Effective: April 4, 1985
Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 374 - 115th General Assembly
(A) No person, with purpose to deprive the owner of livestock and without privilege to do so, shall knowingly apply a brand to livestock owned by another or knowingly destroy or alter a brand on livestock owned by another.
(B) No person shall knowingly offer to sell, sell, purchase, or transport livestock on which a brand has been destroyed or altered for the purpose of depriving the owner of the livestock.
(C) No person, without privilege to do so, shall knowingly use a brand registered to another.
(D) No person shall knowingly apply a brand to livestock in a way that overlaps, disfigures, mutilates, or destroys a brand or other mark of identification or ownership previously applied.
Structure Ohio Revised Code
Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences
Chapter 947 | Property Identification
Section 947.01 | Property Identification Definitions.
Section 947.02 | Central Registry of Livestock Brands.
Section 947.03 | Reregistration of Brands.
Section 947.05 | Livestock Brand Offenses.
Section 947.06 | Administrative Rules.
Section 947.11 | Identification Number Registration for Farm Equipment, Livestock and Grain - Fund.