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OR Rev Stat § 618.141 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 618 - Weights and Measures|Section 618.141 - Maximum license fees.

The license fees established pursuant to ORS 618.136 for commercial weighing or measuring instruments or devices may not exceed the following: ______________________________________________________________________________ Discrete Weighing Devices Maximum (Manufacturer’s rated capacity) Fee Not over 400 pounds................................................. $ 49 Over 400 pounds, but not over 1,160 pounds................................... $ 101 Over 1,160 pounds, but not over 7,500 pounds................................... $ 205 Over 7,500 pounds, but not over 60,000 pounds................................. $ 307 Over 60,000 pounds.................................................. $ 307 Static railroad track scales......................................... $ 1,334 Continuous Weighing Systems Under 10 tons per hour.............................................. $ 386 10-150 tons per hour........................................... $ 600 Over 150 tons per hour, but not over 1,000 tons per hour................................ $ 1,201 Over 1,000 tons per hour........................................... $ 2,668 In-motion railroad track scales.................................. $ 1,334 Liquid-Fuel Metering Devices for Noncorrosive Fuels Contained at Atmospheric Pressure Under 20 gallons per minute..................................... $ 40 20-150 gallons per minute................................... $ 205 Over 150 gallons per minute..................................... $ 307 Special Liquid-Fuel Measuring Equipment Liquefied petroleum gas meters One inch pipe diameter or under.................................................................... $ 307 Over one inch pipe diameter............................... $ 307 Tanks, under 500 gallons capacity when used as measure containers with or without gage rods or markers................................................................ $ 115 Tanks, 500 or more gallons capacity when used as measure containers with or without gage rods or markers................................................................ $ 230 ______________________________________________________________________________ [1973 c.293 §34; 1977 c.132 §6; 1983 c.210 §1; 1989 c.405 §6; 1991 c.610 §1; 1993 c.122 §1; 1999 c.237 §2; 2007 c.489 §§1,3; 2019 c.385 §3]
OR Rev Stat § 618.146 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 618 - Weights and Measures|Section 618.146 - Term of licenses; suspension and revocation of licenses.

(1) All weighing and measuring instrument or device licenses issued under ORS 618.010 to 618.246 expire on June 30 next after the date of issuance or on such date as may be specified by rule of the State Department of Agriculture. (2) In accordance with the provisions of ORS chapter 183, any license issued under ORS 618.010 to 618.246 may be suspended or revoked by the department if the instrument or device is operated or used contrary to ORS 618.010 to 618.246 or rules promulgated pursuant thereto. [1973 c.293 §33; 2005 c.22 §427; 2007 c.768 §24]
OR Rev Stat § 618.151 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 618 - Weights and Measures|Section 618.151 - Commercial use of unlicensed weighing or measuring instrument prohibited.

The owner or person in possession of weighing or measuring instruments or devices for which the license fees have not been paid in the manner required by ORS 618.010 to 618.246 may not use the weighing or measuring instruments or devices for commercial purposes. [1973 c.293 §35; 1979 c.333 §1; 2005 c.22 §428]
OR Rev Stat § 618.156 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 618 - Weights and Measures|Section 618.156 - Forms, certificates and identification tags; license application forms.

(1) The State Department of Agriculture shall prescribe such forms, certificates and identification tags as it considers necessary to carry out the licensing provisions of ORS 618.010 to 618.246. (2) The department shall provide a certificate or other evidence of device license compliance to each person fulfilling the weighing or measuring device licensing requirements of ORS 618.010 to 618.246. (3) Application for a weights and measures license shall be made upon a form prescribed and furnished by the department and shall contain such information as the department may require. [1973 c.293 §36; 2005 c.22 §429]
OR Rev Stat § 618.161 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 618 - Weights and Measures|Section 618.161 - Notice of violation to owner or operator of unlicensed weighing or measuring instrument; tagging or sealing instruments to prevent unauthorized use.

When weighing or measuring instruments or devices specified in ORS 618.141 are in commercial use and a valid license for such instruments or devices has not been procured by the owner or operator thereof, the State Department of Agriculture after giving notice of such requirements to the owner or operator is authorized to prohibit the further commercial use of the unlicensed instruments or devices until the proper license has been issued. The department may employ and attach to the instruments or devices such forms, notices or security seals as it considers necessary to prevent the continued unauthorized use of the instruments or devices. [1973 c.293 §37]
OR Rev Stat § 618.201 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 618 - Weights and Measures|Section 618.201 - Sampling of packages and commodities; ordering packages and commodities withheld from sale; disposition after order.

(1) The State Department of Agriculture, as often as necessary to provide adequate protection, shall weigh or measure and inspect packages or amounts of commodities sold, offered or exposed for sale, or in the process of delivery, to determine whether they contain the amounts represented and whether they are sold, offered or exposed for sale in accordance with ORS 618.010 to 618.246. If such packages or amounts of commodities are found not to contain the amounts represented, or are found to be sold, offered or exposed for sale in violation of ORS 618.010 to 618.246, the department may order them withheld from sale and may so mark or tag them. (2) In carrying out the provisions of this section, the department may employ recognized sampling procedures under which the compliance of a given lot of packages will be determined on the basis of the result obtained on a sample selected from and representative of such lot. (3) No person shall: (a) Sell, offer or expose for sale, in intrastate commerce, any package or amount of commodity that has been ordered withheld from sale and marked or tagged as provided in this section until such package or amount of commodity has been brought into full compliance with all the requirements of ORS 618.010 to 618.246; or (b) Otherwise dispose of any package or amount of the commodity that has been ordered withheld from sale and marked or tagged as provided in this section and that has not been brought into compliance with the requirements of ORS 618.010 to 618.246, in any manner, except with the specific approval of the department. [1973 c.293 §10; 2005 c.22 §430]
OR Rev Stat § 618.206 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 618 - Weights and Measures|Section 618.206 - Manner of selling commodities; exemptions; rules.

(1) Commodities in liquid form shall be sold only by liquid measure or weight and, except as otherwise provided in ORS 618.010 to 618.246, commodities not in liquid form shall be sold only by weight, measure of length or area, or count. However, liquid commodities may be sold by weight, and commodities not in liquid form may be sold by count only if such methods give accurate information as to the quantity of commodity sold. (2) The provisions of subsection (1) of this section do not apply to: (a) Commodities sold for immediate consumption on the premises where sold; (b) Vegetables sold by the head or bunch; (c) Commodities in containers standardized by the laws of this state or the United States; (d) Commodities in package form when there exists a general consumer usage to express the quantity in some other manner; (e) Concrete aggregates, concrete mixtures and loose solid materials such as earth, soil, gravel, crushed stone and like substances sold by cubic measure; or (f) Unprocessed vegetable and animal fertilizer sold by cubic measure. (3) The State Department of Agriculture may make such reasonable rules as are necessary to ensure that the amounts of commodity for sale reflect accurate and fair practices. [1973 c.293 §21; 2005 c.22 §431]
OR Rev Stat § 618.211 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 618 - Weights and Measures|Section 618.211 - Labeling of packaged commodities; use of labeling terms restricted; scope of rules.

(1) Except as otherwise provided in ORS 618.010 to 618.246 and the rules promulgated pursuant thereto, any commodity in package form introduced, delivered for introduction into or received in intrastate commerce and sold, offered or exposed for sale in intrastate commerce shall bear on the outside of the package definite, plain and conspicuous declarations of: (a) The identity of the commodity in the package, unless it is visible through the wrapper; (b) The net quantity of the contents in terms of weight, measure or count; and (c) In the case of any package sold, offered or exposed for sale in any place other than on the premises where packed, the name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer or distributor, as may be prescribed by rule. (2) In connection with the requirements of subsection (1)(b) of this section, neither the qualifying term "when packed" or any words of similar import, nor any term qualifying a unit of weight, measure or count such as "jumbo," "giant" or "full" that tends to exaggerate the amount of commodity in a package shall be used. (3) In connection with the requirements of subsection (1)(b) of this section, the State Department of Agriculture by rule may establish: (a) Reasonable variations to be allowed, including variations below the declared weight or measure caused by ordinary and customary exposure, only after the commodity is introduced into intrastate commerce, to conditions that normally occur in good distribution practice and that unavoidably result in decreased weight or measure. However, such variations may not be permitted to the extent that the average of the quantities in the packages comprising a shipment, display or other lot is below the quantity stated, and no unreasonable shortage in any package shall be permitted even though overages in other packages in the same shipment, display or lot compensate for such shortage; (b) Exemptions for small packages; and (c) Exemptions for commodities put up in variable weights or sizes for sale intact and either customarily not sold as individual units or customarily weighed or measured at time of sale to the consumer. [1973 c.293 §22; 2005 c.22 §432]
OR Rev Stat § 618.216 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 618 - Weights and Measures|Section 618.216 - Cost per unit labeling requirements.

In addition to the declarations required by ORS 618.211, any commodity in package form which is one of a lot containing random weights, measures or counts of the same commodity and which states the total selling price of the package, shall bear on the outside of the package a plain and conspicuous declaration of the corresponding price per unit of weight, measure or count in terms consistent with ORS 618.206. [1973 c.293 §23]
OR Rev Stat § 618.221 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 618 - Weights and Measures|Section 618.221 - Restriction on manner of packaging commodities; fill of container requirements.

No commodity in package form shall be so wrapped, nor shall it be in a container so made, formed or filled as to mislead the purchaser as to the quantity of the contents of the package, and the contents of a container shall not fall below such reasonable standard of fill as may be prescribed for the commodity by the State Department of Agriculture. [1973 c.293 §24]
OR Rev Stat § 618.226 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 618 - Weights and Measures|Section 618.226 - Commodity price and quantity advertising requirements; restriction on use of certain advertising terms.

(1) Whenever a commodity in package form is advertised in any manner and the retail price of the package is stated in the advertisement, there shall be closely and conspicuously associated with such statement of price a declaration of the quantity of contents of the package as is required to appear on the package. (2) If the applicable law requires a dual declaration of net quantity to appear on the package, only the declaration that sets forth the quantity in terms of the smaller unit of weight or measure need appear in the advertisement. (3) There shall not be included as part of the declaration required under this section such qualifying terms as "when packed," "minimum," "not less than" or any other terms of similar import, nor any term qualifying a unit of weight, measure or count such as "jumbo," "giant" or "full" that tends to exaggerate the amount of commodity in the package. [1973 c.293 §25]
OR Rev Stat § 618.231 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 618 - Weights and Measures|Section 618.231 - "Weight" defined; construction of term in sales transactions.

The word "weight" when referring to the quantity of any commodity means net weight. Whenever any commodity is sold on the basis of weight, the net weight of the commodity shall be employed, and all contracts concerning commodities shall be so construed. [1973 c.293 §26]
OR Rev Stat § 618.236 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 618 - Weights and Measures|Section 618.236 - Price misrepresentation prohibited; expressing fractional prices.

(1) Whenever any commodity or service is sold, offered or exposed for sale, by weight, measure or count, the price shall not be misrepresented, nor shall the price be represented in any manner calculated or tending to mislead or deceive an actual or prospective purchaser. (2) Whenever an advertised, posted or labeled price per unit of weight, measure or count includes a fraction of a cent, all elements of the fraction shall be prominently displayed and the numeral or numerals expressing the fraction shall be immediately adjacent to, of the same general design and style as, and at least one-half the height and width of, the numerals representing the whole cents. [1973 c.293 §27]
OR Rev Stat § 618.241 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 618 - Weights and Measures|Section 618.241 - Written invoice of certain commodity sales required; contents of writing.

In the case of sales to or by retail outlets including restaurants, hospitals, boarding houses and similar institutions, sales of commodities in bulk form whose value exceeds $10 shall be accompanied by a printed or written delivery ticket or invoice bearing the following information: (1) Name and address of the vendor and the purchaser. (2) Date and place of the delivery. (3) Product identity and net quantity delivered. (4) Quantity upon which charges are based if different from the delivered quantity by reason of processing customarily performed subsequent to a sale, but prior to delivery to a purchaser. [1973 c.293 §28]
OR Rev Stat § 618.246 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 618 - Weights and Measures|Section 618.246 - Sale by weight required for certain food products; labeling requirements.

(1) Except for immediate consumption on the premises where sold, or as one of several elements comprising a ready-to-eat meal sold as a unit for consumption elsewhere than on the premises where sold, all poultry, or parts thereof, meat, meat products, fish and seafood, sold, offered or exposed for sale as food, shall be sold, offered or exposed for sale by weight. (2) If meat, poultry, fish or seafood is combined with or associated with some other food element to form either a distinctive food product or a food combination, such food product or combination shall be sold, offered or exposed for sale by weight. The quantity representation may be the total weight of the food product or combination and a quantity representation need not be made for each of the several elements of the food product or combination. (3) In the case of ready-to-cook whole-carcass stuffed poultry, ready-to-cook stuffed poultry roasts, rolls, bars and logs, and ready-to-cook stuffed poultry products designated by terms of similar import, the label must show the total net weight and, in close proximity, the net weight of the poultry exclusive of stuffing ingredients. [1973 c.293 §29]
OR Rev Stat § 618.275 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 618 - Weights and Measures|Section 618.275 - Testing and inspection of scales; use without seal prohibited; sealing device; tests and inspection of cars; interstate cooperation.

(1) All railroad track scales within this state used to weigh cars, commodities or freight offered for shipment shall be under the jurisdiction of the Director of Agriculture and subject to inspection by the State Department of Agriculture. The department may also test other track scales. (2) The department shall, from time to time, test and inspect all such scales. No track scale shall be used in determining weights for the purpose of determining freight charges without first obtaining a seal from the department approving such use. (3) The department shall approve a suitable sealing device, and cause all track scales inspected under this section to be officially sealed with such device, when such scales are found, or made to be in compliance with the department’s rules. (4) The department may procure or otherwise secure the use of the car, apparatus or facilities used for tests and inspections as the department may require for the purposes of this section. Such car, apparatus or facilities may be used jointly with another state or states to test track scales and for that purpose may be taken beyond the limits of the state under such terms and conditions agreed upon with such other states. The car and apparatus needed to test track scales shall be transported free by every railroad in this state. [1989 c.405 §2]
OR Rev Stat § 618.406 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 618 - Weights and Measures|Section 618.406 - Definitions; citations for certain violations; delegation of authority; service of citations; recording.

(1) As used in this section: (a) "Deputy state sealer" means the person appointed by the Director of Agriculture to supervise the weights and measures section. (b) "Inspector" means a state employee designated by the director as a supervisor or inspector of weights and measures. (2) In enforcing violations subject to penalty under ORS 618.991, the director has authority to issue and serve citations to any person violating such laws. (3) The director may delegate the powers referred to in subsection (2) of this section to the deputy state sealer and to inspectors. The deputy state sealer and inspectors with authority to serve citations under this section shall issue those citations in the manner provided by ORS chapter 153. (4) Upon issuance of a citation for a violation subject to penalty under ORS 618.991, the deputy state sealer or inspector issuing the citation shall retain a record copy for the State Department of Agriculture. [1973 c.374 §5; 1999 c.1051 §109; 2005 c.22 §434]
OR Rev Stat § 618.501 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 618 - Weights and Measures|Section 618.501 - Definitions.

As used in ORS 618.501 to 618.551 and 618.995, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Appropriate court" means the circuit court of a county: (a) Where one or more of the defendants reside; (b) Where one or more of the defendants maintain a principal place of business; (c) Where one or more of the defendants are alleged to have committed a security seal violation; or (d) With the defendant’s consent, where the prosecuting officer maintains an office. (2) "Prosecuting attorney" means the Attorney General or the district attorney of any county in which a security seal violation is alleged to have been committed. (3) "Security seal" means a lead-and-wire seal or similar nonreusable closure, attached to a weighing or measuring instrument or device for protection against undetectable access, removal, adjustment or unauthorized use. (4) "Security seal violation" means the use, in violation of this chapter or any rule promulgated pursuant thereto, of any liquid or gaseous metering instrument or device to which a security seal is required to be affixed, when the security seal has been broken or removed. (5) A "willful violation" occurs when the person committing the violation knew or should have known that the conduct of the person was a violation. [1973 c.294 §2; 2003 c.14 §370; 2005 c.22 §435]
OR Rev Stat § 618.511 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 618 - Weights and Measures|Section 618.511 - Remedial power of court.

The court may make such additional orders or judgments as may be necessary to restore to any person in interest any moneys or property, real or personal, of which the person was deprived by means of a security seal violation, or as may be necessary to insure cessation of such violations, pursuant to ORS 618.506. [1973 c.294 §4]