Effective: October 29, 2003
Latest Legislation: House Bill 143 - 125th General Assembly
Any person who disseminates, with the intention of inducing a sale, any advertisement or makes any claim concerning the vigor, vitality, growth, yield capability, or any other quality or performance characteristic of any agricultural, vegetable, or flower seed shall maintain complete and accurate records of the tests used to determine the characteristic and of the results of the tests and shall submit the records to the director of agriculture upon request. Any person who uses an agricultural, vegetable, or flower seed may request the director to require the person who disseminated any advertisement concerning any of the above characteristics to submit the person's records to the director.
In accordance with division (A) of section 907.10 of the Revised Code, the director may conduct such tests as the director determines necessary to verify the information in such records. If the director's tests indicate that the information in the records is invalid or unreliable, the director may issue a stop-sale order pursuant to division (C) of section 907.11 of the Revised Code.
Structure Ohio Revised Code
Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences
Chapter 907 | Agricultural Seed
Section 907.01 | Agricultural Seed Certification and Labeling Definitions.
Section 907.02 | Certification by Ohio Seed Improvement Association.
Section 907.03 | Label Requirements for Containers of Agricultural or Vegetable Seed.
Section 907.04 | Record Maintenance.
Section 907.05 | Seed Subject to Labeling and Inspection Fee Requirements.
Section 907.06 | Words Prohibited Which Imply State Guarantees.
Section 907.07 | Labeling and Inspection Fee Requirements.
Section 907.08 | Labeling, Advertising, Handling and Sales Restrictions.
Section 907.081 | Advertising Claims.
Section 907.10 | Enforcement - Inspection and Analysis of Seed.
Section 907.11 | Enforcement Powers of Director.
Section 907.111 | Sole Authority of Department to Regulate Seed Within State.
Section 907.12 | Seed Subject to Seizure - Disposition.
Section 907.13 | Seed Inspection Fee Tags or Labels.
Section 907.14 | Report of Seed Sales.
Section 907.15 | Suspension, Revocation, or Refusal to Issue Permit to Label Seed.
Section 907.17 | Jurisdiction.
Section 907.27 | Inoculants and Inoculant Treated Seed Definitions.
Section 907.28 | Registration of Brand of Legume Inoculants.
Section 907.29 | Label Information.
Section 907.30 | Legume Inoculator's License.
Section 907.31 | Registration and Inspection Fees.
Section 907.32 | Enforcement Powers of Director.
Section 907.34 | Prohibited Acts.
Section 907.35 | Prosecutions.
Section 907.41 | Coloration of Seed or Grain Definitions.
Section 907.42 | Poisonous Seed Treatment Material Standards.
Section 907.43 | Coloring and Dyeing of Grain and Seed Treatment Material.
Section 907.45 | Label Information.
Section 907.46 | Misrepresenting Seed as Treated Seed.
Section 907.47 | Inspection and Testing Authority of Director.