(1) The State Department of Agriculture may issue licenses under this chapter to one or more additional users of a custom processing establishment, custom slaughtering establishment, meat seller establishment, nonslaughtering processing establishment or slaughterhouse that is licensed primarily for operation by another person. A license issued to an additional user of an establishment described in this subsection shall cover all operations at that establishment by the person licensed. Regardless of the number of persons licensed to use an establishment described in this subsection, the department may not recognize more than one person as the primary operator of the establishment.

Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 603.031

  • Custom processing establishment: means a stationary establishment wherein slaughtered meat animals or meat, caused to be delivered by the owners thereof, are prepared for compensation, payment or remuneration of any kind, and are thereafter returned to the owner thereof or to the order of the owner. See Oregon Statutes 603.010
  • Custom slaughtering establishment: means a mobile or stationary establishment wherein meat animals, caused to be delivered by the owners thereof, are slaughtered for compensation, payment or remuneration of any kind, and are thereafter returned to the owner thereof or to the order of the owner. See Oregon Statutes 603.010
  • Department: means the State Department of Agriculture. See Oregon Statutes 603.010
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Meat seller establishment: means an establishment wherein meat products are sold, offered or held for sale, but which are not prepared other than to be ground, seasoned, salted, frozen, boned, cut up, wrapped or packed. See Oregon Statutes 603.010
  • Nonslaughtering processing establishment: means any building, structure or vehicle wherein the activities of a slaughterhouse, custom slaughtering establishment or custom processing establishment or of an animal food slaughtering establishment or animal food processing establishment under ORS Chapter 619 are not performed, but wherein meat products are prepared. See Oregon Statutes 603.010
  • Person: includes individuals, corporations, associations, firms, partnerships, limited liability companies and joint stock companies. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
  • Slaughterhouse: means an establishment wherein meat animals are slaughtered. See Oregon Statutes 603.010

(2) The department may assess a license fee to an additional user of an establishment described in this section, calculated as provided in rules adopted under ORS § 603.025. In calculating license fees as provided under ORS § 603.025, the establishment’s annual gross dollar volume of sales and services for an additional user of the establishment is independent of the establishment’s annual gross dollar volume of sales for any other user or the primary operator of the establishment.

(3) Notwithstanding ORS § 603.025, the department may adopt rules to establish the license expiration, renewal and application dates for additional users of an establishment.

(4) The department may adopt rules to determine the responsibilities of an establishment’s primary operator and additional users of the establishment under ORS § 603.034, 603.045 (6), 603.055 and 603.059 and rules adopted under ORS § 603.055 and 603.085.

(5) A recognized primary operator of an establishment shall notify the department upon the expiration or termination of the rental or lease of the establishment by an additional user of the establishment. The renting or leasing of an establishment to a person licensed by the department as an additional user of the establishment or the expiration or termination of use by a person licensed as an additional user of the establishment does not, by itself, constitute the transfer of a business for purposes of ORS § 603.027. [2007 c.645 § 2; 2012 c.64 § 19]

 

[1955 c.724 § 5; 1965 c.483 § 7; 1967 c.392 § 1; 1969 c.565 § 4; repealed by 1973 c.175 § 15]

 

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