The director of agriculture may apply for, and the courts of this state may issue, a temporary or permanent injunction against the operations of a licensed handler who is violating this chapter or any rule adopted under it, the performance of agricultural commodity handling by any person without a license, or the issuance of receipts or tickets by any person without a license, and against interference by any person with the carrying out by the director, or by any receiver appointed under division (E) of section 926.14 of the Revised Code, of the duties and powers stated in this chapter notwithstanding the existence of an adequate remedy at law.

Terms Used In Ohio Code 926.15

  • Agricultural commodity: means corn, soybeans, wheat, or any other agricultural crop that the director of agriculture may designate by rule. See Ohio Code 926.01
  • agriculture: includes farming; ranching; aquaculture; algaculture meaning the farming of algae; apiculture and related apicultural activities, production of honey, beeswax, honeycomb, and other related products; horticulture; viticulture, winemaking, and related activities; animal husbandry, including, but not limited to, the care and raising of livestock, equine, and fur-bearing animals; poultry husbandry and the production of poultry and poultry products; dairy production; the production of field crops, tobacco, fruits, vegetables, nursery stock, ornamental shrubs, ornamental trees, flowers, sod, or mushrooms; timber; pasturage; any combination of the foregoing; the processing, drying, storage, and marketing of agricultural products when those activities are conducted in conjunction with, but are secondary to, such husbandry or production; and any additions or modifications to the foregoing made by the director of agriculture by rule adopted in accordance with Chapter 119 of the Revised Code. See Ohio Code 1.61
  • handler: means any person who is engaged in the business of agricultural commodity handling. See Ohio Code 926.01
  • handling: means any of the following:

    (1) Engaging in or participating in the business of purchasing from producers agricultural commodities for any use in excess of thirty thousand bushels annually;

    (2) Operating a warehouse as a bailee for the receiving, storing, shipping, or conditioning of an agricultural commodity;

    (3) Receiving into a warehouse an agricultural commodity purchased under a delayed price agreement;

    (4) Providing marketing functions, including storage, delayed price marketing, deferred payment, feed agreements, or any other marketing transaction whereby control is exerted over the monetary proceeds of a producer's agricultural commodities by a person other than the producer. See Ohio Code 926.01

  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Rule: includes regulation. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59

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