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OR Rev Stat § 569.610 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 569 - Weed Control|Section 569.610 - Officers; quorum; meetings.

(1) The State Weed Board shall select one of its members as chairperson and another as vice chairperson, for such terms and with duties and powers necessary for the performance of the functions of those offices as the board determines appropriate. (2) A majority of the members of the board constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business. (3) The board shall meet at such times and places as are specified by the call of the Director of Agriculture or the chairperson. [Formerly 561.670]
OR Rev Stat § 569.615 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 569 - Weed Control|Section 569.615 - Duties of board.

The State Weed Board shall: (1) Act in conjunction with the State Department of Agriculture to identify those weeds growing in this state that represent the greatest public menace and establish those weeds as the top priority for action by weed control programs in this state. (2) Assist the Director of Agriculture in allocating moneys made available to the State Department of Agriculture for the payment of weed control expenses to weed control programs conducted in the various counties on the basis of the plan implemented under ORS 569.620. (3) Help the department to coordinate the weed control program efforts of the various counties and advise the director in performing weed control duties, functions and powers assigned to the State Department of Agriculture. [Formerly 561.680]
OR Rev Stat § 569.620 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 569 - Weed Control|Section 569.620 - Implementation of weed control effort improvement plan.

(1) The State Department of Agriculture, in conjunction with the State Weed Board, shall implement a board plan to improve the effectiveness of noxious weed control efforts by weed control districts, state agencies and others within this state. The department shall act as the primary state agency for assisting weed control districts, state agencies and others in coordinating their noxious weed control efforts. (2) The department and the board shall initiate and actively pursue efforts to secure an optimum level of federal and private funding for noxious weed control efforts in this state. The department and the board shall give priority under this subsection to securing funding for noxious weed control projects that are consistent with the plan implemented under subsection (1) of this section. [Formerly 561.683]
OR Rev Stat § 569.990 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 569 - Weed Control|Section 569.990 - Violations punishable by fine.

(1) Violation of a provision of ORS 569.175 to 569.195 or a rule adopted under ORS 569.175 to 569.195 is a Class B violation. (2) Violation of a provision of ORS 569.360 to 569.495 is a Class A violation. [2009 c.98 §9(1),(3); 2011 c.9 §77]
OR Rev Stat § 569.995 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 569 - Weed Control|Section 569.995 - Civil penalties.

In addition to any applicable fine under ORS 569.990 or other penalty, a person that violates any provision of ORS 569.175 to 569.195 or 569.360 to 569.495 or a rule adopted under ORS 569.175 to 569.195 is subject to the imposition of a civil penalty by the State Department of Agriculture. A civil penalty the department imposes under this section may not exceed $10,000. [2013 c.195 §2]
OR Rev Stat § 570.001 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 570 - Plant Pest Control; Invasive Species|Section 570.001 - Definitions.

As used in ORS 570.010 to 570.050, 570.105 to 570.190, 570.210 to 570.225, 570.320 to 570.360 and 570.405: (1) "Infected" means any appearance of a disease on trees or plants that may be a menace to horticultural or farm crops. (2) "Infested" means when the adult, egg, larvae or pupae of an insect or other plant pest is found in such numbers as, in the opinion of the State Department of Agriculture, to be a menace to horticultural or farm crops. (3) "Plant pest" means: (a) A disease, microscopic organism, insect, nematode, arthropod, parasite or a noxious weed as defined in ORS 569.175, capable of having a significant adverse effect on the environmental quality of this state or of causing a significant level of economic damage in this state, including but not limited to damage to agricultural, horticultural or forest plants, crops, commodities or products; and (b) Any biotic agent identified in an order or rule of the department as capable of having a significant adverse effect on the environmental quality of this state, or of causing a significant level of economic damage in this state, including but not limited to damage to agricultural, horticultural or forest plants, crops, commodities or products. [2015 c.203 §4]
OR Rev Stat § 570.010 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 570 - Plant Pest Control; Invasive Species|Section 570.010 - County horticultural inspectors; appointment; term; powers and duties.

(1) Upon petition of not less than 25 resident fruit growers of any county of this state, the governing body of a county may, subject to the approval of the Director of Agriculture, appoint a county horticultural inspector, whose duties are: (a) To inspect orchards, nurseries, trees, shrubs, vines, fruits, vegetables, plants, packing houses, warehouses, storerooms, farms and other places within the county. (b) To visit and inspect the fruit drying and packing plants while the plants are in operation. (c) To enforce the regulations required by the State Department of Agriculture governing the handling, drying and packing of apples, loganberries or other fruits evaporated and packed for human consumption. (d) To enforce all laws of the state relating to insects or other plant pests that affect trees, vines, plants of any kind or fruit or vegetables of any kind and all other horticultural laws, rules and regulations of the state. (2) The county horticultural inspector shall hold office during the pleasure of the county governing body. [Amended by 1971 c.397 §1; 2013 c.120 §3; 2015 c.203 §5]
OR Rev Stat § 570.015 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 570 - Plant Pest Control; Invasive Species|Section 570.015 - Deputy inspectors.

Upon a petition of not less than 25 resident fruit growers of any county of this state, the county court of such county may, subject to the approval of the Director of Agriculture, appoint one or more deputy county horticultural inspectors. Each deputy inspector shall hold office during the pleasure of the county court and shall have and perform all the powers and duties of a county horticultural inspector.
OR Rev Stat § 570.020 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 570 - Plant Pest Control; Invasive Species|Section 570.020 - Inspectors may enter premises.

The county horticultural inspectors, deputy county horticultural inspectors and all other persons authorized to enforce the horticultural and inspection laws of Oregon may enter upon or into any premises, land, buildings, enclosures or other places for the purpose of: (1) Inspecting any article that is subject to or may be subject to infestation with any insect or other plant pest injurious to any article that grows upon, in or from the soil by processes of plant growth, or the eggs, larvae or pupae of an insect or other plant pest injurious to an article or articles; or (2) Enforcing any of the laws of this state relating to horticultural quarantine or horticultural inspection or the abatement of horticultural nuisances or any other duties imposed by law upon the inspectors and other persons authorized to enforce the inspection and horticultural laws of Oregon. [Amended by 2015 c.203 §6]
OR Rev Stat § 570.025 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 570 - Plant Pest Control; Invasive Species|Section 570.025 - Instruction, education and supervision of inspectors; reports.

The State Department of Agriculture shall instruct and educate the county and deputy county horticultural inspectors as to the laws and quarantine regulations of the state, and the rules and regulations of the department. The inspectors shall perform their duties under the general supervision of the department, to which they shall make reports in the manner prescribed by the department.
OR Rev Stat § 570.030 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 570 - Plant Pest Control; Invasive Species|Section 570.030 - Compensation of inspectors; office supplies; clerical help.

(1) Each county horticultural inspector and deputy inspector shall be paid for services by the county and actual necessary expenses incurred in the performance of duties. The county horticultural inspector and each deputy inspector shall report monthly to the State Department of Agriculture the time for which the inspector or deputy inspector is entitled to pay during the month for which such report is made, and a statement of actual necessary expenses incurred in the performance of duties as such inspector, and the department shall certify the report to the county court before such compensation and expenses shall be paid. (2) The county court shall supply the county and deputy county horticultural inspectors with such blanks, stationery, postage, equipment and clerical hire as are needed in the performance of their official duties.
OR Rev Stat § 570.035 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 570 - Plant Pest Control; Invasive Species|Section 570.035 - Appeals from inspectors’ decisions.

The State Department of Agriculture shall hear and promptly decide all appeals from the county or deputy county horticultural inspectors. Its decisions shall have full force and effect until set aside by the courts of the state. All appeals from inspectors to the department shall be under the form and regulations prescribed by the department.
OR Rev Stat § 570.040 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 570 - Plant Pest Control; Invasive Species|Section 570.040 - Inspection where inspector unavailable.

If any county for any reason fails to appoint a county horticultural inspector or if for any reason the inspector is not available, the nearest inspector available may perform such services, and the compensation of the inspector and the necessary expenses incurred in the performance of duty shall be charged against the county where the service is performed, as if the inspector had been appointed by the county court of such county.
OR Rev Stat § 570.045 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 570 - Plant Pest Control; Invasive Species|Section 570.045 - Assistance of employees of common carriers in locating horticultural articles; refusal or neglect is misdemeanor.

All clerks, bookkeepers, express agents, railroad officials, employees, or employees of common carriers shall render to the State Department of Agriculture and its inspectors all assistance in their power in tracing, finding or discovering the presence of any article named in the horticultural laws. Any refusal or neglect on the part of said persons to render such friendly aid to assist in the carrying out of ORS 564.020, 570.010 to 570.050, 570.125, 570.320, 570.335 to 570.360 is a misdemeanor.
OR Rev Stat § 570.050 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 570 - Plant Pest Control; Invasive Species|Section 570.050 - Cooperation of peace officers in enforcing quarantines.

All peace officers in this state shall enforce all quarantine measures promulgated by the United States Department of Agriculture and the State Department of Agriculture.
OR Rev Stat § 570.105 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 570 - Plant Pest Control; Invasive Species|Section 570.105 - Definitions for ORS 570.110 to 570.190.

As used in ORS 570.110 to 570.190, unless the context requires otherwise, "nursery stock" includes all trees, shrubs, vines, plants, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, fruit pits, nuts and other seeds of fruit, forest and ornamental trees and shrubs, both deciduous and evergreen, grown for sale or propagation or planting or collected in the wild, and all flowering bulbs, corms, roots, rooted herbaceous plants, or cuttings used or to be used for ornamental purposes, or cut greenery either cultivated or collected in the wild, used for ornamental purposes, but does not include cut flowers, or such cut greenery as ferns, and foliage grown under glass or other artificial covering.
OR Rev Stat § 570.110 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 570 - Plant Pest Control; Invasive Species|Section 570.110 - Inspections and visitations by director and deputies.

The Director of Agriculture, and such officers, employees and deputies as the director assigns to such duty, shall visit the different parts of the state and shall see that all regulations of the State Department of Agriculture and all provisions of law to prevent the introduction or spread of fruit pests and diseases of trees or plants injurious to the horticultural interests of the state are enforced. The director forthwith shall, upon the complaint of interested parties, inspect or cause to be inspected by some officer, employee or deputy of the department, orchards, nurseries and other places suspected to be infested with fruit pests or infected with diseases injurious to trees, plants or fruits.
OR Rev Stat § 570.115 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 570 - Plant Pest Control; Invasive Species|Section 570.115 - Quarantine establishment; revocation.

(1) If upon report of any officer, employee or deputy of the State Department of Agriculture, the Director of Agriculture is of the opinion that any locality, district, orchard or place is infested with fruit pests or infected with disease injurious to trees, plants or fruits, and liable to spread to other orchards or localities to their damage or injury so as to be a public danger, the director shall, by an order entered in the records of the department, declare such place to be under quarantine. The director shall give notice thereof by posting a notice in writing in a conspicuous place upon the premises, specifying with convenient certainty what place or premises are under quarantine regulations and by delivering a copy of such notice to the owner or person in charge of the premises, if the owner or person in charge may be found thereon. Such place thereafter shall be subject to quarantine regulations of the department. (2) As soon as, in the opinion of the director the danger from such quarantine locality has ceased, the director may revoke the quarantine.
OR Rev Stat § 570.120 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 570 - Plant Pest Control; Invasive Species|Section 570.120 - Quarantine powers exercised only in emergencies.

The powers conferred in ORS 570.110 and 570.115 shall be exercised only in great and imminent danger to the fruit interests of the state and with utmost caution and regard for the rights of individuals affected, consistent with the safety and welfare of the fruit interest of the whole state.
OR Rev Stat § 570.125 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 570 - Plant Pest Control; Invasive Species|Section 570.125 - Inspector of outgoing shipments.

(1) Upon request of any nurseryman or tree dealer doing business within this state, the Director of Agriculture may deputize a suitable person to inspect outgoing shipments from such nurseryman or tree dealer. The nurseryman or tree dealer shall pay the person so deputized for services while they are required by such nurseryman or tree dealer. (2) In case the shipping business of any two or more nurserymen and tree dealers is not in the aggregate more than one person can inspect properly and such group makes satisfactory arrangements for payment of the person making such inspection, the director may deputize a person to inspect the shipment of all members of such group. (3) No person deputized by the director to inspect outgoing shipments of nursery stock shall make any certificate concerning such shipments which is not true. No person so deputized shall allow a certificate of inspection given by the person to be attached to any tree, shrub, vine, plant, scion, bud, or box, crate, bale, bundle or container of the same or of any of them unless the person personally has inspected the articles and all of them immediately before signing such certificate, which must be dated in writing at the time it is signed. (4) The director may revoke deputization of any such person at any time if the director believes such person is not properly doing the duty of the person.
OR Rev Stat § 570.130 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 570 - Plant Pest Control; Invasive Species|Section 570.130 - Shipments marked to indicate place of origin; must be free from plant pests.

When any shipment of nursery stock, fruits, vegetables, seed, nuts or field crops is brought into this state or shipped within the state, the required permits, tags or markings of the state of origin must be attached to the container, and the shipment must be free of injurious insects or other plant pests and of eggs, larvae or pupae of injurious insects or other plant pests. [Amended by 2015 c.203 §7]
OR Rev Stat § 570.135 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 570 - Plant Pest Control; Invasive Species|Section 570.135 - Premises may be entered for inspection.

The officers, employees, deputies and inspectors of the State Department of Agriculture and the county horticultural inspectors and their deputies may enter at any time into any car, warehouse, depot, or upon any ship within the boundaries of this state, whether in the stream or at the dock, wharf, mole or any other place where nursery stock, fruit, vegetables, seed, field crops or other articles are received, or in which any articles are imported into the state, for the purpose of making the investigation or examination to ascertain whether the articles are infested with any injurious insects or other plant pests or the eggs, larvae or pupae of injurious insects or other plant pests. [Amended by 2015 c.203 §8]
OR Rev Stat § 570.140 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 570 - Plant Pest Control; Invasive Species|Section 570.140 - Shipment found to contain plant pest; notice to shipper.

When any shipment of nursery stock, fruits, vegetables, seed, nuts or field crops is found upon inspection to be infested with injurious insects or other plant pests or the eggs, larvae or pupae of injurious insects or other plant pests, the inspector shall give the shipper notice of the pests found and the manner of disposition, as provided for in ORS 570.145 to 570.165. [Amended by 2015 c.203 §9]
OR Rev Stat § 570.145 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 570 - Plant Pest Control; Invasive Species|Section 570.145 - Procedure when shipment articles can be separated.

(1) If, in the judgment of the inspector, materials not infested or infected can be separated from the infested or infected article without danger of the insects or other plant pests or the eggs, larvae or pupae of insects or other plant pests escaping from the article, and the owner or the person having control or possession of the articles desires to separate as instructed, the officer making the inspection shall give permission in writing to make the separation: (a) Within a specified time; (b) At the expense of the owner or responsible party who authorized the separation; and (c) Under the supervision of an official or of a person authorized by the inspector to exercise supervision. (2) If the official who makes the inspection has other official work awaiting and it appears that the time required for separating and destroying the articles may exceed one hour, the official may authorize and deputize an appropriate person to supervise the separation of the infested or infected articles from the uninfested or uninfected articles and the destruction of the infested and infected articles. The person so authorized shall be paid by the owner or the party who authorized the separation, or by both, for services while supervising the separation and destruction of the articles. [Amended by 2015 c.203 §10]
OR Rev Stat § 570.150 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 570 - Plant Pest Control; Invasive Species|Section 570.150 - Procedure when shipment articles can be treated.

When, in the judgment of the inspector, all or part of a shipment can be treated to exterminate the plant pests or diseases, the owner or responsible agents of the owner shall be so notified. The notice shall include the exact method and materials to be used, and provide that all treatments shall be given under direct supervision of an authorized inspector and shall be done at the expense of the owner or the party who authorized such treatment or both.
OR Rev Stat § 570.155 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 570 - Plant Pest Control; Invasive Species|Section 570.155 - Disposition of shipment when articles not separated or treated.

(1) If no provision is made by the inspecting official for disposition by separation or treatment, the notice provided for in ORS 570.140 must require that all condemned materials be promptly shipped out of the state within a specified time, the limit of which may not be less than 48 hours or more than 10 days, according to the nature of the insects or other plant pests. The owner or person in charge of the materials shall ship the materials under the direction of the officer making the inspection and at the expense of the owner or agent of the owner. (2) If the owner or the agent of the owner fails to comply with the notice, the articles shall be destroyed by the officer at the expense of the owner or agent. If the articles cannot be reshipped out of the state without danger of the insect or other plant pest escaping to the orchards, vineyards, farms, gardens or ornamentals and their products of Oregon, the articles shall immediately be destroyed by, or under the direction of, the inspecting official or the person who inspected the articles. [Amended by 2015 c.203 §11]
OR Rev Stat § 570.160 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 570 - Plant Pest Control; Invasive Species|Section 570.160 - Procedure when shipment is sound, but from infected or infested area.

In case the shipment, although apparently sound and not infested or infected by any pests, is from an infested or infected district beyond the limits of this state, the inspector shall notify the owner or person in charge thereof, and shall require such owner or person to fumigate or sterilize such shipment, or to destroy or to treat such shipment in the manner directed by the inspector and under the supervision of the inspector or under the supervision of some person appointed by the inspector for that purpose, or to return it to the point of origin or ship out of the state.