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OR Rev Stat § 578.260 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 578 - Oregon Wheat Commission|Section 578.260 - Penalty for failure to relinquish collected assessment moneys; civil action or other remedies.

(1) If a person responsible for the transmittal of assessment moneys to the Oregon Wheat Commission fails to relinquish assessment moneys collected, the person shall pay a civil penalty to the commission equal to twice the amount of the unrelinquished assessment moneys. (2) The commission may commence a civil action or utilize any other available legal or equitable remedy to collect an assessment or civil penalty, obtain injunctive relief or obtain specific performance under this chapter. (3) If the person responsible for the transmittal of assessment moneys is a corporation, all directors and officers of the corporation are personally liable for a failure to relinquish the assessment moneys collected by the corporation. (4) If the commission obtains a favorable judgment in an action or suit under subsection (2) of this section, the court shall award the commission costs and reasonable attorney fees. (5) Unless the person required to pay an assessment and the person responsible for collecting the assessment are related businesses, the commission may not collect from the person required to pay the assessment any amount deducted by the person responsible for collecting the assessment and due and owing to the commission. [2013 c.93 §4]
OR Rev Stat § 578.990 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 578 - Oregon Wheat Commission|Section 578.990 - Penalties.

Violation of any of the provisions of this chapter is a Class C misdemeanor. [Amended by 2011 c.597 §239]
OR Rev Stat § 586.210 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 586 - Warehouses|Section 586.210 - Definitions for ORS 586.210 to 586.730.

As used in ORS 586.210 to 586.730, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Department" means the State Department of Agriculture. (2) "Grain" means wheat, corn, oats, barley, rye, flaxseed, soybeans, grain sorghum, dry beans and peas and any other grain for which standards are established by the state or the federal government. (3) "Handling" includes receiving and loading out grain tendered for storage. (4) "Public terminal warehouse" means any public warehouse located in a city of this state designated as an inspection point by the department. (5) "Public warehouse" includes any elevator, mill, warehouse or other structure in which grain is received from one or more members of the public for storage or handling for compensation. (6) "Warehouseman" includes any person, existing legal entity or municipality owning, operating or controlling any public warehouse. [Amended by 1955 c.731 §1; 1959 c.195 §1; 1961 c.445 §1; 1967 c.492 §1; 1969 c.190 §1; 2001 c.66 §1]
OR Rev Stat § 586.225 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 586 - Warehouses|Section 586.225 - Exemption for certain warehousing facilities.

(1) The provisions of ORS 586.210 to 586.561 do not apply to any public warehouse or other facility where the owner or operator thereof only receives grain: (a) The owner or operator has purchased or has agreed to purchase, (b) For processing or cleaning for the owner of the grain, (c) For such purposes other than storage or handling as the State Department of Agriculture may by rule prescribe, if the records of the owner or operator include such written evidence as the department requires, furnished on or before delivery of the grain by the owner or the authorized agent of the owner, clearly showing that the grain was left or deposited for one or more of the purposes set forth in this subsection. (2) Grain left or deposited with an owner or operator whose records do not clearly include the evidence showing such grain was only left or deposited for one or more purposes as required by subsection (1) of this section, must be considered by the department to be grain deposited for storage and handling pursuant to ORS 586.210 to 586.561. Such owner or operator and the warehouse or other facility of the owner or operator where grain is received, are subject to all provisions of ORS 586.210 to 586.561 during the license period. [1969 c.190 §2b]
OR Rev Stat § 586.230 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 586 - Warehouses|Section 586.230 - State Department of Agriculture to inspect warehouses and records and make rules to enforce ORS 586.210 to 586.730.

(1) The State Department of Agriculture shall have the power to inspect public warehouses. The department shall investigate all complaints of fraud or injustice in the operation of public warehouses and the business practices of warehousemen licensed by the department and make all necessary rules and regulations for carrying out and enforcing the provisions of ORS 586.210 to 586.730. (2) If sufficient funds are available, the department annually shall inspect at reasonable times any warehouse or storage facility where grain is stored, handled or received and any records kept by the owner or person in control of such warehouse or storage facility and pertaining to the operation thereof, in order to determine whether or not such facility should be licensed pursuant to this chapter. [Amended by 1955 c.731 §2; 1959 c.195 §2; 1961 c.445 §2; 1997 c.608 §4]
OR Rev Stat § 586.235 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 586 - Warehouses|Section 586.235 - Cooperative agreements for inspections in other states.

The Director of Agriculture may enter into cooperative agreements with approved warehouse examination programs provided by state governments of contiguous states to perform warehouse examinations of merged code facilities domiciled in these contiguous states. [1997 c.608 §6] Note: 586.235 was added to and made a part of 586.210 to 586.730 by legislative action but was not added to any smaller series therein. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
OR Rev Stat § 586.250 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 586 - Warehouses|Section 586.250 - Improper acts of department officers or employees and of others improperly influencing them.

(1) No officer, employee, inspector, sampler or weigher of the State Department of Agriculture shall: (a) Be guilty of any neglect of duty. (b) Knowingly or carelessly inspect, sample or weigh any grain, grain products, hay or other commodities improperly. (c) Directly or indirectly accept any money or other consideration for any neglect of duty or any improper performance of duty as such officer, employee, inspector, sampler or weigher. (2) No person shall improperly influence or attempt to improperly influence any officer, employee, inspector, sampler or weigher of the department in the performance of duties as such officer, employee, inspector, sampler or weigher.
OR Rev Stat § 586.270 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 586 - Warehouses|Section 586.270 - Warehouse licenses; federal licenses; license application and fee.

(1) Every person operating any public warehouse in this state shall, before July 1 of each year or such date as may be specified by rule of the State Department of Agriculture, procure from the department a license for each such warehouse so operated for the ensuing year, before transacting business at such public warehouse; but the holder of a license to store grain under the United States Warehouse Act shall furnish the department with a copy of such license and bond and, having furnished such copies, is not required to secure a state license or pay state warehouse inspection fees during the time the license holder continues to operate under the federal license. The license shall be posted in a conspicuous place in the office of each warehouse. (2) Application for a license under this section shall be made to the department upon forms furnished by it. The application shall include: (a) The name and address of the applicant. (b) The location of each public warehouse of the applicant. (c) The total rated storage capacity in bushels of each public warehouse. (d) The tariff schedule of charges to be made at each public warehouse for the handling, storage and shipment of grain during the license year. (e) Documentation satisfactory to the department that the applicant has net assets of at least $50,000. (f) Such other information as the department deems necessary to carry out the purposes of ORS 586.210 to 586.730. (3) The applicant shall submit with the application an annual license fee of $500 for each public warehouse. (4) The department shall issue a license to the applicant if it finds that the application is in due form and the applicant has complied with the provisions of ORS 586.210 to 586.730. [Amended by 1955 c.731 §3; 1967 c.492 §2; 1969 c.190 §2; 1981 c.204 §1; 1997 c.608 §2; 2001 c.66 §2; 2007 c.768 §16]
OR Rev Stat § 586.275 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 586 - Warehouses|Section 586.275 - Revocation of or refusal to issue license.

Subject to the provisions of ORS chapter 183, upon determining that any person licensed under this chapter, or who has applied for a license under ORS 586.270, has violated or failed to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter or any of the rules and regulations of the State Department of Agriculture made under this chapter, or that such person has failed to place and keep the premises, where the person conducts the licensed business, in the manner required under this chapter, the department may revoke such person’s license or refuse to issue a license to such person. [1957 c.11 §2; 1961 c.425 §6; 1961 c.445 §5; 1971 c.734 §89]
OR Rev Stat § 586.280 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 586 - Warehouses|Section 586.280 - Prohibition against operating a warehouse or issuing a warehouse receipt without a license.

(1) No person operating a public warehouse within this state shall issue any negotiable grain warehouse receipt for grain for storage purposes unless the person is at the time licensed so to do, either by the State Department of Agriculture or by the United States Department of Agriculture. (2) No person shall operate a public warehouse in this state without a license under ORS 586.210 to 586.730. [Amended by 1955 c.731 §4]
OR Rev Stat § 586.285 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 586 - Warehouses|Section 586.285 - Operation without a license may be enjoined.

The State Department of Agriculture may apply for, and the circuit courts of this state hereby are vested with jurisdiction to issue, a temporary or permanent injunction against the operation by any person of a public warehouse without a license if such license is required by ORS 586.210 to 586.730. The remedy conferred by this section is in addition to any other remedy provided by law. [1955 c.731 §8 (enacted in lieu of 586.320); 1971 c.418 §17]
OR Rev Stat § 586.290 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 586 - Warehouses|Section 586.290 - Posting of signs at warehouses.

(1) Every warehouseman operating a public warehouse licensed and bonded under ORS 586.210 to 586.730 shall post at or near the main entrance to the warehouse a sign to be furnished by the State Department of Agriculture of such design as the department directs, having thereon the words, "Oregon Bonded Grain Warehouse." It is unlawful to permit such sign or any sign of similar appearance or bearing the same words, or words of similar import, to remain during any time that the warehouse is not duly and regularly licensed or bonded under ORS 586.210 to 586.730. (2) When any such license expires or is revoked and a new license from the department has not yet been issued, or if the full amount of the bond required has not been filed and approved, then the warehouseman immediately shall: (a) Remove the sign. (b) Discontinue operation of the business as a public warehouse. (c) Place and maintain for at least one year at the main entrance to the warehouse a sign of such dimensions and other specifications as prescribed by the department and having thereon the words, "This is Not a Licensed or Bonded Grain Warehouse." [Amended by 1955 c.731 §5; 1959 c.195 §3]
OR Rev Stat § 586.295 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 586 - Warehouses|Section 586.295 - Warehouse to be maintained in adequate manner.

A public warehouse shall be maintained in a manner adequate to provide suitable, sanitary and safe storage of the particular product or commodity stored therein. [1957 c.11 §6; 1957 c.314 §4]
OR Rev Stat § 586.315 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 586 - Warehouses|Section 586.315 - Warehouseman required to insure grain or retain written waiver by depositor.

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, grain in storage in a public warehouse or public terminal warehouse shall be kept fully insured by the warehouseman for the current market value of such grain against loss by fire, lightning, inherent explosion, windstorm, cyclone and tornado. Evidence of such insurance coverage in the form of a certificate of insurance approved by the State Department of Agriculture shall be filed with the department at the time of making application for an annual license to operate a public warehouse as required by this chapter. The department shall not issue a license until such certificate of insurance is received. (2) Any person depositing or storing grain who does not wish to have the grain of the person insured by a warehouseman, as required by subsection (1) of this section, may relieve the warehouseman of that duty and the provisions of this section, by notifying the warehouseman in writing that the person does not wish the grain of the person insured. If such notice specifies a definite period during which such grain shall not be insured, the warehouseman shall keep such notice in the files of the warehouseman for at least two years after such period ends. If no period is mentioned and the notice covers all grain which has been or may thereafter be deposited or stored with such warehouseman, then the warehouseman shall retain such notice for at least two years after all grain has been removed by the person giving such notice. (3) Notwithstanding the provisions of ORS 586.275, when the provisions of this section are violated, the department shall immediately suspend the license of the warehouseman. The suspension shall remain in effect until there has been compliance with this section. The provisions of this subsection shall supersede any inconsistent provisions in ORS chapter 183. [1959 c.195 §6; 1961 c.425 §7]
OR Rev Stat § 586.330 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 586 - Warehouses|Section 586.330 - Investigating and fixing warehouse charges.

All charges made by any warehouseman subject to the provisions of ORS 586.210 to 586.730, for the handling or storage of grain shall be just, fair and reasonable; and the State Department of Agriculture, upon the complaint of any person interested or by inquiry upon its own motion, after a full hearing, may: (1) Declare any existing charge for the handling or storage of grain or any regulation whatsoever affecting such charge, or the receipt, handling or storage, to be unreasonable or unjust; and (2) Declare and order what is a just and reasonable charge or regulation to be imposed or enforced in place of that found to be unreasonable or unjust. [Amended by 1955 c.731 §9]
OR Rev Stat § 586.340 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 586 - Warehouses|Section 586.340 - Posting rate schedules; increase or discrimination in rates prohibited.

Every warehouseman shall annually, during the first week in July, publish by posting in a conspicuous place in the public warehouse of the warehouseman, a schedule of grain storage and handling rates for the ensuing year. The schedule shall be kept posted in a conspicuous place in the public warehouse. The rates shall not be changed during such year. No discrimination in rates shall be made by any warehouseman. [Amended by 1955 c.731 §10]
OR Rev Stat § 586.350 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 586 - Warehouses|Section 586.350 - Overcharges, rebates and preferences prohibited.

No warehouseman subject to the provisions of ORS 586.210 to 586.730 shall: (1) Directly or indirectly, by any special charge, rebate, drawback or other device, demand, collect or receive from any person a greater or lesser compensation for any service rendered or to be rendered in the handling or storage of grain than the warehouseman demands, collects or receives from any other person for doing for the person a like and contemporaneous service in the handling or storage of grain under substantially similar circumstances or conditions. (2) Make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any person in any respect whatsoever. (3) Subject any particular person to any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect whatsoever. [Amended by 1955 c.731 §11]
OR Rev Stat § 586.360 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 586 - Warehouses|Section 586.360 - Warehouseman required to receive grain for storage; reservation of space for local customers; load slips; warehouse receipts.

(1) Every warehouseman shall receive for storage and handling, as the capacity of the public warehouse of the warehouseman will permit, all grain in a public warehouse licensed for such purpose, in suitable condition for storage, tendered the warehouseman in the usual course of business, without discrimination of any kind. However, a warehouseman may reserve adequate storage space for local producer customers. (2) Every warehouseman receiving grain for storage or handling shall issue to every person delivering the grain to the warehouseman a load slip which shall contain thereon the actual weight of each draft of the grain and the tare, if any, and other information required by the State Department of Agriculture, immediately upon receipt of each load or parcel of grain. The warehouseman receiving grain for storage or handling shall within 10 days after demand, issue and deliver to the owner of the grain, or the representative of the owner, a negotiable or nonnegotiable grain warehouse receipt in form prescribed by the department, unless exempted by ORS 586.380 (3). [Amended by 1955 c.731 §12; 1961 c.445 §9; 1991 c.894 §2]
OR Rev Stat § 586.370 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 586 - Warehouses|Section 586.370 - Obtaining blank forms of receipts from department.

(1) The State Department of Agriculture shall cause to be printed, bound and delivered to each person operating a public warehouse a sufficient number of blank negotiable and nonnegotiable grain warehouse receipts, in such form and as prescribed by the department, required to carry on the business of such public warehouse when needed. No person shall use such forms for any purpose other than in connection with receipt of grain for storage or handling. (2) Every person intending to operate a public warehouse shall file with the department for that purpose a requisition for such number of negotiable and nonnegotiable grain warehouse receipts as may be required for the operation of such public warehouse during the ensuing license year, specifying: (a) The name of the warehouseman intending to operate such public warehouse. (b) The state number of the public warehouse, or the respective numbers of the public warehouses, intended to be operated. (c) The respective quantities of blank forms of receipts required for each public warehouse. (d) The place where each public warehouse, respectively, is located. (e) The location of the principal place of business of the warehouseman operating such public warehouse or warehouses. (f) The rate of handling and storage charges at such public warehouse, or each of such warehouses, respectively. (g) Such other information as may be required by the department, specified in the blank form of requisition. (3) All receipt forms shall state thereon the amount of cash or other advances made by the warehouseman to the depositor of grain. (4) Payment for such receipts shall be made in advance. Every such warehouseman may file requisitions for additional receipts from time to time as the warehouseman requires. [Amended by 1955 c.731 §13; 1961 c.445 §10]
OR Rev Stat § 586.380 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 586 - Warehouses|Section 586.380 - Only authorized receipts to be used; exception.

(1) It is unlawful to issue negotiable or nonnegotiable grain warehouse receipts other than those furnished by the State Department of Agriculture and such receipts shall be issued consecutively as numbered and dated with the true and correct date on which each receipt is actually issued. It is unlawful to print or have in possession for the purpose of issuance under ORS 586.210 to 586.730, any negotiable or nonnegotiable grain warehouse receipt blanks intended for use under the provisions of those sections other than those authorized to be printed or other than those furnished by the department. (2) Nothing in ORS 586.210 to 586.730 shall be construed to prevent the issuance of nonnegotiable load slips or other nonnegotiable evidence of similar nature showing when and what quantities of grain were received or the condition thereof upon delivery. (3) Warehouses operated under the United States Warehouse Act, are exempted from the use of receipts furnished by the department. [Amended by 1955 c.731 §14; 1961 c.445 §11; 1969 c.190 §7]
OR Rev Stat § 586.382 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 586 - Warehouses|Section 586.382 - Warehouse records; warehouse receipts.

(1) A warehouseman operating another business in conjunction with, or in proximity to, the licensed public warehouse of the warehouseman shall keep a complete set of records for the warehouse business, entirely separate and distinct from the accounts and records of any other business. Deposits of grain for the account of such other business, or for grain owned by the warehouseman, shall be entered in the books of the warehouse in the same manner as those of other depositors. (2) No sale of grain by a warehouseman for future delivery, made when grain is not in storage in the warehouse, shall be deemed a transaction to which this chapter is applicable, nor shall such transaction be entered in the warehouse records as a storage obligation until the grain is placed in the public warehouse. When such grain is received and deposited to an account of a purchaser, the warehouseman shall immediately issue and deliver to the purchaser a negotiable or nonnegotiable warehouse receipt therefor. (3) When grain in storage, not covered by an outstanding warehouse receipt, is purchased from one depositor and title passed to a new owner, the warehouseman shall immediately issue and deliver to such new owner a negotiable or nonnegotiable warehouse receipt therefor. [1961 c.445 §7]