Oregon Statutes - Chapter 586 - Warehouses; Grain and Commodity Inspection

• 586.010   [Repealed by 1955 c.731 §34]
• 586.020   [Repealed by 1955 c.731 §34]
• 586.030   [Repealed by 1955 c.731 §34]
• 586.040   [Repealed by 1955 c.731 §34]
• 586.050   [Repealed by 1955 c.731 §34]
• 586.060   [Repealed by 1955 c.731 §34]
• 586.070   [Repealed by 1955 c.731 §34]
• 586.080   [Repealed by 1955 c.731 §34]
• 586.090   [Repealed by 1955 c.731 §34]
• 586.100   [Repealed by 1955 c.731 §34]
• 586.110   [Repealed by 1963 c.116 §1]
• 586.120   [Amended by 1961 c.726 §419; repealed by 1963 c.116 §1]
• 586.130   [Repealed by 1955 c.731 §34]
• 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,...
• 586.220   [Repealed by 1955 c.731 §34]
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 586.240   [Repealed by 1955 c.731 §34]
• 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...
• 586.260   [Repealed by 1955 c.731 §34]
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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....
• 586.300   Warehouseman’s bond; liability; automatic license suspension for failure to have or to maintain bond.
  (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,...
• 586.310   [Repealed by 1961 c.445 §23]
• 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...
• 586.320   [Repealed by 1955 c.731 §§7, 34 (586.285 enacted in lieu of 586.320)]
• 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,...
• 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...
• 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,...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 586.385   Warehouseman’s liability for failure to issue proper receipt.
  (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...
• 586.390   [Repealed by 1955 c.731 §34]
• 586.395   Warehouseman’s liability for injury to grain; disposal of grain which is a hazard.
  (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...
• 586.400   Duty of warehouseman receiving grain for storage; damages for failure to deliver.
  (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this section, the duty of a warehouseman receiving grain for storage or shipment in a public...
• 586.410   Loading and shipping instructions; liability of warehouseman.
  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...
• 586.415   Approval of holder of receipt required before sale, shipment or other transaction.
  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...
• 586.420   [Repealed by 1955 c.731 §34]
• 586.425   [1957 c.11 §4; 1957 c.314 §3; 1961 c.726 §421; repealed by 1963 c.116 §1]
• 586.430   [Repealed by 1955 c.731 §34]
• 586.440   [Repealed by 1955 c.731 §34]
• 586.450   [Repealed by 1955 c.731 §34]
• 586.460   [Repealed by 1955 c.731 §34]
• 586.470   [Repealed by 1955 c.731 §34]
• 586.480   [Repealed by 1955 c.731 §34]
• 586.490   [Repealed by 1955 c.731 §34]
• 586.500   [Repealed by 1955 c.731 §34]
• 586.510   [Repealed by 1955 c.731 §34]
• 586.520   Inspection of warehouses; records required of warehouseman.
  (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...
• 586.525   Procedure in case of probable shortage in grain or where warehouseman refuses to submit to inspection.
  (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...
• 586.527   Settlement of claims against defaulting 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...
• 586.529   Receivership of warehouse business; claims against surety.
  (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...
• 586.530   Establishment of standard grades for commodities received.
  (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...
• 586.540   [Repealed by 1955 c.731 §34]
• 586.550   Warehouseman to keep copy of regulations available for inspection.
  (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...
• 586.555   Warehouseman’s reports to department.
  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...
• 586.560   [Repealed by 1955 c.731 §34]
• 586.561   Discontinuance of operation of warehouse.
  (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...
• 586.570   Department to control weighing, inspection and grading of grain at inspection points; inspection of commodities other than grain; records to be kept; certificates issued.
  (1) The State Department of Agriculture shall have exclusive control of the weighing, inspection and grading of grain at all inspection points established under ORS...
• 586.580   Fixing fees for inspecting, grading and weighing; fees as lien.
  The State Department of Agriculture shall fix the fees for inspection, grading and weighing of grain and other commodities included in the provisions of ORS...
• 586.590   Review by department of decisions as to grades.
  If any owner, consignee or shipper of grain or other commodity, or the agent or broker of the owner, consignee or shipper or any warehouseman,...
• 586.600   Designating inspection points.
  Any place where grain is received in carload lots or by watercraft, or motor vehicle, may be designated by the State Department of Agriculture as...
• 586.610   Inspection and grading of grain and hay at public terminal warehouses; weighing of grain at inspection points.
  (1) All grain and hay received at public terminal warehouses may be inspected and graded by the State Department of Agriculture. All grain received at...
• 586.620   [Repealed by 1955 c.731 §34]
• 586.630   Examination of cars and seals on arrival for inspection, grading or weighing; opening, unloading and resealing cars; authorized persons only to act.
  (1) Any officer, employee, deputy inspector, sampler or weigher of the State Department of Agriculture before opening the doors of any car containing grain, hay...
• 586.640   Sidetracks for cars to be inspected, graded or weighed; distribution of cars after inspection.
  Any railroad delivering grain, hay or other commodities in cars at any of the places provided with state inspection under ORS 586.210 to 586.730 shall...
• 586.650   Loading or unloading outside usual hours; additional fees for inspection, grading and weighing; compensation of department employees; rules.
  (1) When occasions arise where it is deemed advisable to load or unload cars, motor vehicles or cargoes of grain, hay or other commodities outside...
• 586.660   Samples of products graded, inspected or weighed; furnishing samples to those handling or dealing in grain.
  Samples may be drawn from all grain and other commodities inspected, graded or weighed. Such samples become the property of the state and are subject...
• 586.670   Examining grain stored in warehouses.
  Every person having an interest in any grain stored in any public warehouse has the right to examine at all times during ordinary business hours...
• 586.680   When shipper’s weight and grade final and conclusive.
  When grain, hay or any other agricultural commodity is shipped to points where inspection is provided and the grain, hay or other agricultural commodity is...
• 586.690   [Repealed by 1955 c.731 §34]
• 586.700   [Repealed by 1955 c.731 §34]
• 586.710   Disposition of certain fees; continuing appropriation.
  Except for fees paid under ORS 586.270, 586.580 and 586.650, all fees collected by the State Department of Agriculture under this chapter shall be paid...
• 586.720   Application of Uniform Commercial Code–Documents of Title and other laws to public warehouses and warehousemen.
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, every public warehouse and warehouseman complying with the provisions of ORS 586.210 to 586.730 is...
• 586.730   Violation of ORS 586.210 to 586.730 prohibited.
  (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...
• 586.990   Penalties.
  (1) Violation of ORS 586.250 is punishable, upon conviction, by a fine of not less than $1,000 nor more than $3,000, or by imprisonment in...

Last modified: August 7, 2008