Oregon Revised Statutes Food and Other Commodities: Purity, Sanitation, Grades, Standards, Labels, Weights and Measures § 618.136

(1) The license fee for each type or class of commercial weighing or measuring instrument or device shall be established by the State Department of Agriculture in an amount not to exceed the maximum limits set forth in ORS 618.141. Such fees shall be established in the amounts necessary for the department to carry out and enforce the provisions of ORS 618.010 to 618.246 relating to the supervision of commercial weighing and measuring instruments or devices, and to maintain an emergency fund with an unencumbered balance in an amount not to exceed the cost of administering ORS 618.010 to 618.246 during a representative four-month period in order to assure the orderly supervision of commercial weighing and measuring instruments or devices within this state.

(2) License fees become past due July 1 each year for renewals, and on the date of first commercial use for original installations.

(3) All moneys received by the department pursuant to ORS 618.010 to 618.246 shall be paid into the Department of Agriculture Service Fund. Such moneys are continuously appropriated to the department for the purpose of administering those provisions of ORS 618.010 to 618.246 relating to testing, inspection, licensing and regulation of commercial weighing and measuring instruments or devices.