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ORS 371.605

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Multnomah County v. Rockwood Water District (1959)

Most recently applied in 206 Or. App. 368 - Leupold & Stevens, Inc. v. City of Beaverton (June 2006)

Amended by 1955 c.773 §1; 1973 c.461 §1; 1975 c.738 §2; 1983 c.305 §1

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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.

As used in ORS 371.605 to 371.660, unless the context requires otherwise:

(1) “Owner” means a vendee under a recorded land contract or if there is no such contract, the holder of the record title, which vendee or holder has a present interest equal to or greater than a life estate.

(2) “Engineer” means the county engineer, roadmaster, surveyor or other engineer selected by the county governing body.

(3) “Improvement” includes:

(a) The grading, graveling, paving or other surfacing of any road, or opening, laying out, widening, extending, altering, changing the grade of or constructing any road.

(b) The construction or reconstruction of sidewalks.

(c) The installation of ornamental street lights.

(d) The reconstruction or repair of any road improvement mentioned in this subsection.

(e) The acquisition, establishment, construction or reconstruction of any off-road motor vehicle parking facility.

(f) Installing, constructing, reconstructing, improving, extending or repairing lateral sewers, street mains, sewage disposal systems or similar facilities, and other facilities incidental thereto, within the right of way of a county road or public road.

(4) “Road,” “county road” and “public road” have the meanings given those terms in ORS 368.001.

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