Effective: October 29, 1996
Latest Legislation: House Bill 651 - 121st General Assembly
(A) No person shall distribute mislabeled fertilizer. A fertilizer is mislabeled if any false or misleading statement appears on or is attached to the container or on the pertinent invoice or delivery ticket, if false or misleading statements appear in any advertising material, or if the fertilizer is not uniformly mixed.
(B) No person shall sell, offer, or expose for sale less than the quantity of fertilizer that the person represents. No person shall take more than the quantity of fertilizer that the person represents when, as a buyer, the person furnishes the weight or measure by which the quantity is determined.
(C) No person shall misrepresent the price of any fertilizer or related service sold, offered, exposed, or advertised for sale by weight, measure, or count, nor represent the price in any manner calculated or tending to mislead or in any way deceive a person.
(D) No person shall distribute any fertilizer or mixed fertilizer other than by net weight, unless the director of agriculture has approved the device that is used to measure the fertilizer or mixed fertilizer.
(E) A meter may be used to deliver fertilizer by quantity if the meter bears a current, valid seal indicating it has been tested and approved by the division of weights and measures in the department of agriculture or by a sealer of weights and measures of a county or municipal corporation.
Structure Ohio Revised Code
Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences
Chapter 905 | Agricultural Additives and Lime; Fertilizer
Section 905.01 | Agricultural Additive Definitions.
Section 905.02 | Selling or Exchanging Unregistered Agricultural Additive.
Section 905.03 | Application for Registration of Agricultural Additive.
Section 905.04 | Label Information.
Section 905.05 | Administrative Rules.
Section 905.06 | Information Duties - Investigations.
Section 905.07 | Suspending or Revoking of Registration.
Section 905.08 | Holding Additives During Period of Suspension or Revocation.
Section 905.10 | Class Actions.
Section 905.11 | False Representations.
Section 905.31 | Fertilizer Definitions.
Section 905.32 | Application for License.
Section 905.321 | Certification Required.
Section 905.322 | Rules and Regulations Regarding Fertilizer Application.
Section 905.323 | Voluntary Nutrient Management Plans.
Section 905.324 | Confidentiality.
Section 905.325 | Civil Actions; Affirmative Defenses.
Section 905.326 | Application of Fertilizer in Western Basin.
Section 905.327 | Penalty for Unlawful Application of Fertilizer.
Section 905.33 | Registering Custom Mixed Fertilizer as a Specialty Fertilizer.
Section 905.331 | Nonagricultural Production Custom Mixed Fertilizer Blender License.
Section 905.34 | Exemption for Distributor.
Section 905.35 | Label Information.
Section 905.36 | Inspection Fees - Annual Statement of Tonnage.
Section 905.37 | Statement and Reports by Director.
Section 905.39 | Sampling and Analysis.
Section 905.40 | Administrative Rules.
Section 905.41 | Design and Construction of Storage Facilities for Anhydrous Ammonia.
Section 905.411 | Orders Prohibiting Use of Anhydrous Ammonia Equipment or System.
Section 905.43 | Mislabeled or Misrepresented Fertilizer.
Section 905.44 | Administrative Rules.
Section 905.45 | Refusing, Suspending or Revoking of Registration or License.
Section 905.46 | Holding Fertilizer Offered or Exposed for Sale in Violation of Law.
Section 905.47 | Condemnation Procedures.
Section 905.49 | Restrictions Not Applicable to Certain Importers and Manufacturers.
Section 905.50 | Mislabeled Fertilizer.
Section 905.501 | Civil Penalties.
Section 905.502 | Written Notice of Warning.
Section 905.503 | No Local Regulation of Fertilizers.
Section 905.51 | Liming Material Definitions.
Section 905.52 | Liming Material License.
Section 905.53 | Exemption From License Requirement.
Section 905.54 | Standards of Fineness.
Section 905.55 | Label Information.
Section 905.56 | Annual Tonnage Report - Inspection Fee.
Section 905.57 | Confidentiality of Information.
Section 905.58 | Annual Statement of Liming Material Sales.
Section 905.59 | Sampling and Analysis.
Section 905.60 | Mislabeled Liming Material.
Section 905.61 | Administrative Rules.
Section 905.62 | Revocation and Suspension of License or Refusal to License.
Section 905.63 | Order to Hold Material.