No person who assumes or attempts to act as a wholesale produce dealer or retail produce peddler without a license, and no wholesale produce dealer handling produce upon a commission basis, shall do any of the following:
(1) Impose false charges for handling or services in connection with the account of any grower of such produce.
(2) Fail to account promptly, correctly, fully and properly and to make settlement therefor as provided in ORS 585.010 to 585.220.
(3) Intentionally make any false or misleading statement or statements as to market conditions.
(4) Make fictitious sales or be guilty of collusion to defraud the grower.
(5) Directly or indirectly purchase for the account of the person or wholesale produce dealer, produce received by the person or wholesale produce dealer, upon consignment without prior authority from the consignor, or fail promptly to notify the consignor of such purchases, if any, on the account of the person or wholesale produce dealer; but this subsection shall not be construed to prevent any wholesale produce dealer handling produce upon a commission basis from taking to account of sales, in order to close the day’s business, miscellaneous lots or parcels of produce remaining unsold, if such wholesale produce dealer forthwith enters such transaction on account of sales of the wholesale produce dealer.
(6) Intentionally make any false statement as to the grade, condition, markings, quality or quantity of produce shipped or packed in any manner.
(7) Violate any other provision of ORS 585.010 to 585.220.
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