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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3680
Sponsored by Representatives GOMBERG, MCINTIRE, LEVY B, BREESE-IVERSON; Representatives BOICE,
BOSHART DAVIS, HELM, SCHARF, SMITH G, WALLAN
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced.The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: The Act increases the amounts of some fees related to livestock brands. (Flesch Read-
ability Score: 60.7).
Increases fees related to livestock brands.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to livestock brands; amending ORS 604.027 and 604.066.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. ORS 604.027 is amended to read:
604.027. (1) A person desiring to record a brand on any species of livestock shall submit a
written and signed application therefor to the State Department of Agriculture, setting forth a fac-
simile and description of the brand, the species of livestock upon which it will be used and the
specific intended location on the animal. The applicationmustbeaccompaniedbyabrand
[recording] conflict research fee of $25 for each brand on each species of livestock on which the
brand is to be used. The person must also pay an activation fee matching the cycle set for the ap-
proved brand under subsection (4) of this section prior to recordation of the brand. The activation
fee may not exceed [$100] $200. Upon receipt of an application and the required fees, if the depart-
ment determines that the brand applied for is available, the department shall issue a certificate of
recordation of the distinctive brand, the approved location on the animal and the species of livestock
to which it applies.
(2) During September of each year the department shall attempt to notify all holders of an ex-
piring recorded brand of the need to renew the brand. The department shall attempt the notification
by sending a renewal notice to the holder’s last address as shown on the department’s records. The
holder of a recorded brand may renew the brand by submitting to the department a brand renewal
fee for each brand on each species of livestock on which the brand is to be used. The brand renewal
fee may not exceed [$100] $200. However, if the species of livestock is sheep, the fee may not exceed
$50.
(3) A recorded brand expires if the department does not receive the brand renewal fee by Jan-
uary 4 next following the attempt to notify the brand holder of the need to renew the brand.Within
60 days after a brand expires, the department shall give written notice of the expiration by mail
addressed to the person who held the expired brand at the last address shown on the department’s
records. The fee to activate an expired brand is equal to the brand [recording] conflict research fee
plus a renewal fee. If the person fails to activate the expired brand within one year after expiration
of the brand, the brand is considered abandoned and any person may apply for recordation and use
of that brand.
NOTE:Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
LC 4062 HB3680
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(4) When issuing or renewing a brand recordation, the department shall adjust certificate expi-
ration dates as necessary to ensure that an approximately equal number of brand recordation expire
in each year of a four-year cycle. The department shall prorate a brand renewal fee to reflect an
adjustment of a certificate expiration date.
(5) The department shall establish the amount of brand activation fees and brand renewal fees
byrule.
SECTION 2. ORS 604.066 is amended to read:
604.066. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, the State Department of Agri-
culture shall charge and collect a brand inspection fee in accordance with the following:
(a) $30 for a lifetime brand inspection for Equidae;
(b) $10 per head for a brand inspection for Equidae, if the brand inspection certificate utilized
is valid for more than eight days but less than a lifetime; or
(c) $10 per head for a brand inspection on livestock other than Equidae, if the brand inspection
certificate utilized is valid for more than eight days.
(2) In accordance with the provisions of ORS chapter 183, the department shall establish a brand
inspection fee on cattle and cattle hides for which a brand inspection certificate is valid for eight
days. The fee shall be not less than [$1] $1.35 and not more than [$1.35] $1.75 per head of cattle and
not more than [$2] $2.50 per hide.
(3) Except as provided in this subsection or subsection (4) of this section, the person requesting
or requiring brand inspection to be performed shall pay the State Department of Agriculture a brand
inspection fee and the assessments authorized under ORS 577.512. Livestock auction markets,
slaughterhouses and custom slaughtering establishments at which brand inspection is performed
shall collect the fees and assessments and forward them to the department. The person requesting
or requiring brand inspection for cattle delivered to a livestock auction market is not required to
pay a brand inspection fee on cattle whose value is $10 or less. The person requesting or requiring
brand inspection is not required to pay a brand inspection fee on cattle not more than 90 days of
age that are to be transported with their mothers to a range or pastureland outside of this state.
(4) The person requesting or requiring brand inspection is not required to pay a brand in-
spection fee or pay assessments when Oregon cattle are being transported from any place in this
state to any place outside of this state and then returned to this state, if the movement is continuous
without unloading enroute, is done in the usual course of ranch operations and is not related to a
change of ownership.
(5) Except as provided in ORS 577.512, the department shall deposit all fees paid to it under this
chapter in the State Treasury to the credit of the Department of Agriculture Service Fund, and such
fees are continuously appropriated to the department for administering and enforcing this chapter.
The provisions of ORS 561.144 apply to such fees.
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