2006 Ohio Revised Code - 927.53. Fees; dealer\'s affidavit; license and certificate requirements.

§ 927.53. Fees; dealer's affidavit; license and certificate requirements.
 

(A)  Each collector or dealer who sells, offers, or exposes for sale, or distributes nursery stock within this state, or ships nursery stock to other states, shall pay an annual license fee of fifty dollars to the director of agriculture for each place of business the collector or dealer operates. 

(B) (1)  Each dealer shall furnish the director, annually, an affidavit that the dealer will buy and sell only nursery stock which has been inspected and certified by an official state or federal inspector. 

(2) Each dealer's license expires on the thirty-first day of December of each year. Each licensed dealer shall apply for renewal of the dealer's license prior to the first day of January of each year and in accordance with the standard renewal procedure of sections 4745.01 to 4745.03 of the Revised Code. 

(C)  Each licensed nurseryperson shall post conspicuously in the nurseryperson's principal place of business, the certificate which is issued to the nurseryperson in accordance with section 927.61 of the Revised Code. 

(D)  Each licensed nurseryperson, or dealer, shall post conspicuously in each place of business, each certificate or license which is issued to the nurseryperson or dealer in compliance with this section or section 927.61 of the Revised Code. 

(E) (1)  Each nurseryperson who produces, sells, offers for sale, or distributes woody nursery stock within the state, or ships woody nursery stock to other states, shall pay to the director an annual inspection fee of fifty dollars plus four dollars per acre, or fraction thereof, of growing nursery stock in intensive production areas and two dollars per acre, or fraction thereof, of growing nursery stock in nonintensive production areas, as applicable. 

(2) Each nurseryperson who limits production and sales of nursery stock to brambles, herbaceous, perennial, and other nonwoody plants, shall pay to the director an inspection fee of thirty dollars, plus four dollars per acre, or fraction thereof, of growing nursery stock in intensive and nonintensive production areas. 

(F)  On and after the effective date of this amendment, the following additional fees shall be assessed: 

(1) Each collector or dealer who pays a fee under division (A) of this section shall pay an additional fee of twenty-five dollars. 

(2) Each nurseryperson who pays fees under division (E)(1) of this section shall pay additional fees as follows: 

(a) Fifteen dollars for the inspection fee; 

(b) Fifty cents per acre, or fraction thereof, of growing nursery stock in intensive production areas; 

(c) One dollar and fifty cents per acre, or fraction thereof, of growing nursery stock in nonintensive production areas. 

(3) Each nursery person who pays fees under division (E)(2) of this section shall pay additional fees as follows: 

(a) Thirty-five dollars for the inspection fee; 

(b) Fifty cents per acre, or fraction thereof, of growing stock in intensive and nonintensive production areas. 

The fees collected under division (F) of this section shall be deposited into the state treasury to the credit of the pesticide program fund created in Chapter 921. of the Revised Code. Moneys so credited to the fund shall be used to pay the costs incurred by the department of agriculture in administering this chapter, including employing a minimum of two additional inspectors. 
 

HISTORY: 133 v S 387 (Eff 11-18-69); 143 v H 111 (Eff 7-1-89); 143 v H 571. Eff 7-27-90; 150 v H 95, § 1, eff. 9-26-03.
 

The effective date is set by section 179 of H.B. 95 (150 v  - ). 

 

Effect of Amendments

H.B. 95, Acts 2003, effective September 26, 2003, added (F); and made gender neutral changes.