Ohio Revised Code Chapter 901 - Department Of Agriculture

• Section 901.01 - Office Equipment And Supplies - Expense.
  The department of agriculture shall provide necessary office furniture, stationery, books, periodicals, maps, instruments, and other necessary supplies. The necessary expense shall be audited...
• Section 901.02 - Record Of Investigation - Distribution Of Bulletins.
  The department of agriculture shall keep a record of its acts and investigations. The department may publish and distribute bulletins on matters of general...
• Section 901.03 - Rules And Regulations.
  The department of agriculture shall adopt reasonable and proper rules and regulations to govern its proceedings and to regulate the mode and manner of...
• Section 901.04 - Grants, Gifts Or Bequests Credited To Agro Ohio Fund.
  (A) The department of agriculture may solicit or accept from any public or private source and shall deposit in the state treasury to the...
• Section 901.041 - Sustainable Agriculture Program Fund.
  There is hereby created in the state treasury the sustainable agriculture program fund. The fund shall consist of money credited to it, including, without...
• Section 901.05 - Conferences With Other States.
  The director of agriculture or authorized representatives may confer and meet with the officers of other states and of the United States on any...
• Section 901.051 - Cooperative Or Contractual Arrangements With Public Bodies.
  The director of agriculture may enter into cooperative or contractual arrangements with the United States or any agency or department thereof, other states, other...
• Section 901.06 - Annual Meeting With County Societies.
  (A) Prior to the first day of December of each year, the director of agriculture shall set a date in January of the following...
• Section 901.07 - County With No Society.
  In a county having no agricultural society organized and conducted as described in section 901.06 of the Revised Code, a majority of the presidents...
• Section 901.08 - [Effective Until 1/1/2016] Appointment Of Chiefs Of Divisions.
  The director of agriculture shall appoint a chief of the division of administration, a chief of the division of animal health, a chief of...
• Section 901.08 - [Effective 1/1/2016] Appointment Of Chiefs Of Divisions.
  The director of agriculture shall appoint a chief of the division of administration, a chief of the division of animal health, a chief of...
• Section 901.09 - Seasonal Produce Graders And Gypsy Mothtrap Tenders.
  (A) The director of agriculture may employ and establish a compensation rate for seasonal produce graders and seasonal gypsy mothtrap tenders, who shall be...
• Section 901.10 - Division Of Weights And Measures - State Sealer - Duties.
  (A) There is hereby created in the department of agriculture a division of weights and measures. The director of agriculture shall be the state...
• Section 901.101 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 1327.49.
  Effective Date: 07-26-1974
• Section 901.11, 901.12 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-26-1974
• Section 901.121 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 06-13-1975
• Section 901.13 - Ethanol Incentive Board.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Ethanol" has the same meaning as in section 5733.46 of the Revised Code. (2) "Facility" means an...
• Section 901.14, 901.15 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-26-1974
• Section 901.16 - Inspection Of Gas Meters And Meter Provers.
  The state sealer shall have charge of all the apparatus and property, belonging to the state, intended for the inspection of illuminating gas and...
• Section 901.17 - Division Of Markets - Inspection Fund.
  The division of markets may do all of the following: (A) Investigate the cost of production and marketing in all its phases; (B) Gather...
• Section 901.171 - Promotion Of Use Of Ohio-produced Agricultural Goods.
  The department of agriculture may promote the use of Ohio-produced agricultural goods, including natural spring water, through the issuance of logotypes to qualified producers...
• Section 901.18 - Collection And Dissemination Of Agricultural Information.
  The director of agriculture may collect and disseminate such information relative to agriculture, agricultural labor, waste, and uncultivated land, undeveloped resources, and decrease of...
• Section 901.19 - Promotion And Protection Of Livestock Interests.
  The director of agriculture shall promote and protect the livestock interests of the state, prevent the spread of dangerously infections and contagious diseases, and...
• Section 901.20 - Market Development Duties Of Director.
  (A) The director of agriculture may do either or both of the following: (1) Reserve exhibition space for exhibitors to exhibit their goods in...
• Section 901.21 - [Effective Until 1/1/2016] Acquisition Of Real Property Used Predominantly In Agriculture And Agricultural Easements.
  (A) As used in this section and section 901.22 of the Revised Code: (1) "Agricultural easement" has the same meaning as in section 5301.67...
• Section 901.21 - [Effective 1/1/2016] Acquisition Of Real Property Used Predominantly In Agriculture And Agricultural Easements.
  (A) As used in this section and section 901.22 of the Revised Code: (1) "Agricultural easement" has the same meaning as in section 5301.67...
• Section 901.22 - [Effective Until 1/1/2016] Matching Grants For Purchasing Agricultural Easements.
  (A) The director of agriculture, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt rules that do all of the following: (1)...
• Section 901.22 - [Effective 1/1/2016] Matching Grants For Purchasing Agricultural Easements.
  (A) The director of agriculture, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt rules that do all of the following: (1)...
• Section 901.23 - Farmland Preservation Advisory Board.
  (A) There is hereby created the farmland preservation advisory board consisting of twelve voting members appointed by the director of agriculture as follows: (1)...
• Section 901.24 - Legal Adviser - Furnishing Of Supplies.
  The attorney general is the legal adviser of the department of agriculture in all matters relating to its powers and duties. The department of...
• Section 901.25 - Prosecutions.
  Upon the request of the director of agriculture, the attorney general, or under his direction, the prosecuting attorney of any county, shall aid in...
• Section 901.26 - Power To Conduct Hearings.
  The director of agriculture in conducting investigations, inquiries, or hearings, and every person appointed by him, may administer oaths, certify to official acts, take...
• Section 901.261 - Assessment Of Costs Of Action For Noncompliance.
  The director of agriculture, in conducting investigations, inquiries, or hearings, may assess the party to an action that is brought before the department of...
• Section 901.27 - Investigations.
  For the purpose of making any investigation with regard to any company, firm, corporation, person, association, or copartnership, subject to the laws which the...
• Section 901.28 - Inspection Of Records.
  The director of agriculture, or any person designated by the director, shall, upon demand, have the right to inspect books, accounts, records, and memoranda...
• Section 901.29 - Production Of Records.
  The director of agriculture may require, by order of subpoena, to be served on any company, firm, corporation, person, association, or copartnership in the...
• Section 901.30 - Application For And Receipt Of Rural Rehabilitation Trust Assets.
  The director of agriculture is hereby designated as the state official to make application to, and as the state agent to receive from, the...
• Section 901.31 - Agreements For Use Of Assets.
  The director of agriculture may enter into agreements with the secretary of agriculture of the United States pursuant to § 2(f) of the ["]Rural...
• Section 901.32 - Ohio Farm Loan Fund.
  Funds and the proceeds of the trust assets that are not authorized to be administered by the secretary of agriculture of the United States...
• Section 901.33 - Powers Of Director - Delegation.
  The director of agriculture may: (A) Collect, compromise, adjust, or cancel claims and obligations arising out of or administered under sections 901.30 to 901.34,...
• Section 901.34 - The United States Not Liable.
  The United States and the secretary of agriculture thereof are free from liability by virtue of the transfer of the assets to the director...
• Section 901.35 - Administrative Rules Pertaining To Mink.
  For the purpose of all classification and administration of acts of the general assembly, executive orders, administrative orders, and regulations pertaining to mink, the...
• Section 901.41 - Livestock Exhibition At Ohio Expositions Center Definitions.
  As used in this section and in section 901.42 of the Revised Code: (A) "Director" means the director of agriculture or the designee of...
• Section 901.42 - Financial Assistance For Livestock Species Exhibitions At Expositions Center.
  (A) The director of agriculture may provide financial assistance to a statewide, multi-state, or national nonprofit livestock association to defray not more than fifty...
• Section 901.43 - Administrative Rules For Rendering Laboratory Services.
  (A) The director of agriculture may authorize any department of agriculture laboratory to perform a laboratory service for any person, organization, political subdivision, state...
• Section 901.44 - Laboratory And Administrative Support Fund.
  There is hereby created in the state treasury the laboratory and administrative support fund. The department of agriculture shall deposit the following moneys received...
• Section 901.50 - Regulation Of Invasive Plant Species.
  (A) "Invasive plant species" means plant species that are not native to this state whose introduction causes or is likely to cause economic or...
• Section 901.51 - Injuring Vines, Bushes, Trees, Or Crops On Land Of Another.
  No person, without privilege to do so, shall recklessly cut down, destroy, girdle, or otherwise injure a vine, bush, shrub, sapling, tree, or crop...
• Section 901.511 - Prohibiting Terrorism Involving Agricultural Products Or Equipment.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Agricultural product" means any of the following items that is produced for testing or research in the...
• Section 901.52 - Assurance Of Safety Or Assumption Of Responsibility Not Imputed.
  (A) As used in this section, "tort action" has the same meaning as in section 2305.35 of the Revised Code. (B) In a tort...
• Section 901.53 - Applicability Of Fire Prevention And Safety Provisions.
  (A) As used in this section, "agricultural structure" means any building or structure that is used in production, growing, harvesting, or housing for the...
• Section 901.54 - Office Of Farmland Preservation.
  There is hereby created the office of farmland preservation within the department of agriculture. The office shall do all of the following: (A) Prepare...
• Section 901.61 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 64, §105.01, eff. 9/29/2015. Effective Date: 07-01-1985
• Section 901.62 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 64, §105.01, eff. 9/29/2015. Effective Date: 09-29-1999
• Section 901.63 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 64, §105.01, eff. 9/29/2015. Effective Date: 06-26-2003
• Section 901.64 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 64, §105.01, eff. 9/29/2015. Effective Date: 01-11-1985
• Section 901.70 - Livestock Exhibition Definitions.
  As used in sections 901.70 to 901.76 of the Revised Code: (A) "Exhibition" means any of the following: (1) A show or sale of...
• Section 901.71 - Advisory Committee On Livestock Exhibitions.
  (A) There is hereby created the advisory committee on livestock exhibitions consisting of not more than twenty-one members, as follows: (1) The director of...
• Section 901.72 - Administrative Rules For Livestock Exhibitions.
  (A) The director of agriculture, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, may adopt rules for the governance and administration of exhibitions,...
• Section 901.73 - Investigations Concerning Livestock Exhibitions.
  (A) (1) The director of agriculture may inspect and investigate any matter involving livestock that is not present at an exhibition, but is registered...
• Section 901.74 - Disciplinary Actions.
  (A) Any person involved in any activity in connection with exhibiting livestock at an exhibition or with raising livestock with the apparent intent that...
• Section 901.75 - No Exhibition After Disqualification.
  No person shall exhibit livestock owned or raised by another person if the person owning or raising the livestock has been disqualified by the...
• Section 901.76 - Tampering With Or Sabotaging Livestock At An Exhibition Prohibited.
  (A) No person shall tamper with any livestock. (B) No person shall sabotage any livestock exhibited at an exhibition. (C) In addition to the...
• Section 901.80 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 03-16-1998; 10-15-2007
• Section 901.81 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 06-06-2001; 10-15-2007
• Section 901.82 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 06-06-2001; 10-15-2007
• Section 901.83 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 03-16-1998; 10-15-2007
• Section 901.85 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 06-29-2004
• Section 901.90 - Agriculture License Plate Scholarship Fund.
  (A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the Ohio agriculture license plate scholarship fund consisting of the contributions the registrar of motor...
• Section 901.91 - Assessment Of Operating Funds.
  The director of agriculture may assess the operating funds of the department of agriculture to pay a share of the department's central support and...
• Section 901.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates section 901.51 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. (B) Whoever violates section 901.75 or...

Last modified: October 10, 2016