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ORS 222.850

Known as the Health Hazard Abatement Law

The act spans §§ 222–222 (98 sections).

Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case 25 Or. App. 441 - Kelly v. Silver (1976)

Most recently applied in City of Ashland v. Bear Creek Valley Sanitary Authority (September 1982)

1967 c.624 §1; 1973 c.637 §1; 1975 c.639 §1; 1983 c.407 §4; 1993 c.577 §17; 2001 c.900 §238; 2009 c.595 §181; 2015 c.736 §54

How often courts cite this section

19761980198260
citing decisions per year

Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

As used in ORS 222.840 to 222.915, unless the context requires otherwise:

(1) “Affected territory” means an area within the urban growth boundary of a city and which is otherwise eligible for annexation to that city and in which there exists an actual or alleged danger to public health.

(2) “Authority” means the Oregon Health Authority.

(3) “City council” means the legislative body of a city.

(4) “Commission” means the Environmental Quality Commission.

(5) “Danger to public health” means a condition which is conducive to the propagation of communicable or contagious disease-producing organisms and which presents a reasonably clear possibility that the public generally is being exposed to disease-caused physical suffering or illness, including a condition such as:

(a) Impure or inadequate domestic water.

(b) Inadequate installations for the disposal or treatment of sewage, garbage or other contaminated or putrefying waste.

(c) Inadequate improvements for drainage of surface water and other fluid substances.

(6) “Director” means the Director of the Oregon Health Authority.

(7) “District” means any one of the following:

(a) A metropolitan service district formed under ORS chapter 268.

(b) A county service district formed under ORS chapter 451.

(c) A sanitary district formed under ORS 450.005 to 450.245.

(d) A sanitary authority, water authority or joint water and sanitary authority formed under ORS 450.600 to 450.989.

(e) A domestic water supply district formed under ORS chapter 264.

(8) “Local board of health” means a local public health authority, as defined in ORS 431.003.

Official source: Oregon State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oregon statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.