Ohio Revised Code Title IX. Agriculture Animals Fences § 909.06

The director of agriculture shall appoint a competent entomologist as state apiarist and such number of deputy state apiarists as are necessary to carry out sections 909.01 to 909.18, inclusive, of the Revised Code. Said state apiarist and deputy state apiarists shall be vested with the powers of police officers in the enforcement of such sections, and shall be furnished with official badges or other insignia of authority which shall be carried while on duty.