2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Chapter 633 - Grades, Standards and Labels for Feeds, Soil Enhancers and Seeds
Section 633.680 - Establishment of standards of germination; rules and regulations; fees and charges.


(a) Licensing, suspension, reinstatement and revocation of licenses, which rules and regulations shall conform to the law governing suspension, refusal or revocation of licenses by the State Department of Agriculture.
(b) Regulatory and official sampling.
(c) Labeling of seeds, including such additional information as may be required in order to maintain uniformity with the laws and regulations of the federal government or of other states.
(d) Quarantining, which rules and regulations shall conform to the law for establishment of quarantines by the State Department of Agriculture.
(e) Seizure, treatment and disposition of seeds from outside this state.
(f) Seizure of seeds.
(g) Changes in the list of prohibited noxious weed seeds and in the list of restricted noxious weed seeds.
(h) Tolerances for differences between the contents of a container of agricultural, flower or vegetable seed and the label thereon.
(i) The types of records and the procedures for handling forms and records that must be kept by seed dealers and seed conditioners.
(j) The identity of varieties of agricultural seed required by ORS 633.520.
(k) The variations in time provided for in ORS 633.651.
(L) The use and labeling of hermetically sealed or other types of containers or conveyances involving seeds.
(m) The type of analysis tests that must be conducted to develop information used in preparing seed labels or tags.
(2) The director may adopt rules establishing standards for forms used in reporting analysis of seed.
(3) The director may establish fees and charges for official sampling, applied for by the owner, at an amount sufficient to cover the cost. The director may also establish reasonable charges covering issuance of permits, and the treatment and disposition of seeds seized and held under quarantine. However, in any case where the service involved is in such location or under such circumstances that the usual fees or charges are insufficient to cover the expense, the director may make additional charges to avoid loss to this state. [Amended by 1955 c.379 §17; 1969 c.132 §6; 1995 c.371 §8; 2011 c.356 §15]

Structure 2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food

Chapter 633 - Grades, Standards and Labels for Feeds, Soil Enhancers and Seeds

Section 633.006 - Definitions for ORS 633.006 to 633.089.

Section 633.015 - Registration of commercial feed required; rules; exemption; fee.

Section 633.026 - Labeling requirements for commercial feed; exemptions; rules.

Section 633.028 - Information required to accompany custom mixed feed; rules; records.

Section 633.029 - License required for animal feed manufacturers and distributors; fee; exemption; rules.

Section 633.045 - Adulterated commercial feeds prohibited; rules.

Section 633.055 - Misbranding commercial feed prohibited; rules.

Section 633.065 - Department to test commercial feeds.

Section 633.077 - Testing and analysis of bulk commercial feed and custom mixed feed; disclosure of test or analysis results.

Section 633.088 - Withdrawal from distribution of feeds sold or distributed in violation of law; seizure of noncomplying feeds.

Section 633.311 - Definitions for ORS 633.311 to 633.479.

Section 633.318 - Licensing of manufacturers and bulk distributors; application; fee; change of location; rules.

Section 633.321 - Label requirements for fertilizer, agricultural amendment, agricultural mineral and lime products; rules.

Section 633.331 - Additional label requirements for lime products.

Section 633.336 - Additional label requirements for agricultural amendment.

Section 633.341 - Additional label requirements for agricultural mineral.

Section 633.362 - Registration of fertilizer, agricultural amendment, agricultural mineral and lime products; application; fee; expiration; product contents; rules.

Section 633.364 - Confidentiality of certain information supplied in application for registration; permissible use of information.

Section 633.366 - Prohibitions; mislabeled products; adulterated products.

Section 633.385 - Department access; inspection; sampling of products.

Section 633.388 - Reports of official sample.

Section 633.441 - Rules.

Section 633.445 - Orders preventing sale or other disposition of product; seizure.

Section 633.462 - Tonnage reports; records; fee; penalty.

Section 633.465 - Inspection fees; disposition; rules.

Section 633.476 - Record keeping for custom mix products; product identification; records inspection.

Section 633.479 - Fertilizer Research Committee.

Section 633.487 - Definitions for ORS 633.487 to 633.491.

Section 633.489 - Certification of dyes or other additives; rules.

Section 633.491 - Anhydrous Ammonia Additive Review Committee.

Section 633.511 - Definitions for ORS 633.511 to 633.750.

Section 633.520 - Labeling agricultural seed or bulk flower seed.

Section 633.531 - Labeling vegetable or flower seed weighing one pound or less.

Section 633.541 - Labeling vegetable seed weighing more than one pound.

Section 633.550 - Exemptions from labeling provisions.

Section 633.571 - Changes in lists; publicizing changes.

Section 633.580 - Seed testing laboratory; cooperative agreements with federal agency.

Section 633.600 - Fees for seed tests; rules and regulations.

Section 633.610 - Seed testing fund.

Section 633.620 - Certification of seeds, tubers and plants; fees; rules.

Section 633.630 - Certification fund.

Section 633.651 - Prohibited acts.

Section 633.655 - When penalties not applicable.

Section 633.670 - Inspection and sampling of seeds; seizure of seeds; report of inspection work.

Section 633.680 - Establishment of standards of germination; rules and regulations; fees and charges.

Section 633.690 - Quarantine of seed entering state; disposition of nonconforming seed.

Section 633.700 - Retailer and wholesaler licenses; exemption; rules; fees.

Section 633.733 - Legislative findings regarding seed regulation.

Section 633.738 - Prohibition of local laws to inhibit or prevent production or use of seeds or products of seeds.

Section 633.741 - Jackson County exemption from ORS 633.738.

Section 633.752 - Presence of department representative during crop testing; fee.

Section 633.994 - Civil penalties for fertilizer law violations; rules; failure to pay penalty in full.

Section 633.996 - Civil penalty for seed law violation.