Industrial Hemp production
A woman at the Great unleashing was very interested in Hemp policy and I wanted to post this so that she can access it. OR passed this legislation in 2009, allowing the growth and processing of industrial hemp. This may help you right legislation/ordinances. There is no reason this should NOT be legal, so let's get growing. We will need it in our future for so many things.
James
75th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2009 Regular Session
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amended section is new. Matter within { - braces and minus
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LC 2393
A-Engrossed
Senate Bill 676
Ordered by the Senate May 5
Including Senate Amendments dated May 5
Sponsored by Senators PROZANSKI, NELSON
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.
Permits production and possession of industrial hemp and trade
in industrial hemp commodities and products. Authorizes State
Department of Agriculture to administer licensing, permitting and
inspection program for growers and handlers of industrial hemp.
Allows department to charge fees to growers and handlers.
Continuously appropriates fee moneys to department. Allows
department to impose civil penalty not exceeding $2,500 for
violation of license or permit requirements.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to industrial hemp; creating new provisions; amending
ORS 475.005 and 561.144; and appropriating money.
Whereas the Cannabis sativa plant used for the production of
industrial hemp is separate and distinct from forms of Cannabis
used to produce marijuana; and
Whereas industrial hemp is used for products such as building
materials, cloth, cordage, fiber, food, floor coverings, fuel,
industrial chemicals, paint, paper, particle board, plastics,
seed meal, seed oil and yarn; now, therefore,
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. { + As used in sections 1 to 3 of this 2009 Act:
(1) 'Agricultural hemp seed' means Cannabis sativa seed that
meets any labeling, quality and other standards set by the
Director of Agriculture and that is intended for sale or is sold
to, or purchased by, licensed growers for planting.
(2) 'Crop' means any contiguous field of industrial hemp grown
under a single license.
(3) 'Grower' means a person, joint venture or cooperative that
produces industrial hemp.
(4) 'Handler' means a person, joint venture or cooperative that
receives industrial hemp for processing into commodities,
products or agricultural hemp seed.
(5) 'Industrial hemp':
(a) Means all nonseed parts and varieties of the Cannabis
sativa plant, whether growing or not, that contain a cropwide
average tetrahydrocannabinol concentration that does not exceed
0.3 percent on a dry weight basis.
(b) Means any Cannabis sativa seed that:
(A) Is part of a growing crop;
(B) Is retained by a grower for future planting; or
(C) Is for processing into, or use as, agricultural hemp seed.
(c) Does not mean industrial hemp commodities or products. + }
SECTION 2. { + (1) Industrial hemp production and possession,
and commerce in industrial hemp commodities and products, are
authorized in this state. Industrial hemp is an agricultural
product that is subject to regulation by the State Department of
Agriculture.
(2) All growers and handlers must have an industrial hemp
license issued by the department. Growers and handlers engaged in
the production of agricultural hemp seed must also have an
agricultural hemp seed production permit.
(3) An application for an industrial hemp license or
agricultural hemp seed production permit must include:
(a) The name and address of the applicant;
(b) The name and address of the industrial hemp operation of
the applicant;
(c) The global positioning system coordinates and legal
description for the property used for the industrial hemp;
(d) If the industrial hemp license or agricultural hemp seed
production permit application is by a grower, information
sufficient to establish that the industrial hemp crop of the
applicant will be at least 2.5 acres in size; and
(e) Any other information required by the department by rule.
(4) An industrial hemp license or agricultural hemp seed
production permit is valid for a three-year term unless revoked
and may be renewed as provided by department rule. An industrial
hemp license or agricultural hemp seed production permit is a
personal privilege that is nontransferable.
(5) An agricultural hemp seed production permit authorizes a
grower or handler to produce and handle agricultural hemp seed
for sale to licensed industrial hemp growers and handlers. A
seller of agricultural hemp seed shall ensure that the seed
complies with any standards set by the Director of Agriculture
under ORS 633.511 to 633.750. The department shall make available
to growers information that identifies sellers of agricultural
hemp seed.
(6) Subject to department guidelines, a grower may retain seed
from each industrial hemp crop to ensure a sufficient supply of
seed for that grower for the following year. A grower does not
need an agricultural hemp seed production permit in order to
retain seed for future planting. Seed retained by a grower may
not be sold or transferred and does not need to meet the
department's agricultural hemp seed standards.
(7) Every grower or handler must keep records as required by
department rule. Upon not less than three days' notice, the
department may subject the required records to inspection or
audit during normal business hours. The department may make an
inspection or audit for the purpose of ensuring compliance with:
(a) A provision of this section;
(b) Department rules;
(c) Industrial hemp license or agricultural hemp seed
production permit requirements, terms or conditions; or
(d) A final department order directed to the grower's or
handler's industrial hemp operations or activities.
(8) In addition to any inspection conducted pursuant to ORS
561.275, the department may inspect any industrial hemp crop
during the crop's growth phase and take a representative
composite sample for field analysis. If a crop contains an
average tetrahydrocannabinol concentration exceeding 0.3 percent
on a dry weight basis, the department may detain, seize or
embargo the crop as provided under ORS 561.605 to 561.620.
(9) The department may charge growers and handlers reasonable
fees as determined by the department. Moneys from fees charged
under this subsection shall be deposited to the Department of
Agriculture Service Fund and are continuously appropriated to the
department for purposes of carrying out the duties of the
department under this section and section 3 of this 2009 Act. + }
SECTION 3. { + (1) In addition to any other liability or
penalty provided by law, the State Department of Agriculture may
revoke or refuse to issue or renew an industrial hemp license or
an agricultural hemp seed production permit and may impose a
civil penalty for violation of:
(a) A license or permit requirement;
(b) License or permit terms or conditions;
(c) Department rules relating to growing or handling industrial
hemp; or
(d) A final order of the department that is specifically
directed to the grower's or handler's industrial hemp operations
or activities.
(2) The department may not impose a civil penalty under this
section that exceeds $2,500. The department shall impose civil
penalties under this section in the manner provided by ORS
183.745.
(3) The department may revoke or refuse to issue or renew an
industrial hemp license or an agricultural hemp seed production
permit for violation of any rule of the department that pertains
to agricultural operations or activities other than industrial
hemp growing or handling.
(4) A revocation of, or a refusal to issue or renew, an
industrial hemp license or an agricultural hemp seed production
permit is subject to ORS chapter 183. + }
SECTION 4. ORS 475.005 is amended to read:
475.005. As used in ORS 475.005 to 475.285 and 475.840 to
475.980, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) 'Abuse' means the repetitive excessive use of a drug short
of dependence, without legal or medical supervision, which may
have a detrimental effect on the individual or society.
(2) 'Administer' means the direct application of a controlled
substance, whether by injection, inhalation, ingestion or any
other means, to the body of a patient or research subject by:
(a) A practitioner or an authorized agent thereof; or
(b) The patient or research subject at the direction of the
practitioner.
(3) 'Administration' means the Drug Enforcement Administration
of the United States Department of Justice, or its successor
agency.
(4) 'Agent' means an authorized person who acts on behalf of or
at the direction of a manufacturer, distributor or dispenser. It
does not include a common or contract carrier, public
warehouseman or employee of the carrier or warehouseman.
(5) 'Board' means the State Board of Pharmacy.
(6) 'Controlled substance' { + :
(a) + } Means a drug or its immediate precursor classified in
Schedules I through V under the federal Controlled Substances
Act, 21 U.S.C. 811 to 812, as modified under ORS 475.035. The use
of the term 'precursor' in this { - subsection - } { +
paragraph + } does not control and is not controlled by the use
of the term 'precursor ' in ORS 475.840 to 475.980.
{ + (b) Does not mean industrial hemp, as defined in section
1 of this 2009 Act, or industrial hemp commodities or
products. + }
(7) 'Counterfeit substance' means a controlled substance or its
container or labeling, which, without authorization, bears the
trademark, trade name, or other identifying mark, imprint, number
or device, or any likeness thereof, of a manufacturer,
distributor or dispenser other than the person who in fact
manufactured, delivered or dispensed the substance.
(8) 'Deliver' or 'delivery' means the actual, constructive or
attempted transfer, other than by administering or dispensing,
from one person to another of a controlled substance, whether or
not there is an agency relationship.
(9) 'Device' means instruments, apparatus or contrivances,
including their components, parts or accessories, intended:
(a) For use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or
prevention of disease in humans or animals; or
(b) To affect the structure of any function of the body of
humans or animals.
(10) 'Dispense' means to deliver a controlled substance to an
ultimate user or research subject by or pursuant to the lawful
order of a practitioner, and includes the prescribing,
administering, packaging, labeling or compounding necessary to
prepare the substance for that delivery.
(11) 'Dispenser' means a practitioner who dispenses.
(12) 'Distributor' means a person who delivers.
(13) 'Drug' means:
(a) Substances recognized as drugs in the official United
States Pharmacopoeia, official Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the
United States or official National Formulary, or any supplement
to any of them;
(b) Substances intended for use in the diagnosis, cure,
mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in humans or
animals;
(c) Substances (other than food) intended to affect the
structure or any function of the body of humans or animals; and
(d) Substances intended for use as a component of any article
specified in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of this subsection;
however, the term does not include devices or their components,
parts or accessories.
(14) 'Electronically transmitted' or 'electronic transmission'
means a communication sent or received through technological
apparatuses, including computer terminals or other equipment or
mechanisms linked by telephone or microwave relays, or any
similar apparatus having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless,
optical, electromagnetic or similar capabilities.
(15) 'Manufacture' means the production, preparation,
propagation, compounding, conversion or processing of a
controlled substance, either directly or indirectly by extraction
from substances of natural origin, or independently by means of
chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and
chemical synthesis, and includes any packaging or repackaging of
the substance or labeling or relabeling of its container, except
that this term does not include the preparation or compounding of
a controlled substance:
(a) By a practitioner as an incident to administering or
dispensing of a controlled substance in the course of
professional practice; or
(b) By a practitioner, or by an authorized agent under the
practitioner's supervision, for the purpose of, or as an incident
to, research, teaching or chemical analysis and not for sale.
(16) 'Marijuana' { + :
(a) Except as provided in this subsection, + } means all parts
of the plant Cannabis family Moraceae, whether growing or not;
the resin extracted from any part of the plant; and every
compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation
of the plant or its resin.
{ + (b) + } { - It - } Does not { - include - } { +
mean + } the mature stalks of the plant, fiber produced from the
stalks, oil or cake made from the seeds of the plant, any other
compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation
of the mature stalks (except the resin extracted therefrom),
fiber, oil, or cake, or the sterilized seed of the plant which is
incapable of germination.
{ + (c) Does not mean industrial hemp, as defined in section
1 of this 2009 Act, or industrial hemp commodities or
products. + }
(17) 'Person' includes a government subdivision or agency,
business trust, estate, trust or any other legal entity.
(18) 'Practitioner' means physician, dentist, veterinarian,
scientific investigator, certified nurse practitioner, physician
assistant or other person licensed, registered or otherwise
permitted by law to dispense, conduct research with respect to or
to administer a controlled substance in the course of
professional practice or research in this state but does not
include a pharmacist or a pharmacy.
(19) 'Prescription' means a written, oral or electronically
transmitted direction, given by a practitioner for the
preparation and use of a drug. When the context requires,
'prescription ' also means the drug prepared under such written,
oral or electronically transmitted direction. Any label affixed
to a drug prepared under written, oral or electronically
transmitted direction shall prominently display a warning that
the removal thereof is prohibited by law.
(20) 'Production' includes the manufacture, planting,
cultivation, growing or harvesting of a controlled substance.
(21) 'Research' means an activity conducted by the person
registered with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration
pursuant to a protocol approved by the United States Food and
Drug Administration.
(22) 'Ultimate user' means a person who lawfully possesses a
controlled substance for the use of the person or for the use of
a member of the household of the person or for administering to
an animal owned by the person or by a member of the household of
the person.
SECTION 5. ORS 561.144 is amended to read:
561.144. (1) The State Treasurer shall establish a Department
of Agriculture Service Fund, which shall be a trust fund separate
and distinct from the General Fund. The State Department of
Agriculture shall deposit all license and service fees paid to it
under the provisions of the statutes identified in subsection (3)
of this section in the Department of Agriculture Service Fund.
The State Treasurer is the custodian of this trust fund, which
shall be deposited by the treasurer in such depositories as are
authorized to receive deposits of the General Fund, and which may
be invested by the treasurer in the same manner as authorized by
ORS 293.701 to 293.820.
(2) Interest received on deposits credited to the Department of
Agriculture Service Fund shall accrue to and become a part of the
Department of Agriculture Service Fund.
(3) The license and service fees subject to this section are
those described in ORS 561.400, 561.740, 570.710, 571.057,
571.063, 571.145, 583.004, 583.046, 583.445, 583.510, 583.610,
585.050, 586.270, 586.580, 586.650, 596.030, 596.100, 596.311,
599.235, 599.269, 599.406, 599.610, 601.040, 602.090, 603.025,
603.075, 616.706, 618.115, 618.136, 619.031, 621.072, 621.166,
621.266, 621.297, 621.335, 621.730, 622.080, 625.180, 628.240,
632.211, 632.425, 632.600, 632.720, 632.730, 632.741, 632.940,
632.945, 633.015, 633.029, 633.318, 633.362, 633.461, 633.471,
633.680, 633.700, 633.720, 634.016, 634.116, 634.122, 634.126,
634.132, 634.136, 634.212 and 635.030 { + and section 2 of this
2009 Act + }.
SECTION 6. { + For the biennium beginning July 1, 2009, the
State Department of Agriculture shall carry out the duties,
functions and powers of the department under sections 1 to 3 of
this 2009 Act only to the extent the department determines it to
be practicable to carry out those duties, functions and powers at
no additional cost to the department, using existing department
resources and without reallocation of department resources. + }
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