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Ohio Administrative Code (Last Updated: January 12, 2021) |
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901 Department of Agriculture - Administration and Director |
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Chapter901-19. Livestock Exhibitions |
901-19-06. Drug use notification
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This is a mandatory rule.
(A) The exhibitor and the owner of an animal are jointly and severally responsible for completing and filing out the drug use notification form in the manner required by this rule.
(B) The drug use notification form shall be signed by either the exhibitor or the owner. If the person signing the form is a minor child, the form shall be cosigned by a parent or guardian of the minor child.
(C) A drug use notification form shall be completed for every animal from which a test sample is collected at every terminal and partial terminal or non-terminal show, and for every animal that is administered a drug either immediately before or during an exhibition.
(D) The director shall require a drug use notification form to be completed for the following livestock exhibited in a junior livestock show:
(1) Market steer;
(2) Market hog;
(3) Market lamb;
(4) Veal calf;
(5) Market dairy steer;
(6) Market goats;
(7) Market poultry;
(8) Lactating dairy cattle; and
(9) Lactating goats.
(E) The drug use notification form shall be filed with the records official prior to the show in which the animal is entered.
(F) The director may require a drug use notification form to be completed for livestock exhibited at any type of show including a non-terminal show.
(G) If the information on the form regarding drug use changes or if a drug is subsequently administered at any time after the drug use notification form is filed, an updated drug use notification form shall immediately be filed with the records official.
(H) No person shall submit an incomplete, illegible or unsigned drug use notification form.
(I) When a drug use notification form submitted to a records official for livestock is incomplete, illegible, or unsigned neither the exhibitor nor the owner shall, until the defect is corrected:
(1) Receive any prizes or awards from shows in which the livestock was exhibited prior to the time the drug use notification form was to be filed.
(2) Participate in any shows or sales held subsequent to the time the drug use notification form was to be filed.