Title 47, Agricultural Marketing and Warehousing

As used in this chapter, “department” means the State Department of Agriculture.

The purpose and object of this chapter is to provide the owners of grain the means of warehousing or storing their grain on farms, on or near railroad rights of way and other suitable places under proper safeguards, as a basis of farm credit on the grain so stored.

The State Department of Agriculture shall manage, control and direct the operations of the provisions of this chapter and has full power to make effective the provisions of this chapter and the rules and regulations which the department prescribes to carry out the purposes and ob…

In addition to the general powers conferred by ORS 587.030 the State Department of Agriculture has the following express powers: (1) To appoint inspectors of grain. (2) To make and promulgate the necessary or desirable rules and regulations, not inconsistent with this chapter, to…

Whenever 15 or more farmers operating farms tributary to any market center petition the State Department of Agriculture for services authorized by this chapter, the department forthwith shall provide for the method of inspection and certify all warehouse certificates for grain in…

Any owner of grain desiring to store it shall make a written application to the State Department of Agriculture indicating where the grain is stored, the kind of structure in which stored and the encumbrance on the grain, if any. The application shall be signed and sworn to by th…

(1) When application is made to the State Department of Agriculture for the inspection and sealing of grain, whether upon the farm or on or near any railroad right of way, or other suitable place, the department shall, as soon as it is possible so to do, inspect the grain. If the…

The form of the warehouse certificate issued under this chapter shall be prepared and approved by the State Department of Agriculture. Every certificate must embody within its written or printed terms the following: (1) The consecutive number of the certificate. (2) The date of i…

All warehouse certificates issued under this chapter shall be in triplicate. The original shall be delivered to the owner, one copy shall be retained by the State Department of Agriculture and the other copy shall be filed in the office of the county clerk of the county in which …

The State Department of Agriculture shall file in the office of the county clerk of the county wherein the grain is stored a copy of the warehouse certificate. The certificate shall be indexed under chattel mortgages. The filing fee shall be paid by the department and charged to …

The owner of grain stored under this chapter is charged with the due care of the grain and shall exercise that degree of care and diligence which an ordinary and prudent person would exercise with regard to similar property of the person’s own. The owner shall also, upon demand o…

The locking up and sealing of any storage facility acceptable to the State Department of Agriculture hereby is waived, if and when the applicant has filed a warehouseman’s bond, as a guaranty to the carrying out of the provisions of this chapter. Such bond shall be passed on and …

Whenever the amount of grain certified to on the warehouse certificate has been computed by cubic measurements or by number of bags, the amount shall be deemed to be prima facie the amount of the grain, but the actual amount shall be determined by the actual weight thereof. The o…

The expenses of the administration of this chapter shall be paid by the owners of the grain, and the fee collected at the time of inspecting and sealing. The amount so paid shall be stated in the certificate. The fee for the inspection shall be established by the State Department…

(1) Any person who states in the application provided for in ORS 587.090 any material fact known to be false and for the purpose of misleading the State Department of Agriculture is guilty of a misdemeanor. (2) Any person who, with the intent to defraud, breaks the seal of any st…