ORS 537.505 to 537.795 and 537.992 shall be known as the “Ground Water Act of 1955.”
ORS 537.505
Known as the Ground Water Act
The act spans §§ 537–537 (229 sections).
Applied in 12 court decisions — leading case 114 Or. App. 156 - Lane Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. Federated Rural Electric Insurance (1992)
Most recently applied in 314 Or. App. 643 - Schneider v. Water Resources Dept. (September 2021)
1955 c.708 §1; 1963 c.293 §1
How often courts cite this section
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.
Official source: Oregon State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oregon statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.