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2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 625 - Bakeries and Bakery Products › Section 625.212 - Definitions for ORS 625.215.

As used in ORS 625.215:
(1) "Bread" means white bread, milk bread, raisin bread, Vienna, French and Italian breads and other breads as identified in definitions and standards adopted by the State Department of Agriculture under ORS 625.160.
(2) "Buns" means white buns, hamburger buns, hot dog buns, raisin buns, sweet buns made with fillings or coatings and other buns as identified in definitions and standards adopted by the department under ORS 625.160. "Buns" does not include foods made with cake flour or other specialty flours.
(3) "Enriched" means the addition of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients to make enriched bread, enriched rolls or enriched buns as identified in definitions and standards adopted by the department under ORS 625.160.
(4) "Rolls" means white rolls, Parker House and other soft rolls, Vienna, Kaiser and other hard rolls, raisin rolls, sweet rolls made with fillings or coatings, doughnuts and other rolls as identified in definitions and standards adopted by the department under ORS 625.160. "Rolls" does not include foods made with cake flour or other specialty flours. [1971 c.176 §2; 1975 c.265 §2; 2005 c.22 §443; 2011 c.66 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 625 - Bakeries and Bakery Products › Section 625.215 - Prohibited bakery products.

A person may not manufacture, bake, sell or offer for sale bread, rolls or buns for human consumption unless the bread, rolls or buns:
(1) Are enriched; or
(2) Are made only with whole grain flours. [1971 c.176 §3; 2011 c.66 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 625 - Bakeries and Bakery Products › Section 625.220 - Labeling of bread loaves; exceptions.

Bread sold or offered for sale in the form of loaves shall be conspicuously labeled as required by the rules promulgated by the State Department of Agriculture under the authority of ORS 625.160. The provisions of this section do not apply to:
(1) A bakery where unwrapped bread is displayed and can be inspected by prospective purchasers and where, after purchase, the loaf of bread is immediately placed in a bag by the bakery personnel.
(2) A bakery that is a wholesale establishment that sells bread to a restaurant in which the bread is consumed on the premises.
(3) Bread sold at an occasional temporary bake sale held by a fraternal, religious, social or service organization. [1963 c.594 §3; 1965 c.142 §1; 1969 c.192 §4; 1987 c.472 §4; 2009 c.11 §80]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 625 - Bakeries and Bakery Products › Section 625.270 - Unlawful sale prohibited.

A person may not sell, offer for sale, hold for sale or bake a loaf of bread in violation of the provisions of ORS 625.010 to 625.270 or orders thereunder. [1963 c.594 §8; 1987 c.472 §6; 2009 c.11 §81]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 625 - Bakeries and Bakery Products › Section 625.810 - Application of laws regarding adulterated and misbranded food.

The provisions of ORS 616.215, 616.235 and 616.250 relating to prohibited acts and adulterated and misbranded foods are applicable to this chapter. [1975 c.265 §7]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 625 - Bakeries and Bakery Products › Section 625.990 - Penalties.

Violation of any provision of ORS 625.010 to 625.270 is a Class A violation. Justice courts have concurrent jurisdiction with circuit courts of all criminal offenses provided for in ORS 625.010 to 625.270. [Amended by 1987 c.472 §7; 1999 c.1051 §211]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 625 - Bakeries and Bakery Products › Section 625.995 - Civil penalties; rules; hearing; disposition of moneys.

(1) In addition to any penalty available under ORS 561.190 or 625.990, the State Department of Agriculture may impose a civil penalty for a violation of ORS 625.010 to 625.270 or of rules or regulations adopted under ORS 625.010 to 625.270. For the purposes of this section, each day a violation continues after the period of time established for compliance shall be considered a separate violation unless the department finds that a different period of time is more appropriate to describe a specific violation event.
(2) The department may adopt rules establishing a schedule of civil penalties that may be imposed under this section. Civil penalties imposed under this section may not exceed $10,000 for each violation.
(3) When the department imposes a civil penalty under subsection (1) of this section, the department shall impose the penalty in the manner provided by ORS 183.745, except that the written application for a hearing must be received by the department no later than 10 days after the date of mailing or personal service of the notice of civil penalty.
(4) Moneys received by the department from civil penalties imposed under this section shall be deposited in the General Fund to the credit of the Department of Agriculture Account. [2009 c.175 §21]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 626 - (Former Provisions)

Note:
626.010, 626.020, 626.030, 626.040, 626.050, 626.060, 626.070, 626.080, 626.090, 626.100 and 626.990, all relating to the licensing and regulation of butter and cheese makers, repealed by 1953 c.686 §37.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 628 - Refrigerated Locker Plants › Section 628.210 - Definitions for ORS 628.210 to 628.370.

As used in ORS 628.210 to 628.370, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) "Clean," "healthful" and "sanitary" mean free of flies and other insects, rodents, dusts, dirt, decomposed material, mold, odors or any condition which would in any way contaminate the food products stored.
(2) "Department" means the State Department of Agriculture.
(3) "Person" includes any individual, partnership, corporation, association, cooperative association, county, municipality or other entity engaging in the business of operating or owning a refrigerated locker plant or offering the services thereof, as described in subsections (4) and (5) of this section.
(4) "Refrigerated locker" or "locker" means a separate, individual compartment in a refrigerated locker plant, wherein food may be placed and kept in frozen food storage.
(5) "Refrigerated locker plant" or "locker plant" means any place, premises or establishment in which separate and individual compartments for the frozen food storage and preservation of food for human consumption are offered to the public upon a rental or other basis providing compensation to the person offering such services.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 628 - Refrigerated Locker Plants › Section 628.220 - License required for locker plant business.

No person shall engage within this state in the business of owning or operating any refrigerated locker plant or offering the services of such plant without having obtained from the State Department of Agriculture a license for each such place of business. The licensee shall at all times maintain the license conspicuously displayed in the licensed plant.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 628 - Refrigerated Locker Plants › Section 628.230 - Application for and issuance of license; rules.

Application for the license required by ORS 628.220 shall be made to the State Department of Agriculture in writing containing such information and in such form as may be prescribed by the department. The license is not transferable and does not authorize the conduct of any refrigerated locker business at any address other than that stated in the application. Licenses shall be issued for the fiscal year commencing on July 1 and ending on June 30 next following or for such period as may be specified by department rule. [Amended by 2007 c.768 §33]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 628 - Refrigerated Locker Plants › Section 628.240 - License fees; disposition; rules.

(1) An applicant for a refrigerated locker plant license shall pay a license fee to the State Department of Agriculture. The department may adopt rules establishing a license fee for a refrigerated locker plant. Except as provided in this subsection, the department may not adopt a rule under this section to establish a license fee that is more than three percent higher than the fee charged during the preceding year. When adopting a rule establishing a license fee, notwithstanding the three percent limit, the department may round the fee amount to the next higher whole dollar amount. The department may not change the amount of the refrigerated locker plant license fee more frequently than once each year.
(2) If the license is issued after January 1 but before June 30 of the same year, the license fee shall be one-half of the fee established by the department by rule under subsection (1) of this section.
(3) All fees received by the department under ORS 628.210 to 628.370 shall be deposited in the Department of Agriculture Service Fund and are continuously appropriated to the department for the purpose of administering and enforcing those sections. [Amended by 1955 c.174 §1; 1979 c.183 §3; 1979 c.499 §26a; 1991 c.632 §7; 2012 c.64 §13]
Note:
The amendments to 628.240 by section 42, chapter 64, Oregon Laws 2012, become operative July 1, 2026. See section 45, chapter 64, Oregon Laws 2012, as amended by section 10, chapter 386, Oregon Laws 2019. The text that is operative on and after July 1, 2026, including amendments by section 7, chapter 386, Oregon Laws 2019, is set forth for the user’s convenience.
(1) An applicant for a refrigerated locker plant license shall pay a license fee to the State Department of Agriculture. The department may adopt rules establishing a license fee for a refrigerated locker plant. The department may not adopt or enforce a rule under this section establishing a license fee for a refrigerated locker plant that is higher than the license fee charged for the license year that began July 1, 2025, for a refrigerated locker plant. The department may not change the amount of the refrigerated locker plant license fee more frequently than once each year.
(2) If the license is issued after January 1 but before June 30 of the same year, the license fee shall be one-half of the fee established by the department by rule under subsection (1) of this section.
(3) All fees received by the department under ORS 628.210 to 628.370 shall be deposited in the Department of Agriculture Service Fund and are continuously appropriated to the department for the purpose of administering and enforcing those sections.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 628 - Refrigerated Locker Plants › Section 628.250 - Refusal, revocation or suspension of licenses.

The State Department of Agriculture, acting through the Director of Agriculture or the division chief of the department in charge of the inspection of refrigerated locker plants, may refuse, revoke or suspend any license issued pursuant to ORS 628.220 to 628.240 upon finding, after a hearing had in conformance with ORS chapter 183, that:
(1) The licensee has violated any provision of ORS 628.210 to 628.370 or any other law of Oregon relating to the operation of refrigerated locker plants or frozen food storage plants or the handling or sale of any food for human consumption or has violated any rule or regulation promulgated by the department.
(2) The building, room, basement or cellar occupied by the refrigerated locker plant is not properly lighted, drained, plumbed, ventilated and maintained in a clean, healthful and sanitary condition.
(3) The floors, walls or ceilings of the refrigerated locker plant or the furniture, receptacles, implements or machinery used in the locker plant are not maintained in a clean, healthful and sanitary condition. [Amended by 1961 c.425 §15]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 628 - Refrigerated Locker Plants › Section 628.260 - Furnishing copies of law to applicants for licenses; posting copy.

Two copies of ORS 628.210 to 628.370 and 628.990 (2) shall be furnished each applicant for a license. One copy shall be posted in a conspicuous place in the plant operated by the licensee.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 628 - Refrigerated Locker Plants › Section 628.270 - Prohibition against employees with communicable disease in plant; health certificate; rules.

(1) The Oregon Health Authority may, by rule, define certain communicable diseases which may be spread to the public through the handling of food in refrigerated locker plants.
(2) A person who has a communicable or infectious disease described in subsection (1) of this section may not be permitted to work in or about any refrigerated locker plant or to handle any food in connection with the operation of such plant.
(3) In the discretion of the State Department of Agriculture, an employee of a locker plant may be required to furnish a certificate of health from a physician, naturopathic physician, physician assistant or nurse practitioner duly accredited by the authority for the purpose of issuing such certificates. If such certificate is required under municipal ordinance upon examination deemed adequate by the authority, a certificate issued in compliance with such ordinance is sufficient under this section.
(4) Any health certificate required by this section shall be revoked by the authority at any time that the holder thereof is found, upon physical examination of such holder, to have any communicable or infectious disease. Refusal of any person employed in such locker plant to submit to proper and reasonable physical examination, upon written demand by the authority or the department, is cause for revocation of the employee’s health certificate and also is sufficient reason for revocation of the locker plant’s license unless the employee immediately is removed from any work or operation in or about such locker plant involving the handling of food. [Amended by 1973 c.829 §56; 1989 c.224 §122; 2009 c.595 §1039; 2014 c.45 §71; 2017 c.356 §81]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 628 - Refrigerated Locker Plants › Section 628.280 - Inspection of plants; maintenance in sanitary condition.

The State Department of Agriculture shall cause a thorough inspection of every plant or establishment licensed under ORS 628.220 to 628.240 to be made periodically, to determine whether or not the premises and equipment used in connection therewith are constructed, maintained and operated in accordance with the requirements of ORS 628.210 to 628.370 and with the rules and regulations of the department thereunder promulgated. Such locker plants shall be maintained in a clean, healthful and sanitary condition at all times.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 628 - Refrigerated Locker Plants › Section 628.290 - Sanitary and safety requirements.

(1) Each refrigerated locker plant wherein food is handled, wrapped or processed shall have available, and maintain in a clean, healthful and sanitary condition, a washroom with hot and cold running water.
(2) Each refrigerated room with a temperature below 30 degrees Fahrenheit, if used by the public or accessible to locker renters, shall be equipped with safety light or lights burning continuously during all times when the plant is open and so located as to assure easy exit from the refrigerated room. Switches for safety lights shall be so located or installed that the public cannot regulate their "on" and "off" positions.
(3) Each refrigerated room with a temperature below 12 degrees Fahrenheit, if used by the public or accessible to locker renters, shall be equipped with a distress signal, plainly marked as such for use by patrons. The distress signal alarm may be located at a place outside the locker plant. The refrigerated room shall be accessible to the public only at such times as an attendant is within hearing distance of the distress signal alarm. The distress signal when activated shall perform continuously until arrested by a second operation. The distress signal shall produce a distinctive sound capable of being heard and distinguished by an attendant from any other signal. The operator of the locker room or the employee of the operator shall test the distress signal on each day on which the public has access to the refrigerated room.
(4) Subsection (3) of this section does not apply if an operating extension telephone, plainly marked for use by patrons as a distress signal, is located inside the refrigerated room at a convenient height not to exceed four feet above floor level.
(5) All refrigerator doors shall be so constructed as to be opened from either the inside or outside of any room or compartment to which they give access, and shall be so maintained as to assure that such doors will open freely at all times.
(6) All machinery or other devices dangerous to the public shall be adequately covered and guarded to protect locker room tenants against injury. [Amended by 1955 c.174 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 628 - Refrigerated Locker Plants › Section 628.300 - Maintaining uniform temperatures; records.

(1) The refrigeration system of a refrigerated locker plant shall be equipped with accurate controls for the maintenance of uniform temperatures as required in this section in the various refrigerated rooms of such plant and shall be of adequate capacity to provide under extreme conditions of outside temperatures and under peak load conditions in the normal operation of such plant, the following temperatures in the following rooms respectively:
(a) Chill room temperature shall be within four degrees Fahrenheit plus or minus of 36 degrees above zero Fahrenheit, with a tolerance of 10 degrees Fahrenheit for 24 hours after fresh food is put in such room for chilling.
(b) In all locker plants operating on July 5, 1947, the locker room temperature shall not exceed 12 degrees Fahrenheit plus. In all locker plants, the construction of which is begun after July 5, 1947, the locker room temperature shall not exceed five degrees Fahrenheit plus.
(2) The temperatures required by subsection (1) of this section shall not be construed as prohibiting variations therefrom due to defrosting, power failure or any emergency breakdown.
(3) An accurate direct reading thermometer shall be maintained in the chill room. An accurate self-registering or self-recording thermometer shall be maintained in each locker room or in each series of rooms through which the same air circulates. The discs or other temperature records made by such instruments shall be signed by the person in charge of the plant and shall be preserved at such plant for at least one year from the date of recording. Such temperature-recording equipment and the recordings thereby made, are subject to inspection and testing by the State Department of Agriculture to determine their accuracy.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 628 - Refrigerated Locker Plants › Section 628.320 - Inspection of food; storage outside lockers.

The operator or person in charge of a refrigerated locker room shall have the right to inspect all food or any item before it is placed in any locker. Nothing shall be stored outside of the lockers in a locker room without being labeled and wrapped or otherwise properly covered.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 628 - Refrigerated Locker Plants › Section 628.330 - Fresh meats, identification and chilling.

All fresh carcass meats on coming into custody or possession of the operator or owner of a refrigerated locker plant shall be identified with suitable tag or stamp and shall be placed in the chill room, unless previously chilled, for at least 24 hours before removal to the cutting room.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 628 - Refrigerated Locker Plants › Section 628.340 - Fish and wild game.

All fish shall be so handled, placed and stored as to protect other stored foods and the plant equipment from fish flavors and fish odors. Fish and wild game shall be stored and handled only in conformity with fish and game laws of this state and regulations thereunder promulgated. Owners, operators or persons in charge of refrigerated locker plants shall not be held responsible or liable for violations of such laws and regulations by locker tenants.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 628 - Refrigerated Locker Plants › Section 628.360 - Owners and operators of locker plants not warehousemen.

Persons who own or operate refrigerated locker plants shall not be deemed to be warehousemen, nor shall receipts or other instruments issued by such persons in the ordinary conduct of their business be deemed to be negotiable warehouse receipts.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 628 - Refrigerated Locker Plants › Section 628.370 - Jurisdiction and prosecution of violations of ORS 628.210 to 628.370.

Justice courts shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit court of all prosecutions arising under ORS 628.210 to 628.370. The district attorney may institute prosecutions for violations of ORS 628.210 to 628.370 by information, or the prosecutions may be instituted by indictment or complaint verified before any magistrate.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 628 - Refrigerated Locker Plants › Section 628.995 - Civil penalties; rules; hearing; disposition of moneys.

(1) In addition to any penalty available under ORS 561.190 or 628.990, the State Department of Agriculture may impose a civil penalty for a violation of ORS 628.210 to 628.370 or of rules or regulations adopted under ORS 628.210 to 628.370. For the purposes of this section, each day a violation continues after the period of time established for compliance shall be considered a separate violation unless the department finds that a different period of time is more appropriate to describe a specific violation event.
(2) The department may adopt rules establishing a schedule of civil penalties that may be imposed under this section. Civil penalties imposed under this section may not exceed $10,000 for each violation.
(3) When the department imposes a civil penalty under subsection (1) of this section, the department shall impose the penalty in the manner provided by ORS 183.745, except that the written application for a hearing must be received by the department no later than 10 days after the date of mailing or personal service of the notice of civil penalty.
(4) Moneys received by the department from civil penalties imposed under this section shall be deposited in the General Fund to the credit of the Department of Agriculture Account. [2009 c.175 §22]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 632 - Production, Grading and Labeling Standards for Agricultural and Horticultural Products › Section 632.211 - Establishment of grades and standards; grading and inspection fee.

(1) The State Department of Agriculture shall, in accordance with the applicable provisions of ORS 632.900 to 632.935, establish grades and standards for onions which shall conform, in so far as practicable, to the official grades and standards prescribed by the United States Department of Agriculture.
(2) The department may fix and collect a fee for grading and inspecting of onions in accordance with ORS 632.940. [1955 c.363 §8; 2019 c.108 §3]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 632 - Production, Grading and Labeling Standards for Agricultural and Horticultural Products › Section 632.275 - Filing trademark for containers, equipment and supplies for fruit and vegetables.

Any persons, firms, corporations or associations engaged in producing, packing, canning tree fruits, vegetables and small fruits who furnish or provide lug boxes or containers for any grower or other person, firm or corporation with the trademark of the grower, person, firm or corporation as defined by ORS 647.005, impressed or produced thereon, or whose equipment or supplies, owned by and used in the business of the grower, person, firm or corporation, bears a trademark impressed or produced thereon, and any corporations and associations whose members are so engaged and use such containers or have such equipment or supplies may file such trademark with the Secretary of State as provided in ORS chapter 647. [Formerly 616.605]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 632 - Production, Grading and Labeling Standards for Agricultural and Horticultural Products › Section 632.280 - Unlawful use of, or traffic in, name or mark as presumptive evidence.

Each of the following is presumptive evidence of unlawful use of or traffic in the containers, supplies or equipment described in ORS 632.275 if the description of the name, mark or device has been filed and published as provided in ORS 632.275:
(1) The use, without the consent provided for in ORS 632.290, of such container, supplies or equipment by any person other than:
(a) The person, firm, corporation or association whose name, mark or device is upon the container, supplies or equipment; and
(b) The members of any corporation registering the name, mark or device.
(2) The having by any junk dealer, or any dealer in secondhand articles, of possession of any such containers, supplies or equipment. [Formerly 616.610]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 632 - Production, Grading and Labeling Standards for Agricultural and Horticultural Products › Section 632.285 - Security for return not a sale.

If the owner of containers marked or branded pursuant to ORS 632.275, or of equipment or supplies used in the business so marked or otherwise impressed, or others lawfully entitled to use the containers, equipment or supplies, requires the taking or accepting of money as a deposit for security for the safekeeping and return of the articles, it shall not constitute a sale of such property, either optional or otherwise, in any proceedings under ORS 632.275 to 632.290. [Formerly 616.615]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 632 - Production, Grading and Labeling Standards for Agricultural and Horticultural Products › Section 632.290 - Acquiring of marked containers, supplies and equipment.

Any person, firm, corporation or association, or any member of such corporation or association acquiring containers, supplies or equipment marked pursuant to ORS 632.275, by purchase or other lawful means, and having written consent, shall not be required to again file and publish the description, but shall as to the containers, supplies and equipment, describe any such written consent acquired as a part of the purchase and shall have all such benefits as the vendor has under ORS 632.275 to 632.290. [Formerly 616.620]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 632 - Production, Grading and Labeling Standards for Agricultural and Horticultural Products › Section 632.450 - Definitions for ORS 632.450 to 632.485.

As used in ORS 632.450 to 632.485:
(1) "Horticultural products" means all horticultural products, including nursery stock as defined in ORS 571.005, except horticultural products that are canned, bottled, frozen, dried, candied or brined.
(2) "Container" means the box, crate, lug, chest, basket, carton, barrel, keg, drum, sack, hamper, bag, bin, tray, bucket or other receptacle, whether open or closed, used by any person in transporting horticultural products, or in which such products are offered for sale.
(3) "Stamp," "mark" or "label plainly" means placing the information required by ORS 632.450 to 632.485 on the container in legible letters or figures of not less than three-eighths inch in height and not less than three-sixteenths inch in width, by means of a rubber stamp, stencil, printing by machine, or by attaching to the package by means of glue or paste, a machine-printed label. Such marks, and the location thereof, shall conform to the rules and regulations established by the State Department of Agriculture when promulgating grades for horticultural products.
(4) "Deceptive pack" means any arrangement of horticultural products which has in the outer layer or any exposed surface horticultural products which are so superior in quality, size, condition or in any other respect to those in the interior of the lot or the unexposed portion as to materially misrepresent the contents of the lot. A deceptive pack also means a container slackly filled so as to deceive the purchaser in regard to the total contents, or a container which has had a portion of the original contents removed and then offered for sale as a full pack. [Formerly 616.505; 2001 c.104 §245]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 632 - Production, Grading and Labeling Standards for Agricultural and Horticultural Products › Section 632.455 - Labeling container of horticultural products.

No person shall sell, offer for sale or transportation, or transport within Oregon, horticultural products unless each container or package of such products is plainly and conspicuously labeled with the name and post-office address of the grower, shipper or dealer, and the net contents of the container or package in terms of weight, measure or numerical count. This section does not apply to transportation from the owner’s fields to a warehouse for storage or grading and packing, or to processing plants. [Formerly 616.510]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 632 - Production, Grading and Labeling Standards for Agricultural and Horticultural Products › Section 632.460 - Establishment of grades, branding and packing requirements; rules.

(1) The State Department of Agriculture may establish by rule, as provided in ORS chapter 183, grades for horticultural products and branding and packing requirements as are deemed necessary.
(2) Except as expressly provided in ORS 632.450 to 632.485, all grades and requirements relating to fruits and vegetables in effect on June 14, 1941, shall so remain unless changed under the authority conferred by ORS 632.450 to 632.485.
(3) The use of grade standards authorized to be established by this section is not mandatory unless otherwise specifically provided by law. However, the deceptive use or misuse of any grade standards is unlawful. [Formerly 616.515; 1979 c.91 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 632 - Production, Grading and Labeling Standards for Agricultural and Horticultural Products › Section 632.465 - Used packages or containers.

It is unlawful to sell or offer for sale or to transport or offer for transportation, horticultural products in used packages or containers unless such used packages or containers are first cleaned of all foreign matter and substances and are in all respects sanitary, and unless all previous markings, brands, grade markings, labels, trademarks, names and addresses are entirely removed or so defaced as to destroy their legibility, or by turning such container or package inside out. This section does not apply to transportation from the owner’s fields to a warehouse for storage or grading and packing, or to processing plants. [Formerly 616.520]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 632 - Production, Grading and Labeling Standards for Agricultural and Horticultural Products › Section 632.470 - False representations as to raising, production or packing.

No person, by means of any false representation, either verbal, printed or written, shall represent or pretend that horticultural products were raised, produced or packed by any person, or in any locality other than by the person, and in the locality where the same were in fact raised, produced or packed. [Formerly 616.525]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 632 - Production, Grading and Labeling Standards for Agricultural and Horticultural Products › Section 632.475 - Possession of unlabeled, falsely labeled or deceptively packed products.

(1) No person shall have in possession for sale or transportation any horticultural products not labeled as required in ORS 632.450 to 632.485, or falsely marked or labeled, or deceptively packed contrary to the provisions of ORS 632.450 to 632.485.
(2) The possession for sale or transportation by such person of any such horticultural products so falsely marked, labeled or packed is prima facie evidence that such person has so falsely marked, labeled or packed such horticultural products.
(3) The provisions of ORS 632.450 to 632.485 do not apply to the transportation of horticultural products by common carrier, except when the common carrier is issued a written notice by the State Department of Agriculture that the lot of horticultural products offered for shipments has been seized by the department for not meeting the requirements of ORS 632.450 to 632.485 and the notice is accompanied with a copy of the seizure notice. [Formerly 616.530]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 632 - Production, Grading and Labeling Standards for Agricultural and Horticultural Products › Section 632.480 - Shipment or sale of deceptive pack, load or display prohibited.

No person shall prepare, deliver for shipment, ship, transport, offer for sale or sell a deceptive pack, or package, load, arrangement or display of horticultural products. [Formerly 616.535]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 632 - Production, Grading and Labeling Standards for Agricultural and Horticultural Products › Section 632.485 - Enforcement; entry and inspection; seizure.

(1) The director and all authorized agents of the State Department of Agriculture shall enforce ORS 632.450 to 632.485 and to that end may enter any place or conveyance within this state where any fruit, nuts or vegetables are produced, stored, packed, delivered for shipment, loaded, shipped, being transported, or sold, and inspect all such fruit, nuts or vegetables and the containers thereof and take for inspection such representative samples of the fruit, nuts or vegetables and such containers, as may be necessary, to determine whether or not ORS 632.450 to 632.485 have been violated.
(2) Whenever a duly authorized representative of the department finds, or has probable cause to believe, that any products are marked, labeled or packed in violation of ORS 632.450 to 632.485, the representative shall seize the products and proceed in the manner directed by law for the disposal of products seized by the department. [Formerly 616.540]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 632 - Production, Grading and Labeling Standards for Agricultural and Horticultural Products › Section 632.490 - Labeling fruit or vegetables as Oregon grown or packed.

All persons operating under their own private brand in Oregon in the business of packing or canning fruit or vegetables, either fresh, canned, evaporated or otherwise, shall plainly designate on such private brand that goods were Oregon grown or packed in Oregon. For the purpose of this section it is sufficient for the firms whose headquarters are in Oregon to either designate the local address of the cannery or to designate the location of their main office in Oregon. This section does not apply to sales to wholesalers, packers or others for reselling. [Formerly 616.545]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 632 - Production, Grading and Labeling Standards for Agricultural and Horticultural Products › Section 632.495 - Labeling of exported horticultural commodities and commodity packs; rules.

(1) As used in this section:
(a) "Commodity":
(A) Means a distinctive class, type, variety or utilization of a product in a natural or unprocessed state.
(B) Does not mean canned, bottled, frozen, dried, candied or brined products.
(b) "Commodity pack" means a packaged or wrapped unit of horticultural commodity transported inside a shipping container.
(c) "Shipping container" means a closed receptacle used for bulk transport of horticultural commodities or commodity packages.
(d) "United States" means a state, territory or insular possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(2) A horticultural commodity or commodity pack is exempt from labeling requirements imposed under ORS 632.450 to 632.490, 632.516 to 632.625 or 632.900 to 632.940 or ORS chapter 616 if:
(a) The commodity is being exported from the United States; and
(b) The commodity or commodity pack is transported in a shipping container that bears a label stating the commodity is for export only and bears any other labeling, information or markings the State Department of Agriculture determines by rule to be necessary for avoiding confusion, misrepresentation or deception regarding the commodity.
(3) A horticultural commodity or commodity pack that temporarily leaves the United States while in transit to a destination in the United States does not qualify for a labeling exemption under this section.
(4) If the exportation of a horticultural commodity is canceled, the commodity owner shall:
(a) Ensure that the commodity or commodity pack is relabeled in accordance with any applicable provisions of ORS 632.450 to 632.490, 632.516 to 632.625 or 632.900 to 632.940 or ORS chapter 616; or
(b) Dispose of the commodity or commodity pack in a manner approved by the department. [2017 c.12 §1; 2019 c.108 §4]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 632 - Production, Grading and Labeling Standards for Agricultural and Horticultural Products › Section 632.516 - Establishment of grades and standards; rules.

The State Department of Agriculture shall, in accordance with the applicable provisions of ORS 632.905 to 632.980, establish standards and grades for walnuts and filberts by rules or regulations enacted pursuant to ORS chapter 183. The grades shall conform, as far as practicable or applicable in this state, to the official grades and standards prescribed by the United States Department of Agriculture. The grades may be changed from time to time as may be necessary. [1955 c.239 §2; 1971 c.734 §28]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 632 - Production, Grading and Labeling Standards for Agricultural and Horticultural Products › Section 632.521 - Grades and standards established by repealed statute; continued in effect until superseded.

Notwithstanding the powers and duties of the State Department of Agriculture under ORS 632.516, the statutory standards and grades in ORS 632.510, 632.515, 632.520, 632.525, 632.530, 632.535, 632.540, 632.545, 632.550, 632.555, 632.560, 632.565, 632.570, 632.575 and 632.580 prior to the repeal of those sections by section 8, chapter 239, Oregon Laws 1955, shall continue in force and effect and be applicable as if adopted by the department until superseded or repealed by rules and regulations adopted by the department under ORS 632.516. [1955 c.239 §3]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 632 - Production, Grading and Labeling Standards for Agricultural and Horticultural Products › Section 632.585 - Necessity of conformity to standards.

All unshelled walnuts and unshelled filberts sold or offered for sale or shipment in this state shall conform to the standards established by the State Department of Agriculture for such walnuts and filberts. [Amended by 1955 c.239 §5]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 632 - Production, Grading and Labeling Standards for Agricultural and Horticultural Products › Section 632.590 - Labeling.

(1) All unshelled walnuts and unshelled filberts sold, displayed or offered for sale or shipment in this state must have the containers, bins, display table or other bulk display labeled with a legible label containing the:
(a) Name of the state in which such nuts were grown.
(b) Grade or registered brand and size of nuts in the container.
(c) Name and address of the grower, dealer or packer.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, containers of five pounds or less capacity and bins and bulk tables are required to be labeled only with the name of the state where grown and the grade and size of such nuts. Such labeling is not required when nuts are being sold at retail from a properly labeled container or bulk display and packaged in the presence of the purchaser for the immediate purpose of the sale. [Amended by 2005 c.22 §444]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 632 - Production, Grading and Labeling Standards for Agricultural and Horticultural Products › Section 632.595 - Containers.

All containers of unshelled walnuts or unshelled filberts of the two highest grades established by the State Department of Agriculture, sold or offered for sale or shipment in this state, shall be uniform, new, sound and clean and otherwise conform to the standards approved by the department. Containers for lower grades shall be clean, fairly bright and sound. [Amended by 1955 c.239 §6; 2007 c.71 §191]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 632 - Production, Grading and Labeling Standards for Agricultural and Horticultural Products › Section 632.600 - Inspection districts; inspection, reinspection and fees.

(1) The State Department of Agriculture may designate certain areas as inspection districts and certain cities as inspection points, as necessary for the enforcement of ORS 632.516 to 632.625 and the rules and regulations of the department.
(2) All unshelled walnuts and unshelled filberts shipped out of or into or received in such inspection districts or inspection points in lots of 250 pounds or more shall be inspected by the department in accordance with its rules and regulations. However, no inspection shall be required for such nuts in transit to a processing plant. Not more than one inspection shall be made by the department for any car or lot of unshelled walnuts, or unshelled filberts unless the buyer or seller of the car or lot applies for reinspection and advances the charges for it as provided by the department. Any shipper of unshelled walnuts or unshelled filberts who feels that the grade established on any lot of nuts by any inspector, agent or representative of the department is not a true grade of such lot of unshelled walnuts or unshelled filberts may appeal to the department for a reinspection. However, the department may inspect any lot of less than 250 pounds, if at any time it deems it necessary.
(3) The department may fix, assess and collect or cause to be collected fees for all inspections of unshelled walnuts and unshelled filberts, on a uniform basis, in an amount determined to be reasonable and to cover the cost of its inspections and the enforcement of ORS 632.516 to 632.625. [Amended by 1955 c.239 §7]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 632 - Production, Grading and Labeling Standards for Agricultural and Horticultural Products › Section 632.610 - Duty to notify department of availability for inspection.

(1) Every operator or person in charge of any motor vehicle transporting on the streets or highways any unshelled walnuts or unshelled filberts, of which inspection is required by ORS 632.516 to 632.625, out of, into or through any inspection district, or any city which has been declared an inspection point, shall give notice by mail or in person to the nearest office or inspector of the State Department of Agriculture that such nuts are available for inspection as required by law.
(2) Any person, receiving any shipment, load or lot of such nuts, which has not been inspected, for the purpose of sale or storage in such quantities and in such places as would require inspection, shall give notice within 24 hours by mail or in person to the nearest office or inspector of the department that such nuts have been received and are being held for inspection.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 632 - Production, Grading and Labeling Standards for Agricultural and Horticultural Products › Section 632.615 - Enforcement; inspection certificate as evidence; rules.

(1) The State Department of Agriculture shall enforce the provisions of ORS 632.516 to 632.625, and may make rules and regulations necessary or convenient for such enforcement. It may employ such inspectors, agents and representatives as it finds necessary and enter into agreements with the United States Department of Agriculture, its authorized agents, officers and representatives as it deems necessary to carry out such sections, not contrary to the laws of this state.
(2) Upon complaint, properly filed, that unshelled walnuts or unshelled filberts are offered for sale or shipment in violation of ORS 632.516 to 632.625, the State Department of Agriculture shall make the necessary investigation. If the complaint is found true, the department shall report the facts to the district attorney of the county in which the violation occurred and the district attorney shall prosecute such offender.
(3) Certificates of inspection of unshelled walnuts and unshelled filberts issued by the department shall be prima facie evidence of the facts contained therein.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food › Chapter 632 - Production, Grading and Labeling Standards for Agricultural and Horticultural Products › Section 632.625 - Violation of walnut and filbert law prohibited.

No person shall sell or offer for sale or shipment any unshelled walnuts or unshelled filberts in violation of any of the provisions of ORS 632.516 to 632.625, or the rules or regulations established under such sections.