Oregon Statutes - Chapter 601 - Dead Animals

• 601.010   Definitions.
  As used in this chapter, the term “department” means the State Department of Agriculture.
• 601.020   Applicability of dead animal provisions.
  (1) Any person engaged in the business of obtaining, by purchase or otherwise, the body, carcass or parts of animals, for the purpose of obtaining...
• 601.030   License required to engage in animal disposal business.
  Before any person shall engage in the business of disposing of the bodies, carcasses or parts of animals by rendering, burning, burying or any other...
• 601.040   Application for license and payment of fee; rules; disposition of funds collected.
  (1) Any person desiring to obtain a license to dispose of the bodies, carcasses or parts of animals shall file with the State Department of...
• 601.050   Investigation of place of business and applicant; issuance of license.
  (1) Upon receiving an application for a license, the State Department of Agriculture shall immediately cause one of its officers, employees or deputies to inspect...
• 601.060   License limitations.
  Any licenses issued under ORS 601.050 or 601.080 shall be nontransferable by the licensee and shall apply to only one place of business or conveyance,...
• 601.070   Revocation or refusal to issue license.
  Upon determining that any person licensed under ORS 601.050 or 601.080, or who has applied for a license under ORS 601.040 or 601.080, has violated,...
• 601.080   License for conveyance transporting dead animals; fee.
  (1) Before any person, not holding a license for the disposal of bodies, carcasses or parts of animals, transports for hire the bodies, carcasses or...
• 601.090   Requirements as to conduct of business and construction of premises.
  Every person engaged in the business of disposing of the bodies, carcasses or parts of animals shall conduct such business and shall construct, arrange and...
• 601.100   Transportation and handling of dead animals; assembly plant license fee.
  (1) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, all persons licensed under ORS 601.050 or 601.080 shall transport bodies, carcasses or parts of...
• 601.110   Inspection of place of business or conveyance.
  The State Department of Agriculture shall cause one or more of its officers, employees or deputies to inspect, as often as it may deem advisable,...
• 601.120   Department to administer and enforce disposal provisions; rules and regulations.
  The State Department of Agriculture shall administer and enforce ORS 601.010 to 601.130 and may make and enforce all rules and regulations which the department...
• 601.130   Jurisdiction of courts; restraining violation.
  (1) Justice courts and municipal courts acting as justice courts have concurrent jurisdiction with circuit courts of all prosecutions arising under ORS 601.010 to 601.130....
• 601.140   Carcass of domestic animal to be buried or destroyed.
  No person shall knowingly leave the carcass of any domestic animal, which the person has owned or had in charge, within one-half mile of any...
• 601.990   Penalties.
  (1) Subject to ORS 153.022, violation of any provision of ORS 601.010 to 601.130 or any rule or regulation of the State Department of Agriculture...

Last modified: August 7, 2008