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2025 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 15 - Water Resources, Agriculture and Food
Chapter 596 - Disease Control Generally
Section 596.331 - Prohibition against disposing of diseased livestock or parts of quarantined livestock; exceptions.
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OR Rev Stat § 596.331 (2025)
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(1) A person may not sell, offer to sell or dispose of any livestock that the person knows to be exposed to, a carrier of or infected with any disease required to be reported under ORS 596.321, except:
(a) To a slaughterer or to a rendering plant; or
(b) Pursuant to, and as authorized by, a quarantine order.
(2) A person may not sell, offer to sell or dispose of the meat, milk or other parts of any livestock, quarantined by the State Department of Agriculture, for food or other purposes, except as authorized by the quarantine order. [1955 c.557 §14 (enacted in lieu of 596.340); 1983 c.79 §2; 1985 c.91 §1; 1987 c.909 §1; 1991 c.420 §2; 1999 c.102 §2; 2001 c.22 §2; 2003 c.14 §358; 2023 c.146 §2]
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