2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Chapter 618 - Weights and Measures
Section 618.136 - Establishing license fees; renewals; disposition of fees.


(2) License fees become past due July 1 each year for renewals, and on the date of first commercial use for original installations.
(3) Except as provided in this subsection, the department may not establish a license fee under this section that is more than three percent higher than the license fee charged during the preceding year for a commercial weighing or measuring instrument or device of the same type and class. Notwithstanding the three percent limit but subject to the maximum limits under ORS 618.141, when establishing a license fee under this section the department may round the fee amount to the next higher whole dollar amount. The department may not change the license fee for the same type and class of commercial weighing or measuring instrument or device more than once each year.
(4) All moneys received by the department pursuant to ORS 618.010 to 618.246 shall be paid into the Department of Agriculture Service Fund. Such moneys are continuously appropriated to the department for the purpose of administering those provisions of ORS 618.010 to 618.246 relating to testing, inspection, licensing and regulation of commercial weighing and measuring instruments or devices. [1973 c.293 §32; 1977 c.132 §8; 1979 c.499 §21; 2019 c.385 §1]
Note: The amendments to 618.136 by section 2, chapter 385, Oregon Laws 2019, become operative July 1, 2026. See section 4, chapter 385, Oregon Laws 2019. The text that is operative on and after July 1, 2026, is set forth for the user’s convenience. (1) The license fee for each type or class of commercial weighing or measuring instrument or device shall be established by the State Department of Agriculture in an amount not to exceed the maximum limits under ORS 618.141. Such fees shall be established in the amounts necessary for the department to carry out and enforce the provisions of ORS 618.010 to 618.246 relating to the supervision of commercial weighing and measuring instruments or devices, and to maintain an emergency fund with an unencumbered balance in an amount not to exceed the cost of administering ORS 618.010 to 618.246 during a representative four-month period in order to ensure the orderly supervision of commercial weighing and measuring instruments or devices within this state.
(2) License fees become past due July 1 each year for renewals, and on the date of first commercial use for original installations.
(3) All moneys received by the department pursuant to ORS 618.010 to 618.246 shall be paid into the Department of Agriculture Service Fund. Such moneys are continuously appropriated to the department for the purpose of administering those provisions of ORS 618.010 to 618.246 relating to testing, inspection, licensing and regulation of commercial weighing and measuring instruments or devices.

Structure 2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food

Chapter 618 - Weights and Measures

Section 618.010 - Definitions.

Section 618.016 - Policy.

Section 618.021 - Duties of director.

Section 618.031 - Rulemaking authority.

Section 618.041 - Standards for weights and measures system; security of state primary standard.

Section 618.056 - Testing and inspecting weights and measures offered for sale or used commercially; rules.

Section 618.066 - Department investigation of alleged weights and measures law violations; exempt devices.

Section 618.071 - Inspection and investigation authority of department; written notices for minor violations.

Section 618.076 - Approving use of weights and measures; use of certain terms describing condition of equipment; seizure and destruction of nonconforming equipment.

Section 618.086 - Orders restricting distribution of weights and measures.

Section 618.096 - Prohibited acts involving commercial weights and measures.

Section 618.115 - Voluntary inspection of weighing or measuring instruments; fees.

Section 618.126 - Exemptions from licensing requirement.

Section 618.131 - Weights and measures licenses in addition to other licenses; effect of conflicting laws.

Section 618.136 - Establishing license fees; renewals; disposition of fees.

Section 618.141 - Maximum license fees.

Section 618.146 - Term of licenses; suspension and revocation of licenses.

Section 618.156 - Forms, certificates and identification tags; license application forms.

Section 618.201 - Sampling of packages and commodities; ordering packages and commodities withheld from sale; disposition after order.

Section 618.206 - Manner of selling commodities; exemptions; rules.

Section 618.211 - Labeling of packaged commodities; use of labeling terms restricted; scope of rules.

Section 618.226 - Commodity price and quantity advertising requirements; restriction on use of certain advertising terms.

Section 618.236 - Price misrepresentation prohibited; expressing fractional prices.

Section 618.241 - Written invoice of certain commodity sales required; contents of writing.

Section 618.246 - Sale by weight required for certain food products; labeling requirements.

Section 618.275 - Testing and inspection of scales; use without seal prohibited; sealing device; tests and inspection of cars; interstate cooperation.

Section 618.406 - Definitions; citations for certain violations; delegation of authority; service of citations; recording.

Section 618.501 - Definitions.

Section 618.506 - Enjoining security seal violations; notice to defendant; voluntary compliance; temporary order; attorney fees and costs.

Section 618.516 - Civil action by private party; damages; attorney fees and costs; effect of court action; time for commencing action.

Section 618.521 - Investigative demand; petition to modify.

Section 618.526 - Method of serving investigative demand.

Section 618.531 - Effect of failure to obey investigative demand.

Section 618.991 - Penalties.

Section 618.995 - Civil penalties.