Title 31, Highways, Roads, Bridges and Ferries

(1) When the law requires notice to owners of certain real property by service, the person providing notice by service may have notice personally served or may have the notice mailed. (2) A person providing notice shall accomplish notice that is personally served by obtaining a s…

(1) Where the law requires notice by posting, the person providing notice shall post notices in no less than three places. The places where notice may be posted include any of the following: (a) The property subject to the proceeding that is the subject of the notice; or (b) Prop…

(1) Where the law requires notice by publication, the person providing notice shall publish the notice in a newspaper of general circulation in the county where the property that is the subject of the proceeding is located. (2) A person publishing notice under this section must p…

A person providing notice under any provision of ORS 368.401 to 368.426 shall complete and sign an affidavit containing a record of the procedure followed to provide notice under those sections. The person shall file the affidavit with the public body with jurisdiction over the p…

Any notice under ORS 368.401 to 368.426 must include all of the following: (1) A short plain statement of the subject matter of the proceeding that requires the notice. (2) A statement of matters asserted or charged or action proposed to be taken at the proceeding. (3) An explana…

(1) As used in this section and ORS 368.710, “county road fund” means a separate fund in the county treasury designated to receive deposit of revenues that are dedicated to roads or road improvements. (2) The county road fund must be used in establishing, laying out, opening, sur…

(1) Notwithstanding ORS 294.060 and 368.705, moneys described in ORS 294.060 (1) that are received by a county listed in subsection (2) of this section and deposited into that county’s road fund may be expended for patrolling within the county by the county’s law enforcement offi…

(1) Notwithstanding ORS 294.060, 294.468 (1)(c) and 368.705, a county that receives moneys described in ORS 294.060 (1) and deposits those moneys into the county’s road fund may make an interfund loan of the moneys described in ORS 294.060 (1) to any other fund of that county for…

(1) Notwithstanding ORS 294.060, 294.468 and 368.705, moneys from federal sources in the county road fund of Curry County, Klamath County or Yamhill County may be loaned to: (a) Any taxing district located within the county; (b) Another county; or (c) Any taxing district located …

(1) A countywide local option tax imposed by a county under ORS 280.040 to 280.145 for road improvement, repair or maintenance must be apportioned as follows: (a) Not less than 50 percent of the tax collected must be apportioned to the several road districts, including districts …

Notwithstanding the limitations in ORS 368.031 or any other statute that limits the expenditure of county funds for roads, the county governing body may expend available funds on other public roads during an emergency when, as a result of a disaster such as flood or other destruc…

The county court or board of county commissioners may borrow money from the general road fund of the county to supplement depleted election accounts within the general fund of the county if there is no money within the emergency fund of the county to supplement the depleted accou…

(1) The county governing body of any county may expend any portion of the funds apportioned to it from its share of funds derived under the Oregon motor vehicle law, or any other county money provided by law to be used in road construction, for the construction, maintenance and r…

Counties may expend funds received by the general road fund pursuant to ORS 294.060 on city streets and bridges under such terms and conditions as the county may determine pursuant to the provisions of ORS 373.260. [1975 c.292 §2]

(1) Whenever in an unincorporated area, sidewalks or curbs are constructed along county roads or are existing along roads taken over by the county, the owner of the abutting real property shall maintain and repair the sidewalks or curbs. If any such sidewalk or curb is out of rep…

(1) After the repairs mentioned in ORS 368.910 have been completed the county governing body shall compute the cost to which may be added up to 10 percent of the cost for administration. Payment for the repairs shall be made from the general fund of the county. (2) The fund drawn…

The assessment mentioned in ORS 368.915 and interest are a lien upon the abutting property from the date of the filing with the county clerk of the order of the county governing body for the repairs under ORS 368.910. No transfer, sale or division of the abutting land, or change …

(1) Thirty days after the notice of the determination of the assessment mentioned in ORS 368.915 is mailed to the owner, the entire amount is due and payable at the office of the county sheriff, and if not so paid shall be delinquent from that date and shall bear interest at the …

Except as provided in ORS 368.950, no person may paste, paint, brand or in any manner whatever place or attach to any building, fence, gate, bridge, tree, rock, board, structure or anything whatever within the limits of the right of way of any county road any written, printed or …

A county road official may lawfully remove or destroy, without resort to legal proceedings, any advertisement, bill, notice, sign, picture, card or poster placed in violation of ORS 368.942. [1973 c.462 §3]

ORS 368.942 and 368.945 do not apply to: (1) The posting or maintaining of any notice required by law to be posted or maintained; or (2) The placing and maintaining, within the limits of the right of way of any county road, of: (a) Signs approved by the county governing body and …

No person may paste, paint, brand or in any manner whatever place or attach to any building, fence, gate, bridge, tree, rock, board, structure or anything whatever on the property of another within view of a county road, without the written consent of the owner or person entitled…

The owner or person entitled to possession of any property described in ORS 368.955 may lawfully remove or destroy, without resort to legal proceedings, any advertisement, bill, notice, sign, picture, card or poster placed upon such property in violation of ORS 368.955. [1973 c.4…

Violation of ORS 368.251, 368.256 or 368.942 is a Class C misdemeanor. [Subsection (4) enacted as 1973 c.462 §7; 1981 c.153 §70; 2011 c.597 §186] _______________