As used in ORS § 459.992 (3) and (4) and 459A.700 to 459A.744, unless the context requires otherwise:

(1) ‘Beverage’ means a fluid described in ORS § 459A.702.

(2) ‘Beverage container’ means a container described in ORS § 459A.702.

(3) ‘Commission’ means the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission.

(4) ‘Consumer’ means every person who purchases a beverage in a beverage container for use or consumption.

(5) ‘Dealer’ means every person in this state who engages in the sale of beverages in beverage containers to a consumer, or means a full-service redemption center approved under ORS § 459A.735.

(6) ‘Dealer redemption center’ means a location that meets the requirements of ORS § 459A.741, at which any person may return empty beverage containers and receive payment of the refund value of the beverage containers.

(7) ‘Distributor’ means every person who engages in the sale of beverages in beverage containers to a dealer in this state including any manufacturer who engages in such sales.

(8) ‘Full-service redemption center’ means a location that meets the requirements of ORS § 459A.737, at which any person may return empty beverage containers and receive payment of the refund value of the beverage containers.

(9) ‘Hard seltzer’ means any sugar-based alcoholic beverage that contains carbonated water or any malt-based alcoholic beverage that contains carbonated water and is not a malt beverage, as defined in ORS § 471.001.

(10) ‘Importer’ means any dealer or manufacturer who directly imports beverage containers into this state.

(11) ‘In this state’ means within the exterior limits of the State of Oregon and includes all territory within these limits owned by or ceded to the United States of America.

(12) ‘Kombucha’ means a fermented beverage that is made from tea and contains not more than 21 percent of alcohol by volume.

(13) ‘Manufacturer’ means every person bottling, canning or otherwise filling beverage containers for sale to distributors, importers or dealers.

(14) ‘Place of business of a dealer’ means the location at which a dealer sells or offers for sale beverages in beverage containers to consumers.

(15) ‘Redemption center’ means a full-service redemption center or a dealer redemption center.

(16) ‘Use or consumption’ includes the exercise of any right or power over a beverage incident to the ownership thereof, other than the sale or the keeping or retention of a beverage for the purposes of sale.

(17) ‘Water and flavored water’ means any beverage identified through the use of letters, words or symbols on its product label as a type of water.

(18) ‘Wine’ has the meaning given that term in ORS § 471.001, except that ‘wine’ does not mean hard seltzer or kombucha. [Formerly 459.810; 2007 c.303 § 1; 2011 c.277 § 1; 2019 c.279 § 1; 2019 c.366 § 1; 2021 c.351 § 23]