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2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 953 | Rendering Plants › Section 953.22 | Licensing of Rendering Operations.

Effective:
January 1, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
(A) No person shall engage in the business of disposing of, picking up, rendering, or collecting raw rendering material or transporting the material to a composting facility without a license to do so from the department of agriculture.
(B) This chapter does not apply to any of the following:
(1) A farmer who slaughters the farmer's own animals, raised by the farmer on the farmer's own farm, processes the farmer's own meat therefrom, and disposes of the farmer's raw rendering material only by delivery to a person licensed under section 953.23 of the Revised Code;
(2) A person whose only connection with raw rendering material is curing hides and skins;
(3) A person whose only connection with raw rendering material is operating a pet cemetery;
(4) A person who is conducting composting, as defined in section 939.01 of the Revised Code, in accordance with section 939.04 of the Revised Code;
(5) A person whose only connection with raw rendering material is trapping wild animals in accordance with a nuisance wild animal permit issued by the chief of the division of wildlife in the department of natural resources under rules adopted pursuant to section 1531.08 of the Revised Code;
(6) A county dog warden or animal control officer who transports raw rendering material only for disposal purposes.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 953 | Rendering Plants › Section 953.23 | Application for License for Rendering Operations.

Effective:
October 17, 2011
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 229 - 129th General Assembly
(A) Application for a license shall be made to the department of agriculture on a form prescribed by the department.
(B) Each application shall include all of the following:
(1) The name and address of the applicant;
(2) The applicant's proposed place of business;
(3) A detailed statement of the method that the applicant intends to use to dispose of, pick up, render, or collect raw rendering material or to transport it to a composting facility;
(4) Such other relevant information as the department may require.
(C) Each applicant shall submit the annual license fee with the application.
(1) The license fee for a person applying for an annual license to pick up or collect raw rendering material and dispose of the material to a licensee or in accordance with divisions (B) and (C) of section 953.26 of the Revised Code, or to transport raw rendering material to a composting facility, is twenty-five dollars per conveyance that is used to pick up or collect and dispose of or to transport raw rendering material. A late fee of ten dollars per conveyance shall be charged for each application that is received after the thirtieth day of November each year.
(2) The license fee for a person applying for an annual license to pick up or collect raw rendering material and to operate one or more rendering plants is three hundred dollars for each such plant. A late fee of one hundred dollars shall be charged for each application that is received after the thirtieth day of November each year.
(D) On receipt of an application and fee, under this section, the department shall inspect the means of conveyance and premises that the applicant proposes to use to dispose of, collect, pick up, or render raw rendering material or to transport it to a composting facility for profit.
(E) If the department finds that the applicant's means of conveyance, premises, and operation meet the requirements of this chapter and rules adopted thereunder, the department shall issue a license to the applicant to dispose of, pick up, render, or collect for profit raw rendering material or to transport it to a composting facility for profit.
(F) Each license issued under this section shall expire on the thirty-first day of December of each year. Each person licensed under this section shall make application for renewal of the person's license no later than the thirtieth day of November of each year.
(G) Application for renewal shall be in accordance with the requirements of this section for initial application for a license and the standard renewal procedure of sections 4745.01 to 4745.03 of the Revised Code.
(H) All money collected under this section shall be credited to the animal and consumer protection laboratory fund created in section 901.43 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 953 | Rendering Plants › Section 953.24 | Rendering Plant Sanitation.

Effective:
October 22, 1969
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 260 - 108th General Assembly
(A) Each rendering plant building shall:
(1) Be provided with floors constructed of concrete or some other nonabsorbent materials;
(2) Be maintained in a good state of repair;
(3) Have an adequate water supply, and be supplied with sufficient steam and steam hose or other equipment approved by the department of agriculture to clean the floors of the plant and its trucks;
(4) Have adequate drainage as determined by the department.
(B) All parts of the building and all equipment shall be kept in a sanitary condition and shall be cleaned at least once each day with steam or other methods approved by the department.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 953 | Rendering Plants › Section 953.25 | Disposal or Rendering of Raw Rendering Material Requirements.

Effective:
August 10, 1994
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 73 - 120th General Assembly
(A) In the disposal or rendering of raw rendering material, all of the following requirements shall be met:
(1) All raw rendering material shall be processed or disposed of within forty-eight hours after its arrival at the rendering plant;
(2) Each cooking vat or tank shall be airtight, except for proper escapes for steam;
(3) Steam shall be disposed of so as to cause no nuisance;
(4) All skinning and dismembering of an animal body or part thereof shall be done within a building.
(B) Raw rendering material that is not disposed of to a licensee or as provided in division (B), (C), or (D) of section 953.26 of the Revised Code shall be buried at a depth of at least four feet.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 953 | Rendering Plants › Section 953.26 | Sale and Use of Raw Rendering Material.

Effective:
August 10, 1994
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 73 - 120th General Assembly
(A) No raw rendering material shall be fed to an avian, equine, ovine, bovine, or porcine animal.
(B) Except as provided in division (C) or (D) of this section, no raw rendering material shall be sold or offered for sale to a person who is not licensed under section 953.23 of the Revised Code unless the material is in a labeled wrapper or is in some other way identified or denatured in a manner approved by the department of agriculture. The label or identification shall state plainly in legible letters at least two inches high that the product is inedible and is not sold or intended for human consumption.
(C) Raw rendering material may be sold or otherwise transferred to a person who operates a mink ranch, dog kennel, zoo, captive wildlife farm, or pet food manufacturing plant and who has written permission from the department to handle raw rendering material.
(D) Raw rendering material may be sold or otherwise transferred to a person who operates a composting facility in accordance with rules adopted by the director of environmental protection under section 3734.02 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 953 | Rendering Plants › Section 953.27 | Regulations to Administer Rendering Requirements.

Effective:
October 22, 1969
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 260 - 108th General Assembly
(A) The director of agriculture may promulgate, adopt, and enforce regulations to carry out this chapter.
(B) No person shall fail to comply with the regulations adopted by the department of agriculture under division (A) of this section.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 953 | Rendering Plants › Section 953.28 | Inspection of Rendering Operations.

Effective:
October 22, 1969
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 260 - 108th General Assembly
(A) Any authorized representative of the director of agriculture who has good reason to suspect that any premises or means of conveyance contains raw rendering material shall have free access to those premises or that means of conveyance at any reasonable time.
(B) The department of agriculture shall inspect each place or means of conveyance licensed under section 953.23 of the Revised Code at least once each year and may inspect it as often as the department finds necessary. The department shall furnish a report of the findings of each inspection to the licensee.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 953 | Rendering Plants › Section 953.29 | Conveying Raw Rendering Material.

Effective:
October 22, 1969
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 260 - 108th General Assembly
(A) No raw rendering material shall be conveyed unless the means of conveyance is so constructed that no drippings or seepings can escape from such means of conveyance and the raw rendering material is covered.
(B) Each means of conveyance shall be thoroughly cleaned with steam, or such other method approved by the department of agriculture, at least once each day of its use for the conveyance of raw rendering material.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 953 | Rendering Plants › Section 953.30 | Loading Platform Requirements.

Effective:
October 22, 1969
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 260 - 108th General Assembly
(A) Each loading platform shall:
(1) Be provided with floors constructed of concrete or some other nonabsorbent material;
(2) Have an adequate supply of water and steam or other facilities to clean floors or means of conveyance;
(3) Have adequate drainage as determined by the department.
(B) Each loading platform, and all equipment used therewith, shall at all times be kept in a reasonably sanitary condition.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 953 | Rendering Plants › Section 953.31 | Suspension, Revocation, or Refusal of License.

Effective:
October 22, 1969
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 260 - 108th General Assembly
The department of agriculture may suspend, revoke, or refuse to issue a license issued under this chapter for any violation under this chapter, subject to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 953 | Rendering Plants › Section 953.99 | Penalty.

Effective:
June 20, 1994
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 134 - 120th General Assembly
Whoever violates sections 953.21 to 953.31 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree; on each subsequent violation, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 955 | Dogs › Section 955.011 | Registration for Guide, Leader, Hearing or Support Dogs to Be Free and Permanent.

Effective:
October 3, 2023
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly
(A) When an application is made for registration of an assistance dog and the owner can show proof by certificate or other means that the dog is an assistance dog, the owner of the dog shall be exempt from any fee for the registration. Registration for an assistance dog shall be permanent and not subject to annual renewal so long as the dog is an assistance dog. Certificates and tags stamped "Ohio Assistance Dog-Permanent Registration," with registration number, shall be issued upon registration of such a dog. Any certificate and tag stamped "Ohio Service Dog-Permanent Registration," with registration number, that was issued for a dog in accordance with this section as it existed on and after November 26, 2004, but prior to June 30, 2006, shall remain in effect as valid proof of the registration of the dog on and after November 26, 2004. Duplicate certificates and tags for a dog registered in accordance with this section, upon proper proof of loss, shall be issued and no fee required. Each duplicate certificate and tag that is issued shall be stamped "Ohio Assistance Dog-Permanent Registration."
(B) As used in this section and in sections 955.16 and 955.43 of the Revised Code:
(1) "Person with a mobility impairment" means any person, regardless of age, who is subject to a physiological impairment regardless of its cause, nature, or extent that renders the person unable to move about without the aid of crutches, a wheelchair, or any other form of support, or that limits the person's functional ability to ambulate, climb, descend, sit, rise, or perform any related function. "Person with a mobility impairment" includes a person with a neurological or psychological disability that limits the person's functional ability to ambulate, climb, descend, sit, rise, or perform any related function. "Person with a mobility impairment" also includes a person with a seizure disorder and a person who is diagnosed with autism.
(2) "Blind" means either of the following:
(a) Vision twenty/two hundred or less in the better eye with proper correction;
(b) Field defect in the better eye with proper correction that contracts the peripheral field so that the diameter of the visual field subtends an angle no greater than twenty degrees.
(3) "Assistance dog" means a dog that has been trained by a nonprofit or for-profit special agency and that is one of the following:
(a) A guide dog;
(b) A hearing dog;
(c) A service dog.
(4) "Guide dog" means a dog that has been trained or is in training to assist a blind person.
(5) "Hearing dog" means a dog that has been trained or is in training to assist a deaf or hearing-impaired person.
(6) "Service dog" means a dog that has been trained or is in training to assist a person with a mobility impairment.
Last updated September 25, 2023 at 2:53 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 955 | Dogs › Section 955.013 | Registration of Dogs and Kennels via Internet.

Effective:
November 5, 2004
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 204 - 125th General Assembly
(A) As used in this section, "financial transaction device" has the same meaning as in section 301.28 of the Revised Code.
(B) A county auditor may establish procedures and take actions that are necessary to allow for either or both of the following:
(1) The registration of dogs and kennels under this chapter via the internet;
(2) The payment of dog and kennel registration fees under this chapter by financial transaction devices, including payment by financial transaction devices via the internet.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 955 | Dogs › Section 955.02 | Definition of "Dog Kennel" or "Kennel".

Effective:
March 13, 2013
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 130 - 129th General Assembly
As used in this chapter, "dog kennel" or "kennel" means an establishment that keeps, houses, and maintains adult dogs, as defined in section 956.01 of the Revised Code, for the purpose of breeding the dogs for a fee or other consideration received through a sale, exchange, or lease and that is not a high volume breeder licensed under Chapter 956. of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 955 | Dogs › Section 955.03 | Dogs Are Personal Property.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any dog which has been registered under sections 955.01 and 955.04 of the Revised Code and any dog not required to be registered under such sections shall be considered as personal property and have all the rights and privileges and be subject to like restraints as other livestock.
Last updated January 6, 2022 at 3:34 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 955 | Dogs › Section 955.04 | Kennel Registration.

Effective:
June 1, 1998
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 219 - 122nd General Assembly
Every owner of a kennel of dogs shall, in like manner as provided in section 955.01 of the Revised Code, make application for the registration of such kennel, and pay to the county auditor a registration fee of ten dollars for each such kennel, unless a greater fee has been established under section 955.14 of the Revised Code. If such application is not filed and the fee paid, on or before the thirty-first day of January of each year, the auditor shall assess a penalty in an amount equal to the registration fee upon the owner of such kennel. The payment of such kennel registration fee shall entitle the licensee to not more than five tags, to bear consecutive numbers and to be issued in like manner and have like effect when worn by any dog owned in good faith by such licensee as the tags provided for in section 955.08 of the Revised Code. Upon application to the county auditor, additional tags, in excess of the five tags, may be issued upon payment of an additional fee of one dollar per tag.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 955 | Dogs › Section 955.05 | Registration of Dog or Dog Kennel During Year.

Effective:
September 15, 2014
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 483 - 130th General Assembly
After the thirty-first day of January of any year, except as otherwise provided in section 955.012 or 955.16 of the Revised Code, every person, immediately upon becoming the owner, keeper, or harborer of any dog more than three months of age or brought from outside the state during any year, shall file like applications, with fees, as required by section 955.01 of the Revised Code, for registration for a period of one year or three years or an application for permanent registration. If the application is not filed and the fee paid, within thirty days after the dog is acquired, becomes three months of age, or is brought from outside the state, the auditor shall assess a penalty in an amount equal to the registration fee for one year upon the owner, keeper, or harborer, which shall be paid with the registration fee. Thereafter, the owner, keeper, or harborer shall register the dog as provided in section 955.01 of the Revised Code, as applicable.
Every person becoming the owner of a kennel of dogs after the thirty-first day of January of any year shall file like applications, with fees, as required by section 955.04 of the Revised Code, for the registration of such kennel for the current calendar year. If such application is not filed and the fee paid within thirty days after the person becomes the owner of such kennel, the auditor shall assess a penalty in an amount equal to the registration fee upon the owner of such kennel.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 955 | Dogs › Section 955.06 | Registration Fee for Partial Year and Multiple Years.

Effective:
December 1, 2014
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 483 - 130th General Assembly
(A) The owner, keeper, or harborer of a dog becoming three months of age after the first day of July in a calendar year and the owner, keeper, or harborer of a dog purchased outside the state after the first day of July in a calendar year shall register the dog in accordance with division (B), (C), or (D) of this section within ninety days of the dog's becoming three months of age or within ninety days of the date of the purchase of the dog, as applicable.
(B) The owner, keeper, or harborer of a dog to which division (A) of this section applies may register the dog for the remainder of the current year. The fee for such a registration shall be one-half of the original fee for a one-year registration. Thereafter, the owner, keeper, or harborer shall register the dog for a period of one year, three years, or permanently as provided in section 955.01 of the Revised Code.
(C) The owner, keeper, or harborer of a dog to which division (A) of this section applies may register the dog for a period consisting of the remainder of the current year and two additional years. The fee for such a registration shall be eighty-three per cent of the original fee for a three-year registration. Thereafter, the owner, keeper, or harborer shall register the dog for a period of one year, three years, or permanently as provided in section 955.01 of the Revised Code.
(D) The owner, keeper, or harborer of a dog to which division (A) of this section applies may register the dog permanently. The fee for such a registration shall be the same as the original fee for a permanent registration.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 955 | Dogs › Section 955.07 | Certificate of Registration - Record Kept by County Auditor.

Effective:
December 1, 2013
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly
Upon the filing of the application for registration required by sections 955.01 and 955.04 of the Revised Code and upon the payment of the registration fee and the administrative fee, if applicable, the county auditor shall assign a distinctive number to every dog or dog kennel described in the application and shall deliver a certificate of registration bearing the number to the owner of the dog or dog kennel. A record of all certificates of registration issued, together with the applications for registration, shall be kept by the auditor in a dog and kennel register until after an audit performed by the auditor of state. This record shall be open to the inspection of any person during reasonable business hours.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 955 | Dogs › Section 955.08 | Tags.

Effective:
December 1, 2013
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 59 - 130th General Assembly
In addition to the certificate of registration provided for by section 955.07 of the Revised Code, the county auditor shall issue to every person making application for the registration of a dog and paying the required fee therefor a metal tag for each dog so registered. The form, color, character, and lettering of the tag shall be prescribed by the county auditor. If a tag is lost, a duplicate shall be furnished by the auditor upon proper proof of loss and the payment of five dollars for each duplicate tag issued.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 955 | Dogs › Section 955.10 | Tags to Be Worn.

Effective:
March 13, 2013
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 130 - 129th General Assembly
No owner of a dog, except a dog constantly confined to a dog kennel registered under this chapter or one licensed under Chapter 956. of the Revised Code, shall fail to require the dog to wear, at all times, a valid tag issued in connection with a certificate of registration. A dog found not wearing at any time a valid tag shall be prima-facie evidence of lack of registration and shall subject any dog found not wearing such a tag to impounding, sale, or destruction.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 955 | Dogs › Section 955.121 | Appointment of Sheriff as County Dog Warden.

Effective:
September 29, 2015
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
(A)(1) In lieu of appointing a county dog warden and deputies under section 955.12 of the Revised Code, a board of county commissioners may appoint the county sheriff to enforce sections 955.01 to 955.27 and 955.50 to 955.53 of the Revised Code. If a board chooses to appoint the county sheriff as the county dog warden, the board shall enter into a two-year written agreement with the sheriff for that purpose at the first meeting in a calendar year following a general election in which at least one of the members of the board was elected.
(2) The agreement may authorize both of the following:
(a) The sheriff to appoint sheriff's deputies or persons other than peace officers as deputy dog wardens;
(b) The transfer of any benefits accrued by employees who are transferred as a result of the county sheriff's being appointed as the county dog warden.
(B) Any dog warden and deputy dog wardens appointed under this section shall comply with both of the following:
(1) Any training requirements applicable to county dog wardens and deputy dog wardens appointed or employed under section 955.12 of the Revised Code;
(2) The requirements established in that section.
(C) If a county sheriff or a sheriff's deputies are appointed as a dog warden or deputy dog wardens under this section, references in this chapter and in Chapters 953., 956., and 959. of the Revised Code to "dog warden" and "deputy dog warden" shall be deemed to be replaced, respectively, with references to "sheriff" and "deputy sheriff."
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 955 | Dogs › Section 955.15 | Impounding Dogs.

Effective:
September 30, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 110 - 134th General Assembly
(A) The board of county commissioners shall provide nets and other suitab le devices for the taking of dogs in a humane manner, provide a suitable place for impounding dogs, make proper provision for feeding and caring for the same, and provide humane methods for destroying dogs.
(B) Subject to division (C) of this section, the dog warden shall deliver any dog that the warden or the warden's deputies have seized to one of the following:
(1) A dog pound operated by the county;
(2) Another animal shelter for dogs, as defined in section 956.01 of the Revised Code, that operates in a manner suitable for a dog pound and that is able to adopt out, transfer out, or humanely destroy dogs in accordance with state law.
(C) A dog warden shall not deliver dogs to an animal shelter for dogs under division (B)(2) of this section unless the board of county commissioners has entered into a written agreement with the animal shelter for dogs to operate as a dog pound on behalf of the county.
(D) A pound or animal shelter for dogs to which a dog has been delivered under division (B) of this section shall deal with the dog in accordance with state law, including the maintenance of any public records pertaining to the intake and disposition of the dog.
(E) The board shall provide for the payment of reasonable compensation to an animal shelter for dogs described in division (B)(2) of this section for its services so performed out of the dog and kennel fund or the county's general revenue fund.
(F) The board may designate and appoint any officers regularly employed by any society organized under sections 1717.02 to 1717.05 of the Revised Code, to act as county dog warden or deputies for the purpose of carrying out sections 955.01 to 955.27 of the Revised Code, if such society whose agents are so employed owns or controls a suitable place for keeping and destroying dogs.
Last updated July 15, 2021 at 1:29 PM
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 955 | Dogs › Section 955.151 | Chemical Capture of Companion Animals.

Effective:
March 31, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 24 - 133rd General Assembly
(A) As used in this section:
"Animal shelter" has the same meaning as in section 4729.01 of the Revised Code.
"Certified officer" means an individual who meets the requirements established under section 4729.534 of the Revised Code.
"Chemical capture" means using an anesthetic drug or sedative on a companion animal to do any of the following:
(1) Immobilize and capture;
(2) Attempt to immobilize and capture;
(3) Attempt to immobilize or capture.
"Companion animal" has the same meaning as in section 959.131 of the Revised Code.
(B) A certified officer appointed or employed by an animal shelter or county dog warden that holds a chemical capture classification granted under section 4729.533 of the Revised Code may, in accordance with that section and rules adopted under it, chemically capture a companion animal to limit injury to the officer, the animal or another animal, or the public.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 955 | Dogs › Section 955.18 | Redemption of Dog.

Effective:
March 23, 1981
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 760 - 113th General Assembly
Any dog that is seized and impounded under sections 955.12, 955.15, and 955.17 of the Revised Code may be redeemed by its owner, keeper, or harborer at any time prior to the expiration of the applicable redemption period as specified in sections 955.12 and 955.16 of the Revised Code, upon payment to the dog warden or poundkeeper of all costs assessed against the animal and upon providing the animal with a valid registration tag if it has none.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 955 | Dogs › Section 955.19 | Funds.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
All funds received by the county dog warden or poundkeeper in connection with the administration of sections 955.01 to 955.18, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be deposited in the county treasury and placed to the credit of the dog and kennel fund.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 955 | Dogs › Section 955.20 | Dog and Kennel Fund.

Effective:
September 29, 2015
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
The registration fees provided for in sections 955.01 to 955.14 of the Revised Code constitute a special fund known as "the dog and kennel fund." The fees shall be deposited by the county auditor in the county treasury daily as collected. Money in the fund shall be used for the purpose of defraying the cost of furnishing all blanks, records, tags, nets, and other equipment, for the purpose of paying the compensation of county dog wardens, deputies, poundkeepers, and other employees necessary to carry out and enforce sections 955.01 to 955.261 of the Revised Code, and in accordance with section 955.27 of the Revised Code. The board of county commissioners, by resolution, shall appropriate sufficient funds out of the dog and kennel fund, not more than fifteen per cent of which shall be expended by the auditor for registration tags, blanks, records, and clerk hire, for the purpose of defraying the necessary expenses of registering, seizing, impounding, and destroying dogs in accordance with sections 955.01 to 955.27 of the Revised Code, and for the purpose of covering any additional expenses incurred by the county auditor as authorized by division (E)(3) of section 955.14 of the Revised Code.
If the funds so appropriated in any calendar year are found by the board to be insufficient to defray the necessary cost and expense of the county dog warden in enforcing sections 955.01 to 955.27 of the Revised Code, the board, by resolution so provided, may appropriate further funds for the use and purpose of the county dog warden in administering those sections.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 955 | Dogs › Section 955.21 | Prohibition Against Failure to Register Dog Kennel.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
No owner, keeper, or harborer of a dog more than three months of age, nor owner of a dog kennel, shall fail to file the application for registration required by section 955.01 of the Revised Code, nor shall he fail to pay the legal fee therefor.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 955 | Dogs › Section 955.221 | Local Ordinances or Resolutions Pertaining to Dog Control.

Effective:
June 21, 1990
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 291 - 118th General Assembly
(A) For the purposes of this section, ordinances or resolutions to control dogs include, but are not limited to, ordinances or resolutions concerned with the ownership, keeping, or harboring of dogs, the restraint of dogs, dogs as public nuisances, and dogs as a threat to public health, safety, and welfare, except that such ordinances or resolutions as permitted in division (B) of this section shall not prohibit the use of any dog which is lawfully engaged in hunting or training for the purpose of hunting while accompanied by a licensed hunter. However, such dogs at all other times and in all other respects shall be subject to the ordinance or resolution permitted by this section, unless actually in the field and engaged in hunting or in legitimate training for such purpose.
(B)(1) A board of county commissioners may adopt and enforce resolutions to control dogs within the unincorporated areas of the county that are not otherwise in conflict with any other provision of the Revised Code.
(2) A board of township trustees may adopt and enforce resolutions to control dogs within the township that are not otherwise in conflict with any other provision of the Revised Code, if the township is located in a county where the board of county commissioners has not adopted resolutions to control dogs within the unincorporated areas of the county under this section. In the event that the board of county commissioners adopts resolutions to control dogs in the county after a board of township trustees has adopted resolutions to control dogs within the township, the resolutions adopted by the county board of commissioners prevail over the resolutions adopted by the board of township trustees.
(3) A municipal corporation may adopt and enforce ordinances to control dogs within the municipal corporation that are not otherwise in conflict with any other provision of the Revised Code.
(C) No person shall violate any resolution or ordinance adopted under this section.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 955 | Dogs › Section 955.23 | Prohibition Against Failure of Duty by Dog Warden.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
No county dog warden shall willfully fail to perform his duties under section 955.12 of the Revised Code or other duties required of dog wardens.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 955 | Dogs › Section 955.24 | Prohibition Against Hindering the Capture of an Unregistered Dog.

Effective:
November 21, 1973
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 152 - 110th General Assembly
No person shall obstruct or interfere with anyone lawfully engaged in capturing an unregistered dog or making an examination of a dog wearing a tag.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 955 | Dogs › Section 955.25 | Unlawful Tag.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
No person shall own, keep, or harbor a dog wearing a fictitious, altered, or invalid registration tag or a registration tag not issued by the county auditor in connection with the registration of such animal.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 955 | Dogs › Section 955.26 | Rabies Quarantine.

Effective:
March 13, 2013
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 130 - 129th General Assembly
Whenever, in the judgment of the director of health, any city or general health district board of health, or persons performing the duties of a board of health, rabies is prevalent, the director of health, the board, or those persons shall declare a quarantine of all dogs in the health district or in a part of it. During the quarantine, the owner, keeper, or harborer of any dog shall keep it confined on the premises of the owner, keeper, or harborer, or in a pound, kennel, or other suitable place, at the expense of the owner, keeper, or harborer, except that a dog may be permitted to leave the premises of its owner, keeper, or harborer if it is under leash or under the control of a responsible person. The quarantine order shall be considered an emergency and need not be published.
When the quarantine has been declared, the director of health, the board, or those persons may require vaccination for rabies of all dogs within the health district or part of it. Proof of rabies vaccination within a satisfactory period shall be demonstrated to the county auditor before any registration is issued under section 955.01 of the Revised Code for any dog that is required to be vaccinated.
The director shall determine appropriate methods of rabies vaccination and satisfactory periods for purposes of quarantines under this section.
When a quarantine of dogs has been declared in any health district or part of a health district, the county dog warden and all other persons having the authority of police officers shall assist the health authorities in enforcing the quarantine order. When rabies vaccination has been declared compulsory in any health district or part of a health district, the dog warden shall assist the health authorities in enforcing the vaccination order.
Notwithstanding this section, a city or general health district board of health may make orders pursuant to sections 3709.20 and 3709.21 of the Revised Code requiring the vaccination of dogs.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 955 | Dogs › Section 955.261 | Duties After Dog Bites Person.

Effective:
April 9, 2001
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 701 - 123rd General Assembly
(A)(1) No person shall remove a dog that has bitten any person from the county in which the bite occurred until a quarantine period as specified in division (B) of this section has been completed. No person shall transfer a dog that has bitten any person until a quarantine period as specified in division (B) of this section has been completed, except that a person may transfer the dog to the county dog warden or to any other animal control authority.
(2)(a) Subject to division (A)(2)(b) of this section, no person shall kill a dog that has bitten any person until a quarantine period as specified in division (B) of this section has been completed.
(b) Division (A)(2)(a) of this section does not apply to the killing of a dog in order to prevent further injury or death or if the dog is diseased or seriously injured.
(3) No person who has killed a dog that has bitten any person in order to prevent further injury or death or if the dog is diseased or seriously injured shall fail to do both of the following:
(a) Immediately after the killing of the dog, notify the board of health for the district in which the bite occurred of the facts relative to the bite and the killing;
(b) Hold the body of the dog until that board of health claims it to perform tests for rabies.
(B) The quarantine period for a dog that has bitten any person shall be ten days or another period that the board of health for the district in which the bite occurred determines is necessary to observe the dog for rabies.
(C)(1) To enable persons to comply with the quarantine requirements specified in divisions (A) and (B) of this section, boards of health shall make provision for the quarantine of individual dogs under the circumstances described in those divisions.
(2) Upon the receipt of a notification pursuant to division (A)(3) of this section that a dog that has bitten any person has been killed, the board of health for the district in which the bite occurred shall claim the body of the dog from its killer and then perform tests on the body for rabies.
(D) This section does not apply to a police dog that has bitten a person while the police dog is under the care of a licensed veterinarian or has bitten a person while the police dog is being used for law enforcement, corrections, prison or jail security, or investigative purposes. If, after biting a person, a police dog exhibits any abnormal behavior, the law enforcement agency and the law enforcement officer the police dog assists, within a reasonable time after the person is bitten, shall make the police dog available for the board of health for the district in which the bite occurred to perform tests for rabies.
(E) As used in this section, "police dog" has the same meaning as in section 2921.321 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 955 | Dogs › Section 955.27 | Disposition of Surplus Fund.

Effective:
September 29, 2015
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
After paying all necessary expenses of administering the sections of the Revised Code relating to the registration, seizing, impounding, and destroying of dogs, including the purchase, construction, and repair of vehicles and facilities necessary for the proper administration of such sections, the board of county commissioners, at the December session, if there remains more than two thousand dollars in the dog and kennel fund for that year in a county in which there is a society for the prevention of cruelty to children and animals, incorporated and organized by law, and having one or more agents appointed pursuant to law, or any other society organized under Chapter 1717. of the Revised Code, that owns or controls a suitable dog kennel or a place for the keeping and destroying of dogs that has one or more agents appointed and employed pursuant to law, may pay to the treasurer of the society, upon warrant of the county auditor, all such excess as the board deems necessary for the uses and purposes of the society.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 955 | Dogs › Section 955.28 | Dog May Be Killed for Certain Acts - Owner Liable for Damages.

Effective:
September 30, 2008
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 71 - 127th General Assembly
(A) Subject to divisions (A)(2) and (3) of section 955.261 of the Revised Code, a dog that is chasing or approaching in a menacing fashion or apparent attitude of attack, that attempts to bite or otherwise endanger, or that kills or injures a person or a dog that chases, threatens, harasses, injures, or kills livestock, poultry, other domestic animal, or other animal, that is the property of another person, except a cat or another dog, can be killed at the time of that chasing, threatening, harassment, approaching, attempt, killing, or injury. If, in attempting to kill such a dog, a person wounds it, the person is not liable to prosecution under the penal laws that punish cruelty to animals. Nothing in this section precludes a law enforcement officer from killing a dog that attacks a police dog as defined in section 2921.321 of the Revised Code.
(B) The owner, keeper, or harborer of a dog is liable in damages for any injury, death, or loss to person or property that is caused by the dog, unless the injury, death, or loss was caused to the person or property of an individual who, at the time, was committing or attempting to commit criminal trespass or another criminal offense other than a minor misdemeanor on the property of the owner, keeper, or harborer, or was committing or attempting to commit a criminal offense other than a minor misdemeanor against any person, or was teasing, tormenting, or abusing the dog on the owner's, keeper's, or harborer's property. Additionally, the owner, keeper, or harborer of a dog is liable in damages for any injury, death, or loss to person or property that is caused by the dog if the injury, death, or loss was caused to the person or property of an individual who, at the time of the injury, death, or loss, was on the property of the owner, keeper, or harborer solely for the purpose of engaging in door-to-door sales or other solicitations regardless of whether the individual was in compliance with any requirement to obtain a permit or license to engage in door-to-door sales or other solicitations established by the political subdivision in which the property of the owner, keeper, or harborer is located, provided that the person was not committing a criminal offense other than a minor misdemeanor or was not teasing, tormenting, or abusing the dog.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 955 | Dogs › Section 955.39 | Prohibition Against Violating a Rabies Quarantine.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
No person shall violate a rabies quarantine order issued under section 955.26 of the Revised Code.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 955 | Dogs › Section 955.40 | Forfeiture.

Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
Any corporation which violates section 955.39 of the Revised Code shall forfeit and pay to the municipal corporation a sum not to exceed three hundred dollars, to be collected in a civil action brought in the name of the municipal corporation.
The judgment authorized in this section being in the nature of a penalty, or exemplary damages, no proof of actual damages shall be required, but the court or jury, finding other facts to justify recovery, shall determine the amount by reference to all the facts, culpatory, exculpatory, or extenuating, adduced at the trial.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 955 | Dogs › Section 955.41 | Examination of Claim.

Effective:
October 13, 2000
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 529 - 123rd General Assembly
The board of county commissioners, not later than the third regular meeting after it is presented with the account provided for by section 955.42 of the Revised Code, shall examine the account and, if it is found in whole or part correct and just, may order a payment in whole or in part to either the patient, the representative of the patient referred to in that section, or the physician who rendered the patient's medical or surgical treatment, in accordance with their respective claims, provided that a payment is made only for an account with respect to which the board determines the patient, the patient's estate, or the patient's parent or guardian, as applicable, is unable, without deprivation of basic needs, to further provide for the payment of the expenses incurred for the medical or surgical treatment. A person shall not receive for one bite or injury a sum exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars.
2023 Ohio Revised Code › Title 9 | Agriculture-Animals-Fences › Chapter 955 | Dogs › Section 955.42 | Reimbursement for Rabies Bite.

Effective:
October 13, 2000
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 529 - 123rd General Assembly
A person bitten or injured by an animal afflicted with rabies, if the bite or injury has caused the person to employ medical or surgical treatment, may present, within four months after the bite or injury and at a regular meeting of the board of county commissioners of the county where the bite or injury was received, an itemized account of the expenses incurred and amount paid by the person for medical and surgical treatment, verified by the person's own affidavit and that of the person's attending physician. The administrator or executor of the estate of a deceased person may present such an account, execute such an affidavit on behalf of the deceased person, and present that affidavit and the attending physician's affidavit to the board within that four-month period. If the person so bitten or injured is a minor, the person's parent or guardian may present such an account, execute such an affidavit on behalf of the person, and present that affidavit and the attending physician's affidavit to the board within that four-month period. The person, the administrator or executor, or the parent or guardian, as applicable, shall present, with the account and affidavits, documentation establishing that the person, the person's estate, or the parent or guardian, as applicable, is unable, without deprivation of basic needs, to further provide for the payment of the expenses incurred for the medical or surgical treatment.