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ORS 366.340

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case DeLong Corporation v. Oregon State Highway Com'n (1964)

Most recently applied in 140 Or. App. 140 - State Ex Rel. Department of Transportation v. Schrock Farms (April 1996)

Amended by 1953 c.252 §2

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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.

The Department of Transportation may acquire by purchase, agreement, donation or by exercise of the power of eminent domain real property, or any right or interest therein, including any easement or right of access, deemed necessary for:

(1) Construction of shops, equipment sheds, office buildings, maintenance sites, patrolmen accommodations, snow fences, quarry sites, gravel pits, storage sites, stock pile sites, weighing stations and broadcasting stations.

(2) Appropriation, acquisition or manufacture of road-building materials, approach or hauling roads, connecting roads, frontage road, highway drainage and drainage tunnels.

(3) Maintenance of an unobstructed view of any state highway so as to provide for the safety of the traveling public.

(4) Any other use or purpose deemed necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Act.

(5) Elimination or prevention of hazardous or undesirable points of entry from adjacent property to state highways.

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