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2012 Ohio Revised Code
Title [9] IX AGRICULTURE - ANIMALS - FENCES
Chapter 943 - LIVESTOCK DEALERS
Section 943.02 - License required.

Universal Citation:
Ohio Rev Code § 943.02 (2012)
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(A) No person shall act as a small dealer, dealer, or broker without first being licensed. No person shall be an employee of more than one small dealer, dealer, or broker. Except as provided in division (B) of this section, no person holding a license as a small dealer, dealer, or broker shall be an employee. No employee shall act for any small dealer, dealer, or broker unless the small dealer, dealer, or broker is licensed, and has designated the employee to act in the small dealer's, dealer's, or broker's behalf and has notified the department of agriculture in the application for license or has given official notice in writing of the appointment of the employee. The small dealer, dealer, or broker shall be accountable and responsible for all contracts pertaining to the purchase, exchange, or sale of livestock made by the employee. The small dealer, dealer, or broker who terminates the services of an employee shall notify the department in writing of the employee's termination. No person who is a licensed small dealer, dealer, or broker shall have livestock exempted pursuant to divisions (B)(1) to (6) of section 943.01 of the Revised Code.

(B) A small dealer, dealer, or broker may be an employee of other small dealers, dealers, or brokers only when the small dealer, dealer, or broker so employed is a soliciting agent for a video auction.

(C) The director of agriculture shall define by rule "soliciting agent" and "video auction" for the purposes of this section.

Amended by 128th General AssemblyFile No.9,HB 1, §101.01, eff. 7/17/2009.

Effective Date: 06-20-1994

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