Ohio Revised Code Chapter 943 - Livestock Dealers

• Section 943.01 - Livestock Dealer Definitions.
  As used in this chapter: (A) "Animals" or "livestock" means horses, mules, and other equidae, cattle, sheep, and goats and other bovidae, swine and...
• Section 943.02 - License Required.
  (A) No person shall act as a small dealer, dealer, or broker without first being licensed. No person shall be an employee of more...
• Section 943.03 - Application For License.
  (A) (1) Application for a license as a dealer or broker shall be made in writing to the department of agriculture. The application shall...
• Section 943.031 - Application For License As A Small Dealer.
  (A) Application for a license as a small dealer shall be made in writing to the department of agriculture. The application shall state the...
• Section 943.04 - Fees.
  (A) Fees for the initial issuance of any license issued pursuant to sections 943.02, 943.03, and 943.031 of the Revised Code, shall be paid...
• Section 943.05 - Refusal Or Suspension Of License.
  (A) The director of agriculture may refuse to grant or may suspend a small dealer's, dealer's, or broker's license, without prior hearing, after determining...
• Section 943.06 - Posting Of License.
  Every small dealer, dealer, and broker licensed under section 943.03or 943.031 of the Revised Code, as applicable, and carrying on or conducting business under...
• Section 943.07 - Sanitation.
  Each small dealer, dealer, or broker leasing, renting, operating, or owning livestock yards, pens, premises, or vehicles in which animals are quartered, fed, held,...
• Section 943.08 - Weighing Regulations.
  (A) Each person maintaining and operating any weighing facilities used for, in connection with, or incident to the purchase or sale of livestock at...
• Section 943.09 - Weigher's License.
  Licenses shall be issued by the department of agriculture to weighers under such rules and regulations as the department shall prescribe. Each weigher shall...
• Section 943.10 - Weighing Facilities.
  All weighing facilities operated under the "Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921," 42 Stat. 159, 7 U.S.C. 181 as amended, shall be maintained and...
• Section 943.11 - Prohibition.
  No weigher shall improperly weigh any livestock, or give any false certificate of weight, or accept directly or indirectly money or other consideration for...
• Section 943.12 - Right Of Entry.
  Any authorized representative of the department of agriculture may enter any stockyard livestock market, auction market concentration yards, packing plant, conveyance, or place for...
• Section 943.13 - Inspection And Treatment - Animals Sold Through Livestock Auction Markets.
  The department of agriculture shall require inspection, tests, and treatments necessary to prevent the spread of diseases of all animals sold or transferred from...
• Section 943.14 - Maintenance And Inspection Of Records.
  (A) The department of agriculture or any of its authorized agents may inspect the records of any licensee or employee at any time to...
• Section 943.15 - Rules.
  (A) The department of agriculture may adopt and enforce rules for the purpose of carrying into effect sections 943.01 to 943.17 of the Revised...
• Section 943.16 - Disposition Of Fines.
  All fines imposed and collected under section 943.99 of the Revised Code shall be credited to the animal and consumer protection laboratory fund created...
• Section 943.17 - Jurisdiction.
  Municipal courts, county courts, and courts of common pleas have jurisdiction in cases arising under sections 943.01 to 943.17, inclusive, of the Revised Code....
• Section 943.18 - Temporary Or Permanent Injunctions.
  In addition to the remedies provided and irrespective of whether or not there exists an adequate remedy at law, the director of agriculture may...
• Section 943.19 - Effect Of Child Support Default On License, Certificate Or Permit.
  On receipt of a notice pursuant to section 3123.43 of the Revised Code, the director of agriculture shall comply with sections 3123.41 to 3123.50...
• Section 943.20 - License For Progagation Of Deer With Status Or Wasting Disease; Hunting Preserve License.
  (A) A person who wishes to propagate captive deer with status or captive deer with certified chronic wasting disease status shall obtain a license...
• Section 943.21 - Required Testing Of Deer.
  (A) A captive whitetail deer licensee shall have monitored captive deer, captive deer with status, and captive deer with certified chronic wasting disease status...
• Section 943.22 - Mitigation Or Elimination Of Chronic Wasting Disease.
  The director of agriculture shall take actions that the director determines are necessary to mitigate or eliminate the presence of chronic wasting disease or...
• Section 943.23 - Compliance With Rules And Requirements.
  A captive whitetail deer licensee shall comply with the requirements established in sections 943.20 to 943.26 of the Revised Code and in rules. The...
• Section 943.24 - Adoption Of Rules.
  The director of agriculture shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that establish all of the following: (A) Requirements...
• Section 943.25 - On-site Inspections.
  The director of agriculture or the director's authorized representative may enter at reasonable times on the premises of a captive whitetail deer licensee to...
• Section 943.26 - Captive Deer Fund.
  Notwithstanding section 943.04 of the Revised Code, all money collected through the issuance of licenses to captive whitetail deer licensees under this chapter shall...
• Section 943.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates section 943.11 of the Revised Code is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree. (B) Whoever violates sections 943.01 to...

Last modified: October 10, 2016