Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4101:6 - Bedding and Upholstered Furniture Inspection › Chapter 4101:6-1 - General Provisions › Section 4101:6-1-03 - Registration requirements

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) Any person who engages in manufacturing
			 or wholesaling bedding or upholstered furniture that is to be sold or offered
			 for sale in this state; a person remaking, repairing, or renovating bedding or
			 upholstered furniture for return to an owner in this state; a person delivering
			 for sale any article of bedding, upholstered furniture, or stuffed toy; or any
			 person holding for sale any article of secondhand bedding; or a person
			 manufacturing, wholesaling, making, or importing
			 stuffed toys that are sold, consigned, delivered for sale, or offered for sale, or leased in this state must
			 register with the division of industrial compliance. All registrants shall make
			 application to the superintendent for a certificate of
			 registration, which the superintendent shall issue.
(B) Each such registration
			 application shall be accompanied by an annual registration fee of fifty dollars, payable in one
			 amount prior to the annual issuance. Except the following classes of
			 registrants shall pay a registration
			 fee as delineated below and shall be excluded from the annual report
			 requirement and the charges related thereto: secondhand dealers at fifty
			 dollars, renovators at thirty-five dollars, mobile home and recreational
			 vehicle dealers at fifty dollars, and auction houses at fifty dollars. A
			 ,certificate
			 of registration will not be issued for a period of less than one year,
			 and no refunds will be made for unused portions thereof.
			 Registrations are not transferable. Each
			 registration shall expire one year from the date of
			 issuance and is renewable annually unless revoked.
(1) Each registrant,
			 with the exception of wholesalers having a business establishment in the state
			 of Ohio, shall make a report to the director every twelve months. Such reports
			 shall show the exact number of articles manufactured or wholesaled for sale,
			 consigned or delivered for sale, or held for sale, in this state, or renovated
			 for return to an owner in this state, by such registrant,
			 which articles are included in Chapter 3713. of the Revised Code, known as
			 "Inspection of Bedding Materials," and in this chapter.
(2) At the same time the report is submitted,
			 each person required to submit a report shall also pay to the superintendent
			 four cents for each article of bedding or stuffed toy that was manufactured or
			 wholesaled for sale, consigned or delivered for sale, or held for sale, in this
			 state, or that was remade, repaired, or renovated for and returned to an owner
			 in this state.
Reports shall be made under oath that they are true to the best
				of knowledge and belief of the person making the report.
				Whenever any registrant fails to make such report and payment, or
				whenever it is advisable at the discretion of the superintendent, the
				superintendent or the superintendent's agents shall examine the books and
				records of the registrant for the purpose of determining the correct
				amount due from such registrant. Registration shall
				be forfeited in cases where a registrant has failed to pay either the amount of
				the registration report found to be owed or the amount of reasonable expenses
				incurred in making such examination by the division.