Title 47, Agricultural Marketing and Warehousing

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 ar…

(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 grai…

(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 al…

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…

(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 indirec…

(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 …

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 S…

(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 A…

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…

(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…

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]

(1)(a) Each warehouseman operating a public warehouse required to be licensed under ORS 586.210 to 586.730 shall, on or before July 1 of each year, give a bond to the State of Oregon executed by the warehouseman as principal and by a corporate surety licensed to do business in th…

(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,…

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 motio…

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 i…

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 i…

(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 b…

(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 car…

(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 actuall…

(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 busi…

(1) No warehouseman shall issue a receipt for grain not known by the warehouseman to be in the public warehouse of the warehouseman. (2) When partial withdrawal of the grain of the depositor is made by a depositor, the warehouseman shall make appropriate notation thereof on the d…

(1) A warehouseman shall be liable for any loss or injury to the grain in the public warehouse of the warehouseman caused by the failure of the warehouseman to exercise such care in regard to it as a reasonably careful person would exercise in regard to similar grain of the perso…

(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this section, the duty of a warehouse receiving grain for storage or shipment in a public warehouse operated by the warehouse shall be governed by the provisions of ORS 77.4030. (2) A warehouse’s duty to deliver grain is fulfi…

Owners of negotiable grain warehouse receipts surrendered for shipment of grain or of grain in a public warehouse for which load slips only are furnished shall furnish the warehouseman with written instructions regarding the capacity of cars to be ordered from the transportation …

No warehouseman shall sell, encumber, ship, transfer or in any manner remove or permit to be shipped, transferred or removed from a warehouse any grain received by the warehouseman for deposit or handling, without the written approval of the holder of the warehouse receipt or loa…

(1) Upon the request of any person or persons having an interest in grain stored in any public warehouse and upon payment of $25 in advance, the State Department of Agriculture shall cause such warehouse to be inspected and shall cause to be checked the outstanding negotiable gra…

(1) Whenever it appears probable after investigation that a licensed warehouseman has not in possession sufficient grain to cover the outstanding warehouse receipts, load slips or other evidence of storage liability issued or assumed by the warehouseman, or when such warehouseman…

(1) If the State Department of Agriculture considers the appointment of a receiver or other action provided by ORS 586.525 inadvisable or inexpedient in the case of depositors of grain in a public warehouse operated by a warehouseman who is in default as to any condition of bond,…

(1) An employee of the State Department of Agriculture may be appointed receiver if the court is unable, or deems it inadvisable, to obtain the services of another qualified person to accept the position as authorized by ORS 586.525. If a person other than an employee of the depa…

(1) The State Department of Agriculture shall fix and establish standard grades to apply to all grain received for shipment or storage by public warehouses in this state. The department may establish standard grades for forage products, including but not limited to straw and hay …

(1) It is the duty of the State Department of Agriculture, immediately after the establishment of grades under ORS 586.530, to supply all warehousemen with a copy of the grades, rules and regulations of the department. (2) Every public warehouseman shall keep: (a) The copy of gra…

Each warehouseman shall report information to the State Department of Agriculture at such times and as may be required by the department for the necessary enforcement and supervision of a sound, reasonable and efficient warehouse inspection program for the protection of depositor…

(1) Any person operating a public warehouse who desires to discontinue the operation shall at least 30 days prior to the date of expiration or closing date notify, by certified or registered mail, at the last-known address all holders of warehouse receipts, all persons storing gr…

Except for fees paid under ORS 586.270, all fees collected by the State Department of Agriculture under this chapter shall be paid into the State Treasury to the credit of the Department of Agriculture Account. Such moneys constitute a continuing appropriation for the purpose of …

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, every public warehouse complying with the provisions of ORS 586.210 to 586.730 is exempt from all the provisions of all other laws of this state regulating and licensing warehouses. (2) The provisions of ORS chapter 77 app…

(1) No warehouseman shall violate, or procure, aid, or abet any violation by any warehouseman, of any provision of ORS 586.210 to 586.300, 586.315 to 586.380, 586.400, 586.410, 586.520, 586.525, 586.530, 586.550 or 586.710 to 586.730, or fail to comply with any order of the State…

(1) Violation of ORS 586.250 is a Class B misdemeanor. (2) Violation of ORS 586.730 is a Class A misdemeanor. (3) Violation of any of the provisions of ORS 586.210 to 586.300, 586.315 to 586.380, 586.400, 586.410, 586.520, 586.525, 586.530, 586.550, 586.710 or 586.720, or failure…