Oregon Statutes - Chapter 596 - Disease Control Generally

596.010 Definitions.
As used in this chapter, except as provided in ORS 596.615 to 596.681: (1) �Department� means the State Department of Agriculture. (2) �Disease� means any...
596.020 Duties of the State Department of Agriculture in protection of people and livestock.
(1) The State Department of Agriculture shall: (a) Exercise general sanitary and disease control supervision over the livestock of this state, and as far as...
596.030 Administration of national plans relating to poultry; disposition of fees; suspension of participants.
(1) The State Department of Agriculture is designated as the official agency in Oregon for cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture and other...
596.040 Cooperative agreements with U.S. Department of Agriculture or other federal agency for livestock disease control; receipt and use of funds.
(1) Whenever the Director of Agriculture deems it necessary, the director may enter into cooperative and reciprocal agreements with the United States Department of Agriculture...
596.050 Production of bacteriological or biological products for department; use of proceeds.
The Oregon agricultural experiment station, the College of Veterinary Medicine, Oregon State University or the State Department of Agriculture may make, produce or furnish bacteriological...
596.060 Peace officers to assist the department.
The State Department of Agriculture or any of its officers, employees or deputies may at any time call upon any peace officer for assistance in...
596.065 Vaccines and products hazardous to livestock health; rules; written permits authorizing use, purchase, sale or distribution of vaccines and products.
(1)(a) The following vaccines or bacteriological or biological products are deemed to be vaccines or products that are a hazard to the livestock in this...
596.070 [Repealed by 1955 c.557 §4 (596.065 and 596.075 enacted in lieu of 596.070)]
596.075 Prohibition against use of listed harmful vaccines; exceptions.
Except as otherwise provided in ORS 596.065 (3), no person shall use, vaccinate with or inject into any livestock in this state, sell, offer for...
596.080 [Repealed by 1955 c.557 §36]
596.090 [Repealed by 1955 c.557 §36]
596.095 Definitions for ORS 596.100, 596.105 and 596.995.
As used in ORS 596.100, 596.105 and 596.995: (1) �Animal remedy� means any product used to prevent, inhibit or cure or enhance or protect the...
596.100 Registration of products used for treatment of animals; fees; rules.
(1) No person shall sell, offer or expose for sale, or deliver to a user, an animal remedy, veterinary biologic or pharmaceutical, in package or...
596.105 Products exempt from registration; rules.
The State Department of Agriculture may adopt rules exempting certain products from the definition of animal remedy, veterinary biologic or pharmaceutical if: (1) The products...
596.210 Establishing office of State Veterinarian; qualifications and duties.
(1) There hereby is created within the State Department of Agriculture the office of State Veterinarian of the State of Oregon. The State Veterinarian shall...
596.220 Deputy state veterinarians.
(1) The State Department of Agriculture may deputize certain veterinarians throughout the state to assist the State Department of Agriculture in carrying out its duties....
596.225 Contracting for services of deputy state veterinarian; Veterinary Medical Fee Schedule.
(1) Notwithstanding other laws to the contrary, the State Department of Agriculture is authorized to enter into a contract with a deputy state veterinarian to...
596.230 Duties of deputy veterinarians.
(1) Deputy state veterinarians shall assist the State Department of Agriculture in carrying out the duties imposed upon it by any law of this state...
596.240 [Repealed by 1961 c.219 §4]
596.250 Revocation or suspension of appointment of deputy veterinarian.
(1) The appointment of a person as a deputy state veterinarian is effective until the person submits a written resignation to the State Department of...
596.310 [Repealed by 1955 c.557 §9 (596.311 enacted in lieu of 596.310)]
596.311 Examination, testing or treatment of livestock at owner�s request before shipment; issuance of health certificates; collection and disposition of fees.
(1) Deputy state veterinarians may: (a) Examine, test or treat livestock for intrastate or interstate shipment, when requested so to do by the owner or...
596.320 [Repealed by 1955 c.557 §11 (596.321 enacted in lieu of 596.320)]
596.321 Rules governing vaccinations and reporting of listed livestock diseases.
(1) The State Department of Agriculture shall enact rules and regulations: (a) Containing a list of livestock diseases that must be reported to the department...
596.330 [Repealed by 1955 c.557 §36]
596.331 Prohibition against disposing of diseased livestock, parts of quarantined livestock or unvaccinated female cattle; exceptions.
(1) A person may not sell, offer to sell or dispose of any livestock that the person knows to be exposed to, a carrier of...
596.340 [Repealed by 1955 c.557 §13 (596.331 enacted in lieu of 596.340)]
596.341 Examination, testing or treatment of livestock before entry into state; permit requirements; conditions and exemptions.
(1) In addition to the permit required by subsection (2) of this section, the State Department of Agriculture may cause livestock to be tested, treated...
596.343 Testing sheep for Akabane Virus.
In carrying out the provisions of this chapter, unless the State Department of Agriculture determines, upon the advice of appropriate federal animal health authorities, that...
596.346 Permit requirements and application form; material to be submitted with application.
Application for permits shall be made to the State Department of Agriculture on forms prescribed by the department. Should there be insufficient time to use...
596.350 [Repealed by 1955 c.557 §15 (596.341, 596.351 and 596.361 enacted in lieu of 596.350)]
596.351 Prohibited acts relating to livestock importation.
No person shall: (1) Knowingly import or cause to be imported into this state any livestock exposed to, infected with or a carrier of disease....
596.355 Prohibition against importation of livestock from quarantined area.
No person shall import into this state any livestock from an area of any other state, territory or country which has been placed under quarantine...
596.360 [Repealed by 1955 c.557 §36]
596.361 Summary quarantine of livestock imported in violation of ORS 596.351; disposal of diseased livestock.
(1) The State Department of Agriculture may summarily quarantine any livestock imported into this state in violation of ORS 596.351 or any rules of the...
596.370 [Repealed by 1955 c.557 §19 (596.371 enacted in lieu of 596.370)]
596.371 Treatment of diseased livestock by owner; notice; treatment by department; lien for treatment.
(1) Whenever the owner or person having control of livestock receives notice from the State Department of Agriculture that the livestock must be treated for...
596.380 [Repealed by 1955 c.557 §36]
596.384 [1953 c.689 §2; repealed by 1955 c.557 §36]
596.388 Department to investigate cases of disease; authority of agents to enter premises.
The State Department of Agriculture shall, when necessary to control or eradicate disease, investigate all cases or suspected cases of disease in livestock in this...
596.390 [Repealed by 1953 c.689 §13]
596.392 Authority of department relating to disease control.
The State Department of Agriculture may order and compel: (1) The destruction or treatment of any livestock that may be infected with, exposed to or...
596.393 Burning or burial of carcasses to control disease.
(1) An authorized representative of the State Department of Agriculture may cause the burning or burial of carcasses of animals that have died or been...
596.394 Summary quarantine of livestock and contaminated property imported into state from quarantined area; release thereof.
(1) The State Department of Agriculture may order summary quarantine of any livestock and any property contaminated with disease or capable of transmitting the disease...
596.396 Length of quarantine; payment of expense of cleaning and disinfecting.
(1) Any quarantine imposed by the State Department of Agriculture pursuant to ORS 596.392, 596.394, 596.402 or 596.404 shall be for such period of time...
596.400 [Repealed by 1953 c.689 §13]
596.402 Authority to summarily quarantine areas; notice.
(1) The State Department of Agriculture may also summarily quarantine any legally described area of this state and prohibit or otherwise restrict any movement of...
596.404 Department may seize part or product of slaughtered diseased livestock; release thereof.
The State Department of Agriculture may seize meat, hides, offal or any other part or product of livestock slaughtered anywhere which is infected with, exposed...
596.406 Department to prescribe methods of destruction of property; indemnity.
When any real or personal property is ordered destroyed, the State Department of Agriculture shall prescribe the methods and procedures by which the destruction shall...
596.410 [Repealed by 1953 c.689 §13]
596.412 Factors to be considered by department in exercise of disease control powers.
When exercising the powers conferred by ORS 596.388 to 596.412, the State Department of Agriculture shall give appropriate weight and consideration to the following: (1)...
596.416 Application to court to compel owner or person in charge of property to cooperate.
(1) In the event the State Department of Agriculture or any of its employees or agents meet with any resistance or lack of cooperation by...
596.420 [Repealed by 1953 c.689 §13]
596.430 [Repealed by 1955 c.557 §36]
596.440 [Repealed by 1955 c.557 §36]
596.450 [Repealed by 1955 c.557 §36]
596.460 Duty to separate and confine diseased animals; vaccination; evidence of vaccination.
(1) A person owning, possessing or controlling any livestock affected by any disease may not fail to keep the livestock within an enclosure, or herd...
596.470 Health certificates for disease-free animals.
Whenever any official examination is made by any person authorized so to do by the State Department of Agriculture, of any livestock and such livestock...
596.480 [1955 c.637 §1; repealed by 1983 c.101 §6]
596.500 [1971 c.483 §§6, 7; 1975 c.220 §1; repealed by 1977 c.214 §10; repealed by 1983 c.101 §6]
596.610 [1953 c.633 §1; repealed by 1955 c.557 §36]
596.615 �Livestock� defined.
As used in ORS 596.615 to 596.681, �livestock� means animals raised for the production of food for human consumption and those animals carrying diseases that...
596.620 Indemnification of owners of livestock or property slaughtered or destroyed by order of department.
The owner of any livestock or property which is slaughtered or otherwise destroyed at the order of the State Department of Agriculture in the performance...
596.625 Approval of indemnification required.
No application, contract or agreement for the payment of indemnity under ORS 596.615 to 596.681 is enforceable unless approved and signed by the Director of...
596.630 [1953 c.633 §2; 1955 c.557 §32; repealed by 1963 c.208 §4]
596.640 Livestock and property not eligible for indemnity.
(1) The owner of livestock or property destroyed at the order of the State Department of Agriculture shall not be paid indemnity by the State...
596.650 Indemnity; appraisal of animal or property prior to destruction.
(1) An owner may claim indemnity on any animal or property ordered destroyed by the State Department of Agriculture. Each animal or article of property...
596.660 Method of destruction; salvage.
When in the opinion of the State Department of Agriculture livestock or property which is condemned can be destroyed in a manner which will permit...
596.670 [1953 c.633 §6; repealed by 1965 c.217 §4 (596.671 enacted in lieu of 596.670)]
596.671 Amount of indemnity.
The indemnity shall be a sum, which added to the salvage, shall not exceed 80 percent of the appraised value of each animal or article...
596.680 [1953 c.633 §7; repealed by 1965 c.217 §6 (596.681 enacted in lieu of 596.680)]
596.681 Limit of state indemnity to livestock owner also receiving federal indemnity.
If the owner of livestock destroyed at the order of the State Department of Agriculture is eligible for indemnity payable by the federal government, the...
596.990 Penalties.
(1) Violation of any of the provisions of ORS 596.075, 596.321, 596.331 (1) or (3), 596.351, 596.388, 596.392 (1) to (3) or (6), 596.404 to...
596.995 Civil penalties.
(1) Any manufacturer of an animal remedy, veterinary biologic or pharmaceutical who violates any provision of ORS 596.100 or 596.105 applicable to manufacturers or any...

Last modified: August 7, 2008