The attached file is something I've been maintaining for the last several years. It is a compilation of those Oregon statutes most of interest to surveyors. Of course, any and all of the statutes could become of interest in certain circumstances. The whole of the ORS occupies several feet of shelf space these days.?ÿ So I've made some decisions about what to include. I'd appreciate input from Oregon registrants regarding anything I might have missed,?ÿ or anything that could be excluded.?ÿ ?ÿ
I've got a similar document for the OARs that is not quite current at this time. I may post that soon. I'm also working on similar things for Washington - not as high a priority since LSAW publishes a version.?ÿ?ÿ
Hi @norman-oklahoma,
That's a great list!?ÿ Do you compile these from the legislature for $5 a chapter??ÿ I've asked PLSO to do that, specifically targeting people studying for the exam.?ÿ I like the more compact formal format than printing from the web which wastes a lot of paper space and doesn't look as nice or as professional.?ÿ 41 and 42 were new to me, thanks for that!?ÿ
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I maintain another list, but it is only the Chapters and Titles, not the contents of those.?ÿ It's what I look at for ideas when stumped.?ÿ Now that I write out the difference and check some things, maybe "maintain" is the wrong word for what I do.?ÿ This is an old list that I sometimes reference. I should read over each chapter every two years to keep things fresh and notice changes.?ÿ
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To your list I would add:
94 Real Property Development
164 (164.255 amends railroad property trespass)
191 United States Surveys
204 County Officers
223 Local Improvements and Works Generally (223.930-223.950 Legalization of Roads-city)
227 City Planning and Zoning
271 Use and Disposition of Public Lands Generally; Easements
273 State Lands Generally (and swamps)
368 County Roads
369 Ways of Public Easement
537 Appropriation of Water Generally
538 Withdrawal of Water from Appropriation
540 Distribution of Water; Watermasters; Change in Use; Transfer of Abandonment of Water Rights
541 Miscellaneous Water Rights
757 Utility Regulation Generally (hmm, not sure why I have that and not 772.010?)
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I also augment my chapter titles like: CHAPTER 93 ?? CONVEYANCING AND RECORDING (Oregon Coordinate Systems), CHAPTER 390 ?? STATE AND LOCAL PARKS; RECREATION PROGRAMS; SCENIC WATERWAYS; RECREATION TRAILS (Vegetation line defined NAD27), etc.?ÿ
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Best regards, Eli
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And 366 State Highways and State Highway Fund
All this text is on-line. No charge. I have to go through it every 2 years looking for revisions.
757 is probably there due to the Oregon Utility Notification Center.
I'll look all these over. I see at least a few that are worthy of consideration. My gut reaction is that many of these would be appropriate in a whole separate document "of interest to Planners"?ÿ
I usually get the current text from here, https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/Pages/ORS.aspx which lacks decent formatting. Is this where you get your text? Your formatting and presentation is very nice but it probably takes some work to get it that way.
The archives have a much better formatting here, https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/Pages/ORSarchive.aspx.
Current year with nicer formatting in PDF (or .docx as well, I think) is $5/chapter, https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/lc/Order%20Forms/Chapters.pdf
Thanks for the 757 reminder (I guess I need to add another parenthetical to the chapter names)
That first link is the one. I do a "find" for the most recent legislative year to determine which passages have been amended. I then spend some time formatting. Each biannual update of my document takes a few hours.
OARs can change at any time, and frequently do. So the search for amendments has to be more detailed.
I look for changes from each session in the PDFs under the "Comparative Section Table" heading, like https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/2017.pdf
OARs are much easier to change and can be convenient and less risky than putting the same things in ORS, however, I find that the historical tracking of OARs is much more difficult than ORS. I'm only luke-warm on the coordinate system details being shuffled over to the OARs. They certainly are easier to maintain as OARs!
