622.010 Definitions

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622.010 Definitions. As used in this chapter:

(1)“Dealer” means every person or peddler engaged in the business of growing, harvesting, processing or distributing shellfish for human consumption.

(2)“Department” means the State Department of Agriculture.

(3)“Peddler” means every person who on the person’s own behalf or as the agent of another goes from place to place, or house to house, carrying or offering shellfish for sale.

(4)“Person” includes city, county and state as well as those included within the definition of person in ORS 174.100.

(5)“Shellfish” means:

(a)All edible species of oysters, either shucked or in the shell, fresh or frozen, whole or in part and intended for human consumption.

(b)All edible species of clams, either shucked or in the shell, fresh or frozen, whole or in part and intended for human consumption.

(c)All edible species of mussels, either shucked or in the shell, fresh or frozen, whole or in part and intended for human consumption.

(d)All edible species of scallops, either shucked or in the shell, fresh or frozen, whole or in part, except when the final product is the shucked adductor muscle only, and intended for human consumption. [1955 c.331 §1; 1969 c.283 §1; 1973 c.508 §1; 1993 c.720 §6; 1995 c.25 §1]