ORS 453.005
Definitions for ORS 453.005 to 453.135


As used in ORS 453.005 (Definitions for ORS 453.005 to 453.135) to 453.135 (Notice required prior to institution of criminal proceedings) unless the context requires otherwise:

(1)

“Combustible” means any substance that has a flash point above 80 degrees Fahrenheit to and including 140 degrees, as determined by the Tagliabue Open Cup Tester.

(2)

“Commerce” means any and all commerce within the State of Oregon and subject to the jurisdiction thereof and includes the operation of any business or service establishment.

(3)

“Corrosive” means any substance that in contact with living tissue will cause destruction of tissue by chemical action, but does not refer to action on inanimate surfaces.

(4)

“Electrical hazard” means an article that because of its design or manufacture may cause personal injury or illness by electric shock when in normal use or when subjected to reasonably foreseeable damage or abuse.

(5)

“Extremely flammable” means any substance that has a flash point at or below 20 degrees Fahrenheit as determined by the Tagliabue Open Cup Tester.

(6)

“Flammable” means any substance that has a flash point of above 20 degrees to and including 80 degrees Fahrenheit, as determined by the Tagliabue Open Cup Tester.

(7)

“Hazardous substance” means:

(a)

Any substance that is toxic, corrosive, an irritant, a strong sensitizer, flammable, combustible, or generates pressure through decomposition, heat or other means, if such substance or mixture of substances may cause substantial personal injury or substantial illness during or as a proximate result of any customary or reasonably foreseeable handling or use, including reasonably foreseeable ingestion by children, or any substance that the Director of the Oregon Health Authority finds, pursuant to the provisions of ORS 453.005 (Definitions for ORS 453.005 to 453.135) to 453.135 (Notice required prior to institution of criminal proceedings), comes within the definition of this paragraph.

(b)

Any radioactive substance, if, with respect to such substance as used in a particular class of article or as packaged, the director determines that the substance is sufficiently hazardous to require labeling in accordance with ORS 453.005 (Definitions for ORS 453.005 to 453.135) to 453.135 (Notice required prior to institution of criminal proceedings) in order to protect the public health. However, “hazardous substance” does not include any source material, special nuclear material, or by-product material as defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and regulations issued pursuant thereto by the Atomic Energy Commission.

(c)

Any toy or other article intended for use by children that the director determines in accordance with ORS 453.055 (Hazardous, banned hazardous, misbranded hazardous substances) presents an electrical, thermal or mechanical hazard.

(d)

Any article that is not pesticide within the meaning of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act or regulated under ORS 616.335 (Definition for ORS 616.205 and 616.335 to 616.385) to 616.385 (Public hearing required for rules), but that is a hazardous substance within the meaning of paragraph (a) of this subsection by reason of bearing or containing pesticide.

(e)

The following brominated flame retardant chemicals:

(A)

Pentabrominated diphenyl ether;

(B)

Octabrominated diphenyl ether; and

(C)

Decabrominated diphenyl ether.

(8)

“Highly toxic” means any substance that falls within any of the following categories:

(a)

Produces death within 14 days in one-half or more of a group of 10 or more laboratory white rats each weighing between 200 and 300 grams, at a single dose of 50 milligrams or less per kilogram of body weight, when orally administered;

(b)

Produces death within 14 days in one-half or more of a group of 10 or more laboratory white rats each weighing between 200 and 300 grams, when inhaled continuously for a period of one hour or less at an atmosphere concentration of 200 parts per million by volume or less of gas or vapor or two milligrams per liter by volume or less of mist or dust, provided such concentration is likely to be encountered by humans when the substance is used in any reasonably foreseeable manner; or

(c)

Produces death within 14 days in one-half or more of a group of 10 or more rabbits tested in a dosage of 200 milligrams or less per kilogram of body weight, when administered by continuous contact with the bare skin for 24 hours or less.

(9)

“Immediate container” does not include package liners.

(10)

“Irritant” means any substance not corrosive within the meaning of subsection (3) of this section, but that on immediate, prolonged, or repeated contact with normal living tissue will induce a local inflammatory reaction.

(11)

“Label” means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon the immediate container of any substance, or in the case of an article that is unpackaged or is not packaged in an immediate container intended or suitable for delivery to the ultimate consumer, a display of such matter directly on the article involved or on a tag or other suitable material affixed thereto, and a requirement made by or under authority of ORS 453.005 (Definitions for ORS 453.005 to 453.135) to 453.135 (Notice required prior to institution of criminal proceedings) that any word, statement, or other information appearing on the label shall not be considered to be complied with unless such word, statement, or other information also appears on the outside container or wrapper, if any, unless it is easily legible through the outside container or wrapper and on all accompanying literature where there are directions for use, written or otherwise.

(12)

“Mechanical hazard” means an article that in normal use or when subjected to reasonably foreseeable damage or abuse presents an unreasonable risk of personal injury or illness, by its design or manufacture:

(a)

From fracture, fragmentation, or disassembly of the article;

(b)

From propulsion of the article or any part or accessory thereof;

(c)

From points or other protrusions, surfaces, edges, openings, or closures;

(d)

From moving parts;

(e)

From lack or insufficiency of controls to reduce or stop motion;

(f)

As a result of self-adhering characteristics of the article;

(g)

Because the article or any part or accessory thereof may be aspirated or ingested;

(h)

Because of instability; or

(i)

Because of any other aspect of the article’s design or manufacture.

(13)

“Misbranded hazardous substance” means a hazardous substance that does not meet the labeling requirements of ORS 453.035 (Standards for labeling of hazardous substances).

(14)

“Poison” means:

(a)

Arsenic and its preparations;

(b)

Corrosive sublimate;

(c)

Cyanides and preparations, including hydrocyanic acid;

(d)

Hydrochloric acid and any preparation containing free or chemically unneutralized hydrochloric acid (HCl) in a concentration of 10 percent or more;

(e)

Nitric acid or any preparation containing free or chemically unneutralized nitric acid (HNO3) in a concentration of five percent or more;

(f)

Strychnine;

(g)

Sulfuric acid and any preparation containing free or chemically unneutralized sulfuric acid (H2SO4) in a concentration of 10 percent or more;

(h)

Solution of ammonia, U.S.P. 28 percent; or

(i)

Carbolic acid.

(15)

“Radioactive substance” means a substance that emits ionizing radiation.

(16)

“Strong sensitizer” means a substance that will cause on normal living tissue, through an allergic or photodynamic process, a hypersensitivity that becomes evident on reapplication of the same substances and that is designated as such by the director.

(17)

“Thermal hazard” means an article that, in normal use or when subjected to reasonably foreseeable damage or abuse, because of its design or manufacture presents an unreasonable risk of personal injury or illness because of heat as from heated parts, substances or surfaces.

(18)

“Toxic substance” means any substance, other than radioactive substance, that has the capacity to produce personal injury or illness to humans through ingestion, inhalation, or absorption through any body surface. [1971 c.409 §1; 1993 c.18 §111; 2005 c.496 §1; 2009 c.595 §879; 2009 c.639 §1]

Source: Section 453.005 — Definitions for ORS 453.005 to 453.135, https://www.­oregonlegislature.­gov/bills_laws/ors/ors453.­html.

453.001
Definitions for ORS 453.001 to 453.185
453.005
Definitions for ORS 453.005 to 453.135
453.015
Application
453.025
Certain practices not affected by ORS 453.005 to 453.135
453.035
Standards for labeling of hazardous substances
453.045
Poison registers
453.055
Hazardous, banned hazardous, misbranded hazardous substances
453.065
Detention of suspected substances
453.075
Repurchase of banned hazardous substances previously sold
453.085
Prohibited acts
453.095
Rules
453.105
Authority to enter premises
453.115
Access to records of persons carrying, receiving or storing in commerce
453.125
Enjoining violations
453.135
Notice required prior to institution of criminal proceedings
453.175
Necessity for poison label
453.185
False representation by purchaser prohibited
453.205
Definitions for ORS 453.205 to 453.275
453.215
Legislative findings
453.225
When presumption of toxic ingredient arises
453.235
Distribution of material containing toxic substances
453.245
Order or purchase by school of material considered to contain toxic substance prohibited
453.255
List of authorized art and craft materials
453.265
Filing of formulation information with poison control centers required
453.275
Civil penalty
453.307
Definitions for ORS 453.307 to 453.414
453.312
Legislative findings
453.317
Hazardous substance survey
453.322
Retention of information
453.327
Public access
453.332
When disclosure of identity may be withheld
453.337
When disclosure of identity of hazardous substance required
453.342
When incident of injury to be reported
453.347
Emergency response planning
453.352
Exemption from reporting requirements
453.357
Civil penalty
453.362
Department of Consumer and Business Services to supply employers’ names
453.367
Rules
453.370
Limitations on local community right to know regulatory programs
453.372
Short title
453.374
Hazardous material emergency response system
453.376
Disclosure of information to State Fire Marshal
453.378
Disclosure of information to local government official
453.380
Regional hazardous material response team
453.382
Cost of responding to emergency
453.384
Immunity of team members from liability
453.386
Equipment and personnel
453.388
Contracts for equipment, personnel loans or equipment purchases
453.390
Revolving fund
453.392
Spills or releases during transportation by rail
453.394
Oil and Hazardous Material Transportation by Rail Action Fund
453.396
Definitions for ORS 453.396 to 453.414
453.398
Purpose
453.400
Possession of hazardous substance
453.402
Fees
453.404
Extension of payment date
453.406
Records of hazardous substance possessed
453.408
Rules
453.410
Application of ORS chapters 305 and 314
453.412
Deposit and distribution of moneys received from fees
453.414
Exemption for local government
453.520
Department of the State Fire Marshal as state emergency response commission
453.605
Definitions for ORS 453.605 to 453.800
453.615
Statement of policy
453.625
Purpose of ORS 453.605 to 453.800
453.635
State Radiation Control Agency
453.645
Radiation Advisory Committee
453.655
License or registration required for radiation source
453.665
Licenses
453.671
Vendor license
453.675
State assumption of federal responsibility for radiation sources
453.685
Entry on property for inspection purposes
453.695
Records concerning radiation source
453.705
Impounding radiation source upon violation
453.715
Injunction against violation
453.726
Definitions for ORS 453.726 to 453.734
453.727
Purpose of ORS 453.726 to 453.734
453.728
Tanning device to comply with federal requirements
453.729
Standards and regulation of tanning devices
453.730
Written warning statement and sign
453.731
Civil penalty for violation of ORS 453.726 to 453.734
453.732
Disposition of receipts
453.734
Prohibition on use of tanning devices by persons under 18 years of age
453.735
ORS 453.605 to 453.800 and rules supersede contrary laws or regulations
453.745
Intergovernmental cooperation to control radiation sources
453.752
X-ray machine registration
453.754
Application for X-ray machine registration
453.757
X-ray machine biennial registration fee
453.761
X-ray machine registration period
453.766
Prohibited conduct
453.771
Imposition of civil penalty for X-ray machine registration violations
453.775
Duties of Oregon Health Authority pertaining to X-ray machines
453.780
Radiology inspectors
453.785
Accreditation
453.790
Power of Oregon Health Authority to condition, suspend, revoke or refuse to renew radiology inspector accreditation
453.795
Duties of Oregon Health Authority pertaining to accreditation of radiology inspectors
453.800
X-ray Machine Inspection Account
453.805
Elimination of radiation source danger
453.807
When hearing required
453.825
Department of Transportation plan for regulating transport of hazardous substances and radioactive waste
453.835
Report to legislative committee
453.855
Purpose
453.858
Definitions for ORS 453.855 to 453.912
453.861
Applicability
453.864
Rules
453.867
Restriction on transfer of property used as illegal drug manufacturing site
453.870
Transfer allowed after full disclosure
453.873
Entry onto property
453.876
Determination that property is not fit for use
453.879
Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to be notified of determination
453.882
Contaminated property as public nuisance
453.885
Decontamination of property
453.886
Notice by county or local government required before incurring costs
453.888
License required to perform decontamination
453.891
Oregon Health Authority to provide information to licensed contractors and those planning to become licensed
453.894
Licensing fees
453.897
Lists of licensed contractors to be made available
453.900
Inspection of decontamination work
453.903
Evaluation of decontamination projects
453.906
Condemnation or demolition of property
453.909
Authority of counties and cities
453.912
Governmental immunity from liability
453.990
Criminal penalties
453.995
Civil penalties
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