Title 58, Shipping and Navigation
5 chapters · 239 sections in this title.
ORS 780.010 Stream improvement authorized; channel obstruction prohibited
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Any person, association, or corporation may enter upon the channel or bed of any and all rivers and watercourses, navigable or susceptible of being made navigable, and perform work and labor thereon, and make such improvement of the same by clearing out or deepening the channel, …
ORS 780.020 Entry on riparian lands authorized; liability
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All persons, associations and corporations engaging in improvement of the navigation of any river or watercourse, as authorized in ORS 780.010, may enter upon the lands adjacent to any river or watercourse for the purpose of cutting timber, taking rock, gravel, dirt and other mat…
ORS 780.030 Channels improved are highways free to navigation
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All channels of rivers and watercourses made navigable or the navigation of which is improved, as contemplated by ORS 780.010, shall be public highways, and shall be free to all crafts navigating them. [Amended by 2005 c.22 §510]
ORS 780.040 When landowner may construct wharf
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(1) The owner of any land lying upon any navigable stream or other like water, and within the corporate limits of any incorporated town or within the boundaries of any port, may construct a wharf upon the same, and extend the wharf into the stream or other like water beyond low-w…
ORS 780.050 Municipality or port may regulate construction of certain structures beyond low-water mark
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The corporate authorities of the town wherein a wharf, dock, pier, moorage or similar structure is proposed to be constructed, or the commission of any port wherein the structure is proposed to be constructed if the proposed location of the structure is not within any town, may r…
ORS 780.060 Construction not to interfere with oyster production
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Nothing in this chapter authorizes the construction of a wharf, dock, pier, moorage or similar structure at any place where its construction and operation will substantially impair or interfere with the cultivation and taking of oysters subject to the provisions of ORS 622.210 to…