2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Chapter 578 - Oregon Wheat Commission
Section 578.010 - Definitions.


(1) "Commercial channels" means the sale of grain for use as food, feed or seed, or any industrial or chemurgic use, when sold to any commercial buyer, dealer, processor or cooperative, or to any person, public or private, who resells any grain or product produced from grain.
(2) "Commission" means the Oregon Wheat Commission.
(3) "Director" means the Director of Agriculture.
(4) "First purchaser" means any person, corporation, association or partnership that buys grain from the producer in the first instance, or any lienholder, public or private, who may possess grain from the producer under any lien.
(5) "Grain" means barley, canola, corn, flaxseed, mustard, oats, rye, soybeans, grain sorghum, triticale, wheat and any other cereal grain for which standards are established or followed by the State Department of Agriculture.
(6) "Producer" means:
(a) Any landowner personally engaged in growing grain;
(b) A tenant of the landowner personally engaged in growing grain;
(c) Both the owner and the tenant jointly; and
(d) Any other person, partnership, association, corporation, cooperative, trust, sharecropper or other business units, devices or arrangements engaged in growing grain.
(7) "Sale" includes any pledge or mortgage of grain, after harvest, to any person, public or private. [Amended by 1977 c.198 §25; 2011 c.181 §6; 2013 c.93 §6]

Structure 2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food

Chapter 578 - Oregon Wheat Commission

Section 578.010 - Definitions.

Section 578.020 - Legislative findings; purpose of chapter.

Section 578.025 - Department oversight of commission; rules.

Section 578.030 - Oregon Wheat Commission; members; appointment process; rules.

Section 578.040 - Qualifications of members.

Section 578.060 - Removal of members; compensation of members; rules.

Section 578.080 - Meetings of commission.

Section 578.090 - Duties and powers of commission; rules.

Section 578.105 - Intellectual property; rules.

Section 578.120 - Appointment of administrator; duties; compensation.

Section 578.135 - Commission employees not subject to state personnel compensation plans; commission not subject to office space regulation; fees for administrative services; rules.

Section 578.151 - Preparation of commission budget; annual financial statements; expenditures.

Section 578.155 - Commission financial activity.

Section 578.160 - Services, facilities and materials furnished to and received from other state agencies.

Section 578.211 - Levy and collection of assessment; commission rules regulating sales activities; disputes over assessment amounts; assessment rules.

Section 578.216 - Authority of commission to adopt rules authorizing refunds; effect.

Section 578.221 - Producer payment of assessment and reporting for certain sales.

Section 578.251 - Records of person required to pay assessment; inspections and audits.

Section 578.255 - Penalty for delaying transmittal of assessment moneys.

Section 578.260 - Penalty for failure to relinquish collected assessment moneys; civil action or other remedies.