer the issuance...
• Section 1533.11 - Special Deer Or Wild Turkey Permits - Wildlife Refunds Fund.
  (A) Except as provided in this section or section 1533.731 of the Revised Code, no person shall hunt deer on lands of another without...
• Section 1533.111 - Hunting Or Trapping Fur Taker Permit - Trapper Education Course.
  Except as provided in this section or division (A)(2) of section 1533.12 of the Revised Code, no person shall hunt or trap fur-bearing animals...
• Section 1533.112 - Annual Wetlands Habitat Stamp Needed To Hunt Ducks, Geese Or Brant - Wetlands Habitat Fund.
  Except as provided in this section or unless otherwise provided by division rule, no person shall hunt ducks, geese, or brant on the lands...
• Section 1533.113 - Rules For Management Permits.
  If the chief of the division of wildlife determines that the licenses, permits, and stamps issued under this chapter and Chapter 1531. of the...
• Section 1533.12 - Hunting, Fishing Or Trapping Without A License Or Permit.
  (A) (1) Except as otherwise provided in division (A)(2) of this section, every person on active duty in the armed forces of the United...
• Section 1533.121 - Deer Killed By Motor Vehicle On Highway.
  Except as otherwise provided by division rule, the driver of every motor vehicle that has caused the death of a deer by striking the...
• Section 1533.13 - Persons Authorized To Issue Licenses, Stamps And Permits - Application Procedure.
  Hunting and fishing licenses, wetlands habitat stamps, deer and wild turkey permits, fur taker permits, and any other licenses, permits, or stamps that are...
• Section 1533.131 - Gift Certificates For Licenses, Permits, And Stamps.
  The chief of the division of wildlife may sell gift certificates that may be used to obtain hunting and fishing licenses, fur taker, deer,...
• Section 1533.14 - Hunting License Or Wetlands Habitat Stamp Not Transferable - License To Be Carried And Exhibited.
  Unless otherwise provided by division rule, no hunting license or wetlands habitat stamp is transferable and no hunter shall carry a hunting license or...
• Section 1533.15 - Issuing, Dating And Recording Licenses.
  Except as provided by division rule, the clerks and other agents authorized to issue hunting and fishing licenses, deer and wild turkey permits, and...
• Section 1533.151 - Wildlife Conservation Stamps.
  The chief of the division of wildlife, with the approval of the director of natural resources, may print and issue stamps portraying wild animals...
• Section 1533.16 - Weapons For Taking Game Birds And Wild Quadrupeds.
  Game birds and wild quadrupeds shall be taken only by hunting with a gun, with a gun and dog, with a bow and arrow,...
• Section 1533.161 - Prohibiting Jacklighting.
  No person shall throw or cast the rays of a spotlight or other artificial light from any vehicle into any field, woodland, or forest...
• Section 1533.17 - Hunting Without Permission.
  (A) No person shall hunt or trap upon any lands, pond, lake, or private waters of another, except water claimed by riparian right of...
• Section 1533.171 - Prohibiting Injuring Persons Or Property While Hunting.
  (A) No person, in the act of hunting, pursuing, taking, or killing a wild animal, shall act in a negligent, careless, or reckless manner...
• Section 1533.18 - Recreational User Definitions.
  As used in sections 1533.18 and 1533.181 of the Revised Code: (A) "Premises" means all privately owned lands, ways, and waters, and any buildings...
• Section 1533.181 - Immunity.
  (A) No owner, lessee, or occupant of premises: (1) Owes any duty to a recreational user to keep the premises safe for entry or...
• Section 1533.19 - Field Trial Club Permits.
  Except as otherwise provided by division rule, recognized field trial clubs may shoot domestically raised quails, chukar partridges, ducks, pheasants, or other game birds...
• Section 1533.191 - Purchase Of Domestically Raised Game Birds For Dog Training Grounds.
  Organized field trial clubs or individuals may purchase domestically raised quails, chukar partridges, pheasants, black and mallard ducks, and other game birds from licensed...
• Section 1533.20 - Field Trial Areas - Permit.
  The division of wildlife may acquire by gift, lease, or purchase lands to be used and developed for the purpose of conducting field trials...
• Section 1533.21 - Club Lands May Be Designated As Field Trial Area.
  A club or an association organized to conduct field trials which has acquired through purchase, lease, or other agreement with owners or lessees an...
• Section 1533.22 - Signs For Field Trial Areas - Hunting Or Trapping Within Areas.
  The division of wildlife shall provide suitable signs to be placed around the boundaries of field trial areas for public notice. Persons following dogs...
• Section 1533.221 - Restricting Filed Trials For Nonresidents.
  A nonresident of this state shall not exercise, train, or work a dog in this state at any time when residents of this state...
• Section 1533.23 - Fur Dealer's Permit.
  No person shall deal in or buy green or dried furs, skins, or parts thereof taken from fur-bearing animals of the state, except domesticated...
• Section 1533.24 - Fur Dealer's Daily Record - Forms - Carrier Restrictions.
  Except as otherwise provided by division rule, every fur dealer shall keep a daily record on forms provided by the division of wildlife of...
• Section 1533.25 To 1533.27 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 01-01-1974
• Section 1533.28 - Wildlife And Fish Restoration Projects In Cooperation With United States.
  The state hereby assents to the provisions of the act of congress entitled "An act to provide that the United States shall aid the...
• Section 1533.29 - Prima-facie Evidence Of Guilt.
  The finding of a gun, net, seine, boat, trap, or other device that is set, maintained, used, or had in possession in violation of...
• Section 1533.30 - Transportation Of Fish, Game Birds, And Wild Quadrupeds.
  No person shall receive for transportation, transport, or cause to be transported any box, package, or other receptacle containing fish, game birds, or wild...
• Section 1533.301 - Annual Permit For Transporting Fish - Suspension Or Revocation.
  Any person may apply for a permit to transport fish that are for sale, sold, or purchased. The chief of the division of wildlife...
• Section 1533.31 - Shipment Of Live Wild Animals.
  The chief of the division of wildlife may permit or forbid or otherwise regulate the receiving of any species of live wild animals for...
• Section 1533.32 - Fishing Licenses Generally.
  Except as provided in this section or division (A)(2) or (C) of section 1533.12 of the Revised Code, no person, including nonresidents, shall take...
• Section 1533.321 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 03-27-1979
• Section 1533.322 - Exemption From Fishing License Requirement.
  Any person who is duly licensed by any state, district, country, or sovereignty other than this state to take or catch fish by angling...
• Section 1533.323 - Reciprocity.
  The attorney general, the chief of the division of wildlife and the director of natural resources may enter into any reciprocal contracts and agreements...
• Section 1533.324 - Prohibition Against Taking Or Selling Mussels.
  No person shall take mussels or sell mussels taken in this state. Effective Date: 02-25-1998
• Section 1533.33 - Fishing License Fees.
  All moneys derived from fishing licenses issued pursuant to section 1533.32 of the Revised Code shall be appropriated exclusively for the use of the...
• Section 1533.34 - License To Use Boat, Net, Or Device For Fishing.
  No person shall use or operate, for the purpose of taking fish, a boat, net, or device other than a minnow net or hook...
• Section 1533.341 - Quota Management System.
  The chief of the division of wildlife with the approval of the wildlife council, in managing the Lake Erie fishery resources, may utilize and...
• Section 1533.342 - Commercial Fishing Licenses.
  (A) The chief of the division of wildlife, with the approval of the wildlife council, may limit the type and number of commercial fishing...
• Section 1533.343 - Vessel And Catch Monitoring Devices Required.
  On and after March 1, 2008, no commercial fishing licensee shall use or engage in fishing with commercial gear unless the licensee uses vessel...
• Section 1533.35 - Commercial Fishing Device Annual License Fee.
  (A) Commercial fishing devices shall be annually licensed as follows: (1) Trap and fyke nets, for the first twenty nets or any portion thereof,...
• Section 1533.351 - Experimental Fishing Device Annual License Fee.
  Except as otherwise provided by division rule, the chief of the division of wildlife may issue annual licenses for experimental fishing devices or fishing...
• Section 1533.352 - Reciprocity.
  The chief of the division of wildlife may, with the approval of the wildlife council and the attorney general, enter into agreements with the...
• Section 1533.36 - Fishing License Not Transferable - Exception.
  (A) No fishing license issued pursuant to section 1533.32 of the Revised Code is transferable, and no fisher shall carry a license that was...
• Section 1533.37 - Methods Of Taking Fish.
  Fish shall be taken only by angling unless otherwise provided by the Revised Code or division rule. If a fish is unintentionally taken contrary...
• Section 1533.38 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 11-15-1981
• Section 1533.39 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 09-26-2003
• Section 1533.40 - Permit To Buy, Sell Or Deal In Minnows, Crawfish Or Hellgrammites.
  Each person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation that buys, sells, or deals in minnows, crayfish, or hellgrammites or collects the listed species for sale...
• Section 1533.41 - Fishing Season For Lake Erie And Other Waters.
  For the Lake Erie fishing district, and in such other waters wherein fishing with nets is licensed by law, there shall be not more...
• Section 1533.42 - Licensee Shall Keep Report For Each Day's Catch.
  Except as otherwise provided by division rule, every licensee taking fish with commercial fishing gear, except a trotline of seventy hooks or less, in...
• Section 1533.43 - License Tag To Be Attached To Each Fishing Device.
  Except as otherwise provided by division rule, the chief of the division of wildlife, each fishing season, shall issue a license tag for each...
• Section 1533.431 - Numbering And Locating Trap Or Fyke Nets.
  Except as otherwise provided by division rule, every person using trap or fyke nets in taking fish in the Lake Erie fishing district, each...
• Section 1533.44 - Fishing Devices Shall Be Marked With Owner's Or Operator's Name.
  Except as otherwise provided by division rule, no person shall use in fishing in the Lake Erie fishing district and other waters wherein nets...
• Section 1533.45 - Places Where Nets May Not Be Used.
  No person shall lay out, pull, lift, draw, set, place, locate, or maintain any net or seine, except a minnow seine, on any of...
• Section 1533.46 - Splashing To Drive Fish Into Nets Prohibited.
  No fish shall be driven into any net or device by "plunging," "splashing," "hammering," or by any noise or other disturbances in or out...
• Section 1533.47 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 03-27-1984
• Section 1533.48 - Trotlines.
  Except as otherwise provided by division rule, two types of trotlines may be used in the Lake Erie fishing district. One type shall be...
• Section 1533.49 - Size Of Mesh And Twine Used In Crib Nets, Trap Nets, And Fyke Nets.
  The dimensions and specifications for nets provided in this section shall apply except as otherwise provided by division rule. The meshes of the back...
• Section 1533.50 - Carp Apron Use Restrictions.
  Except as otherwise provided by division rule, no person shall use a carp apron except in marshes, or in connecting ditches dug especially for...
• Section 1533.51 - Fishing Guide License.
  No person shall be or serve as a fishing guide in the Lake Erie fishing district without a license from the chief of the...
• Section 1533.511 - Fishing Guide Daily Record.
  Except as otherwise provided by division rule, every fishing guide who furnishes services that result in the taking of fish from the Lake Erie...
• Section 1533.52 - Method Of Measuring Nets.
  Except as provided by division rule, the size of the mesh of all nets, seines, and carp apron, except dip nets or minnow nets,...
• Section 1533.53 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 03-27-1984
• Section 1533.54 - Methods Of Fishing.
  No person shall draw, set, place, locate, maintain, or possess a pound net, crib net, trammel net, fyke net, set net, seine, bar net,...
• Section 1533.55 - Placement And Maintenance Of Nets And Other Fishing Devices In Lake Erie.
  Except as otherwise provided by division rule, no person shall draw, set, place, locate, or maintain any net, except a seine, within one-fourth of...
• Section 1533.56 - Daily Records Of Fish Processing.
  Except as otherwise provided by division rule, every person, in any county adjoining Lake Erie, who for consideration, hire, or resale, scales, fillets, dresses,...
• Section 1533.57 - Minnows Shall Be Taken Only For Bait.
  In the inland fishing district seining for minnows is prohibited from the first day of May to the fourteenth day of June, both inclusive,...
• Section 1533.58 - Prohibition Against Use Of Deleterious Substances In Waters Of The State.
  No person shall take, catch, injure, or kill wild animals, or destroy the habitat thereof, in any waters of the state by means of...
• Section 1533.59 - Prohibition Against Obstructing Natural Transit Of Fish.
  No person shall locate, place, or maintain in any of the waters over which the state has jurisdiction any obstruction to the natural transit...
• Section 1533.60 - Fish May Be Taken In Overflows And Private Ponds.
  Fish may be taken in any manner in the ponds or lagoons formed by the receding waters of any river when such ponds or...
• Section 1533.61 - Certain Nets, Traps And Other Devices Exempted.
  This chapter and Chapter 1531. of the Revised Code do not apply to any of the following: (A) Nets, traps, or other devices for...
• Section 1533.62 - Locations Where Seine Or Net May Be Used.
  The dimensions and specifications for seines provided in this section shall apply except as otherwise provided by division rule. Carp, buffalo fish, suckers, sheepshead,...
• Section 1533.63 - Legal Length And Weight Of Certain Fish.
  Except as otherwise provided by division rule, no person shall take, catch, buy, sell, transport, or possess a whitefish less than seventeen inches in...
• Section 1533.631 - Permit For Handling Fish At Wholesale.
  Any person may apply for a permit to handle commercial fish, or other fish that may be bought or sold under the Revised Code...
• Section 1533.632 - Regulation Of Aquaculture - Permits.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Aquaculture" means a form of agriculture that involves the propagation and rearing of aquatic species in controlled...
• Section 1533.64 - Property Rights In Fish.
  Fish lawfully confined in a net, or by a device authorized by law, are the property of the owner or person operating the net...
• Section 1533.641 - Commercial Licenses Revoked On Felony Conviction.
  (A) If a person is convicted of or pleads guilty on or after the effective date of this section to a felony related to...
• Section 1533.65 - Each Fish Constitutes Separate Offense.
  Each fish caught, killed, taken, or had in possession contrary to a division rule or this chapter or Chapter 1531. of the Revised Code...
• Section 1533.66 - Trespassing Upon Lands Bordering On Fishponds.
  (A) No person shall trespass upon lands or rights in lands of another, lying in or bordering upon a natural or artificial pond or...
• Section 1533.67 - Enforcement Procedure.
  The chief of the division of wildlife, wildlife officers, and other employees of the division that the chief specifies may serve and execute warrants...
• Section 1533.68 - Suspension Or Revocation Of License Or Permit.
  If a person is convicted of a violation of any law relative to the taking, possession, protection, preservation, or propagation of wild animals, or...
• Section 1533.69 - Prosecution For Violation Of Division Rule.
  Except as otherwise provided in this section, prosecution for violation of a division rule adopted as provided by the Revised Code relative to the...
• Section 1533.70 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.89, HB 389, §2, eff. 6/29/2012. Effective Date: 03-18-1999
• Section 1533.71 - [First Of Two Versions; See Note] License To Raise Or Keep Game Birds And Animals.
  (A) Unless otherwise provided in this section or by division rule, any person desiring to engage in the business of raising and selling game...
• Section 1533.71 - License To Raise Or Keep Game Birds And Animals.
  (A) Unless otherwise provided in this section or by division rule, any person desiring to engage in the business of raising and selling game...
• Section 1533.72 - License To Own Or Operate Commercial Bird Shooting Preserve.
  (A) No person shall own or operate a commercial bird shooting preserve without a license issued by the chief of the division of wildlife...
• Section 1533.721 - Wild Animal Hunting Preserve License - Conditions.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided by division rule, no person shall offer for hunting or hunt any nonnative wildlife except in a licensed wild...
• Section 1533.73 - Commercial Bird Shooting Preserves - Regulations - Leg Bands And Tags.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in this division or by division rule, licensed commercial bird shooting preserves may be established in any county of...
• Section 1533.731 - Wild Animal Hunting Preserves - Regulations.
  (A) No wild animal hunting preserve shall be less than eighty acres in area. Each such preserve shall be in one continuous block of...
• Section 1533.74 - Tag Or Seal Required For Animals Sold For Food.
  No game birds, game quadrupeds, or fur-bearing animals held under the authority of a license issued under section 1533.71, 1533.72, or 1533.721 of the...
• Section 1533.75 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.89, HB 389, §2, eff. 6/29/2012. Effective Date: 10-20-1994
• Section 1533.76 - Division Of Wildlife May Purchase Pheasants.
  No licensee shall ship any live pheasants propagated in accordance with sections 1533.71 to 1533.79 of the Revised Code from this state until the...
• Section 1533.77 - Records Of Holder Of Propagating License - Inspection Of Records.
  (A) Each holder of a noncommercial or commercial propagating license issued under section 1533.71 of the Revised Code shall keep the license prominently displayed...
• Section 1533.78 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 09-04-1957; 04-06-2007
• Section 1533.79 - Control Or Eradication Of Parasites And Diseases; Authority Of The Director Of Agriculture.
  (A) The chief of the division of wildlife may adopt, amend, and rescind such rules as the chief considers necessary to control or eradicate...
• Section 1533.80 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.89, HB 389, §2, eff. 6/29/2012. Effective Date: 10-20-1994
• Section 1533.81 - Waterfowl Hunting Area Permit Required.
  Every person who owns, holds, or controls land or water, within a state or federal waterfowl management area, shall obtain annually a permit from...
• Section 1533.82 - Effect Of Child Support Default On License, Certificate Or Permit.
  (A) On receipt of a notice pursuant to section 3123.43 of the Revised Code, the chief of the division of wildlife shall comply with...
• Section 1533.83 - Shooting Range Definitions.
  As used in sections 1533.83 to 1533.85 of the Revised Code: (A) "Political subdivision" means a municipal corporation, township, county, or other body corporate...
• Section 1533.84 - Rules For Establishing Standards For Shooting Ranges.
  The chief of the division of wildlife, in accordance with section 1531.10 of the Revised Code, shall adopt rules establishing generally accepted standards for...
• Section 1533.85 - Immunity In Civil Action Concerning Shooting Range Noise.
  (A) (1) The owner, operator, or user of a shooting range is not liable in damages in a civil action to any person for...
• Section 1533.86 - Ohio Ginseng Management Program Definitions.
  As used in sections 1533.86 to 1533.90 of the Revised Code: (A) "Ginseng" means the plant Panax quinquefolius L., also known as Panax quinquefolium...
• Section 1533.87 - Ohio Ginseng Management Program.
  There is hereby established in the department of natural resources the Ohio ginseng management program, which shall be administered by the chief of the...
• Section 1533.88 - Rules.
  The chief of the division of wildlife shall adopt rules under section 1531.10 of the Revised Code as necessary to carry out the purposes...
• Section 1533.881 - Resale Or Export Registration Permit.
  No person shall buy or otherwise acquire or convey ginseng for resale or export without a registration permit issued annually by the chief of...
• Section 1533.882 - Prohibited Acts.
  No person shall do any of the following: (A) Without written authorization from the chief of the division of wildlife, harvest wild ginseng except...
• Section 1533.89 - Enforcement Of Statutes And Rules.
  Any sheriff, deputy sheriff, marshal, deputy marshal, municipal police officer, township constable, park, preserve, or forest officer, conservancy district police officer, or other law...
• Section 1533.891 - Seizure And Forfeiture Of Ginseng.
  The chief of the division of wildlife shall seize any ginseng harvested or acquired in violation of any provision of sections 1533.86 to 1533.90...
• Section 1533.90 - Moneys Paid Into Wildlife Fund.
  Unless otherwise directed by the director of natural resources, all fees, fines, penalties, and forfeitures arising from prosecutions, convictions, confiscations, or other actions taken...
• Section 1533.91 - Nonresident Licenses Or Permits - Reciprocal Agreements.
  The chief of the division of wildlife, upon approval of the wildlife council and the attorney general, may enter into agreements with the appropriate...
• Section 1533.92 - Tag Fishing Tournament On Public Waters - Application For Permit.
  The chief of the division of wildlife, with the approval of the director of natural resources, may issue a permit for the operation of...
• Section 1533.93 - Rules For Operation Of Tag Fishing Tournaments.
  The chief of the division of wildlife, with the approval of the director of natural resources, shall adopt, and may amend or rescind, rules...
• Section 1533.94 - Special Conditions On Permit.
  In issuing a permit under section 1533.92 of the Revised Code, the chief of the division of wildlife may impose any special conditions upon...
• Section 1533.95 - Immunity.
  (A) The department of natural resources is not liable for any death or injury to person or property that may result from the operation...
• Section 1533.96 - Ineligibility For Permit.
  (A) No person who has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to a theft or fraud offense under the laws of this state, another...
• Section 1533.97 - Prohibited Acts.
  (A) No person shall operate a tag fishing tournament without a permit issued by the chief of the division of wildlife under section 1533.92...
• Section 1533.98 - Certain Tournament Not Prohibited.
  Nothing in sections 1533.92 to 1533.97 or section 2915.02 of the Revised Code shall be construed as prohibiting a fishing tournament in which a...
• Section 1533.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates section 1533.17 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree on a first offense and a...

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