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OR Rev Stat § 561.040 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 561 - State Department of Agriculture|Section 561.040 - Organization.

Subject to policy direction by the State Board of Agriculture, the Director of Agriculture shall organize and reorganize the work of the State Department of Agriculture. [Amended by 1955 c.572 §9; 1959 c.639 §6; 1977 c.198 §2]
OR Rev Stat § 561.050 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 561 - State Department of Agriculture|Section 561.050 - Division chiefs.

Subject to any applicable provisions of the State Personnel Relations Law, the chiefs of the divisions shall be appointed by the Director of Agriculture. [Amended by 1959 c.639 §7]
OR Rev Stat § 561.060 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 561 - State Department of Agriculture|Section 561.060 - Salaries and bonds of employees.

(1) The Director of Agriculture shall execute bonds to the State of Oregon in the penal sum of $20,000, conditioned upon the faithful performance of the duties of director. (2) Subject to any applicable provisions of the State Personnel Relations Law, the chiefs of divisions and other employees of the State Department of Agriculture shall receive such salaries and wages as the director determines. (3) The chiefs of divisions and other employees of the department designated by the director shall execute bonds to the state, conditioned upon the faithful performance of their duties, in such amounts as the director determines. [Amended by 1959 c.639 §8]
OR Rev Stat § 561.070 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 561 - State Department of Agriculture|Section 561.070 - Assistants and employees; appointment, classification and duties.

(1) The Director of Agriculture may employ veterinarians, chemists, bacteriologists and other experts, inspectors, accountants, stenographers, clerks or other help necessary to carry out efficiently the work of the State Department of Agriculture. The director may assign duties and responsibilities to each officer and employee of the department. (2) The director may at any time designate or appoint any officer or employee of the department to act as assistant director of agriculture and may terminate such designation or appointment at any time, with or without cause. The assistant director of agriculture may perform such duties of the director as may be prescribed by the director. (3) If the director appoints any research analysts pursuant to subsection (1) of this section, two of such research analysts may be members of unclassified service as provided in ORS chapter 240. [Amended by 1957 c.451 §1; 1967 c.208 §8]
OR Rev Stat § 561.075 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 561 - State Department of Agriculture|Section 561.075 - Reports to director; publications.

(1) The Director of Agriculture may call for such reports, statistics and information as the director may desire, from time to time, from any division chief or employee of the State Department of Agriculture. (2) The director may, from time to time, cause to be published and distributed to the public in pamphlet form, or such other form as the director may deem best, such information as the director may judge to be of assistance in carrying on any of the work or purposes for the administration or for the carrying on of which the department is established. (3) All printing of such reports, pamphlets or other literature shall be done by the Oregon Department of Administrative Services. (4) Unless otherwise provided by law, the State Department of Agriculture may establish charges for any publication produced by it as authorized by subsection (2) of this section. Such charges shall be in amounts sufficient to cover the costs of preparation, printing, mailing and handling of each publication. [Formerly 561.180]
OR Rev Stat § 561.080 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 561 - State Department of Agriculture|Section 561.080

[Amended by 1987 c.734 §16; renumbered 561.362 in 2005]
OR Rev Stat § 561.090 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 561 - State Department of Agriculture|Section 561.090

[Renumbered 561.364 in 2005]
OR Rev Stat § 561.100 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 561 - State Department of Agriculture|Section 561.100

[Renumbered 561.366 in 2005]
OR Rev Stat § 561.110 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 561 - State Department of Agriculture|Section 561.110 - Conferences between director and division chiefs; action by director.

In conference with the chiefs of the divisions there shall be full and free discussion of the agricultural policies of the State Department of Agriculture, the administrative problems of divisions, the coordination of the departmental activities and methods for increasing the efficiency and reducing the cost of operation of the department. On the basis of these conferences the Director of Agriculture may take such steps as in the judgment of the director will increase the economy and efficiency of the department. The director shall give especial attention to the full utilization of stenographic, office and laboratory forces, automobiles and other equipment. The director may require that deputies and other employees do work for more than one division of the department and shall take such measures as may be necessary to avoid duplication of costs of transportation and maintenance.
OR Rev Stat § 561.130 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 561 - State Department of Agriculture|Section 561.130

[Amended by 1957 c.479 §1; 1959 c.639 §9; 1971 c.281 §1; 1977 c.198 §3; 2005 c.24 §3; renumbered 561.372 in 2005]
OR Rev Stat § 561.140 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 561 - State Department of Agriculture|Section 561.140

[Amended by 1957 c.479 §2; 1959 c.639 §10; 1967 c.208 §1; 1969 c.314 §64; 1971 c.281 §2; 1977 c.198 §4; 1995 c.79 §308; 2005 c.24 §4; renumbered 561.374 in 2005]
OR Rev Stat § 561.144 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 561 - State Department of Agriculture|Section 561.144 - Department of Agriculture Service Fund; sources.

(1) The State Treasurer shall establish a Department of Agriculture Service Fund, which shall be a trust fund separate and distinct from the General Fund. The State Department of Agriculture shall deposit all license and service fees paid to it under the provisions of the statutes identified in subsection (3) of this section in the Department of Agriculture Service Fund. The State Treasurer is the custodian of this trust fund, which shall be deposited by the treasurer in such depositories as are authorized to receive deposits of the General Fund, and which may be invested by the treasurer in the same manner as authorized by ORS 293.701 to 293.857. (2) Interest received on deposits credited to the Department of Agriculture Service Fund shall accrue to and become a part of the Department of Agriculture Service Fund. (3) The license and service fees subject to this section are those described in ORS 561.400, 561.740, 570.710, 571.057, 571.063, 571.145, 586.270, 596.030, 596.100, 596.311, 599.235, 599.269, 599.406, 599.610, 601.040, 602.090, 603.025, 603.075, 616.706, 618.115, 618.136, 619.031, 621.072, 621.166, 621.266, 621.297, 621.335, 621.730, 622.080, 625.180, 628.240, 632.211, 632.600, 632.720, 632.730, 632.741, 632.940, 632.945, 633.015, 633.029, 633.318, 633.362, 633.462, 633.465, 633.680, 633.700, 633.720, 634.016, 634.116, 634.122, 634.126, 634.132, 634.136, 634.212 and 635.030. [1979 c.499 §4; 1981 c.248 §21; 1982 s.s.1 c.4 §15; 1985 c.787 §7; 1987 c.905 §36; 1991 c.624 §2; 1993 c.720 §7; 1995 c.450 §6; 1997 c.410 §2; 2001 c.21 §6; 2001 c.914 §27; 2003 c.81 §13; 2007 c.71 §177; 2007 c.577 §3; 2009 c.897 §5; 2013 c.84 §2; 2013 c.85 §3; 2013 c.118 §2; 2013 c.120 §2; 2015 c.514 §11; 2021 c.97 §67]
OR Rev Stat § 561.150 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 561 - State Department of Agriculture|Section 561.150 - Department of Agriculture Account.

(1) All unexpended funds that are available to the State Department of Agriculture for its use in carrying out its duties as prescribed by law and for any other purpose shall be a part of the General Fund of the state and shall be credited to a fund to be known as the Department of Agriculture Account except for: (a) Funds to be expended for the extermination of predatory animals under the provisions of ORS chapter 610; (b) Moneys received by the department from the sale of skins of predatory animals as provided in ORS 610.040; and (c) Moneys received by the department that are subject to ORS 561.144. (2) All appropriations, fees, penalties and other moneys received by the department or credited to its use from the State Treasury, except the funds named in subsection (1)(a) and (b) of this section and money required by law to be placed therein, shall be placed in the General Fund and credited to the Department of Agriculture Account. (3) All fees, penalties and other moneys received by the department shall be turned over to the State Treasurer not later than the 10th day of the calendar month next succeeding their receipt by the department. (4) All moneys without respect to their sources, credited to either the Department of Agriculture Account or the Department of Agriculture Service Fund shall be available for the payment of any and all the expenses of the department, excepting those incurred in connection with the extermination of predatory animals. (5) The Director of Agriculture shall keep a record of all moneys deposited in the Department of Agriculture Account and the Department of Agriculture Service Fund. Such record shall indicate the source from which the moneys are derived and name the individual departmental activity against which each withdrawal is charged. [Amended by 1979 c.499 §2; 1999 c.59 §176; 2011 c.597 §231]
OR Rev Stat § 561.155 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 561 - State Department of Agriculture|Section 561.155 - Cash and revolving fund.

The State Department of Agriculture shall establish a cash and revolving fund under ORS 293.180, for the purpose of making immediate cash payments of travel and subsistence advances authorized by ORS 292.280, salary advances authorized by ORS 292.150 and other miscellaneous demand obligations authorized by law, in an amount not to exceed $75,000 from moneys in the Department of Agriculture Service Fund. [1959 c.682 §3; 1967 c.208 §2; 1973 c.275 §1; 1979 c.183 §1; 1985 c.623 §7]
OR Rev Stat § 561.160 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 561 - State Department of Agriculture|Section 561.160 - Approval of vouchers required before withdrawing money from State Treasury.

All moneys drawn from the State Treasury by the State Department of Agriculture shall be drawn only after the approval of vouchers by the Director of Agriculture or by some person in the department authorized by the director to approve such vouchers, which authorization shall be in writing and filed with the Secretary of State.
OR Rev Stat § 561.170 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 561 - State Department of Agriculture|Section 561.170 - Prohibited financial interests of officers or employees.

It shall be unlawful for the Director of Agriculture or any deputy or other employee of the State Department of Agriculture to be interested directly or indirectly as owner, agent or solicitor in the manufacture, purchase or sale of any article, commodity or product over which the director, deputy or employee may have supervision in an official capacity. It shall not be a violation of this section for the director, any deputy or other employee to own, lease or operate a ranch or farm. [Amended by 1959 c.229 §12; 1967 c.208 §9]
OR Rev Stat § 561.175 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 561 - State Department of Agriculture|Section 561.175

[1989 c.847 §9; 2001 c.248 §13; renumbered 561.255 in 2005]
OR Rev Stat § 561.177 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 561 - State Department of Agriculture|Section 561.177 - Furnishing lists of names and other information; fee.

The State Department of Agriculture may make a reasonable charge to cover the actual cost of accumulating and furnishing a list of names or other similar records which are by law declared to be public writings or records. Moneys collected shall be placed in the General Fund, credited to the Department of Agriculture Account and shall be available for payment of all expenses of the department. [Formerly 561.260]
OR Rev Stat § 561.180 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 561 - State Department of Agriculture|Section 561.180

[Amended by 1969 c.131 §3; 1975 c.432 §2; 1975 c.605 §29; 2001 c.539 §14; renumbered 561.075 in 2005]
OR Rev Stat § 561.190 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 561 - State Department of Agriculture|Section 561.190 - Rules and regulations; publication; effect of violation.

The State Department of Agriculture is authorized and directed to make any and all rules and regulations necessary for the administration or enforcement of any law with the administration or enforcement of which the department is charged, and not inconsistent with the authority with which the department is vested or with any such law. Such rules and regulations shall be compiled and printed in pamphlet form for distribution. The violation of any rule or regulation made by the department pursuant to this section shall be a violation of the law to which such rule or regulation applies and shall be punishable in the manner provided for violations of such law.
OR Rev Stat § 561.191 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 561 - State Department of Agriculture|Section 561.191 - Program and rules relating to water quality.

(1) The State Department of Agriculture shall develop and implement any program or rules that directly regulate farming practices, as defined in ORS 30.930, that are for the purpose of protecting water quality and that are applicable to areas of the state designated as exclusive farm use zones under ORS 215.203 or other agricultural lands in Oregon, including but not limited to rules related to: (a) Protection of the quality of surface or ground water; (b) Wellhead protection areas; (c) Coastal zone management areas; (d) Areas of ground water concern; and (e) Ground water management areas. (2) Any program or rules adopted by the State Department of Agriculture under subsection (1) of this section shall be designed to assure achievement and maintenance of water quality standards adopted by the Environmental Quality Commission. (3) If two or more state agencies are required to adopt rules under ORS 468B.150 to 468B.190, the agencies: (a) Shall consult with one another and coordinate the rules; and (b) May consolidate the rulemaking proceedings. (4) Nothing in this section is intended to change or reduce the authority of the Water Resources Commission or the Water Resources Department under ORS chapters 536 to 543. [1995 c.690 §6a] Note: 561.191 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 561 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
OR Rev Stat § 561.192 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 561 - State Department of Agriculture|Section 561.192 - Code of regulations; compilation and publication.

(1) The State Department of Agriculture may from time to time revise and compile, in a code of regulations, all rules and regulations of a general character promulgated by the department. (2) No substantive change may be made in revising the rules and regulations unless the department complies with the procedures required by law for the adoption or amendment of the particular rule or regulation. However, changes that are not of a substantive nature may be made without the procedures required by law for the adoption or amendment of rules and regulations by the department. (3) The department shall print, publish and distribute the code of regulations in a convenient form. The code of regulations as published is prima facie evidence of the current rules and regulations of the department. [1955 c.76 §1; 1971 c.734 §26]
OR Rev Stat § 561.194 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 561 - State Department of Agriculture|Section 561.194 - Distribution of code of regulations.

(1) The State Department of Agriculture may distribute the code of regulations published under ORS 561.192 free of charge to such state agencies as are designated by the department. (2) The department shall sell the other copies at such prices as the department finds sufficient to recover the cost of printing. (3) All moneys received by the department under this section, in addition to any other appropriation of funds available for the purposes of ORS 561.192 and 561.194, hereby are continuously appropriated to the department for the purpose of paying the cost of publication of the code of regulations. [1955 c.76 §2]
OR Rev Stat § 561.200 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 561 - State Department of Agriculture|Section 561.200 - Prohibitions against the obstruction of officers, agents or employees.

(1) No person, firm or corporation shall refuse to allow any authorized officer, agent or employee of the State Department of Agriculture to enter upon the premises of the person, firm or corporation or to inspect any books, records, plant, equipment, apparatus, vehicles or any other thing or place of the person, firm or corporation which it is such officer’s, agent’s or employee’s duty to inspect. (2) No person, firm or corporation shall refuse to produce books, records, apparatus and equipment for the inspection of such officer, agent or employee upon demand, or refuse to allow samples to be taken by such officer, agent or employee, when they are by law authorized so to do. (3) No person, firm or corporation shall otherwise interfere with such officer, agent or employee in the lawful exercise of duties, either by active or passive resistance or by refusal to cooperate in every reasonable manner with the officer agent or employee in the carrying out of lawful duties.
OR Rev Stat § 561.220 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 561 - State Department of Agriculture|Section 561.220 - Prohibitions against altering or removing seal or similar marking used by department and against selling products from used containers bearing such markings.

(1) Except as hereafter provided in subsections (2) and (3) of this section, no person shall alter, deface or remove any seal, sign, tag, stamp, placard, mark, brand or similar object used by the State Department of Agriculture pursuant to any law of this state. (2) Subsection (1) of this section does not apply to: (a) Employees or agents of the State Department of Agriculture engaged in the regular discharge of their duties. (b) The alteration, defacement or removal of markings on any type of food or other agricultural product in the normal course of sale and distribution thereof. (3) No person shall sell food or other agricultural products in or from a used container bearing any of the markings referred to in subsection (1) of this section unless such person first removes or defaces such markings. [1955 c.11 §1]
OR Rev Stat § 561.230 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 561 - State Department of Agriculture|Section 561.230 - Prohibition against reusing, imitating or counterfeiting markings used by department.

No person shall reuse, imitate or counterfeit any seal, sign, tag, stamp, placard, mark, brand or similar object used by the State Department of Agriculture pursuant to any law of this state. [1955 c.11 §2]
OR Rev Stat § 561.240 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food|Chapter 561 - State Department of Agriculture|Section 561.240 - Contracts and agreements with other agencies, governmental units and other persons; payment and receipt of funds.

(1) The State Department of Agriculture may: (a) Enter into contracts and other agreements with, and receive funds from, any department or agency of the United States. (b) Enter into contracts and other agreements with authorized departments and agencies of this state and other states, units of local government, Indian tribes, public and private corporations and other persons of this state, in connection with the administration of laws of this state, including but not limited to laws relating to the inspection, production, processing, marketing, testing and distribution of agricultural products and to the control or eradication of plant and animal diseases and pests. (c) Enter into contracts with foreign governments or foreign government agencies, and contracts and other agreements with growers, handlers or other persons located outside of the United States, for the department or the foreign government, agency or person to provide services pertaining to agricultural and horticultural products or to production processes for agricultural or horticultural products, including but not limited to the inspection, production process verification, marketing, testing and distribution of agricultural or horticultural products. (d) Receive grants from any source and may issue grants to a department or agency of this state or other states, any department or agency of the United States, a unit of local government, an Indian tribe, a public or private corporation or another person for any purpose related to the laws administered or enforced by the department. (e) Exchange information and services with any public or private body or person described in this subsection, in order to minimize duplication of public services, investigations, inspections and audits. (f) Receive compensation, and make payment, for services rendered in performance of contracts and other agreements authorized by this subsection. (2) In the performance of services required by any contract or other agreement authorized by subsection (1) of this section, public agencies that are parties to the contract or agreement shall have the authority and powers of the department. (3) Funds received by the department as provided in subsection (1) of this section shall be deposited with the State Treasurer. Such funds are continuously appropriated to the department for the use of the department in carrying out the purposes of the respective agreements, contracts, state laws and Acts of Congress in relation to which the money is received. [1957 c.478 §2; 1963 c.251 §1; 1967 c.437 §1; 1967 c.637 §§10,10a; 1993 c.21 §1; 1995 c.79 §309; 2007 c.422 §1; 2009 c.187 §1]