OAR 603-029-1006: Approval of Abbreviations of Marks of Inspection; Preparation of Marking Devices Bearing Inspection Legend Without Advance Approval Prohibited; Exception

(1) The Department may approve and authorize the use of abbreviations of marks of inspection under these Division 29 rules. Such abbreviations shall have the same force and effect as the respective marks for which they are authorized abbreviations. (2) Except for the purposes of preparing and submitting a sample or samples of the same to the Department for approval, no brand manufacturer, printer, or other person shall cast, print, lithograph, or otherwise make any marking device containing any Oregon mark or simulation thereof, or any label bearing any such mark or simulation, without the written authority therefor of the Department. However, when any such sample label, or other marking device, is approved by the Department, additional supplies of the approved label, or marking device, may be made for use in accordance with these Division 29 rules, without further approval by the Department. The provisions of this section apply only to labels, or other marking devices, bearing or containing an Oregon inspection legend shown in OAR 603-029-0610(2) or any abbreviations, copy or representation thereof. (3) No brand manufacturer or other person shall cast or otherwise make, without an Oregon certificate issued in quadruplicate by a Department employee, a brand or other marking device containing an Oregon inspection legend, or simulation thereof, shown in OAR 603-029-0610(1). (a) The certificate is a department form for signature by a Department employee and the state-inspected establishment ordering the brand or other marking device, bearing a certificate serial number and a letterhead and the seal of the Oregon Department of Agriculture. The certificate authorizes the making of only the brands or other marking devices of the type and quantity listed on the certificate. (b) After signing the certificate, the Department employee and the state-inspected establishment shall each keep a copy, and the remaining two copies shall be given to the brand or other marking device manufacturer. (c) The manufacturer of the brands or other marking devices shall engrave or otherwise mark each brand or other marking device with a permanent identifying serial number unique to it. The manufacturer shall list on each of the two copies of the certificate given to the manufacturer the number of each brand or other marking device authorized by the certificate. The manufacturer shall retain one copy of the certificate for the manufacturer’s records and return the remaining copy with the brands or other marking devices to the Department employee whose name and address are given on the certificate as the recipient.