ORS 537.505 to 537.795 and 537.992 are intended to be supplementary and in addition to and are not intended to repeal any law relating to the surface waters of this state.
ORS 537.795
Known as the Ground Water Act
The act spans §§ 537–537 (229 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 114 Or. App. 156 - Lane Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. Federated Rural Electric Insurance (1992)
Most recently applied in 168 Or. App. 624 - Ashland Drilling, Inc. v. Jackson County (June 2000)
1955 c.708 §35
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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.
Official source: Oregon State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Oregon statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.